peacock ( 2010 film )
the company has been scouting locations for about three months and is building a set in peacock gap in san rafael, according to deborah albre, marin film liaison for the california film commission .
among the examples cited in the report: cornfield productions, producers of the mystery movie
peacock ,
starring ellen page and susan sarandon, received $ 3. 2 million in tax credits for a film that had a $ 9. 5 - million budget. the audit found that about $ 4. 6 million in expenditures from the 2010 release should not have qualified .
susan sarandon as fanny crill, the wife of peacock' s mayor, who also runs a local woman' s shelter. [ 4 ] sarandon has said that peacock is
a very strange little piece — kind of ominous .
[ 5 ]
paramount pictures corp. is planning to shoot a new, as yet unannounced, feature film in marin, according to local film industry spokespeople .
after opening its doors in late 2010, cape town film studios has been so aggressively courted by so many movie producers that it was obliged to turn away 32 film projects in 2014 alone. (sources say it turned away the latest star wars and spider - man films, although the studio refuses to comment .) paradoxically, south africa’s own film producers have seldom managed to crack the global market. there hasn’t been a true global smash hit from a south african production company since the apartheid - era comedy, the gods must be crazy, in 1980 .
an intriguing film that leaves certain afterthought, peacock tells a story about john, a withdrawn character with traumas, unknowingly cross dressing as his alter ego, emma, who is much friendlier and receptive to others than he is .
cannes - winning south african film maker oliver hermanus is planning to use his next film to explore military conscription and how it shaped white masculinity during apartheid. by vukile dlwati
a marginally effective little psychological drama that ultimately (in the very end) becomes slightly unsatisfying. peacock is a little - seen, almost - unheard of hitchcockian thriller about the residents of a farmhouse in rural 1950' s nebraska (the town is called peacock) after a train derails and nearly kills a mysterious woman living there .
peter jackson, who revamped new zealand’s film industry, is to direct “the hobbit. ”
peacock is a movie starring cillian murphy, ellen page, and susan sarandon. a train accident in rural nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town' s bank clerk .
“that is not the total budget for the film, ” deutsch said. “if they have $ 100 million in qualified expenditures, then the actual film budget is a lot more. ”
a dark and sometimes difficult film with plenty of depth peacock is a great debut from michael lander containing a stunning set of character studies from cillian murphy both men expertly bringing to life a heartbreaking tale of a damaged human being split apart by his horrific past and desperate to find inner peace .
last week, iowa prosecutors bolstered their criminal case against tom wheeler, the state' s former film chief, charging him with various felonies, including official misconduct over his handling of state film tax credits .
a film noir buff has his life turned on end by a femme fatale with a big adventure in mind .
release. this is the third such film in a row that i' ve reviewed. four if you count
according to variety, constantin film will be the main distributor, and the budget is around $ 60 million .
erik deutsch, a spokesman for the california film commission, said this year’s california film & television tax credit program allows for additional tax credits for films shot outside of the los angeles area — including those in the bay area .
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the film definitely has an interesting concept. i guess we' ll have to wait and see how it turns out .
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iowa rapidly expanded its film credit program in 2007, developing one of the most aggressive tax incentives in the country, one that was touted by the local film office as
half - priced
filmmaking. producers of more than 150 projects applied for funding .
a deep and thoroughly interesting character study dramatic psychological thriller peacock is an immensely involving story that always remains realistic and sensitive even when dealing with a subject that has been the center of so many less intelligent and heavier handed horror movies since jekyll and hyde .
unfortunately, the film can’t quite make it all the way on performance and ingenuity of concept alone. somewhere around the 3 / 4 mark, the novelty of the central quirk wears off and peacock starts treading water a bit. lander tries to push his movie into thriller mode as the two personalities battle for control. but despite the action onscreen, it never really deviates from being a small, melancholic film with two central characters that, while well - rendered, haven’t really won our sympathy or warranted an emotional investment. because of this, there’s no real tension, and as interest wanes, the film just kinda sputters to an indifferent conclusion .
runge' s attorney, matthew whitaker of des moines, said the state is blaming filmmakers for the mismanagement of its film office .
“we’re all feeling much happier today, ” said graeme mason, the chief executive of the new zealand film commission. mr. mason said government incentives and the expertise of local workers would probably have held the country’s film industry together even if the hobbit films had left .
