One of the biggest twists and turns of the plot of all time was shot in Point Dume de Malibu
What does the end of the world look like? This is a question that has been asked by many gender filmmakers, especially since the post-apocalyptic film (and simply apocalyptic) increased in popularity after the invention of nuclear weapons. For most filmmakers, the framework of the apocalypse tends to fall into one of the two categories: it is either a sprawling urban ruin, with skyscrapers formerly slippery now in disarray, or a large desert landscape where the detritus of the old world is dispersed throughout the kilometers of sand and rock. Very few films representing the end of the world decide to make the apocalypse look like idyllic holidays on the ocean.
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However, this is precisely what “Planet of the Apes” of 1968 did, because production has chosen to stage its culminating touch on and around Dum de Malibu. Sitting on the outskirts of Los Angeles in southern California, the combination of the beach and a prominent rocky cliff makes a point point like a place outside time, a quality that extends in the name of the region itself. According to a promotional play by Malibu Beach Inn nearby, Point Dume was to be appointed after Padre Francisco Dumetz, the surname being pronounced “Dum-May”. However, someone misinterpreted the spelling according to pronunciation, and “dume” has rather stuck.
Throughout the history of cinema, Point Dume has experienced a sharp life somewhere between opulent beauty and strange concern. This is the framework of everything, from a party in “The Big Lebowski” to the Manor of Tony Stark in the films “Iron Man”, but it is also there that the 1974 surrealist horror film “Messiah of Evil” was shot, and it is the place where the legend of the genre Vincent Price had its ashes dispersed at his death in 1993. Heritage. The scene is certainly the most emblematic moment ever filmed to the point, because the plan of a statue of broken freedom (apparently built from paper and cardboard) overlooking the beach while the astronaut George Taylor (Charlton Heston) realizes that he was back on Earth all the time is emblematic of the film, the “Planet of the cinematographic and genre series” It is a twist that might not have struck as hard without the unique dum point look.
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Point dume contributes to the end of the torsion of bait and switches from the planet of the apes
One of the ingenious aspects that made the end of the “Planet of the Apes” – the revelation that Taylor and his spacecraft had inadvertently traveled in the future of the earth, in which humans had become silent and captivated by a breed of intellectually advanced monkeys – an entirely suitable film. In the book, it was revealed in advance that his astronauts go to a completely distinct planet led by intelligent monkeys, where humans are a lower species. The torsion of the novel involved astronauts back on earth and discovering that intelligent monkeys had also started to go up. It was the choice of the writers Michael Wilson and Rod Serling so that the political and social metaphors of the novel struck stronger for an audience of the era of the Cold War using a torsion that Serling had already worked on his series “The Twilight Zone” (in particular, the episode “I pulled an arrow in the air”).
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The torsion tip would not be to reveal that Taylor had his adventure in post-apocalyptic land until the very last moment of the film. Although this was accomplished by establishing the majority of the film in the desert (places like Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon national leisure area were used), the real bait-and-switch used Point Dume for the highest point. The location is somewhat like the end of the world in literal terms, with the earth, the rock and the sand that arrive in a large blue ocean. The greatest incongruity comes from the emblematic visual of the Statue of Broken Liberty (or buried) in the beach, a visual signal in Taylor (which had left the place slightly in 1972) of the place and when it was. The sight of fallen freedom has thus become a powerful shortcut for dozens of gender films to follow when you seek to evoke the fall of the United States on a large scale: all, on the “day of independence” in “Cloverfield” and the art of poster for “Escape from New York” owes a debt to “monkeys”.
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Likewise, “Planet of the Apes” owes a debt to point out of the dum, a location that might seem beautiful and dark and sterile the next day. If the final touch of the film had been set in an indoor location or an indescribable exterior, it would have always been intellectually engaging and would have had an emotional weight. However, this would not have had the same impact as to see Heston on Dume’s beach, beating his helpless fists against the sand. The film has certainly helped to contribute to the popularity of Point Dume as a tourist attraction after its release. Ironically, these cinematographic maniacs, they exploded it.
