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Hand in his pants?!?

posted 9 years ago by whippet01
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Have a I missed something? Having seen the trailer a couple of times I noticed the main ape had one hand in his loan cloth the entire time. Why? Why didn't it explain? Looks terrible anyway.

[–] masorick 9 years ago

Jamel Debbouze (the lead actor and director) always keeps his right hand in his pocket because it was damaged by a train when he was younger. Since the movie was shot using motion capture (as opposed to being animated), there was no way around having the main character keep his hand in his... fur, I guess?

[–] BBogus 8 years ago

Just plain nonsense, it's animation and they could have fixed this, it looks weird and ridiculous. Not that it matters as this is film is utter crap.

[–] Atanarjuat 8 years ago

I just saw this for myself.

The main character ends up looking like a prehistoric version of Al Bundy from "Married with Children."

The hand-down-the-loincloth effect looks even more bizarre when he's running flat out away from danger.

[–] sashairk 8 years ago

I don't know how about Al Bundy, but the main character definitely reminds me of somebody. I guess I'd better stop here :-) I wonder whether it was done on purpose or it's just my 'wild imagination.' By the way, the monkey who saved the main character also reminds me of somebody. Knowing what caricatures the European publications sometimes put on our presidents it might be it...

[–] asprogen666 8 years ago

Aside of the mention question about the main actor and his damaged hand, in the movie the missing hand situation is explained in the firsts scenes, when Edouard is thrown to the "carnivore hole", and the wolf-kind beast bites and eventually rips the hand of the newborn Australopithecus which becomes protagonist.

One of the apes, I think the albino Dutch monkey, is modelled in resemblance of the great French comedian Louis de Funds.
The main female ape, Lucy (as the known fossil) is played by Melissa Theuriau, a french news anchor, also wife of the main protagonist.