Comments | phyxius: Peter Jackson re: movie piracy. WTF?

phyxius

Peter Jackson re: movie piracy. WTF?

Dec 10, 2009 22:13

Recently, Revision3 & Digg held a Digg Dialogg with Peter Jackson. It was pretty cool, but his answer to one question kind of shocked me.

“How do you feel about movie piracy?”

( watch the video or read the transcript )

Comments 13

polyanarch December 11 2009, 06:23:29 UTC

Amen!

jaberwockynmt December 11 2009, 06:34:39 UTC

Things like this give me hope for humanity. The reaction of many to comments like these is similar to how people will react to Christians when their delusions are significantly waning. It's still depressing to witness "true believers" embarrassing themselves.

Have you seen "The Five Obstructions"? It indirectly relates to this topic and sounds awesome (I just heard about it yesterday and put it at the top of my queue).

phyxius December 11 2009, 07:13:54 UTC

I haven't, but it looks interesting. I'll check it out, thanks!

rubrick December 11 2009, 07:09:11 UTC

What balderdash. It may well be that $200 million films will stop being made. The world might well be a better place for that.

phyxius December 11 2009, 07:14:27 UTC

Exactly. And I'm appalled that Peter Jackson, of all people, has forgotten that there exists a filmmaking world outside of Hollywood.

davmoo December 11 2009, 07:39:27 UTC

This really doesn't surprise me coming from Jackson. He now makes films with gazillion dollar budgets, so making cheap films is beneath him and he's probably forgotten how to do it. He can't make gazillion dollar films without the backing of the Hollywood Machine, and that's what he fears.

Personally I think a world with lots of cheaply made but original movies would be a better place than the current world filled with multi-million dollar remakes of remakes. Nobody seems to have original ideas any more.

phyxius December 11 2009, 07:43:58 UTC

You're right - maybe I should've expected it. He's only doing adaptations and remakes now.

davmoo December 11 2009, 07:47:23 UTC

Most film makers forget their roots when they get a taste of those big budget productions.

That said, I would be lying if I said I wasn't practically salivating all over myself waiting for his version of "The Hobbit" to come out.

phyxius December 11 2009, 07:51:11 UTC

I don't know about "most". Tarantino and Kevin Smith are indie-turned-mainstream filmmakers that strike me as not having forgotten their roots, though I'm not basing that on anything specific.

This is why I like to hear celebs answer this question. :)

dadandgirl December 11 2009, 22:35:53 UTC

Youtube is proof enough that movies will continue to be made when there is no money involved.

Cheap and easy digital distribution does threaten the music and movie industries to their very core, but they don't threaten the music or the movies. What they do is to put the artist with the huge record deal and massive promotion on a level playing field with the artist in their garage doing this with love and spare time. That may spell the death of music, movies and writing as a business, but it may very well enrich it as an art.

phyxius December 15 2009, 04:44:47 UTC

Cheap and easy digital distribution does threaten the music and movie industries to their very core, but they don't threaten the music or the movies.And it only threatens the industries because they refuse to adapt to it. It doesn't have to be this way! Admittedly, limited internet transfer speeds don't really help, but still ( ... )

dadandgirl December 15 2009, 08:21:30 UTC

It may turn out that adapting involves such a dramatic change that these industries won't be recognizable anymore. Take a cue from the dying breed that is newspapers - the longer you wait to adapt the more ground you lose in the meantime ( ... )