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Planet of the Apes Synopsis: It is the year 2029: Astronaut Leo Davidson boards a pod cruiser on a Space Station for a 'routine' reconnaissance mission. But an abrupt detour through a space time wormhole lands him on a strange planet where talking apes rule over the human race.
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- Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a 2011 American science fiction action film directed by Rupert Wyatt and starring Andy Serkis, James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, and David Oyelowo.Written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, it is 20th Century Fox's reboot of the Planet of the Apes series, intended to act as an origin story for a new series of films.
- Peter Travers of Rolling Stone noted that the film has mixed 'twists lifted from 1972's Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and 1999's Deep Blue Sea'. Rise of the Planet of the Apes was released on Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and Digital copy on December 13, 2011.
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Planet Of The Apes Symbol
In many ways the Planet of the Apes saga is a commentary on race relations in America. The saga uniquely chose three Ape species; the gorillas, the chimpanzees, and the orangutan's to represent the Apes that dominate the world. Rather than one unified group the Apes were a system of subgroups themselves. In Beneath the Planet of the Apes, chimpanzees Cornelius and Zira comment on how the 'quota' system had been abandoned long ago. This of course is a reference to affirmative action programs meant to give preferential treatment in employment to minority groups which were in place and looming on the horizon within America at the time. The chimpanzees were pacifists and the war to eradicate mutants in the forbidden zone of the second movie was referred to as 'the Gorilla's war' by Zira in Escape from the Planet of the Apes. Zira seems to blame one group, the Gorillas rather than her own society for the destruction of her planet which implies strong racial feelings against gorillas on her part. The Planet of the Apes Saga forces humanity to look at the prejudices, biases, and hatred that have lurked within people in the past and perhaps even in the present. If one assumes that each Ape subgroup represents a subgroup of man himself from the past then just which human group was being commented on in a masked fashion and for what political ends? There are many possiblities including. Scenario 1 1 The Gorillas represent newly liberated slaves and a belief that blacks in America have obtained freedom inspite of inferior intelect and a higher tendency to violence. After study of crime statistics in America by race, white supremists would present just such a possible point. 2 The Chimpanzees represent Japanese Americans who are stereotyped as being smarter than either whites or blacks in American society and who were forcibly imprisoned in America during the second World War. The war protests and pacifist nature of the chimapanzees perhaps reflects Japanese American feelings after the unleashing of the atomic bomb and the Japanese constitution which forbids military forces for agression. 3 The Orangutan's represent white conservative america. The orangautaun's defend religion and oppose evolution and things dangerous to custom and tradition. Perhaps the same can be said of many steotypical white conservative elders. Scenario 2 1 The chimapanzees represent southern white america that has been forced to watch as immigrants and foreign factions take control of culture and country little by little. Ceasar, a chimpanzee and the founder of Ape society knows in the future there is a good chance that his kind, the chimps who lead the revolution for freedom will themselves live as second class citizens. Perhaps this is a hidden analogy to the white founding fathers of America and their progeny in the south after Reconstruction commences following the Civil War. At that point they are powerless to do anything but watch as northerners further delegate powers to blacks and to the north iteself as the group becomes fragmented and afraid. 2 The Orangautaun's represent northern americans who control affairs from afar in Washington, DC. The Orangautaun's rule over chimapanzees with little regard for the voice or concerns of chimpanzees in the Planet of the Apes saga. 3 The Gorillas represent a means to power to control chimapanzees and maintain the new power balance. Blacks make up a disproportionate percentage of professional soldiers in US armies so an Orangautaun government with Gorilla soldiers is not so far fetched as it seems. Perhaps the ideological source of an all Gorilla army lies within the racial makeup of Americas own armed forces which are composed largely of minorities. Conclusion Of course there always is the possibility that one may draw no message about race from the Planet of the Apes saga except that it does not matter. After all if three chimpanzees, who were a second class in their own world alone survive destruction to further the rebirth of Ape dominance in the future just what can be said about that? At the very least an anti oppresion message is presented. Apes should not be enslaved as should man not be. Rather or not quotas, affirmative action, or governmental rule from afar is right or not is something the saga perhaps presents for one to ponder. The message which truly one can gather from the saga most clearly is that man is a dangerous beast whose means of self destruction loom on the horizon always. Instead of subdividing man into this group or that, man must be united for whatever aims and purposes he wishes to acheieve. The mutants unite to deliver their brand of religion via an atomic bomb, and the Apes unite inspite of their differences to win their own freedom. The methodology of unity, self restraint, and rational decisions are what set man apart from beasts. Without such things man is no different in essence than the scavaging savages who spend all day playing in fields and eating fruits in the first Planet of the Apes movie. |
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One of the most famous quotes from Planet of the Apes is Taylor’s crying out while in captivity, “It’s a madhouse…a madhouse!” Explain how this outburst could be considered ironic.
