Viggo Mortensen: "Peter Jackson sacrificó la sutileza por las CG"

[mike]

Según Viggo (Aragorn), el proceso parar crear la trilogia de ESDLA fue un caos. La segunda pelicula y la tercera fueron un fiasco.

Para él la primera pelicula fue la mejor de las tres, y la que mejor se rodó, pero las siguientes Peter se obsesionó demasiado con las CG, tanto que esa naturalidad de la primera, con pocas CG, se fue al garete.

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Cita:ÔÇ£Anybody who says they knew it was going to be the success it was, I donÔÇÖt think itÔÇÖs really true,ÔÇØ he says. ÔÇ£They didnÔÇÖt have an inkling until they showed 20 minutes in Cannes, in May of 2001. They were in a lot of trouble, and Peter had spent a lot. Officially, he could say that he was finished in December 2000 ÔÇô heÔÇÖd shot all three films in the trilogy ÔÇô but really the second and third ones were a mess. It was very sloppy ÔÇô it just wasnÔÇÖt done at all. It needed massive reshoots, which we did, year after year. But he would have never been given the extra money to do those if the first one hadnÔÇÖt been a huge success. The second and third ones would have been straight to video.ÔÇØ

Mortensen thinks ÔÇô rightly ÔÇô that The Fellowship of the Ring turned out the best of the three, perhaps largely because it was shot in one go. ÔÇ£It was very confusing, we were going at such a pace, and they had so many units shooting, it was really insane. But itÔÇÖs true that the first script was better organised,ÔÇØ he says. ÔÇ£Also, Peter was always a geek in terms of technology but, once he had the means to do it, and the evolution of the technology really took off, he never looked back. In the first movie, yes, thereÔÇÖs Rivendell, and Mordor, but thereÔÇÖs sort of an organic quality to it, actors acting with each other, and real landscapes; itÔÇÖs grittier. The second movie already started ballooning, for my taste, and then by the third one, there were a lot of special effects. It was grandiose, and all that, but whatever was subtle, in the first movie, gradually got lost in the second and third. Now with The Hobbit, one and two, itÔÇÖs like that to the power of 10.

I guess Peter became like Ridley Scott  this one-man industry now, with all these people depending on him, Mortensen adds. But you can make a choice, I think. I asked Ridley when I worked with him (on 1997s GI Jane), 'Why dont you do another film like The Duellists [Scotts 1977 debut, from a Joseph Conrad short story]? And Peter, I was sure he would do another intimately scaled film like Heavenly Creatures, maybe with this project about New Zealanders in the First World War he wanted to make. But then he did King Kong. And then he did The Lovely Bones  and I thought that would be his smaller movie. But the problem is, he did it on a $90million budget. That should have been a $15million movie. The special effects thing, the genie, was out of the bottle, and it has him. And hes happy, I think