Peter Jackson Research Report Level 2
English research report: What’s on Their Minds?
By: Tessa Paaymans
Director: Peter Jackson
The movies:
• Lovely Bones
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Heavenly Creatures
The questions:
1. What is a common issue that stands out in Peter Jackson’s films?
2. Why does Peter Jackson highlight this issue in his films?
3. How does Peter Jackson use film techniques to highlight this issue?
Introduction:
My research report is about Peter Jackson’s films and the issue he communicates through his film techniques and movies. Peter Jackson’s films showed a common theme of obsession throughout the movies. The films I have studied and researched into are: the Lovely Bones, Heavenly Creatures and the third movie The Return of the King of the trilogy The Lord of the Rings.
The Questions:
1. Peter Jackson has one very clear issue in all the films I have studied and that is obsession. With The Lord of the Rings it is everyone’s obsession with the ‘one ring’. In the Lovely Bones it is Suzie Salmons obsession with her life before death and Mr Harvey’s obsession with killing. And the Heavenly Creatures it was Pauline’s and Juliet’s obsession with each other and the ‘fourth world’. Although obsession may not seem like an important and major world wide problem like world hunger it can be potentially dangerous. In Peter Jackson’s films he shows the extremities that the character end up going through because they hit breaking point with there obsessions. An example of this is in each of the films in the Heavenly Creatures when Pauline’s and Juliet’s relationship spirals out of control and their parents try to separate them. Their fixation drives them to brutally murdering Pauline’s mother with half a brick enclosed in a old stocking. In the Lord of the Rings it is the climax where after all the problems and complications Frodo has had to overcome with the ring he can’t and won’t throw the ring in to the fire of the Mountain of Doom which shows the
By: Tessa Paaymans
Director: Peter Jackson
The movies:
• Lovely Bones
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Heavenly Creatures
The questions:
1. What is a common issue that stands out in Peter Jackson’s films?
2. Why does Peter Jackson highlight this issue in his films?
3. How does Peter Jackson use film techniques to highlight this issue?
Introduction:
My research report is about Peter Jackson’s films and the issue he communicates through his film techniques and movies. Peter Jackson’s films showed a common theme of obsession throughout the movies. The films I have studied and researched into are: the Lovely Bones, Heavenly Creatures and the third movie The Return of the King of the trilogy The Lord of the Rings.
The Questions:
1. Peter Jackson has one very clear issue in all the films I have studied and that is obsession. With The Lord of the Rings it is everyone’s obsession with the ‘one ring’. In the Lovely Bones it is Suzie Salmons obsession with her life before death and Mr Harvey’s obsession with killing. And the Heavenly Creatures it was Pauline’s and Juliet’s obsession with each other and the ‘fourth world’. Although obsession may not seem like an important and major world wide problem like world hunger it can be potentially dangerous. In Peter Jackson’s films he shows the extremities that the character end up going through because they hit breaking point with there obsessions. An example of this is in each of the films in the Heavenly Creatures when Pauline’s and Juliet’s relationship spirals out of control and their parents try to separate them. Their fixation drives them to brutally murdering Pauline’s mother with half a brick enclosed in a old stocking. In the Lord of the Rings it is the climax where after all the problems and complications Frodo has had to overcome with the ring he can’t and won’t throw the ring in to the fire of the Mountain of Doom which shows the
Bibliography: • Jackson, Peter. The Lovely Bones. DreamWorks. 2009 • Jackson, Peter • Jackson, Peter. Heavenly Creatures. WingNut Films. 1994 • Unknown • Collins, Harper. New Zealand school dictionary. Harper Collins publishers. 2003 • Wikipedia