Brazil
Directed by	Terry Gilliam
Produced by	Arnon Milchan Joseph P. Grace
Written by	Terry Gilliam Tom Stoppard Charles McKeown
Starring	Jonathan Pryce Kim Greist Michael Palin Robert De Niro Katherine Helmond Bob Hoskins Ian Holm
Music by	Michael Kamen
Cinematography	Roger Pratt
Editing by	Julian Doyle
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox (Europe) Universal Pictures (US)
Release date(s)	France: February 20, 1985 United Kingdom February 22, 1985 United States December 18, 1985
Running time	94 Mins Theatrical 142 Mins Director's Cut
Language	English
Budget	$15,000,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue	$9,929,000 (USA)
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Brazil (1985) is a dystopian black comedy feature film directed by Terry Gilliam. It was written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard and stars actor Jonathan Pryce. The film also features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 410 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (500 × 730 pixel, file size: 64 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This image is of a film poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the film... Terrence Vance Gilliam (born November 22, 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, animator, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. ... Arnon Milchan (1945-) is movie producer and businessman. ... Joseph P. Grace was born in Pitsfield Mass. ... Terrence Vance Gilliam (born November 22, 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, animator, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. ... Sir Tom Stoppard, OM, CBE (born as Tomáš Straussler on July 3, 1937)[1] is an Academy Award winning British playwright of more than 24 plays. ... Charles McKeown (b. ... Jonathan Pryce (born June 1, 1947) is a Welsh film, television, and stage actor who has starred in such Hollywood films include Brazil, Pirates of the Caribbean, Tomorrow Never Dies and The New World. ... Greist in Brazil (film), 1985 Kimberly Bret Greist (born May 12, 1958) is an American actress. ... Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. ... Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. ... Katherine Marie Helmond (July 5, 1928, Galveston, Texas) is an American film, theater and television actress. ... Robert William Bob Hoskins Jr. ... Sir Ian Holm Sir Ian Holm CBE (born 12 September 1931), born as Ian Holm Cuthbert, is an English actor. ... Michael Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician. ... Related articles FOX Television Network Fox Searchlight Pictures Fox Entertainment Group List of Hollywood movie studios List of movies Variant of current 20th Century Fox logo External links 20th Century Fox Movies official site Twentieth Century Fox is also the punning title of a song by The Doors on their... Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ... is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... A directors cut is a specially edited version of a film, and less often TV series, music video, commercials or video games, that is supposed to represent the directors own approved edit. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This article is about the philosophical concept and literary form. ... This article is about a tone of comedy. ... A reel of film, which predates digital cinematography. ... Terrence Vance Gilliam (born November 22, 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, animator, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. ... Charles McKeown (b. ... Sir Tom Stoppard, OM, CBE (born as Tomáš Straussler on July 3, 1937)[1] is an Academy Award winning British playwright of more than 24 plays. ... Jonathan Pryce (born June 1, 1947) is a Welsh film, television, and stage actor who has starred in such Hollywood films include Brazil, Pirates of the Caribbean, Tomorrow Never Dies and The New World. ... Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. ... Greist in Brazil (film), 1985 Kimberly Bret Greist (born May 12, 1958) is an American actress. ... Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. ... Katherine Marie Helmond (July 5, 1928, Galveston, Texas) is an American film, theater and television actress. ... Robert William Bob Hoskins Jr. ... Sir Ian Holm Sir Ian Holm CBE (born 12 September 1931), born as Ian Holm Cuthbert, is an English actor. ...

Overview

Brazil evokes the melancholy, dreamlike quality of its theme song, an English translation of a 1939 Brazilian song, "Aquarela do Brasil," featured in Disney's Saludos Amigos (1942). In that escapist film, Brazil is represented as a romantic, fantasy location that is the opposite of gloomy, northern countries. Gilliam was inspired by this song to create the fictional totalitarian government and the overall dystopian mood of the film. See also: 1938 in music, other events of 1939, 1940 in music and the list of years in music. Events Publication of Music Here and Now, book by Ernst Krenek March 23 - Béla Bartóks Violin Concerto No. ... Aquarela do Brasil (Watercolor of Brazil), also known in the English-speaking countries simply as Brazil, is one of the most popular Brazilian songs of all times, written by Ary Barroso on a rainy night in 1939. ... For the company founded by Disney, see The Walt Disney Company. ... Saludos Amigos (Alô, Amigos in Portuguese) is a 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. ... Totalitarianism is a term employed by some political scientists, especially those in the field of comparative politics, to describe modern regimes in which the state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private behavior. ...

