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 min. Terrence Vance Gilliam (born 22 November 1940) is an American -born British Writer, Filmmaker, Animator and member Arnon Milchan (ארנון מילצ'ן December 6, 1944) is Film producer and businessman Joseph P Grace was born in Pitsfield Mass on Feb 3rd 1949 Later in life befriend Arnon Milchan and helped creat Regency Enterprises Terrence Vance Gilliam (born 22 November 1940) is an American -born British Writer, Filmmaker, Animator and member Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE (born 3 July 1937 is a British Screenwriter playwright Charles McKeown (b1946 is a British actor and writer perhaps best known for his collaborations with Terry Gilliam. Jonathan Pryce (born 1 June 1947 is a Welsh award-winning stage and Film actor/singer Kimberley 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 Robert Mario De Niro Jr (born August 17 1943 is a two-time Academy Award -winning American Film Actor, director and producer Katherine Marie Helmond (born July 5, 1928, Galveston Texas) is an American Film, Theater and Television Robert William "Bob" Hoskins Jr (born 26 October 1942 is an English Actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds and gangsters and Sir Ian Holm CBE (born 12 September, 1931) is an English award-winning Actor known for his stage work and for many film roles Michael Kamen ( April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American Composer (especially of Film scores Julian John Doyle was an Australian Lawyer, Politician and Civil servant. Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios) a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is a major Global American This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Events 1472 - Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a Dowry payment Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Television Cut 136 min. Theatrical Cut 142 min. Director's Cut
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$15,000,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue	$9,929,000 (USA)
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Brazil, directed by Terry Gilliam, is a dystopian black comedy feature film, released on February 22, 1985 in the United States. A director's cut is a specially edited version of a Film, and less often TV series, Music video, commercials or Video games The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Terrence Vance Gilliam (born 22 November 1940) is an American -born British Writer, Filmmaker, Animator and member A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος alternatively cacotopia, kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is the vision of a society Black comedy, also known as black humor or dark comedy, is a sub-genre of Comedy and Satire where topics and events that are usually regarded In the Film industry, a feature film is a Film made for initial distribution in theaters and being the "main attraction" of the screening Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) It was written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard and stars actor Jonathan Pryce. Charles McKeown (b1946 is a British actor and writer perhaps best known for his collaborations with Terry Gilliam. Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE (born 3 July 1937 is a British Screenwriter playwright Jonathan Pryce (born 1 June 1947 is a Welsh award-winning stage and Film actor/singer The film also features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm. Robert Mario De Niro Jr (born August 17 1943 is a two-time Academy Award -winning American Film Actor, director and producer Kimberley 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 Katherine Marie Helmond (born July 5, 1928, Galveston Texas) is an American Film, Theater and Television Robert William "Bob" Hoskins Jr (born 26 October 1942 is an English Actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds and gangsters and Sir Ian Holm CBE (born 12 September, 1931) is an English award-winning Actor known for his stage work and for many film roles

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). Events Publication of Music Here and Now, book by Ernst Krenek March 23 – Béla Bartók 's Violin Concerto "Aquarela do Brasil" ( " Watercolor of Brazil ") also known in English -speaking countries simply as "Brazil" Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter Saludos Amigos ( Alô Amigos in Portuguese is a 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. 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. Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a concept used to describe Political systems where a State regulates nearly every aspect of public and private

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. Brazil's bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of the government depicted in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, except that it has a buffoonish, slap-stick quality, and lacks any kind of figurehead. Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a concept used to describe Political systems where a State regulates nearly every aspect of public and private Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 who used the Pseudonym George Orwell, was an English writer Nineteen Eighty-Four (also titled 1984) by George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair) is a 1949 English 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. A bureaucrat is a member of a Bureaucracy, usually within an institution of the Government. "^[1] While the film was a flop upon its initial release, it has since become a cult classic. A cult film is a Film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans.

Plot synopsis

Brazil 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.

