For part 2 we review Beneath the Planet of the Apes, its shooting script and only a few tidbits from the novel. We explore the many themes and history of the film as well as criticisms often lobbied at the movie.
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Chapters
0:00 The parallels of 1970 and the movie
1:38 The troubled production
3:50 An alternate beginning
5:55 Time and novel tidbits
7:57 Ape masks and Ursus
9:42 An ape society divided
10:23 Zira and Cornellius and steam room politics
11:30 We needed more of Zira and Cornellius
13:35 Going Beneath the Planet of the Apes
14:46 Brent is a stark contrast fro...m Taylor and ape politics
16:18 The mutants have zero morality
17:29 Kids and mutant performers
18:47 Mutant religion and interrogation
20:48 Zaius destroyed the world? Mutant ideology
22:01 A real fight and doom incoming
24:18 Nova is perfection
25:00 Horror and brutality
27:05 History repeats itself and what can be learned
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