Rise of the Planets of the Apes
In the 2011 American film, Rise of the Planet Apes, Director Rupert Wyatt has been able to bring together a developed film from the series of the Planet of the Apes. This film stars James Franco and Andy Serkis who worked together to discover a special bond between human and ape. Franco played the role of Will, a devoted scientist from San Francisco who was tasked to discover a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. He has been testing on chimpanzees and the genetic composition of the retrovirus mutates as it enters the DNA of the chimpanzee. This was further made interesting as Will discovered that the chimpanzee began to demonstrate the intelligence as that of a human’s.
One of the more successful subjects was a female chimpanzee called Bright Eyes. She appears to be extremely upset after secretly giving birth because she believed that her baby chimp was hurt. Because of her actions, she was killed and together with this, Will’s testing facility was also put to a close. However, Will cannot find it in his heart to kill the baby chimp so he takes it home and called it Caesar. Brought about by the genetic mutation in the body of his mother, Caesar was able to inherit her intelligence making it very easy for him to learn and adapt.
After a few years of secretly continuing his research, Will gives his father the retrovirus sample and saw improvement in his condition. But years after this, his father’s Alzheimer’s disease returns and worsens. Will continued to work of a new virus that is stronger and more effective than the first one. Soon, the father of Will experiences more and more problems which includes an incident when he gets into the car of the neighbor and causes damages to it. Caesar saw how the neighbor attacked Will’s father making him fume with anger. He attacks the neighbor causing him to be taken away and be sent to a primate facility in San Bruno.
Caesar experienced cruelty in the San Bruno facility together with all other apes being kept there. Soon, he gained the trust of one of the care takers in the facility. When one of his guards came too close to him, Caesar grabbed a pocket knife which he used to escape from his cage. He steals canisters of the new retrovirus and releases these through the caged areas. Caesar frees all the other apes that were exposed to the virus giving all of them an enhanced intelligence. They all escaped from the facility and freed more apes from the San Francisco Zoo where Will used to work in the past.
The apes have exhausted all their capacities to fight against the blockages made by the police. They made it to the forest were Will searched for Caesar, who was now capable of speaking. Will convinces Caesar to stop fighting because they will certainly be killed by people which is why he wants to take him back home. Caesar replied by saying that he is indeed home as he moved up to the redwood forest together with all the other primates.