in this series the world has gone
bananas welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be taking a look back at the
Planet of the Apes franchise take your
stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape
this series was based on the 1963 French
novel la Planet desange by Pierre Boulle
just a few years after its release it
was adapted into a string of five films
between 1968 and 1973 the original 1968
film Planet of the Apes star Charlton
Heston and centered on the tale of three
astronauts while in hibernation this
trio traveled at near light speed but
was inadvertently sent through a
spacetime distortion they then
crash-landed on a primitive planet ruled
by Apes during these events one
astronaut was killed
another was lobotomized and Heston’s
character george taylor was put in a zoo
full of animalistic humans that bright
eyes is remarkable he keeps trying to
form words you know what they say human
see human do here the Apes treated
humans cruelly and saw them as nothing
more than vermin within their society
the different simian species were
divided within a caste system each acted
as hunters and military men orangutans
were administrators politicians and
lawyers and chimpanzees were the
intellectuals and scientists know he’s
moving his fingers only because he
showed you moving yours perhaps he
understood man has no understanding
chimpanzee scientists Zira and Cornelius
felt compassion for the humans and
recognized Taylor as intelligent they
decided to help him and a female named
Nova to escape however the astronauts
soon discovered he had not landed on an
alien planet at all but earth in the far
future following a nuclear war
oh cool
all the times finally really did it yo
you blue next up was 1970s beneath the
Planet of the Apes in that installment a
rescue ship transporting astronaut Brent
arrived after being similarly
time-displaced
oh god it’s a city of apes Brent search
for Taylor took him underground where he
encountered a population of mutated
telepathic humans worshiping a nuclear
bomb he also found the imprisoned Taylor
but the pair was mortally wounded when
the Apes arrived with his dying breath
Taylor detonated the doomsday bomb and
destroyed planet Earth
into the water
this didn’t stop the franchise from
returning just one year later in 1971 s
escape from the Planet of the Apes this
film followed a group of simian
scientists who escaped the blast from
the previous film by repairing tailors
crashed spaceship the twist was that the
nuclear blast created a shockwave that
sent them back in time to 1973 we have
traveled from for its future to its past
but we saw the earth destroyed and earth
will be destroyed just as we saw it
picking up on the structure of the first
film the Apes ended up in a zoo before
becoming celebrities that excitement
quickly turned to fear over news about
the future and the visiting primates
were killed our human captors will not
be edified to learn that one day their
world will crack like an egg and burn to
a cinder
however they were able to save their
newborn son by swapping him for chimp
from the zoo the fourth installment was
1972 s conquest of the Planet of the
Apes that film took place in 1991 and
focused on a disease that wiped out all
of the world’s cats and dogs in the
early 80s in this reality the United
States was a fascist culture that used
apes as pets and slaves
this caused the surviving intelligent
chimp from the previous film to organize
and lead a simian rebellion by what
right are you spin again by the slaves
right to punish his persecutors
I descendant of slaves I’m asking you to
share humanity the story concluded in
1973’s battle for the Planet of the Apes
this film took place a decade after the
ape uprising led by Caesar we learned
that humans retaliated to this event
using nuclear force however man 1/8
finally decided to coexist as equals
following the film series Planet of the
Apes was reworked into a television show
that took place between the events of
the first two films it was cancelled due
to low ratings after just 14 episodes
three decades later Tim Burton
unsuccessfully attempted to reboot the
series the uninspired 2001 film largely
retold the events from the original
classic but it’s ludicrous
twist ending failed to captivate
audiences despite this setback Hollywood
rebooted the milestones sci-fi franchise
once again in 2011 with Rise of the
Planet of the Apes
this time the story centered on a
chimpanzee test subject named Caesar who
was subjected to a potential cure for
Alzheimer’s this drug spurred rapid
brain development and prompted an
uprising that threatened to end
mankind’s rule of the earth the Planet
of the Apes franchise deals with
timeless questions of equality
intelligence and warfare because of this
the series continues to provoke social
commentary and thrilling entertainment
it’s okay
it’s okay
