The Planet Of The Apes

Throughout the term, reading the book, “Through a Window” by Jane Goodall has been quite intriguing for me, in that it has inspired me with new ideas and perceptions about how our own species has evolved over time. I have really enjoyed seeing the many similarities that hominids share with other primate species, especially chimpanzees. Goodall’s research only further proves that we are not only extremely biologically similar to chimpanzees in our DNA, but have many behavioral similarities as well. The film, “Monkey in the Mirror” also shows support for our likeness in intellectuality. These documented findings on chimpanzee and human resemblances provides the strong evidence needed to conclude the fact that humans do indeed share a common ancestor with great apes.

While begin in the sanctuary, Caesar along with the other apes are not treated very well. From the mistreatment, Caesar starts to make plans about how to escape. He would draw on the walls of his cage, and think of a route to break free. When the owners son takes his friends into the sanctuary, one boy went over to see Caesar, this gave the intelligent ape to steal the pocket knife that the boy had without him knowing. Caesar makes a tool that helps him to unlock his cage and free himself and the other apes. Caesar leads the

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.

Primate life on earth began about 50-55 million years ago during the Eocene Epoch, although it is unknown how many different living species of primates there on earth. One likely fact is that the major groups of primates have been discovered, two of who are the Pongo Orangutan and the Pan Paniscus Bonobo. The word Orangutan translated from Malay means “Person of the forest” this is so because there are only two places you can find an Orangutan’s: Malaysia and Indonesia. The orangutan is an official state animal of Sabah in Malaysia. There are two different types of Orangutan’s; the Bornean Orangutan, which found on the island of Borneo and the Sumatran Orangutan, which is found on the Sumatra Island. Orangutans are known as the world’s largest tree climbing mammals, unlike other primates they spend the majority of their lives on trees. Orangutan habitat consists of primary tropical rain forest and old secondary forest at low elevations. Orangutans prefer high-density climate due to their diet, which consists 65% of fruit. Bonobos have been considered humankind’s closest relative and share 98% of our DNA. Bonobos can only be found in one country: the Democratic Republic of the Congo also known as DRC. Bonobos inhabit the second largest rainforest on earth, the Congo Basin. Bonobos prefer swampy rainforests and similar to the Orangutans, Bonobos are arboreal which are adapted to living on

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.

A caring, joyful father was playing with his kid and a voracious Bob (a evil vicious lion) walks behind Bazaka (the dad) and kills him. While Bob was killing Jax's dad Koozaka (a bear) walks in and scares him away like a hulk. All of the animals are afraid of Bob because he kills for joy. Koozaka walks to Jax and puts him on his back and takes him to the apes place because he know that the apes will take great care of Jax. Zara a female ape claimed Jax to be her Baby. It was dawn so once the apes got Jax, Zara lets Jax sleep with her because he doesn't have fur to keep himself warm

Although Faust finds the apes displeasing, certain similarities arise between the two species. The apes are introduced warming themselves, fascinated by a fire. Man is said to have discovered fire during the years of pre

The story begins at the dawn of time. The setting seems to be a location in Africa. Apes surround the setting in a pack. This pack represents the beginning of civilization. As is commonly known, mankind has always had a sense of greed. This first act of greed is displayed when one group of apes take a source of water from another group. The morning after the instance of greed, a monolith appears. Confused with this perfectly geometrical object, the apes begin to examine.

Connie Zweig and Jeremiah Abrams are the authors of “The Shadow of Everyday Life.” They describe The Shadow as having “negative emotions and behaviors—rage, jealousy, shame... suicidal and murderous tendencies" (Zweig 324). All of these are presented in the movie. At first, Tarzan begins with a couple that escape a burning ship and then are forced to go into the jungle with their son Tarzan. Meanwhile, two gorilla parents are smiling, cradling, and cuddling with their baby gorilla. One night, when the gorillas are sleeping, the baby gorilla sees a frog and runs after it. He soon stops in front of a leopard. The leopard lets out a big roar that wakes up the gorillas. They run to try to get to their son as fast as they can, but the leopard catches the baby gorilla and leaves with him (Tarzan). Now, even though it didn’t show what happened

