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Book vs Movie versions:
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The novel has no such grand ambitions, instead serving as a morality piece and set-up for the punchline. Nova and Ulysse have a son, Sirius, who walks and talks at three months. As the atmosphere becomes more hostile, the family of three fear for their lives, and escape the planet aboard a ship being used in a space flight experiment, and Ulysse plots a course home to Earth. Interestingly, at this point, Tim Burton's remake of the film ends much closer to the novel than the 1968 film, as they arrive on an Earth that looks the same, only to discover that apes are now the dominant species.
The novel goes on from there to document how Ulysse and Nova take off in their ship and leave Earth behind. Ulysse writes his manuscript to document everything he has encountered, places it into a bottle, and sends it off into space, where years later it is found by Jinn and Phyllis, bringing the novel full circle. Then comes the aforementioned punchline: Jinn and Phyllis are chimpanzees. They view the entire story as pure fiction, given how preposterous the idea of intelligent humans is.
For the record, The Simpsons legendary "Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!" hews closer to the movie, but it's ultimately its own beast.
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The ‘Planet of the Apes’ Book Is Wildly Different From the 1968 Movie
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The novel has no such grand ambitions, instead serving as a morality piece and set-up for the punchline. Nova and Ulysse have a son, Sirius, who walks and talks at three months. As the atmosphere becomes more hostile, the family of three fear for their lives, and escape the planet aboard a ship being used in a space flight experiment, and Ulysse plots a course home to Earth. Interestingly, at this point, Tim Burton's remake of the film ends much closer to the novel than the 1968 film, as they arrive on an Earth that looks the same, only to discover that apes are now the dominant species.
The novel goes on from there to document how Ulysse and Nova take off in their ship and leave Earth behind. Ulysse writes his manuscript to document everything he has encountered, places it into a bottle, and sends it off into space, where years later it is found by Jinn and Phyllis, bringing the novel full circle. Then comes the aforementioned punchline: Jinn and Phyllis are chimpanzees. They view the entire story as pure fiction, given how preposterous the idea of intelligent humans is.
For the record, The Simpsons legendary "Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!" hews closer to the movie, but it's ultimately its own beast.
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