" She explains why she can't ell him her wish for the future: "Oh no.If I told you, it might not come true." George asks about her deepest wishes and hen offers her a poetic, imaginative fantasy about lassoing the moon and bringing it down to Earth so that she can eat it - it's almost a marriage proposal:George: What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You-you want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.In the exercise yard, Caesar was treated with skepticism by his ape companions.He noticed Buck (Richard Ridings), a large and aggressive western lowland gorilla kept in solitary confinement, and Borneon orangutan Maurice (Karin Konoval).The film is driven by Mankiewicz' witty, cynical and bitchy screenplay - through the character of Addison DeWitt, Mankiewicz represented his point of view and opinions about show business.Their dances were usually filmed with only one or two camera positions or setups in real-time, without alot of editing and cross-cutting.