The film centers on Sam Lowry, a young man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living a life in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. This "alternate" world seems to have no references to that of our own more recent than the 1930s. Brazil's bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of the British government depicted in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, except that it has a buffoonish, slap-stick quality totally lacking in that bleak novel. The concept of Totalitarianism is a typology or ideal-type used by some political scientists to encapsulate the characteristics of a number of twentieth century regimes that mobilized entire populations in support of the state or an ideology. ... Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 [1] [2] – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. ... This article is about the Orwell novel. ...

Jack Mathews, movie critic and author of The Battle of Brazil (1987), characterized the film as "satirizing the bureaucratic, largely dysfunctional industrial world that had been driving [Gilliam] crazy all his life."^[1] While the film was a flop upon its initial release, it has since become a cult classic. A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy, usually within an institution of the government. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

Plot synopsis

Brazil (which takes place "Somewhere in the 20th Century") recounts the story of Sam Lowry, a low-level government employee who is conflicted about his role in an overreaching bureaucracy. We learn that he is initially happy with his "dead end job" and simple life, and that he habitually escapes into a fantasy world of romantic struggles. His contented but lonely life becomes complicated by his mother's attempts to secure him a promotion, the intrusion of a renegade heating engineer, and the real-life appearance of the woman of his dreams.

The nonchalance of the characters often manifests itself in satirical ways. A receptionist, for example, is seen casually transcribing an off-screen conversation. When interrupted by the main character, she tilts her headphones off of her ears, allowing us to hear the pained sounds of someone undergoing severe torture. After cheerfully addressing the main character, she continues to dutifully record the nearly unintelligible pleas and screams. Terry Gilliam makes sure to point out in the DVD commentary that she is an example of "those kind of people."

Sam, throughout the story, becomes increasingly involved in complicated and life-threatening attempts to secure himself happiness, while also developing a strong hatred for the system of which he is a part. Ultimately, his efforts culminate into a violent and tragic climax, the outcome of which depends entirely on his friends' loyalty to Sam over their loyalty to the system that controls them.

Style

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Themes

Gilliam sometimes refers to this film as the second of a trilogy of movies, starting with Time Bandits (1981) and ending with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989).^[1] All are about the "craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible."^[1] All three movies also focus on these struggles and attempts to escape them through imagination. A trilogy is a set of three works of art, usually literature or film, that are connected and can be seen as a single work, as well as three individual ones. ... This article is about the 1981 motion picture. ... The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville (as the Baron), Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, and Robin Williams. ...

Sam is not so much beset by malicious characters as he is by a vast, impersonal, and indifferent social structure that is both hypocritical and pedantic for its own sake. The individual villains are neither malicious nor sadistic, they are merely doing their jobs.

The jilted sense of priorities that adult life often entails are also another theme. The elevation of meaningless considerations of status and vanity over personal happiness and well being is continuously portrayed throughout the movie. At one point, a police officer encourages a prisoner to cooperate, not because he is about to be tortured but because prolonged imprisonment could jeopardize his credit rating.

John Scalzi's Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies describes the film as a dystopian satire. John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an author and online writer, best known for his Hugo Award-nominated science fiction novel Old Mans War, released by Tor Books in January 2005, and for his blog Whatever, at which he has written daily on a number of... 1867 edition of Punch, a ground-breaking British magazine of popular humour, including a good deal of satire of the contemporary social and political scene. ...

Gilliam has stated that Brazil was inspired by Nineteen Eighty-Four — which he has admitted never having read ^[2] — but is written from today's perspective rather than looking to the future like Orwell's novel. In Gilliam's words Brazil was, "the Nineteen Eighty-Four for 1984." In fact, Gilliam's working title for the movie was 1984½, which also pays tribute to the influence of Fellini's 8½. 8½ (Italian: Otto e Mezzo) is a 1963 film written and directed by Italian director Federico Fellini. ...

