![]() ![]() ![]() The reason for this draws back to recollection: as a viewer, we already know what’s going to happen. Still, Caesar isn’t the hero like George Taylor (played by Charlton Heston) is the hero of the original 1968 film, Planet of the Apes. Viewers sympathize with Caesar - the chimp who starts off as Rodman’s hyper-intelligent pet but then leads the uprising - and eventually root for him because his oppressors are so oppressive. Interestingly, despite their fury, the apes are not made out to be the bad guys. At first, the outcome is miraculous, then, it is horrifying. The drug has tremendous results, making the apes smarter, and calculating. Will Rodman –- played by James Franco -– tests an experimental brain-mending medication on Chimpanzees. In this seventh, yet first, Planet of the Apes film, Dr. Like the drug, it’s about forced recollection: the film fights to jolt the viewer’s cognizance, to make sure the viewer doesn’t forget. Rise of the Planet of the Apes is, above all else, a movie about and reliant upon memory. It’s appropriate that the drug that leads to the ape uprising, as well as the destruction of humanity, was one designed to cure Alzheimer’s disease. ![]()
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