Just a few months ago, I watched all of the Planet of the Apes series. Except for the classic first part, the rest are more dog-tailed. An explosion in the second part completely blows up the openness of the story, and the third The ministry had to return to the modern earth to tell the story of the brutal persecution of a human ape diplomatic ambassador. The fourth part is more critical. It succeeded the previous episode. The murdered ape ambassador gave birth to a baby chimpanzee, so Caesar, the father of the apes, appeared on the stage. However, because of dissatisfaction with human cruelty, a revolution was set off at the end, but the fifth part failed to continue the fourth part’s storyline, perhaps because the war to subvert humanity is really magnificent than the technology and cost of the time and the audience’s thoughts. I’m really drowsy. Although Tim Burton’s remake is the same as the boss, both pioneered and innovative in makeup technology, but Tim, who has always been slant, has been criticized for placing the human role as the savior of the apes this time because of his “main theme”.
From the traditional theory of evolution, the apes are the predecessors of mankind, and the apes naturally represent barbarism, backwardness and stupidity in people's consciousness. Then the novel Planet of the Apes boldly designed the apes into a more intelligent and intelligent creature than human beings. They are brave, united and have a sense of justice, while humans have become cruel oppressors. In "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", when chimpanzees, mountain gorillas, and baboons fought against slow-reacting humans, the theory of evolution failed.
In fact, the theory of evolution is a distortion of Darwin's arrogant self-esteem by humans, and natural selection is an interpretation of the Chinese people's fallacy. In recent years, biologists have been re-imagining the true meaning of Darwin’s thoughts, and have developed the concept of evolutionary theory, which means that life is only changing, rather than transitioning from low to high. Humans and chimpanzees are just branches of primates. The step-by-step relationship, the evolution map for 200 years is also a mistake. It shows that species are advancing in a straight line. Such a map has only been revised in recent years. The evolutionary history should be a big tree. An inconspicuous end, such as horses, is only a race that decayed after the prosperity of the ancestor horses. In Darwin's eyes, the most valuable species on earth is earthworms. The survival ability of human beings is no higher than that of earthworms that have been standing for hundreds of millions of years. Human beings are just an accident in the history of evolution. Therefore, the root of this story is human bullying and arrogance.
Closer to home, "Rise of the Apes" is very clever to pull the story back to the epic battle that has not been described in the video. This episode is just a prelude to the magnificent chapter. Moreover, it locks the perspective steadily on Caesar and the orangutans he leads, so that all human roles are polished, thus sweeping away the alien feeling brought by the previous series of orangutans. Andy Serkis's intrepid performance has shaped Caesar extremely three-dimensional, allowing every audience to be in it. The paradox of the Planet of the Apes series is that it regards humans as the number one enemy, and the audience's position is also consciously on the side of the apes. In "Rise of the Apes", whether it is the shock of Caesar's first speech, or his agile leader-like leading apes into the streets of humans, beating, smashing, looting and burning, the audience feels that the blood is swollen, even in the end humans The society is completely disintegrated, and I must be cheering for it. On the surface, the "Planet of the Apes" series stands on the opposite side of mankind, but he can clearly feel his love and hatred and his sense of moral correctness. why is that? Do we really hate ourselves so much?
If we think about it carefully, it’s not that we’re distorted in our hearts, because when a chimpanzee is full of mind and speaks, then it is not an ordinary animal. The apes reflect the other side of human nature, that is, the universal desire for freedom and opposition to oppression. The world’s feelings, and in this series of worldviews, human beings have naturally become profit-only, cruel and ruthless rulers. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is a movie about revolution. We all like to watch the story of heroes in troubled times, uniting the weak to resist the shackles of power, because each of us is the weak of society, and we must obey the constraints of dogma and system, so that we are deep in our hearts. There is a turbulent and wonderful dream that desires to subvert reality everywhere. "Rise of the Apes" is such an extremely impactful dream.
Caesar’s story is not overhead. It is not an amplified race war, but a war between justice and evil in human nature. In the story, both humans and apes are humans. We can’t help being excited and moved by Caesar’s encounter. Infected by the exalted and precious side of humanity, but not instigated by the creator to take refuge in the brutal animality.
The cost of "Rise of the Apes" is not more than 100 million yuan, and it is basically used for special effects production, and the film did not deliberately create a large scene for the visual. The lens is really enjoyable. In addition, apart from James Franco, who is on the rise, there are no big names in this film, because the real star of the film is Caesar. He is the crystallization of human technology and was raised by a human dad. He gradually realized that he would never be able to integrate into humans. Society, for humans, is a humble alien and experimental object. He has experienced timidity, fear, loss and sadness, and finally found his home in his companions, so this is also a story about growth.
The film laid a lot of foreshadowing for the sequel. Scarfaced chimpanzees are destined to betray Caesar. The spread of virus 113 means that the real extinction of humans is not the apes, but the humans themselves. If this is the case, the apes will be slaughtered by the war. The problem of moral imbalance in drama brought about is solved. At least there is no scene in the film depicting apes killing innocent people, and Caesar repeatedly prevented his men from killing humans. Of course, as the sequel progresses, the dark side of Caesar rises and becomes a tyrant. Whoever makes his name is Caesar. At the end, when Caesar and his partner stood on the huge red cedar tree and looked at San Francisco eagerly, I subconsciously thought, San Francisco, you are finished.
Whether it is the "Planet of the Apes" series of movies or novels, the most valuable thing is the reflection of human beings on their own cultural crisis. It was the day when the earth’s population exceeded 7 billion. The one-hundred-year industrial and technological revolution has brought devastating persecution to the earth and its living creatures. There are hundreds of millions of people suffering from hunger due to excess food. Excessive fishing has severely damaged the marine ecology. The biological chain is on the verge of disintegration, and the pollution caused by nuclear leakage cannot be eliminated for millions of years. Human beings are at the tipping point of extinction but are ignorant. If a self-proclaimed civilization is leading its species to decline rapidly, then what can be considered? How about it? At this time, Hollywood is catering to the postmodern hard science fiction doomsday trend and regaining the "Rise of the Apes", vividly depicting the greed of human beings and the tenacious resistance of other species. Self-conscious reflection is undoubtedly a modern apocalypse, but then again. , We can cheer for the orangutans, it seems to prove that we still have some help.
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