If they gave an Oscar for Things I Wish People Would Shut the Hell Up About, Andy Serkis’s performance in Rise of the Planet of the Apes would win in a landslide. Naturally, Fox is busy pouring gasoline on the fire, releasing three CG-free clips of Andy Serkis in ROTPOTA to build Oscar buzz in advance of tomorrow’s next Tuesday’s nominations, and to back up James Franco’s “Andy Serkis is the Che Guevara of Chimps” article from last week. First of all, acting like a chimp isn’t hard, no matter how many times you say it is. He had one line, and the rest was grunting. Channing Tatum doesn’t win awards for that and neither should Andy Serkis. Secondly, asking people to consider performance capture against regular acting is like someone on American Idol getting to use autotune. You can swear you hit the notes all you want, the point is, there’s no way for us to tell.
Check out Andy Serkis’s incredible chimp acting below.
My God, what an incredible actor! I take back everything I said, that brought a tear to my eye. You are a genius, Andy Serkis. A knighthood can’t be far away. Right before she touches him with the sword, I hope the queen scratches her butt, sniffs her finger, and falls off the throne.
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I asked Serkis if he’d be satisfied if they created a new motion-capture honor and he clearly thinks that would be a mistake.
“I firmly believe that it shouldn’t be anything but acting categories because that’s a part of the process that as I say is where the actor alters the performance,” Serkis says. “Visual effects have their own category and animators and visual effects are already accoladed for the work they do on projects like ‘Rise of the Apes’ or ‘Lord of the Rings’ or ‘Avatar’ or ‘King Kong.’ In actual fact what hasn’t been accoladed and was the [key achievement] in ‘Avatar’ or recognized as such [were the motion capture performances] and that’s why I firmly believe that this is no more than acting. It’s an important message. An important message to the acting community that it’s no more than acting because its a tool which enables us actors to play so many different characters and how it is finally manifested onscreen is not really the issue.” [Hitfix]
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How actors can possibly take themselves seriously, I will never know.
seriously
if I didn’t know better I’d think this was some elaborate practical joke on andy serkis. but he is so ugly mocap is pretty much the only job he’s suited for.
Hey now, Serkis doesn’t just have to do mocap stuff. He was excellent as the voice of Spike the rat in “Flushed Away.”
Well that just makes me think James Franco deserves an Oscar for not delivering a performance that was just him laughing until he prolapsed.
How many takes it took to get through the scene without laughing? 20? 50?
Dude, Andy, comparing yourself to Avatar isn’t helping your case. That’s pretty much the epitome of things that would suck without the CGI.
Pffft, I don’t know what your talking about, I loved Ferngully.
i imagine the ROTPOTA blooper reel is 95% composed of the other actors breaking character from laughing at andy serkis
Still can’t believe Serkis is holding up Barnum,Bailey,and the Ringling Brothers. He won’t appear unless they change their name to Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Serkis.
Because his name sounds like circus! That joke would have killed on Leno.
I don’t understand why the fangs were necessary. Or were they just his teeth?
You can’t give an Oscar to a white actor doing motion capture in a role Ice-T could have played live. That’s racist.
Serkis: I have discussed this with James at length, but I strongly feel that calling Caesar the “Che Guevara of chimps” marginalizes his abilities as a leader of all monkey-kind. I’d describe him as more of a Pancho Villa of primates.
(*Readjusts keffiyeh – fart noise*)
This clip just makes me think if they re-released ROTPOTA as Bubble Boy 2: Franco Boogaloo it would have killed at the box office.
I hope they convince everyone that it’s a real acting performance just so that motion capture actors can start getting Razzies for their acting.
Andy Serkis isn’t being persecuted for being a mo-cap artist. He’s being told to fuck off because he’s a sweaty dude with balls on his face.
Hey Andy Serkis, never go full retard.
You can tell Andy Serkis drew inspiration for this completely original performance from the work of the dude who did King Kong.
I’d like to see YOU guys pee into your own mouths. Seriously. Send pics to filmdrunk-tips@uproxx.com. Make sure I can see the tip.
The banner picture for this post is Andy’s interpretation of what dick-nosing looks like.
…maybe he deserves a nomination after all.
I think Bret was right that it’s bullshit that he’s getting all this attention from Fox when there were a hundred guys actually turning his stupid ass into an ape. I hope that if he does win, the entire animation team is allowed to go onstage with him and then run a train on him.
Only then will I buy some semblance of ennui or emotion or any other fucking bullshit coming from him.
I reiterate my offer to pay ten dollars to watch Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Full Serkis, with a non-animated Caesar. And Franco with a gorilla cock on his forehead.
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Did anyone actually read the last blockquote? This is literally what he said. “There should not be a separate motion capture category because there should only be acting categories and motion capture is simply acting. There are already separate visual effects categories to honor the other movies in which I have portrayed an ape of some kind. The key achievement of those films was my motion capture performance, which has not yet been honored. Therefore, I firmly believe that motion capture is simply acting .” That argument is one reverse thesaurus away from something I’d expect to hear from Derek Zoolander.
Dude, sunnysmith’s trawling has gone from desperate to just creepy. If I didn’t have something against people with herpes before, I think I do now.