Peter Jackson ... The filmography and the description of the life and career of this person will be presented below. He arouses interest in himself because he never ceases to amaze the viewer and film critics with his works. He gained worldwide popularity not only as a director and screenwriter. Jackson flashes in the frames of his own films in episodic roles. And, in addition, he is a recognized expert in creating amazing, transcendental special effects. The 3D format, in which Jackson’s latest paintings are shot, allows the viewer to be present live among the battle scenes and the bright events of the plot. But many do not know that the creator of such colorful special effects has never received a special education. Jackson is a talented self-taught to the core. And not only that, his genius was forced to make his way through the inertness and bureaucracy of scholarly film scholars. How many times the director was deprived of his place, because he exceeded the estimate of the film! But every time the picture paid off. How he achieved his fame - read on.
Peter Jackson: biography
The future director was born on Halloween night in 1961 in Wellington (New Zealand). He is the only child in the family of civil servant William Jackson and housewife Joanne. His parents came from the UK, deciding to settle in a corner of paradise at the end of the world - as they called New Zealand. And Jackson later sang this love for his native land in his large-scale epics. He grew up in the tiny town of Pukerua Bay on the seashore, near Wellington. A passion for cinema appeared in Peter in early childhood. When he was eight years old, he received a gift for Christmas - the Super 8. Camera. Peter did not part with this simple device. With his friends acting as actors, he shot the first shorts in the backyard. A fantasy and fairy tales filmed using frame- by -frame animation.
Dream of life
As Peter Jackson himself admitted, his filmography was simply obliged to include a remake of King Kong. When the future director saw this picture of the production of 1933, he swore an oath to create something like that. The first plasticine monkey pounding himself in the chest was terrible. At 13, Jackson built a skyscraper from plywood, and used a sheet with a painted panorama of the city as a background. At seventeen, he made another short film about King Kong, using stop-motion animation. He also used several self-invented special effects. Jackson submitted this creation to a local competition for novice filmmakers, but the jury was not impressed. In the mid-1990s, having already earned himself the image of a talented director, Jackson offered Universal Studios his King Kong script. But the management of the company considered that the tape would compete with the Godzilla movie, which was released for rent, and therefore refused. And only after the success of The Lord of the Rings, Jackson got his way. Universal Pictures Studios allocated him twenty million dollars in royalties (the largest amount in cinema history) for filming a remake of a giant monkey. The film was released in 2005, collecting a box office of 600 million dollars and winning three Oscars.
Peter Jackson: filmography
Success came unexpectedly. In 1983, the young man who worked at the printing house at that time, with the help of friends, shot a full-length picture of aliens devouring people. For the installation of money, the self-taught was no longer there. He turned to the New Zealand Film Commission, not particularly counting on help. And he was surprised when he was allocated money to complete the picture. “Bad Taste” gained considerable success and was sold to 12 countries (in the Russian Federation it went under the title “Alien Stew”). The comedic horror genre became Jackson's skate.
The Bad Taste was followed by a Dead Alive about zombies and Scarecrows. In 2001-2003, Jackson worked on the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This epic brought the director world fame. At the box office, she raised three billion dollars and won 4 Golden Globes, 17 Oscars and 12 prizes from the British Film Academy. Jackson also tried himself as a producer, working with director Spielberg on Tintin's Adventures. In 2007, he removes Lovely Bones and then proceeds to District 9 and the Dambusters. Back in 2008, negotiations were underway on Jackson's involvement in work on The Hobbit. This prequel of the three series began to be removed only in 2011.
Personal life
From the very beginning, the director was accompanied by a muse, ally and true friend Fran Walsh, whom Peter Jackson married in the late 1980s. The filmography of this celebrity would not be so rich without his wife. Fran first worked as a screenwriter in his films, and later began to try herself as a producer. The couple owns several companies that technically and organizationally provide film production: Weta Digital, Weta Workshop and WingNut Films. In 1995, the couple had a son, Bill, a year later their daughter Katherine was born.
Peter Jackson as an actor
The director has an interesting feature: he likes to act in his own films. True, in episodic roles. Even those who know what Peter Jackson looks like (photos of him rarely appear in the press), it will be difficult to recognize him in makeup. He is either a huge rocker ("Scarecrows"), or a resident of the city of Bree ("Brotherhood of the Ring"), then the defender of Helmova Padi ("Two Fortresses"). In The Hobbit, Jackson reincarnated as the gnome that Arkenstone found. In all the films of the director, starting with The Lord of the Rings, his children, Willie and Kat, are also shot. Jackson's acting was not left unattended. He starred in a commercial for Air New Zealand, which fully reflects the Hobbit style.
Jackson's influence on other films
The fact that the director dared to film the ancient myths and the tangled fantasy worlds of Tolkien inspired others to create something similar. The films that Peter Jackson made and Lightning Thief directed by Chris Columbus (2010) are somewhat similar. The protagonist even has the same surname in Columbus’s tape. Percy Jackson is a demigod and is surrounded by mythical creatures from the world of ancient Greek Olympus. The Hobbit (directed by Peter Jackson) and The Sea of Monsters (directed by Thor Freudenthal) also resonate. The last film is a continuation of The Lightning Thief. In this tape, the legend of the Argonauts is played, and Chiron, the Cyclops, and other mythical creatures interact with Percy.