Planet of the Apes & MLK

[IfasehunReincarnated]

Wal-Mart Halts Movie Suggestions on Web

By MARCUS KABEL, Associated Press Writer
Fri Jan 6, 6:25 AM ET

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is shutting down the system that creates movie recommendations on its shopping Web site after it linked a "Planet of the Apes" DVD to films about famous black Americans, including Martin Luther King Jr.

Wal-Mart said Thursday it had removed what it called the "offensive combinations" from a walmart.com page advertising a boxed DVD set, "Planet of the Apes: The Complete TV Series."

Under a "similar items" section, the DVD set's page linked shoppers to four films about the lives of King, actress Dorothy Dandridge, boxer Jack Johnson and singer Tina Turner. Wal-Mart later altered the page to link with television show DVDs.

The world's largest retailer said the software that generates links for shoppers from one movie to others of similar interest would be shut down. All cross references would be removed as soon as technically possible until the system can be fixed, Wal-Mart said.

Bill Wertz, a spokesman for the Bentonville, Ark.-based company, said it wasn't yet clear how or when the technical problem arose. "We're still looking into it," he said.

Wal-Mart moved swiftly after a link to the page for "Planet of the Apes" began circulating on the Internet.

"We are heartsick that this happened and are currently doing everything possible to correct the problem," Wal-Mart spokeswoman Mona Williams said in a statement.

"Walmart.com's item mapping process does not work correctly and at this point is mapping seemingly random combinations of titles. We were horrified to discover that some hurtful and offensive combinations are being mapped together," she said, adding that the company was "deeply sorry that this happened."

"To further illustrate the bizarre nature of this technical issue, the site is also mapping movies such as `Home Alone' and `Power Puff Girls' to African-American-themed DVDs," Williams said.

A documentary about surfers, "Riding Giants," links to the same list of seemingly unrelated fantasy films as the King biopic, including "Polar Express" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

[CreatorsCollege]

Well, jurie's out. The evidence though is that datablases and search engines us "natural llanguage" algorythms to parse information to make or infer "connections."

To the lay person, this is a mistake. To the technical person, particularly one with database programming experience, this is par for the course.

There exist database tables within their movie DB and language string algorythms that LINK say, words associated with Africans such as African, black, brown, etc. with movie titles.

Could 'Ape" be one of those associated words? HHHMMMMMMMMMM

I 'aint buyin' it.

[Tehuti-4]

This movie was obviously about African revolution. I've read that the original film was so radical and militant that the studio forced the film makers to edit out much of the revolutionary references.

If you haven't seen it I recommend it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068408/

[IfasehunReincarnated]

While I believe that Wal-Mart allowed this on purpose and think that some racist slur of some kind, I also agree w/ Tehuti that the original film is clearly about Afrikan revolution. It is in fact, one of my favorite movies. As an adult I have seen the first 3 movies at least a half dozen times each. The first being the most critical to our situation.

When you hear that Chimp say "no", you are going to feel it in your bones.

[John P.]

yeah..the orignal was deep i enjoyed the whole collection. this is the first time i heard someone other than me who was able to see the revolutionary side in Planet of the Apes---thee originals....1...

[Tehuti-4]

I understand from the IMDB that there is a strong movement (petition at this point) being organized to release the "directors cut" of these films. The director of the film has passed however so I don't know what problems this may present to the effort. If you remember the scene from CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES where Cesear is speaking to his troops - his lips are moving in parts but no audio is heard. LOL What ever he said had the studios freaked!! The lines already are among the best I've heard on film so you know I'd love to hear the rest.

"Where there is fire, there is smoke. And in that smoke, from this day forward, my people will crouch and conspire and plot and plan for the inevitable day of man's downfall the day when he finally and self-destructively turns his weapons against his own kind. The day of the writing in the sky, when your cites lie buried under radioactive rubble! When the sea is a dead sea, and the land is a wasteland out of which I will lead my people from their captivity! And we will build our own cities in which there will be no place for humans except to serve our ends! And we shall found our own armies, our own religion, our own dynasty! And that day is upon you NOW!"

HELL YEA!

[CreatorsCollege]

Originally Posted by Tehuti-4

The lines already are among the best I've heard on film so you know I'd love to hear the rest.

"Where there is fire, there is smoke. And in that smoke, from this day forward, my people will crouch and conspire and plot and plan for the inevitable day of man's downfall the day when he finally and self-destructively turns his weapons against his own kind. The day of the writing in the sky, when your cites lie buried under radioactive rubble! When the sea is a dead sea, and the land is a wasteland out of which I will lead my people from their captivity! And we will build our own cities in which there will be no place for humans except to serve our ends! And we shall found our own armies, our own religion, our own dynasty! And that day is upon you NOW!"

HELL YEA!

HEEELL TA' DA' YEAAAA!!

[SoularFlarez]

PLANET OF THE APES ~ Planet of big black scarey apes that RULE, we must get control and stop THEM !

MLK ~ Nice friendly white people govern, but scarey aggresive negros want contro... we MUST stop them !



they aint slick...