Although his rise to the big leagues of Hollywood began with more orthodox titles such as ‘celestial creatures’ or ‘grab these ghosts’, which share their nature of study with consolidated distributs despite their radical differences in terms of tone and style, it refers, Peter Jackson took his first steps surrounded by blood, viscera and animated of the most diverse and hilarious.
After debuting in 1987 with the grotesque – in the best possible sense of both words— ‘Bad taste’ and signing the trchante ‘The delusional world of the febles’starring drug addicts, criminals and pornographers, the New Zealand was crowned as the novel playful king with the glorious hemoglobin bath and past threaded jokes of ‘Braindead (your mother has eaten my dog)’.
The director of ‘Braindead’ is scared of blood
But being an expert in filming mutilation and watering your actors of unimaginable body fluids does not mean that it is cured of fright in real life, and the sample of this is found in The joke that John Rhys-Davies spent the filmmaker during the filming of the trilogy of ‘The Lord of the Rings’, in which he gave life to Gimli, son of Glóin and member of the ring community.
The fact is that Rhys-Davies, as captured in a Making-OF of the filming of ‘The Two Towers’, decided Take advantage of the loss of the superior phalanx of your ring finger who suffered as a child to tease its director allying with the makeup FX team, which created a prosthetic finger that the interpreter took throughout the production.
The occurrence consisted of creating a false wound in the prosthesis, stuffed with blood to seem real, and make Jackson believe that he had had an accident on the set. The problem is that the effect It was seen so unpleasant, as if he had practically burst the appendixthat Peter’s good paid until Rhys-Davies and his accomplices began to laugh on his face.
It is usually said that “At the blacksmith’s house, stick knife”and that Peter Jackson did not recognize the trick after having thrown from many similar in his early filmography, the truth that the saying contains.
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