PLANET OF THE APES (1968) | MOVIE REACTION! | FIRST TIME WATCHING!

[@MovieswithMary]

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[@lawrenceallen8096]

Cover the mouth, cover the ears, cover the eyes. "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." An old meme before there were memes! kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2O5c5iQjdKAfLM

[@thomasripley1548]

Wow if I could spell I'd be dangerous. Or if could keep my fat fingers out of the way so I could see what I'm writing....

[@connerroberts7640]

😊

[@Daniel-Strain]

Yes! Loved this reaction. People always underestimate this movie before they see it. They don't realize they are about to watch such a deep commentary on society. In 2001 they remade the movie with Mark Walberg - it was a huge disappointment and they had removed all of this important commentary (don't watch the 2001 remake). Then in 2011 they started a new reboot with "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and followed with more films. That reboot series has been REALLY good, but goes back to the beginning of the process that led to this situation, so it's a whole different story.

[@williamsmith5340]

One of my favorite movies

[@TheLisa-Al-Gaib]

It is SO rare and refreshing to see a Planet of the Apes reaction from someone who literally knows nothing about the movie!💕💕💕🐵

[@richardbalducci4490]

Somehow, Time and Space coordinated perfectly here; Mary’s reaction was as pure, delighted, and eventually as shocked, as I, and the entire cinema audience was, that sweet, wonderful, glorious night back in 1968. 🍸

[@TheLisa-Al-Gaib]

@@rustincohle2135 right on!

[@oaf-77]

Nobody ruin Spaceballs for her

[@titanuranus3095]

@@richardbalducci4490 How did you not figure it out from the poster?

[@richardbalducci4490]

@@titanuranus3095 The Poster was a tease, showing the humans in the outdoor cage, with an inserted photo of Dr. Zaius (who was, at that time, merely an unknown Orangutan peering out at me from the tearsheet). I knew that it was going to be a remarkable movie, but I didn’t fully realize that it was going to be the landmark motion picture of my lost youth, brilliant in every way.

[@NoOne-so7jt]

This film has the most famous twist ending in the history of American cinema. It's a rare treat to see an unspoiled reaction.

[@TamagoSenshi]

More famous than "He was a ghost"?

[@NoOne-so7jt]

@@TamagoSenshi I think so because it's been around 30 years longer.

[@DeltaAssaultGaming]

“Rosebud”?

[@GabrielSilva-po2md]

Definitely one of the biggest plot twists in the history of cinema

[@fergalmoore862]

Now completely spoiled by the poster.

[@ckobo84]

It's like Idiocracy, the space plan was evidently scrapped and they never left earth?

[@ice-iu3vv]

@@ckobo84 sure they left earth, and they made it back too. they failed to account for the fact that faster-than-light travel would send them thousands of years in the future. the space program was not "evidently scrapped", but nuclear war scrapped all of human society. idiocracy was set 500 years in the future. in 18 years since that movie came out, (3.6% of 500 years), we have obviously moved more than 3.6% of the way in that societies direction. the premise of idiocracy is that inverse natural selection dumbed down society. planet of the apes it was nuclear war. the future destroyed societies is the only thing these movies share. one of them is hundreds of years away, and demonstrably coming true. (heck just look at your comment for proof that society is suffering a lowering of i.q.) the other is thousands of years away and has the single most unbelievable plot point (that apes would evolve 200 thousand years in only 10 thousand years, and they would be speaking english.).

[@RetroRobotRadio]

It's also a change from the book. In the book it really was an alien planet!

[@xaviperez26]

​​@@fergalmoore862hat poster is a disgrace. Can you imagine the 'Seven (Se7en)' [1995] poster with a box open showing Gwyneth Paltrow's chopped head in the front and Brad Pitt in the background shooting Kevin Spacey?

[@DanGamingFan2406]

"You Maniacs! You blew it up!" One of the best, most iconic, and heavily referenced twists of all time. This movie is so good.

[@xaviperez26]

So many layers.

[@Cheepchipsable]

"Damn dirty apes!" was used a lot in school.

[@Panzer4F2]

Another twist, in Beneath The Planet of the Apes, it is actually Taylor that ends up blowing it all up.

[@dolphinsrr]

@@Panzer4F2 which don't make sense. He would be killing his friends too.

