Planet of The Apes Satire

The setting of the movie compared to the setting in the book makes Planet of the Apes one of the greatest satires. In the movie, the setting takes place on earth in the future where apes deny and are afraid of the past, whereas the setting in the book is on a different planet where apes are civilized and technologically advanced, and the humans were primitive creatures. The orangutans in the movie prevent what happened …

…the movie was made, during the Cold War, when nuclear weapons were being developed. The apes overtaking us in the book shows us what could happen, not only with teachings of apes, but also the dangers of technology. The ideas of apes taking control over humans and humans ending our own superiority are both possibilities of the future, but the idea of the apes taking over Earth is more likely to be substituted by machines.