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Why the Planet of the Apes Feels So Different
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About this video essay:
A thorough review of the Planet of the Apes series that examines the evolution of its filmmaking and philosophy.
Content:
00:00 A Journey Through 9 Movies
01:32 Rise of a Reboot
04:08 A Misunderstood Prequel
06:47 Resetting the Thematic Approach
11:36 Dawn of a New Metaphor
14:38 The Cornerstone of a Species
17:57 What Ceasar Learns the Hard Way
20:45 A Somber Conclusion
23:00 That Which Makes Us, Us
26:23 What Started It All
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  • @Xanderbelle
    @Xanderbelle Годину тому

    Because after the wonderful shock of the orriginal the rest of the sequels were just shite and deeply unsatisfying. This story, the whole virus thing, is so simple and thoroughly developed.

  • @klarkolofsson
    @klarkolofsson Годину тому

    ”This great evil, where's it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doing this? Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we might've known? Does our ruin benefit the earth, does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed through this night?”

  • @Nickii2121
    @Nickii2121 2 години тому

    Пожалуйста подскажите название фильма

  • @afterschool_blacklistracer
    @afterschool_blacklistracer 7 годин тому

    @michm2552

  • @na-qf3of
    @na-qf3of 8 годин тому

    COOL

  • @StingrayMk1
    @StingrayMk1 13 годин тому

    Great work, man!

  • @openemailoneone6302
    @openemailoneone6302 13 годин тому

    You want different ua-cam.com/video/0oFBlM_o8zc/v-deo.html

  • @h2opower
    @h2opower 15 годин тому

    I like the new versions of the Planet of the Apes but would like it more if things didn't always lead to war. But since it is being written by folks who's ancestors loved war and made it a way of life I guess I shouldn't expect them to break from tradition. In fast their entire way of life revolves around war against, you fill in the blanks. Always at war with something and if you haven't noticed what ever they go to war against means there will be more of it. It's just some wishful thinking in me wanting a break from these endless wars as I already know they simply don't have it in them to do so.

  • @user-oc3lc1sx8m
    @user-oc3lc1sx8m 18 годин тому

    How is it possible to use film clips without infringing on copyrights? Thank you.

  • @Nyyre
    @Nyyre 19 годин тому

    Good Will Hunting - Sean’s iconic speech to Will

  • @dennisgiles1891
    @dennisgiles1891 20 годин тому

    This is excellent YouTubing.

  • @gurpreetbajwa4490
    @gurpreetbajwa4490 День тому

    The whole setup for this show is so weird. I remember hearing about it years ago and it was still in pre-production and they described it as set during the second age. But further to the east.

  • @SyeedAli
    @SyeedAli День тому

    A movie is a setup of characters and motivations driving and driven by a plot, all for us to experience the acting, the script, and finally the underlying ideas and philosophy through them. The monologues are the culmination of and the whole purpose of many movies. Maybe all good ones.

  • @gorrevisor
    @gorrevisor День тому

    Not agreeing with a few things. The vast majority of references are good. Especially when a franchise references something from another unrelated frenchise. As long as it's done clever (Not like how Men in Black 4 done Mjolnir) or very subtly, it can really give a viewer a sense of accomplishment that they have spotted something that others might have not. The other (in my opinion) incorrect thing was saying that GoT failed to have a decent ending (more like last 3 season) was "Corporate Passion". You are over-complicating it. It's was way more simple than that. The problem was that David Benioff and D. B. Weiss believed themselves to be writers, while they were simply adapting a book for screen. The only actual writer was George RR Martin. With an easier metaphore, George RR Martin was Shakespeare and David Benioff and D. B. Weiss were the English to TV translators.

  • @ciccnick
    @ciccnick День тому

    I ate my popcorn watching this because it's so hard to find a good movie worth watching nowadays

  • @AshtonRogers-se1zj
    @AshtonRogers-se1zj День тому

    In response to the title of this video: oh man,don't I know it!?

  • @moonlight39echo
    @moonlight39echo День тому

    Treasure Planet has one that always stuck with me, at least in the back of my head, since I was a kid. I may not be adhearing to it correctly, but as a personality I hold to it tight. "You got the makings of greatness in you, but you gotta take the helm and chart your own course! Stick to it, no matter the squalls! And when the time comes, you'll get the chance to really test the cut of your sails and show what you're made of! And... well, I hope I'm there, catching some of the light coming off you that day."

  • @drummerguy438
    @drummerguy438 День тому

    Your videos speak to something primal in me. We’ve never met, and yet the way you speak and interpret art speaks so soundly to my own views that each video you put out is a true comfort. Like a friend coming to visit. Thank you for doing what you do. You are a beautiful soul and I wish you the best.

