Blowhard, Esq. graduated from a monkey prison — or simian reeducation center:
In 1972, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, the fourth installment in the series, was released. When the film begins, humans have enslaved the apes but during the course of the movie, the apes rise up in revolution against their oppressors. There may be some deeper moral or subtext about racism and bigotry, but I can’t be sure. All I know is, when they needed some buildings to portray a sterile dystopia, they logically chose the recently-completed University of California Irvine campus, which happens to my undergraduate alma mater. I took some screencaps from the movie then went over there today for a short then-and-now comparison.
He compares before and after photos:
