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Originally posted by Yorick:
Er... right.... which is why he appears in the remake of Planet of the Apes, as an Ape, but the only Ape with perfect human teeth.
He was the only actor who refuse to wear the Ape teeth.
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You can certainly come up with something better? Moore was fired from Mother Jones for being an asshole, and has a history of being abusive to those who get in his way, especially at the London speaking engagement, where he was pissed because £750 wasn't enough.
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That, is "difficult to work with" and putting ego ahead of the desires of the director and make-up specialist.
Go and see for yourself. Rent the video. Check out his teeth, and then tell me he has a good reputation for not messing up scenes.
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Before you go assuming
why he did what he did, understand how he worked on the original Planet of the Apes, with William Wyler in Ben Hur, with Orson Welles on Touch of Evil, and even with Cecil B. DeMille. His history with those men is widely respected in Hollywood. Besides, then, as now, the ape makeup was excrutiatingly uncomfortable...
The only hook is his work with Welles, but Welles was known to be a bit of a jack-ass sometimes, especially considering that Charlton Heston made it possible for Welles to direct the film. He was asked who he wanted to direct it, and he said, and I quote, "Why not Orson Welles? He's amazing." He, who had worked with some of the best directors in film history, said that much of a contemporary film maker. While he said that Welles was a pain in the ass to work with, he didn't regret doing it, and he was still a good artist above all.
Plus, you don't know the whole up-and-down of how Tim Burton operates either. He's known to be very hard to talk to conversationally, let alone get instructions for a shot. The only person who ever successfully entered into conversation with him was Johnny Depp on the set of Ed Wood. You should hear him give interviews. He sounds like his restraint switch is about to break and he's going to turn into a super-fast chatterbox, not that it's a bad thing.
Besides, one event, the lousy remake to the excellent Planet of the Apes, doesn't take away a whole history of excellent work and a good reputation among the most significant film makers of all time.
[ 08-01-2004, 10:12 AM: Message edited by: Oblivion437 ]