[@Stevarooni]

That makeup joke was so accidentally hilarious! 😄

[@dolphinsrr]

R????

[@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.-]

2:09 "The lady's skin is going to be completely dead." The combination of that comment and your reaction to the reveal of her skin indeed being completely dead had me rolling. It's the best laugh I've had in a while.

[@goldenager59]

I must admit, that *was* an unplanned gem. 😁

[@ZulcanPrime]

This is one of those scientific inaccuracies as the body would not decompose even if they were suspended for over a thousand years. I doubt the oxygen levels and heating would be left on for that long. I assume the oxygen tanks would automatically be activated when the astronauts are automatically revived.

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

The different species of apes fulfilled specific roles in ape society. The chimpanzees were scientists, the gorillas were the military and the orangutans were the church/government authorities.

[@sukie584]

We know today how wrong they were about Gorillas being military. It should have been the chimps. Gorillas are peaceful. Chimps go to war.

[@NemeanLion-]

This movie is proof that a well directed and well written film is pretty much timeless.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Very true.

[@mwflanagan1]

I love watching people’s reaction to the ending in this film. It really struck us hard when the movie came out.

[@styles2980]

Mary is great at watching older movies with an open mind, when so many of my friends wouldn't give this a chance. It's rare to watch someone see this movie without any spoilers, good fun.

[@zarquondam]

This isn't an "older movie." Movies from the 1920s-1940s are "older movies"! 😛

[@dsembr]

@@zarquondam There are people who were born, went to school, graduated college, got married, had children, raised those children to adulthood, and then their children had children of their own, yet they are still younger than this movie. It is an older movie.

[@styles2980]

@@zarquondam In relation to her age and perspective this would probably be an older movie, and from her perspective is what my comment is referring. No offense meant, just trying to clarify my comment.

[@donaldjz]

​@@zarquondamso it must have been amazing when you heard people talking in movies for the first time when you were in your teens

[@gregzaffuto4507]

I saw that movie in 1969 in a theater when I was 14 years old. I and the entire audience were shocked at the surprise ending, and it was talked about and discussed for months afterwards because we hadn't been exposed to twists like that before in science fiction movies. I am now 70 years old, and it is so refreshing to see someone experience this movie as I did so many years before. Unfortunately the sequels and modern reboots don't live up to the message and shock of the original.

[@w41duvernay]

YES, the sequel was going in an unexpected direction. NO one expected the Chicken or the egg direction.

[@dolphinsrr]

It was 1968 not 1969

[@macroman52]

Pierre Boulle (French) wrote the original novel. He also wrote Bridge on the River Kwai and Mary might like the movie of that as well for moral dilemmas and a clash of cultures.

[@oaf-77]

River Kwai is a classic

[@triggerwarning5762]

The twist at the end is different in the book.

[@jasperr8139]

”Wow, what am I watching”? Hilarious comment. Thanks for a a great reaction.

[@williampilling2168]

They knew it was super important to get the costumes right, because they didnt want the effects to over shadow the plot, and, they knew they were facing an uphill battle from the start to have the movie taken seriously.

[@mathias6185]

It's quite unbelievable how they put the biggest spoiler of all time on the friggin movie poster !!

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

Eventually, yes. Not originally. :)

[@jamesalexander5623]

That was when it came out on DvD .... The original Poster was different!

[@eolsunder]

these days they just put the spoiler in the movie trailer.

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

@@eolsunder And if you don't see it when trying to look up the trailer you'll see it when some dumb asshole includes the spoiler in their video title.

[@jhilal2385]

"Terminator 2" "From Dusk Till Dawn" "Unbreakable"

[@theflyingfisherman7829]

Whoever told Mary to not research this movie beforehand, you're doing God's work, friend! You helped make this reaction the best ever to this classic and you deserve a medal. So thank you!!! Your total surprise at the end was EVERYTHING, Mary! 🥰🥰🥰

[@saaamember97]

Most of the early scenes of a desert-like terrain were shot in northern Arizona near the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River, Lake Powell, Glen Canyon and other locations near Page, Arizona. Most scenes of the ape village, interiors and exteriors, were filmed on the Fox Ranch in Malibu Creek State Park, northwest of Los Angeles, essentially the backlot of 20th Century Fox. The concluding beach scenes were filmed on a stretch of California seacoast between Malibu and Oxnard with cliffs that towered 132 feet (40m) above the shore.

