Peter Jackson: A Film-maker’s Journey

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Brian Sibley. Peter Jackson: A Film-maker’s Journey

Peter Jackson. A Film-maker’s Journey. Brian Sibley

Table of Contents

PREFACE

PROLOGUE. Where is Peter Jackson?

KING KONG

1 MODEL BEGINNINGS

Skull Island…

2 GETTING SERIOUS

3 A MATTER OF TASTE

4 SPLATTER AND SPLUPPETS

5 ISSUES OF LIFE AND DEATH

6 CHEATS, SPOOKS, HOBBITS AND APES

7 QUEST FOR THE RING

8 THREE-RING CIRCUS

9 RING-MASTER

10 RETURN TO SKULL ISLAND

Epilogue ‘One More For Luck!’

Index

Acknowledgements

By the same author

Copyright

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The result is an English country house-party that unexpectedly turns into a fevered gore-fest. Beginning innocently enough with someone playing a piano on a lawn and lads in blazers and flannels and girls in pretty frocks frolicking about to the music, things start going wrong when the bright young things embark on a game of tennis: someone is hit in the eye with a tennis-ball; a girl gets a racquet embedded in her stomach; another person’s arm is ripped off; the piano-lid drops, severing the pianist’s hands and causing fountains of blood to erupt from the stumps. Finally, the piano collapses in slow-motion, crushing everyone to death and the grisly debacle concludes with a shot in which, as the script tastefully puts it, ‘a volcanic quantity of blood geysers upwards.’

It was Python at its most outrageous: defiantly unapologetic, even down to the on-screen ‘Apology’: THE BBC WOULD LIKE TO APOLOGISE TO EVERYONE IN THE WORLD FOR THE LAST ITEM. IT WAS DISGUSTING AND BAD AND THOROUGHLY DISOBEDIENT AND PLEASE DON’T BOTHER TO PHONE UP BECAUSE WE KNOW IT WAS VERY TASTELESS, BUT THEY DIDN’T REALLY MEAN IT AND THEY DO ALL COME FROM BROKEN HOMES AND HAVE VERY UNHAPPY PERSONAL LIVES…’

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