Caesar (CE)

For the character from Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the Planet of the Apes, see Caesar (APJ)

Caesar
Occupation	King of the Ape Colony Patriarch of the Royal Ape Family Leader of the Ape Army Head of the Ape Council
Race	Chimpanzee
Gender	Male
Age	18
Status	Alive
Family	Alpha (biological father; deceased) Bright Eyes (biological mother; deceased) Will Rodman (adoptive father; deceased) Caroline Aranha (adoptive mother; deceased) Charles Rodman (adoptive grandfather; deceased) Cornelia (wife) Blue Eyes (son) Milo (son)
Continuity	Movies (CE)

War has already begun. Ape started war. And human...human will not forgive. You must go before fighting begins. I am sorry...my friend.

Caesar warns Malcolm to seek refuge

Caesar is an evolved chimpanzee who is the biological son of the late Alpha and the late Bright Eyes, wild chimpanzees from the West African Jungle. After the death of his mother, Caesar became the adoptive son of Will Rodman and the later Caroline Aranha. Through Will, Caesar became the adoptive grandson of the late Charles Rodman. Later in life, Caesar goes on to lead an Ape Rebellion before going on to rule as a king over the newly formed Ape Colony. As a king, he becomes the husband of fellow San Bruno Primate Shelter inmate, Cornelia, and the father of two sons, Blue Eyes and Milo. Because he is the king of the ape colony, he is the patriarch of the the Royal Ape Family. When humans are rediscovered, Caesar becomes the ape counterpart of Malcolm. He is also the main protagonist of Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

History

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

THIS WEBSITE LIES! IT SHOWED AN INJURED SHOT APE DYING NEXT TO ITS FRIEND!!!!!!! I THOUGHT THAT THIS MOVIE WAS GOING TO BE OK FOR ME TO WATCH BECAUSE I HATE ANIMAL CRUELTY AND I THOUGHT THIS WEBSITE WAS RELIABLE BUT DONT TRUST THIS WEBSITE IT IS HORRIBLY FALSE AND YOU SHOULD NOT TRUST THIS WEBSITE! THE INFORMATION STATED THAT CEASER AND HIS FRIENDS DID NOT DIE AND THAT THEY WERE VERY MUCH ALIVE! THAT IS A LIE IN ITS SELF! WEN I SEARCHED UP IF ANYBODY DIED IN THAT MOVIE THIS WEBSITE REVIELD ITS SELF AS AN OPTION, SO WHEN IT SAID "ALIVE" (DUE TO MY SEARCH) I THOUGHT IT MEANT NO BODY WAS BASICALLY TORTUED IN FRONT A FRIEND THIS MOVIE IS HORRIFICALLY SAD AND DEPRESING I WOULD RECOMEND IT TO AGES 0 AND DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quotes

• "Ape alone, weak. Apes together strong." - Caesar to Maurice (Sign).

• "NO!" - Caesar's first word, to Dodge Landon (Spoken).

• "Caesar is home." - Caesar before parting ways with Will (Spoken).

• "Think before you act, son." - Caesar to Blue Eyes (Sign).

• "Come meet your new brother." - Caesar to Blue Eyes after the birth of his youngest son (Sign).

• (Maurice) "Another son." (Caesar) "Makes me think how far we've come, Maurice." (Maurice) "Seems long ago. Still think about them?" (Caesar) "Humans? Sometimes." (Maurice) "Didn't know them like you did, only saw their bad side." (Caesar) "Good, bad...Doesn't matter now. Humans destroyed each other." (Maurice) "Apes fight too." (Caesar) "But we are family." - Caesar and Maurice (Sign).

• "GO!" - Caesar after the rediscovery of humans (Spoken).

• "If we go to war, we could lose everything we've built. - Caesar during the Ape Council Meeting (Sign).

• "Home...Family...Future." - Caesar to the Ape Council (Spoken).

• "APES DO NOT WANT WAR, BUT WILL FIGHT IF WE MUST!" - Caesar to humans (Spoken).

• "(Points toward the Ape Village) Ape home! (Points toward the city) Human home! Do not come back." - Caesar to Malcolm (Spoken).

• "Show me." - Caesar after Malcolm asks to show him the generator (Spoken).