[@bauertime]

I bet no one ever said anything about the boat being too small for four people before. Very good.

[@janstan8407]

"Some apes are more equal than others", a play on the words from the side of the barn in George Orwell's "Animal Farm". An amazing book, right up there with "1984". Please read them folks if you haven't.

[@LordEriolTolkien]

'' lots of lovemaking, but no love..'' was a direct reference to the Free Love era of the 60's. A swipe at his own time.

[@jeff-xm7fg]

Hard to find someone who doesn't know the ending of planet of the apes. And satisfying to see it still packs a punch, even for "kids" today.

[@TylerWx]

The writing of this movie was so amazing. So much depth. Movies like this don't get made these days.

[@sntxrrr]

It is really great you are watching these old movies and this is the classic example of how the threat of nuclear war inspired a lot of movies.

[@Embur12]

As a kid, this was the second movie I ever saw, with my family on vacation, at a drive-in theater. A huge sci-fi fan my whole life. This is one of the best endings in cinema...

[@bobogus7559]

Something to keep in mind is that this came out at the height of the Cold War, when the threat of a nuclear apocalypse was always in the air. Impactful as that ending is today, I think it might have been even more impactful in that context because, for all people knew, it could happen the very next day.

[@SG-js2qn]

It's a very famous ending that if revealed kind of takes a bit of the punch out of the film. So glad you didn't get spoiled by knowing the ending scene in advance. :)

[@becausethemailneverstops9350]

IKR? This might be the only reaction to this movie where the viewer was totally unspoiled and genuinely mindblown by the ending, the way you're supposed to be. So awesome

[@SG-js2qn]

@@becausethemailneverstops9350 Mary Cherry just did one too.

[@becausethemailneverstops9350]

@@SG-js2qn Planet of the Apes? I think Mary Cherry reacted to it like a year ago. I remember watching it a really long time ago or did she react to another apes movie?

[@SG-js2qn]

@@becausethemailneverstops9350 Previously she'd seen the newer stuff. This was the first time she saw the original.

[@allanrose3661]

Mary the other great scifi movie in 1968 was 2001: A Space Odyssey.

[@zarquondam]

And it ALSO has ... well, I won;t say what it also has. Spoilers!

[@oaf-77]

Comparing the special effects and cinematography of planet of the apes and 2001, they look like they were made in completely different eras

[@lou6454]

When I first saw this , when they found the doll the coin had almost dropped , seeing those spikes in the foreground it dropped and smashed to pieces . Great reaction, lots of fun !!

[@StCerberusEngel]

The main reason you were warned not to look anything up is because of this ending. The final shot has been put on posters, home media covers, plastered on articles and parodied everywhere. If you look this movie up, it's one of the first images you're likely to see. Hard as it is, it's best to go in completely blind, and your reaction proves it.

[@mikemeggison5084]

I love how Taylor starts out as a sneering cynic who's like "good riddance to humans" at the start, then he's confronted with a world where his dark wish came true, and it breaks him.

[@becausethemailneverstops9350]

This might be the only reaction to this movie where the viewer was totally unspoiled and genuinely mindblown by the ending, the way you're supposed to be. So awesome, Mary!

[@janstan8407]

I've watched this movie a million times and I never noticed the judge panel was doing the "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" routine. That was great!!

[@tomyoung9049]

So great. This film is so known it is rare to find someone with no prior knowledge. Fun seeing you with the reveal. That shot gave me full chills when I first saw it so long ago. The makeup won awards and was considered groundbreaking at the time.

[@bigbow62]

18:58 Hear See & Speak No Evil Very good Mary and another wonderful reaction... Thank you ✌️🙂

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

Edgar Rice Burroughs published "Tarzan of the Apes" in 1912. It met with wide success, and was soon followed by many more Tarzan adventures. I forget how many exactly, but I feel like it was at least 30.

[@LVMarty]

Wonderful reaction as always. The ending has been spoiled so often so it was satisfying to see your reaction. Yes, this film certainly makes you think. Still relevant and maybe more so today.

[@GeorgeEugeneBarrett]

@ 10:24 - “I would push her away.” Taylor pushes her away. “Woah. That was rather aggressive.” LOL.

