Silver Screen Science - Rise of the Planet of the Apes

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Common Descent

Science, Education, Earth Sciences, Natural Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

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🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Silver Screen Science is our series where we explore how science is portrayed on the big screen. This year, we’re focused on one recurring franchise: Planet of the Apes! Finally, we visit the ongoing prequel franchise with the story of how it all got started: Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Check out our website for blog posts and more: http://commondescentpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Lots more ways to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/common_descent The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Hello, Will. Hello, David.
0:21.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome to Silver Screen Science here on the Common Descent podcast.
0:25.9	This is our series where we look at the science of movies,
0:29.3	not just the little technical details of what they got right or wrong,
0:32.5	but how science and scientists and scientific concepts are portrayed on the big screen.
0:39.3	This year, our silver screen science theme is Planet of the Apes.
0:43.8	Yes.
0:44.9	This is our third episode in this year's series.
0:47.7	We did the original Planet of the Apes.
0:49.2	We did the remake from 2001.
0:51.1	This episode, we are discussing the first in the most recent Planet of the Apes franchise,
0:57.0	the reboot franchise, called Rise of the Planet of the Apes. This movie came out in 2011,
1:03.8	directed by Rupert Wyatt, and stars such names as James Franco, Frida Pinto, the Incredible
1:10.1	Andy Circus, and plenty of others.
1:13.1	Actually, one of the reasons we decided to do Planet of the Apes for Silver Screen Science this
1:16.8	year is because last year, the most recent movie in this franchise came out.
1:20.8	Yep.
1:21.3	Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
1:23.5	Still good.
1:24.4	Now, in this episode, we're going to talk all sorts of science-y stuff. But for those of you who are on our Patreon, we will link.
1:30.7	We will have a companion episode of more thoughts, where we will just talk about our personal thoughts about this movie.
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