Conquest of the Planet of the Apes - Definition and Overview

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is the third sequel to the 1968 science fiction film Planet of the Apes. It continues the exploration of the future history of mankind set out in the previous film, Escape from the Planet of the Apes and sometimes considered the most violent and dark of the Ape sequels.

Building upon the description given by Cornelius and Zira before the Presidential committee in the previous film, a terrible disease has killed off the world's cats and dogs leaving humans with no animals to keep as pets except apes. These apes have been taught to perform menial tasks such as sweeping the streets. One ape, Caesar (the son of Cornelius and Zira), initiates a revolt against the apes' human masters. The film ends with a great confrontation between the rebellious ape masses and the terrified human keepers. The humans' slavery of the apes comes to an end, and the scene is set for the apes to eventually enslave the humans and lead to the events in Planet of the Apes.

The riot scenes were filmed at Century City, Los Angeles, California. This development had just been completed and businesses had not yet moved in.

The movie implies that all the talking apes of the future are descendants of Caesar, from whom the inherited the ability for speech. However, this is a paradox because Caesar is himself the child of two of the talking apes of the future, thus making the genetic trait of speech in apes infinitely old. This paradox is addressed in Battle for the Planet of the Apes, in which it is guessed that the events of the last three Planet of the Apes movies take place on a different timeline than the first two.

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• Description of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068408/)