[@tylerfoster6267]

The first Tarzan story was published in 1912 and then the first movie arrived seven years later, and the first notable Tarzan movie series started in the 1930s. I can't say I'm the biggest fan of Beneath the Planet of the Apes (2) or Battle For the Planet of the Apes (5), but I'd certainly accept them if it means we get Escape From the Planet of the Apes (3) and the extended cut of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (4), which I think are both great. Mary's already heard this in a few comments but maybe some other Apes fans will enjoy my idea: I found that this and the other two original Apes movies I like pair great with the newer Apes movies. First, the original, and then, with Rise, a version of the backstory (albeit not the same one, as it is a reboot series and not prequels). Then, Escape and Dawn. Two attempts for man and ape to co-exist, one where the humans are more dominant and the other where the apes are more dominant (or at least we focus more on the apes). Finally, Conquest and War. Revolution!

[@louispaulter8733]

The man who created the ape make-up won a academy award. AND he created REAL “mission impossible” masks for the CIA to help agents and defectors escape from behind the “Iron Curtain.” Review /react to the movie “Argo.”

[@Kurtiscott]

Priceless reaction at the end. So glad you avoided that ridiculous spoiler “artwork”. Absolutely love your channel! Cheers from Northern California (USA)

[@cspringer333]

"The lady's skin is going to be completely dead"....good one!

[@PaulWinkle]

Well the concept was "dead" from the get go. 3 females and one man makes more sense.

[@marcovacca9144]

​@@PaulWinkle Actually, two females and two males makes more sense. This ratio avoids the chance, or at least reduces the chance, of deformation in the DNA of their offspring in the 3:1 female to male ratio. With only one male ( or one female in a four-person group) , it guarantees all offspring born from each woman will be related to everyone.

[@PaulWinkle]

@@marcovacca9144 If we're solely considering reproduction rates without taking genetic diversity into account...a population with three females and one male could potentially have a higher reproductive rate compared to the reverse scenario of three males and one female. This is because each female has the potential to bear multiple offspring, while the male's reproductive capacity is limited to the number of females he can impregnate. (Says ChatGPT)

[@LMarti13]

Damn, a reaction to Planet of the Apes without knowing the twist, I just saw a unicorn.

[@impudentdomain]

The novel was written by the Frenchman Pierre Boulle who also wrote the Bridge over the River Kwai.

[@jaysonwanderer8739]

I always wondered how the crew member died in the beginning. Mary, case solved, lul. The lake and water shots, are from Lake Powell, Arizona. That lake was so full compared to today. =( Great reaction video Mary.

[@greyinvader]

Glad you enjoyed this classic, Mary. There are four sequels that all vary in quality, but they are all good. Would love to see you react to the whole series.

[@d_d1721]

the end was the biggest twist ever, such an amazing series of movies.

[@HRPufnsting]

“Beware the beast man, for he is the devil’s pawn. Alone among God’s primates, he kills for sport, for lust, for greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother’s land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home, and yours. Shun him. Drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.” Taylor’s reaction to the scrolls reflecting his own sentiments and beliefs about humans is great. Always nice to see someone who can go in blind and not know the twist.

[@AllYouWantAndMore]

I'm so glad you watched without knowing the ending. It's so much better when this is a surprise.

[@HansOlo354]

Hey Hey, we're the Monkees! And people say we Monkee around...

[@donaldduncan7095]

You were very curious of who got the idea for this, it just happened to be the Final Jeopardy answer today. A French author Pierre Boulle, was inspired to write this book in the early 1960s after he visited a zoo and was captivated by the ape's facial expressions. I'm surprised you didn't know about the ending since the dumb studio put the Statue of Liberty on the DVD cover.

[@realrembrandt8273]

You should react to BEN-HUR (1959) with Heston too. Absolutely epic and gorgeous! My favorite movie!

[@oaf-77]

Ben Hur is a classic, also liked 10 Commandments and Naked Jungle

[@terryv2006]

Rotfl when you said “is her interest in him scientific or does she have the hots for him”. Knowing what she thinks of his looks at the end was priceless. FYI there were no monkeys in the movie. Monkeys have tails, but they are all apes. If you watch all the movies, you’ll find out how the apes ended up taking over and subjugating the humans.

This is easy the top best reaction and commentary on the whole Mari J Chu library.