Art design

Brazil is noteworthy for the way its strong visual imagery tends to overwhelm the plot. One visual element which figures prominently in the movie is the ducts, specifically the snakelike "flex-ducts" used in modern construction. The film opens with an advertisement for different styles of ducting available for homes, seen on a household television which is then blown up in a terrorist bombing. A round duct connecting to a typical diffuser Ducts are used in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) to carry air - these include conditioned, fresh, stale, foul (toilet extract), and contaminated air (flue exhaust, fume extraction) - from place to place. ...

Lowry's apartment is dominated by a wall consisting entirely of metal panels which conceal an incorrigible air-conditioning system, and his hero is the guerrilla mechanic Tuttle, who is the only person able to tame this monster. Later, Lowry lunches in a restaurant dominated by a giant centerpiece where the "flowers" are actually flex-ducts. After that, when Lowry makes a potentially seditious nighttime visit to his office, the emptiness of the government building's gigantic lobby is set off by a maintenance man's floor buffing machine, trailing a long cord of flex-duct.

In the working-class Buttle home, members of the Buttle family have to live their lives while giving way to ducts that in fact hinder their daily activities. In Sam's home, the ducts are not visible, but make their presence felt as an undertone, particularly when they break down. In the Department of Records, the ducts are a visible part of the environment, but above everyone's heads. Finally, in the Department of Information Retrieval, there are no ducts at all. Poverty and powerlessness appear proportional to the invasiveness of ducts – and all ducts end in the dictatorial Department of Information Retrieval.

Music

Ary Barroso's famous 1939 song "Aquarela do Brasil" (English: "Watercolor of Brazil", often simply "Brazil") is the leitmotif of the movie, although other background music is also utilized. Michael Kamen, who scored the music for the film, originally recorded "Brazil" with vocals by Kate Bush. This recording was not included in the actual film or the original soundtrack release; however, it has been subsequently released on re-pressings of the soundtrack. (Kamen also composed music for Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.) Ary Barroso (born November 7, 1903 in Ubá, Minas Gerais and died February 9, 1964 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian composer. ... Aquarela do Brasil (Watercolor of Brazil), also known in the English-speaking countries simply as Brazil, is one of the most popular Brazilian songs of all times, written by Ary Barroso on a rainy night in 1939. ... A leitmotif (IPA pronunciation: ) (also leitmotiv; lit. ... Michael Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician. ... Kate Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. ... The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville (as the Baron), Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, and Robin Williams. ...

Cast

• Jonathan Pryce as Sam Lowry
• Kim Greist as Jill Layton
• Michael Palin as Jack Lint
• Robert De Niro as Archibald “Harry” Tuttle
• Katherine Helmond as Mrs. Ida Lowry
• Bob Hoskins as Spoor
• Derrick O'Connor as Dowser
• Ian Holm as Mr. Kurtzman
• Jim Broadbent as Dr. Jaffe
• Ian Richardson as Mr. Warrenn
• Peter Vaughan as Mr. Helpmann
• Brian Miller as Mr. Buttle
• Barbara Hicks as Mrs. Alma Terrain
• Charles McKeown as Harvey Lime
• Kathryn Pogson as Shirley
• Bryan Pringle as Spiro (waiter)
• Sheila Reid as Mrs. Buttle
• Derek Deadman as Bill (Dept. of Works, repairing Buttle's ceiling)
• Nigel Planer as Charlie (Dept. of Works, repairing Buttle's ceiling)
• Gorden Kaye as M.O.I. Lobby Porter
• Jack Purvis as Dr. Chapman
• Elizabeth Spender as Alison/'Barbara' Lint
• Myrtle Devenish as Typist in Jack's Office
• Holly Gilliam as Holly Lint
• Terry Gilliam as smoking man at Shang-ri La Towers

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Cast information

Robert De Niro originally wanted to play Jack, but Gilliam had already promised the role to Michael Palin. De Niro still wanted to be in the film, and so was cast as Tuttle instead.^[3]

Holly Gilliam, who plays Jack Lint's daughter Holly, is Terry Gilliam's actual daughter.

