![]() The Colonel interns all apes in a concentration camp, as he awaits army forces which are coming to relieve him of his command. In the final film, War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), Caesar’s wife and son are killed by a human soldier known as The Colonel. Caesar recovers from his injuries, has a fight with Koba and saves the day. Koba shoots Caesar, claiming that humans were responsible, and leads a rebellion. After humans try to extract hydroelectric power from the local waterfall, the gorilla Koba calls for resistance. In Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), the apes live peacefully under Caesar’s rule. Caesar leads an escape from a primate centre, resulting in an ape riot across the Golden Gate Bridge. The ape Bright Eyes passes this on to her son Caesar. Now the apes inherit their abnormal intelligence as a by-product of dubious drug testing. In 2011, there was a new remake Rise of the Panet of the Apes, based not on the first film but on the much more radical Conquest. And in 2001, Tim Burton made a largely forgettable remake of the original Planet of the Apes whose $100 million budget appears to have been spent more on expensive CGI affects than on intelligent screenwriting.īut then something interesting happened. A television series in 1974 revisited many themes from the first two films. After an attack by a farcical group of radiation-ridden humans, the apes are forced to come back together. This leads to Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), Caesar’s benign dictatorship is threatened by a coup from the gorilla Aldo. In Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), Cornelius and Zira’s son Caesar, leads an ape revolution. Their son is also apparently killed, but he has been switched with another ape baby and is smuggled out in a circus. Zira becomes pregnant and a Presidential Commission orders a forcible abortion. In Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), the chimpanzees Cornelius and Zira escape the exploding planet and land in 1973 USA. As the conflict between apes and humans intensifies, Taylor detonates the bomb, destroying the world. ![]() In Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), two further astronauts are sent to find Taylor, only to discover a subterranean human society which worships a holy atom bomb. It is a future Earth which has been devastated by nuclear war. The lead astronaut, Taylor (Charlton Heston) has just realised that the planet is not so strange after all. This is the final scene of Planet of the Apes (1968), a film about astronauts discovering a strange planet, where humans have been enslaved by apes. He falls to the ground screaming “You maniacs! You blew it up! Oh, damn you! God damn you to hell!” All the time it was – We finally really did it!”. The man looks at the statue and shouts “Oh my God. As the camera pans out we see a familiar shape in the distance – the Statue of Liberty, waist deep in the sand. It’s one of the most celebrated scenes in film history.
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