bananas welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be taking a look back at the
Planet of the Apes franchise take your
stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape
this series was based on the 1963 French
novel la Planet desange by Pierre Boulle
just a few years after its release it
was adapted into a string of five films
between 1968 and 1973 the original 1968
film Planet of the Apes star Charlton
Heston and centered on the tale of three
astronauts while in hibernation this
trio traveled at near light speed but
was inadvertently sent through a
spacetime distortion they then
crash-landed on a primitive planet ruled
by Apes during these events one
astronaut was killed
another was lobotomized and Heston’s
character george taylor was put in a zoo
full of animalistic humans that bright
eyes is remarkable he keeps trying to
form words you know what they say human
see human do here the Apes treated
humans cruelly and saw them as nothing
more than vermin within their society
the different simian species were
divided within a caste system each acted
as hunters and military men orangutans
were administrators politicians and
lawyers and chimpanzees were the
intellectuals and scientists know he’s
moving his fingers only because he
showed you moving yours perhaps he
understood man has no understanding
chimpanzee scientists Zira and Cornelius
felt compassion for the humans and
recognized Taylor as intelligent they
decided to help him and a female named
Nova to escape however the astronauts
soon discovered he had not landed on an
alien planet at all but earth in the far
future following a nuclear war
oh cool
all the times finally really did it yo
you blue next up was 1970s beneath the
Planet of the Apes in that installment a
rescue ship transporting astronaut Brent
arrived after being similarly
time-displaced
oh god it’s a city of apes Brent search
for Taylor took him underground where he
encountered a population of mutated
telepathic humans worshiping a nuclear
bomb he also found the imprisoned Taylor
but the pair was mortally wounded when
the Apes arrived with his dying breath
Taylor detonated the doomsday bomb and
destroyed planet Earth
into the water
this didn’t stop the franchise from
returning just one year later in 1971 s
escape from the Planet of the Apes this
film followed a group of simian
scientists who escaped the blast from
the previous film by repairing tailors
crashed spaceship the twist was that the
nuclear blast created a shockwave that
sent them back in time to 1973 we have
traveled from for its future to its past
but we saw the earth destroyed and earth
will be destroyed just as we saw it
picking up on the structure of the first
film the Apes ended up in a zoo before
becoming celebrities that excitement
quickly turned to fear over news about
the future and the visiting primates
were killed our human captors will not
be edified to learn that one day their
world will crack like an egg and burn to
a cinder
however they were able to save their
newborn son by swapping him for chimp
from the zoo the fourth installment was
1972 s conquest of the Planet of the
Apes that film took place in 1991 and
focused on a disease that wiped out all
of the world’s cats and dogs in the
early 80s in this reality the United
States was a fascist culture that used
apes as pets and slaves
this caused the surviving intelligent
chimp from the previous film to organize
and lead a simian rebellion by what
right are you spin again by the slaves
right to punish his persecutors
I descendant of slaves I’m asking you to
share humanity the story concluded in
1973’s battle for the Planet of the Apes
this film took place a decade after the
ape uprising led by Caesar we learned
that humans retaliated to this event
using nuclear force however man 1/8
finally decided to coexist as equals
following the film series Planet of the
Apes was reworked into a television show
that took place between the events of
the first two films it was cancelled due
to low ratings after just 14 episodes
three decades later Tim Burton
unsuccessfully attempted to reboot the
series the uninspired 2001 film largely
retold the events from the original
classic but it’s ludicrous
twist ending failed to captivate
audiences despite this setback Hollywood
rebooted the milestones sci-fi franchise
once again in 2011 with Rise of the
Planet of the Apes
this time the story centered on a
chimpanzee test subject named Caesar who
was subjected to a potential cure for
Alzheimer’s this drug spurred rapid
brain development and prompted an
uprising that threatened to end
mankind’s rule of the earth the Planet
of the Apes franchise deals with
timeless questions of equality
intelligence and warfare because of this
the series continues to provoke social
commentary and thrilling entertainment
it’s okay
it’s okay
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