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Specifically Beneath The Planet Of The Apes. Just crazy.

I really enjoyed the movies and am wondering which novels/comics are the best. Im not looking specifically for lore tie ins but just more on the novels of POTA?

Theres a lot of really god planet of the apes comics from boom studio and marvel and no one really talks about them.

As an example plta fall of man is realy good and explores the apes in other continents and countries (in the modern series)

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Tl;Dr: I like the book more, but the movie's ending is phenomenal and kicks the book's ending's ass. My ideal version of this story would be the book plot with the movie's ending.

So, my only contact with this franchise prior to me reading the book is that I've watched the recent trilogy, but I honestly don't remember much from them.

I don't know where this sub's consensus on the book lies, but I thought it was GREAT. Ulysse was a wonderfully written character, loved seeing how he used the apes system to his advantage and climbed the social ladder on Soror. The ending was honestly shocking, but I thought it wasn't that good honestly. The implications of the ending (as foreshadowed by the experiments on the lady on Part 3) were way more interesting than the actual ending.

Then, as I do when I finish reading books that have movie adaptations, I went to see the 1968 movie, and compare the two. I'll say this first: it's a great movie. Solid direction, GREAT makeup and figurine for the time and great acting. But boy do I prefer the book's plot. Taylor, for me, is a much less interesting character than Ulysse, he's such a brute and never thinks through his actions. The honestly hype as fuck speech that Ulysse gave to the entire ape congress in the book was turned to a meager inquiry where Taylor wasn't even allowed to speak. Like, c'mon, that was one of the best scenes of the book!

The movie had this whole religious aspect that wasn't present at all in the book that quite honestly bothered me more than it should've. In the book, the orangutans were more politicians, but they were also in charge of the science department, and as such, they were hard headed as fuck because they weren't good in science, they were good with politics. The chimps were in charge of doing the actual science and most thought the orangutans were dumb as fuck. Half of this dynamic was kept in the movie, but they added the component "faith" to the orangutans roles, and this made the whole dynamic between the chimps and the orangutans more like creationism vs evolutionism, which I thought was less unique than the book dynamic of "old science" vs "new science".

But fuck me dude, that ending was PHENOMENAL. I somehow avoided getting this spoiled for all those years for me, and this ending hit me like a fucking truck. So much better than the book's ending it's not even funny. And thinking about it, there's a lot of clever foreshadowing the movie does to point you in this direction before the ending, dude, it's so well written. You guys already know that, but I can't help myself gushing about this ending, god, it was so good.

Overall, I prefer the book. But the movie has the better ending. My ideal version of Planet of The Apes would be the book's main plot with the movie's ending. But as they both currently exist, I enjoyed a bigger portion of the book than the movie.

I think I'm gonna rewatch the trilogy though. This whole ordeal got me hyped. Thanks for reading my rambles.

Ok but someone pretending to be silva and mae in a tall grass field and reenacting the human hunt scene would make such a fun game

Ironically, in the original Planet of the Apes movies lore, another worldwide effect of the virus that made apes so smart was that it killed every single dog and cat.

Seriously, they mention that at the beginning of the fourth film, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.

...even though it was later retconned in the show.

I’m already planing next years costume

Imagine you're living in the world post simian flu. But you're all alone, and you're trying to find someone or finding resources. Ngl that's just terrifying being alone in a desecrated world with no one else there. Whether you're in a forest or abandoned city, it would be such a horror trying to find someone or resources left behind. God save you if any evil ape tries to attack you or abduct you.

Hell you could ease your loneliness if you find any feral humans atleast. As long as they ain't hostile, you good.

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I showed my buddy the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes this summer in the only way that made sense (during a psychedelic trip). I recorded the audio of our viewing from my phone, and burnt him a disc as a birthday present. This was the dvd slipcover I made. I figure some people here might get a kick out of it.

for context: the scene with 'too many mouths' is when Tim Roth shoves him fingers down Marky's throat.

I remember when Proximus was talking to Noa, he said the words "Old orangutan" with slight disgust or distain. The main thing that convinced me he has some kind of issue with them is that there simply are no orangutans in his kingdom. I could be misremembering, but his kingdom consisted entirely of gorillas, chimps, and bonobos. No orangutans. This could be for a few reasons.

1- He genuinely doesn't like them.

2- I haven't watched the older movies, but I read somewhere that orangutans were often scholars and religious leaders (correct me if I'm wrong). A well informed orangutan could deconstruct and dismantle his entire kingdom, since it's basically built on lies anyway. Obviously Proximus can't have that happening, so he simply banned orangutans.

Almost all apes groom each other. It helps build social bonds and generally keep each other clean. So... do they still do that in Planet of the Apes?