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Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The Vancouver Sun. “The Frankenstein story gets extra mileage when you throw accelerated Darwinism into the tank, which is why Rise of the Planet of the Apes may well be the most important piece of the simian puzzle we’ve seen so far.”

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Rise of the Planet of the Apes

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  1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes

  2. The Vancouver Sun • “The Frankenstein story gets extra mileage when you throw accelerated Darwinism into the tank, which is why Rise of the Planet of the Apes may well be the most important piece of the simian puzzle we’ve seen so far.” • “Dr. Frankenstein’s flaw was the same as Will’s: They deny death and disintegration, and use the power of their intellect in a misguided attempt to stall — or possibly overcome — death.” • “Rise is a true example of an old-fashioned B-movie with a handsome star, a technical gimmick for ‘the monster,’ and a subversive agenda that only seems to grow more prescient.”

  3. More Reviews…. • …the moral of the film is the same that Mary Shelley had in Frankenstein . . . some things are meant to be, you shouldn't ‘play God,’ and that science is evil if left unchecked. (Culture Lab) • The story is essentially Frankenstein and contains a caution about experimenting with genetics. (Tuesday Afternoon) • As a meditation on enhancement, we’re treated with a film that has the brass to own up to the real villain of Frankenstein: the horrified masses and absentee father-scientist. (Discover Magazine)

  4. Director Rupert Wyatt To what extent do you feel like Caesar is a modern-day representation of Frankenstein’s monster? • “Yeah, very much so. There’s great echoes in our story of that. The idea that a young chimpanzee, of which there are many real world examples, growing up in a human environment, believing himself to be human even though he looks different. To then find himself cast out and thrown in to be with his own kind, yet he doesn’t belong with them either because he wears clothes, he has human mannerisms, he likes to eat with a knife and fork, all of those things which make him a freak to both sides, that’s classic Frankenstein.”

  5. James Franco “The early Apes movies are much more about cultures clashing, and the later ones became much more about race. In ours, they’ve shifted the emphasis—it’s a Frankenstein story. But Mary Shelley’s book was more about a scientist playing God. Our film is really a cautionary tale about what can happen when experimentation is unchecked.”

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