• "I said no guns...Human leave NOW!" - Caesar reacting angrily to Carver's hidden shotgun (Spoken).

• "This my home, you should not be here." - Caesar to Malcolm and Ellie (Spoken).

• (Caesar to Ellie) "You stay...one day." (Malcolm) "Might need a little more time." (Caesar, angrily) "ONE DAY!" - Caesar after agreeing to let Ellie help Cornelia (Spoken).

• "Ape not kill ape." - Caesar after nearly killing Koba in anger (Spoken).

• "You are my son, I need you to listen." - Caesar to Blue Eyes (Sign).

• "Trust." (Extends hand) - Caesar offering peace to Malcolm (Spoken).

• "Ape. Ape...did...this." - Caesar to Malcolm (Spoken).

• "Your mother, brother...safe?" - Caesar asking Blue Eyes about his family's safety (Spoken).

• "No...Human. Koba." - Caesar revealing to Blue Eyes that Koba tried assassinate him (Spoken).

• (Blue Eyes) "I'm so sorry...for everything." (Caesar) "No...I am to blame." (Blue Eyes) "But Koba betrayed you." (Caesar) "I chose to trust him because he is ape. I always think, ape better than human. I see now...how much like them we are." - Caesar to Blue Eyes (Sign/Spoken).

• (Blue Eyes) "Fear makes others follow. But when they see you alive, they will turn from Koba." (Caesar) "Not if I am weak...Ape always seek strongest branch." - Caesar to Blue Eyes (Spoken).

• (Malcolm) "Who was that? On the video." (Caesar) "A good man...Like you." - Caesar telling Malcolm about Will (Spoken).

• (Koba) "Caesar has no place here, apes follow Koba now."(Caesar) "Follow Koba to war."(Koba) "Apes win war, apes together strong! Caesar...Weak."(Caesar) "Koba...Weaker." - Exchange between Koba and Caesar prior to battle (Spoken).

• (Caesar) "Trusted Koba, like brother." (Koba) "Caesar brother to humans! Koba fight for ape! Free ape!" (Caesar) "You killed ape, Koba fight for Koba. Koba belong in cage. - Caesar and Koba during battle (Spoken).

• (Koba) "Ape not kill ape." (Caesar) "You are not ape." - Caesar declaring that Koba is no longer a true ape (Spoken).

• "LEAVE HIM!" - Caesar ordering the apes to not harm Malcolm (Spoken).

• "War has already begun. Ape started war, human...human will not forgive. You must go...before fighting begins. I'm sorry...My friend." - Caesar telling Malcolm to escape before the war begins (Spoken).

• (Malcolm) "I thought we had a chance." (Caesar) "I did too." - Caesar and Malcolm lamenting the lost opportunity for peace (Spoken).

Notes

Julius Caesar

• Caesar was named by Charles Rodman, who was mumbling quotes from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar on the day Will brought the chimp home.
• An earlier version of the script notes Bright Eyes' treatment at Gen-Sys Laboratories beginning on "Tuesday, March 10, 2011", with Caesar's birth following six week later (approx. 21 April, 2011). Seven years (according to that script) spent at the Rodman House would place the Ape Rebellion around 2018. Whether this is the correct year or not is unknown. It has been rumored that an August 2016 calendar was put on the set of the kitchen at the Rodman House. The film itself spans eight years, as evidenced by the captions "Three Years Later" and "Five Years Later". See also: What Year Is The Film Set?
• The early script differs in that Rocket's eyes begin to go green (a sign of intelligence) after having bitten Caesar during their initial confrontation. After Caesar and Rocket together escape the San Bruno Primate Shelter and visit both the Rodman House and the Gen-Sys Laboratories, they use stolen scissors to share their blood with the other apes at the facility and pass on their viral intelligence. Caesar also has a relationship with Cornelia, a female chimp at the facility. The apes go to the Gen-Sys Laboratories and then to the San Francisco Zoo to free the apes Caesar has encountered over the years. At the end, Will takes a bullet intended for Caesar, and dies in his arms.
• A deleted scene included in the DVD release had Caesar using his hands to push the helicopter off into the water with Jacobs inside. This would be changed to Koba using his feet to do so.
• Most of Caesar's dialogue is either vocalizations, sign language, and the word "NO". To create Caesar's voice, sound designers Chuck Michael and John Larsen recorded hundreds of chimp sounds at the Chimp Haven sanctuary in Louisiana and mixed them with some of the audio Andy Serkis provided on set. The duo also aged Caesar’s voice from that of an infant to a full-grown chimp.
• It could be possible that Caesar would be more intelligent due to the fact he has been exposed to the ALZ-113, and his exposure to the ALZ-112 while he was in the embryo. A close-up on Caesar's plotting scene and showed that his eyes were more green than before.
• According to the Rise timeline, Caesar is seen at 3 years old, then in the year in which the Ape Rebellion takes place, Caesar is 8 and can be classified as a teenager whereas in the events of Dawn, which takes place ten years after the rebellion and virus outbreak, Caesar is 18 meaning he is fully grown and possibly an elder ape.
• The quote that Charles says when he picks up Caesar for the first time as a baby could have been prophetic in terms of Caesar growing up and becoming a leader.
• Caesar's first word, "NO"! serves as a parallel to the story that Cornelius tells in Escape from the Planet of the Apes about the ape known as Aldo uttering the word and being the first ape to speak. It is also parallel to Lisa telling Caesar (Milo) "No" in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.

