Zaius, the orangutan who represents the repressive faith of official science, threatened by the existence of a talking, thinking human being. Much of the action in the first film is encoded here: Boulle introduces the chimpanzees Zira and Cornelius and also gives us Dr. It also relies on an awkward framing device - two interstellar travelers, wife and husband, find floating in space a literal message in a bottle: a manuscript by a French journalist named Ulysse Merou describing his experiences on the monkey planet, where apes are technologically advanced, driving cars and flying airplanes, and humans live like animals. Boulle’s novel, however, does not take place on Earth its setting is a planet in the system of Betelgeuse.
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