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Greg wise reads pierre boulles chilling, iconic novel about a nightmare world where apes rule over men. The use of the statue of liberty in the closing scene highlights the fact that the americans and europeans certainly held a superior attitude over more primitive cultures. Pierre boulles planet of the apes bbc radio adaptation 4 of 7. Fox filmrexshutterstock tim martin 11 july 2017 12. First published more than fifty years ago, pierre boulles chilling. Planet of the apes is the rare trilogy thats great. The novel has given rise to numerous sequels, reboots, and spinoffs in film and literature. Schaffner 1968, with several sequels and remakes and e mc2 1957, which contains ironic but humane considerations of the fate of the modern individual caught in a political, social, and intellectual upheaval. I had trouble with the ancestral memory plot device boulle uses to reveal the story of the rise of the apes, but thats a small quibble. Pierre boulles planet of the apes first published as monkey planet is the basis of two films and several sequels and a tv series, and the book is completely.
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