In the pursuit of audio-visual excitement in 2001, Tim Burton remakes a commercial film called "Zhaduier" which refers to the original movies and novels but weakens the philosophical connotation. It is translated as "Battle of the Apes" and played by his future wife Helena. Mother ape heroine. Bolton is not a success, but there are always many filmmakers like him who cannot forget this unprecedented story setting. Just when people think that this five-part remake is useless and give up, the 2011 "Rise of the Apes" Tell us that using the most advanced motion capture stunts, actors no longer have to wear "orangutan costumes" to play. "Live" chimpanzees (Chimpanzee), gorillas (Gorilla), and orangutans (Orangutan) can be directly on the screen as apes Endorsement, this story has also advanced with the times into the 21st century, and in "Dawn of the Apes" in July this year, the "orangutan control" will usher in the "live" orangutans of imax 3D.
In my childhood, I have been entangled with the question of whether animals have intelligence. Scientists always say that animals have no intelligence, they have only instincts. One of the arguments is that they cannot acquire human language. This difficult question, but relying on the mastery of language to master the concept of “anthropocentrism” of wisdom and civilization, shines into reality in the “planet of the apes”. So the setting of Bolton to keep human beings speaking instinct was problematic from the beginning, because there is no trace of "degradation".
How people degenerate and how the orangutans are in power, let us feel the mood of people waiting for five or six years to decipher: In the early 1970s, several astronauts volunteered to go to space. Taylor, headed by him, was already desperate for human nature and hoped to find something better than human beings. A better civilized world, when it landed in Earth time 3978, the teammates sacrificed or were animalized one after another, only Taylor proved to the orangutans that he was a smart creature, and witnessed the gorilla's warlikeness (here is the warlord chaebol) Representative), the stubbornness of the orangutan (here is the representative of academic politicians), the mastery of the chimpanzee (here is the representative of intellectuals and peaceful people), he escaped to the "forbidden zone" of the apes, but unfortunately saw the dilapidated Statue of Liberty— —It turns out that he has already returned to the earth, and the design here is also one of the best endings in film history; another astronaut followed Taylor to the future earth, and was captured by the rest of the intelligent humans into the "forbidden zone" together with Taylor. The mystery of the origin has been broken. The gorillas and orangutans, who no longer struggle with the question of whether apes evolved from humans, wiped out mankind, and Taylor, who was desperate for all intelligent creatures, pressed a button before he died, detonating mankind as a god. Worship of the atomic bomb, the destruction of the earth...; Chimpanzee Chimpanzee Chimpanzee and Cornelius, who had helped Taylor and others, traveled backwards in spacecraft to the 70s two thousand years ago, and revealed the prophecy of birth and death, which is shocking— -There will be a plague that will kill all cats, cats, dogs and dogs. Humans will domesticate apes as pets until ape slavery develops. Finally, there will be Aldo, the ape who only says "No", who will lead the apes to resist and conquer the earth. In the end, the earth was destroyed in the above-mentioned decisive battle with humans, so the baby born by the chimpanzee couple became the target of suspicion of the US government's all-out efforts to hunt and kill; the baby who was dropped was brought up by the circus troupe. As expected, he can speak and think like a human. Sure enough, he led the apes to usher in the dawn of the apes. His name is Caesar, the name of the king of Rome; and Aldor does exist. He is a martial gorilla next to Caesar who intends to subvert his rule. He lives in an underground city and was bombed by an atomic bomb. Radiation deformed humans counterattacked the ape stronghold. With the help of human friends, Caesar saw the video of his parents and learned that he was shouldering the destiny of the human apes on the entire planet. He defended himself against humans, put down the Aldor rebellion, and persisted. Peace policy, the apes and the apes lived in peace during the six hundred years after his death, but whether the earth could survive the catastrophe in the end, maybe only the "dead" would know...
