Dawn of the Planet of the Apes movie: When the Apes behaved more like humans and the humans, are better behaved as fearsome apes. The movie has turned the tables on the apes by endowing them with human nature’s compassion, greed for power, and follow the leader syndrome of the scared.
I haven’t commented in writing on any movie before. This is my first. So I intentionally did not read the reviews in the internet, just saw the movie at the GALAXY Milton at the give away Tuesday’s general admission price of $6.50 plus 13% tax per person with my wife Vicky who got very annoyed with my whispers on how the apes are not apes at all but are really very human. I was sort of excited when a discovered perspective dawned on me.
I believe the movie series on the apes and their planet belongs to the genre of science fiction. Quite popular and big dollar grosser because of the incredible beauty resulting from the use of advance animation technology. As an example Johnny Depp as the animated Rango attempted to outgross Sylvester Stallone’s very human Rambo. Computerized science fiction animation may already have gained the competitive edge over war, horror and superstition, cops and robbers, and romance movies.
I thought science fiction books don’t sell as much as the others in the genre and it is more difficult to write until a science fiction writer suggesting a contrary view, said: it is so easy. Like characters in love and hate relationships in a sleepy town; just move the town and the characters to a light years planet away from Jupiter or take them back to the past million years to the days of dinosaurs or catapult them as robots to year 3010 or let a Palawan monkey virus turn the characters into green upright vampire geckos and voila! You got a science fiction block buster for a sci-fi story
That science fiction writer is right, writing sci-fi is no sweat. What they did to Marcos and Elizalde’s faked pre-historic tree men Tasadays, surely earned accolades and millions of dollars for the film makers and actors of the movie Avatar. They just made the concept of the Tasadays as hybrid human-aliens. Taller with tails, with the physique of Michelangelo’s human models, living in Empire State high rise trees, with pterosaurs as flying motorcycles, and with the dubious absence of Isaac Newton’s pull of gravity (as with vampire Robert Pattinson jumping from tree top to tree top); that’s creative science fiction.
Anyway, the “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” featured devastated San Francisco California of Planet Earth (later becoming planet of the Apes?) as the film’s entire setting. Some apes being studied and on advanced experiments like giant mice, escaped to the hills or forests (deserts?); because of advanced human inefficiency they became unaccounted for until after the humans against human war of extermination left only a few hundred human survivors and behold probably thousands of apes as survivors. Their surviving numbers sort of support my naughty perspective of them switching roles. Surviving apes should not be that numerous; more than the number of humans. That’s what some say is a sample of the American overkill part of their movies.
Anyway that’s also where I got my money’s worth; watching Filipino dramatic emotions emoted by apes with Bong Revilla as Caesar and Jinggoy as Koba his traitor closed in security . The movie was said to have earned $36.3 million on its first week end showing. It is much better than the first one I saw 13 years ago where the lady ape played by British actress Helena Bonham Carter fell in love and got kissed by her human Romeo. Go see the current one and know why I preferred to view the humans there as the good apes and the apes behaving like humans. Come to think of the role switch, there’s no big deal at all because both apes and humans belong to the animal kingdom.
Finally and I am not joking, Filipino movies and teleserye have arrived if and when they can convert into a 3D animation of lovely cats and dogs the characters of the teleserye “Be Careful with My Heart,” or animate the Ang Panday Movies characters into upright horses and carabaos.
And final finally, what’s the planet of the apes view of the Noynoy-Supreme Court entanglement? I wrote some paragraphs about it. Certainly not ape-like but very vociferous human-like, below:
The Executive Branch (EB) have all the facts of governance which are not at the lazy finger tips of the legislative and judicial branches. Even without using the police and the army, facts can castrate enemies. Except for the Commission on Audit (COA) Malacanang and all its departments down to their micro and adhoc units have a record of WHERE ALL TAXPAYERS MONEY go.
So the Executive Branch have all the aces being the primus inter pares of the three branches. However, the separation and equalization of powers of the three branches are in reality doctrinal, ephemeral, imaginary, intangible, abstract, boneless, theoretical, unless honored in lip service and practice by the dreamers and journalists of democracy. People are blinded and mislead to believe that any other highest branch of government can have equal powers with the EB, the only branch entrusted by the constitution to command the military and the police (which can hand cup for trial all suspect members of the two branches), also to have sole control and management of the cosmic fire and water, energy, citizen behaviour and natural resources. What is real and tangible is that Governance is what the entire EB does or fails to do.
It is unthinkable: to remove or delete or erase the Executive Branch and let the Legislative or the Judicial Branches or both to take over the country—something beyond any weirdest dream. But it is thinkable and doable surgery to abolish and say goodbye to the legislative and judicial branches of backyard powers and perform a make over of the EB. What, How and Why the hell is that? For more than a century it has already been tried and practiced by countries more progressive than stagnant countries like the Philippines. The President AND HIS CABINET (elected by the people) should rule and make rules, laws are no longer laws (to detoxify lawyers); lawmakers become obsolete when laws become mere public policies. No more Supreme or Appeals Court more corrupt than the King’s or Queen’s Aristocratic Court of the France of yore. Just a High Court and lower courts to interpret public policy. No more jurisprudence mambo-jumbo, no more zombies in expensive barong.
If adultery and plunder are against public policy, no more Marriage Annulment or Christian donation legalized palusot, to jail these immorals must all go. Authoritarianism? Totalitarianism? Dictatorship? Naaahh. Hindi po Kuya. Hindi rin po Ate. England, Scotland and Wales; Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc where law and lawmakers are not bywords of the society. These are not Dictatorship Countries. Kuya. Ate, Parliamentary Government lang po. Kitang-kita po yan ng mga OFW sa mga bansang ganyan ang gobierno .
Gusto nila yan. Masunurin po sila diyan hindi tulad pag nasa Pilipinas sila kasi takot makulong; kasi sa abroad hirap humanap ng abogado de areglo. Puede po ang Parliament sa atin Kuya, Ate. Kalaban po niyan yung magaling mangatwiran, mga hinolma ng American colonial law; yung din mga pamilya ng politico mawawalan ng dilehensiya at pwestong pang kurakot; pati yung mga mahihirap natutulog sa banig sa sahig ayaw lumipat sa kama. Filipinos can do the change as they did in EDSA I.