Loved “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” movie, in fact I love every movie he made! He does such original movies and still he hasn’t got the acclamation he so well deserves!
Time Bandits was my first Terry Gilliam movie when I was a kid. I’ve admired ever since how it most specifically differs from many other sci-fi adventure films.
I always have been a fan of Terry Gilliam. I like his films because he puts a lot of imagination into them. On the other hand, his style is amazing to me, even recognizable from one single frame.
My favorite Gilliam film is easily The Fisher King. Probably has something to do with the fact that I studied English history in college and went into radio as a career. The best part was the end, with the fireworks over Central Park as a not even subtle middle finger to the studio machine. "Here's your happy ending, motherfuckers."
'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen' is still one of my favorite movies. Hollywood are blood-drinking vultures looking for a better corporate quarter and more profit. I truly wish artists could create their work without the 'vampires' trying to suck all of the money from it before and after it was made. USA entertainment industry is disgusting.
This is easily the best, brief description of how Hollywood actually works as a business. The studios are not creative entities at all, they are a version of investment banks, and they operate according to the same incentives.
Brothers Grimm was so so. Other than that Gilliam is among my favorite movie directors along with Speilberg, Kubrick and a few others. Glad he finally got to do his Don Quixote film. It's pretty good!
@@pjmlegrande It's surprises me each time. I forget how really good it is until it comes time to watch it again. So many of his leave me with a great feeling.
@@robzilla730 Hail Caesar, as enjoyable as it is, is not what Gilliam is likely to conjure up. They didn’t want to fund his “normal” movies, let alone his cinematic take on them.
People are always talking in an industry like Hollywood and if you get a reputation for being difficult you can carry on as long as you're perceived as successful. If you're not successful _and_ difficult, your opportunities decline.
His films are equal parts brilliantly quirky and vastly intriguing. I liked most of them. But just like Tim Burton's efforts, sometimes some self-indulgent and fantastic flights of wonderful and unique imagination (beautiful, gross and yet absurd to watch) gets lost for the sake of telling a good story. Angst wins again in most of his efforts, as a dull coda, leaving me feeling a little void when I leave the theatre. Makes it hard to want to go back. The Wizard of Oz did a lot of the same things leaving me haunted by its melancholy ending that still managed to satisfy and touch my soul. It is unforgettable.
Cinema geniuses almost inevitably run into trouble. Sooner or later, jealousy from other directors finds their Achilles' heel. Or producers trap them in order to gain control over what they'll do and how they'll do it. If there's one thing producers hate about film visionaries, it's the impossibility of controlling them. That's a mortal sin and it explains in good part why Gilliam encountered so many difficulties in realizing his projects. Producers didn't trust his directing style and that generated clashes where the director seldom has the upper hand.
He speaks nothing but TRUTH !! He should be teaching master classes on the business of film making. It’s all so, so TRUE. Hollywood in nothing but a political, closed door, back stabbing regime of morons who know nothing about the craft of storytelling.
"Hollywood in nothing but a political, closed door, back stabbing regime of morons who know nothing about the craft of storytelling." That is the opinion of those who have never tried to make movies anywhere but Hollywood. Other countries are FAR WORSE. Hollywood is about untaxed profits. If you have the potential to earn untaxed profits Hollywood will take a chance on you. Outside Hollywood it's entirely about politics and nothing else. Hollywood is business, everywhere else is pretentious wannabe auteurs who check every political and social boxes.
I recently read that Sarah Polley does not have fond memories of the unsafe working conditions during the filming of "Baron". That said, I love 12 Monkeys.
I absolutely loved Baron Munchausen!!! The studio's only look at the money made to determine success vs a movie that people want to see 30 years later. Which is why when a "film critic" says anything about a movie, I ignore it. I'd much rather read about "random bob's" movie blog about the movie, at least he will be honest.
These meetings, I got to pitch a story once, TV series, you will find most "execs" waiting for some consensus, something they can latch on to and agree with. Outliers are hard to find...