[@davewhitmore1958]

"Let's find some monkeys!" All days should begin like this, thank you Mary!

[@stretch4872]

Really enjoyed your reaction and insight. So many people today act like if a movie doesn't have car chases and explosions it's not worth watching. This movie only had a 5 million dollar budget and a third of it went to makeup to make the apes faces move in a more lifelike Manor than in a mask. I still remember at the age of around 10 when the statue of liberty scene hit me. My entire belief system came into question. It was definitely mind blowing back in the day. You are always such a joy to watch in these reactions. The comment about the makeup on the female astronaut right before they show that her sleep chamber failed is one of the best things I've ever seen in a reaction. Keep up the great work.

[@henrymassey9904]

To give you explanation of the different species of apes. The Chimpanzees are the most curious, and thus the scientists. The Orangutans are the priests and the lawgivers. And the gorillas, being brutes, are the soldiers. If you watch the rest of the movies, you will see this come into play more and more.

[@AtomicAgePictures]

The opening scenes of the crash landing in the water and the trek through the desert were filmed in and around the Lake Powell, Arizona

[@erictaylor5462]

4:00 Looks to me like they landed in Lake Powel. Lake Powel is the next lake up the Colorado from Lake Mead, with the Grand Canyon between them.

[@Drforrester31]

Mary already touched on it, but it's a real sign of great storytelling/filmmaking when a movie that's 55 years old can still pull the rug out from under you. Much as I love this movie, I think the best part about it is the Planet of the Apes Musical from the Simpsons (aka Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!)

[@salsonny]

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil When she touched his hand, she was petting him like a pet

[@kinokind293]

Speaking of courtroom dramas (which I never would have thought this was - until now!), why has no one ever reacted to "To Kill a Mockingbird", one of the greatest courtroom dramas? Or other classics, like "Witness for the Prosecution", or, as was suggested, "Inherit the Wind" , "Judgement at Nuremberg", or "Anatomy of a Murder" (although Popcorn in Bed did do that one)? Look at those actors! Charles Laughton, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck, and two Spencer Tracy's! There is a reason classics are classic.

[@LordEriolTolkien]

This was one of the benchmark sci-fi movies of the Pre Star Wars era

[@shainewhite2781]

I remember watching this movie on the WB Network (CW) back in 1998. It was to celebrate the film's 30th anniversary, and when I saw the ending, I was shocked and said, "Oh, my god, they blew up Earth!" The ending has been spoofed 100 times since the film's release.

[@lesliedaubert1411]

" Spaceballs " ending

[@darthken815]

​@@lesliedaubert1411 "Oh shit. There goes the planet."

[@WeirdGuy4928]

This was great. It's rare to find somebody who knows nothing about the film.

[@chrisbiebel6205]

You've probably heard of the Twilight Zone TV show. The guy who came up with the Statue of Liberty twist was Rod Serling, who created the Twilight Zone. He was amazing with twist endings. The original book that this was based on had the apes in an advanced technological society. The book was written from the point of view of astronauts who found a log entry sent into space. The twist ending there was that the astronauts who were reading it were in fact chimps, but that wouldn't have worked on film. Oh, and you might want to check out Space Balls, which is a Star Wars spoof by Mel Brooks.

[@cathyvickers9063]

When audiences went to see this movie, the only "Planet of the Apes" people may have heard about was the novel by a French author. In the novel, the ape planet is an alien world in orbit around Betelgeuse, the humanoids were naked with golden skin, the apes were at the same technological level as Earth... The novel is a commentary on French culture (complete with wildlife safaris & proud hunters posing with the carcasses of their prey), ala Gulliver's Travels. The movie is staged as if our American astronauts are on *that* planet! Which is why the twist at the end was such a shock to the audience! The ape makeup was revolutionary for the time. Prior to this movie, actors donned ape costumes for laughs. The makeup revolution was the latex upper face & lower muzzle glued directly to the actor's face! This allowed for emoting thru the makeup. A makeup test with very minimal makeup sold the concept to the studio, who then agreed to make the movie! They had to dumb down the level of simian technology because otherwise the movie would've been too expensive. Apes with helicopters, anyone? Apes & monkeys share a common ancestor, but aren't the same. Monkeys have tails; apes don't. The Great Apes are gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans;...& humans.

