If War for the Planet of the Apes arguably pushes this achievement even further, it’s not just thanks to performance capture but also because of the extraordinary sensitivity to texture apparent in the work of studio Weta Digital and the team led by visual effects supervisor Dan Lemmon and Joe Letteri (credited as Senior Visual Effects Supervisor). Thanks to these techniques, Dawn’s various apes-including Caesar, played by Andy Serkis, and the warlike Koba, played by Toby Kebbell-felt more unnervingly autonomous than pretty much any similar VFX attempts to create convincing life-forms. It was largely to do with the apparent miracle of performance capture, which uses data from an actor’s body and face and essentially “decants” their physical being-their soul, if you want to see it that way-into a digitally constructed artificial body.
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I don’t often swoon over CGI in movies these days, but the last episode, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, also directed by Reeves (I missed Wyatt’s series opener), had a distinct air of revelation. The potency of the Planet of the Apes relaunch trilogy (beginning in 2011 with Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of…) lies in the unprecedented effectiveness of its CGI, which makes these apes walk, talk, and emote like no screen primate before-certainly not the latex-faced creatures of the original ’60s-’70s Planet of the Apes series, however nostalgic we may feel about them. Caesar’s eyes are indeed uncannily eloquent. Of course, the Harrelson character is also delivering a commentary on the technical brilliance of Matt Reeves’s film.
But the comment also derives an ironic charge from the film’s visual execution: Caesar’s eyes are consistently alive, expressive, while the Colonel’s, when not hidden by cobalt blue aviator shades, are often reduced to pools of ominous dark, occasionally lit by a feral gleam. “My God,” says Woody Harrelson’s Colonel, gazing into the eyes of alpha chimpanzee Caesar in War for the Planet of the Apes, “look at your eyes-they look almost human.” It’s a line laden with ironic meaning, given that “human” isn’t likely to sound like a compliment to the leader of the species that’s about to make homo sapiens obsolete on earth.
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