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In episode #4 we discuss the comedic dystopia "Brazil" from director Terry Gilliam. Sam Lowry, an average employee at the Ministry of Information, gets caught up in a quest to solve a bureaucratic mistake while simultaneously searching for the literal woman of his dreams. Starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro and Kim Greist.
SHOWNOTES
Terry Gilliam directed Brazil (as well as Twelve Monkeys starring Bruce Willis)
Back to The Future Part I (directed by Robert Zemeckis) did not show a dystopian future
Back to The Future Part II did show a dystopian future
The Ministry of Information in Brazil should not be confused with the Ministry of Magic in Harry Potter
Monty Python - Dead Parrot sketch
Gilliam has referred to Brazil, Time Bandits, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as his Imagination Trilogy
Blade Runner (starring Harrison Ford) was based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Hudsucker Proxy - starring Paul Newman, Tim Robbins and Jennifer Jason Leigh
Sucker Punch - starring Emily Browning also featured a battle with a giant samurai
Clue starring Tim Curry (which was also released in 1985) featured a young Jane Wiedlin as a singing telegram girl
Chris Tucker’s character (Ruby Rhod) in The Fifth Element (which also starred Iam Holm and Bruce Willis and was directed by Luc Besson) had a similar outfit as Katherine Helmond (Mrs. Ida Lowry) in Brazil.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wrote Cat’s Cradle, another ironic look at a dystopian future
George Orwell’s 1984 popularized the phrase Big Brother in reference to surveillance
The Hunger Games starring Jennifer Lawrence made dystopian futures popular again
While Jonathan Pryce (Sam Lowry) is known for his work in the Pirate’s of The Caribbean and Game of Thrones series, his most memorable role (per Adam) was as media mogul Elliot Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies
In order, the Pierce Brosnan / James Bond movies were:
1995 - GoldenEye (which also became a classic Nintendo 64 game) featuring Famke Janssen as Xenia Onatopp
1997 - Tomorrow Never Dies featuring Michelle Yeoh as Wai Lin
1999 - The World is Not Enough featuring Denise Richards as Christmas Jones
2002 - Die Another Die featuring Halle Berry as Jinx Johnson
Terry Gilliam screened the entirety of Brazil for a film class at the University of Southern California
Robert De Niro played Harry Tuttle the “Heating Engineer”
Martin Lawrence and Will Smith starred in Bad Boys
Michael Palin (Jack) was a regular in Monty Python
Other regulars from Monty Python such as John Cleese, Terry Jones and the late Graham Chapman (who died in 1989) were not in Brazil
Peter Vaughan (Mr. Helpman) also played Uncle Alfie in Death at A Funeral and Master Aemon in Game of Thrones
American Psycho featured Christian Bale as lovable serial killer Patrick Bateman
The weird monsters in Sam’s dreams looked like skeksis from Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal
The scene where Sam unmasks the samurai seemed similar to the unmasking of Darth Vader in the swamp in Empire Strikes Back
Ian Holm (Mr. Kurtzmann) is well known for his roles as Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of The Ringsand Sir William Gull in From Hell
The music in Brazil was scored by Michael Kamen who also scored the Lethal Weapon movies (with Eric Clapton) as well as Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (which featured the song Everything I Do, I Do It for You by Bryan Adams
The mythology of Oedipus
The mythology of Icarus
Sam Lowry’s face looked suspiciously similar to Ziggy Stardust
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