Talk:Planet of the Apes (1968 film)

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[edit] Malicious Editing?

On the side panel Micheal Jackson is listed as having appeared in the film--truth or malicious editing?

Good question, but what does it matter? If he wasn't in the movie, that's unfortunate because he gets credit for what someone else did... but if he was, all that means is that he participated in a classic film.

[edit] Editing Kudos

  • Much better image in the article, thanks for editing with those who have not seen the movie in mind. Fully support Jason Palpatine's last edit. Michael Dorosh 20:11, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alternate Universe?

I wonder if the five movie story arc consistently occurs in the same universe, or whether the first film indeed does occur on an alternate Earth, with a space agency called ANSA (note the astronauts uniforms), human FTL travel in the late sixties/early seventies, and different New York shoreline geography (as Taylor finds the ruined Statue of Liberty adjacent to a rock formation that must have taken far longer to form than a mere two millenia?)

User Calibanu 16.01, 25 October 2006

No, this movie really meant something. In the sixties and seventies, when the movie was made, millions, perhaps billions, of lives were threatened by nuclear arms. The US and USSR aimed nukes at each other and the strategy was that both sides knew if they launched anything, the opposite would destroy them. This movie illustrates that humans put themselves in danger because they fight against each other over retrospectively trivial things.Making meaningless speculation about this planet being coincidentally similar to Earth, but a couple thousand years ahead, is meaningless and all it does is destroy the effect of the movie.

[edit] Lengthy Section

Does anybody think that the "Cultural Impact" section is too long? — Ultor_Solis (talk • contribs) 16:25, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Look at the previous section. MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) made it impossible for Americans, and probably Soviets, to live their lives the way they were meant to be lived. This movie was full of cultural impact, and belittling it contributes to cynical views of modern America which say that nothing is serious, it's about is entertainment. Actually, I think it was a poor job, because this movie was very significant, not to the culture of the time, but because it illustrates the future and emphasizes what will happen if our culture continues to desteriorate as it did in the 60's and 70's. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.100.53.115 (talk) 23:57, 20 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Sci-Fi continius loop

All five movies are Sci-Fi Loop: the space ship goes forward into a rip in space time. When the second space-ship also goes forward these two events culminate in the nuclear explosion of planet earth. The orginial space ship with three apes aboard manage to leave earth just as the nuclear explosion propels the ship even further backward in time. The two surviving apes father the leader of the ape revolution which leads to the battle of the apes and the seperation of apes above and humans become two species-the mutes above and the mutants below-until the first space ship crash's on earth..and the process begins all over again. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 134.53.145.163 (talk) 01:31, 4 February 2007 (UTC).

See the "Alternate Universe?" section above. We don't know if the arrival of the spaceship from the future is part of a time loop or if it forked off another timeline. (See Back to the Future for information on forked timelines.) Without some in-universe reference or something from one of the creative people behind the series of movies (properly referenced), we can't say on Wikipedia. Val42 04:17, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Guns

Are those rifles they are using at the end real, or are they just made up? PolarisSLBM 03:25, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Honestly, it looked like the rifles were made-up, but not in a Sci-Fi way. If you think about it, the government knew about the faults of humanity, and guns are considered a fault. All they do is kill stuff. So, although I think they were made-up, they were not dissimilar to the modern guns of the time.

[edit] Plot Edit

It says: "They flee to the Forbidden Zone, where Cornelius (an archeologist) had, a year earlier, discovered a cave with artifacts of human technology." Should this be tweaked to reflect that at this point in the film it is merely known to be advanced, not necessarily human? KomradeDave 22:59, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

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