Like his predecessor, Brent is captured by apes and manages to escape, only to find himself stumbling into the clutches of the mutants. There he finally locates Taylor, who, driven insane by it all, proceeds to exact revenge on humanity by detonating the Alpha-Omega weapon himself, thereby bringing history human and ape to an end.
Beneath again reflects the mood of America in the Vietnam era, when the younger generation rebelled and police fired live bullets at student demonstrators in university campuses. It ends in a frenzy of machine gun fire, with Brent and Taylor mown down, and even the mute flower-child Nova Linda Harrison shot dead by the rampaging gorilla army.
The third entry in the series seemed to take a lighter tone in comparison, but even this proves to be deceiving. The two chimpanzees are forced into exile as the military tries to hunt them down before they can trigger the end of human civilisation. The film resonates as an allegory on migration in America: Cornelius and Zira are ultimately viewed as illegal immigrants and a threat to the American way.
Escape also had much to say about the then-burgeoning second-wave feminist movement: Zira emerges as a strong, intelligent and politicised female who puts the males around her to shame. In the end, though, the time-loop narrative of the series prevails; the conclusion of Escape is another despairing one, as the saga drives relentlessly towards the predestined cataclysm.
Digital World. Multimedia OpenMind books Authors. Featured author. Robin Shields. University of Bath, Bath, UK. Latest book. Work in the Age of Data. Humanities Arts. Art Cinema History Literature. Ventana al Conocimiento Knowledge Window. Estimated reading time Time 4 to read. Pierre Boulle was engineer, writer and spy. A scientific point of view behind the plot Thus, when Boulle wrote The Planet of the Apes , he was no stranger to success.
Could such a thing ever happen? It comes about through an experimental virus that alters the animals genetically. In fact, deactivated viruses are how doctors attempt to inject new, healthy genes into victims of genetic disorders. The apes want peace in the beginning. But still, bonus points for truthiness. The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling spent months hammering out dozens of variants on Pierre Boulle's novel until he got the recipe just right.
Then all they had to do was figure out how to film it. The key figure was makeup legend John Chambers, who utilised the then-new technology of foam latex prosthetics on a large scale, earning him a special Oscar, to create a stunning array of ape characters that worked so well that even such recognisable performers as Roddy McDowell and Maurice Evans simply disappeared.
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