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- And though this last installment in the excellent contemporary Apes trilogy (preceded by 2011’s Rise and 2014’s Dawn) isn’t a direct Bible story retelling, it incorporates elements that echo the Bible, and leans hard on the Biblical epic’s hallmarks, too: vast and ancient-feeling stories of oppression, betrayal, and triumph, mixed with small moments of human drama.
Jul 13, 2017 · War for the Planet of the Apes is a better Biblical epic than most recent Biblical epics. That the movie evokes a Biblical epic so successfully is significant all on its own.
Jul 15, 2017 · We wanted this movie to resemble a biblical epic, but also maintain the western feel that “Dawn” started. And of course, we wanted to have a war movie, because the last film sent the...
Oct 19, 2017 · That’s exactly what one reviewer identified as the strength of the summer blockbuster War for the Planet of the Apes—a great science fiction movie about evolving apes that is essentially “a mirror to what human beings are like in 2017.”
In War for the Planet of the Apes, Caesar and his tribe of apes are faced with total destruction by the Colonel (Woody Harrelson), a brutal military commander who hunts Caesar.
Jul 15, 2017 · When forming the epic conclusion to the “Planet of the Apes” reboot trilogy and deciding how to end Caesar’s journey from research facility captive to legendary ape liberator, writer Mark ...
Jul 15, 2017 · “We wanted the movie to be, on a certain level, a biblical epic.” War marks the end for Serkis' Caesar in the trilogy, which started with 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Jul 13, 2017 · At times the film plays like an old-school revenge Western sprinkled with elements of Biblical epic and doomsday sci-fi. The second half in which Caesar is captured and thrown into a simian...
