Time Writer | County Howe
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After 7 years, the latest work of the "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" series, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes: New World" (hereinafter referred to as "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 4"), was finally released, and the "Rise of the Apes IP" movie, which was officially launched in 1968, has also reached its 10th part. The film has an IMDb score of 7.4, a freshness of 81% on Rotten Tomatoes, a score of 66 for MTC experts, and a domestic score of 6.5, and the box office in Chinese mainland exceeded 80 million in the first weekend. Rise of the Planet of the Apes: New World
As a new work of the "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" series and ape IP, in addition to the still excellent ape special effects, the film also contains many details and tributes. Time Jun has sorted out 15 easter eggs/details here, hoping to help everyone better understand this story of humans and apes falling in love and killing each other. (The following contains spoilers, it is recommended to read after watching the movie)
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The story of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 4" takes place hundreds of years after "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 3". The current four parts of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", the timeline is sequential. Compared with the old version of the five-part "Planet of the Apes" (1968-1973), the first part of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is equivalent to the time of "Planet of the Apes 4" (1972), and the story is also Caesar is taken care of by humans, and later leads the apes to pursue freedom. Due to the time travel setting in "Planet of the Apes 3" (1971), the apes travel back to Earth in 1973 from the future, so the "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" series can be regarded as both a reboot of "Planet of the Apes" and a prequel to "Planet of the Apes". There are currently 10 ape IP live-action films, including 5 "Planet of the Apes", 1 "Battle of the Planet of the Apes" (2001), and 4 "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" (2011-2024).
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The name of the main character
The names of the first three protagonists of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" "Caesar" and the fourth protagonist "Noah" have deep meanings.
Caesar is the name of the founder of the Roman Empire, known as Julius Caesar, and Caesar the Orangutan also has the meaning of "the first commander" for the ape.
The villain "Proximus Caesar" is named "Proximus Caesar", which means "the next Caesar", and is suspected of being self-proclaimed. He asked the human Trivison to tell him the history of Rome, also to understand the name of Caesar.
Noa's name is derived from the biblical character "Noah", which also has a creative meaning, and the flood at the end of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 4" alludes to the legend of "Noah's Ark".
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Ape settingNoah, the protagonist of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 4", is not related to Caesar, the protagonist of the first three parts of the series, but the ape settings and configurations of the two are similar.
Just as Caesar was the pioneer and leader of the ape race from human control, Noah also had the meaning of the leader who led the new ape race out of the control of the old ape race.
The combination of Noah and Rakka, an orangutan, is similar to the combination of Caesar and Morris the orangutan in the first three films. Noah and Raqqa downplayed the subordinate relationship between Caesar and Morris and deepened their friendship.
The human woman (real name May) rescued by Noah and Raqa also used the name "Nova" of the girl rescued by Caesar and Morris in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 3".
The two "Nova" just have the same name and are not related
04
Caesar's funeral at the beginning of the ape totem "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 4" has a huge symbol on the straight gable: a star pattern wrapped in a circle.
This symbol appears several times in the film, such as on the walls of the Coast Kingdom and on the necklace worn by Noah.
This symbol is actually the shape of the window on the top floor of the house of genetic researcher Will (played by James Franco) in the first part of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" (2011).
Caesar, who was raised by Will, lived on the top floor, and he often looked out of the window at the outside world.
After being imprisoned in a primate shelter, Caesar painted this symbol on the wall of the cage house. Later, the symbol appeared on traffic signs near the Golden Gate Bridge, and was carried over into each sequel.
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes 4" is hundreds of years after Caesar's death, and this symbol is still alive, which shows that it has become an eternal totem of the ape race, representing the desire and pursuit of freedom.
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Spiritual Inheritance: Raka gives Noah the necklace in the shape of an ape totem, and at the end of the film, Noah gives the necklace to the human woman Mei (Nova), proving that Caesar's spirit is passed down between apes and humans.
Caesar's spirit has four essences: the peaceful coexistence of apes and humans, the pursuit of freedom by apes, the unity of apes to be strong, and the apes not to kill apes.
Noah has passed on all the spiritual essence well.
In contrast, Saisa, the "King of the Coast", only superficially inherited the rule that "unity is strong", because he needed to use it to brainwash the apes and let them use them for their own purposes.
As for Caesar's emphasis that "apes do not kill apes", Saisa did not mention it at all, and directly deleted it, because it was inconsistent with his means of rule.
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The location of the kingdom can be seen from the steel structure exposed by Noah sitting on the shore and the remnants of the steel structure nearby, which should be located on the location of the original Golden Gate Bridge.
In the first part of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", the Golden Gate Bridge in the fog symbolizes the inevitable journey of the apes, who must break through the human blockade on the bridge and enter the nearby redwood forest to establish the ape world.
The display of the remains of the Golden Gate Bridge is in line with the consistent style of the ape IP to display the earth.
In addition to the terrifying and desperate Statue of Liberty at the end of "Planet of the Apes" (1968), the subsequent parts of "Planet of the Apes" also show the ruins of the New York Stock Exchange and Times Square.
07
In the ape sign language "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 4", the apes have replaced humans to dominate the earth, and they can communicate in the original human language, in addition to this, the apes are also proficient in sign language.
