Accordingly, what does the end of Planet of the Apes mean?
In a larger sense, the ending evokes the ending of the Planet of the Apes novel, where the hero has an adventure on a planet ruled by apes, and then inexplicably finds Earth ruled by apes upon his return.
Subsequently, question is, what is the message of Planet of the Apes 1968? This also means that Planet of the Apes takes its messages—about the hubris of man and the way that societies use both science and religion as means to prop up inequality—seriously, but doesn't forget that it's forwarding this message through a fairly outrageous premise.
Additionally, what did Charlton Heston say at the end of Planet of the Apes?
When Heston's character astronaut George Taylor finds the charred remnants of the Statue of Liberty, and with it the truth that this "alien" planet ruled by Apes is actually post-apocalyptic Earth, he screams: "You finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up!
What was the original Planet of the Apes about?
The film tells the story of an astronaut crew who crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future. Although the planet appears desolate at first, the surviving crew members stumble upon a society in which apes have evolved into creatures with human-like intelligence and speech.