Trivia

• Caesar is a similar character to Taylor in the original films, because of his situation and because the birthmark on his shoulder may be inspired by the burns Taylor got on his shoulder after fighting another human.
• It can also be seen that this version of Caesar is similar to Roddy McDowall's Caesar in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the Planet of the Apes as both become leaders of ape colonies, marry and have sons.
• Similar to Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar was named after the Roman dictator Julius Caesar. Unlike Julius Caesar, he stands for leadership through kindness.
• The screenwriters believed that apes sexually mature at 8 years old and that Caesar could thus potentially attack Hunsiker at that age. Although chimps can become unpredictable at age 8, they don't become adults until at or past the age of 13.
• Caesar was actually to be played by three people, Andy Serkis mostly played him from infancy to adulthood, Devyn Dalton played him in some scenes when he was a toddler, and Terry Notary played Caesar in the Golden Gate Bridge battle scene.
• At Comic Con 2013, Andy Serkis mentioned in an interview that in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Caesar would have a teenage son and wife. It was confirmed by the film's producer Dylan Clark that Caesar's wife will in fact be Cornelia while the son was only mentioned a couple of times by Jason Clarke and by Andy Serkis himself. Actor Nick Thurston announced on his Facebook page that he was playing the role of Caesar's son and that the character's name was River before the name was changed to Blue Eyes during post-production. In a press conference at Comic Con, Andy Serkis mentioned that Caesar will also have an infant child meaning he would have more then one child in the film.
• It has been suspected that Caesar actually witnessed the deaths of his surrogate parents Will and Caroline.
• The words Caesar speaks in Rise are: 'NO!' and 'Caesar is Home' which he says clearly while according to the film's DVD subtitles he says "Wait!", "Go Up" and "Get Under" which are incoherent during the Battle on the Golden Gate Bridge. He also seems to say "NOW!" when he emerges out of the fog on the back of a police horse.
• In the first official still from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, his shooting star birthmark wasn't visible.
• When Caesar bites Hunsiker while attempting to protect Charles, it's a reference to Andy Serkis' earlier role in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Trilogy when Gollum (Andy Serkis) bites Frodo's finger off in their final confrontation.
• Judy Greer revealed in an interview that Caesar is still grounded in terms of personality because of the presence of his wife.
• Matt Reeves has said in the recent USA Today sneak peek article that the other apes who value Caesar's leadership see him as their king and as their father.
• According to a recent article, Caesar is not a big fan of guns.
• Caesar will share some emotional scenes with both Ellie and Malcolm.
• Caesar will be in a dilemma in this movie as he has very difficult choices to make regarding his apes and the surviving humans led by Malcolm.
• There is a difference in the two trailers recently released in the shot of the baby's birth. In the domestic trailer, Caesar isn't wearing war paint but in the international trailer its the same shot only Caesar is wearing war-paint.
• In the first official featurette for Dawn, there is a never before seen shot where Caesar hugs Koba but the reason is currently unknown. The scene does return in a deleted scene where Caesar thanks Koba for saving his life from the bear and declares to the entire Ape Village in speech, "Apes together strong!"
• According to an interview Caesar has only one scene with Dreyfus.
• Andy Serkis has mentioned in an interview that he has based Caesar's relationship with Blue Eyes on the relationship he has with his own teenage son.
• Andy Serkis stated that he took great inspiration from revolutionary and former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela when he said "Really what Caesar is all about, he is empathy". and "It was really important to base the character on a leader who is capable of empathy and there aren't that many out there, however Nelson Mandela came to mind".

