Chimpanzees Can Make Movies

By Mark Lorenz on January 25th, 2010

Chimp-1I was surprised, as well, but then again, I’ve seen a bunch of bad movies this year.

Have you ever wanted to see a movie shot by monkeys? Have you ever said you yourself, “Man, I’m digging on Desperate Housewives hardcore right now, but I really wish there were more monkey titty?” You’re in luck, my friend.

Primatologists have designed special monkey-safe cameras, then given them to monkeys to have them make movies of their daily lives. Their riveting, exciting monkey lives. The days and nights of their monkey lives. What do I think this BBC experiment will contain a lot of? Monkey genitals. Monkeys licking cameras. Cameras being thrown. And basically anything else that can and will induce motion sickness.

The footage was shot over 18 months, after researcher Betsy Herrelko noticed that chimpanzees had taken an interest in filmmaking. I’m sure that’s what happened. They developed special monkey cameras and noticed that the chimps JUST HAPPENED TO BE interested in making movies. Just purely by coincidence.

You know what’d be hilarious? If they set up this thing like an epic documentary, never-before-seen footage of monkeys, created in their own habitat, then showed six hours of Uwe Boll films, capped off by some Oliver Stone flicks.

That’d I’d pay to see. That, or plenty of monkey titty.

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