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Considering the dangers of talking apes, the US Military starts chasing them, prompting Zira, Cornelius, and Milo to get hidden in Armando (Ricardo Montalban)'s circus.

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Considering the dangers of talking apes, the US Military starts chasing them, prompting Zira, Cornelius, and Milo to get hidden in Armando (Ricardo Montalban)'s (Creator/RicardoMontalban)'s circus.
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* JumpScare: An in-story example. While the main characters are walking around a museum, Zira faints after she happens upon a [[SurpriseCreepy surprisingly fearsome-looking]] statue of a yeti.

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* JumpScare: An in-story example. While the main characters are walking around a museum, Zira faints after she happens upon a [[SurpriseCreepy [[SurprisinglyCreepyMoment surprisingly fearsome-looking]] statue of a yeti.
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* ReadingIn: During the court scene, Creator/RoddyMcDowall and Creator/KimHunter did their bits as apes Cornelius and Zira, then had the makeup/prosthetics removed before shooting the opposite angle shots of the attorneys questioning them; they read in their parts. After [=McDowell=] saw the dailies he realized that he spoke differently and thus gave a different performance without the prosthetics, so from then on he didn't take off the makeup until the day's shooting was complete.
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* ReadingIn: During the court scene, Creator/RoddyMcDowall and Creator/KimHunter did their bits as apes Cornelius and Zira, then had the makeup/prosthetics removed before shooting the opposite angle shots of the attorneys questioning them; they read in their parts. After [=McDowell=] saw the dailies he realized that he spoke differently and thus gave a different performance without the prosthetics, so from then on he didn't take off the makeup until the day's shooting was complete.
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''(Everyone in the courtroom, including Zira, has a good laugh)''

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''(Everyone ''([[ActuallyPrettyFunny Everyone in the courtroom, including Zira, has a good laugh)''laugh]])''

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* JerkAss: Dr. Hasslein is this from the very first second he's on-screen. Overly paranoid about the apes and looking to find out about their society (by making Zira drunk) and when the truth of the apes' history is known, the first thing he can think of is to KillThemAll (with killing a defenseless baby and neutering at his most benevolent -- at the climactic confrontation, he even wastes all of his ammo shooting the poor baby rather than deal with his parents, one of which has a gun of his own).

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* JerkAss: Dr. Hasslein is this from the very first second he's on-screen. Overly paranoid about the apes and looking to find out about their society (by making Zira drunk) and when the truth of the apes' history is known, the first thing he can think of is to KillThemAll LeaveNoSurvivors (with killing a defenseless baby and neutering at his most benevolent -- at the climactic confrontation, he even wastes all of his ammo shooting the poor baby rather than deal with his parents, one of which has a gun of his own).
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Taylor's spaceship crashes off California's southern coast in the 1970s. Inside are three talking apes - Zira and Cornelius, along with another scientist, Dr. Milo, having managed to escape the destruction of Earth in the last movie and travel back in time. Milo is killed in Los Angeles' zoo by a non-civilized gorilla, and this prompts a pregnant Zira to baptize her son "Milo".

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Taylor's spaceship crashes off California's southern coast in the 1970s.1973. Inside are three talking apes - Zira and Cornelius, along with another scientist, Dr. Milo, having managed to escape the destruction of Earth in the last movie and travel back in time. Milo is killed in Los Angeles' zoo by a non-civilized gorilla, and this prompts a pregnant Zira to baptize her son "Milo".
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Taylor's spaceship crashes on 1970's Earth-off of California's southern coast. Inside, are three talking apes - Zira and Cornelius, along with another scientist, Dr. Milo, having managed to escape the destruction of Earth in the last movie and travel back in time. Milo is killed in Los Angeles' zoo by a non-civilized gorilla, and this prompts a pregnant Zira to baptize her son "Milo".

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Taylor's spaceship crashes on 1970's Earth-off of off California's southern coast. Inside, coast in the 1970s. Inside are three talking apes - Zira and Cornelius, along with another scientist, Dr. Milo, having managed to escape the destruction of Earth in the last movie and travel back in time. Milo is killed in Los Angeles' zoo by a non-civilized gorilla, and this prompts a pregnant Zira to baptize her son "Milo".
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Taylor's spaceship crashes on 1970's Earth-off of California's southern coast. Inside, are three talking apes - Zira and Cornelius, along with another scientist, Dr. Milo, having managed to escape the destruction of Earth in the last move and travel back in time. Milo is killed in Los Angeles' zoo by a non-civilized gorilla, and this prompts a pregnant Zira to baptize her son "Milo".