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“i don’t want to say if i’m not 100 percent sure, ” albre said. she said a location scout contacted her about three months ago and that the company had been looking earlier to shoot in bolinas, inverness or point reyes, before settling in peacock gap .
the choice to have cillian murphy wear brown contact lenses in this film is as tragic as the scene in which he shaves off his eyebrows .
scavenger hunt # 38 - may 2018 6. a film with a cast member or director born in may (cillian murphy, may 25 )
production has begun on kings of mulberry street, a feature film written and directed by acclaimed director and producer judy naidoo, and set in the fictional town of sugarhill district, populated mainly by people of indian descent. the film is being shot in verulam and tongaat in kwazulu natal .
hiding his secret split personality from the rest of the quiet small town of peacock no one has ever seen emma before that is until a train crashes into his back garden while emma is hanging out the washing and everyone around suddenly wants to know everything about john’s mysterious wife .
peacock is a decent drama \ thriller imagine psycho or dressed to kill minus the horror aspects. cillian murphy is fantastic as always. my only gripe is that no one in town can tell that its cillian in drag. if you can suspend disbelief and overlook that, its very enjoyable
like mr. jackson, many film crew workers in new zealand have been inclined to see the presence of australia’s media alliance as undue meddling from a neighboring country whose own film industry has been in decline for years, mostly because a strong australian dollar made production there less attractive than in other places .
loukuz (5 years ago) reply i just watched this film, and i loved cillian' s performance. it was outstanding. and i did understand what was going on with john / emma in the film. i only wished someone would have caught on in the end. but it was left with a wondering thought of
how well we really don' t know what goes on in our neighbors closed doors ,
it was an interesting film .
this is the first custom - built, state - of - the - art film studio in sub - saharan africa, and it’s rapidly becoming one of hollywood’s favourite places to shoot. it touts itself as “the most successful film studio in the developing world” – a grand claim that might even be true .
albre said she was not sure of the title, although she understood it was likely an action film, and likely a sequel to an earlier paramount project .
like albre, walter said he was not able to release more details on the new film. paramount, which is scheduled to make its own announcement soon on the film, requires associates and staff to sign a non - disclosure agreement and often uses code names for its films instead of actual titles, walter said .
“the lesson is that everybody is pandering to the film industry, ” said schuyler m. moore, a los angeles entertainment lawyer. mr. moore cautions that state subsidies for film production often amount to picking money from one pocket of an economy to fill another — and that producers are quick to side with a higher bidder .
we maintain she did nothing wrong and was acting according to the guidelines ,
whitaker said .
everything she did was approved by the film commissioner .
when the rally takes place, emma shuts herself in her home, ignoring the attendees. she gives the money to maggie, telling her to leave because it is not safe here in peacock, as well as trying to prevent the abuse that she herself had endured. the film ends with maggie holding jake over her shoulder as they walk down the porch steps, with jake waving a childhood toy of john' s that emma had given him and emma barring herself in her home .
while the film can' t measure up to its psychologically bent scenario, it' s still an intriguing choice at the local dvd store or on - demand service .
incentives to woo hollywood productions were suspended amid allegations of abuses, the state' s former film chief is accused of official misconduct and six filmmakers are charged with fraud .
bill pullman as edmund french, john' s boss. [ 4 ] pullman has described peacock as
a very interesting script ,
explaining that his role
is another character hiding the fact he' s the closest one like [ skillpa ]. it' s a very different part for me .
[ 6 ]
director lander, from what i could find, other than peacock, has one short film to his directing credit from ten years ago…if this is what the dude does every time, then he’s worth the wait. i appreciated the fact that not everything was spelled out for me (till the end, but that’s my only beef) and that i got the pleasure of getting to figure some sh * t out on my own…always good to dust the rust off this old noggin of mine from time to time !
but the cape town studio has provided a different route for south africa to enter the global film business. it estimates it has created 50, 000 part - time jobs and attracted some $ 140 - million (u. s .) in film investment over the past five years, reaching profitability faster than anyone expected in south africa’s troubled economic climate .
never does that, choosing instead to ramble on uselessly until it finally cant ramble on anymore. what' s worse is that the film is so bland i couldn' t help but keep thinking about where emma had come from and when the film failed to give me even that nugget of information, i was pissed off; i invested 90 minutes of my time to an uninteresting film and didn' t even manage to walk away with the satisfaction of understanding what i' d just seen and what the point of it was .
john skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in tiny peacock, nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life. this might have to do with john’s secret: he has another personality no one knows about, a woman who each morning does his chores and cooks him breakfast before he starts his day. then, in a moment, everything changes…
these days, with the total media saturation of studio marketing campaigns and the internet - born near - impossibility of keeping anything under wraps, it’s really rare for a movie to sneak up on me. that is to say, most of the time when i pop a flick in my dvd player, i already know virtually everything there is to know about it. but recently i got a refreshing change of pace with michael lander’s peacock. aside from the cast, i knew nothing about it going in. no trailers, no synopses, no images…nothing. and that made the unexpected quirk at the core of the film (revealed in the opening moments) truly surprising and the film itself that much more engrossing .
cillian murphy as john / emma skillpa, a
retiring, shy and completely nondescript bank employee
leading a double life as emma, his female alter ego. murphy stated that
peacock stunned me as a script from start to finish. it offers an incredible challenge to an actor — one i couldn' t turn down .
[ 2 ]
john skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in tiny peacock, nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life. this might have to do with john' s secret: he has another personality no one knows about, a woman who each morning does his chores and cooks him breakfast before he starts his day. then, in a moment, everything changes .
twenty - two years after the death of apartheid, south africa has become a popular film location, prized for its natural beauty, sunshine and diverse landscapes that can double for most parts of the world. but the challenge now is to convert its film sector from location - based shooting to a manufacturing - based studio industry, which could create three times as many jobs .
a film crew shoots part of the netflix series “13 reasons why” in larkspur. shooting has begun in marin on a second season of the controversial teen series. (courtesy city of larkspur )
a film adaption of capcom’s long - running video game [ video ] series, “monster hunter, ” will go into production this september in cape town with a budget of $ 60 million .
the state famously depicted in kevin costner' s 1989 baseball classic
field of dreams
has become mired in an ever - widening scandal over alleged abuses of its film tax credit program .
john skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in tiny peacock, nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life. this might have to do with john' s secret: he has another personality no one knows about, a woman who each morning does his chores and cooks him breakfast before he starts his day. then, in a moment, everything changes ...
the tax credits offer added incentives for film projects to come to the bay area because “they are based on the local rebate, ” walter said. “they have to spend the money locally. ”
but former gov. chet culver suspended the film program in 2009 after an internal audit found irregularities, including filmmakers using tax credit funds to purchase a land rover and other luxury vehicles for themselves .
“they’re supposed to start prepping (to shoot the new film) on monday, ” said mark walter, general manager of the mare island studio space where paramount is now staging its bay area projects .
the strength of the first three quarters, however, is enough for me to give this a rental recommendation. it’s got an intriguing concept that, if nothing else, makes it unique among a sea of largely homogenous vid store options. and ultimately, 3 / 4 of peacock is probably more compelling than 4 / 4 of a lot of a lot of other flicks you’ll come across .
cillian murphy delivers a career defining performance as john skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in tiny peacock, nebraska, who prefers to live an invisible life. this might have to do with johns secret: he has another personality no one knows about, a woman who each morning does his chores and cooks him breakfast before he starts his day. then, in a moment, everything changes .
the 200 - hectare studio, located about 30 kilometres from the centre of cape town, is majority - owned by two south african companies with close connections to the local television and film industries, including a company headed by anant singh, producer of the film version of nelson mandela’s memoirs, long walk to freedom – one of the early films shot here. the western cape provincial government owns a further 10 per cent .
wheeler was among six officials in iowa fired or forced to quit over allegations they mismanaged the film tax credit program, which was suspended in 2009. wheeler was arraigned tuesday and pleaded not guilty to the charges .
the iowa debacle goes well beyond that of a bribery scandal in louisiana in which a former top film office official was given a two - year prison sentence in 2009 for steering tax credits to a local producer .
development of the studio had been foundering for several years before the 2008 arrival of dekker, who had long experience in converting warehouses into film - production sites. “nobody believed in it, ” he recalls. “the negative feeling was so overwhelming. the local film industry said it can’t work, it’s crazy, it’s insane, it will go down in two years. but i believed in it. and everybody’s starting to take it seriously now. ”
i know i said i was taking a full week off, but i can never pass up a movie that was filmed 30 miles from where i live. i had been waiting for peacock to hit theaters, and it really just never happened. i think most of that is due to it pretty much just going straight to dvd. i think this is probably one of the best straight to dvd movies i have ever seen .
