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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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gnawing dissatisfaction with the series as a whole
May I be the first non native (English) speaker to add my comments?
Not being familiar with the books, I was still a bit disappointed with Gormenghast. It all breathes a very literary, very theatrical atmosphere and never really turns into true television. An interesting story (almost a gothic fairy tale) nonetheless - although I felt it lacked character development - excellent casting, beautiful staging. And still this gnawing dissatisfaction with the series as a whole. Even the gorgeously evil Jonathan Rhys Meyers couldn't make up for it.
Not being familiar with the books, I was still a bit disappointed with Gormenghast. It all breathes a very literary, very theatrical atmosphere and never really turns into true television. An interesting story (almost a gothic fairy tale) nonetheless - although I felt it lacked character development - excellent casting, beautiful staging. And still this gnawing dissatisfaction with the series as a whole. Even the gorgeously evil Jonathan Rhys Meyers couldn't make up for it.
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- merie
- May 22, 2000
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