In the "persecution paranoia" medical records of acg and film and television works, the severity of "apes one day gain enough wisdom to ride on human heads and rebel" is significantly higher than other animal revolutions, and the development to the extreme is the "Rise of the Apes" level of species alternation.
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Because of the infinite similarities in biology, apes and humans seem to have been a wayward act of God when he lit up the tree of evolutionary skills of species, and the result is that they now live in jungles and cages, while we live in cities and "cages." Primitiveness in the natural sciences plus evolution in hypothetical works make apes an excellent object for examining the degree of evolution of civilization and the evolution of species, and this species, which is closely related to humans, is therefore at opposite ends of primitive violence and evolutionary intelligence.
In many works inspired by apes, their degree of evolution and danger are often proportional to each other - the more powerful the ape's physique, the more developed the intelligence, the faster humans scream and flee, the fiercer the firepower of gathering people and horses to fight back, in this race of species unilaterally provoked in the name of Darwin, the muscles and brains of the apes are fully mobilized, watching victory in sight, who knows but killing a third-party force.
Assault - The rampaging giant ape
Apes are one of the few living animals that don't need to do much cosmetic modification, as long as they are directly huge, they can bring shocking visual impact. It has an innately strong physique, while the flexibility of the ape is also better suited to provide visual impact in large-scale destruction scenes with complex terrain.
In the Dragon Ball comics before the super Saiyans appeared, the most lethal way to enhance the character was to transform into a giant ape. Because of the physiological characteristics of the Saiyans themselves, the little Goku as a child will transform into a giant ape as long as he sees the full moon, and in the giant ape mode, he not only multiplies his combat power with his body size, but also rivals me, and the unexpected form has made the reader addicted, and also made Bulma, the Turtle Immortal, and the front row audience of the world's first tournament tired. Later, Vegeta, who was forced to the end of the road, also performed the same transformation characteristics, and the increase in basic combat effectiveness made the Giant Ape of The Shell show the power to destroy the flood of decay, if it were not for the Broken Tail of The Yajiro Guards, it was very likely that the end of the battle would have been completed.
The giant ape in Dragon Ball
Whenever the above extremes occur, in addition to breaking the moon that is the cause of the transformation, there is also the first-looking magical crisis treatment of cutting off the tail to restore the Saiyan ape to human form, which actually symbolizes the evolutionary path of human beings - after learning how to use tools and walking upright, the tail degenerates, and the ape slowly evolves into a human. Later, because Sun Wukong and Vegeta married human women (Kiki and Bulma) respectively, the saiyan ape gene was not inherited to the generation of Sun Wuhan and Tranx, and the original meaning of the giant ape was also cut off because the two Saiyans were fully integrated into human society.
Where there is peaceful integration, there will be unyielding death, and the isolated primitive giant ape "King Kong" in the movie "King Kong" contributed a tragic drama of "Beauty Kills the Beast" because of its mutual intervention with human civilization. In the Peter Jackson version of "King Kong" with the highest comprehensive level in the same genre, King Kong not only has a burst of basic combat power values, but more importantly, King Kong and those general beasts with sharp teeth and claws obviously have richer fighting skills and actual combat experience, rather than just out of survival instinct, xjbd, taking the classic passage of skull island vs dinosaurs as an example, King Kong has to complete the difficult task of vs "prehistoric fiercest" Tyrannosaurus Rex and successfully protecting the 0 defense heroine NPC in ten minutes.
In the eyes of Ah Bang and King Kong, human beauty has the dual attributes of food and "lover"
From the perspective of the basic skills of martial arts, King Kong's straight fists, hook punches, eye-holding, avoidance and even "getting up and ascending the dragon" are accurate; the over-the-shoulder wrestling as a close-quarters throwing technique is almost perfect in terms of body center of gravity control; in the face of the Tyrannosaurus Rex's direct attack on the vital blood basin mouth, he also dares to use his forearm (the strongest weapon of the orangutan) to offset it for the first time. If the abundance of offensive skills is the full exploitation of physical abilities, then as the most strategic part of the giant ape battle - using the terrain to create favorable conditions, using simple field weapons to fight opponents is another evolution of Kongo from other monsters, and slamming the Tyrannosaurus dragon head with stones resembles our prehistoric ancestors who hunted beasts in order to obtain food. At the end of the battle, King Kong's "tearing" of the Tyrannosaurus Rex's upper and lower jaws with his bare hands can be said to be extremely brutal, belonging to the killer skill of using his strongest weapon to snuff out the enemy, completing the cycle of "instinct - thinking - instinct" of the giant ape. However, even though Director Peter brings strong identification and pity for the giant ape in the film, King Kong's animal nature still lays the groundwork for the subsequent tragedy, hinting at the ugliness of the subsequent film Chinese and the dark fairy tale of "Beauty Kills the Beast".
In this year's new game", Kong: Skull Island, King Kong has completed another battle skill upgrade
Later, the wild setting of King Kong vs Tyrannosaurus Rex was also made an interesting (tearing) topic of "Golden Lion vs Dinosaur" by Monster Hunter players, and the Golden Lion, who was classified as a "tooth beast species" in the game, borrowed a lot from the action of the giant ape, pounding the ground, throwing stones, Saiyan shockwaves, and the hunter legend that "the broken tail can inhibit the transformation" gave this superior monster the nickname of "Saiyan Monkey".
Naturalized by human society, killed by the sexy dresses, fighter jets and skyscrapers invented by humans, and brushed by hunters who have been brushed with traps and ice-based weapons... When the violent apes failed to storm the throne of evolution, the apes finally realized that they needed a different way to seize power.
The character who has long made players feel "brain shell pain", the former Colosseum Double Golden Lion is a good showman for the talent video
Evolution -- Master Yi long skill to control Yi
"How lonely it is to be invincible", after defeating the brainless giant ape with a stick, the lonely and bubbling human begins to throw hypocritical bananas at the apes, hoping that the other party will become less cruel after eating such a panacea, but bask in the same wisdom as humans, discussing Freud and the global climate with us.
So the apes unloaded the skill pack of the "Ultimate Destruction King" in the monster movie, washed and retrained, tried to understand the meaning of evolution more "smartly", and gradually demonstrated outstanding learning ability and leadership talent in the process, and finally completed the evolutionary revolution on the next gram. Winston the gorilla in Overwatch is a polytechnic man among apes, and Blizzard has given this role, usually played by an untrimmed eye brother, to a highly intelligent ape with developed limbs and an equally developed mind;
In "Super Warriors", the leader of the Giant Transformers is also the "Captain orangutan", in this team of birds and beasts, the orangutan takes the leadership position, which is both an affirmation of its intelligence, and humans seem to prefer to choose an agent closest to their own image as the "animal leader"; The Flash's nemesis, Gorilla Groot, as an ape who has been tortured by human experiments and finally awakened his telepathic ability, completely exceeds the will of the Creator and retaliates against humans with spiritual attacks. Not only did he bring the Flash a lot of trouble, but he also ran to Africa to establish his own orangutan kingdom, starting from the system to counter humans.
In addition to these innate apes, human roles with leadership are sometimes revered as "orangutans" by those around them. For example, Akagi Tsuyoshi, who "dominates the country" in "Slam Dunk Master", was called "Gorilla" or "Captain Orangutan" by Sakuragi, the big man has great wisdom, and the academic performance of his honor students is also beyond the reach of many "problem children's army" in the team (Akagi's realistic prototype, New York Knicks legendary center Patrick Ewing also has a similar title among fans, but it does not contain racial discrimination); the courageous and courageous Kusanagi Suiko in "Ghost in the Shell" is because of her superior combat strength, and is often called by the team members in private" female orangutan".
Tsuyoshi Akagi, who has leadership skills
When the image of the orangutan in both culture and martial arts develops to the extreme, it is Caesar in "Rise of the Apes". (Note: The following does not contain spoilers for Rise of the Apes 3: The Final Battle, so please feel free to eat it.) ）
At that time, "Planet of the Apes" used novels and movies ("Decisive Battle of the Ape Ball") to fictionalize a future world in which apes ruled mankind, and the shock at the end of the movie version stung the vanity of human beings, and it turned out that our status as intelligent life was not as unbreakable as we thought. The apes in Planet of the Apes represent a more advanced way of evolution, and to defeat humans cannot only rely on one or two of the giants with a force value of 99 among their compatriots, but also on the level of civilization that humans are most proud of. The film shows a world where apes are kings and people are slaves, reversing the master-subordinate status of the two in reality, and the party with systems and weapons becomes the ruler of the "new world", although the species is reversed, the historical spiral has not changed at all, and the social system of the ruling class and the ruled class remains the same.
