Friday, July 12, 2019
APOPTHELEMA SPECIAL FEATURE ON PLANET OF THE APES.
[Note: this was composed in prison where proof-reading facilities are notoriously bad. Please don't hold that against the author. You can contact Kyle through the address listed at the end of this entry.]
"BEWARE THE BEAST MAN FOR HE IS THE DEVIL'S PAWN.ALONE AMONG GODS PRIMATES HE KILLS FOR SPORT OR LUST OR GREED. YA! HE WILL MURDER HIS BROTHER TO POSSESS HIS BROTHERS LAND LET HIM NOT BREED IN GREAT NUMBERS FOR HE WILL MAKE A DESSERT OF HIS HOME AND YOURS .SHUN HIM. DRIVE HIM BACK INTO HIS JUNGLE LAIR. FOR HE HIS THE HARBINGER OF DEATH" --PLANET OF THE APES
I saw Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes in theatres when it first premiered. The sequel to it, Rise Of the Planet Of the Apes depicted a few examples of false flag terrorism and the seeds of the concept that all species are inherently flawed.
War For The Planet Of The Apes ends on a significant high note. Providing the viewer with the origins of Nova. Who we see as a devolved child in this film helping the apes escape the woods to the dessert. As well as the beginnings of the dooms day nuclear holocaust cult introduced in Beneath The Planet Of The Apes.
War also has a tongue-in-cheek reference to Donald Trump. The military uses the ape as slave labor to build a wall for their dictator who has gone insane with the collapse of civilization and being faced with the impending doom of his race. The dictator's suicide at the end is beautiful poetic justice.
Like the other classics in this series, it's about shattering the anthropomorphic bias that fuels the delusional belief systems of the herd. Allowing them to ignorantly believe through systems of denial that they are the crown of creation. A dystopian end to a weed species providing the fertilizer for a new species to rise up in its place of extinction, reminding us of how transitory we are in the end.
War For the Planet Of The Apes follows the continuity of the original series to some degree, providing a more clarified, cohesive and easier to grasp explanation for the fall of humanity then the original series. As well as filling in gaps in the original series: Such as why humanity devolved into mute cave men and how they ended up in the dessert.
But the time line for the film is somewhat screwed up. War For The Planet Of The Apes ends with Nova as a 7 year old girl. She's around 30 with the arrival of the astronaut Taylor. So it ends 23 to 25 years before the events in the first film and the original novel.
Maurice is the only orangutan in the film. It neglects to explain how the orangutans became political leaders and keepers of the scrolls or how they bred. It would have be nice to see the origins of Dr. Zaius like we do the origins of Cornelius.
The original series had a paradox time loop aspect to it that isn't carried over in the remakes.
After the planet is destroy in the second film with the detonation of the bomb Cornelius and his wife escape earth and go back in time.
In the third film. Leaving Caesar to be raised and start the rebellion in Conquest of The Planet Of The Apes. In the remake, Cornelius is Caesar's son. So he essentially gives birth to his own father...
The followup to Conquest , Battle of the Planet Of The Apes, is the "Cold Lake" of the series.
Battle was a saccharine maudlin cashgrab franchise film as well as a humanist apology for the powerfully misanthropic climax to Conquest that inspired me a lot as a kid as well as inspiring a few bands.
Conquest was sampled to great effect by Noothgrush and Suppression. Noothgrush has an awesome song that pays tribute to the message behind Planet Of The Apes called 29th Scroll. Readers should seek it out.
One issue i had though with War For the Planet Of The Apes is the end credits stated "Based On Characters Originally Created By" and they cite the original scriptwriters-- not the French Science Fiction novelist Pierre Boulle who wrote the book the original film was based on.
Its interesting to note further that Boulle was likely inspired by the urban legend during the French British war:
A French ship washed ashore and on board the ship was a pet chimp dressed in a captains uniform. The British assumed the ape was a French spy and the ape chattering was the french language. So they took him as a prisoner of war and shortly thereafter hung the ape. Monkey hangers became an antiquarian derogatory term for the British as a result.
"MAN WAS BORN OF THE APE AND THERE'S STILL AN APE CURLED UP INSIDE OF EVERY MAN. THE BEAST THAT MUST BE WHIPPED INTO SUBMISSION, CHAINED AND SHACKLED. WHEN WE HATE YOU, WE'RE HATING THE DARK SIDES OF OUR SELVES"
-CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
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