[@christopheryochum3602]

Grat reaction, Mary. It was so good that you went in blind. Even at the end, the Statue of Liberty showing in the corner of the frame, you asked "What is that?" Really enjoyed your reaction.

[@githerax5303]

Hey youtube algorithm eat this; best channel, best reactions, best youtuber, favorite channel, favorite videos.

[@maceomaceo11]

Dr. Zaius isn't such the asshole in the end. Where humans go, death and destruction follows. Always, regardless of intent.

[@Flastew]

Great reaction Mary. It was so cool watching how you guessed some things and was really surprised by others. It was a cool movie especially considering when it was made, lots of true acting and no CGI just really good makeup and set artist.

[@johnmccandles2197]

It's better not to know the end, it has more impact, and when the film is over, you're still thinking about everything you've seen. And if you watch it again, you see it from a different perspective.

[@3dbadboy1]

Interesting how when the team first encounters 'life', they dig it up and kill it and how nonchalant about it they are. I wonder if it was done on purpose that way.

[@charlesmcmanus4229]

SPACEBALLS!? There goes the planet…

[@bobby_the_ps2]

16:38 A lot of people who worked on this film, including the main script writer, were blacklisted or just got off the list due to the red scare. Many just refused to name associates who had communist ties at some point in their life. A lot of the dialogue from the court sequence is actually from the writers experience with a committee when he was blacklisted specifically, "you're not being put on trial you're being disposed of."

[@long-timesci-fienthusiast9626]

Hi Mary, It was great to see you just take the film in your stride & enjoy it as much as I did. Although, in my case I saw the Tv show first, in the early-mid `70`s. But, like you I had not heard / seen anything from the movie itself. Most younger reactors seem to have already seen the end scene at least.

[@Cre80s]

All of the modern era of sci-fi franchises, like Star Wars, and Star Trek, this was the first of it's kind. There were sci-fi movies of course, but this marked the beginning of everything we think of franchises. The merchandise tie-ins, the action figures, the lunch boxes, the sequels, the tv spin-offs, the t-shirts on all the kids in elementary schools, nerds quoting it non-stop,... Planet of the Apes started it all.

[@benjauron5873]

The most amazing thing is how, in the intervening thousands of years, the Statue of Liberty floated all the way from Upper New York Bay around Cape Horn and up the Pacific Coast until it finally beached on Point Dume. What a journey...

[@mikealvarez2322]

Mary, I find your silliness delightful.😊

[@Cre80s]

There's a neat story that one of the star actors told about the production, I think its was Roddy McDowell (Cornelius) who said all the extras that were in costumes for the different kinds of apes were on break for lunch and in the commissary (cafeteria) and he noticed that they were all gravitating to their own kind, gorillas sitting with gorillas, chimps with chimps, and for no other reason than the power of suggestion. None of them knew each other, nobody told them to do it, they could sit wherever, but it was an odd psychological phenomenon that they all just did it.

[@carm3d]

The shot of the three apes covering their eyes, ears and mouth was a reference to an old cartoon drawing of three monkeys doing the same with the caption "Speak no evil, Hear no evil, See no evil." Planet of the Apes from 2001 directed by Tim Burton is a lot of fun for different reasons. Fantastic make-up effects by Rick Baker.

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

This is one of my all-time favorites. The third and fourth entries in the original Apes saga are great as well (2 and 5 are clunkers, 2 in particular). This was science fiction for intellectuals, movies that explore the morality, ethics, and philosophy of the human condition. I wish there were more great films like this.

[@jonmercano1138]

“It’s not about monkeys?” No, it’s about apes Finally someone who didn’t know or figure out the twist. This movie was based on a french novel, which is actually kind of different. The ending reveal was added by Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling. In the novel it really was another planet

[@donaldb1]

As far as I remember, though, the satirical intent of the film is pretty much the same in the novel.

[@donaldb1]

@@rustincohle2135 Er, yes. Pretty obvious, I'd have thought.

[@donaldb1]

@@rustincohle2135 Satire does not have to be laugh-out-loud funny. But it does usually involve exaggeration or distortion to criticise its target. Critiquing society by satirically rendering it in animal form has a long history, _Animal Farm_ being a particularly famous example. I would say allegory is not usually critical, often imparting a spiritual or religious message. Though I suppose the two might overlap.

