Paulo Gabriel
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May 30 2019, 11:35pm
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Cultural influences of Peter Jackson.
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Peter Jackson is immensly influenced by Martin Scorcese. He says that whenever he's shooting, he watches Goodfellas just about on-loop. You can really see it in the perpetual motion of his cameras.
Jackson is also influenced by Sir David Lean, Kubrick, Leone (just look at both directors' fondness for the extreme close-up) and others - as well taking quite a few pages from the astounding Braveheart.
Literally couldn't ask for a better set of influences.
That reminds me of another quote: ''[Seven Samurai] is a film that gets better with every watching (and I have never watched it without crying, hypercritical hater of sentimentality that I am.) If Akira Kurosawa and his crew could manage it, in 1954, in B/W, with no digital paint programs at hand — it's not too much to ask the same of Peter Jackson. (Jackson could have learned even more lessons regarding color cinematography, stage gore, and the handling of both grand massed-cavalry battle scenes, and intimately-intense interpersonal exchanges, from Kurosawa's last epic, Ran (1985), a recasting of King Lear in the setting of feudal Japan. Kurosawa was a great fan of Shakespeare, but I have never heard the same said of Jackson. I think it shows.'')
Joan Barger, November 2003.
(This post was edited by Paulo Gabriel on May 30 2019, 11:38pm)
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