'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' and the Weaponization of Caesar

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Kelsi and Trey discuss Wes Ball’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes as a successful adventure epic that thrills with its digital world-building and provokes with its subversive interrogations of the audience's relationship to Caesar. This is the 10th Apes installment and arguably one of the most ambitious of the 21st century; a compelling evolution conceptually and visually from its recent predecessors while also introducing audiences to a new set of characters with mysterious motivations–a true Apes movie that is in conversation with the radical 1968-73 films as Ball’s reinvention is unafraid to be a bit scathing in its commentary on fundamentalism and the white savior archetype.

(3:30) Non-Spoiler Reaction

(26:13) Timeline of the Apes Universe

(33:44) Spoilers Start (Prologue)

(34:30) World-building and Eagle Clan

(01:01:30) Adventure Epic and Raka

(01:10:00) Caesar Mythology

(01:30:08) White Savior Subversion

(01:46:15) Proximus and his Kingdom

(02:07:00) The Epilogue

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