[@donaldb1]

@@rustincohle2135 Well, I think it's a matter of opinion ultimately. I agree that the film is played totally seriously, but there is mockery in the scenario, or ridicule as you say. It depicts ape society as somewhat ridiculous, less advanced than ours, but still mirroring some of the dogmatism and social pretensions of our own age. And this makes the fate of future humans even more miserable. And I'm not sure they fit into any allegorical scheme. That inversion, of humans sunk below the animals, is purely satirical, like the Yahoos in _Gulliver's Travels._ I think the comparison with _Animal Farm_ seems apt. That has been called political allegory, but it is clearly satirical as well in that it does not just critique but in many ways mocks the Bolshevik revolution, though there are very few laughs in that either.

[@fredzeppelin3969]

The French novel this was based on was penned by Pierre Boulle, who had only one of his other novels made into a Hollywood movie, "Bridge On The River Kwai."

[@jamesba-xd7xf]

THANK YOU Mary for reacting to this great movie!, Im 63 and this was the first movie I ever saw in the theatre in march of 1968 when I was 8 years old and my older brother took me to see it. when the apes were first shown it scared the hell out of me! LOL!, and the ending blew everybodies mind, the whole theatre was silent and stunned!. keep in mind....in 1968 the greatest threat to humanity was a nuclear war between russia and the USA, this film is based upon the concept that in the late 1900's humanity killed off nearly every human being through nuclear war and then 2000 years later in 3969 the apes were ruling primitive humans!, an incredible stoty and movie. Love you mary, keep up the good work!!

[@Vort317545]

The opening of the movie was filmed at Lake Powell American South West. My brother went hiking out there back in the 1980s. Its park now.

[@Lue_Jonin]

I remember watching this film as a kid when it first was on television. This was so advanced.... much like "The Twilight Zone" television series. 🐵 ❤ 🎥 There was a whole series of "Planet of the Apes" episodes.... All us young kids were hooked on them 😆 👍 LOL

[@bystander1255]

To your point of watching the old movies. Try "Network" from 1976 - very relevant and clever movie.

[@internetsideshow]

Mary, I believe you have now watched all that is prerequisite for understanding the references in "Spaceballs." And I'm sure everyone would love to see your reaction to that film.

[@Roller-Ball]

A funny fact.........When they broke for meals. The chimps, gorillas, and the Orangutan Each broke into individual species groups to eat at different tables. Nobody told them to do that. It just happened.

[@staceyalles7740]

"The lady's skin is gonna be completely dead..." Oh, Mary, I don't think I've laughed so hard at a reaction before - I got a complete case of the giggles. Thank for for that! 😂😂😂

[@Rain1]

Oh man I was really hoping you would keep in the part where the orangutan doctor started reciting the Scrolls about what mankind does to each other

[@ink-cow]

The man who first came up with this was author Pierre Boulle, who wrote the French novel by the same name. He also wrote Bridge Over The River Kwai (also turned into a magnificent movie). Boulle's version was different. The astronaut was French, and instead of finding the Statue of Liberty he managed to get back into his spaceship and return to Earth--only to find out that it has been taken over by an ape civilization. The script for this film arguably takes his idea and improves on it.

[@OldGeezerGaming337]

Great reaction, it is nice to see someone whom is going in completely bind. I always thought that Dr. Zaius actually knows what happened to a certain extent, and was actively trying to slow technologic progress for the ape society down. The sequel to this Beneath the planet of apes, goes into more of the lore behind how this world came to be, as well as showing more of Nova and Taylor's stories.

[@TonyTigerTonyTiger]

It's great that you had no spoilers.

[@jeffthompson9622]

I think that "Tarzan Of The Apes" was published in 1912 or 1913.

[@jacobjones5269]

Yes!.. The 3 judges were indeed hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil.. Nice catch..

[@gluuuuue]

“Lots of lovemaking, but no love..” “Hey! Speak for yourself, sir..” Consider the historical and cultural period when this movie came out. People definitely criticized the ‘60s and ‘70s as having a lot of this, particularly the less liberally inclined!

[@kathyjumper6991]

Great reaction. I remember the audience in the theater gasping and falling silent at the ending. It is still one of my favorite science fiction movies.

[@Snowman_Style]

I love how unironically the plot of the movie is that the world Rejected Humanity and Returned to Monke