Battle for the Planet of the Apes Page #5

Synopsis: After conquering the oppressive humans in "Conquest for the Planet of the Apes", Caesar must now keep the peace among the humans and apes. Gorilla General Aldo views things differently, and tries to cause an ape civil war. In the meantime, other human survivors learn of the ape city, and decide they want to take back civilization for themselves, thus setting the stage of warring ape factions and humans.
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Director(s): J. Lee Thompson
Production: 20th Century Fox
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.5
Metacritic:
40
Rotten Tomatoes:
36%
G
Year:
1973
93 min
778 Views


Aldo has killed an ape child.

The branch did not break

It was cut with a sword

Aldo

You... You killed.

Aldo killed.

Aldo has broken our most sacred law.

Our child.

He killed our child.

What's the matter with them?

I guess you might say|they just joined the human race.

Ape has killed ape

Ape has killed ape.

Ape has killed ape.|Ape has killed ape.

Ape has killed ape.

Ape has killed ape.|Ape has killed ape.

Ape has killed ape!

You murdered my son.

You murdered my son

You murdered my son!

Should one murder|be avenged by another?

Only the future can tell.

So let us start building it.

If we appear to be lacking in gratitude,|Caesar, what have we to be grateful for?

If you mean to set us free|then free us completely.

What do you mean?|- We are not your children, Caesar.

We have a destiny too... as equals..

respecting each other,|living together with love.

Love?

The human way is violence and death.

Aldo wasn't human...

was he, Caesar?

Virgil.

You are a good and wise ape.

And you, Caesar,|are a good and wise king.

Sergeant York.|- It's over.

We lost.

And Governor Kolp?

Then I know what I must do.

He said wait for his signal.

I have just received it.

Alma, in God's name, wait|for the governor's signal.

My heart knows he is dead,|and this is what I promised him I would do.

If Kolp can't win|he's determined to destroy the entire world!

He's mad!

This is the alpha and omega bomb.

It can destroy not only|Ape City but the entire Earth.

Activate it, and we become nothing.

Leave it, and its very presence...

will ensure that at least|we remain something...

and may become something better.

It must never be exploded.

It must be respected,|even venerated...

for one of its ancestors|made us what we are.

And what we are...

shall from this day forward...

be called "beautiful."

We'll rebuild what's ruined|and begin again.

Tell me something, MacDonald.

Can we make the future what we wish?

I've heard that|it's possible, Caesar.

There. Every weapon|is back in its proper place.

Caesar, I want to ask a favor.

This armory's been|my home for 27 years.

You may live in it|for the rest of your days.

But I don't want to live in it.|Oh, no.

Now that the danger is over...

I wanna see it destroyed, blown up.

The greatest danger of all|is that danger never ends.

And so, Mandemus...

we must be patient and wait.

We still wait, my children.

But as I look at apes and humans...

living in friendship,|harmony and at peace...

now some 600 years|after Caesar's death..

at least we wait|with hope for the future

Lawgiver, who knows|about the future?

Perhaps only the dead...

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John William Corrington

John William Corrington was an American film and television writer, novelist, poet and lawyer. He received a B.A. degree from Centenary College, in 1956 and his M.A. from Rice University in 1960, the ... more…

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