  • @christopherhenson50
    @christopherhenson50 День тому

    If you’re looking for a more unique take on action scenes, HBO’s Barry has some of the best and most unique action scenes I’ve seen in a long time.

  • @GuineaPigEveryday
    @GuineaPigEveryday День тому

    I personally love War, I think because the war-film inspirations are really utilised in an interesting way, like Bridge over the River Kwai, and this remaining divide between man and ape, humans sort of resemble a dying empire, increasingly cruel and resorting to holing up inside their forts to survive. The movie also Genuinely tackling the question of whether humans deserve to survive, which Dawn kind of takes for granted with their blandly ‘good’ or ‘bad’ human characters. There is some real quiet moments in War with new characters, who give us new perspectives on this world, and the visuals in the film are top notch. It has a real exodus quality to it

  • @romanbloomfield9066
    @romanbloomfield9066 День тому

    'It's that thing where you're with someone, and you love them, and they love you, and you know it." Wonder what that's like

  • @XxCrankyMoosexX
    @XxCrankyMoosexX День тому

    I absolutely agree that nearly all big budget films have cookie cutter, generic fight/action scenes - I have to completely disagree about the Killer’s scene. It’s not bad, but it absolutely fails to escape the same horrible issues with most modern fight/action scenes. It downright looks like video game graphics in the way the special effects are shown. The fake, shitty rumbling of the camera when characters fall or get hit, the near comical detached sound of the thumps. I have no issues with frequent cuts or shaky hand camera. My biggest issue is its filming of the combat like they’re Godzilla or Superman barreling through a city, but it’s furniture/walls/doors in the apartment. It seriously looks like an earth quake is happening in some moments of the scene and that’s awful. In my honest opinion, Barry holds the gold medal for modern fight scenes and it’s nowhere the budget for most of these films. Not only is it always framed so well, but the fighting itself is actually visceral, and not like 2 super humans are going at it among spectating mortals.

  • @arthursboypusshe3613
    @arthursboypusshe3613 День тому

    One of the coolest parts about Caesar’s story in the movies is his level of intelligence compared to the other apes. He had inherited the 112 and he got 2 separate doses of the 113, putting him on a completely different level than the other apes. He could have easily thought he was superior to them, but he had so much love and compassion in his heart that he wanted nothing but for them to be safe and live happily.

  • @pumitriii6160
    @pumitriii6160 День тому

    I would be so happy if you made a video similar to this one but for the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy

  • @pumitriii6160
    @pumitriii6160 День тому

    Only LSOO could make such a philosophical, moving, thought provoking video essay on a blockbuster trilogy

  • @pumitriii6160
    @pumitriii6160 День тому

    18:10 Why did my whole body jump at that

  • @zanderbraincinemas6126
    @zanderbraincinemas6126 День тому

    Jared Leto playing a character with a series of conflicting pasts, backstories that are… multiple choice. Except this time it isn’t embarrassing.

  • @SilverGeFer
    @SilverGeFer День тому

    For me, as much as I love it, I’d say the John Wick-ification of action scenes ruined action scenes. John Wick actions scenes had this very well choreographed fast paced style to them with moves I’d never seen before in action movies. That series will forever be peak action sequences for me. But then, every single action movie following John Wick 1 and 2 started doing what it did and suddenly made that uniqueness not feel as special anymore when John Wick 3 rolled out, and then by 4 it felt like you had already seen it all before. I can literally name dozens of action movies that clearly took inspiration from what John Wick did during that area. Movies like Extraction, The Old Guard, etc. all felt like a copy of John Wick scenes because of it.

  • @sirdoomer7927
    @sirdoomer7927 2 дні тому

    Thing is I am just surviving one day the Lord will call me back I’m just waiting for that day to come. Once it does I hope it’s quick and not as painful but I also know I will probably die in some horrible way going to lay in agony until I move on. Either way I only want to return to my Lord even if it is just to be sent to hell for my sinful life it will be worth it.

  • @terrylandess6072
    @terrylandess6072 2 дні тому

    An action sequence doesn't require fighting, fast cars, fire and explosions - that's the cliché. Watching a set-up resolved in action, a visual representation of a thought process, a sudden realization and reaction - all can push the viewer into a state of hyper awareness. It's the writing. Not the choreography. Not the flash. Who eats a cake made only of icing?

  • @Maniac742
    @Maniac742 2 дні тому

    Everyone knew not Gandalf was Gandalf and not Sauron was Sauron the second either of them appeared on screen. There was never any doubt. The writers are transparent. Their plots are so thin, matter could pass through them.

