Culture Warrior: Rise of the Planet of the Allegories
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on August 9, 2011 | Comments (8)Warning: this editorial contains spoilers for Rise of the Planet of the Apes (and, for that matter, the original Planet of the Apes). Consider yourself warned, you maniacs! The original Planet of the Apes lends itself quite readily to allegory. 1968, the year of the film’s release, was the peak of one of the most tumultuous eras in American social history. Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down in April of that year, and Robert F. Kennedy’s death followed a mere two months later. Student resistance and campus demonstrations grew increasingly violent in their opposition to the Vietnam War, the Chicago DNC broke into an all-out war, and racial discord mounted. Of course, none of this had happened yet when Planet of the Apes went into production, but the intersections of intent and circumstance that permit the film to be read so heavily, so variously, and so often in allegorical terms enrich the original film and its sequels with resonance that outlives whatever else may date it. Beyond entertainment value, the Planet of the Apes series has lingered in the popular imagination not because of any strong connection to a specific associative meaning, but because of the many possible allegorical readings it is capable of containing. One of several reasons that Rise of the Planet of the Apes succeeds where previous reincarnations of the series did not is its reclaimed capacity for allegory.
New Planet of the Apes Project Comes Into Focus
In Development By Neil Miller on December 2, 2008 | Comments (16)Perhaps it is my love for a little old school sci-fi, or the fact that I am currently working my way through all five of the original Planet of the Apes movies on Blu-ray, but the prospect of another Apes movie is music to my ears.
Discuss: Do We Need Another ‘Planet of the Apes’ Reboot?
Discussion By Neil Miller on November 3, 2008 | Comments (20)Our friend Devin over at CHUD has some new information about a possible Planet of the Apes reboot, with a twist. Now we want to know if you think it would work…
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