| 피터 잭슨. 2001년, 영미 문학권에서 유명한 판타지 소설 「반지의 제왕」을 영화로 연출하여 세계 각국의 언론과 평단의 찬사는 물론, 흥행 면에서도 대성공을 거둠. 이에 힘입어 연말 각종 시상식에서 감독상을 휩쓸었으나 아카데미에서는 <뷰티풀 마인드>에 밀려 감독상을 놓침. 그러나 한 마디로... 2001년에 완전히 떴음.
1. 스플래터 호러의 제왕?
피터 잭슨에 대한 사람들의 중대한 오해(?) 중 하나가 스플래터 호러 계열의 인물로 그를 평가하려는 경향이다. 이것은 92년 작인 <브레인데드(미국 개봉제목; 데드 얼라이브)> 때문인데, 이 작품은 가히 스플래터 호러의 절정이라 할 만큼 피범벅의 비주얼을 유감 없이 보여준다. 중대한 오해는 바로 여기서부터 시작되는데, 이러한 <브레인데드>의 강렬한 비주얼을 곧 그의 전작(前作)인 <배드 테이스트 Bad Taste>나 <피블스를 만나요 Meet the Feebles>의 그것과 혼동하기 때문이다.
분명히 이 작품들은 <브레인데드 Braindead>와 일맥상통하는 측면이 있으나, 또한 독자적인 영역을 갖고 있다. <배드 테이스트>는 50년대 헐리웃 B급 SF를 ‘잭슨식’으로 표현한 작품이며, <피블스를 만나요>는 인형극이라는 형식을 통해 범죄물과 부분적으로 필름 느와르 양식을 인용하고 있다. 이 초기 세 작품 사이에 일맥상통하는 점이 있다면 그것은 이 영화들 모두가 코/미/디 라는 것이다.
2. <천상의 피조물>은 배신이야, 배신!
초기 세 작품으로 인해 관객들은 피터 잭슨을 엽기, 황당, 잔혹함이 뒤섞인 유머의 감독으로 받아들이게 되었는데, 이러한 생각에 또 한 방 먹인 작품이 바로 94년 작 <천상의 피조물 Heavenly Creatures>이다. 뉴질랜드에서 있었던 10대 소녀들의 부모살해라는 실제 사건을 소재로 한 이 영화는 기존과는 다른 피터 잭슨의 스타일을 보여준다.
피터 잭슨은 순정만화를 연상시키는 두 주인공의 감성과 관계묘사, 환상 씬에 대한 매혹적인 연출, 긴장감과 감성을 적절히 느낄 수 있는 밀도 있는 연출력 등으로 기존까지 자신에 대한 평가를 일거에 뒤엎는다. 그리고 그는 본격적으로 국제적인 명성을 얻기 시작했고, 이 영화를 이해 못한(혹은 이해를 거부한)일부 골수 팬들로부터는 배신자라는 누명을 쓰게 된다.
3. 코미디는 계속 되어야 한다. 쭈우우욱～
<천상의 피조물>로 입지를 다진 피터 잭슨은 헐리우드로 날아와 로버트 제멕키스의 후원으로 <프라이트너>를 만들었지만, 관객과 평단의 반응은 그리 좋지 않았다. 한동안 <킹콩>과 <혹성탈출>의 리메이크 프로젝트를 기웃거리던 그에게 낙찰된 작품이 바로 J.R.R. 톨킨의 소설 「반지의 제왕」이었다.
1961년 할로윈 데이에 태어난 피터 잭슨이 그의 영화인생에서 일관되게 추구했던 점은 장르에 대한 유머러스하고도 기발한 도전과 비틀기, 특수효과였고, 궁극적으로는 ‘판타지’였다. 그의 어린 시절은 괴물과 스톱모션 애니메이션, 공상영화들이 지배했으며, 최초로 카메라를 손에 넣은 8살 때부터 찍은 영화들도 이런 계열의 작품이었다. 87년의 데뷔작 <배드 테이스트>는 ‘아마추어’ 피터 잭슨의 영화적 스타일을 집약하고 결산한 작품이라 할 만하다.
이 영화 이후 그는 자신의 영화적 동반자이자 인생의 동반자인 프랜시스 월쉬를 만나게 되는데, 각본가였던 월쉬는 이후 <포가튼 실버>를 제외한 모든 작품의 시나리오에 참여했다. 특히 <천상의 피조물>은 월쉬의 아이디어와 역할에 힘입은 바 크다.
<프라이트너>와 <포가튼 실버>를 관통하면서 피터 잭슨은 여전한 유머감각을 과시하고 있는데, <반지의 제왕>에서는 이 부분이 제어되고 있다. 이것은 원작이 가진 권위 때문으로 보이는데, 아직 속단은 이르다. 피터 잭슨이 2부와 3부에서 어떤 형태의 도전과 비틀기를 보여줄 지는 그 자신만이 알고 있기 때문이다. 그가 무엇을 어떻게 만들어 왔건, 피터 잭슨의 영화는 모두 코미디였기 때문이다.
