{"id":35111,"date":"2010-02-01T18:53:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T23:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=35111"},"modified":"2010-02-01T18:53:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T23:53:45","slug":"weta-as-dreamweaver-on-lovely-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/02\/01\/35111-weta-as-dreamweaver-on-lovely-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"Weta as Dreamweaver on Lovely Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">As Peter Jackson told us earlier, his vision for Susie Salmon&#8217;s afterlife in The Lovely Bones (which Paramount Pictures opened wide last weekend) was a surreal, in-between journey to heaven predicated dreams and metaphoric symbols. A house in the dead cornfield represents her murderer, Mr. Harvey; the blooming flower suggests Susie&#8217;s life force and her ability to communicate with her father; the Gazebo in the barley field signifies unfulfilled love, with the field turning to mush as she runs toward it.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the vfx challenges for Weta Digital were more artistic than technical, even though the CG imagery of the In-Between world necessitated abandoning the laws of physics. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awn.com\/articles\/article\/weta-dreamweaver-lovely-bones\">More..<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Peter Jackson told us earlier, his vision for Susie Salmon&#8217;s afterlife in The Lovely Bones (which Paramount&#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":[74,167,103],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-35111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jackson","category-jackson-other-films","category-production-weta-digital","tag-the-lovely-bones"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-98j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35111","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=35111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}