Planet of the Apes (2001)

[Threesixty]

I just saw this movie....and I was wondering, what do you think the ending means....

I figured out a pretty outragous theory..... and heard a simplified version, from a friend of mine.

This is known.....Leo (His name was Leo, right?) get thrown in time. Future probably. His home/mothership gets lost in time looking for him. About 10,000 years  (I think?) in the past, of where Leo gets thrown. The Lab Apes killed off some, of the people, of the Research Ship and evolved during that time to where Leo is now. (It had to be some of the people...because the Human Race is still alive. And The planet had to be barren or they wouldn't have needed the Lab Apes to survive....This is concluded through that video, playback, that was in the ruins, of the mothership)

The ending can go two ways.
That 'General' of the Apes learned how to travel in time and goes to the distant, distant Past. A past far further than Leo went.....back when human were first evolving and changed  the History of the Human Race. (in-breeding?).  

The other ending is this. Leo was thrown into the more distant, future. Where the General Ape is remembered as the Being that discovered Human technology or a great leader...or something. (I don't know where the Humans are in all this, wiped out, probably....or in zoos?).

Your probably thinking...
Well, why does that city he crash-landed in, looks exactly like Washington DC; and the Memoral, looks like the Lincoln Memoral. My answer is: 'Because, that what they were built on.' (City ruins)

I think that the Apes found the Human's old cities, culture, Data (in the forbiden zone, or beyond it). And followed them as a blueprint. I believe that they built their version of Washington DC, on top of the ruins of Washington DC. Kinda like if we rebuilt the Pyrimids and Spinx to our image....with all those years of corrosion and a biological attack (couldn't be nuclear, not if the building are still standing) they just gave our old cities a facelift, of sorts.

The reason for the Ford cars? Well....those were the cars that they found in a data chip, or something. Same for the guns, and the uniforms.

:naughty:

If there is a sequel....They will probably use the Simple version.  
[edited] 65 2001-12-04 02:51

[Darkness]

i hated th ending to that movie. it made absolutely no sense. (i saw it twice, and thought about it for hours.)

The 'General' could not have gone back in time, because Leo took the ship. The mothership was totaled, and the feul cells were empty.

I initially thought that leo had actually gone back in time to prehistoric earth, but then i realized that the soil/forests were to well developed for the land masses to be in that form. That would, however explain the existance of humans.

the fact is, there is no logical explanation for the ending from what was presented in the movie.

[Threesixty]

The Mothership had a nuclear PowerSource....and it's a "Research " Vessel....I'm sure there were one or two encyclopedias, on board. (to learn, how to refine fuel...for example)

As for the ending.....That's what they said about FF7. (The connection)
[edited] 65 2001-12-04 03:21

[Darkness]

i suppose its possible, but like i said before: theres no evidence in the movie (there was in ff7)