‘s gender - bending premise suggests all kinds of weird possibilities, the film’s execution doesn’t capitalize on any of them, and the final product is a muddled, small - town drama with only the occasional hint of slight weirdness .
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now, because being surprised made me enjoy it more than i otherwise would have, i really don’t want to give away the twist on this side of the jump. so i’ll just say that peacock is about a deeply disturbed 1950s bank teller named john skillpa (cillian murphy) with a secret lady friend who, as the film goes on, becomes less and less satisfied with staying secret. i recommend that you go out and rent it without knowing anything more specific; seriously, don’t even read the synopsis on the back of the case…it’ll be a lot more fun that way. not interested? then hit the jump for the necessarily spoiler - heavy review .
ha (8 years ago) reply i love the irony in your rambling sentence, here :
that' s also fine, i tend to like it when directors leave something for the audience to figure out but when you do so, you also have to provide enough information so that the audience can figure the mystery out for themselves and peacock never does that, choosing instead to ramble on uselessly until it finally cant ramble on anymore .
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south african government support, including a program of 20 per cent rebates, has been crucial in attracting film projects from hollywood and elsewhere. south africa’s weak currency, which has devalued drastically in the past two years, is another advantage .
walter said his idea to create urltoken as a joint venture with the film industry’s cinelease in existing facilities at mare island a year ago appears to have been a fortuitous proposition — given the auspicious tax credit program climate, combined with the proximity to iconic bay area filming locations. within 48 hours of opening film mare island, paramount had committed to lease the studio for its first season of “13 reasons why” — a project that has become one of netflix’s most popular shows, he said .
prime minister john key announced the agreement at a news conference late wednesday in wellington, after a week in which thousands of film workers had taken to the streets in support of efforts to save the movies after a labor dispute had stalled production .
for many in new zealand, however, the fight to retain the latest productions by mr. jackson, who is widely credited with revamping the country’s film industry, involves economic survival. roughly $ 500 million in spending hangs in the balance .
it comes as several cash - strapped states are scaling back their film incentive programs, which have been instrumental in luring production away from california. however, it' s too early to say whether this retrenchment will keep more filming in california .
if you don' t have the checks and balances, film programs can get in trouble, and that' s what happened in iowa ,
said peter dekom, an entertainment industry attorney who helped craft new mexico' s program .
new zealand’s feisty film workers have taken to the streets this week to try to keep peter jackson’s production of “the hobbit” in their country, nudging the prime minister, john key, toward a tuesday summit meeting with a visiting contingent of warner brothers executives .
as of tuesday afternoon in wellington — the new zealand capital and the center of a growing movie industry sometimes called wellywood — the matter was unsettled. but it was clear that mr. jackson’s furry little film creatures were not going anywhere without a fight .
it' s clear from the get go that there' s a mystery to john and lander tries to stretch that mystery as far as he can but in the end, it' s simply not enough to keep the story going for 90 minutes and so the film stretches to include other side characters, none of which are particularly interesting or important. the film also draws out john' s gradual â€œdeathâ€ as emma becomes the dominant personality but there doesn' t seem to be any motivational pull to emma' s actions and it' s never clear why she does what she does. it doesn' t help that the film continually hints as to why emma developed in the first place but other than a sentence about john â€œmeetingâ€ emma on the day his mother died, the film never provides an answer. that' s also fine, i tend to like it when directors leave something for the audience to figure out but when you do so, you also have to provide enough information so that the audience can figure the mystery out for themselves and
great movie although it didn' t go where i thought it was heading - there may not have been a better actor for this role than cillian murphy - as usual ellen page is an endorsement for any film & this indie role suits her to a tee - the rest of the cast is notable - the film contains stunning photography (not of majestic mountains) and images that appeared perfectly constructed for a very visual movie - well crafted script with many scenes where a single word delivers the next chapter of the storyline - highly recommended for the moviegoer who likes to be emotionally drained as well as entertained - almost from the start, this is an edgy film where it feels like something is just about to happen and there is little expectation of that something becoming anyone' s successful pursuit of happiness .