  • @pollitorsiones
    @pollitorsiones 2 дні тому

    You have the most beautiful voice, it really relaxes me. Love your videos

  • @pgattei
    @pgattei 2 дні тому

    The Way of the Superior Man is a book designed to help men understand that to be a genuine man you need to be fully integrated in all aspects into your life: mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually and psychologically. It is definitely not about separating your purpose, whatever that may be, to be something outside of your normal life, nor is it not inconsistent with Victor Frankl.

  • @DJTheTrainmanWalker
    @DJTheTrainmanWalker 2 дні тому

    I'm surprised that no-one seems to be discussing, what seems to me inclusion of plot elements from Animal farm in Dawn and War. Making Rise simply the initial revolution freedom from tyranny at last. I'm not claiming a 1:1 parallel here, but: the 'ape shall not kill ape' scene echos the animals writing their rules of Animalism on the barn. Koba's death seems to rework Snowball's exile, but leaving Caesar morally clean(well we want audiences to empathise don't we). And ,it seems to me: Caesar himself experiences becoming what he once hated. Which is the last and most chilling scene in Orwell's relatively short fable.

  • @AshtonRogers-se1zj
    @AshtonRogers-se1zj 2 дні тому

    This video has thoroughly convinced me of two specific truths... 1) That you or someone like you should be in the employ of one of these major Hollywood studios. Either as a director,a screenwriter,or some showrunner-like guiding hand for a project. 2) No Hollywood studio would ever do that--not without a lot of oversight,at least--because they would be able to sense that the commerce/profitability side of things would not be your priority.

  • @FaithfulSara
    @FaithfulSara 2 дні тому

    Amazing Essay! I feel like this thing, where there aren't any real emotional scenes without jokes anymore reminds me a lot of Joss Whedon. And seeing that he was involved in a few Marvel movies and this kind of writing worked, it kinda makes sense. I remember him saying in an interview once that he likes to offset serious scenes with jokes. If there's something sad, there needs to be something fun after it, or smth like that. I think it was about Buffy but in that show it worked. The jokes never minimized the emotional impact of scenes and were never out of character. I feel there is a delicate balance for this kind of writing to work, and a lot of movies just dont get it.

  • @grondhero
    @grondhero 2 дні тому

    If you would stop talking and let us hear the monologues, it would be worth watching. This feels like 2 minutes of monologues and 28 minutes of you talking about them.

  • @davidmcaninch4714
    @davidmcaninch4714 2 дні тому

    Who else is smoking a pipe while watching this?

  • @Boombox69in
    @Boombox69in 2 дні тому

    Such a whiny voice

  • @Uncannysius2023
    @Uncannysius2023 2 дні тому

    Good video. I think that it’s a complex problem spawned largely by 2 simple issues: 1) laziness and lack of skill - there’s a term “standing on the shoulders of giants” meaning that instead of building a giant yourself, you can just add a brick onto an already giant success and feel like a success. I think hollywoods successes have made it easy for writers, directors, and studios to just go the lazy route instead of the riskier original route. Hence all of these remakes, live actions, and endless sequels. Difficulties breed innovation and skills. 2) the internet has broken uniqueness - even though the themes of diversity and difference has become rampant in media, social media and meme culture has made everything interconnected. But good media needs a bit of siloing in order to be a unique and memorable experience. Good media is unique and draws everyone to it. Meme/internet consumption takes everything and everyone to make it one thing (meaning nothing is actually unique or just its own thing).

  • @MrHousecup
    @MrHousecup 2 дні тому

    I live in Los Angeles and I see thousands of people a day. Sometimes I look at people on the streets and I remind myself that every single one of them has a unique and powerful story, but it's so easy for me to see these people as moving scenery and I feel bad about that.

  • @trxsh_oc
    @trxsh_oc 2 дні тому

    i know the only me is me. . . are you sure the only you is you? 6:21

  • @AJ-dt3pz
    @AJ-dt3pz 2 дні тому

    “There are no solutions, only trade offs.” -Thomas Sowell

  • @deckarobinson7675
    @deckarobinson7675 2 дні тому

    Rise Dawn & War For the planet of the apes Is the most underrated trilogy ever Only a week to go before Kingdom is released So much looking forward for this movie 🎬

  • @dipperjc
    @dipperjc 3 дні тому

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer was always amazing because the best monologues tended to go to the villains. The speech the Mayor gives in the Season 3 finale is quite worthy of inclusion here.

  • @dipperjc
    @dipperjc 3 дні тому

    "Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good. That honor, courage and virtue mean everything; that power and money . . . money and power mean nothing. That good always triumphs over evil. And I want you to remember this, that love - true love never dies. Remember that boy . . . remember that. Doesn’t matter if it's true or not. A man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in." -- Secondhand Lions