10 Movie Franchises That Brilliantly Reinvented Characters
8. Caeser Becomes The Ape You Root For - Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
Rise of the Planet of the Apes gave us the character of Caeser, but Dawn of the Planet of the Apes gave us a real reason to root for him.
In the best installment of the Apes franchise, Caeser gets reinvented to become fully human. And as he grows as a leader, we began to realize just how far he's come.
From his humble origins to his new place as leader, he becomes the center of a film that gets messy, chiefly because there's good and bad apes just like there are good and bad humans. Caeser's character becomes the center of this web, and he grows through it.
He's fully realized by none other than the great Andy Serkis, and thanks to the charisma and complexity of his performance, what might have been a bland ape, became human. The animators gave him more to do than most of the humans, and we got yet another incredible character that we didn't deserve.