‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’, directed by Rupert Wyatt is about Will, one of the main characters, taking Caesar home so that he doesn’t get put down. He finds out that the drug, ALZ112, to cure alzheimers was passed onto Caesar, which makes him really intelligent. At the end of the movie he gives all the other apes the drug and they all escape from the enclosure, Will’s old work and from the zoo. Then hundreds of apes are running riot. In this movie Rupert Wyatt expresses that keeping wild animals domesticated can have bad consequences, that trying to increase intelligence is wrong and that things are supposed to happen for a reason and not to be changed. The director uses sound, camera and mise-en-scene to show how Caesar and Wills relationship changes through out the film.
At the start of ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes,’ Will and Caesar are not very close as they have just met. Will was not sure how to take care of a baby ape, and he is mostly interested in Caesar when he finds out that the drug ALZ112 was passed onto him by his mother. In the first scene Caesar depends on Will to feed him and take care of him. The director shows that Will is not that interested in Caesar in sound when Will says, “This isn’t my responsibility, its company property.” This shows that Will does not care for Caesar and that they have not bonded yet. Wyatt shows that Will is only interested in Caesar because of the drug by showing an extreme close up on Caesars eye, which shows the bright green specks in his eyes. The bright green specks in his eyes show that the drug has been passed on from his mother. It also shows that Will is only keeping Caesar because the drug was passed on to him, and so that he can carry on with his experiment at home. Nearer the end of the first scene Rupert Wyatt shows Will and Caesar starting to bond by mise-en-scene, when Caesar starts crying in the middle of the night so Will cuddles him in a blanket and the