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Terry Gilliam - Behind Brazil |
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Brazil is a 1985 British film directed by Terry Gilliam |
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and written by |
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Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard. British |
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National Cinema by |
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Sarah Street describes the film as a "fantasy/satire on |
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bureaucratic |
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society" while John Scalzi's Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies |
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describes it |
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as a "dystopian satire". The film stars Jonathan Pryce |
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and features |
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Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine |
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Helmond, Bob |
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Hoskins, and Ian Holm. |
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The film centres on Sam Lowry, a man |
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trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he |
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is working in a |
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mind-numbing job and living a life in a small apartment, |
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set in a |
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consumer-driven dystopian world in which there is an over- |
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reliance on |
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poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. |
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Brazil's |
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bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of |
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the government |
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depicted in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, except |
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that it has a |
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buffoonish, slapstick quality and lacks a Big Brother |
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figure. |
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Jack |
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Mathews, film critic and author of The Battle of Brazil |
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(1987), |
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described the film as "satirizing the bureaucratic, |
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largely |
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dysfunctional industrial world that had been driving |
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Gilliam crazy all |
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his life". Though a success in Europe, the film was |
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unsuccessful in its |
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initial North America release. It has since become a cult |
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classic. |
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Date Published: 2016-01-24 22:33:42 |
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Identifier: TerryGilliamBehindBrazil |
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Terry Gilliam |
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Behind Brazil |
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Government |
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Satire |
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