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Jul 18, 2014 · As Dawn of the Planet of the Apes opens, it’s worth remembering that the racial conflicts and the struggle for civil rights in the 1960s underpin the original films.
- Nathan Abrams
What does it mean when we’ve taken something as racially encoded as the Planet of the Apes films and tried to strip the issue of race from them? It could be read as progress, if you don’t...
Aug 5, 2011 · Apes imagined a fictional world 2,000 years in the future where monkeys, gorillas, and other primates take on human features including the sort of racism that the Civil Rights Movement was...
In Rise of the Planet of the Apes a scientist is working on a viral cure for Alzheimer’s that not only fixes damaged brain tissue but improves cognitive function in working tissue. The problem...
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a 2014 American science fiction action film directed by Matt Reeves and written by Mark Bomback and the writing team of Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. The sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), it is the second installment in the Planet of the Apes reboot film series and the eighth film overall.
Jul 11, 2014 · "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" is loud, smart and ferociously committed to its premise, and it leaves an intriguingly bitter aftertaste. Like its predecessor, 2011's "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," it borrows situations and images from the 1960s and '70s "Apes" films and re-creates them as epic dramas. These new installments in the series ...
May 19, 2021 · The Planet of the Apes franchise, born of the racially charged allegorical novel La Planète des Singes (1963) by Pierre Boulle, has long skirted the line with its fevered use of the perennial comparison between apes and Black people.
