Planet of the Apes: Prevolution
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| German title | Planet of the Apes: Prevolution |
| Original title | Rise of the Planet of the Apes |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 105 minutes |
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| Director | Rupert Wyatt |
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Rick Jaffa Amanda Silver |
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Peter Chernin Dylan Clark Rick Jaffa Amanda Silver |
| music | Patrick Doyle |
| camera | Andrew Lesnie |
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Conrad Buff IV Mark Goldblatt |
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Planet of the Apes: Prevolution (Original title: Rise of the Planet of the Apes ) is an American science fiction film by director Rupert Wyatt from 2011 and the first of three successive parts. The film is loosely based on the novel The Planet of the Apes by the French writer Pierre Boulle and the various film adaptations of the subject since the 1960s. He tells a history that differs from the novel and the film series about how the apes could become the dominant species on earth.
action
Will Rodman works as a scientist at a pharmaceutical company testing a drug to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. With his father Charles Rodman suffering from incipient dementia, Will is under time pressure to make the progress necessary to begin human trials.
However, the upcoming product launch ends in disaster when the chimpanzee Bright Eyes suddenly becomes aggressive, the laboratory is ravaged and is ultimately shot in front of the board members. Despite the clear effect of the drug on the monkeys' intelligence, Will's supervisor, Steven Jacobs, canceled the project due to the incident and ordered animal keeper Robert Franklin to put the remaining test monkeys to sleep immediately.
During the subsequent cleanup, Franklin discovers that Bright Eyes has apparently recently given birth and interprets the reason for her aggressive behavior as protection for her boy. Since Franklin does not have the heart to kill the newborn, Will secretly takes the young chimpanzee home and gives him the name Caesar.
Desperate about his father's progressive dementia, Will gives him the drug, which quickly improves his health. Caesar developed tremendous intellectual abilities over the next five years as he grew up. Will treats him like family and teaches him sign language. When Caesar had to sew a wound, Will met the treating veterinarian Caroline Aranha and she finally moved in with him. The two visit the Muir Woods National Monument several times with Caesar , where it becomes clear to the chimpanzee that his own status is more like that of a pet. Caesar then openly questions his identity and learns everything about his origin from Will.
Over time, Charles' health worsened as his immune system made antibodies against the virus. Caesar witnesses a confrontation between the confused Charles and his neighbor Douglas Hunsiker, and he attacks the Hunsiker to protect Charles. Due to a court order, Caesar is then taken out of Will's care and placed in a primate shelter, where the other chimpanzees and the warden Dodge Landon treat him cruelly. With the help of Buck, a gorilla, he defeated the alpha male among the chimpanzees, Rocket, and claimed his position.
Will tells Jacobs about the medium-term healing of his father and thereby obtains permission to continue researching the drug. He developed an improved drug shortly afterwards, but Charles refused to take it and died overnight. In the laboratory, animal keeper Franklin accidentally exposes himself to the new drug and becomes ill. When he tries to warn Will in his house, he sneezes blood on Hunsiker and is later discovered dead. Meanwhile, Will bribes the director of the shelter to take Caesar with him, but the chimpanzee refuses to come with him. Instead, he escapes the facility the following night and steals several canisters of the drug from Will's house. He returns to the shelter and releases the gas that significantly increases the intelligence of the other great apes overnight. When Dodge tries to get him back into his cage, Caesar utters his first word: "No!". The monkeys flee the facility, break into the laboratories and a zoo, and release their conspecifics imprisoned there.
Jacobs grasps the situation and lets the police hunt down the leader Caesar. This leads the monkeys over the Golden Gate Bridge into the nearby forest. On the bridge, the monkeys have to fight their way past a police blockade. In addition to several police officers, Jacobs also dies when he is killed by Koba, who has had a terrible past in the test laboratory.
The monkeys eventually find their way into the forest, where Will follows them and Caesar warns that the humans would keep hunting them. He asks Caesar to return home with him. Instead of an answer, Caesar hugs him and says that he is already home. Will now knows that this is a goodbye forever and respects Caesar's decision.
Unbeknownst to the scientists, the new drug has side effects that are fatal for humans but not for monkeys. Hunsiker, a pilot by trade, was splattered with blood by Franklin by sneezing, infected and spread the disease across the world: A graphic shows the spread of the virus via international flight routes to Europe and then around the globe.
production
Production notes, publication
In contrast to the first five films in the Planet of the Apes film series and the remake of 2001 that was independent of them, the primates in this film were not portrayed by actors in masks, but realized using a performance capture process . The actors' movements and facial expressions were recorded at the real location and later transferred to a "monkey cover" on the computer.
