SPECIAL FX: KING KONG

I'm sure everyone in the entire world has heard of Peter Jackson. Even if you don't remember his name, you would most definitely remember his films. For example, there was this pretty well known trilogy he did called Lord of the Rings,

definitely something you guys should check out.

So yeah Jackson has made some pretty epic movies not including the Lovely Bones. No, I am 100% serious about this, I know you may think "But it's Peter Jackson, he made LOTR! Surely anything he makes is awesome and even if it's relatively sub par we can forgive it because he's given us one of the greatest movie trilogies of all time.Not to mention his great contribution to the dramatic society of the word, with the dichotomous monologue between Smeagol and Gollum which epitomised the internal struggle faced by an individual(s). NO. This film is unforgivable, regardless of the fact that it has Mark Wahlberg

This guy.

and several other really well known and respected actors in it. The other one I can think of is Stanley Tucci you know, the gay guy from The Devil Wears Prada and Puck from A Midsummer Nights Dream? No? Okay.

It's hard to imagine this man playing a crazy murderer, he just looks so cute!

So now that we've established Peter Jackson's most successful and most horrifically disappointing films, I'd now like to continue onto the other film he did (what?) Yeah, I know right.

Well a few years ago, Jackson attempted to remake one of the most classic films of all time, King Kong. This was an iconic film, originally made in 1933, which was very well received for it's pioneering in special effects such as stop motion animation.

Nailed it.

But that's not what I'm here to talk about. In 2005, Peter Jackson remade this film, with a whopping $207 million dollar budget, into a 187 minute long nostalgia-drama which basically delved into old Hollywood romance, the flapper era, and a contest to see who could pay attention longest before falling asleep. Jackson spent probably 2 hours on character development to build the sexy sexual tension between Naomi Watts, and Adrien brody which I will never complain about.

Apart from wasting time and money, Jackson also had multiple specifications on how he envisioned King Kong to appear on screen in the final edition. Most of these surmised to him wanting King Kong to look like an ape not a human.. So how did he do this?

He watched hours and hours of Gorrilla footage in London Zoo to further his understanding and gain an anthropological upper hand in the creation of his Kong. He then decided that he was unsatisfied and travelled to Rwanda to observe wild gorillas in their native habitat.... Andy Serkis (Gollum/Smeagol) was the model that was used to track Kongs Movement, and this was done by filming all the movement Serkis made, by placing him in a body suit, and using the motion detectors as a guide to animate King Kong.