Planet Of The Apes Analysis

The first time I got to know about the planet of the apes series movie was about a year ago when the movie Dawn of the Planet of the Apes first came out. The movie didn’t seem very attractive for me at the very beginning, but it turned out to be great that we mocked the ape sound as we came out of the theater. Later in English class, I learned that there are many more original series films and we actually had a chance to watch and discuss the very first Planet of the Apes (1968). Compared to the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the 1968 original film has of course less computer graphic effects but has more meaningful and profound implications. Planet of the Apes is a film about many different things. It can be considered to be allegorical on multiple levels. One of the thematic ideas in the film is mankind’s inherent destructive nature. This is reflected in the real life example of Syrian civil war. Allegory is a genre of story telling, intended by the author to be read on multiple levels, not intended to be read only at face value. It’s most likely to be a simple story. However, there is always a hidden implication behind. For instance, “Yertle the Turtle” is an

When they landed on earth, the three astronauts had to travel through the desert -- Forbidden Zone, to find water and lives. When they surprisingly found a living plant, they dig it off the ground and killed it, saying “Where there is one, there is another, and another, and another.” It seems a small detail of the movie. However, the underlying allegorical idea is that they were determined to destroy and conquer through this simple action. Another scene is when Taylor were told to identify Landon, he found that Landon was cut in the brain by the apes. The apes did so to deny and cover the truth by destroying a human’s life. Although this is done by the apes, but it reflects human’s destructive