The most prominent new thematic idea is, essentially, a ‘quest theme,’ accompanying Caesar, Rocket, Maurice, and the rest of the small group of apes who head off to deal with The Colonel and his men while the remainder of the colony heads for the promised land.
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This climactic performance begins with tender intimacy through several statements on a solo piano, but grows to fully embrace pseudo-religious glory with the full orchestra and choir – appropriately so, considering the symbolism of the moment.
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It builds gradually through the stirring “Migration” and reaches its zenith in the warm and welcoming “Paradise Found,” the culmination of an epic journey to a promised land. The theme is actually absent for a great deal of the score’s middle section, only returning during the film’s finale. The first performance of it in this score is in the animated and aggressive “The Ecstasy of the Bold,” where the theme is given a more heroic makeover with bright horns, a faster tempo, and accompanying chanted vocals. The centerpiece of the score, as was the case in the previous installment, is the ‘big emotional theme’ that appears to represent Caesar’s destiny, and his hopes and dreams for a better life for his colony of apes, away from the dangerous influence of humans. Thankfully, War for the Planet of the Apes is a significant improvement over Dawn, mostly for the fact that Giacchino takes those building blocks and adds to them in intelligent, creative ways, applying a number of new thematic ideas that relate to overarching concepts rather than specific characters.
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Back then I described Giacchino’s score in very broad-brush terms as “the emotional parts of his scores for Super 8 and the Lost TV series, combined with the vaguely jungley action music he wrote for things like Land of the Lost, and the Lost World: Jurassic Park video game series back in the 1990s,” which sounds a little flippant but is essentially correct. The score for War for the Planet of the Apes is by Michael Giacchino, who returns to the franchise after scoring the second film in 2014. The screenplay also addresses numerous weighty philosophical issues that add a great deal of depth and thoughtfulness to what, in other circumstances, could have been a very silly set of films. The plot has been described as a homage to both classic war movies and classic westerns, with influences from both genres there is also quite a lot of religious iconography in the film which paints Caesar as a sort of simian combination of both Jesus and Moses. Woody Harrelson brings solid support to his role as Caesar’s foe, the Colonel, while the other mo-cap ape performers (Steve Zahn, Karin Konoval, Terry Notary) are similarly excellent. The range of expression and the depth of emotion that Serkis brings to his role is astonishingly accomplished, and the special effects that bring Caesar to life are, genuinely, some of the best I have ever seen. The film is directed by Matt Reeves, and again stars the incredible Andy Serkis as Caesar, who is now surely enshrined as the most convincing mo-cap special effects character actor in the history of cinema. Now, in this new film, Caesar and his ape colony are embroiled in an all-out war with a platoon of human soldiers under the command of a brutal colonel, a situation so dire that Caesar resolves to find a new home for his people, far away from the conflict.
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In the second film, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar is struggling to create a stable ape society while trying to broker an uneasy truce with the humans remaining in what is left of San Francisco. In the first film, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar was given increased intelligence and the ability to speak after being infected by a genetically modified virus intended to cure Alzheimer’s disease, but which accidentally killed a large portion of the world’s human population instead. It continues the story of Caesar, the leader of a community of increasingly intelligent apes.
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War for the Planet of the Apes is the third and – at the time of writing – final installment of the rebooted Planet of the Apes film series, inspired by the novels of Pierre Boulle and the 1960s film series originally starring Charlton Heston.