Main shooting began on July 5, 2010 and ended on September 17, 2010. Additional shots were re-shot from April 18, 2011 to May 2, 2011. It was filmed mainly in British Columbia (in Vancouver and the Mammoth Studios in Burnaby ), also on Oahu and in San Francisco .
The cost of producing the film was estimated at around $ 90 million. On the first weekend, Planet of the Apes: Prevolution achieved sales of around 54 million US dollars in the USA. The film also climbed to number 1 on the US box office. In Germany, the film also topped the box office in the first week with sales of around € 3.1 million.
The cinema release in the USA was on August 5, 2011, in Germany and Austria on August 11, 2011.
Awards (selection)
Andy Serkis received the Saturn Award in the category “Best Supporting Actor” in 2012 for his portrayal of Caesar . The production itself received a Saturn Award for the best science fiction film and for the best special effects . In 2012 the film was also nominated for an Oscar in the category “Best Visual Effects” . There was also a British Academy Film Award nomination in the same category . It also won the German Curt Siodmak Prize in 2012 for best science fiction film.
Notes and allusions
The origin of Caesar in the film is different from that in the film series of the 1960s and 1970s, so a new story is told. However, the film has numerous allusions and references to other Planet of the Apes films:
- The name Dodge Landon pays homage to the two astronauts Dodge ( Jeff Burton ) and Landon ( Robert Gunner ), with whom George Taylor was stranded on the planet of the apes in 1968.
- The phrase “take your paws off me, you filthy monkey,” Dodge said to Caesar appears in both the 1968 film and the 2001 remake. In 2001 the gorilla general Attar ( Michael Clarke Duncan ) expressed it in the opposite sense to the human Leo Davidson ( Mark Wahlberg ) and said: "Take your dirty hands off me, you damned, smelly human!"
- The name Steven Jacobs is a tribute to Arthur P. Jacobs , the producer of all five original Planet of the Apes films .
- The orangutan that Caesar befriends in the monkey prison is called Maurice . This is a tribute to the 1968 film and to actor Maurice Evans , who originally portrayed orangutan scientist Dr. Embodied Zaius .
- Dodge Landon punishes Caesar in one scene by spraying him with a strong jet of water so that it is pressed against the cage wall, reminiscent of a scene in the 1968 film in which Taylor is in a cage and by the gorilla Julius ( Buck Kartalian ) is harassed with a jet of water.
- Caesar plays with a character from the Statue of Liberty at Will Rodman's house . In the first film adaptation of the material, Taylor stumbles upon the remains of the Statue of Liberty towards the end of the film and realizes by this that he has been on earth the whole time.
- Caesar was the name of Zira's son in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and The Battle for the Planet of the Apes .
- The gorilla who helps Caesar break out of the ape house is called Buck , according to the cage label , a tribute to the actor Buck Kartalian, who portrayed the gorilla Julius in 1968.
- Caesar's first spoken word is "No". In the film Conquest of the Planet of the Apes , Caesar also begins the rebellion against human abuse with this word.
- In one scene there is a film on television with Charlton Heston , the leading actor in the first film adaptation from 1968.
- One of the monkeys is named Cornelia - a reference to Dr. Cornelius from the first part.
- During the film you can see a news clip about a manned Mars mission and a short time later the newspaper headline “Lost in Space” , which is an allusion to the spaceship that was moved into the future in the first part.
- In one scene at the animal shelter, Caesar waves two fingers to a man at his cage in order to hold him down and steal his knife unobtrusively. In the 1968 film, Taylor used the same gesture to give Dr. Zira stole a writing pad and pen.
- Caesar's mother is called Bright Eyes . Dr. Zira names Taylor with the same name in the English original from 1968 (in the German version: blank eye ).
- In the deleted scenes, which are included on DVD and Blu-Ray, Caesar is shown solving a puzzle. The puzzle shows two people riding a horse on the beach. This image is a nod to the ending of the first Planet of the Apes film, in which Taylor rides a horse with Nova into an uncertain future.
