They're a bit like a (semi) physical manifestation of Terry Gilliam's animations from Monty Python.

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.

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

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Looks interesting. Just looking at the visuals I would have guessed Terry Gilliam as the director.

Terry Gilliam Approved.

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).

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.

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?)

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.'

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anyone else see and like "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" ?
(the 1988 Terry Gilliam one, not the 1943 one)

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*promote. These are great. And yes, I too love Terry Gilliam.

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