A confusing plot hole from Planet of the Apes
A confusing plot hole from Planet of the Apes
So… in the novel… it IS actually a different planet and obviously the Statue of Liberty is not there.
You likely already know this but the statue in the movie is a convenient symbol for change over time which is relevant to the book. No spoilers.
Anyway… read the novel! It’s great.
I haven't read the book, but that makes this even funnier to me. Lol
Will add that to my list.
It's actually still earth and the protagonist time travelled.
They travelled to the past when only the upper half of the statue was built.
Monke
A wizard did it.
No! They did it! They blew it up!
And then the apes blew up their society too. How could this happen?
And then the birds took over and ruined their society.
And then the cows. And then...I don't know, is that a slug, maybe?
Noooo!
Did you even watch the movie? They explain it right away!
Someone "blew it up" and the resulting explosion launched it into space.
thats dumb as fuck lol
I always thought that was silly. How did it stay so intact?
It was a terrorist cell "Maniacs" who blew it up.
Actually it was the French aliens that transported them on their spaceship
"Hnng hnngyeeess, the Eeevil Council are French! Nyah hah! Nnggyah! Power me up, babyy! Nggyah hah!"
--Betty
gouald ha'tak vessels.
🎵Oh my God, you're so wrong.
It was Earth, all along.🎵
I love you, doctor Zauis!
Its not the end of the journey but the simians you meet along the way.
GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
I like how the only thing left of fucking New York City is made of iron and thin sheets of copper.
For reasons not directly related to the movie, I just so happen to have this on hand.
It could be that they’re not in the former area of NYC, but the statue made its way to where they are. She’s hollow, yeah? Could she float? Could she have been taken back by the French at some point and then sent to some island like Tahiti?
Or is this movie a distant sequel to Ghostbusters 2?
Whatever, but I know the commander because he's my pal. Don't think you know something about the commander. Here's a picture.
That’s the ocean after global warming. They're really in Las Vegas.
2001’ sea level rise, climate change is worse than I thought.
It was a different statue that looked the same. Just a coincidence. It's not that deep.
Buy why is it human? I'm just happy they fixed this oversight in the (vastly superior) 2001 remake with the Lincoln Memorial.
Just a coincidence, it was actually shaped by erosion
It's not human, that's just pareidolia.
Ah, Gene Roddenberry must've written the movie then.
They sold it, to pay for the debts after the stock market crash of 2025.
I mean copper is an expensive metal these days. Probably make mint selling Lady Liberty for scrap.
Unfortunately she’s hollow, like a shitty chocolate easter bunny.
Everyone forgets that the planet of apes is actually las vegas, if the camera where to go a little more to the left we would see a eiffel tower as well
Yeah, I think it's one of those artsy things they sometimes do to just confuse the viewer. In the book the eiffel tower is mentioned which makes everything more obvious.
These themed hotels are getting out of hand
Trump had a bunch in Atlantic City themed as casinos!
I thought planet of apes was in hollywood?
It turns out, that on their planet, the apes have made an exact replica of the statue of liberty
This is either satirical or the biggest WHOOSH I've seen so far this year.
Check the community.
Yeah it's memes. That doesn't clarify whether people are really thinking the status of liberty was a "confusing plot hole" or making fun of that.
The bigger plot hole is that this is not consistent with any global warming or giant earthquake. Rising sea levels would not have a beach and rocky formation right next to statue of liberty. And a crazy violent earthquake that would move land and rock well above the statue of liberty and right next to it, would have knocked the statue over.
More confusing is how it ended up next to cliffs on a shore line when it lives in a marshland enviroment
She may have just walked there, as seen in the documentary Ghostbusters 2.
Clearly, the statue was carried by ocean currents south from New York, through the Panama canal, then back north where it washed ashore at the tip of the Baja peninsula in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Are you suggesting statues of liberty migrate?
Sold to aliens for scrap by a bankrupt country (for 10 hamburgers, which is approximately 10 hamburgers in todays hamburgers).
Are we talking real beef?
Vegan™, made from Soylent green.
What they don't explain is how everything else is gone, and even the entire coastline is different, but somehow the upper half of that particular copper statue has somehow survived
*ding*
I enjoyed watching that channel but the amount of *dings* over some misunderstanding about a thing that was explained a second before got to me
Got there via worm hole, not plot hole.
No tracking
I hate.. Every ape I see, from chimpan-a to chimpanzee, you'll never make a monkey out of meee.
The lord works in mysterious ways.
Is that statue in the room with us?
Don’t blink.
Or... Do blink? Because the staring is a trick to let them into your soul?
Moffat giveth and Moffat taketh away
Don’t blink
Is this a meme or is this merely a statement of fact about a movie along with a photo from that movie
Are you serious?
Are YOU serious?
Are WE serious?
A quick googling is too much to ask?
https://planetoftheapes.fandom.com/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty
In 3978, human refugee George Taylor fled from Ape City with his newly acquired mate, Nova. During the course of several days, Taylor believed that he had been living on a strange, alien world. Following the shoreline, he came upon the Statue's ruins and realized that he was on Earth. Worse, he deduced that the humans of his own era must have waged a global war, which paved the way for a dystopian future where humans became subservient to evolved apes.
