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Mutant

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Mutant minister of the Fellowship of the Holy Fallout from Beneath the Planet of the Apes

A Mutant represents any biological organism whose physical hereditary characteristics have been altered from that of the parent organism. Such alterations occur on the genetic level and may lead to further unpredictable mutations depending upon the initial root cause as well as other external stimuli.

In terms of Planet of the Apes, a mutant is a distorted creature marred by the radiation levels remaining after a nuclear war. Some are bestial and some are brainy. They generally live in the Forbidden Zone and do not seem to be very nice. [1]

Beneath the Planet of the Apes screenwriter Paul Dehn developed the idea of the mutants: "At first, we were going to have them really mutated with monstrous noses and three eyes, real horror figures, but we didn't think that would have been nice for the children and after a great deal of research, it was the makeup department that came up with the idea that if you had been radiated, all seven layers of your skin would have been destroyed, and all that would be left was this terrible network of veins."[2]

Director Ted Post was apparently responsible for the final makeup concept for the mutants in the film. For many months, the studio had spent thousands of dollars and several artists trying to find the right look for the mutants, coming up with almost every conceivable brand of monstrosity, deformity, and what-have-you. When Post walked into the makeup lab, he was appalled at the sight of myriad grotesque plaster heads lining the shelves, ranging from early Universal to early American-International in appearance. He remembered a drawing from a medical text entitled 'Gray's Anatomy', in which was printed a vivid picture of a man's head, with the top layer of epidermis removed. For some reason, he never forgot that picture and suggested the idea to Dan Striepeke and John Chambers. With the magic of their skills, they transformed this into film reality.[3]

The Mutant make-up was designed by John Chambers, who remembered: "This was a full, soft foam-rubber head appliance, and I used silicone adhesives to blend it out. In the ape appliances, there were small pieces, a chin, a muzzle, and a forehead, and the rest was face hair and a wig. It took more time to blend the edges there, but the mutants were already made up, and the only extra makeup we used was around the eyes and mouth. So we took two hours, average, on those."[4]

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  1. ↑ Glossary to the Planet Of The Apes Jim Whitmore (1976)
  2. ↑ 'Cinefantastique Planet of the Apes Issue' (1972)
  3. ↑ 'Cinefantastique Planet of the Apes Issue' (1972)
  4. ↑ 'Cinefantastique Planet of the Apes Issue' (1972)

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