nearby, on the same film - production lot, are replicas of a sandy caribbean beach, a blood - soaked nairobi hospital, a historic american town, nelson mandela’s prison cell and the futuristic set of a tent - pole movie based on a stephen king novel .
john skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in tiny peacock, nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life. then, in a moment, everything changes. a train caboose runs off its tracks and crashes into john' s backyard and destroys more than the weathered planks of his wood fence. when neighbors descend on the scene, they discover john' s other personality, emma, for the first time and mistakenly believe her to be john' s wife. this launches john into the glare of the spotlight and eventually shatters the delicate balance of his sanity .
now the studio is expanding again, having built another workshop and sound stage this year, and it remains solidly booked. the new sound stage was immediately grabbed for the film version of stephen king’s dark tower series, starring matthew mcconaughey and idris elba. shooting on the first movie began in may .
though set in small - town nebraska, [ 2 ] peacock was filmed in iowa: filming began on may 6, 2008 in odebolt, in sac county, while greenfield and adair county also staged production for several days, including scenes in greenfield' s town square and its e. e. warren opera house. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] filming was scheduled to continue on june 5, 2008 in boone, iowa, but due to weather conditions, cornfield productions was forced to delay filming until the following day; the filming ended on june 9. [ 9 ]
the audit said the film office allowed filmmakers to rely on estimates of production costs, rather than actual expenses, and to count out - of - state salaries toward the tax credits. the investigation also said producers set up shell companies with local addresses that actually purchased goods and services from out of state .
deutsch said he didn’t know if the big - budget “untitled paramount project” that is listed in 22 film projects approved for tax credits this year on the commission’s website was the one being shot in marin. that project is listed as having a record $ 100 million - plus in expenditures that qualify for tax credits .
nevertheless, one of the greatest contributions to this film is performance. cillian murphy (no bias bros) completely pulled off the two different skillpas, despite the stark contrast in personalities. his performance did convince me otherwise when implausible events occurred, and i' m honestly not sure how many actors can actually do that .
i enjoyed this film for what it was. it had a very hitchcock vibe, and cillian murphy did a great job. the movie built some suspense very well, and certainly had a creepy vibe throughout. however, it is one of those films that you wished went a different direction with its story. granted, the toil between the two personalities (emma & john) in one person was intriguing, but i couldn' t help but feel like it would have been considerably better if it had a little more
meat
to it. the acting, and intriguing character study, saved what' s other - wise a mediocre film .
with a brilliant ensemble cast including susan sarandon, bill pullman, ellen page and josh lucas all on fine form the film contains a tour de force performance from cillian murphy who further cements his reputation as a great acting talent, completely convincingly bringing both john and emma to life and making them very separate and very believable human beings .
“no doubt if they’ve got something to say, they’ll say it, ” mr. english said. “the rough estimates of taxpayer support for this film are around 50 million to 60 million new zealand dollars — maybe more if they spend more, so it’s pretty generous. ” that translates to $ 38 million to $ 45 million .
have you ever seen a direct to dvd movie and wonder why it never made it to theaters? i watch these kinds of films all the time, some of them don' t deserve a theatrical release others make me wonder why it didn' t get one, especially when they have a great group of actor starring in the film .
“lander’s thriller wannabe is a confusing jumble of badly developed ideas which happen to be acted out by a talented group of actors who are squandered away in a film that is so concerned with creating a mystery that it overlooks the fact that it also needs to be a good movie. a sad waste of a great cast. ”–marina antunes, quiet earth
the film, for the most part, is an intriguing, low - key little drama (with thriller - ish elements toward the end) that’s bolstered by good performances and the novelty of the central twist. lander plots a story that, though sputtering toward the end, is never what you’d call predictable and thereby is very engaging up to a certain point. furthermore, he crafts an effectively morose film world that really grounds a concept that, on the surface, sounds kind of silly. and kudos to him for a seamlessly pulled - off first - act fakeout…the movie begins with murphy in drag as the mother, and i had no idea it was him until lander wanted me to .
as he is in pretty much everything, he' s great in this movie. not many actors can pull off the dual personality. especially not when the personalities are dual gendered. there' s so much nuance to his performance. his hand movements, his posture, eye movements, vocal inflections... . he definitely carries the film .
