The series is split into various sections: First, there are the five original films made between 19. Yes, these films never forget to cultivate the value of hope for a peaceful world, but they’re never naïve enough to attempt to sell the audience on the idea that it’s an easy feat-as evidenced by the unfortunately yet appropriately bleak endings found in most of them.Īs much as every Apes film tackles the similar themes and plotlines, not all of them are created equal.
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By presenting a fable world where what we now consider to be animals are dominating humankind, they hold a mirror to our ugliness, arrogance and, just maybe, our chance for redemption.Įvery installment and reiteration of the franchise contains a handful of characters who struggle to go against their basest urges and strive to bring compassion and peace to their kind. The timeless appeal of these films stems from the fact that they explore high-concept themes, like the inherent viciousness and frailty of human nature, with brutal clarity, told with a refreshing lack of condescension and philosophical hand-holding. Today, the Planet of the Apes franchise is still going strong. Therefore, he knows that Taylor will find both his past and his future on that beach. He knows that once an intelligent human like Taylor has a chance to restart yet another attempt at civilization for his species, the same ugliness and destruction that comes with his inner nature will certainly plague his descendants. He knows how humans’ natural attraction to war, persecution, prejudice and cruelty sealed their eventual doom, and is (perhaps vainly) attempting to keep that “intellectual virus” from spreading to his beloved apes.
Unlike all other apes, Zaius knows the history of the painful and complex relationship between apes and humans. Unless you were living under a rock for the last 50 years, you know exactly what he will find.īut why does Zaius call this literally earth-shattering revelation Taylor’s destiny, and not his past, which is technically the case? The answer for that lies within Zaius’s role in the ape society. Zira (Kim Hunter) at the end of the original Planet of the Apes, as misanthropic astronaut George Taylor (Charlton Heston) sets out into the Forbidden Zone of this topsy-turvy planet- where intelligent, talking apes are the dominant species and humans are dumb beasts-in order to find out what really happened to his species. Zaius (Maurice Evans) tells compassionate ape “veterinarian” Dr. That’s what the conservative ape scientist Dr.
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