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>> ^Barseps:

A HUGE thank you for this....... probably the most original thing I've seen in months. I have no idea how old this video is but I detect a major Terry Gilliam influence, I hereby declare this
quality


It's actually from the very Fantasia-esque Italian film Allegro non troppo, which came out in 1976.

You're very welcome, Barceps. I'm glad people are enjoying it. Many thanks for the quality as well!

>> ^Barseps:

A HUGE thank you for this....... probably the most original thing I've seen in months. I have no idea how old this video is but I detect a major Terry Gilliam influence, I hereby declare this
quality

A HUGE thank you for this....... probably the most original thing I've seen in months. I have no idea how old this video is but I detect a major Terry Gilliam influence, I hereby declare this

*quality

thanks, my mistake (that'll teach me to blindly copy yt tags).

>> ^wormwood:

Maybe fix the tags. It's John Cleese and Eric Idle (with intro by Graham Chapman). No Gilliam on stage here.

Maybe fix the tags. It's John Cleese and Eric Idle (with intro by Graham Chapman). No Gilliam on stage here.

Hey, Arvana, I just unknowingly duped your video, but I think my embed is better. I didn't know if I should kill it before you saw it (my embed is not blocked and misses some pointless introduction stuff and doesn't have useless border decorations). I will happily kill mine after you see it: http://videosift.com/video/Jim-Gilliam-The-Internet-is-my-religion

While Eric Idle is awesome, what sold it for me(and what I always loved most about Monty Python) was Terry Gilliam's animation

In the spirit of spoon-feeding you the point (oh, the bitter bitter irony!) below is a sift containing a good example of a story of the holocaust as a "failure," one that deals with the crux of the issue Kubrick was talking about in the quote from the book Gilliam mentions. This PBS show is not a story about "a man can do what a man can do" in giving you comforting answers that you don't spend any time thinking about afterward.

http://videosift.com/video/PBS-God-on-Trial-the-Verdict

I think those opposed to seeing the difference think we Kubrickians are somehow saying Spielberg is bad. That's actually not what we're saying at all. We're saying we prefer to sit with questions rather than be handed easy answers.

If you fail to see the difference after this, then there's really no hope for your brain. Sorry.

That is all.

>> ^Xax:

The holocaust was bad, so no story should ever be told about anything good that happened in the midst of it? What a stupid, stupid thing to say.


Yeah, where did you get the idea that Gilliam said this, dude? Infer ideas much?

Comprehension's not just for breakfast anymore.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Dudes, you won't believe this, except someone sifted it around here....the "sappy" ending of A.I. was NOT Spielberg's idea...it was Kubrick's!


Be that as it may, I'd have been much more willing to endure Kubrick at the helm of that ending than Spielberg. What's written in the treatment matters less than you think. What matters is HOW the story is told. For instance, can you imagine a voice over narration explaining the ending of 2001? That's what Gilliam is describing here: the nice explanatory bow that wraps everything up. The "sap" at the ending of A.I. belongs solely to Spielberg, I assure you.

>> ^cybrbeast:

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull


Do executively produced movies count? Transformers.

I love some of Gilliam's work (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, Time Bandits), like some of it (The Fisher King, Baron Munchausen) and really disliked one enough to stop watching it (Brothers Grimm).

I love some of Kubrik's work (Full Metal Jacket, Clockwork Orange) like some of it (2001), hate others (Eye's Wide Shut)

I love some of Speilberg's work (Indiana Jones 1-3, Empire of the Sun, Jurassic Park, Minority Report, Hook, 'Poltergeist' as he pretty much directed it), like some of it (Close Encounters, ET, Always), but there's nothing I have seen of his that I hate, in fact the closest I've got is with AI, even though I loved to death some of the decayed robot stuff. (Indiana Jones was close to me hating it, but really only the end really shits me)

I love Speilberg's work as he has quite the diverse catalogue and really hits it out of the park more often than not.

Maybe the fact that I don't really hate any of his work demonstrates that he is 'safe' and doesn't challenge you.

I have not seen the entire catalogue of any of these directors, but they are all superb, all different and all have made amazing contributions to the artform of cinema.