Kelly Pietruszynski The Worthy Rise Of The Planet Of Apes

David Kherdian’s novel Monkey: A Journey to the West, begins with the creation story of Monkey. On the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, a magic stone is fertilized by the seeds of Heaven and Earth and is impregnated by divine inspiration. Following the embryonic stages of development, a stone egg is revealed. The stone egg instantly undergoes a physical transformation. “Once the egg was exposed to the elements, the wind soon transformed it into a stone monkey, complete in every way in all aspects of its being”(Kherdian 1). The stone monkey soon comes to life, explores his surroundings, and makes friends with other monkeys and other mammals. Monkey and his friends fool around in the forest and spot a curtain of water flowing from a waterfall.

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 book The Sixth Extinction written by Elizabeth Kolbert there are a lot of examples that are going on in the world today and also examples of things that started when the first human being was around. This book talks about how we are in the sixth mass extinction, and that is caused by humans. Overall the book goes chapter by chapter and talks about the different mass extinctions there have been, and how they were caused, but also the book talks about different species that have gone extinct and the reasons why. For example the book talks about golden frogs that are located in Panama and how they were seen everywhere located in El Valle de Anton, but they suddenly started disappearing. They were disappearing because of a chytrid fungis cause by humans, when humans travel they were bring this fungis to different places, this ended up killing the frogs (Chapter 1, Kolbert). That is just one example, but throughout the book Kolbert talks about different extinctions like this and what caused them.

To go along with that, I don’t really think that the film needed to rely on any fancy technical aspects anyway. It relied heavily on the emotional aspects and the actors to make the movie great and I think for the most part that they accomplished it. And out of the sparse special effects that were present, every one of them was very deliberate and had a purpose to help move the story along. Every piece of it helped set the tone for what people were supposed to feel, even though there wasn’t a lot of them. The lack of fancy technical aspects help create it and make it cinematically beautiful, One weakness that this movie had, in my opinion, was that it was confusing at times just because it wasn’t a super well known story of the time.

From this scene until the end of the sequence, Kubrick plays with different editing techniques. When this ape is observing skeleton, the shot cuts to a low angle shot of the monolith. This shows the audience that the ape is thinking about the monolith. When the ape smashes the skull with the bone, it cuts to a shot of a dead tapir. The quick-cuts of the crushed bones and another cut of a beaten tapir illustrates that the apes are no longer scared of tapirs or any other predatory creature. It gives the apes a sense of power and dominance over their so called predators. This method of editing not only becomes an insight to an ape’s thoughts but it also seen as a depiction of mankind’s predatory instincts. The music also invokes the feeling of power because it indicates a connection between the outskirts of space and this major breakthrough of human evolution. As a result of evolution, the apes have a newly-developed intelligence as well as a dietary change that primarily consists of

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 “Our Inner Ape” from de author Frans de Waal is one of the bases used in the class Humanity 2.0 to try to reach an understanding about human nature. The book is a journey where the author attempts to explains why we are and who we are. As a biologist and primatologist, he uses a biological approach to compare the chimpanzee and bonobo society to our human society. Looking for similarities and differences, the author tries to use both as a way to address the core of human existence. De Wall uses various aspects of chimpanzee and bonobo society to compare with our own, such as behavior in family, the struggles about power, sex, violence, and kindness.

time, his thinking has been influential. What is considered to be the great importance of his

In this article it talks of a novice scientist who became famous by incredible groundbreaking studies of chimpanzees. Newly found images of her during time studying chimpanzees that shown just how she did it, the commitment that she put in, and her love for her photographer. Jane Goodall first started to gain fame her widely known film, “Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees”, but before any of that she started her research in 1960 in Gombe Stream Reserve near the shores of Lake Tanganyika.

The first topic addressed in this book that I will focus on is the social behavior of apes, specifically on courting rituals and mating behavior, such as the love dance performed by the “humans” in the novel. The second topic is the (in)capability of apes to produce human speech. In the novel, the apes all speak human language, but in reality, this is not a likely possibility.

Did you know that humans and chimpanzees are 99 percent alike? That’s why I, Jane Goodall, was so fascinated by them. I was born in London, England, in 1934. When I was about two years old, my father gave me a stuffed chimpanzee. I named it Jubilee. That monkey started my fascination with chimpanzees. Ever since I got Jubilee, I wanted to study chimpanzees. In 1956, I received a letter that would change my life forever from my best friend Clo. Clo and her family just purchased a farm in Kenya. It was expensive to go to Africa, so I moved in with my mother in England and got a job at a nearby restaurant.

After that occurrence I seen many more unusual occurrences on the news. One Most notable a brigand by the name ‘Misanthropo’. He was criminal that would go around killing any humans he could. One thing I noticed was he kept saying the same incantation as Amy. Then, there was the spaceship landing in Oklahoma began a metamorphosis for the world. The ship remained idle for months being constantly watched from afar by news crews. The camera crews had to stay far away because government prevented them from going near the stygian ship.

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.

The stop motion animation sequences were filmed separately from the live action scenes with the actors. These two parts were then combined to create the illusion that the ape was towering over the actors. In the 2005 remake of the film, director Peter Jackson relied on Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) to animate Kong. This use of CGI gave the director greater artistic control of the narrative. Many of the sets were computer-generated, as well as Kong himself. To combine both the actors and the computer-generated images together, chroma keying was used. In the scene where Ann Darrow is placed in the hand of Kong, the actress was filmed against a green screen, and held by a large green hand. When this scene was merged with the digital Kong, a composite image shows Kong holding her. Since chroma-keying technology did not exist in the 1930’s, a full-sized, fur covered hand had to be constructed to create the effect of Kong holding the actor. The difference between the visual effects in both versions is significant, making is apparent that the remake has displayed great technological advancement. These advancements also make the film more believable, and emphasise the story.

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