The Oms destroy some of the statues, threatening the Traags' existence the genocide of Oms is halted on Ygam, and, facing a crisis, the Traags negotiate for peace. When a large-scale Traag purge hits the depot and many Oms are slaughtered, a group led by Terr uses the rockets to flee to the Fantastic Planet, where they discover large statues that Traags travel to during meditation and use to meet beings from other galaxies in a strange mating ritual that maintains their species. Due to the knowledge acquired from Terr's headset, they manage to replicate Traag technology, including two rockets they hope to leave Ygam for its moon, the Fantastic Planet, and live there safe from Traags. They live there for years, joined by many other Oms. They are attacked by two Traag passers-by and manage to kill one of them before escaping to an abandoned Traag rocket depot, much to the outrage of Traag leaders. The literacy they gain allows them to read a Traag announcement that the park will be purged of Oms, and, when the purge comes, some are slaughtered by Traag technology while others escape, joining forces with another tribe. Terr shows them how to use the headset to acquire Traag knowledge and literacy, winning the right to do so in a duel. There he runs into a wild female Om, who cuts off his collar and introduces him to her tribe, which lives in an abandoned Traag park full of strange creatures and landscapes. He escapes into the wilderness, stealing Tiwa's headset. Around the time that Tiwa grows into her teens and first performs Traag meditation, which allows the species to travel with their minds, she loses some interest in Terr, who has become a young man and acquired much Traag knowledge. She brings Terr to sessions in which she receives her education using a headset that transmits knowledge into her mind a defect in Terr's collar allows him to receive the knowledge too. Tiwa loves Terr and is careful not to hurt him, but, in accordance with her parents' instructions, gives him a collar with which she can pull him in any direction. When an Om mother is tortured to death by three Traag children, her orphaned infant is found by Master Sinh, a key Traag leader, and his daughter Tiwa, who keeps the boy as a pet and names him Terr. Traags have much longer lifespans than Oms, but reproduce much less. The Traags consider Oms animals, and while they keep some as pets, others live in the wilderness and are periodically slaughtered by the Traags to control their population. In the distant future, the gargantuan blue humanoid Traags (in French and Czech spelling: Draag ) have brought human beings (who are called Oms as a play on the French word for "man", homme) from Earth to the planet Ygam, where they maintain a technologically and spiritually advanced society. It is the first animated movie to be rated PG by the MPAA in the United States. Fantastic Planet was awarded the Grand Prix special jury prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, and in 2016, it was ranked the 36th greatest animated movie ever by Rolling Stone. The allegorical story, about humans living on a strange planet dominated by giant humanoid aliens who consider them animals, is based on the 1957 novel Oms en série by French writer Stefan Wul.Ī working title while in development was Sur la planète Ygam ( On the Planet Ygam), which is where most of the story takes place the actual title ( The Fantastic/Savage Planet) is the name of Ygam's moon. The film was an international co-production between companies from France and Czechoslovakia. The film was animated at Jiří Trnka Studio in Prague. "The Wild Planet") is a 1973 experimental independent adult animated science fiction art film, directed by René Laloux and written by Laloux and Roland Topor, the latter of whom also completed the film's production design. Fantastic Planet ( French: La Planète sauvage Czech: Divoká planeta, lit.
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