]The film""s screenplay, by first-time scripter Bruce Robinson, was adapted from Pulitzer Prize-winningNY Timesreporter Sydney Schanberg""sThe Death and Life of Dith PranfromThe NY Times Magazine.She responds in equal measure as they sensually press heir hands together in a famous scene.With metaphoric, religious imagery, they speak of a holy shrine, pilgrims, devotion, saints, prayer, faith, and sin - terms that bespeak the sacramental nature of their passionate love:Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: my lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth the rough touch with a gentle kiss.The fear was that in 2,000 years, the apes would all but exterminate the human race from Earth.Armando vainly argued that his chimpanzee was legally certified that it was born a month before the talking apes arrived.General Thade arrived late and complained about the quickly-breeding humans that "infest the provinces" on the outskirts of ape civilization, outnumbering the apes four to one.