The original novel and film connected the theme of the planet of the apes to the social reality of the 1960s and became the masterpiece of the times
The New Age Rise of the Apes trilogy goes back to the beginning of everything and tells the story of the apes' initial awakening and rebellion. The reason for the continuous increase in audience evaluation is not only the big hole left in the setting of "Decisive Battle of the Apes Ball", but also because the series of films recalibrates the survival and destruction of human civilization through the perspective of ape growth and resistance. The rise and resistance of apes is not the main cause of human extinction - the virus created by humans can give apes intelligence and at the same time have a killing effect on humans, and apes are more often just immune to the spread of viruses and newcomers who have established "colonies" under the eyes of humans. The first part of Caesar's emotional bond with human scientists like relatives ends with an intensified species conflict;
The second "Dawn War", within the ape population broke out almost exactly the same power struggle as humans, Caesar's creed of "apes do not kill apes" was finally defeated to the evolutionary model of "cannibalism" in human society; the third "Final War", is that both humans and apes are in a war with both humans and apes to preserve their own descendants, the survivors of mankind gathered in the last san Francisco, dispatched the last warship to launch a new round of annihilation war against the apes, and the apes are not only more socially organized. They also learned to use weapons, but new traitors also appeared within them—as if repeating the path that humanity had traveled over the millennia and adding to the lesson called "history." After all, the survival space at the top of evolution is limited, and the premise of ordering sentient beings is that you have to stomp on the sentient beings to the death first, and as for how to eventually move towards the ape age of "Planet of apes", we will wait until the release of the film to reveal the answer.
An anthropologist disguised as a savior
From muscle to brain to Vintao Martial Arts, just as Caesar led his apes to complete their overtaking feat on the path of evolution, the situation suddenly took a sharp turn, and no one panicked about the giant apes, and no one would think of the eloquent gorilla as the next great leader to enslave themselves. When the evolution of species in the traditional sense came to an end on the main line of intelligent apes, Caesar's ass on the throne was not hot, ai stood up and announced that the end point had become the starting point, and the three weeks began.
When I was about to overtake, I overturned
In this way, in the sandbox deduction of the "utopian" theory of evolution, the apes reluctantly completed their roles. Once human beings in order to find problems, correct mistakes, by the way to challenge their physical and mental limits, need to support a species most close to themselves to simulate history, giant apes are our adaptation and change in the face of wild nature, intelligent apes are equivalent to our history itself, everything is like the classic montage shot at the beginning of "2001: A Space Odyssey", an ape in a group of apes throws bones into the sky, and the next moment human spacecraft travels in the vast universe.
Kong in Skull Island is more like a visual spectacle from a monster movie, lacking room for thought
Making and using tools (weapons), taming other animals, forming their own families and societies, and being cannibalistic, the apes in Rise of the Apes reproduce humans in a similar way, except that they make fewer mistakes and take fewer detours than we do (of course, arm strength and physical flexibility are more than a star and a half stronger than most of us). The degree of freedom of AI is much higher, born in the artificial Garden of Eden, and easily obtained the "Creator Business License" that human beings spent thousands of years to obtain. Therefore, in the eyes of the creators of the artwork, the story of the ape is more like the history of human beings in the past, which also adds some warnings and reflections, reminding themselves that life is ultimately the reproduction and survival of species. So the story of apes is always inevitable in the blood and sacrifice, chaos and reconstruction; ai represents the realization of humanity's desire for the immortality of individuals, we are facing a higher and not lower new species, they will "live" in our place. If you compare the two recent hit films "Rise of the Apes" and "Alien: Covenant", the hypothetical war with the apes is a survival game that lures wolves into the house, and the coexistence with AI is completely digging its own grave.
Bloody as aliens, as wise as Caesar, now has to make way for more advanced artificial people
In the past, human beings were afraid of nature, so they created the god of nature to worship and awe, and now human beings are more often afraid of the same kind on the opposite side of the scale, so they imagine each other as apes that violently exert pressure or apes that resist, so in films such as "King Kong" and "Decisive Battle Ape Ball", no matter who loses or who wins, there must be a fight between you and me, there is no compromise option. What fell with King Kong was primitive, it was nature, it was punishment for violent interference in the norms of the civilized world; what stood up with Caesar was equality, unity, a heartfelt cry to the fading civilized world. But as more and more AI-themed science fiction works have also exposed the limitations of some other traditional science fiction genres, it seems that humans have found a more comfortable way outside of confrontation, after all, hand-to-hand combat with gorillas is hip and cool from cyberpunk.
In several struggles between humans and apes, although the two sides have won and lost, humans are still the initiators and referees of the struggle, so the process and the result are still within the controllable range, whether they resist or cooperate, they will eventually be the same as us. From the perspective of creation, ai has both more rigorous scientific theoretical support and richer diversity, getting rid of the original appeal and pointing to a future that no one can predict.
epilogue
Human loneliness and arrogance are the spiritual energy of creating science fiction works, on the one hand, we want to talk and reflect, on the other hand, we must prove that what we think is the truth, but in a certain period of rapid economic development and rough modern society, we have lost the motivation to talk and reflect.