Planet Of The Apes Film Analysis

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A cold war is one involving politics, economics and propaganda but no physical battles. Such a war might sound boring and uneventful. “The Cold War” however, was one of the most important and was the war that many believed to have brought us closest to seeing our nuclear end of humanity. But nothing did happen in the end. Instead, the US and the USSR decided to fight it out in an amazing game of ice hockey. But if you want to see what it would have looked like if it did come down to nukes, look no further, for the amazing Planet of the Apes by Franklin J. Schaffner leaves it to the amazing Hugh Hephner to explore an eerie post-apocalyptic earth taken over by super-evolved apes after humanity succeeds in destroying itself in a presumed nuclear …show more content…
In Planet of the Apes, four scientists crash land on a planet where apes are intelligent and humans are slaves and pets. Dr. Zaius, (an elder ape in the movie) admits that he has always known that human civilization existed long before apes ruled the planet. Zaius also warns the protagonist that he will not like what he finds. He explains that "the Forbidden Zone was once a paradise, your breed [man] made a desert of it... ages ago!" The main character soon realizes that they have come to the future, and that this reversed reality is the future and what will become of the human race. The main character goes to this forbidden place later to find remnants of humankind. As he travels along the shoreline on his horse, he then discovers something tragic; the statue of liberty brought to rubble. This is when he realizes that he has in fact been on earth the whole time. The movie ends as he cries, “Oh my God. I'm back. I'm home. All the time, it was... We finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!" This sad yet interesting ending implies that humans destroyed themselves in the
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