The twist ending of "Planet Of The Apes" (2001) explained
Time on Earth and time on the Planet of the Apes run in opposite directions.
- Pericles the ape leaves the ship Oberon first and travels through the storm.
- Leo follows Pericles through the storm.
- Eventually the Oberon follows Leo.
- The Oberon arrives first and crashes. Its ape cargo swarm out and populate the planet, creating the Planet Of The Apes. Thousands of years pass.
- Leo arrives next, eventually locates the ruins of the Oberon.
- During the climactic battle scene of the movie, Pericles finally arrives too.
- Leo returns to Earth in his pod, through the storm.
- Hypothetically, some time later, the apes develop space travel and follow Leo through the storm.
- The space-travelling apes land hundreds or thousands of years before Leo: in fact, hundreds or thousands of years in Earth's past. They conquer Earth and it becomes a new ape planet. HISTORY CHANGES.
- Leo arrives much later (but still in what is technically his own past because the movie starts out some time in the future). He discovers a regular Earth but it is now populated by apes.
Regardless of how good the rest of the movie is, this is a pretty cool and sophisticated model of time travel, and the final reveal makes complete sense, as well as being a mind-boggler in the best spirit of the original. I am led to believe that nobody involved in its production - even the director - actually understood the twist ending. I believe the only person who actually "got it" was the original script writer, and the twist was simply left in by everybody who looked at the script after him, each reader reasoning that the twist was still good even if he, personally, didn't understand it.
As a side note, there is no reason why the Planet Of The Apes can't still be Earth-in-the-distant-future, as it is in the original flick. In fact, this makes a great deal of sense: it would mean the storm simply connects two different periods in time rather than two distinct solar systems which both happen to have Earthlike planets in.
-> Relating: Planet of the apes 1968 ; Beneath the planet of the ape 1970 ; escapes from the planet of the apes 1971 ; planet of the apes 2001; the rising of planet of the apes 2011 ; the dawn of planet of the apes 2014
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Ending explained...
Written: Jul 29 '01
Pros:Great plot twists
Cons:some lack of character development
The Bottom Line: I think that many people just didn't understand the ending. Here I attempt to explain it.
Plot Details: This opinion reveals everything about the movie's plot.
IN AN ATTEMPT AT EDUCATING THOSE WHO WERE CONFUSED BY THE FILM I PRESENT A CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS AS I SAW THEM.
DO NOT READ THIS REVIEW IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THIS FILM.
I MEAN IT. THIS REVIEW ASSUMES YOU HAVE SEEN THE FILM. EVERYTHING WILL BE RUINED IF YOU READ THIS REVIEW WITHOUT SEEING THE FILM.
Many people I talk to seem to be hopelessly confused by this film. Below I have written my own description of what I think happened. This involves quite a bit of 'filling in the blanks' but I think that overall this explanation works.
First a note on time travel. You must just accept the fact that the radioactive tome storm is a crazy time travel zone which spits people out into any random time depending on the needs of the screenwriter.
Here is the sequence of events as they actually happened in real time:
1) Pericles the ape heads into radioactive storm and gets stuck
2) Davidson (Marky Mark) follows him into the storm and gets stuck
3) the research ship follows Davidson into the storm as well
4) the research ship emerges from the storm circa. 100 AD and crash lands on a deserted planet that is NOT Earth.
(One can tell that it is not earth by the surrounding planets one sees when Davidsons ship approaches it.)
5) The apes on the research ship were genetically altered (mentioned in an opening scene) so they are better equipped for survival on the deserted planet. Led by Semos (one of the research monkeys) the apes lead a revolt against the human space people and escape.
6) 2000 years later, the research apes have evolved and now rule the planet and use the descendants of the original humans as slaves. They also regard Semos as a god-like savior figure who will someday return to the planet to free them all.
7) at about this time, Davidson's ship finally emerges from the radioactive time storm and he lands on the planet.
8) Here is where the main body of the film takes place.
9) Near the end of the film, Pericles finally emerges from the radioactive time storm.
10) The apes assume that Pericles is actually Semos so they all bow down and start to worship him.
11) General Thade, however decides to try and kill Davidson and Pericles, but instead gets captured by Davidson.
12) Davidson takes off away from the planet and enters the radioactive storm where he again gets stuck.
13) While Davidson is stuck in the storm, general Thade learns all about space travel by studying the crashed mothership AND the crashed space pod. He decides to take off from the planet and go after Davidson.
14) General Thade enters the time storm and emerges before Davidson does.
15) Thade arrives on Earth where he organizes a revolt against the humans. The Apes soon become masters of Earth.
In honor of their general, they change the Abe Lincoln memorial to honor General Thade (the inscription on the memorial reads something like "in honor of General Thade who liberated the planet for the Apes"
16) FINALLY Davidson emerges from the time storm and lands on Earth only to find that Apes are now in control of the planet.
Does it make sense to you now? The moral I suppose is that peace is impossible. People like Thade will always win out in the end. As the film says "Power is always the reward for the most aggressive."
In fact it's not confusing. For my analysis, The Astronaut did not make it to go back to the real earth, He entered the wrong path, sort of Time travel. He just landed on the future of The Planet Apes, He need to use another spaceship and go back to real earth.. The ending left it's viewer to ask for more. We want a sequel of this film and not a reboot just like Rise of the planet Apes.. very disappointing!
In lieu of finding anything official on the matter, my own interpretation of the film was that it did indeed take place on Earth throughout the story - just a parallel dimension Earth.
If you hold to any multiverse theories, and the nature of infinity, then we will be discussing this film an infinite number times in an infinite number of ways - a 'how long would it take a hundred chimps to write a film script?' kind of thing. To that end, there are an infinite number of possible outcomes to the story, and Leo just landed on one of them.
I personally saw the film as an exploration of 'possible Earths' caused by a wormhole, 'rip in the fabric of space' or some other wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff. Leo landed on one possible Earth, then another. We might assume there are an infinite number of other versions too.
As for the logic behind the end scene - I think the producers (including Burton) felt like they needed their 'Statue of Liberty' shot - and the Lincoln Memorial seemed to suffice. It's just a throwaway zinger to end the film - whether it works or not is a matter of personal taste.
If you are at all interested in the making of Burton's film, here is a terrific excerpt from the book Tales From Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made? which was recently highlighted on wired.com - it's fascinating reading.
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/02/tales-from-development-hell-apes/
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