Meldon wrote:
> Rod Serling became a Unitarian despite the religion to which he was
> born.
>
> Infamous for being an outsider in the industry, in mid-life, I seem
> to recall, he lived in seclusion in a trailer in the desert and later
> in New York died at a relatively young age after a series of heart
> attacks.
>
> Most famous for his series, The Twilight Zone, he wrote the
> screenplay for an episode entitled "To Serve Man", which in the end,
> it was found to be a recipe!
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone)
>
> Another more well known work of fiction was the original Planet of
> the Apes for which he co-wrote the screenplay.
>
> Both of these amazing works had a common theme, namely, grand
> dystopian conspiracy.
>
> In the latter, appears not simply a tale of domination by the great
> apes but conspiracies of hidden knowledge and suppressed history. It
> is generally understood the film was a social commentary.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_apes
>
> Rod Serling may have been presenting warning of malevolence in the
> form of benevolence in the only way he safely could.
Didn't know he had a hand in Planet of the Apes.
no wonder it was a great movie (unlike the ****y re-make).
it is obvious that the movie was a comentary on the Inquisition.
as an adult I've come to pity Dr Saus(sp) - rather than see him as pure
evil. He was in reality a much more simpathetic character. One full of
fear and bigotry...........to be pitied rather than hated.
the ultimate parody is that Saus was proven right at the end of Beneath
Planet of the Apes when a man indeed did end up starizing all life on
earth!
as for Rod Sering - a man centuries before his time: as was is mentor
Arch Obler.
--
"It is presumed that juries are the best judges of facts; it is, on the
other hand, presumed that courts are the best judges of law. But still
both objects are within your power of decision. you have a right to
take it upon yourselves to judge of both, and to determine the law as
well as the fact in controversy." John Jay, first Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court, State of Georgia vs. Brailsford, 1794
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