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Peter Jackson |
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Director / Screenwriter /
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| Born October 31, New Zealand |
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Key
Production Countries: New Zealand, USA, Germany
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Key Genres:
Fantasy, Horror, Epic, Horror Comedy, Fantasy Adventure,
Sword-and-Sorcery |
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Collaborators: Fran
Walsh (Screenwriter/Producer), Jamie Selkirk (Editor/Producer), Grant
Major (Production Designer), Philippa Boyens (Screenwriter), Andrew Lesnie
(Cinematographer), Elijah Wood (Leading Player), Ian McKellen (Leading
Player), Liv Tyler (Leading Player), Barrie M.
Osborne (Producer), Howard Shore
(Composer) |
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Recommended: Heavenly
Creatures (1994) |
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Worth
a Look: The
Frighteners (1996), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(2001)*^, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)^ |
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Approach with Caution:
Bad Taste (1987), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(2003)^, King Kong (2005) |
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Duds: Dead Alive
(1992) |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
section; ^
Listed in TSPDT's
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films
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Links:
[
Amazon
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[
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
TCMDB ] [
Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[
The
Bastards Have Landed: Official Peter Jackson Fan Club ] [
The Peter Jackson Guide ] [
Your
Mother Ate My Dog! ] [
Hollywood Reporter
Interview (2004) ] [
DGA
Interview ] [
Dark Horizons Interview (2005) ] [
Time Out Interview
(2005) ] [
Flickering Myth Profile ] |
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Books:
[
Peter Jackson: From Prince of Splatter to Lord of the Rings
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Peter Jackson: From Gore to Mordor ] [
Peter Jackson In Perspective: The Power Behind Cinema's The Lord Of The
Rings ] [
Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's the Lord of the Rings ] |
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"Anarchic
New Zealand-born director who has made a virtue of the title of
his first film - Bad Taste. A few years earlier his films
might have been condemned in a body as video nasties - but
festival and critical approval has brought recognition and
(almost) respectability to Jackson's charnel-house work, a world
in which slicing someone's head off with a meat cleaver
represents a tame demise... Lord knows where
Jackson goes from here, but it's going to be an exciting ride."
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David
Quinlan (Quinlan's Film Directors, 1999) |
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"...Just realize
that Jackson has rediscovered the serial epic and given it an
energy and dread not known since Fritz Lang's Nibelungen.
Maybe that's what he does next - Meet the Nibelungen!." -
David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)
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"Jackson's
achievement in staying put at home and persuading the Hollywood
money to come to him bodes well for his country's film industry.
Most successful New Zealand directors have used their first
major hit as a springboard for Hollywood. Jackson, remaining
true to his roots, has set up his own production base (Wingnut
Films) in his home town of Wellington. "I choose to stay in New
Zealand earning a fraction of what I could make in Los Angeles
because I want to do whatever I feel like doing...The freedom
that I have in New Zealand is worth millions of dollars to me."" -
Philip Kemp (Film Reference)
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"People
always said, 'How can your imagination compete with the [LOTR]
books; how can you put things on the screen that are going to be
better than what people have in their minds?' I understood the
rationale behind that. [But] I started to believe it was
possible when I saw Alan Lee [conceptual artist] produce
sketches for me that were so much better than what was in my
mind. I knew then that it was possible to show things on-screen
beyond what people imagined." -
Peter Jackson |
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Please
note that the rating given for this director (see top-right) is based
only on the films we have seen (listed above). Films by this director
that we haven't seen include Meet the Feebles (1989) and The Lovely
Bones (2009). |
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"Jackson's career had moved full circle by the 1990s: he had shifted from making low-budget, cult New Zealand movies to crafting high-budget, cult New Zealand movies. Not only are his latter day films in much better taste than his earlier bad taste outings, but by adapting Tolkien's cult novels, and remaking a Hollywood cult movie of the 1930s, Jackson has cleverly guaranteed that he can conform to the mainstream, yet can still maintain a loyal cult following."
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Matt Hills, 501 Movie Directors: A
Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers |
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Top 250 Directors |
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21st Century Top
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501
Movie Directors: A Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest
Filmmakers |
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See Also |
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Ralph Bakshi |
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John Boorman |
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Tim Burton |
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Stuart Gordon |
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John Guillermin |
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Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B.
Schoedsack |
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Sam Raimi |
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George A. Romero |
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Ridley Scott |
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Ron Underwood |
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Brian Yuzna |
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Robert Zemeckis |
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Peter Jackson's Favourites |
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Dawn of the Dead (1978)
George A. Romero,
The General (1926)
Buster Keaton &
Clyde Bruckman,
GoodFellas (1990)
Martin Scorsese,
Jaws (1975)
Steven Spielberg,
King Kong (1933)
Merian C. Cooper &
Ernest B. Schoedsack.
Source:
Rotten Tomatoes
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