There may be no more astonishing image in the history of modern science-fiction cinema than the severed torso of the Statue of Liberty strewn on the sand at the end of Planet of the Apes. It confirmed the worst fears of Charlton Heston's wayward astronaut about what his countrymen were capable of.
Released into a paranoid, skeptical zeitgeist in which institutions were assumed to be crumbling under their own weight, the doomy grandeur of that tableaux helped Planet of the Apes transcend its B-movie pedigree and become an instant classic.
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