Today we talk about Caesar's life, it is not difficult to see that the "Rise of the Apes" trilogy is actually Caesar's encounter from birth to death, reflecting the alternation of life on the entire earth.
A great pattern story must be accompanied by a great character. For example, Napoleon, who washed the entire European continent in that year; such as Genghis Khan, who conquered all of Asia that year, and even extended to the interior of Europe.
They all have the characteristics of kings, and their bodies involuntarily exude genes for conquest and revolution. At the time of Rise of the Apes 1, Caesar seems to be accompanied by such genetic conditions, shouting out the "no" of humans! Thus leading the apes to stand up and revolutionize against humans.
But Caesar is not a revolutionary gene conceived from the inside out, but a fire born of the oppression of the external bad environment, and such a fire is born with some fragility and pity.
The meaning of human words is that as long as the external environment changes, the desire of the fire will become a candle in a stable manner, and the existence of the fire only needs to illuminate the present, and there is no need for a spark.
So in the first part, when Caesar leads the apes to hide in the forest, he fights for a free space for the apes, which is just enough to house the revolutionary fire that has sprouted from the external environment. At this point, Caesar considered himself to have completed the revolution.
This is Caesar in the first "Rise of the Apes", he looks like a revolutionary vanguard, leading his subjects to create a new world, but he definitely cannot become a revolutionary king like Napoleon and Genghis Khan, because their desire to conquer is innate, and Caesar does not have a desire to conquer in his heart, he needs more space, peace, and reproduction.
Many would say that all of Caesar's actions in the first part were wise, that so few highly intelligent apes, and almost indestructible humans, with fewer victories over more, were no longer easy, and that if they were tough, there was only one way to die.
That's right, totally agree. If character determines fate, then let's see how Caesar's character determines the fate of apes after that.
Coming to the second part of "Rise of the Apes 2", due to the ape flu, humans have suffered countless deaths and injuries, and the apes have their own small society in the forest, the apes divide and cooperate, there are armies, there are families, there are tribes, there are "councils" of the main members, and they have learned to ride horses.
So, was he a good leader when there was no large-scale war between apes and humans? It can only be said that he is a benevolent prince, he is upright, loves his family, and peace comes first. After all, although Caesar was an ape, he spent nearly half of his ape life living with humans and embracing the universal values of the good side of mankind.
Thus, the first half of Caesar's life was destined to be mentioned earlier, and Caesar never had the gene for human revolution in his body.
This leads him to think that he knows human beings, and thus credulously believes in human beings, and what kind of species human beings are, we ourselves should know very well.
Such benevolent kings are often accompanied by the rise of internal subversive forces, yes, Kuba, and even Caesar's son at the beginning did not understand why Caesar was so kind to mankind.
Caesar's personality eventually led to a split within the apes, and Caesar was put in a coup d'état that caused the apes to fall apart.
Renjun must be a good synonym in peacetime, just like in the year between the first and second parts, Caesar managed the apes quite well, they should be raw, they should eat, what should they do, and the apes can grow.
And when the conflict comes, or even the war is coming, the character of Renjun will surely begin to tear from the inside and begin to break through from the outside.
In history, if we objectively look at the leaders of World War II, Churchill and Roosevelt, they are actually very strong figures of iron fist, so when the Second World War ended, the British people personally pushed Churchill from the prime minister's throne, because the British people know that in peacetime, they want a benevolent monarch, not an iron fist Churchill.
If a real war is coming, rather than a regional revolution in the first part, then many of Caesar's military decisions in the second part are arbitrary.
Caesar indirectly led to the final war between humans and apes. And Kuba is just the fuse of this final showdown. The origin of the real ape war has actually been planted from the first Caesar's "no".
Let's look at the third film released today. It is because of Caesar's personality that the ultimate fate of today's apes is determined. In the background setting of the third film, the clear-eyed people can see that God is helping the apes, and the once rulers of the earth, the human beings, are almost only left with the last breath, while the apes only need to blow lightly, and the human beings are over.
After so many years of Taoguang cultivation, the apes are militarily, if they take advantage of the victory to pursue, they will be able to destroy humans. Caesar's choice was: escape. Caesar still believed that he knew humanity and wanted to negotiate again in exchange for peace.
And from the macro perspective of the wheel of history, this is a renewal between species, and you Caesar just happened to be placed in this alternating era.
Many people will argue that Caesar and highly intelligent apes are the bitter fruit of human planting, not an inevitable alternation between species.
Da Cong thinks that everyone can go deeper to open their brains, just imagine, if the results of human research are not from the research and development of biological genes, but from the perspective of artificial intelligence AI, is it easier to understand?
Yes, whether it is the apes that have broken through the biological genes or the hot topic of artificial intelligence today, this is a metaphor for everyone in the rise of the apes trilogy: that is, the evil consequences that humans themselves have planted for themselves may bring human beings to the end.
In other words, human desire to be curious about genes is the ultimate cause of human extinction.
Speaking of Caesar, we tend to call the man who has the power to rule a king, and Caesar in the third part is not only a king, he is more like a spiritual leader.
The spiritual leader does not need substantial power, he can have a higher ideology than power, thus leading generations to follow his faith. For example, a spiritual leader like Guevara in the real world (I know a lot of people are anti-Guevara, I'm just giving an example, don't spray).
The third part is metaphorically, mainly about the issue of spiritual leadership, so you can see the background of a large pattern, but visually it seems to present a small pattern of war, that is, because the film uses a lot of space to shape Caesar's spiritual leader faith.
From the first time he watched "Rise of the Apes 3", Satoshi felt that the film was very much like the book of Exodus, moses, as the spiritual leader of the Hebrews, led them out of Egypt, through the wilderness, through the Red Sea, and finally returned to his promised land: Jerusalem, and Moses wrote the "Ten Commandments" on the way home.
Of course, in the Rise of the Apes series, apes don't actually have a real home, but the story structure is basically the same as exodus, especially in the film, the apes are enslaved by humans, and the Hebrews are enslaved by Egyptians.
In leading the apes, Caesar continued to popularize values, family views, and worldviews that were nobler than humans, much like the Ten Commandments that Moses wrote for the Hebrews.
The human general, who picked up the little girl's rag doll and thus contracted the virus, is similar to Moses, who, through God's help, obtained miracles and defeated the Egyptians.
In the end, when the human race itself was in a big battle, it was a miracle apparition, and a direct avalanche was considered to have overtaken the human beings, and I was afraid, and the apes would go up the tree! Saved the last flame. Isn't this God helping the suffering Hebrews (apes)?
In fact, everyone can find clues from religious stories, and then the religious stories have evolved into the rise of the ape ball series of stories, and the audience has seen the future of the bitter fruit of human destiny from these stories.
Finally, let's talk about why Caesar had to die.
Like the book of Exodus, Moses died on his way home. As the spiritual leader, Caesar's ultimate purpose is to let the apes survive and find their true home, but more importantly, Caesar wants to pass on the spirit of Caesar to every surviving ape, which is the theme that the film ultimately tells the audience.
After all the tribulations, the spirit of Caesar was passed down from generation to generation, and finally the ape planet in Caesar's spiritual world was achieved.
The history of apes, from the first to the third, is a road of flight and home, not a road of resistance.
This is more meaningful than slaughtering the country and mountains taken down from the battle.