Releases

Theatrical releases

The movie was produced by Arnon Milchan's company Embassy International Pictures (not to be confused with Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures). Gilliam's original cut of the film is 142 minutes long and ends on a dark note. This version was released internationally outside the US by 20th Century Fox. Arnon Milchan (1945-) is movie producer and businessman. ... Regency Enterprises was formed in the early 80s. ... Embassy Pictures Corporation (aka Embassy Film Associates) was an independent studio and distributor responsible for such films as The Graduate and The Lion in Winter. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ...

US distribution was handled by Universal. Universal executives thought the ending tested poorly, and Universal chairman Sid Sheinberg insisted on dramatically re-editing the film to give it a happy ending, a decision that Gilliam resisted vigorously. As with the cult science fiction film Blade Runner (1982), which had been released three years earlier, a version of Brazil was created by the movie studio with a more consumer-friendly ending. After a lengthy delay with no sign of the film being released, Gilliam took out a full-page ad in the trade magazine Variety urging Sheinberg to release Brazil in its intended version. Eventually, after Gilliam conducted secret private screenings (without the studio's knowledge), Brazil was awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for "Best Picture", which prompted Universal to finally agree to release a modified 131-minute version supervised by Gilliam, in 1985.^[1][4] Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ... Sid Sheinburg was the head of Universal Studios productions from 1973 to 1995. ... This article is about the 1982 film. ... A movie studio is a controlled environment for the making of a film. ... Variety is a daily newspaper for the entertainment industry. ... The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) was founded in 1975. ... // Back to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson Rambo: First Blood Part II, starring Sylvester Stallone Rocky IV, starring Sylvester Stallone The Color Purple, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Adolph Caesar Out of Africa, starring Meryl Streep and...

Video releases

DVD cover for the film

In North America, the film was released on VHS and Laserdisc in the 131-minute US version. A slightly modified 142-minute version of the original European cut was first made available in a 5-disc Criterion Collection laserdisc box set in 1996, and is currently available on DVD (referred to in the director's commentary as the "fifth and final cut", it uses the American cloud opening instead of a stark blank screen setting the time and place).^[5] Image File history File links Brazil_11. ... Image File history File links Brazil_11. ... Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Video Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS, is a recording and playing standard. ... Not to be confused with disk laser, a type of solid-state laser in a flat configuration. ... The Criterion Collection is a joint venture between Janus Films and The Voyager Company that was begun in the mid 1980s for the purpose of releasing authoritative consumer versions of classic and important contemporary films on the laserdisc and DVD formats. ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ...

Sheinberg's edit, the 94-minute so-called "Love Conquers All" version, was shown on syndicated television and was first made available for sale to consumers as a separate disc in the Criterion laserdisc box set, and subsequent DVD three-disc set in 1999 (both of which also featured a special video documentary version of Jack Mathews' book, with new Gilliam interviews and tape-recorded interviews from Sid Sheinberg for the original book).

The box set presents the feature film in its correct aspect ratio for the first time, but the version on the original DVD release is not enhanced for newer widescreen TVs. New 16:9-enhanced editions of the film in both a complete set and separate film-only disc were re-issued on DVD by Criterion on September 5th, 2006.

Differences between various versions

The changes in each version are as follows:

Scenes missing in the British cut

These are scenes missing in the UK release of the film and what Americans saw in US theaters. The reasons for excluding these scenes from the UK version and adding them to the US version are unknown.

• Clouds open and close the film in the American Release, some of the footage of these clouds was extraneous footage from The Never Ending Story. The clouds were in fact present in the original script; Gilliam confesses that he used the opportunity of the American edit to put them back in, because he actually liked it both ways. Furthermore, it gave him the opportunity to play the first bars of the song 'Brazil' as background music, as a reminder to the viewers who had trouble understanding the film's title.
• After watching Mrs. Lowry's first plastic surgery treatment, Sam sarcastically exclaims "My God, it works!"
• Jack says "You look like you've seen a ghost, Sam..." to Sam at the entrance of the Ministry of Records when Sam sees Jill Layton. This scene is also present in the Sheinberg cut of the film.

