Kelsi and Trey discuss Wes Ball’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes as a successful adventure epic that thrills with its digital world-building and provokes with its subversive interrogations of the audience's relationship to Caesar. This is the 10th Apes installment and arguably one of the most ambitious of the 21st century; a compelling evolution conceptually and visually from its recent predecessors while also introducing audiences to a new set of characters with mysterious motivations–a true Apes movie that is in conversation with the radical 1968-73 films as Ball’s reinvention is unafraid to be a bit scathing in its commentary on fundamentalism and the white savior archetype.
(3:30) Non-Spoiler Reaction
(26:13) Timeline of the Apes Universe
(33:44) Spoilers Start (Prologue)
(34:30) World-building and Eagle Clan
(01:01:30) Adventure Epic and Raka
(01:10:00) Caesar Mythology
(01:30:08) White Savior Subversion
(01:46:15) Proximus and his Kingdom
(02:07:00) The Epilogue
Letterboxd: The Extra Credits
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