For example, in the Kingdom of the Coast, Noah's mother secretly reminded Noah in sign language: Be careful, son, our current life is his.
The setting of the combination of sign language and spoken language comes from the first part of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".
In the first part, Will, the human protagonist, explicitly admits that Caesar's sign language was taught to Caesar (without knowing that apes could develop a spoken language) in order to facilitate communication.
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In the Ape Coolie Coast Kingdom, Noah's falconry and other apes captured by Saisar have become coolies, and they must work constantly to open the human treasure house, and they are in danger of death at any time, which is very much the flavor of the human slave era.
The apes become coolies, as shown in Rise of the Planet of the Apes 3: The Ultimate Battle (2017). In the film, the human army imprisons and forces the apes to repair and fortify the fortifications.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes 3
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The first time he spoke was ravaged by the 113 virus, and by the time of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 4", humans were nearly extinct, and their intelligence and expression had deteriorated, and most of them had lost their ability to speak, so they were called "dumb mouth" by the ape family (the pronunciation in the film is similar to the Chinese "dumb mouth", Echo).
When May was being pursued by the Saizaar Army, she shouted the name of "Noah" for help, which surprised all the apes present: humans can speak?!
This echoes the first time Caesar said "No!" to humans in Part 1. (Nope!) "Expressing his resistance, the reaction of humans at that time was the same as that of apes today, proving that the earth has changed hands, both in terms of race and civilization.
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Hunting humans In "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 4", there is a plot of the Saiza Legion hunting humans. Unclothed human beings like primitive people were bathing in the stream, and the Saiza Legion suddenly appeared and chased and intercepted the humans.
This plot is completely a tribute to 1968's "Planet of the Apes".
In the film, humans are also hunted by apes without clothing, and the hunting scene is the same as in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 4", from the water to the grass.
The rope nets, rope hooks and other tools used by apes when hunting humans in "Planet of the Apes" > "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 4" are reminiscent of the hunting of forest apes by the genetic company at the beginning of the first part of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".
In addition, there are many tributes to "Planet of the Apes" in this film, such as the X-shaped skinning logo, the treasure house of coastal civilizations, etc., which are not listed here.
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In the electric baton weapon "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 4", Saisa's masked ape uses an electric baton to hit the falcon, and later, Noah not only obtains a damaged electric baton, but also repairs it, surprising the ape's intelligence.
In the first part of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", the primate shelter tamed the orangutans with electric batons, and later, Caesar also used the electricity of the electric baton to deal with the shelter staff.
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After the special effects production flooded the Coastal Kingdom, all the apes were swept into the water, and Noah and Saisa even fought a big battle in the water. This battle is very in the style of the ultimate battle in the water in Avatar 2: The Way of Water.
Because the special effects production team of both films is Weta Studio, Weta is good at underwater motion capture, live-action virtual photography, deep immersion visual effects and other productions.
The ape IP also has some "leading edges" with Cameron.
After the end of the old version of the "Planet of the Apes" five-part series, Twentieth Century Fox, which announced the reboot of the IP in the 1980s, approached Cameron, and Cameron was willing to take over the project, but later gave up due to the filming of "Titanic".
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In the climactic episode of the confrontation between Noah and Saisa in the human pistol "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 4", Saisa's men kidnap Noah's friend Suna, and Mei kills the kidnappers with a pistol.
All of the apes were intimidated by the power of the pistol, apparently for the first time they had seen it.
Although there is no shortage of gunfights in the first three parts of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", the third avalanche buries the human army, and after hundreds of years, guns have long been sealed by the surviving humans, and guns are naturally a rarity for the ape race.
The rarity of apes with pistols was also shown in Tim Burton's 2001 "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" (which cost more than "Rise of the Planet of the Apes").
In the film, before his father, the villain and leader of the ape army, Seid, passed away, he handed the ancestral treasure bottle to Seid, which contained a human pistol.
"Battle of the Planet of the Apes" is the only film after the successful first reboot of the ape IP, and its production is between the "Planet of the Apes" five-part series and the "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" four-part series.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
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After being taken to Saisa's residence, Vonnegut May saw a number of books, one of which was Vonnegut's science fiction short story collection Welcome to the Monkey House.
The book was written between 1950 and 1968, at the same time as the original "Apes IP" (by French writer Pierre Bourour) (1963).
In addition to the title of the book referring to the ape IP, there is also a novel called "Harrison Bergeron", which tells the story of a future in which highly intelligent people will use the "mental aid radio" to lower human IQ in order to achieve dictatorial goals.
This alludes to Saissa's attitude towards the captive apes.
Vonnegut
15
Towards the end of the Unite Force film, Noah and Saisa fight, Noah, who was already down, began to summon the eagle with a "ho-ho" falconry sound, and other apes of the falconry clan also began to summon, and finally, Saisa, who was full of eagles, fell into the sea.
The common enemy of the falconry is an echo of the "unity of the apes" that the series has always emphasized.
In the first part, Caesar shows the power of unity to Orangutan Maurice with the action of "one branch is easy to break, and several branches are difficult to break".
In fact, Saisa just kicked the injured Noah off the cliff before the falconers collectively summoned the eagles, after all, Noah was standing on the edge of the cliff at that time.
But this may be the "common problem" of most villains, and the protagonist must be given enough time to find support to fight back.
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