It’s science fiction with a purpose, with an aim to change. The Planet of the Apes franchise, while filled with moments of spectacle and some great effects work, isn’t simply sci-fi for entertainment’s sake. Not only does each film showcase the evolution of our societal concerns, but also provides a layered inter-connectivity that’s far beyond most of the science fiction we see today. Yes, high-concept films are often defined by franchising, merchandising, and rebooting, but there is no franchise as all-encompassing, as odd, as reflective, or as important to the human experience, as the franchise that emerged from Pierre Boulle’s 1963 French science fiction novel, Monkey Planet. It’s an ending that not only reconstituted the significance of the entire film that preceded it, but spawned four sequels, a television series, a Saturday morning cartoon, a reboot, and a second reboot which spawned two sequels of its own. For many of us, we knew of the ending before we ever saw the film. You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!” The ending of Planet of the Apes is without question one of the most famous, if not the most famous ending in film history.
All the time, it was…We finally really did it. The camera pulls back and we see the half-buried ruins of the Statue of Liberty. Eventually they come to stop and the man, Taylor, gets off the horse and stares agape at something we cannot yet see. A man and woman, clad in the clothing of primitive humans, make their way across a beach on horseback.
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