In the essay “The Worthy Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” Kelly Pietruszynski thoroughly gives her evaluation of the movie Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Pietruszynski begins her essay with a summary of the movie so that the reader can get an idea of how the plot will develop (even if they have not seen the movie). She thinks the plot is high quality and that the theory of how the apes gained their intelligence is credible. Pietruszynski goes on to state that we can relate with this plot line because we can imagine all of the time and research that was put into finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. Even listing the subtleness of how the intelligence is gained by the ape is appealing to the author, as it took place over time and wasn’t an
As scientists continue to their research, fundamental questions about intelligence are brought to the surface.
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.
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.
Tool use, or more accurately tool making, is of key importance to primate evolution. Not only is this aspect of primate and human evolution significant, but it directly influenced primate and human growth in cognition as well as physical attributes. This importance cannot be undersold, as much of human evolution, occurred as a result of social behaviors such as tool making, and the ability to replicate an action. Tool making in primates shows an increase in both physical growth and mental capacity, and those attributes led this activity to become socially important in early human societies.
The setting of the movie compared to the setting in the book makes Planet of the Apes one of the greatest satires. In the movie, the setting takes place on earth in the future where apes deny and are afraid of the past, whereas the setting in the book is on a different planet where apes are civilized and technologically advanced, and the humans were primitive creatures. The orangutans in the movie prevent what happened to the humans from happening to the apes. Orangutans, such as Zaius went to great work as destroying the cave where the evidence of the humans reigned is revealed and removing Landen’s memory. In the book civilization of humans on Earth is equal to and may even surpass the civilization of the apes on Sorror. The point of
In the essay, “The Worthy Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” Kelly Pietruszynski (the author) accesses the profitability and longevity of the movies leading up to and including “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” In the Essay, Pietruszynski hits on a few main points about the movie One being the spectacular plot, Pietruszynski explains how the plot is so spectacular. Pietruszynski says, “Any attempt to explain how apes become intelligent and humans stupid is finally going to stretch credibility…However is plausible.”(pg 132). Another being the special effects. The special effects are all computer generated like Caesar. Pietruszynski think this adds to the plot.
There has been many remakes and sequels for the famous film known as The Planet of the apes. Without a doubt there are many similarities and differences between the original and the remakes. The two films that I'm going to compare and contrast is the original 1968 film to the 2011 Rise of the planet of the apes.
Yet, there hasn't been any indication of an increase in intelligence (Henneberg 745). In modern humans, brain size and intelligence is very weak (Henneberg 745). With the exception of size, there appears to be no significant dissimilarities between the anatomy of ape and human brains (Henneberg 745).
We live in a time where we experience more freedom in the way we enjoy life, among human’s, and new cultural habits that have been developing throughout years. Technology is making humans’ life easier and more enjoyable, filled with new access to reaching new opportunities that would have been impossible in the past. Technology has facilitated today’s way of living making it faster and more efficient, but it has also affected our society. In the films, Planet of The Apes the original version and the version in 2014, both illustrate how technology has had an affected on our cultural society by supplying a higher demand for violent in everyday life as in films becoming icons for today’s way of life. Providing audience violence which is increasing in which is becoming accepted in today’s and becoming part of our cultural society. In Planet of the Apes produced in 2001 and the remake version produced in 2014, both films illustrate changes in today’s cultural living. In addition Planet of the Apes illustrates an air force astronaut who crash-lands on a mysterious planet where evolved, talking Apes dominate a race of primitive humans. While the Remake Film named Dawn to the Planet of the Apes illustrated in 2014 consisted of A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar (main character,) is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. Dawn to the Planet of the Apes show how Hollywood has made advencements in technology
Pierre Boulle was born on February 20, 1912 in Avignon, France. His father, Eugene Boulle, was a brilliant lawyer who taught him his sense of humor and open- mindedness and his mother, Therese Seguin, was born in a family of printers. Pierre’s parents raised him to be Catholic although later in his life he became agnostic. He studied science at the Sorbonne and then entered the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité de Paris. Pierre Boulle graduated college with a degree in engineering in 1932 and subsequently became an engineer. Then Pierre Boulle later moved to Malaya when he was 26. From 1936 to 1939 he worked as a technician on British rubber plantations in Malaya. At the outbreak of World War II Boulle enlisted with the French army in French
During Taylor’s trial, the council of orangutans questioned the chimps of Taylor’s identity—is he man, ape, or a “missing link?” This particular clip from Franklin Schaffner’s Planet of the Apes provides obvious evidence of the ignorance of apes towards scientific knowledge and advancements, as well as the desperation of Zira and Cornelius to convince the council to accept their theories and evidence as scientific truths in order to save Taylor’s life.
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
After the success of 2011’s “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” and the 2014’s “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” here comes the third installment of the human and primates movie franchise. With a title, “War for the Planet of the Apes” the movie is set to be released on July 14 2017 and will star a new cast Steve Zahn.