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[edit] Book story

I've noticed the storyline in the first section regarding the book cuts short with the last sentence reading "the ape". Was someone half way through writing this? Or is it a technical error? I haven't read the book and unfortunately can't finish it off --French line 05:07, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Idea to Boulle's novel from 1925?

www.theonion.com displays on July 23, 2006 the front page of The Onion from July 20, 1925. One of the headlines is "Scopes Defended by Super-Intelligent Chimpanzee-Man from Future". The article tells about a chimpanzee couple Cornelius and Zira (like in Boulle's novel) who have time traveled from a future in which apes rule the world. This cannot be a coincident. Did Boulle read The Onion of 1925 in the 1960's and got the idea to the book and copied the names of the chimpanzee couple from The Onion? Sounds a bit silly. Or do Boulle and The Onion have some common source?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.129.55.100 (talk • contribs)

In case you weren't joking, The Onion was founded in 1988. All their stories dated earlier than that (and some after) are historical satire. This article was a Planet of the Apes reference, not the other way around. Ace of Sevens 11:31, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Translation?

The text of th'article says that La Planète des Singes actually means "monkey planet." The "actually" is out of place, as a Romance language like French makes no difference between Planet of the Monkeys and Monkey Planet. French also uses the word singe to mean both (great) apes and monkeys. It is clear in the novel that Boulle meant the former, as he describes the society (as in the movies) as made up of Gorillas, Chimpanzees, and Orangoutans. Thus, the sentence about the two possible translations should stay, but the one about the "actual" meaning should go.--Signor Giuseppe 21:17, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Disco?

While my scepticism alarm goes off at the mention of Disco at the Planet of the Apes, I'm not going to delete it. Most of 68.97.208.123's contributions, I noted, have been at anus and feces, about which he is very adament. This non-scatologically related edit should prolly be encouraged.--Signor Giuseppe 15:01, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] More on translation

In contrast with the translation that does not differentiate between monkey and ape, in the planet of the apes movies, "monkey" is an insult to apes and "apes" is what they prefer to be called. User:FCYTravis does not understand this and has reverted it. I suspect it will happen again so I'm putting it here for people to discuss. DyslexicEditor 09:48, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Graphic Novel / Comic

Ian Edginton has apparently written a PotA graphic novel that is published (globally?) by Titan Books [1]. Thats about the limit of my information I'm afraid but both those entries just point here where there is no information on this. I have been chasing up some missing entries looking for someone who knows more about this to kickstart an entry. (Emperor 20:17, 16 February 2006 (UTC))

OK I started the entry: Planet of the Apes (comic) - hopefully someone can expand that at some point. I've editted the main entry to link through to this now (Emperor 01:53, 22 February 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Video Game?

The List of cancelled video games page says there was a cancelled Planet of the Apes game for Atari 2600 and links here, but no mention is made here. I'm certain there was a later video game for Playstation or something. Is anyone knowledgeable about this to put it in the article? Ace of Sevens 23:19, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Themes

There definitely needs to be a section on themes. Dirty Apes Talk 19:54, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TMBG?

They Might Be Giants plays several songs that are named after the sequel movies. This should be mentioned, but I have no idea where or how. Stale Fries 00:06, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The unerlying theme

I remember the film from when I was a child, but just happened to see a repeat on TV the other day (Aug 2007) and I was surprised at how good it was. As a child I had not appreciated the parody with human history.

Although it now appears very dated I was impressed by the parody it made of religious fundamentalism during the dark ages. The main human character and the lead ape scientists were accused of heresy by the powerful Orang-utan “protector of the faith” (please note that the Royal Family in the UK have this same title!) One could imagine that Copernicus, Galileo and other forward thinkers may have suffered in a similar way from the inquisitions of the Catholic Church. I think further discussion of this side of the story line is required in the article.--ManInStone 08:52, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

As long as you have references. — Val42 04:08, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
The title that the British monarch holds is actually 'Defender of the Faith', not 'Protector'. I can't remember what the title used in the film is. TheAstonishingBadger (talk) 22:31, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 16:18, 8 March 2008 (UTC)