Analysis Of War For The Planet Of The Apes

Within society, we see a constant struggle between savagery and civilization, whether that battle is fought within oneself or among others, it exists nonetheless. This very struggle is a consistent underlying theme throughout the 1933 film, King Kong. In the film, this battle between two forces will be seen in Carl Denham’s struggle with his persistent need to make art and money versus the consequences his obsession might bring, in Kong’s attempt to resist the malignant “temptations” of beauty and finally, in the portrayal of African-Americans as savages and white people as educated civilians. In this essay, we will further delve into the struggle between savagery and civilization, the characters

The movie that I choose to watch is “The Rise of the Planet of the Apes”. In class we learned that primates have different categories. The categories include; movement, reproduction, intelligence and behavior patterns. In the movie, the main ape, Caesar, as well as the other primates in the movie shows examples of these categories. Although, like most modern day movies, some behaviors and characteristics are not true and do not relate to the material that we studied in class.

The book I chose was “Planets Without Apes” by Craig B. Stanford. The book was published by The Belknap Press (Harvard) by Harvard University Press, in 2013. I think that the book was a good factual read and that there was a lot of good information but with that said, I think it was a bit jumbled with too much information. I say this because there are many, many different large ideas. It is like a tree with the trunk being the idea of a planet without apes and off the trunk are the branches which symbolize the smaller information about what would happen without apes then off of the branches are the leaves which are small little bits of information that all resemble the idea of what would happen with a planet without apes. The way that Stanford portrays his information is great but eventually can be hard to follow.

In the article,”Of Primates and Personhood: Will According Rights and “Dignity” to Nonhuman Organisms Halt Research?”, author Ed Yong implies that different types of primates such as apes should be treated more like human beings. He starts by stating a claim the there is some type of schism between different types of scientists and the world. Yong also explains the the Swiss law and how it protects the “dignity” of organisms. He also states that the apes are basically in “battle” Yong then starts to talk about what measures the GAP tries to take in order to give the apes some type of rights. He also explains the different measures that other countries have taken to help the apes within their country, and then he makes another claim in which

Planet of the Apes takes the world as we know it and turns it upside down and in so doing questions almost every belief and value system of mankind. Written and produced at a time when America and much of the world was in the midst of a cultural change and people were questioning and protesting everything the screenwriters take make this film a satirical and thought provoking commentary on the big questions of the era. The Vietnam War, the struggle for equal treatment of African Americans and a general mindset of questioning religion and traditional values were the things that made up the American culture of the nineteen sixties. The film grapples with and makes ant attempt to address most of the issues of the period in which it was written. Three thousand years into the future man has devolved into a non-speaking primitive being while apes have evolved into intellectual beings capable of rational thought and speech. Taylor, the captain of the spaceship and tragic hero, speaks his last words before hibernating his way into the distant future, he states that he is leaving the twentieth century and asks a question, “Tell me, though, does man, that marvel of the universe, that glorious paradox who sent me to the stars, still make war against his brother ... keep his neighbor's children starving?” Taylor, a cynic and skeptic, sees man as violent and destructive. When he arrives in the future to a world where apes are supreme the antagonist of the film, Dr.

While I thought that Peterson’s descriptions sufficed to help the readers see how apes were treated – dead or alive, the pictures were more shocking. Originally, I skipped over the pictures, but they served to help bring Peterson’s words to life. Prior

Humans do terrible things to other humans and Pierre Boulle witnessed this first hand through his prisoner of war experiences. Boulle’s novel Planet of the Apes hones in on the human resilience and need of assimilation. Humanity carries out terrible practices to outsiders or people of radical thought. Societies push these people to the edge of the culture and treat them as lesser beings for not conforming to their standards. People who attempt assimilation cannot completely give up their culture or reality to assimilate even in the most dire situations. Giving up their sense of self leaves them worse off than before. Ulysse’s attempts to assimilate into the ape culture along with his reluctance to let go of his human culture, illustrates humanity's reluctance to accept those who don’t abandon their culture for the one they are attempting to assimilate into.

