A Homework Assignment For Americans

**Major Robert Dump** · 05-01-2006, 23:13

GO RENT Conquest for the Planet of the Apes

Enjoy with dinner and wine

then explain to your friends and family its relevance in politics to this very important day

**Redleg** · 05-01-2006, 23:24

Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump

GO RENT Conquest for the Planet of the Apes

Enjoy with dinner and wine

then explain to your friends and family its relevance in politics to this very important day

The movie was a political satire when it was first made........

Here I will cheat and give a clue from a write up on the movie from a critic

Originally Posted by Critic

The next-to-last film in the Planet of the Apes series is the most politically charged; its obvious parallels to the civil rights struggle that continued through the 1970's were tolerated by Hollywood censors because of the fantastic story line. There is no mistaking, however, the similarities of Caesar, the initially peaceful leader of a bloody revolt, to members of the Black civil rights movement who became more militant as their non-violent efforts were met with derision and gunshots. The ending was even toned down from its original bloody mess, but we still get a bit of a chill when Caesar announces "the birth of the Planet of the Apes!"

Have a nice day. LOL

**Major Robert Dump** · 05-02-2006, 04:35

Dude, you ruined it.

I wasn't even talking its relation to the Civil Rights Movement, unless you call what is happening now a civil rights movement, which I don't.

I'm talking about the lines, the dialogue, some of the stuff said by the characters. The Apes being used by humans "to do jobs humans don't want" and the apes pretending not to understand what is being said, pretending they don't know whats going on while communicating in secret about the revolution.

I'm telling you all, you'll swear it was George Bush or Bill O Reilly speaking when you hear some of the lines used.

I think I'll make a dr9inking game out of this.

**Devastatin Dave** · 05-03-2006, 21:21

I was thinking of the illegal alien situation myself but Redleg has a good angle. Is it beastilality to be sexually attracted to Ceasars wife or is that just the alcohol?

**Alexanderofmacedon** · 05-04-2006, 04:13

Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave

I was thinking of the illegal alien situation myself but Redleg has a good angle. Is it beastilality to be sexually attracted to Ceasars wife or is that just the alcohol?

**Devastatin Dave** · 05-04-2006, 04:15

I love it when you give me that look Alex....

**Alexanderofmacedon** · 05-04-2006, 05:37

Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave

I love it when you give me that look Alex....

It's our little secret.

**Major Robert Dump** · 05-04-2006, 10:36

This is funny, too, it seems maybe Redleg has been talking to someone who works for Wal-Mart.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_r...p-323273c.html

**Redleg** · 05-04-2006, 13:45

Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump

This is funny, too, it seems maybe Redleg has been talking to someone who works for Wal-Mart.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_r...p-323273c.html

Not at all - I detest Walmart.

The political satire nature of the movie is evident to any that watch the film.

If you want we can discussion why such a marketing campaign by Walmart using those particlur films was not a smart idea. It goes along with the old racist jokes about apes and blacks.

**Major Robert Dump** · 05-04-2006, 19:14

of course it was a bad move, but funny nonetheless. Anything that gives wal-mart grief is funny.

It is very possible that the person who rigged that match is such a nimrod he/she wasn't thinking about the apes/blacks aspect and was thinking of the movie similarity to the civil rights movement.

**KafirChobee** · 05-06-2006, 08:13

Must be a "cable thing" - ain't seen it on satellite.

Thing is, the first "Planet of the Apes" was a shocker for some that saw it for the first time. By todays standards it is mild - like salt to acid (Apes' being salt). Still, look at the time of its release and the response of it.

Film can have an impact. Well, at one time it could - and maybe even now. Today, however, people tend to drift towards the films that confirm their beliefs - versus challenging them or awakening ideas they previously had not considered.

We live in a duplitic world where parents have become so wise as to manipulate their offsprings into compliance to their well found beliefs. Me, I grew up in one that we challenged everything. Today, conformance seems to hold the key.

Ain't it a wonderful thing. "Little pink houses for you and me."

**rotorgun** · 05-06-2006, 18:21

Originally Posted by KafirChobee

Ain't it a wonderful thing. "Little pink houses for you and me."

Sort of like that old Pete Seeger song Little Boxes.

Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes on a hillside,
and they're all made out of ticky-tack, and they're all just the same.

There's a green one, and a red one, and pink one and a yellow one,
and they're all made out of ticky-tack, and they're all just the same.

There's a doctor, and a lawyer, and a [presidential candidate],
and they're all made out of ticky tack, and they're all just the same.

Good point Major Dump about the movie. I have often had the urge to compare George W. with a chimpanzee more than an ape. You could have a major idea for a new satire here.