Planet of the Apes
by Franklin J. Schaffner
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Actor: Charlton Heston, James Whitmore, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, Roddy McDowallDirector: Franklin J. Schaffner
Brand: Planet
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy
Editor: Hugh S. Fowler
Producer: Arthur P. Jacobs
Producer: Mort Abrahams
Writer: Michael Wilson
Writer: Pierre Boulle
Writer: Rod Serling
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-28
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Planet of the Apes
Movie Review: Another Time Machine with a twist in the works
Summary: 5 Stars
That's the first of a long series of films. At first you think you are in some kind of Star Trek series with a little bit less gadgetry, or maybe a new Space Odyssey. Then you think you have been thrown into a remake of George Pal's Time Machine, adapted from H.G. Wells. But you realize very fast it is quite another story. Instead of implementing Darwinism within a Marxist vision of industrial society, here the very Darwinian evolution that man produced man as superior to apes, we have exactly the world upside down and apes are superior to man. It is an inverted story of human fundamentalist Christianity or any fundamentalist religious belief in the hands and heads of an ape rather medieval society. Some humans arrive in a very long distance NASA flight and they are at first confronted to a wild human species and then hunted down by an ape superior species. That's the beginning. Of course the parallel with H.G. Wells stops here and we shift to another story. The aim is to reveal the absurdity of a fundamentalist belief that one species was created by God to dominate the world and another to be the Devil's spies and pawns. It is not racism since the apes and the humans are not members of the same species. It is what we humans practice everyday on earth, the absolute domination of all that nature contains. What is surprising is that these apes hunt humans, capture them, kill them but do not eat them. In H.G. Wells the Morlocks hunted the Elois in order to eat them as meat, proteins. The next surprising thing is that this dependence, inferiority has erased the capacity to speak in the humans whereas their superiority has granted the apes the power to speak and write. That is surprising since humans do have the physical ability but they lost the know-how. The film is surprising in its ending because it is the triumph of force over reason. The last surviving Earth man and his human female wild acolyte escape enslavement by using force, and the chief scientist and chief religious authority escape truth by using force. The end is all the more surprising when the Statue of Liberty jumps up out of nowhere on this extremely distant planet. Fascinating anachronism. I think they call that, in the intellectual critical milieu, a "mise en abime". Of course we know it is the door to the sequel, but even so it is slightly moving to see her in there. Quite out of her normal environment. Maybe some myth is attached to this lady, so strong that on September 11 they attacked the Twin Towers instead of the Statue of Liberty. Surprising indeed what force a mythical being can take in human minds.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID
Summary of Planet of the Apes
No Description Available.Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: G
Release Date: 28-MAR-2006
Media Type: DVD
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