Not only their irony about evolution and the human social system is very interesting, but what’s more interesting is that without Taylor’s trip, there would be no trip to chimpanzee couples, the birth of Caesar and the rise of the ape tribe. This is the current and future cycle. Certainly, in the science fiction film there are also "Dike" (1962) and "Twelve Monkeys" (1995) before and after echoes. In the Bolton version, the cycle set becomes an astronaut who goes to an alien, loses contact, travels to the future, and rushes to rescue a group of orangutans brought to this star by his large force. They evolve rapidly, rise up, and finally occupy the planet. After many twists and turns, the astronaut finally returned to Earth, only to find that Lincoln turned out to be a chimpanzee—this ending is similar to the ending of the original novel. In addition to the wonderful stories, the basic issues of human beings are touched one by one in this series, such as the warlike nature (no fight is boring), the power of imitation, the struggle between scientific enlightenment and ignorance and parochialism, the cruel fate of pursuing truth, and the danger of adhering to virtue. ... How are the "Bible" or human history books written? Master the history now. At the beginning of God's creation of the world, humans and apes "can be" an equal relationship of divide and conquer. Aldo the gorilla will certainly not say NO in the "Bible" scroll. The nature of human beings or intelligent creatures seems to have never changed. They are stupid, narrow-minded, aggressive, and of course kind, and they have a desire for love.
love? That’s right, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Puritan Americans did not dare to boldly copy the spiritual love between Gila and the astronaut in the original novel—the astronaut asked "Can I kiss you?" "Yes, but you are too" It’s ugly.” In 2001, Bolton sublimated the kiss of friendship to the kiss of cross-species love, and hinted at the struggle of human beings between physical love and spiritual love in the novel. You want to be beautiful to the world without a brain A female animal, or a female orangutan with high IQ and EQ that can communicate with you on an equal footing?
Is the grand narrative full of philosophical inquiries too far away? Deeply trapped in this story, recalling the social and cultural environment of those audiences at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, you may feel their subtle mood when they go to the cinema to watch this series. Anti-war hippie culture and feminist movement, exploring the human ambitions of the universe, the Cold War Vietnam War nuclear war and the white-matter removal of the American white terror shadow, the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968 and a series of black American riots throughout the 1960s ……The audience back then was eloquent or lingering? That's right, it was a black brother who helped Caesar conquer the earth and later became his right-hand man! And Jira, referring to the previous analysis of love relationship, isn't she the representative of the new woman? The perspective of the novel itself is also broad and universal. For example, the author's satire on the human beings on the stock exchange is like an animal, and we can already see a vigorous interpretation in "The Wolf of Wall Street" (2013). Will the future "Ape Ball" story involve ape life outside the realm of biology? How will the future "Ape Ball" story impress the most contemporary audiences from all over the world with the most contemporary elements?
The cleverness of "The Rise of the Apes" is that it continues the spirit of the series, especially the fighting spirit of the underlying intelligent creatures, but the background is set in the new 21st century, so that it has become a modern Wu Yusen style Sci-fi action movie. Due to the consensus of the world, the weapon of extinction that humans fear most is no longer the atomic bomb, but the scientific laboratories that do research on drugs and viruses. No matter the reason for the rise of the apes or the result of human infection with the virus that is implied at the end, they are still there. Said that humans are their own gravediggers. In the novel, human beings love work, are timid and afraid of things, don't like to think. They only know that they can play through the game in the corner. Will this alarming and quiet grave digging "degradation" precursor be seen in the sequel? Abandoning the nostalgia of the ancient Roman era in the original series, the orangutan king named after Caesar in Shakespeare's plays will meet Brutus—Aldo—betrayed him again? Will Morris the orangutan be like in the original Will Virgil the wise man help him like that? Will humans coexist peacefully with the apes? This is my fantasy and expectation of "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes".
This article is slightly different from the content published in iweekly in July. Congratulations to Caesars for the big box office sales in North America!
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