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Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes

■ Basic Data

ItemContent
Year1968
CountryUnited States
DirectorFranklin J. Schaffner
CastCharlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans
GenreScience fiction

■ Title Language Table

LanguageTextRomanization
EnglishPlanet of the Apes
EspañolEl planeta de los simiosEl planeta de los simios
FrançaisLa Planète des singesLa Planete des singes
DeutschPlanet der AffenPlanet der Affen
PortuguêsO Planeta dos MacacosO Planeta dos Macacos
ItalianoIl pianeta delle scimmieIl pianeta delle scimmie
РусскийПланета обезьянPlaneta obezyan
中文(简体)人猿星球
中文(繁體)人猿星球
한국어혹성탈출Hokseongtalchul
ไทยพิภพวานรPhiphop Wanon
Tiếng ViệtHành tinh khỉHanh tinh khi
Bahasa IndonesiaPlanet of the Apes
日本語猿の惑星Saru no Wakusei

■ One-Line Definition

👉 A work that depicts a structure in which human superiority and civilizational reversal collide within a ruined future order


■ Synopsis

An astronaut lands on a planet ruled by intelligent apes, only to discover that the world’s hierarchy conceals humanity’s own catastrophic legacy.


■ RECIPE Tags

#CivilizationalReversal #HumanArrogance #HistoricalJudgment #CollapsedSupremacy


■ Primary Axis

  • Entry: Encounter with an inverted civilization
     Reason: The protagonist enters a society where human assumptions about intelligence and hierarchy are overturned
     Related Film: The Time Machine
  • Middle: Power as species-based domination
     Reason: The ruling order justifies inequality through a structure of biological and institutional superiority
     Related Film: District 9
  • Core: Humanity judged by its own ruins
     Reason: The final revelation makes the alien world a consequence of human self-destruction
     Related Film: Soylent Green

■ Secondary Axes

  • Forbidden knowledge and social control: The ruling class protects order by suppressing truth about origins and history
     Related Film: Logan’s Run
  • Future as indictment of the present: The imagined world functions as a judgment on contemporary civilization
     Related Film: Children of Men

■ Person

  • Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
  • Cast: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans

■ Structural Tags

#HierarchyInversion #OriginSuppression #FutureJudgment


■ Attribute Tags

#UnitedStates #1968Film #ScienceFiction

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