The topic of man and nature remains the same, whether in the past, now or in the future.
The main reason is that human beings are the only intelligent race in the whole earth, above all species, when another intelligent race suddenly appears, what will humans do?
This question was considered by the French writer Elbur as early as 1968, and was written into the science fiction novel "Planet of the Apes", when the publication of the novel immediately attracted strong attention, and was adapted into a film in the same year, and then filmed at an annual rate, a total of five films.
Stills from planet apes
"Planet of the Apes" is a science fiction film, crossing, Star Trek, alien viruses and other science fiction elements are readily available, but the "Rise of the Apes" we are going to talk about today is more realistic.
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In "Rise of the Apes Ball", the screenwriter removed all the science fiction elements, and in "Planet of the Apes", the alien virus that made the orangutans have higher intelligence became a drug developed by humans to treat Alzheimer's disease in "Rise of the Apes Ball", and caused an "ape flu", which is more practical under the current epidemic.
"Rise of the Apes" is based on "Planet of the Apes", but not limited to "Planet of the Apes", in addition to the plot, the rhythm is more substitutionary, and the special effects are of course a major selling point of this movie.
Every expression of the protagonist Caesar, every dark spot on the skin, the delicate hair, and even the ice on the hair are clearly visible, thanks to motion capture technology, the actor needs to wear a special tights when performing, there are many motion capture points on the face, in addition to the fixed camera around the actor, he also wears a small camera on the top of the actor's head in order to capture the actor's facial expression.
The technique has been improved by films such as The Lord of the Rings, King Kong, Avatar, and Traces, but all have one limitation, which is that it can only be shot in the studio. When filming "Rise of the Apes Ball", motion capture technology can already be filmed on the spot, and when filming the big scene of the apes crossing the Golden Gate Bridge to escape the mangroves, it is the field shooting of motion capture actors and live actors, it can be said that motion capture technology has made a great breakthrough in this movie.
Andy Serkis performs
But technology alone is not enough, superb acting skills are fundamental. The protagonist Caesar is played by Andy Serkis, the originator of Hollywood motion-capture actors, and almost all well-known special effects characters in film history are basically played by Andy Serkis, such as Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings", King Kong in "King Kong" and so on. It can be said that Serkis has a lot of experience in motion capture, Caesar in the first part has almost no lines, the change of mood is expressed by the eyes, and the highest score of the first series is 8.1 points, which is also an affirmation of Serkis's acting skills.
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The opening of the series and the highest rating in the series trilogy.
Generally, the first part of the series is to explain the background of the story and set the emotional tone, and "Rise of the Apes Ball" is no exception.
The opening chapter is that the biological company in order to try drugs to catch gorillas, as soon as it came up, it arranged humans on the morally inferior side, and the male protagonist took home the child of the female monkey who had been injected with drugs and raised it and named Caesar, Caesar was very smart, learned sign language, and during this time Caesar grew up happily.
But the turning point was after the man brought Caesar into the mangrove forest, when Caesar was already tall and very strong, but with a rope tied around his neck. When the audience has already regarded Caesar as an adult, the male protagonist does not, and this abrupt scene makes the audience feel strange. When he saw someone leading a dog with a leash, Caesar also realized that he was only the pet of the male owner.
Later, Caesar was imprisoned in the animal control center for protecting the male protagonist's father, and Caesar's blackening began.
Before entering the animal management center, Caesar still simply trusted humans very much, and did not expect that there were bad people. There is a long shot of Caesar entering the management center, that is, the back of Caesar from the activity area to the cage, Caesar walking with anticipation following the sound, but is suddenly locked in the cage. At this time, the surrounding orangutans began to scream, which was very oppressive, and the audience felt Caesar's despair at that time.
The destruction of the administrator and the disappointment of the male protagonist hastened Caesar's blackening, and Caesar decided to take revenge on humanity in a planned and step-by-step manner. Running out of the management center to steal a second-generation drug that is enough to kill humans has increased the IQ of all the orangutans in the management center. Eventually disturbed the order of the city and fled to the mangroves.
The fast pace of this film is impressive, a transition of three years, five years passed, Caesar grew from a naïve and kind little monkey to a black boss who stood against human beings, and the decisive factor in this transformation process was human beings themselves. By the time Caesar decided to take revenge on humans, humans had already lost, and with the same IQ, orangutans were stronger and more agile, and it was humans who killed themselves.