A madhouse is a pejorative form for an institution to treat the mentally ill. It is commonly used in the vernacular to describe any place where things are taking place beyond reason or, in other instances, where events are at odds with one’s accepted perspective of reality and truth. Taylor’s outburst is stimulated by his being treated like an animal by creatures he is used to seeing as mere beasts existing on a plane beneath his own. The irony here is almost too obvious: Taylor also thinks all humans are beneath him. His oft-stated perspective is one that has the cumulative effective of revealing him to be an utter misanthrope. Therefore, it is irony of an almost paradoxical state that Taylor would consider being treated like an animal by creatures he considers to be little more than beasts the equivalent of living in a madhouse. Under the conditions of personality that Taylor exhibits throughout the film, his entire existence is a parallel to the conditions of his imprisonment by the apes. The whole universe is a madhouse for Taylor.
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A common criticism of the film is that Nova represents the ideal submissive woman for a man like Taylor. Prove this critique wrong.
The criticism is based on the fact that she is mute and therefore represents the ideal woman for a man like Taylor because she can’t talk back and, by definition, question his authority. Taylor’s comments about the dead female astronaut Stewart being essentially a baby making machine for the male astronauts in her role as the “new Eve” had she survived further establishes that Taylor is not merely misanthropic, but deeply misogynistic as well. Furthermore, comments made to Nova from “imagine me needing someone” to “look at that…I taught you to smile” only further cements that Taylor has got some major league issues with women in general and probably would desire Nova to be a submissive hunk of women flesh. Her erasure of Taylor’s writing in the sand is an outright act of rebellion against his authority, however, so while Taylor may get back on that horse and ride away from Lady Liberty thinking he’s found the perfect submissive wife, the evidence hardily suggests that yet again Mr. Taylor is going to be disappointed when his perspective of reality does not quite mesh with the actual manifestation of reality.
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Describe how film seem confirm Darwinian evolutionary theories on “natural selection” while at the same time denying the non-Darwinian term “survival of the fittest.”
That the apes have evolved as a matter of natural selection should go unrefuted. Following global nuclear annihilation, the forces of nature were essentially reset to even odds as there were bound to be more apes than men simply by virtue of mankind being the target of nuclear warheads. That apes—which are revealed in subsequent sequels but which is not touched upon in this film directly as being domesticated into daily human society—would find their species placed in an ideal circumstance for natural selection to take its natural evolutionary course seems a potentially like circumstance would fit in logically within theories outlined by Darwin. The concept of survival of fittest—not originally a Darwinian term, but rather a social construct appended to natural evolutionary mechanics—on the other hand is revealed to be just that: a social construct not capable of standing up to forces of nature.
By all standards of logical convention, the humans that Taylor meets on the planet of the apes would not have de-evolved if survival of the fittest applied, since natural selection would result not in their undergoing a regressive state, but merely being killed off, given the time frame involved. Extending the narrative into the future by hundreds of thousands and perhaps even millions of years would prove his to be true. Were survival of the fittest a natural state of affairs rather than a social abstraction of natural law, the humans would not have de-evolved into a more primitive state, but evolved into a state at the very least equal to that their eventual ape masters. On the other hand, natural selection can logically explain why ape evolution would lead to a social construct in which the smarter humans—like, for instance, Taylor—have been killed over time to create what is essentially a genetic pool of troglodytes.