With the explosion of the super nuclear bomb, the earth was completely wiped out. It stands to reason that the ending method of "Fall of the Apes" has been sufficiently completed, and it seems to prevent the further development of the story. However, for film companies, the box office profit of more than 10 million US dollars and the reputation accumulated by the first two make them still want to continue this series. Therefore, in the 20th century, Fox carried forward the tradition of diligence, and completed the filming work in just six weeks. In the second year after the release of "Fall of the Apes", the third part of the series-"Escape from the Apes" was released. 》
The construction period is so short, mainly because the budget is not large, from the previous 3 million to 2.5 million. Affected by this, the cost of makeup has also been greatly reduced. There are only three of the many orangutan characters in the first two films in this one, and one of them received a lunch box shortly after the opening. However, "Escape from the Apes" did not become a tofu project due to rushing work. Although there are almost no special effects scenes, it returns to the basics. From the shock of the first part and the strange atmosphere of the second part, it returns to the simple humanistic speculation. middle.
After going through the first two story lines in the future "Apes of the Apes", in this one finally returned to reality, the ape couple Dr. Cornelius and Dr. Gila took a spacecraft and traveled through time to 1973. Earth. Similar to the commotion caused by Taylor and others after landing on the "Sphere of the Apes" in the first film, when the three aerospace "apes" took off their helmets, humans also showed great shock. In this sense, "Escape from the Apes" is like an upside-down version of "Planet of the Apes", except that the host and the guest have swapped positions.
Of course, unlike the inhuman treatment that Taylor suffered in "Scarlet Ball," the Dr. Cornelius and his wife went through a process from curiosity to hostility on Earth. When they first arrived in the United States, political circles, academic circles, and even the general public showed great interest in these two talking and super-intelligent orangutans. They were treated like guests, and they were also arranged to try on new clothes and visit everywhere. Among them, the female (female) Orangutan Dr. Gila even gave a speech at the women's club, and the photogenic rate was comparable to that of the current Internet celebrities.
However, the good times didn't last long, and Dr. Otto Haaslein began to question the future of mankind that Gila accidentally revealed. Although the President of the United States did not support Dr. Haslein’s claims, he still presided over the imprisonment and interrogation of the orangutan couple in private, trying to pry open their mouths by all means. When he learned more about how humans are going to decline step by step, and how the apes become the new masters of the earth step by step, he began to plot to kill Cornelius and Gila to avoid future troubles. Although there were also two kind human doctors, Stephanie Brandon and Lewis Dixon, who tried their best to help and protect them, they still failed to escape the tragedy of being killed.
Fortunately, Milo, the newly born child of the orangutan couple, was secretly protected and adopted by a circus leader. In the future, Milo changed his name to "Caesar", and the ape leader Caesar in "Rise of the Apes" was named in tribute to this role. Unlike the previous two films, the ending of the film Mi Luo is obviously a small tail left for the follow-up story, throwing out the development direction of the story, making the circular timeline established. "Escape from the Planet of the Apes" is a film that coexists with imagination and sense of reality. It is permeated with an indescribable paradox of fate. The couples of apes who once helped humans in the future have been tortured and killed in today's human world. Here, it is not only the instinctive fear of "non-self race, their hearts must be different", but also human beings who are dressed in the cloak of civilization, but they are doing despicable deeds to achieve their goals. It can be seen that the ape tribe in the first part of the How correct and wise are human perceptions and worries.
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