Posted on 11/20/2017 10:01:15 AM PST by MNDude
I just watched the most recent Planet of the Apes movie. There was one scene where all of the benevolent Apes or captured in locked into cages by an evil white man in the military. The members of this evil non-diverse Army stood and faced the American flag as the Star Spangled Banner played. Shortly after the American national anthem was played, soldiers began to brutally whip the backs of the Apes forcing them to build a large wall. I was wondering if there was some symbolism or messaging in that entire scene.
The symbolism was the evil White man finally getting his due from the non-Whites, represented by apes, that he had “oppressed” for years.
There is no such thing as “just a movie.” They all have an agenda.
Ya think?
Slave revolt? I dunno.
I liked the first movie with Charlton Heston. I can’t get into the rest of them, try though i might. And I really tried.
I couldn’t get past the first 15mins of that POS.
Oh, c’mon! You must be one of those Limbaugh-marinated types. I mean really, how can you possibly read anything into that sensitive scene??? Sheesh.
Paid government contractors building the wall are apes ?
Libtard critic for VillageVoice media said that it was good to see dedtructful man on the run.
All I saw were trailers for these films.
My overall assessment was that the do-gooders in Hollywood decided to portray black Americans as a kind of ape or monkey. But, you know, not quite dumb at the level of an animal, but Hollywood decided to portray black Americans as being surprisingly close to human beings.
And, of course, Hollywood made them “noble savages”. Better, in some ways, than civilized humans. Those civilized humans (the white guys) were smart, and had technology, and had built vast civilized empires, and all, but those white people didn’t have no soul, you know what I’m saying?
So the movies seem to hold out the hope that white people would be cast down and replaced by the far superior “noble savages” who weren’t quite human, but were at least not evil white people.
Oh my stars this was the stupidest movie. I keep laughing at the most inappropriate places. Like for real Ape Love Story how far were they going to go? Riding around on their little horsies. I nearly died.
“I liked the first movie with Charlton Heston.”
Well made and memorable, but also with a strong lefty message (anti-nuke, anti-human).
What on earth gave you that silly idea?....................
“Was Planet of the Apes trying to make a point?”
LOL? Ya think? Penny for your thoughts.
Don’t you see? Erudite Hollywood elites are sooo much more in tune to what’s wrong with society and they have to send messages to us rubes in a way we can understand.
This is why I rarely go to movies.
In Disney’s Zootopia, the ‘government worker’ was a sloth...................
Let me spoil this movie for all here. It was human’s last stand and the apes gave a dolly to the captain which had smallpox like ailment, except it rendered the humans to be stupid and dumb. Then the last vast human army was about to attack the apes and they were all killed in an random avalanche. The apes lived happily ever after with their new improved mind-altered human. The movie sucked.
Yeah, but the surprise at the end sealed the deal. :)
I really like the first Matrix movie, a Christian allegory, but the follow ups sucked, other than special effects, which were pretty good.
This is one problem with sequels. Sometimes a story just has an end and any sequels have little to do with the point of the original.
I didn’t get the idea that nukes destroyed society. Otherwise, not even the apes would have been viable life forms. And even Taylor said that “they destroyed it (the Statue of Liberty/Society)”.
Gee, Hollywierd making a message movie! Who’d a thunk it!
I was really into the original franchise when they came out. The first one with Heston is great. The second one (Beneath the Planet of the Apes) is practically a remake of the first one, with James Franciscus going through much the same treatment as Heston. The third one (Escape From the Planet of the Apes) is quite good, with Apes Zira and Cornelius and their baby going though a reverse of the Heston treatment when they arrive on Earth via Heston's miraculously repaired spacecraft. The fourth one (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes) is also pretty good, showing how Zira and Cornelius' son leads a revolt of apes against their human oppressors. I only saw the last one once (Battle For the Planet of the Apes). It didn't impress me much, as I thought the story was pretty much wrapped up with the previous movie. You can get the Blu-ray set of all the original films cheaply.
I have not seen any of the films from the recent reboot of the franchise. from the OP's description, it sounds like I was right to skip them.
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