Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is a 1972 American science fiction film Directed by J. Lee Thompson and written by Paul Dahn. Arthur P. Jacobs. It is the fourth of five films in the original Planet of the Apes series produced by Jacobs. The film stars Roddy McDowall, Don Murray and Ricardo Montalban. Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) explores how monkeys rebelled against the evil behavior of humanity. This was followed by Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973).
The first film in the 2010 reboot series, Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), has a similar basis to Conquest, but is not officially a remake.
PLOT
Following a North American epidemic from a space-borne disease that wiped out all dogs and cats in 1983, the government has become a series of police states adopting monkeys as pets before establishing a culture based on monkey slave labor. These events were predicted as evidence before the 1973 murder of two chimpanzee scientists, Cornelius and his wife Jira. Although their baby appears to have been killed, he escapes death, and Armando, the circus owner, secretly rides a young horse. In 1991, an adult and now known as Caesar, Armando brings him to a town to deliver a flyer for the arrival of the circus, explaining to curious monkeys the events that led them to their new reality and advising him not to speak in public for fear. His life.
Caesar is shocked to see the apes do the minimum work and the harsh abuse of the rebellious apes. A gorilla sees a messenger being beaten and drugged. Although Armando takes responsibility for the wonderful sound when handling the situation, Caesar escapes in confusion. Finding Caesar hiding in a staircase, Armando tells the apes that he will return to the authorities and bluffs his way while instructing Caesar to hide among a group of apes who have arrived for safety. Caesar follows Armando's instructions and hides the orangutans in a cage, training himself for slavery through violent conditioning. Caesar was then sold at auction to Governor Break, whose owner allowed him to keep his name by randomly referring to a word from a book given to him. The chimpanzee's finger is fixed on the name "Caesar", which is said to be a coincidence. Caesar is hired by McDonald's, Break's main collaborator, whose African-American tradition allows him to sympathize with the monkey over his boss's thin veiled hatred.
Armando, meanwhile, is being interrogated by Inspector Kalp, who suspects that his "circus app" is the child of two talking future monkeys. Kalp's assistant puts Armando under a machine, the "proof", which psychologically forces people to be truthful. After admitting that he had heard the name Cornelius before, Armando realized that he could not fight the instrument and jumped out of a window and died after a brief fight with a guard. When Caesar learns of the circus owner's death, he loses faith in human kindness and secretly teaches monkeys war while collecting weapons.
By then, the ship that had been delivered to Caesar by Colp's investigation had come from an area where there were no native chimpanzees, and Brake knew that Caesar was the monkey they were hunting. After calling a break about Caesar's position, Caesar reveals himself to McDonald's when he double-covers the monkey. Although Macdonald understood Caesar's intent to oust Brake, he expressed his doubts about the effectiveness of the revolution with the dismissal of most of Caesar's people. Caesar was later captured by the Break men and electrocuted for speaking. Break ordered Caesar to die immediately. Caesar escapes his death sentence because McDonald's secretly lowers the machine's electrical output to lethal levels. Once the break is gone, Caesar kills his torturer and escapes.
Caesar first started his revolution by taking on the responsibility of app management to create his numbers, killing most of the riot police trying to stop them while setting fire to the city and moving to the command center with the app. After Brake's command post exploded and most of the staff were killed, Caesar set out to execute Brake. MacDonald tries to persuade Caesar not to succumb to barbarism and to be merciful to the former masters. Caesar ignores him and angrily declares, "Where there is fire, there is smoke. And in that smoke, from this day on, my people will shrink, conspire, conspire, and plan for the inevitable day of the fall of man. -Destructively turns his weapons against his own kind. The day of writing in the sky, when your cities are buried beneath the radioactive ruins! From where I will take my people out of their captivity! And we will build our own cities There will be no space! And we will find our own army, our own religion, our own dynasty! And that day is upon you now!
The theatrical cut, when the monkeys raised their rifles to hit the brakes, Caesar's girlfriend Lisa objected, "No!" Shouts. He was the first monkey to speak other than Caesar. Caesar reconsiders and orders the apes to drop their weapons, saying, "But now, now we will get rid of our hatred. Now we will drop our weapons. We have passed the night of fire, and those who were our lords are now our servants. And we are the people. No, they can afford to be human. Destiny is God's will, and if man's destiny prevails, God's will will dominate him with mercy and understanding. Throw your vengeance. Tonight, we saw the birth of Planet of the Apes! "
TRAILER
DIRECTED BY: J. Lee Thompson
CAST
Roddy McDowall
as Caesar
Don Murray
as Governor Breck
Ricardo Montalban
as Armando
PRODUCTION
J. Lee Thompson, who produced Arthur P. Jacobs had been interested in the franchise ever since he was invited to the original Planet of the Apes, which was hired to directly win the Planet of the Apes. Thompson worked with Jacobs on the previous two films, What a Way to Go! And the chairman, as well as the early stages of the planet, but the conflict of schedule made him unavailable during the long development process.
Thompson staged each scene in great detail, such as highlighting conflicts with color: people wearing black and other muted colors, while apes' suits are colorful. Don Murray advised Thompson to dress up with a black turtleneck sweater and rehearsed the scene after translating his dialogue into German "to get this kind of intense feeling from the Nazis". Screenwriter Paul Dahn wrote the film, which included references to ethnic conflict in North America in the early 1970's, and Thompson further highlighted it by shooting some scenes, such as a newscast. The initial location was Century City, Los Angeles, which was previously part of the 20th Century Fox Backlet and well translated the dark future with monochromatic buildings in a sterile ultramodern style. The University of California, Orange County, Irvine was also used as a shooting location. Also, TV producer Irwin Allen contributed props and clothing to the film: he let the makers of 'Conquest' borrow his CV jumpsuits from Voyage to the bottom of the sea, brown clothing and computers and cabinets for app management that were first used. Other sets and props from Time Tunnel and other Allen productions.
Of the five original images, Conquest is the only entry in the Todd-AO 35 filmed using the Arriflex ARRI 35IIC camera with a lens provided by the Carl Zeiss Group; Images from other apps were filmed on Panavision.
BOX OFFICE
The film earned $4.5 million in theatrical rentals at the North American box office.