![]() ![]() ![]() Taylor, nicknamed “Bright Eyes”, one of the main characters, is not humbled by his captivity but is aggressive towards his captors. In the film, American humans land on an unknown planet ruled by Apes and are treated as inferior and seen as a foreign invader, never seen before. The culture of propaganda and protest around this conflict was raging. In the very year of the film’s release there was a massacre in Vietnam, today known as the Son My Massacre, which resulted in many South Vietnamese civilian casualties (Wikipedia). This is a piece of fiction not initially seeming historical, but with themes and undercurrents very telling for its time. Planet of the Apes was written during 1963 and was released in 1968, during the Vietnam War. ![]() ![]() The film is an expose on American superiority complex and a hyperbole of our role in invading communist countries. An example of this may be the treatment of the Viet Cong by the Americans and their allies during the Vietnam War. The use of the Statue of Liberty in the closing scene highlights the fact that the Americans and Europeans certainly held a superior attitude over more “primitive” cultures. The film Planet of the Apes stood out to me for exposing the effect of placing humans as inferior to apes. ![]()
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