Dr. King And The Omega Man

clipped from fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com Not very many people will remember that Charlton Heston picketed a segregated theater premiering his own movie; or that he accompanied Martin Luther King Jr on the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington. All at a time when no one in Hollywood was willing to speak out against racism. In one of his less remembered films, the Omega Man, Heston portrays the last modern man on earth. The movie is set in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles infested by mutants called "The Family", who have "reverted to a luddite lifestyle, employing medieval imagery and technology—complete with long black robes, torches, bows and arrows, and catapults." The Family is determined to end the last symbol of science on earth, as portrayed by Heston, and incidentally, subdue the final holdout against the Collective. And yet it was the Family that divorced itself from the stream of mankind and Heston's character that maintained its link.