Anything You Can Imagine. Ian Nathan
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Название: Anything You Can Imagine

Автор: Ian Nathan

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары

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isbn: 9780008192488

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       Copyright

      HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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      First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

      Copyright © Ian Nathan 2018

      Cover design by Claire Ward © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2018

      Cover photograph © Paul Stuart/Camera Press London

      Ian Nathan asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008192471

      Ebook Edition © May 2018 ISBN: 9780008192488

      Version: 2019-03-27

       Dedication

      For Kat, who can’t abide hobbits.

       Epigraph

      ‘The artist-initiated epic is an obsessive testing of possibilities … It comes, too, from a conviction, or a hope, that if you give popular audiences the greatest you have in you they will respond.’

       Pauline Kael

      ‘It would be easier to film The Odyssey. Much less happens in it.’

       J.R.R. Tolkien

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Foreword by Andy Serkis

       Prologue: Journey's End

      1: Sillification

       5: Concerning Hobbits

       6: Heavenly Creatures

       7: Jamboree

       8: Miramar’s Mecca of Merry Souls

       9: Proof of Concept

       10: The Monsters and the Critics

       11: To the Edge of the World

       12: Junkie

       13: MASSIVE

       14: Return to the Edge of the World

       15: The Music of Middle-earth

       16: King of a Golden Hall

       17: Legacy of the Ring

       18: There and Back Again

       19: Augmented Reality

       Afterword

       Picture Section

       Footnotes

       Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgements

       Picture Credits

       About the Author

       Also by Ian Nathan

       About the Publisher

       Foreword

      It feels like there was life before and life after.

      I can remember the first time I saw Gollum. A finished Gollum. It was the sequence by the Forbidden Pool where he turns around to see Frodo, and he knows that something’s going on. It’s almost like an animal instinct; he can sense it. It was absolutely extraordinary.

      You don’t know, you could never know. Here, finally, was the first proof that a level of psychological and emotional detail could be conveyed through ones and noughts. That thought could be conveyed through the combination of my performance and what they were doing at Weta Digital. I could sense that thought. I could feel that was exactly as I played it. That was incredibly gratifying.

      Then I remember seeing The Two Towers for the first time. It was in New York, I was with Miranda Otto, Bernard Hill and Karl Urban. It was mind blowing. I knew every single frame.

      I sensed that my life was never going to be the same again.

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