in a statement, mr. jackson said he was grateful to the government for introducing legislation and added, “i feel enormous gratitude to the film technicians, actors and fans who came out in support of making these films in new zealand. to the thousands of people who took the time to write and let us know they were with us — thank you. ”
john then visits maggie at the shelter, agreeing to give her a ride to madison, as well as just over $ 1000, his savings at the bank. emma offers maggie a job at the bank, in an attempt to keep maggie in peacock. john asks maggie to meet him at the local motel at 11pm that night to collect the money. emma seduces a man at the bar that night, and leads him to the motel room that john had arranged. she beats the man unconscious, lays him on the bed, and sets the motel on fire as maggie comes to meet john. emma, long gone, gets to feign the
death
of her
husband .
an amazing and right on target review for this straight to dvd drama. i wish i had seen this review before i had seen the trailer. lionsgate released 2 trailers for this film. one of which makes it out to be a movie that leans more towards the horror genre than the suspense / thriller genre. very misleading and gets the movie to the wrong audience .
peacock follows the story of john skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in nebraska, who appears to have a perfectly ordinary life. however, john has a secret which is threatening to be discovered. suffering from multiple personality disorder, john disguises one half of his personality under the character of
emma
, a woman who cooks and cleans for him every morning. one day, a freight train derails and crashes into his garden, unleashing a whirlwind of events as john' s alter ego is discovered and he must invent a story involving a secret marriage in order to maintain his secret. young, single mother, maggie holds the key to john' s past, and sparks a battle between the two personalities as emma begins to take over john' s life completely .
suggested a strange, somewhat creepy tale of john skillpa, a quiet man with a secret, a secret that the trailer gives away. but even with the big reveal thrown out so quickly, the trailer does something else: it suggests a film with mystery, intrigue and perhaps a little something sinister as if the fact that john is also emma is simply a passing fact of little consequence sadly, the truth about
boocatbutterbee (2 years ago) reply melanie, why do you have to express your disagreement in such a disagreeable way? it diminishes your underlying point. the obnoxiousness is an unneeded distraction and makes me wonder about sadism... further, i do not believe the film was
brilliant
. it wasn' t well - enough written to be that good. even i am smart enough to recognize that fact .
the old “split - personality” flick finally rears its head around me once again…it’s been quite some time since i’ve gotten the pleasure of watching one and reviewing something such as this. granted, i’ve sat through many a split - personality disorder movie in my day; the most famously well - known of these of course would probably be sybil, which if memory serves won many well - deserved awards for sally field. the most lesser - known, of course, would probably have to be the michael keaton - starring multiplicity. or were those clones? my memory fails me on that one, as it was so gawdawfully painful to sit through that i’ve tried repeatedly for years to forget as much about it as humanly possible. peacock, though, is a bird of a much different and brightly - colored * snicker * feather .
the legislation is expected to require workers to designate their status as an employee or a freelance worker when beginning a project, then stick with it, according to one person who was briefed on the talks but spoke anonymously because the agreement was not complete. thus, anyone who contracted individually with producers of “the hobbit” as a freelance worker at the beginning of the film could not change status later and claim the rights of a permanent employee .
the filming of the train derailment scene occurred at a local set of train tracks; line producer brian bell explained that this particular shot was a
visual effects
shot, where the train would eventually be digitally edited to appear as if it is passing through skillpa' s backyard, even though it is not physically there. although the shooting took four hours to complete, it only comprises about 10 to 15 seconds of the film. [ 9 ]
the studio has garnered high praise from producers and performers. british actor stephen fry, after completing his role in a television adaptation of the borrowers here, tweeted that the cape town studio made britain’s famed pinewood studios “look v shabby. ” andrew macdonald, a producer of dredd, told time magazine that the cape town studio is one of very few in the world that can create a film looking like a $ 100 - million production for less than half of that cost .
john skillpa (cillian murphy), a quiet bank clerk living alone in tiny peacock, nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life in order to hide his secret: he has dissociative identity disorder, the implied result of childhood trauma inflicted by his abusive mother. his alter ego is a woman, emma, who each morning does his chores and cooks him breakfast before he starts the day. one day while he is using the outside yard clothesline as emma, a freight train caboose derails and crashes into john' s backyard. when his neighbors come to the scene ,
emma
enters his house, putting john' s other life into the spotlight, so he is forced to tell his neighbors that emma is his wife, married in secrecy. forced to fool the town into believing he and his alter ego are man and wife, john and emma must maintain their secret while in public view .
