{"id":24917,"date":"2004-02-08T10:31:56","date_gmt":"2004-02-08T16:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/02\/08\/peter-jackson-q-a-at-the-american-cinematheque-2\/"},"modified":"2004-02-08T10:31:56","modified_gmt":"2004-02-08T16:31:56","slug":"peter-jackson-q-a-at-the-american-cinematheque-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/02\/08\/24917-peter-jackson-q-a-at-the-american-cinematheque-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Jackson Q &#038; A at the American Cinematheque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><b>Asfaloth<\/b> writes:<\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA &#150; In December of 2000 Peter Jackson witnessed &#147;The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring&#148; premiere at The Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California. On February 6, 2004 he returned to a sold out crowd and a warm reception as the American Cinematheque screened &#147;Fellowship.&#148; Fans started lining up at around 4pm for the 7:30pm screening which was followed by a Q &#038; A with PJ hosted by Christopher Connelly<\/p>\n<p>PJ seemed relaxed and pleased to be in a room full of fans. The legendary Forrest (Forry) J. Ackerman began the evening by presenting Mr. Jackson with a special award in the form of a permanent seat in the gloriously restored Graumann&#146;s Egyptian Theatre. PJ explained to the audience how Forry&#146;s former magazine &#147;Famous Monsters of Filmland&#148; inspired him by letting him know &#147;that there were other people in the world like me.&#148; PJ said &#147;It&#146;s so important to try to encourage the next generation.&#148; <\/p>\n<p>PJ later said that they didn&#146;t have a cinema in the town where he grew up, and he couldn&#146;t go to the movies until he was ten years old when his parents allowed him to take the train to the theater in a neighboring town. He credits &#147;King Kong&#148; as the film that inspired him to direct. (An ambition he acquired at age nine.)<\/p>\n<p>On describing his choice of Howard Shore for composing the score of LOTR, PJ explained that &#147;He does what I call dark beauty, very well.&#148; PJ spoke of how he and Fran Walsh liked Shore&#146;s scores for &#147;The Fly,&#148; and &#147;Silence of the Lambs&#148; and used bits of these scores as temporary tracks while editing the first cut of FOTR.<\/p>\n<p>In answering a question from a fan, PJ elaborated on what &#147;The Lord of the Rings&#148; meant to him by saying that &#147; &#145;The Lord of the Rings&#146; is a movie against enslavement [it&#146;s] about finding your free will.&#148; <\/p>\n<p>Noro Lim!<\/p>\n<p>Asfaloth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asfaloth writes: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA &#150; In December of 2000 Peter Jackson witnessed &#147;The Lord of the Rings:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-6tT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}