Today is King Kong Day for me. I already purchased two tickets for tonight 9pm show at Edwards :) My wife and I are set to go. This movie has great reviews. I never understood what King Kong meant to people. I hope to find out tonight. Looks like it was originally a 1933 movie! People have been kicking ass for a long time now. It is time for Peter Jackson to kick ass. He has spent over $209 million or so for the movie and it went over budget by $32 million. The studios must have thought - this better be good or else kind of stuff. It sure is going to run in India big time. The Indian distributors must have paid a lot of money for it. I can't believe the translated versions are already available. So the movie must have been ready for quite some time or they must have started the dubbing process long back. Lot of good reviews for this one.
Apparently Peter Jackson dreamt about this when he was 9 years old - around the time he was totally captivated by this movie. He also set out doing this movie 10 years back when the studios dismissed this project 'cause it will have competed with Godzilla and the Jurassic park series. Well, now we have even better technology to represent the Gorilla and the Dinosaurs. I should watch this movie - the ape in action. I think I should also watch the original movie, but that will become a question of time.
So do you have to dream about making movies when you are 9 years old itself? I sure didn't dream about it. But it is not just the dream that matters - you actually have to do something about the dream. Peter Jackson did it; Manoj Night Shyamalan did it. They both took small home cameras and started shooting videos. That's it. They didn't worry much about how it will come out or anything. They just plunged into it not knowing what's in store for them. It sure did work out for both of them. People even say that Peter Jackson may replace the icon Spielberg. That's a heavily loaded statement. Speaking of which, I haven't watched all the movies Spielberg has made. I have missed Schindler's list and a few others. I remember my periyamma took me to watch Jaws when I was very young. All I remember of the movie was that it was a scary one and it is supposed to scare people! and it did!
Apparently Peter Jackson dreamt about this when he was 9 years old - around the time he was totally captivated by this movie. He also set out doing this movie 10 years back when the studios dismissed this project 'cause it will have competed with Godzilla and the Jurassic park series. Well, now we have even better technology to represent the Gorilla and the Dinosaurs. I should watch this movie - the ape in action. I think I should also watch the original movie, but that will become a question of time.
So do you have to dream about making movies when you are 9 years old itself? I sure didn't dream about it. But it is not just the dream that matters - you actually have to do something about the dream. Peter Jackson did it; Manoj Night Shyamalan did it. They both took small home cameras and started shooting videos. That's it. They didn't worry much about how it will come out or anything. They just plunged into it not knowing what's in store for them. It sure did work out for both of them. People even say that Peter Jackson may replace the icon Spielberg. That's a heavily loaded statement. Speaking of which, I haven't watched all the movies Spielberg has made. I have missed Schindler's list and a few others. I remember my periyamma took me to watch Jaws when I was very young. All I remember of the movie was that it was a scary one and it is supposed to scare people! and it did!
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