SUBMITTED BY katystarlet

August 12, 2001 — Like so many of the worst things to happen to the world, the latest threat to humanity has been spawned in Hollywood and is now being passed off a harmless fun. Amid all the fanfare and hullabaloo surrounding Tim Burton's Planet Of The Apes extravaganza, much has been made of the astonishing accuracy with which human actors have assumed the shapes and habits of our primate cousins. The man responsible for this evolutionary meddling is Terry "I mock God" Notary, formerly an acrobat with Cirque De Soleil and latterly head of Burton's on-set ape school. A place where civilised men and women were actively encouraged to throw off the yoke of civilisation and embrace what Notary persistently refers to as "the inner ape."

"Finding your inner ape is really, truly living," he claims. His role was to teach the cast to move like monkeys -knees bent, backs rounded, arms hanging. Once, that is, he'd shown them how to think like chimps: "Humans are so distracted. Apes have this intense focus." By all accounts, it's a process that comes with alarming ease. Except to Helena Bonham Carter, who has described it as "like learning to walk again." She can count herself lucky. Slipping all too easily into ape form is nothing to be proud of.

Thanks: Squirk