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Caesar
Andy Serkis · 19 quotes
Maurice
Karin Konoval · 6 quotes
Bad Ape
Steve Zahn · 5 quotes
The Colonel
Woody Harrelson · 3 quotes
Colonel McCullough
2 quotes
Most scenes together: Caesar & Maurice (5), Caesar & The Colonel (2)
War for the Planet of the Apes quotes
Page 1 of 3I see you look at her just now. Look sad. You have child?
One. The other was killed by human.
Soldier?
Don't worry, Maurice. You are all home now. Apes are strong... With or without me.
I think you have no mercy.
You came here to kill me. Were you going to show me mercy?
I showed you mercy when I spared your men. I offered you peace and you killed my family.
Mercy. Do you have any idea what your mercy would do to us? You're much stronger than we are. You're smart as hell. No matter what you say, you'd eventually replace us. That's the law of Nature. The irony is, we created you. We tried to defy Nature, bend it to our will. Nature has been punishing us for our arrogance ever since. Ten months ago, I sent out recon units to look for your base. My own son was a soldier with one of the units. One day, he suddenly stopped speaking. He became primitive, like an animal. They contacted me and said that they thought he'd lost his mind, that the war was too much for him. Then the man who cared for him stopped speaking too. Their medic had a theory, before he stopped speaking, that the virus that almost wiped us out, the virus that every human survivor still carries, had suddenly changed. Mutated. And that, if it spread, it would destroy humanity for good this time. Not by killing us, but by robbing us of those things that make us human. Our speech, our higher thinking. It would turn us into beasts. You talk about mercy? What would you have done? It was a moment of clarity for me. I realized that I would have to sacrifice my only son, so that humanity could be saved. I held that gun in my hand for a long time... And I pointed it at my only child. He looked at me with trust in his eyes. Even in his primitive gaze, I felt his... love. I pulled the trigger. It purified me. It made my purpose clear. I gave orders to kill the others infected, all of them. Burn their belongings, anything that might spread contamination. Some of the men questioned my judgment. I was asking them to do what I had done, to sacrifice their friends, their family. Of course, they refused. I had them killed too. Others with children deserted into the woods. One of those cowards fled to my superiors up north. They tried to convince me that this plague could be dealt with medically. Thats when I realized that they had learned nothing from our past.
You killed them too?
What did I do, Preacher?
Preacher
You severed their heads, sir.
Except for the one I spared so he could return and deliver a message. If they wanted to relieve me of my command, they'd have to meet me here, and do it themselves. This used to be a weapons depot. They turned it into a relocation camp when the crisis was just beginning. But the weapons are all still here, inside the mountain.
How many men will be coming?
Probably all of them. But don't get any ideas, the only thing they fear more than me is you apes. This is a holy war. All of human history has led to this moment. If we lose, we'll be the last of our kind. It will be a planet of apes, and we'II become your cattle. Look at you. You think I am sick, don't you? I didn't mean to kill your son. But if his destiny was to inherit your unholy kingdom... I am glad I did.
[Caesar lashes, only to be restrained]
So emotional! I see how conflicted you are. You are confused in your purpose. You're angry at me for something I did that was an act of war. But you're taking this all much far too personally. What do you think my men would have done to your apes, if you had killed me? Or is killing me more important?
Koba still haunts us. Why didn't I see that he could not forgive what humans did to him?
No one could have known how much darkness... was living inside him.
Koba...
Koba
Sleep. You cannot save them. Apes all die here.
No!
Koba
Yes. Join me.
Lake.
Lake
[via sign language]
Forgive them. We've been through much.
Cornelius
[signs]
Father!
What have I done?
They must pay.
Now... you sound like Koba.
Captain
Blood!
Soldiers
Makes the grass grow!
Captain
We!
Soldiers
Make the blood flow!
Captain
We are the beginning!
Soldiers
And the end!
Koba
Ape not kill ape.
Do you think they will give him the message?
They are the message, Maurice. He will see we are not savages.
She'll die out here alone.
We cannot take her, Maurice.
I understand... But I cannot leave her.
Nova
[via sign language]
Ape? Me... Ape?
Opening Text
Fifteen years ago, a scientific experiment gone wrong gave RISE to a species of intelligent apes... and destroyed most of humanity with a virus that became known as the Simian Flu. With the DAWN of a new ape civilization led by Caesar, the surviving humans struggled to coexist... but fighting finally broke out when a rebel ape, Koba, led a vengeful attack against the humans. The humans sent a distress call to a military base in the North where all that remained of the U.S. Army was gathered. A ruthless Special Forces Colonel and his hardened battalion were dispatched to exterminate the apes. Evading capture for the last two years, Caesar is now rumored to be marshaling the fight from a hidden command base in the woods... as the WAR rages on...
Red Ape
I don't fear you. You must fear! How long you think woods can protect you? Humans destroy you. Their Colonel has all power. For them, he more than just human. He everything. He say: "First Caesar die... then all of you die."