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The White Councilnz article re LotRTolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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The White Councilnz article re LotRTolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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Posted by scott on September 09, 1998 at 07:13:21 Interview with Peter Jackson(abridged)"New Zealand is the best country in the world to shoot this film, because of the variety of locations we have. If you look at LotR, you go from the Shire to Rivendale, to the Misty Mountains, to Mordor. Landscapes are very important in the story, and NZ has all those landscapes"...A lot of location shooting will be enhanced by computer..We'll add a lot of the castles, fortresses, and cities with the computer. "But i want it to feel real. I dont want it to feel like an artificial studio movie enviroment"..."Most of the key characters will be played by regular actors, with computer graphics, blue-screen matting, and other tricks making people the size they are supposed to be"...The most daunting tasks will be the recreation of the many epic battles...Jackson wants those battles recreated on the scale Tolkien envisaged...(we will use)artificial intelligence- based software, so that we can have as many digital soldiers or orcs..."I want to put battles on the screen that are bigger than anyone else has ever done before". Jackson says his approach to LotRs will be to presume that the events in the book really happened. He says its the feeling you get when you finish Tolkien's book, and treating the films as historical pieces rather than fantasy pieces will make them more satisfying". |
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