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What does planet of the apes symbolize11/18/2023 Like so many other good science fiction stories, the original Planet of the Apes and its numerous sequels and prequels - even the absolutely bonkers Beneath the Planet of the Apes, with its singing, nuclear-warhead-worshipping underground mutants - merely serve to reflect the real world back at us in a phantasmagorical way. The talking-apes society is actually a brilliant high concept, however, one that has consistently managed to frame compelling allegories for the human race, even as the Apes series has shifted from outstanding practical effects, make-up and costume design, to motion-capture-driven CGI. Divorced from itself as a proven intellectual property in Hollywood, a society of talking apes may seem like a silly premise (though with the specter of swine flu and avian influenza, or bird flu, looming large in the 2000s, the "simian flu" portrayed in the reboot trilogy came off as frighteningly realistic).
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