Monday, October 31, 2011
Planet of the Apes-Backwards Evolution in Action!
One of these things aren't like the others, *Mr. Shoenborn*. Planet of the Apes is about some astronauts who go into space and seemingly crash-land on an alien planet. According to the ship, though they have been traveling for about a year through space, three thousand years have passed back on Earth. Immediatly, the only human female is killed off. Wonderful start to a story. The remaining three astronauts are left to cross a desert to find civilization, food, and water. They eventually find water, and they celebrate by going skinny dipping in the water. Good plan, but their clothes and supplies are stolen and trashed by feral humanoids. The astronauts follow the tribe (?) and are attacked by ape-people which are far more advanced than the humanoids, almost as advanced as the astronauts. At the middle of the film, there is only one of the original astronauts remains alive and sane (?). He flees the captivity of the apes with a female humanoid with the help of an animal psychologist, her fiance, and her nephew. The movie ends climaticly, or rather anti-climaticly with the discovery that the astronauts haven't crash-landed on an alien planet at all. It's Earth, three thousand years into the future. And therefore, not an alien movie at all, it's more along the lines of time-travel. It was a good movie either way, though. Even if it was a little boring in some parts.
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Madison, that twist was the beauty of PotApes in it's original film debut. What might it say about alien worlds? Could it be that these worlds exist or don't exist based on chaos theory and happenstance of evolutionary development?
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