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And then Caesar draws himself up to his full height and bellows his first word- “No!” The intake of breath from every single audience member was deafening. So when Caesar’s plan is put into motion, and Felton delivers a certain line, made immortal by Charlton Heston, you could be excused for rolling your eyes, or even tittering.Īnd up to this point in the film, we’ve skirted around the idea that scientists, experimenting on chimps, could have simply not noticed how one of their chimps was pregnant, or the idea of monkey subtitles, and now Draco Malfoy is saying “Take your stinking paws off me, you damn, dirty ape.” When I saw the film, there were titters from other viewers. One of the film’s only weaknesses is the way in which it uses the profiles of actors Brian Cox and Tom Felton to get around actually fleshing out their characters – we know they’re arseholes because we’ve seen them play arseholes in the past, and there’s little more motivation necessary.
It also throws up another of the year’s best scenes, at the ape refuge centre. Credit obviously goes to WETA too, and also to screenwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, who tell a story of science gone wrong that spans across several years, and refuses to make any broad strokes, delivering an tightly structured emotional tale, with properly developed characters. Serkis’ performance was far more than, as one armchair commentator remarked, “running slightly sideways with wrist stilts on.” We can understand those who are indignant about the possibilty that recognising Serkis is reductive of the work done by the film’s visual effects artists, at WETA, but just a look at the Academy Awards shortlist in that category makes plaudits seem much more certain than the possibility of recognition for the acting.īut all of this quibbling over awards is only to say that we believe Andy Serkis gave one of the best performances of the year, which was one part of bringing Caesar to life so vividly. It’s not enough to merely say that it’s expressive, as we might have said of his previous simian acting, in 2005’s King Kong. Serkis is a tremendous actor, and his role in Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes only cements his position as the best possible proponent for performance capture technology. For this, and many other reasons, there has been talk that Andy Serkis, who plays Caesar, deserves an Oscar nomination. Although James Franco is top-billed, there can be no doubt that Caesar is the main character, and that the film does a terrific job of putting that to the forefront. The business of this article is simply to talk about why the film is one of our favourites of the year, but we must at least scratch the surface of the debate about the film’s lead performance. The ape is more intelligent than others of his kind and, soon enough, he learns that not all humans are quite as nice as his adoptive family.
Will raises the baby, more or less like a human child, and names him Caesar. A chaotic and high-profile incident, involving one of the chimps being let loose into the corporation’s headquarters, sets back Will’s research by several years, but it also leads to a new discovery – one of Will’s chimps, weaned on his virus, has given birth to a second-generation ALZ-112 chimp.
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