Two films on release in the UK later this week, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the documentary Project Nim, demonstrate that fact is stranger – and sadder – than fiction
Project Nim in pictures
Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which goes on general release in the UK from Thursday, is a prequel to the original film. Or perhaps it's a prequel to the prequel? At the film's climax there was clearly still more "evolution is revolution" to come from 20th Century Fox's simian uprising franchise.
The fictional life story of the chimp Caesar, played by Andy Serkis, is similar to the real-life story of a chimp called Nim who was born at the Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates in Tuxedo, New York, raised by a human family and learned to communicate through sign language.
The fictional Caesar undergoes genetic modification and develops spoken language,...
Project Nim in pictures
Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which goes on general release in the UK from Thursday, is a prequel to the original film. Or perhaps it's a prequel to the prequel? At the film's climax there was clearly still more "evolution is revolution" to come from 20th Century Fox's simian uprising franchise.
The fictional life story of the chimp Caesar, played by Andy Serkis, is similar to the real-life story of a chimp called Nim who was born at the Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates in Tuxedo, New York, raised by a human family and learned to communicate through sign language.
The fictional Caesar undergoes genetic modification and develops spoken language,...
- 8/9/2011
- by Carole Jahme
- The Guardian - Film News
Carole Jahme talks to Peter Elliott about his study of chimp behaviour and how it landed him some top Hollywood roles
Ever wondered how movie directors achieve those intimate shots of actors cosying up to apes? Sigourney Weaver managed several close encounters in Gorillas in the Mist, so did Rene Russo in Buddy, and Christopher Lambert made perfect contact in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. Adult gorillas and chimpanzees have a talent for carnage, and prized actors frolicking with real apes is an insurer's nightmare. Enter ape actor, Peter Elliott. For it was Elliott, in animated ape costume, who got to gaze adoringly at Weaver and Russo. Elliott has also choreographed hominids and played one in Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1981 film Quest for Fire.
Before Hugh Hudson's Greystoke in 1979, the apes used in movies were all youngsters. Hudson wanted his chimps to be the size of adult chimps,...
Ever wondered how movie directors achieve those intimate shots of actors cosying up to apes? Sigourney Weaver managed several close encounters in Gorillas in the Mist, so did Rene Russo in Buddy, and Christopher Lambert made perfect contact in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. Adult gorillas and chimpanzees have a talent for carnage, and prized actors frolicking with real apes is an insurer's nightmare. Enter ape actor, Peter Elliott. For it was Elliott, in animated ape costume, who got to gaze adoringly at Weaver and Russo. Elliott has also choreographed hominids and played one in Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1981 film Quest for Fire.
Before Hugh Hudson's Greystoke in 1979, the apes used in movies were all youngsters. Hudson wanted his chimps to be the size of adult chimps,...
- 10/14/2010
- by Carole Jahme
- The Guardian - Film News
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