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Taylor's spaceship crashes on 1970's Earth-off of California's southern coast. Inside, are three talking apes - Zira and Cornelius, along with another scientist, Dr. Milo, having managed to escape the destruction of Earth in the last move movie and travel back in time. Milo is killed in Los Angeles' zoo by a non-civilized gorilla, and this prompts a pregnant Zira to baptize her son "Milo".
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* DoubleDontKnow:Dr. Hasslein has discovered from Zira that one day apes will become sentient, and the world will be destroyed in the year 3955, so he tells the President of the United States that, to prevent a StableTimeLoop, he should have the two Chimpanees from the future, Cornelius and Zira, killed.

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* DoubleDontKnow:Dr.DoubleDontKnow: Dr. Hasslein has discovered from Zira that one day apes will become sentient, and the world will be destroyed in the year 3955, so he tells the President of the United States that, to prevent a StableTimeLoop, he should have the two Chimpanees from the future, Cornelius and Zira, killed.
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Taylor's spaceship crashes on 1970's Earth-off of California's southern coast. Inside, are three talking apes - Zira and Cornelius, along with another scientist, Dr. Milo. Milo is killed in Los Angeles' zoo by a non-civilized gorilla, and this prompts a pregnant Zira to baptize her son "Milo".

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Taylor's spaceship crashes on 1970's Earth-off of California's southern coast. Inside, are three talking apes - Zira and Cornelius, along with another scientist, Dr. Milo.Milo, having managed to escape the destruction of Earth in the last move and travel back in time. Milo is killed in Los Angeles' zoo by a non-civilized gorilla, and this prompts a pregnant Zira to baptize her son "Milo".
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* DoubleDontKnow:Dr. Hasslein has discovered from Zira that one day apes will become sentient, and the world will be destroyed in the year 3955, so he tells the President of the United States that, to prevent a StableTimeLoop, he should have the two Chimpanees from the future, Cornelius and Zira, killed.
-->'''President:''' Convince me.
-->'''Dr. Hasslein:''' By their own testimony, we know that one day apes will acquire the power of intelligent speech. By Zira's testimony, we know she's pregnant with child. By my own testimony, we know it's possible for this child - provided, of course, that we permit its birth - to bear or beget a talking ape with a dumb one... in a present-day jungle or a present-day zoo.
-->'''President:''' But do you believe, by deliberate present-day action, we can neutralize that possibility, that we can alter the future?
-->'''Dr. Hasslein:''' Yes, Mr. President, I do.
-->'''President:''' Do you also believe that we should? Given the power to alter the future, have we the right to use it?
-->'''Dr. Hasslein:''' I don't know. I've wrestled with this, Mr. President, I just don't know.

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Taylor's spaceship crashes on 1970's Earth-off of California's southern coast. Inside, are three talking apes - Zira and Cornelius, along with another scientist, Dr. Milo. Milo is killed in Los Angeles' zoo by a non-civilized gorilla, and this prompts a pregnant Zira to baptize her son "Milo". Considering the dangers of talking apes, the US Military starts chasing them, prompting Zira, Cornelius, and Milo to get hidden in Armando (Ricardo Montalban)'s circus.

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Taylor's spaceship crashes on 1970's Earth-off of California's southern coast. Inside, are three talking apes - Zira and Cornelius, along with another scientist, Dr. Milo. Milo is killed in Los Angeles' zoo by a non-civilized gorilla, and this prompts a pregnant Zira to baptize her son "Milo". "Milo".

Considering the dangers of talking apes, the US Military starts chasing them, prompting Zira, Cornelius, and Milo to get hidden in Armando (Ricardo Montalban)'s circus.



* [[DoesNotLikeSpam Does Not Like Bananas]]: Zira, contrary to the popular stereotype of primates and bananas, dislikes the fruit. In fact, she finally gives the game away about her sapience and vocal abilities when, overhearing some human scientists wondering why she didn't eat the fruit she'd reached, she can't resist informing them of this fact.

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* [[DoesNotLikeSpam Does Not Like Bananas]]: DoesNotLikeSpam: Zira, contrary to the popular stereotype of primates and bananas, dislikes the fruit.bananas. In fact, she finally gives the game away about her sapience and vocal abilities when, overhearing some human scientists wondering why she didn't eat the fruit she'd reached, she can't resist informing them of this fact.



* NiceJobBreakingItHerod: Hasslein's obsession with killing Zira's baby merely ensures that nobody notices Zira had switched babies with another chimp mother at Armando's circus.
** [[LampshadeHanging Openly referenced]] in the movie by the President, played by William Windom, who refuses at first to sign off on aborting Zira's pregnancy, and directly cites Herod's murder of innocent children as a reason.
--->'''Hasslein:''' [[AnalogyBackfire Mr. President, Herod lacked our facilities.]]\\

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* NiceJobBreakingItHerod: Hasslein's obsession with killing Zira's baby merely ensures that nobody notices Zira had switched babies with another chimp mother at Armando's circus.
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circus. [[LampshadeHanging Openly referenced]] in the movie by the President, played by William Windom, who refuses at first to sign off on aborting Zira's pregnancy, and directly cites Herod's murder of innocent children as a reason.
--->'''Hasslein:''' -->'''Hasslein:''' [[AnalogyBackfire Mr. President, Herod lacked our facilities.]]\\



* SequelHook: The ending scene was meant to simply connect this movie to the future. ExecutiveMeddling led to more movies.
** After his experience being forced to write this sequel after ''Beneath'' (which was written with as final a DownerEnding as could be done), screenwriter Paul Dehn wrote the ending of ''Escape'' as both a link to the future storyarc and with enough wiggle room to squeeze in another movie if the studio wanted it.

