King Kong
Last night we watched DVD “King Kong”. Nice mixture of “Jurassic Park”, “my best friend Joe” and the original black and white version of Edgar Wallace. Quite interesting, that although the story is well known it’s still shocking. No, not the way the movie is done, it’s shocking that blond woman, which are not really talking a lot (or even saying nothing at all) can break that easily the heart of the biggest man. In case of King Kong she could have rescued him, probably, if she did talk and explain how charming he is.
Leads to the moral and key learning of this story: It’s easy to fall in love to a no-bullshit-talking-woman but the same reason will kill you one day!
By the way, if you ever have seen the splatter movies of Peter Jackson, like “Bad Taste” you wouldn’t believe that he is able to do movies like “Lord of the rings” (critics upfront:”impossible to produce a movie about this book”) or “King Kong” (critics: “Oh, another remake”). Peter, well improved, well done and lots of respect deciding for this difficult titles!
Peter, if you’re reading this, I’m just proudly jealous as well, because when I was doing trailers for MTV (TVNZ) in New Zealand in 97/98 with SoftImage I went down to your Weta Company in Dunedin (wasn’t located at this time in Wellington) and had a look and talked to some of your guys. It was like I liked it in the past. Lots of cable, computers and empty pizza boxes, quite dark but not smoky. I asked them if they are using SoftImaje or Wavefront and they replied: “No, that’s all to slow, we are doing a real time CG of the weather situation of the Whitbread Really. The only way to do this is in programming language C”. Well, I decided to be a programm user and not to become a programmer although I’ve got my diploma in computer science. Anyway, looks like I made a different career and we both are very happy that way. 
Take care and continue doing movies Peter. You’ve got a great team!