William Friedkins underappreciated masterpieceThe Sorcerersent Roy Scheider off in a truck over a long and very rickety-looking bridge.

By the end you realise that its Caesars movie.

People love that character.

I think you should start the movie on Caesar.

Id want to start in the ape world.

I feel thats the version of the movie Ive never seen the beginning of ape culture.

A tragedy of almost Shakespearian proportions,Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apesmatched spectacle with genuine depth.

It also offered the show-stopping sight of photo-real digital apes traversing the leafy forests of a near-future America.

Reeves is just 10 days into what promises to be a decidedly earthy shoot.

There are articulated lorries and portable loos.

Four-wheel-drive buggies trundle up and down with supplies.

Crewmembers march purposefully back and forth with equipment and walky-talkies, carving out a loamy tracks in their wake.

A handful of apes, Clark explains, have switched allegiance to the humans.

Are they as duplicitous as Koba?

No, but maybe more cowardly and equally damaging if that makes sense.

I did not start this war, he says.

The ape that did is dead…

The apes followed Koba.

They tried to kill me.

They fear I do not forgive, so now they serve you just to survive…

Shades of white are very, very difficult.

Throw the apes into the mix, and it just becomes a very new territory.

So we have to abandon everything that we did in-camera and create it all digitally.

One piece of art shows Caesar charging forth with a burning flag in his hand.

Another depicts a prison constructed from what look like huge concrete blocks.

Beginning and the end.

Humanitys survival depends on us.

We thought there were a lot of interesting character traits in there.

The audience looked at it through Sheens eyes and saw the horror of it.

You know how American Presidentsseem to age drasticallyfrom the stress of the job?

This is like that, but hairier.

Its like a leader whos been through a lot and has aged as a result of the process.

Theyre getting battered by artillery attacks, and so they decide to make a move.

Now he can no longer do that.

Phew!You think thats easy, but its not.

Being in and present and just being quiet and being really simple you want to move?

Go and look at something.

Examine it, look at it, make it everything.

Lose yourself in that, so that its more important than you.

When you make one thing everything, you become invisible and then its not acting, its being.

No matter what they throw at you, its such a rewarding story.

Since then, Konovals regularly visited the zoo to sit with the orangutans.

They became very strong in my personal life, and getting involved in the conservation movement as well.

Anyway, I continue to visit with them in Seattle every six to eight weeks.

I paint with the orangutans or I paint for.

Towan is a painter in his own right.

Its this sense of fascination and intimacy that might be the secret weapon behind the scenes on the newApesmovies.

Not just bigger and louder, but also observant and intellectually satisfying.

The difference between humans and apes is they dont own things, Karin Konoval says.

Thats just my perspective on it.

Ive never seen an ape go, Thats my piece of carrot, youre not getting it.

Weve all seen how ownership can lead to some of the ugliest conflicts in real-world history.