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The second story takes place ten years after the first, when ninety percent of humanity has become extinct due to the ape flu, and Caesar already has a family and children, and his capable officers are the biggest threat to Kuba.
Cuba
The storyline of this part is nothing new, the storyline is similar to that of "The Lion King", there is also a king, with his own son, and an enemy who looks fierce and fiercely covets the throne for a long time.
The movie opens with the apes hunting under Caesar's leadership, Caesar's son encounters a bear in the middle of the hunt, Caesar shouts for help to protect his son, Kuba hears the cry for help and rushes to rescue, and a move falls from the sky to kill the bear. From this plot, it can be seen that Kuba has an extraordinary relationship with Caesar.
Although Kuba was loyal to Caesar, Kuba did not approve of Caesar's attitude toward humanity. Although Caesar does not trust humans, but Caesar has always adhered to the bottom line of not killing, from the first many plots can be seen, in the case of many orangutans ready to kill, Caesar stopped in time, Caesar the only administrator to kill is also holding the electric baton to discharge himself electrocuted.
Kuba is different, his attitude towards humans is very extreme, must go to war with humans, either you die or I die. In fact, this is related to the environment in which Kuba grew up, Kuba was locked up in the laboratory by humans for a long time, and has been abused by humans to try drugs, so Kuba is full of hatred for humans.
Kuba saw that Caesar's relationship with humans was getting better and better, and psychologically unacceptable, so he attacked Caesar to marry humans, leading to the first large-scale war between humans and apes. In this war, both humans and apes suffered heavy casualties, and Caesar killed Kuba to regain leadership, but the contradictions with humans have intensified, and the state of peaceful coexistence with humans can no longer go back, laying the groundwork for the third part.
Caesar confronts mankind
The second part plays a role in carrying on from top to bottom, in fact, if there is no Kuba, humans and apes will also have a war, different races with the same wisdom can not live in peace with each other, and the ape race is still created by humans, from the bottom of human hearts look down on the ape race. The ape tribe had been tortured by humans before, and it had been Caesar who led the ape tribe to be restrained before they would be at peace for ten years. Even without Kuba, there would be others in the ape tribe who would stand up, and Kuba would have fulfilled his historical mission.
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Compared with the first two parts, the third part is suspected of being a dog-tailed sable.
Want to see the big scene please detour, the director in order to increase the depth of content, so that the warning is more profound, deliberately reduce the display of the big scene, originally wanted to start is the big war between humans and apes, but was filmed by the director into Caesar's personal redemption, the pattern suddenly became smaller.
In the opening human sneak attack war, the ape tribe has an absolute advantage, Caesar releases the captives, but what Caesar does not expect is that there are traitors in the ape tribe, which leads the colonel to invade the ape tribe and kill Caesar's son and wife, and Caesar embarks on the road of redemption to find the colonel to avenge his wife and children.
In addition to the smaller film layout of the third part, the plot is also somewhat contradictory, with some slots.
The first is that when the little girl walked into the concentration camp, she walked in in the bright light, and the guards ignored it, and then a group of soldiers came over and the little girl hid again, and the rocket actively exposed herself in order to attract the attention of the soldiers.
The second is that the place where the apes are imprisoned is fenced with barbed wire, there is no roof, and the guards should have a clear view, but in this case, the large-scale operation of the apes to dig tunnels has not been discovered.
The third is that the apes who used to follow Kuba turned to humans because they were afraid of punishment, and these apes themselves said that the apes would be destroyed by humans, but when Caesar was about to be executed, his conscience found out that he saved Caesar's life. There are many of the same kinds that have died at their own hands, and so on. Let the audience see the director's imprecision and have a feeling of forcing the ending.
In this part, the ape flu is also explained, although the existing humans are immune to this virus, but this virus will make living humans degenerate, the performance is that they can not speak, the main villain Colonel is because he is infected with the virus and causes himself to be unable to speak and commit suicide. This setting suddenly has a sense of fatalism, and even without apes, humans will gradually become extinct.
Eventually infighting between humans led to an avalanche that buried all humans. The planet of the apes was born.
In this series of films, humans are portrayed as selfish, greedy, and belligerent, while apes, which are inferior creatures in the eyes of humans, are very restrained and repeatedly tolerated, in stark contrast. Humans are inferior to apes.
In terms of movies, the "Rise of the Apes Ball" series, since 2011, has sharpened a sword every three years, and each one is the culmination of the current advanced film shooting technology, although it is high and low, it can also be called an excellent series of movies.