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Hollywood's apes: monkey puzzle or intelligent design?

Popular as it once was, the franchise seemed to have gone extinct after Tim Burton's 2001 debacle of a remake. Rise hopes to revive the series by resorting to the now-familiar ploy of the prequel, used most recently by X-Men: First Class and Captain America: The First Avenger . It returns to the origins of the story, explaining how apes usurped the human race to become rulers of the world. But Rise does more than rehash a once-successful premise. It taps into one of the oldest of Hollywood traditions, one that dates back at least as far as the 1918 silent film, Tarzan of the Apes . For nearly a century apes have haunted the screen, and the link between man and ape has obsessed filmmakers. During that time apes have embodied both the best and worst aspects of humanity, from paragons of virtue to epitomes of evil, from symbols of harmony with nature to agents of environmental disaster. To explore the evolution of the ape archetype from its first appearance on the screen to its most recent development, we've devised the chart  —  a family tree of movie primates , descending from two main branches, one "More Mild than Wild (Monkey See)," the other "More Likely To Go Bananas (Monkey Don't)." It all begins with the prelapsarian paradise of the aforementioned 1918 Tarzan of the Apes . The first of many adaptations of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel about a child raised by apes who would become a "noble savage," at one with his fellow primates, the film opens with the juvenile Tarzan romping stark naked with his simian playmates. In these less innocent times, the sequence might be construed as child pornography. Followed by Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), the tale inspired scores of movies and will endure until at least 2013, when Warner Bros. plans to release a new version. Meanwhile, other "Simple Simians" films paralleled the Tarzan-Cheeta prototype, often with stories that degraded both the human and primate participants. They included Ronald Reagan and Bonzo the lab chimp in Bedtime for Bonzo (1951); Clint Eastwood and Clyde the orangutan in Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and in Any Which Way You Can (1980); and most recently, The Hangover, Part II , in which the only character to escape with any dignity intact is Crystal the cigarette-smoking capuchin monkey.

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They made necklaces out of seeds and smaller replicas of the blowguns and spears they use to hunt for food; mainly monkey and peccary (wild pigs). Franziska translated for me once I had chosen my purchases. I had cash but the tribe ladies were more



Hollywood's apes: monkey puzzle or intelligent design?
Hollywood's apes: monkey puzzle or intelligent design?

But despite this fraternization, all was not rosy in movie-monkey-land. In the same year that Tarzan the Ape Man was released, the man-ape relationship took a fall in Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932). Based loosely on the Edgar Allan Poe story,



Whatever happened to Danville's giant mystery monkey?
Whatever happened to Danville's giant mystery monkey?

But over time, I began to think differently about the Danville monkey. Yes, it was a simple story, but a real one. News since 9/11 has meant Iraq War, Katrina, financial collapse, oil spill . . . incomprehensibly huge, horrible stories of conflict and



Venton Blandin Reporting for Duty: The Walking Dead

We killed, skinned, and roasted this monkey. We ate bugs, roots of trees, leaves, berries, and anything else we could find to survive," added GySgt. Kohn. "It didn't taste like chicken I can tell you that. The berries were berries and the roots of



Field Notes: National Interest REE Projects Being Fast Tracked

After all, it is to Beijing's benefit to throw as many monkey wrenches as possible into the grist for the Malaysian mill. Where does this leave investors? At this moment (and I stress moment), we take a long-range view. Gold Stock Trades is convinced




The Year in Monkey News - News Features

It's not always easy to find a babysitter on short notice. When a woman from Amherst County in rural Virginia had a court date she couldn't miss, she couldn't find anyone to watch her seven-week-old marmoset, Cara. So she did what any parent would do: she dressed Cara in a diaper and a polka-dotted frock and stashed the monkey in her bra. Surprisingly, no one in the courtroom noticed. However, while later filling out some paperwork, she pulled out Cara from the best hiding place ever, to show off the "daughter," who was purchased on eBay. The woman later explained, "Well, would you leave your child at home? She has to be close to me.


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Online news and the public

Online news and the public

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The Monkey's Wedding, And Other Stories

The Monkey's Wedding, And Other Stories

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Reporting news

Reporting news

news stories follow the form either of wedges or of wienerwurst. ... The suspended interest form might be likened to a monkey hanging by its ...

Real Places, An Unconventional Guide to America's Generic Landscape

Real Places, An Unconventional Guide to America's Generic Landscape

Datelining a news story "Hogeye, Arkansas," or "Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky," or "Pumpkin Center, Indiana," or "Scrabble, Virginia," gives it instant ...

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Texas Monthly

A fireman came by and asked where my monkey was. ... but for fast-moving news stories it was hopeless; the story would be gone before you got it unplugged. ...

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