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* SequelHook: The ending scene was meant to simply connect this movie to the future. ExecutiveMeddling led to more movies.
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movies. After his experience being forced to write this sequel after ''Beneath'' (which was written with as final a DownerEnding as could be done), screenwriter Paul Dehn wrote the ending of ''Escape'' as both a link to the future storyarc and with enough wiggle room to squeeze in another movie if the studio wanted it.
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Taylor's spaceship crashes in 1970's Earth. Inside, are three talking apes - Zira and Cornelius, along with another scientist, Dr. Milo. Milo is killed by a non-civilized gorilla, and this prompts a pregnant Zira to baptize her son "Milo". Considering the dangers of talking apes, the US Military starts chasing them, prompting Zira, Cornelius, and Milo to get hidden in Armando (Ricardo Montalban)'s circus.

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Taylor's spaceship crashes in on 1970's Earth.Earth-off of California's southern coast. Inside, are three talking apes - Zira and Cornelius, along with another scientist, Dr. Milo. Milo is killed in Los Angeles' zoo by a non-civilized gorilla, and this prompts a pregnant Zira to baptize her son "Milo". Considering the dangers of talking apes, the US Military starts chasing them, prompting Zira, Cornelius, and Milo to get hidden in Armando (Ricardo Montalban)'s circus.

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%%* BigBad: Dr. Otto Hasslein.

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%%* * BigBad: Dr. Otto Hasslein.Hasslein fills this role, being the man actively seeking to kill Cornelius, Zira and their child in order to try and prevent the coming of the Planet of the Apes.



* CulturalPosturing: Despite Cornelius' defensive HumansAreTheRealMonsters commentary, anyone who's seen the previous film knows he's glossing over the many, many faults of apedom, including the fact that they were just as violent towards their own as humans--as seen when Zaius and Urko had armed gorilla soldiers break up a peaceful protest by beating the protestors senseless.



%%* [[DoesNotLikeSpam Does Not Like Bananas]]: Zira.

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%%* * [[DoesNotLikeSpam Does Not Like Bananas]]: Zira.Zira, contrary to the popular stereotype of primates and bananas, dislikes the fruit. In fact, she finally gives the game away about her sapience and vocal abilities when, overhearing some human scientists wondering why she didn't eat the fruit she'd reached, she can't resist informing them of this fact.
-->'''Zira:''' Because I loathe bananas!
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* AdultsAreMoreAnthropomorphic: Zira, Cornelius and Dr. Milo are played by human actors in ape make-up, and as such, they are bipedal and have largely human-like body proportions. Zira's baby is played by a live baby chimpanzee.

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'''Cornelius:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Only when she lets me.]]

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'''Cornelius:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Only when she lets me.]]]]\\
''(Everyone in the courtroom, including Zira, has a good laugh)''


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* JumpScare: An in-story example. While the main characters are walking around a museum, Zira faints after she happens upon a [[SurpriseCreepy surprisingly fearsome-looking]] statue of a yeti.
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* BigBad: Dr. Otto Hasslein.

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* %%* BigBad: Dr. Otto Hasslein.



* [[DoesNotLikeSpam Does Not Like Bananas]]: Zira.

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* %%* [[DoesNotLikeSpam Does Not Like Bananas]]: Zira.



-->'''Interrogator''' (referring to Cornelius): Does the other one talk?
-->'''Cornelius''': [[DeadpanSnarker Only when she lets me.]]

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-->'''Interrogator''' (referring -->'''Interrogator:''' ''[referring to Cornelius): Cornelius]'' Does the other one talk?
-->'''Cornelius''':
talk?\\
'''Cornelius:'''
[[DeadpanSnarker Only when she lets me.]]



-->'''Cornelius''': Man destroys man! Apes do not destroy apes!

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-->'''Cornelius''': -->'''Cornelius:''' Man destroys man! Apes do not destroy apes!



-->'''Hasslein:''' [[AnalogyBackfire Mr. President, Herod lacked our facilities.]]\\

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-->'''Hasslein:''' --->'''Hasslein:''' [[AnalogyBackfire Mr. President, Herod lacked our facilities.]]\\



* TimeTravel
* TogetherInDeath: Cornelius and Zira.

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* %%* TimeTravel
* %%* TogetherInDeath: Cornelius and Zira.



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