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| 360.1 | Is it any good? | STKTSC::LITBY | This is, of course, impossible. | Sun Jul 27 1986 15:22 | 6 |
| 'Brazil' didn't make it to the movie theatres here in Sweden - I
guess they thought of it as a B movie. It's available on video,
however - do you consider it worth watching? If you do, I'll
pick it up and let you know what I thought of it.
<PO>
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| 360.2 | I hate those little quizzes in magazines | CDR::YERAZUNIS | VAXstation Repo Man | Sun Jul 27 1986 18:35 | 20 |
| Very much worth watching. At least for me.
Here's a pocket quiz to see if you should rent it, start with
zero points and total for yourself:
Do you like Monty Python? Y:6 N:-3
Did you like Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" Y:2 N:-1
Did you like 1984 (the book)? Y:4 N:-7
Do you like depressing movies? Y:3 N:-3
Do you like social satire? Y:4 N:-3
Do you like movies in general? Y:1 N:-2
For a liter of Rigellian giggle-juice, what scene in Brazil is modeled
after a scene in "Battleship Potemkin"?
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| 360.3 | Rate yourself | CDR::YERAZUNIS | VAXstation Repo Man | Sun Jul 27 1986 18:36 | 4 |
| I guess I should add that if you get over zero points, you definitely
should see "Brazil", otherwise, you should see it only if you are
in the mood.
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| 360.4 | From Odessa with love - S.E. & W.A. | SWSNOD::RPGDOC | | Mon Jul 28 1986 09:56 | 12 |
| RE: -2 "Potemkin"
The Odessa steps sequence where the cossacks with fixed bayonets
are marching down on the civilians and the woman lets the baby carriage
(floor waxer) get away from her and it proceeds to tumble down the
steps. Also, the shot of the cracked glasses is right out of
"Poetemkin" by way of Woody Allen, who also parodied this scene
in, I believe, "Love and Death".
All this, of course, is referring to the scene near the end where
the big shootout takes place in the lobby of the ministry.
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| 360.5 | And the winner is... | WHICH::YERAZUNIS | VAXstation Repo Man | Mon Jul 28 1986 11:34 | 4 |
| One liter, coming right up!
I hadn't noticed the cracked glasses- I better look harder !
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| 360.6 | Fascinating... | STKTSC::LITBY | Are we taking this robot...? | Sun Aug 10 1986 17:31 | 16 |
| Now I'm never going to dare open the ceiling tiles in my office
again... I peeked in there once and ooh!
Also, from now on I'm going to do my own plumbing.
It was a fascinating movie. Probably a plausible scenario for a
future techno-bureaucracy (sp?), although the characters were a bit
exaggerated for effect. The way they picture computer technology,
for example with terminals looking like 1930 typewriters, looks
like something out of an old Flash Gordon episode.
As for the moral of the story, apart from "Don't trust the
air-conditioning repairman", well, I don't know...
Incidentally, why the name "Brazil"? There wasn't very much
that was Brazilian about it, apart from some of the music...
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| 360.7 | Brazil architecture | KALKIN::BUTENHOF | Approachable Systems | Mon Aug 11 1986 09:22 | 14 |
| Incidentally, we went to talk to the people designing our
next house, and glanced through a copy of some architectural
magazine while waiting. There was an article about Brazil
in there. Apparently most of the scenes were filmed in real
places (with the tubing added, of course)... including the
50s-style futuristic apartment complex where the guy lives.
Gilliam was enthusiastic about that place (though I don't
recall where it actually was): "This place really *looks*
like a movie set!"
Gilliam apparently at one time aspired to becoming an architect,
and is still fastinated by architecture.
/dave
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| 360.8 | RE 360.6 | EDEN::KLAES | It's only a model! | Mon Aug 11 1986 14:25 | 9 |
| I do not know exactly why, but I read that BRAZIL was given
the name on purpose to have absolutely NOTHING to do with the movie,
unless it may have been a very subtle hint towards the Orwellian-type
techniques used in many countries in South America.
Remember, Gilliam was the artist for Monty Python!
Larry
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| 360.9 | Places in the movie | WHICH::YERAZUNIS | VAXstation Repo Man | Mon Aug 11 1986 15:11 | 8 |
| It might be fun to live in that apartment complex for a year or
so (strictly for amusement value).
Just like it might be fun to have a weeks vacation at "The Village"...
I think that the "torture room" is a power plant cooling tower.
Anybody know for sure?
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| 360.10 | uh huh | KALKIN::BUTENHOF | Approachable Systems | Tue Aug 12 1986 09:31 | 4 |
| .9: Yep, it was a real cooling tower. Somewhere in France,
I think, if I correctly remember the flavor of the name...
/dave
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| 360.11 | song?? | SYSENG::HO | Bobby | Wed Aug 13 1986 14:51 | 10 |
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Wasn't BRAZIL the name of some song or theme in the
movie?
Robert
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| 360.12 | RE 360.11 | EDEN::KLAES | It's only a model! | Thu Aug 14 1986 12:00 | 5 |
| Yes, but as I said in 360.8, the title of the movie has nothing
to do with the COUNTRY of Brazil, unless you go by my speculation.
Larry
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| 360.13 | re: 'Brazil'-movie->song->country | SOFBAS::JOHNSON | It's Only A State Of Mind... | Tue Aug 19 1986 14:45 | 9 |
| The connection (I think this was elaborately discussed in MOVIES)
is that the song 'Brazil,' the title tune of the movie, is about
escape to paradise; when the song was written ('30's?) Brazil the
country had a flavor of paradise/Utopia/escapism. The movie is
named after the song, because it is also about escapism, to a fantasy
paradise.
Matt
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| 360.14 | Brazil la-la-la-la-la-la-la | MXOV06::ZAJBERT | And he could go all the way | Thu Nov 19 1987 10:51 | 13 |
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The complete score of the movie consists of different versions of
the song "BRAZIL" in as many different styles as they could, I went
out of the movie hating the song and not wanting to here it ever
again. Actually I think the different versions were very good, adapting
the song very well to each style, but it does leave a sense of anxiety
every time you hear it after seeing the movie.
Somewhere I have a remark made by Gilliam about the movie and
I think it was about the name, I'll look for it and post it here.
Mauricio
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