Sounds like this is what Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's new company is looking to achieve : give everyone a piece of the pie, with transparent accounting, and everyone makes money, not just "the talent"
Which is hilariously ironic considering early in their careers they had ambitions to be "the talent" get rich and send their kids to private schools. If they felt that strongly about wealth distribution they should give 60% of their net worth away. Oh wait...
@@ctttt7019 Well, you have to start somewhere. And who knows how much of their wealth they give away behind the scenes. Remember what George Michael did. Gave millions to charities on condition that it was either anonymous, or that the charities contracted that it would remain anonymous. And I think most young people in their position would aspire to get rich and have all the trappings. I know I would have ! But now I'm much more of a socialist.
To be fair, even people who WORK with him say that he's chaos incarnate. Sarah Polley has written about her experiences publicly, Gilliams claim is that he didn't even have any idea, despite Eric Idle and the cinematographer backing her up. There's no denying his imagination, Time Bandits, Brazil and 12 monkeys are brilliant, some will add others, but to even have three that you wrote or co wrote and directed is quite the accomplishment. Still, some imaginative people likely should stay animators:) Those movies are practically animations given the cinematography, had he gone and done them with Studio Ghibli or something then I think a lot of trouble would have been spared.
Well consider how Hollywood has changed even since 2007 in regard to streaming services and profits compared to people making up for loss at the box offices with selling hard copy VHS or DVD like in the 80s and 90s now look at the writers strike too because the creative department is not getting their fair share either guess it gets spent on special effects and casting top stars for parts? Terry makes more art house movies David Lynch said that genre has been dead for years so if you want that sort of thing instead of action or rom comes or slasher movies (popular genres) it's a bit disappointing. I don't know about what happened with Brazil was it too dystopian because 12 Monkees was dystopian and Brad Pitt got a golden globe win for it it was taken seriously by the industry.
@@robzilla730 firstly you should so good 🤣 and Paramount was basically telling matt and tray about how to do south park. It led to their formula for success being we do everything plus you do nothing equals success
The best movie directors of all time, in order: (1) Terry Gilliam; (2) John Carpenter; (3) David Lynch; (4) Stanley Kubrick; and (5) Quentin Tarantino.
I respect Terry hugely for his work on Python and for Brazil. However outside of that, I have not enjoyed or had a good opinion of his directorial work on films like the Fisher King, Munchausen, and Quixote. If I were a studio, I would not back him as his films don't make money as they appeal to his taste and not to popular taste. There are some directors I admire who are not commercial, but Terry is just not as good as he thinks he is. Studios exist to make money. Artists can create, but they need to create films that make money, and if they don't care about their films being commercial, then they are just self indulgent. I think Terry falls into this category. Case in point is Quixote. A marvellous and timeless story. He gets to make his film version and it's dreadful and forgotten in an instant. I doubt that he cares. He could have made a marvellous version of that story but instead just indulged himself with meaningless nonsense. I think that's really sad. He has only himself to blame for his reputation for making non- commercial films.
Brazil was too accurate in its perception and storytelling of exactly the sort of world our “libertarian” and our investor class actually does want for all of us.
Lmfao libertarianism means limited to no government....your modern central banking and big central government national debt and budgets and incestous relationships with multinational corporate owners is the problem and that takes BIG GOVERNMENT. Read more books Wow.
If you don't want brazil IRL then vote for trump who plans to cut government spending and power. Cutting their budget is the only way to limit government power. This is basic shit. My 5th grade kid knows this. Embarrassing
The fundamental problem with Terry is that he's a straight up communist. There's a saying that "all a hammer sees are nails", which best describes his obsession with blaming capitalism for everything. And yet all his visions are expensive with a low reward possibility. The advice is that if you want to make big-budget films, you have to sell out a bit. You can't expect producers to sell your movies if you're not thinking about selling it to the masses. This is also a person that got his break at an extremely young age, made a bomb called jabberwocky, and spent the rest of his career feeling entitled and a victim at the same time. A typical walking bag of contradiction.