Peter Jackson was born in New Zealand on Halloween 1961 and was raised in Pukerua Bay, a little town west of Wellington. He was the only child of Bill and Joan Jackson so he always had to come up with games, ideas and things for him to do. On Christmas 1969, Peters parents got an 8mm filmcamera. It didn't take long until Peter laid his hands on the camera... His parents used the camera to shoot people walking towards the camera and ordinary things like that, but Peter had other ideas he would move around them and all sorts of wierd angles. He started making movies of his own and in 1973, he and a couple of friends dug a hole in their garden and they made a 2nd world war-film called 'The Dwarf Patrol' using pin-pricks in the film to simulate gunfire. Peter continued making short films, one such short entitled James Bond featuring a flick knife hidden inside a bow tie, he also experimented with animation, opening and closing the shutter very fast he made son stop-motion animations like Ray Harryhausen but he was always disappointed with the results as they always looked jerky. After getting a job at The Evening Post, a newspaper made in Wellington, he could afford the purchase of a Bolex 16mm film camera. It was easy to handle and the results looked good enough for the "silver screen". This was in 1983 and Peter emmediately started filming. The same year, he started on a 10 minute short film called Roast Of The Day, but he kept getting ideas and came up with all kinds of things he'd like to do with his new camera so The 10 minute short film got extended to be a full leangth feature film.
Peter Jackson collected a bunch of friends that helped him make the movie (and they all starred in it) on weekends and holidays. They didn't get payed and neither (of course) did Peter, so the entire budget consisted of Peters salary from The Evening Post. When 3/4 of the film was done, Peter Jackson went to The New Zealand Film Comission to ask for funds to finish the film. After some begging he finally got the money and in 1987, 4 years after he started making the movie, the alien / splatter / comedy BAD TASTE was done and ready to be shown. The New Zealand Film Commission must have thought that this was something special because they brought the film to Cannes where the critics loved it (and those who didnt love it hated it). Bad Taste was sold to 30 countries and Peter Jackson suddenly 'had a name'.
During the making of Bad Taste, Peter had met his wife Frances Walsh and Stephen Sinclair who he started writing a script together with. It was a script for a zombie movie, a type of film Peter always had a desire to make. Now it was happening and the only thing missing was financers. They got some (Japanese and Spanish) plus the New Zealand Film Commision but they figured that wasnt enough. So instead they wrote another script, together with another friend of theirs, Danny Mulheron. It was a script for a puppet film and was made with the budget they had in 1989. The film was called MEET THE FEEBLES and is probably best described as "The Muppet show on drugs". Meet The Feebles was shown on a lot of festivals around the world and after this, Peter Jackson got the budget to make the zombiemovie. Peter, Fran and Stephen looked through the script and felt they needed to re-write it.
So they did and in 1991, they started making 'the big breakthrough', the ultimate splatter/zombie/comedy Braindead. The basic idea was to reverse the typical zombie movie, instead of the people inside the house trying to stop the zombies from getting in Lionel trys to stop them getting out. It was released worldwide and shown in theaters in many countries. In USA it was released on video but retitled "DEAD/ALIVE" because the videocompany had another film called Brain Dead andthey didn't want people to mix the two movies up. Peter didn't have anything to do with neither the change of title, the choice of new title nor the change of cover/poster. Along with the release of Braindead - Bad Taste and Meet The Feebles were released for the first time in many countries, re-released in some countries and even shown in theatres in some countries. Peter was asked to write a script for Freddys Dead (the 6th nightmare on elm street movie). He wrote a script that he was really satisfied with but when he sent it to New Line Cinema, they allready had a script and this disappointed Peter a lot because he had put a lot of work into his script.
Going back to the subject; many people consider Braindead to be the bloodiest film of all times and fans wondered what Peter would come up with next to top that. What he did? A U-turn. After making some of the bloodiest movies ever, him and Fran made in 1994 the drama/thriller Heavenly Creatures. Its based on a true story about two girls who get closer and closer to each other and they ultimately murder one of the girls mother when their parents try to seperate them. It happened in New Zealand in the 50s and is a very famous murdercase. Audience and critics loved Heavenly Creatures (except for a few hardcore gore-fans claiming that Peter Jackson had "let them down" but if they thrive only on blood 'n' guts they don't have much of a life) and those who weren't allready fans of Peter Jackson or at least enjoyed his work, certainly started doing that now.
In 1995, NZTV showed a documentary called Forgotten Silver, about a filmmaker, The New Zealand pioneer Colin McKenzie. The documentary was made by Peter Jackson and tells the story about a man who was one step before all the time, he filmed a man flying an aeroplane 9 months before the Wright brothers flew, he made color film a long time ago and he made film with sound. Though Colin McKenzie was a man with very bad luck so he never made it. After it was shown, people started wondering, why hadn't they heard of this Colin McKenzie untill now? The answer is - because he was made up. Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Costa Botes had managed to fool half of the New Zealand population.
Later that year, Peter and Fran took a break from writing the Heavenly Creatures script and decided to walk to the shops for some milk on thair way they discussed some ideas for a black comedy about ghosts soon they both started to write a script for 'The Frighteners', this script found it's way to the hands of Robert Zemeckis , via Jacksons american agent, who was on the lookout for a new 'Tales From The Crypt' he liked it so much he felt that it could be fleshed out into an entire feature film. The Frighteners wasn't a box office hit but what can you expect when you release the film the same day s the opening of The Olympic Games in Atlanta, USA, 1996. Even though it wasn't a box office hit, you can't say that it was a flop, the movie was sold to many countries and gathered even more fans.
After The Frighteners, Peter Jackson decided to write a script for the remake of King Kong (the original is one of Peters all-time favourite films and creative influences) which he plans to direct. It was going be a remake of the 1933 original (simply because all the other King Kong remakes and ripoffs suck). But the fact that Godzilla was coming out, and a remake of both Mighty Joe Young and Godzilla were on their way stopped the King Kong remake that was never "green-lit". The script is there though so nothing is impossible...
But for the moment he is in the just started production of 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy with New Line Cinema, the first film should be out in the year 2000 and the other two closely followed. Looking forward to them already Peter! |
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