German voice actors
The voice actors for the German version were:
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Reviews
“This creates a new fluidity in the transition between the real and the digital parts of the images. In addition, Andy Serkis, the actor who has grasped the possibilities and challenges of performance capture like no other, is now perfect in his portrayal (and one might be afraid of an Andy-Serkis-like character of all hybrids in US cinema ). In 'The Rise of the Planet of the Apes' digital and photographic representatives are as equal and interwoven as humans and monkeys. "
“Now it is a long way from Burton's disaster to a visionary cult series. 'Planet of the Apes: Prevolution' is somewhere in between. Sometimes the history of drug-powered evolution exaggerates a little, and that doesn't do the film any good. Caesar, on the other hand, is really spectacular. Played (if you can still say that in a CGI makeover) by Peter Jackson's monster wonder weapon Andy Serkis . This Boris Karloff 2.0 once gave Gollum in ' The Lord of the Rings ' and the giant ape in ' King Kong ' so much humanity that the viewer could actually forget the special effects for a while. Serkis' Caesar is also eerily good at times. Above all, the eyes show how far the effects actually are. "
“Caesar is intelligent, but not strong. The uprising is a matter of organization - the director Rupert Wyatt showed something like this before in his debut ' The Escapist '. In 'Prevolution', the mobilization of the oppressed conspecifics up to a grandiose staged battle with the police on the Golden Gate Bridge breathes a revolutionary pathos, a just anger that is irresistibly sweeping. 'Prevolution' counteracts the American superhero individualism, which is celebrated to death in the cinema, with the power of the oppressed masses. This is how this great science fiction fairy tale creates a political perspective - you would never have expected it in a film like this. "
“In advance, one inevitably thought that another infusion of the 'Planet of the Apes' saga could not be much more than an indication of Hollywood's lack of ideas. What narrative added value should be drawn from the old primate parable that was not already to be found in the dystopian classic 'Planet of the Apes' (1968) or in the charmingly alarmistic sequels of that time? [...] And on top of that, there is such a tried and tested play on words in the German title that sounds like a bad brainstorming lull in the advertising agency. No, no surprises were expected here, especially no positive ones. All the more astonishing is the realization that 'Planet of the Apes: Prevolution' - or 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' - is one of the most convincing science fiction films of recent years, despite all [sic!] Reservations. "
“Actually, 'Planet of the Apes - Prevolution' is a simple story: Someone reaches for world domination, as is so often the case in the scenarios of science fiction. This time not zombies or aliens, but monkeys. And what's special is that you even grant them world domination - at the end of the film, when you've learned that they are better people anyway. [...] Because 'Prevolution' is definitely meant didactically. The film wants to convey a message that is coded somewhat through tricks and action, but does not tolerate any ironic dangling: Man deserves his downfall. You can see it here in his greed for money and fame, in his focus on his own advantage, but above all in the way he treats other primates. "
“The exciting prehistory of the series of films made in the late 1960s offers an interesting reinterpretation of the subject. A touching family drama and an exciting " Spartacus " story, mirrored on primates, are skillfully combined with borrowings from the disaster film to create a dense, clever genre film in which convincing actors and excellent computer effects compensate for some logical weaknesses. "
Sequels
In November 2011, 20th Century Fox announced that it would produce a sequel. Planet of the Apes: Revolution was directed by Matt Reeves from late 2012 and was released in cinemas worldwide in the summer of 2014.
In January 2014, 20th Century Fox announced that it would produce a third installment. The film is called Planet of the Apes: Survival (OT: War of the Planet of the Apes ) and was again produced under the direction of Matt Reeves. The release was originally scheduled for 2016, but has been postponed to July 2017.
literature
- Thomas Bohrmann : Animal ethics: The way humans deal with animals - "Planet of the apes: Prevolution". In: Thomas Bohrmann, Matthias Reichelt, Werner Veith (eds.): Applied ethics and film. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-20390-0 , pp. 339–368.
Web links
- Planet of the Apes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website - German
- Planet of the Apes: Prevolution at Metacritic (English)
- Of the Apes Planet: Prevolution at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Approval for Planet of the Apes: Prevolution . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2011 (PDF; test number: 128 626 K).
- ↑ Age designation for Planet of the Apes: Prevolution . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Financial data
- ↑ American cinema charts
- ↑ Starting weekly box office results in Germany
- ↑ Planet of the Apes: Prevolution in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ^ Film review Das Subject der Revolte
- ↑ Film review Primat der Primaten
- ↑ Film review Cheers to the primates' international!
- ↑ Film review Outrage, you monkeys!
- ↑ Film review Look what the monkey can do
- ↑ Planet of the Apes: Prevolution. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Matt Reeves Confirmed to Helm 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'
- ↑ start date . imdb.com. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
- ↑ David McNary: Tatum's X-Men Spinoff to Hit Theaters in 2016 , variety.com. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
Films: Planet of the Apes (1968) | Return to the Planet of the Apes (1970) | Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) | Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) | The Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) | Planet of the Apes (2001) | Planet of the Apes: Prevolution (2011) | Planet of the Apes: Revolution (2014) | Planet of the Apes: Survival (2017)
TV Show: Planet of the Apes (1974) | Return to the Planet of the Apes (1975)