Terry Gilliam
Noah’s Barks pages relating to movie/film director Terry Gilliam.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I’ve never read the Hunter S. Thompson novel but I’ve no doubt it establishes its themes better by keeping Raoul Duke as a constant narrator. For all his ramblings about the American Dream in the movie, the fact that any other conception of the American Dream isn’t established means his philosophy is relative to absolutely… (read more)
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12 Monkeys
Sci-fi stories about the futility of attempting to change the past are nothing fresh, but 12 Monkeys dresses its thought experiment up in a moebius strip story and a tech-noir thriller atmosphere. In spite of this, the diffident screenwriters view their own ideas as lunacy and introduce tasteless comedy while taking the easy ways out… (read more)
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Brazil
Terry Gilliam’s dystopian fantasy world of 1985’s ‘Brazil’ imaginatively (and humorously) satirizes the nightmares of bureaucratic capitalism. (read more)