After 1000's of years you'd think the apes would have cars, buildings, televisions smartphones, bad beer commercials...
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You should watch the animated version.
On the movies the orangutan council intentionally avoided the contraptions that "ancient man" had invented.
The apes seem to have a level of technology equal to that of the mid-19th century. But they do have very bad beer!
shareI always thought of them as a little bit like the Amish where they shun technology, or at least to a degree.
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Never got that impression myself.
shareI got that impression with the paper airplane. Zaius seemed to know that man had achieved flight, but he was denouncing that it was possible, fearing that the chimpanzee's intellect might lead to experimentation.
At the end, Zaius admitted that he'd always known about man (of the past).
Maybe shunning technology was the wrong description. More a case of happy as they were.
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Maybe but they seemed to put a lot of emphasis on science. They even had a Minister or Science, most human governments don't have that office or post.
shareTrue, but wasn't he also Defender of the Faith?
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True but he seemed to suppress science that would lead to knowledge of man's history and true nature such as Zira's behavioral experiments and Cornelius' archeology. Yet he is for experimental brain surgery. As far as other technology, there is no evidence in the film whether he was for it or against it.
shareFair point
shareReal reason, budget.
In the book the apes have cars and helicopters but in 1968 SciFi was not the box office powerhouse it is now so the studio opted for a neo primitive look which also gave the art design a nice alien look.
Also this plays in with the idea that the elders rejected technologies that ancient man used.
This works well in the science vs religion aspect that the film portrays.
The technology of the apes does appeaser to be a bit of a mishmash. They still live in mud houses and ride horses yet they have semi-automatic guns and advanced medical procedures. This mainly comes from the films budget. The original script called for the apes to live in an advanced city but the producers soon realised they didn't have the budget to construct such an elaborate set so they went for the more modest low tech village you saw in the final film.
shareThey still live in mud houses
Allright James if you insist on being picky, stone. Sheesh.
shareYes pointing out the facts is being picky.
sharethe 2001 version with a younger Mark Wahlberg ended that way. There was a time travel incident where history was altered and there was a modern Earth in the other time line run by intelligent apes.
I read in a movie magazine that the original plan WAS to have the apes be hi tech and the reason it was not done was because that would have been more expensive to film. The primitive ape village was cheaper to show on film.
I read in a movie magazine that the original plan WAS to have the apes be hi tech and the reason it was not done was because that would have been more expensive to film. The primitive ape village was cheaper to show on film.
Tbh, I'm glad it wasn't a hi-tech society.
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