Image Gallery

Baby Caesar.

Charles Rodman comforts Caesar.

Caesar rises.

Caeser stealing the ALZ-113.

"Caesar is home".

Caesar's Command.

Will Rodman and Caroline Aranha leave Caesar.

Caesar fights Dodge Landon.

Caesar, Rocket, Maurice and Buck.

Seeing father.

Rocket picks on Caesar.

Open space.

Playing with bike.

At the San Francisco Zoo with Will Rodman.

Inherited the ALZ-112.

Stares at a dog.

Up a tree.

Golden Gate Bridge.

Gen-Sys Laboratories Escape.

WAIT!

Leader.

Caesar, Maurice and Buck art.

Caesar (first look in DOTPOTA).

Caesar (App).

Caesar and Cornelia.

Caesar and his fellow apes.

Caesar the Leader and King.

Caesar and Rocket.

Caesar and Maurice.

Caesar Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Poster.

Issuing a command to attack!

Caesar in the forest, dripping wet.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes "Caesar" action figure.

Final look at the "Caesar" Dawn of the Planet of the Apes action figure.

NECA figures: Caesar in the back on the left.

Caesar in the ruins of San Francisco.

Caesar with his infant son.

Caesar in the Ape Village.

Caesar warns the human survivors.

Caesar calls some type of truce with Koba.

Father and Son and a shotgun.

Caesar with Koba and Malcolm.

Caesar's old room.

Caesar looks at footage of himself with Will.

Caesar remembers his adoptive human father.

Caesar witnesses Milo's birth.

Caesar's law; Home. Family. Future.

Father and Son riding home.

Apes! Together! Strong!.

Caesar meets Malcolm in the forest.

Caesar holds Cornelia's hand as she gives birth.

Caesar watches as Malcolm jumps from the dam.

Caesar shakes hands with Malcolm.

Caesar and his family celebrate the birth of his second son.

Caesar on horseback with his friends Rocket and Maurice and his two sons.

Andy Serkis as Caesar.

Caesar surprised at seeing humans for the first time in 10 years.

Caesar shares a moment with his wife and newborn son.

Caesar looking down at Koba

Caesar hugs Koba.

Apes do not want war!

Caesar introduces Blue Eyes to his new baby brother, Milo.

Caesar's Ape Council.

Caesar attacks Carver for attempting to harm his sons.

Caesar and Maurice take solace in creating Ape Village.

Caesar with his wife and two sons.

Caesar with his son and Koba.

Caesar by his ill wife's side

Caesar reunites with his family

Caesar and Maurice

Caesar looks down at Koba

GO!

Caesar and Blue Eyes face an attacking grizzly bear.

"Said…no…guns!"

Caesar chats with Maurice about events within the last ten winters.

Caesar returns to the Rodman house for the first time in 10 years where he discovered a video camera in his old room.

Caesar helps Charles correct his fork's position telling them that his disease has returned.

Caesar with Blue Eyes during the deer hunt.

Caesar hunting deer with Rocket, Luca, and Blue Eyes.

Caesar getting pissed off at Koba while he said he likes humans more than apes.

Caesar confronting Koba before the battle in the tower.

"My...son. My family. Where?"

Maurice asking Caesar "why cookie Rocket?"

Caesar, Rocket, Maurice, Buck and other apes during the escape.

Caesar, Blue Eyes, and Cornelia together at the end of Dawn.

Ellie steps closer to Caesar looking sad, thinking he's dead.

Caesar and Malcolm touches their foreheads together for a moment before he turns to leave to join the apes.

All apes all bow down to Caesar once again.

Caesar's home.

Caesar when he got shot by Koba

"Show me."

"ONE DAY!"