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Mechanical Masterpieces
They're a bit like a (semi) physical manifestation of Terry Gilliam's animations from Monty Python.
Counting Trump's False Claims Using Gumballs
2020 is going to be a shit-show that's part Barnum, part Mad Max, part Terry Gilliam and a whole fuckin' lotta Old Testament wrath.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Trailer (2018)
Yes, this is Gilliam's windmill. The story's changed a few times from his original idea, but he hasn't given up in his quest.
Of course, now that it's in the can one of the old producers is claiming he holds the rights and is blocking the release, but every story needs a dramatic climax... let's just hope Terry survives it.
*related https://videosift.com/video/Terry-Gilliams-Cursed-Don-Quixote-Movie-Lost-in-La-Mancha
Is this the same project?
Tale of Tales - Official Trailer
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Looks interesting. Just looking at the visuals I would have guessed Terry Gilliam as the director.
Cyriak's 2014 Adult Swim Spots
Terry Gilliam Approved.
Automata trailer
Yeah, I agree exactly. As a somewhat related example, I just finished reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson. In truth, it could actually make a pretty interesting and exciting sci-fi film, but it would lose virtually everything that made it a good novel (for the most part, Stephenson can get a little self-indulgent in his dialog). If you took the roughly 1000 page long book, and stripped out everything you couldn't put in a film without it becoming extraordinarily long and tedious, you'd maybe be left with about 150 pages. It could be a great film, and it would fit the three act motif, but it just wouldn't be Anathem.
That's sort of what led me to think of Neuromancer. There's lots of good, heady sci-fi there, but it's all expressed in events, action, and good but concise dialog (and there are, quite distinctly, three acts). Like all adaptations, sure some things would be lost, but the important concepts would still be there. Anathem, on the other hand, would just be a superficial event-driven story. Similarly, Snow Crash would just come across as ridiculous (though I'd be interested to see what Terry Gilliam could do with it).
@AeroMechanical, actually I'm with you. I seriously doubt the Foundation stories would work on film or even in a long form mini series.
The problem with a lot of sci-fi literature is that it doesn't conform to the standard 3 act movie structure. There's often an ambiguous ending which doesn't neatly resolve (like real life!). Asimov, Clarke, Banks, Reynolds, Morgan (to name a few of my favourites) fit this pattern.
There are two things happening, IMO:
1. The journey really is more important than the destination. It's about the story, not the outcome.
2. In some cases, story above character (Asimov and Clarke in particular). The idea is more important than the puny humans caught up in it.
Both of these are hard for studio execs (and to be fair, mainstream audiences) to grasp.
Zero Theorem Official Trailer #1 (2014) Christoph Waltz HD
I really liked the film, but it's important to note that Gilliam directed this, but did not write it.
I was at an interview where Gilliam said that when he read the script he knew that the writer has closely studied everything Gilliam, and knew how to write a Terry Gilliam script.
The problem isn't that no one could fill the space that Gilliam will leave, it's that anything filling that space will inevitably be put down as 'trying too hard to be like Terry Gilliam was'.
The same can be said for Monty Python in general.
Terry Gilliam needs to make as many films as possible within his lifetime, because once he is gone there will be no one who can possibly fill that space.
(maybe Spike Jonze?)
Zero Theorem Official Trailer #1 (2014) Christoph Waltz HD
maybe someone who has studied terry gilliam, his process, and whoever terry gilliam studied...
cause everything is a remix of a remix
Terry Gilliam needs to make as many films as possible within his lifetime, because once he is gone there will be no one who can possibly fill that space.
(maybe Spike Jonze?)
Zero Theorem Official Trailer #1 (2014) Christoph Waltz HD
Terry Gilliam needs to make as many films as possible within his lifetime, because once he is gone there will be no one who can possibly fill that space.
(maybe Spike Jonze?)
Colonel Sanders Explains Our Dire Overpopulation Problem
The molecule cares
Hey gorillaman, your numbers are surprisingly close to those proposed by the Georgia Guidestones-My personal favorite is #7: Avoid petty laws and useless officials. Planet now is currently at a pace to match or trump the bureaucracy portrayed in Terry Gilliam's film, 'Brazil.'
..also, who cares if humans survive to spread across the galaxy, if we are the assholes who burnt down our own home while our family was still inside?
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The Zero Theorem -- new film from Terry Gilliam
anyone else see and like "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" ?
(the 1988 Terry Gilliam one, not the 1943 one)
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The elegant gentleman's guide to knife fighting
*promote. These are great. And yes, I too love Terry Gilliam.
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