Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Burros? Icky? Apes? Hussirs? Xenophobia?

How do the thematic elements(i.e.- humans' destruction, reversal of the expected, inferiority, etc...) presented in The Planet Of The Apes movie make us contemplate and wrestle with the concept of xenophobia? Does it pertain to any of the Science Fiction we have read? Use quotations from the movie and texts to support your claims. Respond to this blog by 2:30p.m. on Wed., Mar. 22nd.

26 comments:

  1. It makes us think about human nature and basic fears. A fear of the destruction of society led the apes to label a new scientific discovery as heresy. Planet of the Apes is made to make people think about how far they would go when they are afraid.

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  2. The whole idea of humans being wiped out or near to extinction is basically a stereotyping of science fiction where aliens or robots basically wipe us out. But this stereotyping has made us fear what we don't know;hence, the whole aliens wiping all humans out of existence and the profit movie makers earn from these stereotypes.

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  3. it makes us think about our fears as humans and the destruction of the society that made the ape society possible. It is made to tell how far they would go when they are afraid to learn how they got to be.

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  4. The elements make us think further into the concept of xenophobia by leading us to question where advancements in humanity will lead us- that may be to corruption or we might still have a chance to lead humanity to success- because the future is unknown. This is also seen a lot in the other texts we have read in class.

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  5. The thematic elements presented in The Planet of the Apes make us think about how human kind is xenophobic, and the consequences of our xenophobia. In the film, the apes go to great lengths to shut out other views about where apes and humans came from. The text we read that related to the film the most was The Silk and the Song. It was reminded of me of the film because the Hussirs try to keep the humans as lower people in society.

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  6. I believe that in the Planet of the Apes film, we are shown xenophobia because of the fear that the apes try to inflict on humans, and the amount of inferiority they are made to feel. There is a level of inequality between the apes, aliens, humans.

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  7. I think that the thematic elements in The Planet of The Apes makes us contemplate and wrestle with the concept of xenophobia because all throughout the movie the viewer learns of all possibilities when humans are no longer the leading organism. This scares many people because it is all about something that we don't know about or have experienced.

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  8. Humans were treated like animals. Anything that is not human is treated like an animal. Planet of the Apes made us rethink what it would be like if only the humans were treated like animals. We fear animals and put them on leashes because we feel like the animals will hurt us. Planet of the Apes switches roles and puts us in the animals shoes. In Silk in the Song, humans too were treated like animals. All animals fear the humans because we are destructive and kill things, which I cannot deny. The stories give you both sides of the story and makes you rethink things.

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  9. Humans destroy their world and from that the apes are able to rise up, it deals a lot with how humans have become inferior now that they destroyed themselves. Humans tend to destroy themselves in their own greed, which happens in all the stories, except for the Silk and the Song

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  10. The thematic elements presented in Planet of The Apes make me contemplate concepts of xenophobia because it placed me on the other side of the story and see it from the Apes view. They were so scared of Humans talking and it made me think of how us humans would be so frightened if an ape started talking. It made me think that us humans are very xenophobic because we are scared of the unknown.

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  11. The simple destruction of society, being afraid of what could happen in the future because of how many stories about wiping out all humans could be possible someday.

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  12. In Planet of the Apes, Taylor sees the Statue of Liberty on the beach and screams "Oh my God. I'm back. I'm home. All the time, it was... You Maniacs! You blew it up!", because he has realized that the apes on the planet are descendants of humans. This makes up think about xenophobia because what we are most afraid of is what we can also find in ourselves, or things that are incredibly similar to us.

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  13. The reversal of roles in planet of the apes goes over the theme of xenophobia because the apes are xenophobic towards humans because the apes put the humans in cells.

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  14. The thermatic elements presented in the Planet of the Apes makes me think because if I was in the apes shoes they were scared because of humans talking and us humans are like that. If we even hear an animal talk we would be scared as well.

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  15. I have found that all of the races in all of them destroyed them self with the fear of things. The human in the planet of the apes are a example of this because they destroy them self and the apes talk over showing the humans are xenophobic.

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  16. In Planet of the Apes, the theme of xenophobia is seen throughout the film where Apes refuse to think of humans in a different way than they already do. They think of them as useless animals or slaves. But when Taylor proves them wrong, the Apes seemed to be in denial, and treat Taylor even worse than they had before, because they were afraid of him: "What are you afraid of, Doctor?". This pertains to "Muse", the father is in denial that Icky is not a bad thing, and that he is the one who gives his son his talent and happiness.

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  17. Planet of the Apes brings out the built in xenophobia reactions into people which in the movie was in the apes. What one person says creates a group of followers that fear and hate what isn't part of their beliefs. The apes believe that humans are inferior to them creating this idea that man can never be as great or do the things that they are able to but however man really can but humans are being treated horribly setting them back in time. If man was treated equal they would thrive again and build to another self destruction because it is inevitable.

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  18. The idea of humans dying off or being taken over by another race fills us with fear. The destruction of humans makes the ape society thrive and become more powerful than the humans. It is made to show us that we need to improve our society so we don't fall apart.

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  19. The elements in Planet of the Apes pertains to xenophobia because the apes and humans switch roles. This created a whole other perspective from both sides. In the film the main character humans were really afraid because they did't know for sure what the apes had in mind for them. The humans also didn't know the apes intentions. The apes were also frightened of the humans but they didn't display xenophobia as much because they had control of the situation.

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  20. Science Fiction is filled with either the eminent destruction of humans or a handful of humans trying to survive in a post apocalyptic world. Xenophobia is very present in Planet of the Apes and it is a very good indication of what could happen to humanity in the future if we aren't careful.

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  21. In Planet of the apes you can find many ideas of destruction, even at the end of Planet of the apes you can find the remains of a society destroyed and fallen apart.

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  22. the stories of Xenophobia relate because they all have to do with outer living elements effecting humanity in some ways. These stories and movie bring out some interesting ideas of life such as how humanity might react to Xenophobia and alien life. Some ideas are that reacting poorly and killing alien species doesn't progress the knowledge of humanity, but reacting in a good way such as when the female ape met Taylor in planet of the apes showed to turn out well because the female ape learned a lot about taylor and humanity society. Unlike how the others just treated him poorly and would hurt him.

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    1. or how Snuk did in Silk and the Song.

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  23. The humans in all of the stories shows that we are not the inferior species. It shows that humans will all crash at some point and some other species will take over just like the apes in "Planet of the Apes"

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  24. The thematic elements in the movie planet of the apes was that there was a world where humans are slaves to this superior race of beings and they are treated like cattle and are hunted for sport and are used as transportation in some ways.

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  25. Planet of the Apes turns xenophobia back at us. The apes are symbolic of our society, in a past time. Destructive, highly religious, in denial, primitive, hateful. The movie makes us reflect by showing us a snapshot of our past selves, and asks us to be better than that. Like all of the xenophobia related material, it's challenging. It's asking us whether we, or another race is truly superior, and in the process, what that superiority really means. Is it physical? Mental? Spiritual?

    I think it's interesting in many of these stories how the humans are shown to be inferior. Apes, Puppet show, Silk and Song, in all of these we are either enslaved or unenlightened, and this is true today. We are enslaved by our own systems, our own minds and beliefs, and by money. We are unenlightened because we don't like to think, because we don't like to reflect.

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