At long last, here is our piece on Terry Gilliam's masterpiece BRAZIL. This was well over a year in the making... not because it literally took that long to finish it, but just in that I was so hellbent on not half-assing the edit that I kept kicking it down the road. It's still not perfect, but tonight, I'm letting it go. There is also a completely UNCUT version of this episode on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/p-saps-no-48-110854269 and available to channel members here as part of the P-Saplings tier: th-cam.com/video/kcIaQgmEtcU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=TQCj7lLU0wI90beh CHEERS ALL
Interesting conversation about the movie, you are far more knowledgeable about 'Brazil' than I am. I'm from the generation that was already mature when Monty Python, Saturday night live and Fire Sign theater were new and active, so the strangeness didn't seem all that strange to me. (my husband introduced me to many wonderful things!) 😃🙃 I apparently have not seen the cut of the movie you are familiar with - what I remember were those gorgeous scenes of The chief Character flying like Icarus. I don't remember the fighting scenes so I don't think they were in our copy of the movie, but I also remember, the disgusting scenes of the woman clinging to lost beauty, and then, the torture scenes. I recognized it as either a retelling or a direct descendant (?modernization?) of "1984". I always considered it a very dark, awful movie, very British, very painful to watch.. I watched it with my husband because it was the polite thing to do but I never watched it on my own of my own free will. The use of Christmas to keep the economy functional was just disgusting/obscene to me. The chief Character becoming unresponsive at the end was nightmare material. I will admit I have a hard time detaching myself from the emotions of movies ... I get too wound up in the plots and characters. (I consider that a weakness!) I thought the leadership was purposely destroying the infrastructure of the society so they would have an excuse for their tyranny.
At long last, here is our piece on Terry Gilliam's masterpiece BRAZIL. This was well over a year in the making... not because it literally took that long to finish it, but just in that I was so hellbent on not half-assing the edit that I kept kicking it down the road. It's still not perfect, but tonight, I'm letting it go.
There is also a completely UNCUT version of this episode on our Patreon:
www.patreon.com/posts/p-saps-no-48-110854269
and available to channel members here as part of the P-Saplings tier:
th-cam.com/video/kcIaQgmEtcU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=TQCj7lLU0wI90beh
CHEERS ALL
Interesting conversation about the movie, you are far more knowledgeable about 'Brazil' than I am. I'm from the generation that was already mature when Monty Python, Saturday night live and Fire Sign theater were new and active, so the strangeness didn't seem all that strange to me. (my husband introduced me to many wonderful things!) 😃🙃 I apparently have not seen the cut of the movie you are familiar with - what I remember were those gorgeous scenes of The chief Character flying like Icarus. I don't remember the fighting scenes so I don't think they were in our copy of the movie, but I also remember, the disgusting scenes of the woman clinging to lost beauty, and then, the torture scenes. I recognized it as either a retelling or a direct descendant (?modernization?) of "1984". I always considered it a very dark, awful movie, very British, very painful to watch.. I watched it with my husband because it was the polite thing to do but I never watched it on my own of my own free will. The use of Christmas to keep the economy functional was just disgusting/obscene to me. The chief Character becoming unresponsive at the end was nightmare material. I will admit I have a hard time detaching myself from the emotions of movies ... I get too wound up in the plots and characters. (I consider that a weakness!)
I thought the leadership was purposely destroying the infrastructure of the society so they would have an excuse for their tyranny.