After Peter Jackson bought my full conscience with his splendid directorial work on the ‘Lord of The Rings’, my desire for more of his excellent works couldn’t be fulfilled with the numerous times I watched ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ when it was released last year.
Yesterday, I took time out to see Peter Jackson’s latest ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ in its full 3D glory. At the Deluxe Cinema hall of Cineworld in Woodgreen-London, I kept saying to myself; this man has more than just the needed skills and experience…
As a Peter Jackson fan, I know he continues to play cameo roles (less than 60 seconds mostly) in most of his movies, so he can have a taste of the struggle the actors he directs go through in the making of a movie, and he did that once again in ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ .
The reason why the sudden new African order of our ‘not so good’ actors and ‘best’ actors jumping the broom to become Directors hurts my heart is the lack of PASSION they have for their work—passion in cinematography is more important than acquired skills—and Peter Jackson is a living testimony…
During the making of ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’, I followed the various video blogs Peter Jackson and his crew produced to keep fans updated and it was obvious that, Peter as Director is able to achieve his success because he has a great PASSION for what he does.
Peter Jackson has no room for substandard work and pays special attention to details, even the tiny ones. There is no way he could have achieved the huge success of his latest movies by being a LEAD Actor in the movie as our African actors/actresses are doing—-being a director and a lead at the same time. This is simply because, it is impossible to direct yourself even if you are great as Peter, compared to directing others.
PASSION is the bedrock of Peter’s success. And if you are working simultaneously as a full blown Actor and a Director, where will the passion be? You can have passion for more than one thing, but it is the one you have the greatest passion for that needs your attention…
If African film-makers ever want to achieve the peak success that people like Peter Jackson have obtained in the world of cinematography, they must begin to look into their PASSIONS and establish where they actually belong…
Having the skills and needed experience is just not enough, there must be that great PASSION for the work you do.
Anyway, if you’ve not seen ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ yet, go out there and see it—-Peter Jackson has done it again.
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