Sentences with phrase «experimenting on apes»

We have a modern Prometheus, Will Rodman (James Franco) experimenting on apes in an attempt to find a cure for Alzheimer's, a disease from which his father (John Lithgow) suffers.

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As we learn in Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), the third installment of the series, Dr. Zira vivisected and experimented on human captives, who in the movie year of 3955 are considered animals and thus expendable in the pursuit of scientific knowledge.

«Project Nim» is a problematic documentary from «Man on Wire» director James Marsh about the chimpanzee that, in the 1970s, was the subject of a series of experiments that set out to demonstrate that apes could learn to communicate using sign language.

Language: English Genre: Action / Sci - Fi MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Rupert Wyatt Actors: James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow Plot: Prequel to Planet of the Apes in which scientists working on genetic experiments creates a race of intelligent apes that leads to a war to determine which species will ultimately dominate the EaApes in which scientists working on genetic experiments creates a race of intelligent apes that leads to a war to determine which species will ultimately dominate the Eaapes that leads to a war to determine which species will ultimately dominate the Earth.

When a genetic experiment on George goes awry, he grows to enormous size and goes ape on similarly evolved critters.

Maurice (Karin Konoval), one of his apes he befriended in captivity and who also understands sign language, has now become a teacher in the ape community while Koba (Toby Kebbell), one of the apes experimented on in the original, has now taken his position at Caesar's right hand.

In Rise, the apes were often victimized by their captors or the scientists experimenting on them.