new zealand’s film industry received an enormous boost from the production of mr. jackson’s “lord of the rings” and “king kong” films, and has continued to be a center for special - effects work on other movies, including james cameron’s “avatar. ” the industry had revenue of 2. 8 billion new zealand dollars in 2009, or $ 2. 1 billion — roughly 2 percent of the gross domestic product, according to statistics new zealand, an agency that monitors the country’s economy .
but behind the agreement is a hard economic reality. hollywood has the upper hand in deciding where to film its big - budget extravaganzas, and there are many places willing to pay to attract filmmakers. and so the negotiations found executives of a giant american studio sitting across the table from the chief executive of a sovereign nation, population 4. 4 million, wrangling over the fate of a pair of films and, with it, a not insignificant part of that nation’s economy and public image .
perhaps just as important, wednesday’s agreement also calls for new zealand to increase its contribution to each film by $ 7. 5 million, in addition to a standing government incentive that reimburses up to 15 percent of the spending in new zealand by a high - budget production like “the hobbit. ” in a further twist, mr. key told reporters, in a commitment to time warner and its global media group, new zealand would contribute $ 10 million to a marketing campaign that would tie the films to tourism in the country .
as the film opens, the protagonist and his lady friend are caught up in a routine that sees her existing solely to meet his needs: making him meals, getting him off to work, doing his laundry. she doesn’t even leave the house. as we find out early on, john suffered immensely at the hands of his mother, who left him emotionally crippled and barely able to function in the real world. however, he was so dependent upon her that after she died, he had to find a replacement. and so he did…in the form of a split personality .
tries hard to rise above the bare bones story concept but the acting and great score (brian reitzell' s work is hauntingly gorgeous) are simply not enough to do it. when the credits rolled, i was so confused that i searched the extras for some clarification only to find an alternate ending that confused me even more. lander' s thriller wannabe is a confusing jumble of badly developed ideas which happen to be acted out by a talented group of actors who are squandered away in a film that is so concerned with creating a mystery that it overlooks the fact that it also needs to be a good movie. a sad waste of a great cast .
polyvinyl (4 years ago) reply i think it is very clear that emma is john reincarnating his controlling mother in his split personality. her control over him did not end when she died. and he fights this control over him, while she becomes the dominant persona. at last he prevents the child from becoming her / his next victim but is unable to free himself. in the end he returns into the cage of his mind. the film / script is not perfect, but cillian murphy gives a stunning performance of this torn mind, especially when at the end the two characters melt together and you can sense emmas presence just in the way
john
moves .
mr. jackson was not present in the meetings with new zealand officials, though his manager, ken kamins, who is also an executive producer of the film, was, along with toby emmerich, new line’s president, and john a. rogovin, warner’s general counsel. the discussions were generally smooth, according to the person who spoke anonymously. that person said both warner executives and government officials agreed from the outset that new zealand was the preferred location, if the union question could be resolved, and if warner could recoup some of the money it had lost in the delay, partly from a strengthening of the new zealand currency. canada, germany and britain had all surfaced as viable alternative locations .
now, before you go raking me over the coals for dealing out spoilers when you know how much i hate them, step off…everything, with the exception of my excerpt from the most excellent song by rockwell, in the quick fix above can be peeped in the trailer on the movie’s official website. i strongly questioned why they would ever drop the “big reveal” bomb in the trailer like that, but in watching the movie itself unfold and unravel before my eyes, it suddenly became very clear to me – the filmmakers weren’t nearly as concerned with whether or not we knew the “how” of it all – they wanted us to watch the film closely and pay attention so that we could learn the “why” of it all…. nicely played !
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peacock is a 2010 american psychological thriller directed by michael lander , written by lander and ryan roy , and starring cillian murphy , ellen page and susan sarandon . it was editor sally menke 's final film . 
peacock is a 2010 american psychological thriller directed by michael lander, written by lander and ryan roy, and starring cillian murphy, ellen page and susan sarandon. it was editor sally menke's final film.
peacock is a 2010 american psychological thriller directed by michael lander, written by lander and ryan roy, and starring cillian murphy, ellen page and susan sarandon. it was editor sally menke's final film.