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Scenes missing in the American cut

These are scenes missing in the US release of the film and what British audiences saw in UK theaters. These scenes were edited for the US release by Sheinberg because he thought that an American audience would be highly disturbed and unsettled by their content and length.

• Shortly before the troops storm Mrs. Buttle's home, her daughter says to her "Father Christmas can't come if you haven't got a chimney." Mrs. Buttle replies with "You'll see."
• A brief scene involving Sam and his mother, Ida, entering the restaurant where they meet Mrs. Terrain and Shirley. They have to pass through a metal detector in order to gain entrance, and Ida's present to Sam (one of the "Executive Decision Makers", seen later in the movie) sets off the alarm.
• Part of the beginning of the first "Samurai" dream sequence, where Sam explores through the concrete labyrinth he finds himself in. The American version makes this sequence three separate ones while the UK release it's one whole sequence.
• A scene where Sam and Jill lie in bed after the implied consummation of their relationship. Jill has taken off the wig she was wearing in the scene before, and has a silver bow tied around her naked body. She says to Sam: "Something for an executive?" and he unties her.
• The "Interrogation" scene, where Sam is charged with all of the violations of the law he committed throughout the film, including "wasting Ministry time and paper."
• The "Father Christmas" scene where Helpmann visits Sam after his booking, Helpmann is dressed as Santa Claus. Among other things, Helpmann informs Sam that Jill Layton has been killed...twice.
• The European release begins abruptly with the "Central Services" advert about ducts, and ends with a held shot of Lowry in the cooling tower without clouds present in the American release.

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The Sheinberg Edit (Love Conquers All/TV Edit)

The Sheinberg Edit also aired on syndicated TV for time restrictions on some occasions and it pleased Gilliam as it showed how bad the studio cut of the film was. In the television industry (as in radio), syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast programs to multiple stations, without going through a broadcast network. ...

• When the ministry building is blown up, the piece of paper that is shown is a "deleted" form for Harry Tuttle.
• It is made clear in this version that Tuttle is a terrorist. Examples include the man in the white lab coat in the beginning (that kills the beetle that causes the film's events) isn't watching an interview with Helpmann, but a "Arrest and Detainment" show about Tuttle and Sam's fellow employees watching the film without music with gunshots left.
• The scene at the restaurant starts the film with Shirley offering Sam the salt, and the explosion in the restaurant.
• Extended, more romantic dialogue between Sam and Jill is added after Tuttle switches the sewage and air pipes at Sam's flat. This is one of many scenes between Jill and Sam that was cut out of Gilliam's cut and re-added for this one.
• You don't see the inflamed guard when the Police vehicle crashes during the chase.
• It is never stated that Buttle is dead, only asked by his wife.
• Lots of curse words were replaced with tamer dialogue, often very badly.
• The "Something for an executive" scene is intact, however, afterwards, only Sam is captured while Jill is not killed.
• The film ends with a brief sequence where Jill wakes Sam in their country hideaway. Sam says "I don't dream any more," looks at a picture on the wall of himself wearing the dream-sequence wings, and the film ends with them flying up into the heavens. Jack Lint and Mr. Helpmann don't interrupt the ending of the fantasy (thereby altering the ending of the film).
• Many of the fantasy sequences are missing, or slightly different, like having an opaque surrounding the scene.
• Extended dialogue between Jill and Sam outside his apartment, and while in the truck is added.
• Extended dialogue in the scene where Sam meets Jack at Information Retrieval is added as well, and Jack has his daughter in his office.
• A cut of Casablanca featuring the line "Here's lookin' at you, kid." right after Sam leaves Kurtzmann's office.
• Jack says "You look like you've seen a ghost, Sam..." to Sam at the entrance of the Ministry of Records when Sam sees Jill Layton. This scene is also in the American cut.

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External links

• Alternate Versions of Brazil at the Internet Movie Database
• Brazil FAQ, contains differences in all versions.

