It’s fascinating the black & white movie that auteurs make when they get the blank check to do so. Raging Bull, Ed Wood, Manhattan, Psycho, The Last Picture Show, THX-1138 (fight me). All of them for different reasons and to different ends. This was Coppola’s and he swings for the fences with the style, the black & white has been processed in a way I’ve never seen, with actors rotoscoped to expose them differently from their environment leading to the richest blacks…

I don’t think younger movie fans can imagine a celebrated modern actor/director starring alongside an ape once, much less more than once. Imagine Ben Affleck’s follow up to Argo being him and an ape. Then before he plays Batman in Batman V Superman, turns in another movie with him and an ape, this one with a song about the ape and montage of ape doing stuff to it.

The 80’s were the wild west, there were no rules. At least…