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A villain threatens the rise of a new earl in an ancient kingdom.A villain threatens the rise of a new earl in an ancient kingdom.A villain threatens the rise of a new earl in an ancient kingdom.
- Won 2 BAFTA Awards
- 4 wins & 5 nominations total
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- TriviaTo create a sense of scale and depth when they were photographed, the castle miniatures were placed into large tanks of water to which disinfectant (Jeyes Fluid) had also been added to make it slightly cloudy. The post-production house responsible for compositing and other visual effects were in awe of the skills and ingenuity of the traditional model makers, but exasperated by the variability of the images that this "organic" method generated, making their color-correction and image matching tasks much more difficult, than with computer graphics images.
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Real World - Gormenghast
I've read Mervyn Peake's books over and over again. To me, the story of Titus Groan, 77'th earl of Gormenghast, is one that can actually compete with Tolkien's "The Lord Of The Rings".
So what do I think about the mini series? Well, obviously no one would dare do what Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema did with the aforementioned movie, so I guess a four part mini series was the next best thing. (Although I would have loved to see this in a cinema!) Good actors and an excitingly stylistic production makes this a worthwhile four hours. Some has been left out, of course, but there's still plenty of material left to build the characters of the story.
This is not a fantasy movie. It has no or few classic fantasy elements at all in it. I would rather see it as a fantastic movie, where the laws of the "normal" world aren't broken - just a little bent out of shape...
Gormenghast will provide a glimpse into our own world, and even though it's not always pretty, it's always done in beautiful colors.
So what do I think about the mini series? Well, obviously no one would dare do what Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema did with the aforementioned movie, so I guess a four part mini series was the next best thing. (Although I would have loved to see this in a cinema!) Good actors and an excitingly stylistic production makes this a worthwhile four hours. Some has been left out, of course, but there's still plenty of material left to build the characters of the story.
This is not a fantasy movie. It has no or few classic fantasy elements at all in it. I would rather see it as a fantastic movie, where the laws of the "normal" world aren't broken - just a little bent out of shape...
Gormenghast will provide a glimpse into our own world, and even though it's not always pretty, it's always done in beautiful colors.
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- Jan Kjellin
- Sep 20, 2002
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