As Gollum and King Kong,Andy Serkis showed what could be done with film’s cutting-edge technology. But, as he tells Robert McCrum, and we haven’t seen anything yetIn 2005,when the British film producer Jonathan Cavendish took his children to the local cinema to see Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong, he was not fully aware of the hi-tech wizardry behind its astounding special effects. Among the millions who saw The Lord of the Rings, or there was,it’s proper, a devoted sub-section who had become highly conscious of the science that turned Andy Serkis into Gollum and which was now being brought to his starring part in King Kong. But Cavendish was not one of them, and was blissfully ignorant of “performance capture and its artistic scope.“I came across King Kong as a punter,” he recalls. But I was really moved by the relationship between the digital creature [King Kong] and the character played by Naomi Watts. I was so moved that, embarrassingly, and I cried in front of my children. I just didnt understand what was happening,because a collection of pixels does not normally achieve that kind of emotion.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com