“I was so disappointed that I couldn’t experience the movie like everyone else. I actually went to a hypnotherapist and had him hypnotize me and make me forget about the movie and my job. I’ve been doing it for the past six or seven years, so at least I was able to sit back and enjoy it. ”
Jackson said she consulted celebrity illusionist Derren Brown and thought Brown could help. But Mr. Jackson did not do that, he said, without explaining why.
It’s unclear what Brown did to make Jackson forget the years of hard work he put into the classic trilogy, and a representative for Brown told The Washington Post that the illusionist was unavailable to answer questions. He said there wasn’t.
However, some hypnotherapists believe that memory erasure techniques such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (a 2004 film in which a estranged couple seeks out a fictional service that completely erases their memories of each other) says it’s mostly a product of Hollywood.
British hypnotherapist Andrew Cunningham wrote in a 2015 Huffington Post essay that hypnotherapy cannot completely erase memories, but rather can change the way a person feels about negative events.
“Every time we remember, we are adding to that memory, even if it seems like we are just remembering. And hypnotherapy can help us ‘forget’ because of the style of remembering.” ,” he writes. “Because what we want to forget is not the fact that it happened, but how we feel about that memory and how our emotions and bodies react when we remember it.”
Eva Evans, a Los Angeles-based hypnotherapist, said it’s impossible to erase memories, and others in the field would agree. She told the Post that people are asking her to forget the traumatic experience, but she instead works with people to remove “negative emotions” from her memory. .
However, she says, “I’ve never heard of using hypnotherapy to completely forget a memory,” adding, “Forgetting strong memories, such as forgetting a movie that you directed, is possible through hypnotherapy. “I don’t think it’s possible to use that,” he added.
Jackson’s comments came ahead of the release of Amazon’s new series “The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power,” whose first season cost nearly $500 million to produce. It will be premiered on September 2nd. Mr. Jackson was initially approached to work on the project, but he asked to see the script, he said, but was not sent a copy. Therefore, Jackson did not work on the show, he said.
In response to Jackson’s comments, Amazon Studios told The Hollywood Reporter that “in pursuing the rights to the show, we had an obligation to separate and distinguish the series from the film.”
In some ways, Jackson said, he was lucky not to be involved. He finally realizes his desire to appreciate the series with fresh eyes who have no idea how it was created.
“One of the things I’m looking forward to is actually watching this movie as a completely neutral viewer, because when I made the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies, I always I always felt like I was an unlucky person who never got to see The Lord of the Rings as a movie. A coming out of the blue type movie. ”
Amazon is also excited, adding in a statement: of Lord of the Ring I’m excited that he’s looking forward to the movie. ring of power”
