Peter Jackson's Jubilee
On October 31, the 60th anniversary is celebrated by the director, famous all over the world for the adaptation of the epic novel by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien "The Lord of the Rings". Peter Jackson was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in a family of immigrants from England. Peter's father, William Jackson, was an accounting clerk. Peter's mom, Joan, was a worker at a factory. Peter spent his childhood in the town of Pukerua Bay, 30 kilometers from Wellington.
Love for cinema manifested itself in Peter almost from the cradle. Friends of the family, knowing about this passion of the little boy, presented him a movie camera for his 8th birthday. And Peter, at the age of 9, tried to make a remake of his favorite 1933 movie "King Kong". While Peter's high school friends spent their time playing football and the like, the future director mastered various cinematographic professions, from screenwriter to make-up artist, through trial and error, making amateur films about the Second World War, in which his father participated being a soldier of the British armed forces, or parodies of James Bond films.
At 16, Peter dropped out of school and started working as a photo engraver for the Wellington Evening Post. The main goal of this move was to save enough money to acquire professional cinema equipment. After two years on the job, Jackson bought a 16mm camera and began filming what would later become "Bad Taste".
The film "Bad Taste" was released in 1987, and it became the first full-length feature film in the work of Peter Jackson as a director. Due to the fact that the production of the film was carried out in an amateur way, there is no exact data on its budget. According to estimates from the IMDB website, the production of the film cost Jackson 200 thousand New Zealand dollars, which in 1987 corresponded to approximately 68.2 thousand US dollars. It is not known how much the box office received from the distribution of this film, but it is known that the film was shown in a number of countries, and was also noted, and, moreover, successfully, at two film festivals of a narrow focus - film science fiction. But the most important thing is that the film showed that a new, original, filmmaker has appeared. Moreover, without any diplomas of directing departments and courses.
By the 60th anniversary of the director, his filmography includes 13 full-length feature films, 6 of which, almost half, are screen adaptations of various parts of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic dedicated to Middle-earth. Five pictures by Peter Jackson were included in the Golden Thousand, and all of them are based on the works of Tolkien. The adaptation of Tolkien's works was Peter Jackson's childhood dream. The same refers to Jackson's 2005 remake of King Kong, between two hobbit trilogies.
Five films by Peter Jackson, entered the Golden Thousand, allowed him to be included in the list of the 100 greatest directors of world cinema, compiled by FilmGourmand. Today, on the day of the 60th anniversary of Peter Jackson, we would like to remind fans of his work shots from the films of the Master, included in the Golden Thousand.
