Planet of The Apes Satire
The setting of the movie compared to the setting in the book makes Planet of the Apes one of the greatest satires. In the movie, the setting takes place on earth in the future where apes deny and are afraid of the past, whereas the setting in the book is on a different planet where apes are civilized and technologically advanced, and the humans were primitive creatures. The orangutans in the movie prevent what happened to the humans from happening to the apes. Orangutans, such as Zaius went to great work as destroying the cave where the evidence of the humans reigned is revealed and removing Landen's memory. In the book civilization of humans on Earth is equal to and may even surpass the civilization of the apes on Sorror. The point of view in the book is through Ulysees' mind. He is clam and patient. Taylor in the movie is an impatient angry man who is never satisfied and is outraged by the fact that apes are running the planet and have locked him up. In the movie Taylor is a misanthrope who is hot-tempered and not respectful to the apes. He calls them "Bloody Baboons!" Taylor left Earth to find a be
A new perspective of humans destroying ourselves is gained by the end of the movie as compared to the apes overtaking humans because of humans teaching them to be like us in the book. Humans end up destroying each other in the movie as revealed by the ending, but we gain the chance to change it all to prevent the end of our cultures. This was of great importance from when the movie was made, during the Cold War, when nuclear weapons were being developed. The apes overtaking us in the book shows us what could happen, not only with teachings of apes, but also the dangers of technology. The ideas of apes taking control over humans and humans ending our own superiority are both possibilities of the future, but the idea of the apes taking over Earth is more likely to be substituted by machines. Humans are the target of satire because of the nuclear warfare in the movie opposed to the apes mimicry of humans in the book. The movie shows that the humans are uncontrollable, dangerous, primitive creatures when Zaius explains that the forbidden zone is desert because the humans destroyed the land making it in
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