Oh, My God!

Oh, my God! So we really did it! You maniacs, you blew it all up! Damn you all to hell!

The closing shots of «Planet of the Apes», filmed with a model of the ruined Statue of Liberty, were a director's decision not foreseen by the original screenplay, which envisaged a somewhat different answer to the «question» posed in the opening scene: not so much where we are, as when this is happening.

True, in the source of the story the heroes do return to Earth, where apes likewise hold sway. But the looping of time and space does read better this way.

The final shot, which has since become iconic, was filmed on a beach in California.

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Oh, My God!

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s