Brazil

Brazil

  • Director: Terry Gilliam
  • Writer: Terry Gilliam,Tom Stoppard,Charles McKeown
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: December 18, 1985
  • Runtime: 2h 12min
  • Sound mix: Dolby Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Brasil
  • "Brazil" (Brazil) is a science fiction film directed by TerryGilliam, starring Jonathan Pryce , Robert De Niro , Michael Edward Palin, etc. It was released in 1985.
    This film has nothing to do with Brazil. It tells the story of the future of Britain: it is a place of dictatorship and bureaucracy, with huge channels everywhere, and countless forms need to be filled out. Because of an accidental mistake, an innocent person was arrested and killed. The protagonist is a small screw in the big government machine. He happened to discover this error and tried his best to correct it out of conscience. 

    Details

    • Release date December 18, 1985
    • Filming locations Mentmore Towers, Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
    • Production companies Embassy International Pictures

    Box office

    Budget

    $15,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $9,929,135

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $30,099

    Gross worldwide

    $9,949,953

    Movie reviews

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    • By Leonora 2022-03-22 09:01:22

      noun popular science

      Forms fill the world, satirizing the extreme rigidity of the government system. In reality, Sam, who is serious and boring, escapes from the crazy world with his beloved goddess in fantasy, but his real body is bound by the thought transformation chair. The only honest and brave is the heating engineer Barto, like the dark knight, who solves problems when he comes, and is elegant and cool when he retreats.

      Dystopia, which literally means "bad...

    • By Lyla 2022-03-22 09:01:22

      Steampunk: We learn to make tools, we haven't learned to use tools

      Fill forms to legitimize yourself. After reading the comments of netizens, I found that the last scene where Bartow was swallowed by the documents was actually echoed.

      Some people enter the machine for a stable livelihood, and some people enter the machine in order to become a manipulator, but no one can escape the accusation of being an accomplice, whether they have a clear will or not. Rigid system, routine tone, superstitious obsession with official documents, vested interests and...

    • By Jamey 2022-03-21 09:01:24

      The coolest male protagonist

      The various cultural symbols and the ridicule of the various scenes in the big frame film itself show the director's ambition, but I really don't like this male protagonist at all. There is courage in it, especially the emotional line is really bloody.

      Like a diaosi otaku, the male protagonist himself has no discomfort with the system at all, from handing the check to the Bato family and saying everything, to like everyone in the government agency, he naturally shies away from other...

    • By Laurine 2022-03-21 09:01:24

      He was crazy, he finally escaped

      It's another absurd movie. As soon as I see this American film in the 1980s, I feel a sense of depression. I feel very dark and apocalyptic. I think of Ghost Street, 13 Ghosts, Natural Born Killers and so on. The imprint of the times is too deep. Americans in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s wore different costumes and spoke different intonations. Maybe I prefer American films from the 1990s to 1900s. The American films that entered the post-10s period also began to decline, and more of them were...

    • By Verda 2022-03-21 09:01:24

      The meaning of imagination is to make it

      Numerous meaning metaphors require a lot of time to digest. The most important thing is the excessive expression of the will and the forced implantation. The story is narrated in a messy and trivial manner, just like the hype of science fiction itself. But have to fall in love with such a movie, there are too many things to think about. Can imagine too much background knowledge, politics, culture, history. All this is like a dream, the so-called wonderful idea is like being in one's own...

    User comments

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    • By Eriberto 2022-04-24 07:01:03

      I like the dystopian god horse the most. Gilliam's absurd aesthetics and dystopia are really blending together, which is also an important reason for his early...

    • By Jermain 2022-04-24 07:01:03

      Too many concepts and images have been transformed into hints and spread in the film, making it difficult to understand the director's "brilliant...

    • By Noah 2022-04-24 07:01:03

      Gilliam's films are self-labeled overweight, always reflecting on and mocking human ignorance and ridiculousness in a strange sci-fi world. The last few minutes are really desperate, I don't know if it's a dream that continues to be dreamed or a world that will never wake...

    • By Electa 2022-04-24 07:01:03

      The bug that was beaten to death on the roof fell into the typewriter, the name was misspelled, triggering a series of events; being caught and paying a fee; dreams and...

    • By Margaretta 2022-04-24 07:01:03

      TV Interviewer/Salesman: How do you account for the fact that the bombing campaign has been going on for thirteen years? Helpmann: Beginners'...

    Movie plot

    In the future, the UK will enter an era of information management and everyone's every move will be monitored. Because he was identified as a terrorist, Barto was arrested at home, and the arrest process was strictly in accordance with the procedures. This case raises the Archives staff Sam Rowe ( Jonathan Pres Jonathan Pryce decorated interest) of. Later, he obeyed his mother's order and entered the Information Administration Bureau...
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    Shooting highlights

    Robert De Niro wants to play Jack, but Terry Gilliam has agreed to give this role to Mike Palin. De Niro still wanted to be included in the movie, so he became Tuttle.
    The role of Jonathan Press, Sam, had already taken shape in his mind many years ago. He was originally set to be around 25 years old (when Gilliam was writing the script, Price was in his early 30s). After many years in prison, Gilliam changed the age of the role to A...
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    Piercing lens

    Display error: When Sam looked at the printer in Helpman's office, he could clearly see the printed documents in the roller feeder.
    Display error: Sam Rory hijacked Jill’s truck. While trying to escape, Jill drove through some obstacles. However, before the truck touched them, the obstacle exploded and destroyed in advance.
    Continuity: During the truck chase, the "Truck Transport" magazine behind Gil's head was first closed and then...
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    Background creation

    The first draft of the script of "Wonderful Fantasy" was written by Terry Gilliam and Charles Alverson. Although the latter was paid, it did not appear on the list of screenwriters. Gilliam later asked Charles McCain and Tom Stoppard to conceive the script together. At that time, the film was titled "The Ministry and 1984?", and the "1984?" was derived from George Orwell's novels. "Nineteen Eighty Four" and Federico Fellini's "Eight...
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    Positive reviews

    Having said so much about the future, "Wonderful Fantasy" is actually not a science fiction film about the future, but a "social fiction" film about social forms. This black comedy fantasy work is one of Terry Gilliam’s early masterpieces. Like the masterpiece "1984", the film creates an absurd but chilling future world. This seemingly orderly world, seemingly carefree world, is actually a highly centralized, highly rigid and highly...
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    Movie quotes

    • [Lime blows the dust from the keyboard, then presses a key. waits for something to happen]

      Lime: [worried and somewhat frustrated] Sod it, it's broken!

      Sam Lowry: You haven't switched it on.

      [presses a key, the computer starts]

      Lime: Oh, yes.

      [looks at Sam, waiting for him to say something]

      Lime: [convincingly] Look, you're putting me off, standing there. Why don't you go back to your office and I'll give you a knock when I finish?

    • Shirley: [no meals yet] Salt?

    • Kurtzmann: [on Buttle] You see? The population census has got him down as "dormanted." Uh, the Central Collective Storehouse computer has got him down as "deleted."

      Sam Lowry: Hang on.

      [goes to a computer terminal]

      Kurtzmann: Information Retrieval has got him down as "inoperative." And there's another one - security has got him down as "excised." Administration has got him down as "completed."

      Sam Lowry: He's dead.