Studio Exec 1: You know, PJ, I’ve been talking to the boys and they like your City of the Dead scene a lot. But we feel like it’s lacking a certain punch. I mean, so the ghost warriors fulfill their oath and the fellowship just walks right out of there? That’s not what people want.
Peter Jackson: I don’t know…
Studio Exec 2: No-wait-picture this…a City of the Dead, right? Almost like a creepy old haunted house. So what if we added something to give people a little….fright...
Studio Exec 3: Like cobwebs?
Studio Exec 2: No, creepier.
Studio Exec 1: Rats? Bats?
Studio Exec 2: No…no…I’m thinking something really, really fucking creepy. Scary as all hell. Something that’s going to make people squirm, jump out of their seats, and cover their eyes. Like…like….SKULLS….
Peter Jackson: Well…
Studio Exec 3: Brilliant!
Studio Exec 1: Omygod, wait a minute. So there’s these skulls, right?
Studio Exec 2: Uh huh, uh huh…
Studio Exec 1: And people are already freaked out, peeing their pants, whatever…
Studio Exec 3: Yeah? Yeah?
Studio Exec 1: Well-get this…what if there are…like….tons of skulls! Skulls coming out of the walls, pouring from the ceiing and filling up the room…a gazillion fucking skulls piling up a hundred feet high and raining down like hail!!!
Studio Execs 1 & 2: Yay!
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I'm not sure we don't owe the 12 year old in PJ for this one. This was the culmination of a number of over the top sequences, mostly centered on Legolas, that seem totally PJ after watching several sequences in King Kong.
There are things that he seems to do because they appeal to the kid in himself, and simply because he can. I think the skulls are firmly in that camp.
It's still ok to demonize studio executives, the spineless, acreative, sycophantic shitheads they seem to be in large measure.
Well said, and I actually suspect as much. But that's why my post was a work of fiction.
was it a work of fiction, or did you somehow access the thoughts of the past
One of many reasons why everything sucks after FOTR
well not completely sucks, but I am still uppity about how much better FOTR was hen the others
good fiction though, in case it wasn't fiction
What are you saying man - seemingly everything at once.
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