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Critical response

Harlan Ellison declared Brazil to be "the finest SF movie ever made."^[1] Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, teleplays, essays, and criticism. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...

In 2004 the magazine Total Film named Brazil the 20th greatest British movie of all time. In 2005 Time magazine's film reviewers Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel named Brazil in an unordered list of the 100 best films of all time. In 2006 Channel 4 voted Brazil one of the "50 Films to See Before You Die", shortly before its broadcast on FilmFour. The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Total Film, published by Future Publishing, is the United Kingdoms second best-selling film magazine, after the longer-established Empire from Emap. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2005. ... “TIME” redirects here. ... Richard Corliss is a writer for Time magazine who focuses on movies, with the occasional article on music or sports, and has distinguished himself for his clever way with words. ... Richard Warren Schickel (b. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the British television station. ... 50 Films to See Before You Die was a programme shown on Channel 4 on Saturday 22 July 2006, to celebrate the relaunch of Film4 as a free-to-air channel available to digital terrestrial homes in the United Kingdom. ... FilmFour (to be known as Film4 from 23 July 2006) is a British digital television channel, owned and operated by Channel 4, which screens Channel 4-like films (mainly non-blockbuster, generally popular independent and arthouse fare). ...

Critic Kenneth Turan described the film as "the most potent piece of satiric political cinema since Dr. Strangelove.^[1] Kenneth Turan is an American film critic, currently writing for the Los Angeles Times. ... Strangelove redirects here. ...

Wired Magazine ranked Brazil number 5 in its list of the top 20 sci-fi movies.^[6] Wired is a full-color monthly magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993. ...

Entertainment Weekly listed Brazil as the sixth best science-fiction piece of media released since 1982.^[7] Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated EW) is a magazine published by Time Inc. ...

Rob Thomas of Madison's Capital Times gave the film 5 out of 5 stars and stated "it has visual style and imagination to burn, but it's the ideas behind it that make it a modern classic...". Categories: Music stubs | 1972 births | Male singers ... The Capital Times is a newspaper based in Madison, Wisconsin. ...

New York Times film critic Janet Maslin was very positive towards the film upon its release. She stated that "Terry Gilliam's Brazil, a jaunty, wittily observed vision of an extremely bleak future, is a superb example of the power of comedy to underscore serious ideas, even solemn ones. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Janet Maslin is a book critic for the daily New York Times. ...

Film Critic Roger Ebert disliked it, giving it 2 out of 4 stars, saying it "is awash in elaborate special effects, sensational sets, apocalyptic scenes of destruction and a general lack of discipline," as well as saying, "The movie is very hard to follow. I have seen it twice, and am still not sure exactly who all the characters are, or how they fit."^[8] Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ...

Numerous Hollywood directors, actors, and auteurs, cite the film as a major artistic and cultural influence. ...

Cultural references in the film

• The movie that Sam's employees watch has stock music from the DeWolfe music library that also appears in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (from Lancelot's assault on the castle to save the prince), which Gilliam co-directed. This music has been deleted from the Sheinberg edit of the film.
• During the escape from the ministry building near the end of the film, government soldiers parody the famous "Odessa Steps" sequence from the film The Battleship Potemkin. Instead of a baby carriage rolling down the stairs after the Tsar's soldiers kill the mother, it is a janitor's cleaning machine that rolls down the stairs soon after the janitor is killed.
• The film often mentions an ambiguous form called 27B-Stroke-6. 27B was the number of George Orwell's apartment in London^{[citation needed]}.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 film written and performed by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin), and directed by Gilliam and Jones. ... The Battleship Potemkin (Russian: , ), sometimes rendered as The Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. ... Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 [1] [2] – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. ...