It’s not very often that a film trilogy is consistently good, and it’s even more rare for the sequels to continuously improve upon the predecessors. Planet of the Apes has proven that it is quite capable of accomplishing this feat. With excellent directing, writing, and an incomparable performance from Andy Serkis, War for the Planet of the Apes manages to bring a powerfully emotional and utterly fantastic conclusion to one of the most extraordinary trilogies of the new

Beginning of the movie start with apes living in the jungle captured in nets by hunters. They were brought to a company in San Francisco where the one of the main character named Will Rodman played by James Franco works as a scientist. Will Rodman was using the apes to test to see if he finds a cure for Alzheimer’s disease with a drug named ALZ-112. He noticed a chimpanzee named Bright Eyes was showing high

While Rosemary finds similarities between herself and Tarzan with their desires to belong, she also “imagined Fern’s life as a Tarzan reversal” (Fowler 103). Fern, like other chimpanzees raised as human children, feels the same displacement and disillusion with her hope to find a home as Tarzan. Even more similar to Fern’s predicament than Tarzan is Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. In the film, humans raise Caesar in their home just as Rosemary’s family raises Fern. The question posed in the film, however, is whether Caesar’s house with Will Rodman, a scientist who tests his medical developments on other chimpanzees, is a home or a prison. In the first few years of his life, Caesar feels that he lacks for nothing and swings, climbs, and leaps his way around the home Will and his dying father share. They treat Caesar like a human child and encourage his development, but deny him, due to their urban residence, a place to freely climb and play with other chimps, a problem that only worsens as Caesar grows. When Will drives him to Muir Woods to play, he first must unhook Caesar’s leash, which leads the ever-stronger and smarter ape to question whether he is a pet to be controlled and held captive or a true member of Will’s family. As he grows older, Caesar realizes that he does not belong with his human family that treats him with contradicting and controlling restrictions, for both his good and bad. Despite feeling a love for and bond with Will, he begins to

The movie Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a fascinating science fiction film that not only exposes the fault of the human mind, but also demonstrates a completely original structure and a unique point of view on an apocalyptic type film. The movie is based around a young scientist, Will Rodman, whom is in pursuit to find a cure for Alzheimer’s in hopes to cure his very sick father (Charles Rodman). He works in a science laboratory where their main test subjects are apes. When the preliminary tests go sour and one ape in the test center lashes out at another scientist causing chaos throughout the entire lab, all but one of the apes were euthanized. The ape that did not get killed was rescued by Will, and named Caesar. Will notices that Caesar is unusually smart, even for an ape, that is when he discovers that the effects of the medicine that was given to Caesar’s mother (ALZ-112) had been passed on to Caesar himself.

In “War for the Planet of the Apes”—the third and supposedly last installment in 20th Century Fox’s rebooted “Planet of the Apes” franchise—Woody Harrelson’s character, known only as ‘The Colonel,’ is trying to build a massive wall in preparation for an attack by another military faction. He has captured almost all of the apes from Caesar’s colony and uses them as a source of slave labor. When the apes aren’t toiling, they are corralled into a pen in shackles, with the adults separated from the children. Does all this sound familiar? The strength of the “Planet of the Apes” series has always been in its social commentary. In 2011’s “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” humanity, despite their good intentions, inadvertently create their own successors—a species of intelligent apes—while attempting to reverse the damaging effects of Alzheimer’s disease. By tampering with nature, humanity is punished. Set ten years after a pandemic has ravaged much of the human population, 2014’s “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” explores the fragility of peace in a post-apocalyptic setting. However, prejudice and hatred from both the apes and humans destroy any hope of coexistence. War becomes inevitable. Once again directed by Matt Reeves (“Cloverfield,” “Let Me In”), “War for the Planet of the Apes” is a culmination of six years of story and represents an achievement that is still all too rare in Hollywood: a major film trilogy where each successive installment was better than the last.

Planet of Life: Apes to Man is narrated by Stacy Keach, presented y the Discovery Channel. A must see documentary regarding the Theory of Evolution.