Why Is Taylor So Pissed At The End Of The Film?

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Fletcherj119 — 9 years ago(November 27, 2016 08:41 PM)

Zaius told Taylor "The Forbidden Zone was once a paradise. Your breed made a desert of it, ages ago". And the Statue of Liberty looked pretty singed.

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roland-rockerfella — 9 years ago(November 29, 2016 04:54 PM)

I agree they are all good points. However there is no proof that man in Taylor's time blew himself up instead of some natural calamity knocking man back to the Stone Age. I think it's just Taylor's natural dour attitude that makes him jump to this conclusion.

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Fletcherj119 — 9 years ago(November 29, 2016 07:07 PM)

And the correct one.

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snickerdoodle68 — 9 years ago(February 06, 2017 06:22 PM)

If you're thinking of Taylor's line "You blew it up!" he wasn't referring to man destroying himself with atomic bombs, but of Dr Zaius blowing up the cave that contained the evidence that modern ape sprang from man and not vice versa.

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wears-alan — 9 years ago(February 06, 2017 11:27 PM)

HE WAS talking about man destroying himself.
If those pen pushers up at city hall don't like it,well, they swivel on this middle digit!

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Fletcherj119 — 9 years ago(February 07, 2017 12:35 AM)

Taylor didn't know about the cave's destruction. Zaius didn't even tell Cornelius and Zira about his plans until Taylor was on his way to the statue.

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haristas — 9 years ago(November 29, 2016 10:00 PM)

You're right, Taylor jumps to the conclusion that man has destroyed himself with nuclear weapons without any implicit evidence that that is actually what happened. But Zaius does imply quite exactly that his breed made a desert of the Forbidden Zone ages ago, so it's a reasonable conclusion on Taylor's part, and it's certainly what the filmmakers wanted the audience conclusion to be.

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samslick — 9 years ago(December 04, 2016 09:58 PM)

He already knew he was alive thousands years from anything he knew. He also knew he couldn't get back. That his own generation destroyed itself shouldn't have mattered so much.

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Fletcherj119 — 9 years ago(December 04, 2016 11:43 PM)

He spent the second half of the movie defending the human race, be it on Earth or on a distant planet.

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roland-rockerfella — 9 years ago(December 07, 2016 02:59 PM)

That in itself is rather ironic considering how he started the film hating Humanity and trying to find something better.

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Fletcherj119 — 9 years ago(December 07, 2016 03:35 PM)

Then he probably went back to his misanthropic ways at the end.

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A_Little_Sweetness — 9 years ago(December 19, 2016 06:25 PM)

I always thought it was a commentary on the politics of the time. During the Cold War, the big fear was man destroying humanity with nuclear weapons.

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preachcaleb — 5 years ago(March 22, 2021 03:03 PM)

Sounds about right to me.
So many stories, so little time.