“Before fixing awning, or doing anything in the backyard, maybe you guys should get rid of those gopher holes, and the actual gophers that made them. Those sonic gopher spikes work really well.” I told my father David, during our weekly phone call. Of course, David – being cheap and stubborn decided to ignore my advice, and climb up the ladder to fix the awning. Just as he got to the top, the ladder scoots a half inch to the right, and my 70-year-old, 230 pound father went down hard. This is the event that started the war between my parents and the gophers. “Goddamn gopher hole!” screams my dad David, not realizing that once he stood up, it was about to get much worse. David stood up, and instantly ended up back on the ground. Turns out that the fall from the ladder broke his hip. “This means war!” he exclaimed, but something makes me think that the gophers already knew that a battle was about to ensue, since they won every subsequent battle after war was declared. Score: Gophers 1 – Parents 0.

Human Supremacy There are some books that’s you can just sit back and enjoy, just let the authors words wash over you and most importantly, they don’t make you think. Then there’s Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael, which if you seem to get what he has written on the pages of his novel, make you critically think about everything and how it came to be and also why we subconsciously ignore the truth. Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael, through controversial, does exactly this, makes people question faith vs. reason by examining a wide range of ethical considerations, that cause the reader to most definitely question their preconceived notions. What did this was the sign the gorilla had stated that “with man gone, will there be hope for gorilla” This clearly translates to the inherent dependence of nature on man. As the book continues we learn about the ugly intrusive human nature, but also of the importance and need of anarchism in resisting human supremacy.

Race and social status in culture is not only shown in history, it is also depicted in several films such as the original 1968 Planet of the apes, and 1961 West side story. Both films are unique in their own ways but go hand in hand presenting specific perspectives on race and social status from the beginning of history through today.

Movies can be dark. They can be devastating. They can be tragically sad, painfully colorful. Bright, burning, scarring. Yet, despite all that a movie can illustrate, movies made for the masses have boundaries on tragedy. They cannot show child rape; they cannot show a girl’s limbs being hacked off by a young boy. These images, while understood as descriptive writing in books, mark the edge of what viewers can subject themselves to in film. Film images can be ingrained in minds forever, while our imagination of similar scenes often remains a hazy, shifting, jumble of movements and face. As director of Beasts of No Nation, Cary Joji Fukunaga chose to make changes to the book through the inclusion of small additional scenes before the war, the added character of a big brother, and an additional final scene, to illustrate a version of Agu unseen in the book and in turn make the story more palatable to the average moviegoer. These changes, while they do not alter the general plot, give the story a more appealing trajectory.

Tarzan of the Apes began it all for Edgar Rice Burroughs, propelling him into the world of literature with no understanding how he happened to succeed in becoming ranked among the finest adventure story authors. His stories set the stage of adventure story-telling through his narrative efficiency in their construction, capturing and keeping the audience’s imagination (Gioia, 2014; Bartlett, 2017). Although from humble beginnings published as a pulp fiction adventure, there is much debate over categorising Tarzan of the Apes into a specific genre, as some argue elements of romance and science fiction. This essay aims to assess the text to determine how it engages in its primary genre of adventure fiction, and how it may fit in and engage

We have seen the Apes rise to take over the humankind in the Rise of the Planet of the Apes and we have seen a dawn of a new era where the Apes are ruling over the earth in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Now it’s time for the war between the massively intelligent Apes and the last remaining humans. I really enjoyed the first two parts and has been a great series so far. But, I was a little bit nervous because most of the time the third entries in the proposed trilogies aren’t that good (there are exceptions though).

When Planet of the Apes opened in theaters, few people knew what to expect. To most, the idea of a movie with the premise of a planet full of intelligent apes went against everything they had been taught. The initial attraction was the superb cast, spearheaded by Charlton Heston who portrays Taylor, an astronaut who crashes onto the planet. Heston was joined by many popular actors and actress such as, Roddy McDowell as Cornelius, Maurice Evans as Dr. Zaius and Kim Hunter as Zira. Though the cast may have been the initial draw, the content is what has made the movie Planet of the Apes a classic that will continue to be enjoyed for generations to come.

In the context of this class, this criticism of Hacksaw Ridge (2016) can be examined from two ethical perspectives, one of duty and one of consequences. On the one hand, it bears consideration whether the filmmakers, especially director Mel Gibson, have a duty to treat the portrayal of violence in this story with more care. By depicting war as something exciting and cool, Gibson undercuts the film’s message and simultaneously does the same to any who hold similarly pacifistic views. Therefore, he may have a duty to portray war with greater respect for pacifists.