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As by now you probably know, Andy Serkis and his boys are making a big, somewhat grandiose push this year to get him an Oscar nomination for his work on Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Sure. He played the role of “The Monkey.” Andy Serkis is widely known as one of the best motion capture actors in the game after his work on the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and King Kong, and now this. Actually, I think he’s the only known motion capture actor in the game. I literally cannot think of another person who has been given so much credit for his motion capture work. This means one of two things: either Andy Serkis has cornered the market, or there is no market and Andy Serkis is trying to pretend like there is a market. (How sad would it be to be the second biggest motion capture actor out there, just constantly living in the shadows. There goes big Andy Serkis, getting another multi-million dollar franchise, and you have to be, like, a tortoise swimming in the background of A Dolphin Tale or whatever. So sad! Hang up your cleats!) Anyway, as part of the Andy Serkis Oscar Circus (see what I did there? I used a word that sounded like another word and then drew attention to it like it was a thing: IT’S CALLED BLOGGING) a behind-the-scenes clip of Andy Serkis acting out a Planet of the Apes scene pre-CGI over-mapping has been released, and well, uh, so, here you go:
EEK! What a risky gamble for Team Serkis! On the one hand, he’s obviously doing something. Like, I couldn’t do that. Could you do that? I couldn’t do that. Who could do that? “Get me Serkis on the phone.” On the other hand, this clip makes me want to HIDE UNDER THE COVERS. It is crazy how lucky everyone involved with this movie is that it turned out pretty good. It’s a pretty good movie! Quentin Tarantino says “this is the second best movie of 2011!” But can you imagine being on the set during the filming of this scene? You know that when the cameras turned off James Franco immediately got on the phone to his agent and was like “What have you done to me? I could be doing a Semester at Sea right now!” (All of this being said, I would actually pay MORE money to see a cut of this film with pre-CGI Andy Serkis. And then I would swallow a bottle of pills.)
Good luck to Andy Serkis at this year’s Academy Awards. For real, I hope he does win. That would be great. His acceptance speech would be like, “BLEEP BLOOP 1010010110101100101010101001.” Hahhahahaha. AND THANK YOU TO MY HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA TEACHER WHO TAUGHT ME MICROSOFT WORD. And scene. (Via PopCultureBrain.)
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That video is incredible. Andy Serkis is so beautifully rendered I couldn’t even tell he was CG. That’s what this whole thing is about, right?
Poor Andy Serkis. I think we owe him an Apeology.
I will say this: the scene looked a lot better before they CGIed him into an ape.
I hope every other celebrity just completely despises Andy Serkis. I mean, the upside of being a celebrity is that you get paid obscene amounts of money to do relatively little, while the downside is that you have no personal life, because of TMZ and whatnot. This jackass basically had all the perks without anybody caring enough to stalk him, but that’s not good enough for him. The only thing worse than a celebrity complaining about being a celebrity is a celebrity complaining about not being enough of a celebrity.
As an Alan Tudyk fan, I know that he did motion capture for Sonny in I, Robot. Just felt like throwing that out there. Dude should retroactively get an oscar.
“I am a robot on the wind – watch how I robot.”
Perhaps I’m just a painfully modest guy, but any sort of “push,” especially for frivolities such as movie awards, ALWAYS seems a bit too heavy handed, and the whole Andy Sirkis thing is about as heavy handed as lead gauntlets. That said, I like Andy Sirkis, and I think live mocapping is something that should be implemented more. Example: there was a vidya game that he was involved in, Enslaved, where he did this kind of stuff. It was a fairly mediocre game that went weird and unnecessary places in terms of plot. But the truly great part of the game was Sirkis and his acting. It added levels of characterization you don’t see too often in games.
I do think there’s an avenue for him to be considered for an acting role, but if anywhere, it should have come from LOTR, not POTA. RSVP PDQ OMGWTFBBQ.
Remember to close your “i” brackets, folks… it could happen to YOU.
Wait? Close my what now?
You have to really give Serkis credit. I really did believe a monkey could wear a cardigan.
I would love to see Andy Serkis’ take on a Flipper remake.
One thing is clear: Having a person motion captured gives the other actors something concrete to work with. I don’t know if that’s Oscar-worthy, but it improves the other performers’ work.
we all know he’s not going to get nominated. he shouldn’t have gone Full-Ape.
I still find it a bit surprising that people thought this movie was good and not incredibly goofy and slightly boring.
Andy Serkis is very good at what he does. Many great movies would not be what they are without him in the motion capture suit. Is his performance here Oscar worthy? Perhaps not. But there is no denying that he is one of the greatest motion capture actors out there.
“ACTING!”-Master Thespian
Is now a good time to point out that tortoises are land animals and don’t go in the water? Turtles are the aquatic ones. #themoreyouknow
Never underestimate the power of face to glass acting like a chimp.
That being said, this is kinda terrifying and hilarious at the same time? I’m not sure of anything anymore.
I don’t remember Mango skits being this dark.