References in popular culture

• Production Design inspiration from Brazil can be seen in the Steven Soderbergh film Kafka and the Coen Brothers film The Hudsucker Proxy^{[citation needed]}
• In the video game Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Sam Fisher tells a security guard "Pretend I'm Harry Tuttle", "I'm an ill-tempered, heavily-armed heating engineer asking about your ventilation system" and "The adventure, the travel" in a reference to his work as a spy and his ability to enter areas without recognition by anyone. A response given by a guard when asked "Is there anything else?" has been "Yeah, don't forget your 27B(stroke)6".
• Hot Hot Heat's video for their song Bandages features a spa with a face stretching scene reminiscent of the facelift scene.
• The opening line of the British gothic metal band Cradle of Filth song "Lord Abortion" ("Care for a little necrophilia?") is a quote from Brazil (voiced by Kim Greist in the film but delivered here by Toni King, Dani's wife). The torture room scene in the "From the Cradle to Enslave" video is also a Brazil homage.
• Minneapolis geek rock band Psychopop recorded "Harry Tuttle (Man of Intrigue)", a song about the Robert De Niro character and his adventures in the film.
• The WikiScanner has a link to a web form they call "Wired's 27bstroke6" to submit you favorite anonymous edits to the Wired magazine website.
• The anime A Detective Story of Animatrix was made on a world that resembles the film.
• In film π (film), the technology of Brazil inspired the design of Max Cohen's apartment.

Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and Oscar-winning director. ... Kafka is a film based on the life of writer Franz Kafka. ... The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) is a screwball comedy film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, telling a fictitious story about the rise and fall of a naive executive and the invention of the hula hoop. ... Namcos Pac-Man is one of the most popular video games ever made. ... For the Australian rules football player, see Samuel Fisher. ... Hot Hot Heat is an indie rock band from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. ... Make Up the Breakdown is the debut mass produced album by Hot Hot Heat, following the release of the Knock Knock Knock EP. It was released on October 8, 2002. ... Gothic metal is a genre of heavy metal music that originated during the mid 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of doom-death, a fusion genre of doom metal and death metal. ... Cradle of Filth are a heavy metal band formed in Suffolk, England in 1991. ... This article is about the city in Minnesota. ... John Flansburgh and John Linnell of They Might Be Giants. ... Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. ... WikiScanner (also known as Wikipedia Scanner) is a tool created by Virgil Griffith and released on August 14, 2007,[1] which consists of a publicly searchable database that links millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to the organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A Detective Story is an animated short film set in the universe of The Matrix. ... The Animatrix is a collection of nine CG and anime shorts set in the world of The Matrix, partly written by the Wachowski brothers. ... π (also known as Pi or Pi - Faith in Chaos) is a 1998 American psychological thriller directed by Darren Aronofsky. ...

See also

• List of films recut by studio
• Brazil (mythical island)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Aquarela do Brasil

According to the Auteur Theory, the prevalent framework of modern film criticism, a film director is most responsible for the creative aspects of a film. ... Brazil, also known as Hy-Brazil or several other variants, is a phantom island which features in many Irish myths. ... This article is about the Orwell novel. ... Aquarela do Brasil (Watercolor of Brazil), also known in the English-speaking countries simply as Brazil, is one of the most popular Brazilian songs of all times, written by Ary Barroso on a rainy night in 1939. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Matthews, Jack. "Dreaming Brazil". Essay accompanying DVD release by The Criterion Collection. 
2. ^ Terry Gilliam in his audio commentary for Brazil, released by The Criterion Collection on laserdisc 1995 and re-released on DVD in 1999 and 2006
3. ^ Terry Gilliam in his audio commentary for Brazil, released by The Criterion Collection on laserdisc 1995 and re-released on DVD in 1999 and 2006
4. ^ The clashes between Sheinberg and Gilliam are also documented in Matthews' book The Battle of Brazil (1987, ISBN 0-517-56538-2).
5. ^ Terry Gilliam in his audio commentary for Brazil, released by The Criterion Collection on laserdisc 1995 and re-released on DVD in 1999 and 2006
6. ^ Wired Magazine, Issue 10.06, Jun 2002 (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/scifi.html?pg=6)
7. ^ Josh Wolk. "The Sci-Fi 25", Entertainment Weekly, 2007-05-07. Retrieved on 2007-06-21. 
8. ^ http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19860117/REVIEWS/601170301/1023

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Further reading

• Jack Matthews, The Battle of Brazil (1987), ISBN 0-517-56538-2.

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