Throughout the story Sam becomes 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

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). A motion picture rating system categorizes films with regard to suitability for audiences in terms of issues such as sex violence substance abuse profanity impudence or other types A motion picture rating system categorizes films with regard to suitability for audiences in terms of issues such as sex violence substance abuse profanity impudence or other types The Office of Film and Literature Classification is a Statutory Censorship and classification body which provides day to day administrative support for the Classification The DJCTQ, or Department of Justice Rating Titles and Qualification ( Departamento de Justiça Classificação Títulos e Qualificação in Portuguese A motion picture rating system categorizes films with regard to suitability for audiences in terms of issues such as sex violence substance abuse profanity impudence or other types A motion picture rating system categorizes films with regard to suitability for audiences in terms of issues such as sex violence substance abuse profanity impudence or other types The British Board of Film Classification ( BBFC) originally British Board of Film Censors, is the organisation responsible for Film, DVD The Motion Picture Association of America's film-rating system is used in the U A trilogy is a set of three works of art usually Literature, Film, or Video games, that are connected and can be seen either as a single work or three Time Bandits is a 1981 Fantasy film, produced and directed by Terry Gilliam. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 Film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville, Sarah Polley ^[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.

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 Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and Performing arts In satire human

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 (although it should be noted that Orwell considered Nineteen Eighty-Four to be about the year 1948). Some scenes resemble the film which had been released a year earlier. Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes 1984) is a British Film based upon George Orwell 's novel of the same name 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 (pronounced

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. Ducts are used in heating ventilation and air conditioning ( HVAC) to deliver and remove air The film opens with an advertisement for different styles of ducting available for homes, seen on a display of television sets in a shop, which is then blown up in a terrorist bombing.

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.

Logo of the Ministry of Information

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 initially, 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. Ary Barroso ( November 7 1903 in Ubá, Minas Gerais — February 9 1964 in Rio de Janeiro) was an Academy "Aquarela do Brasil" ( " Watercolor of Brazil ") also known in English -speaking countries simply as "Brazil" A leitmotif (ˌlaɪtmoʊˈtiːf (also leitmotiv; lit "leading motif" is a recurring Musical theme, associated with a particular person place Michael Kamen, who scored the music for the film, originally recorded "Brazil" with vocals by Kate Bush. Michael Kamen ( April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American Composer (especially of Film scores Kate Bush (born Catherine Bush on 30 July 1958 is an English singer songwriter musician and Record producer. 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. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 Film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville, Sarah Polley )

Cast

Cast information

Robert De Niro originally wanted to play Jack, but Gilliam had already promised the role to Michael Palin. Elizabeth Spender (born, 19?? is a Film actor She appeared in Terry Gilliam 's 1985 Cult film Brazil. Myrtle Devenish (born 1913 died 21 January 2007 was a Film actor Terrence Vance Gilliam (born 22 November 1940) is an American -born British Writer, Filmmaker, Animator and member De Niro still wanted to be in the film, and so was cast as Tuttle instead. ^[3]

Terry Gilliam's daughter Holly Gilliam plays Jack Lint's daughter Holly.

Releases

Theatrical releases

The movie was produced by Arnon Milchan's company Embassy International Pictures (not to be confused with Joseph E. Arnon Milchan (ארנון מילצ'ן December 6, 1944) is Film producer and businessman Regency Enterprises is a Los Angeles -based Motion picture and Television Production company formed by Arnon Milchan and Joseph Levine's Embassy Pictures). Embassy Pictures Corporation (previously known as Avco Embassy Pictures and later Embassy Film Associates) was an independent studio and distributor responsible for 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.

US distribution was handled by Universal. Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios) a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is a major Global American 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. Sidney "Sid" Jay Sheinberg (born 1935, Corpus Christi Texas) is an American entertainment executive Brazil is a 1985 Dystopian Black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam. 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. Blade Runner is a 1982 American Science fiction Film, directed by Ridley Scott. A movie studio (aka film studio) is in the established sense of the term a company that distributes films. 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. Variety is a weekly entertainment trade newspaper founded in New York in 1905 by Sime Silverman 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. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association ("LAFCA" was founded in 1975 Events 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films ^[1][4]

Video releases

In North America, the film was released on VHS and Laserdisc in the 131-minute US version. The Laserdisc (LD is an obsolete Home video disc format and was the first commercial Optical disc storage medium 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). The Criterion Collection is a Privately held company that distributes "authoritative" consumer versions of "important classic and contemporary films" DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is ^[5]

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 NeverEnding Story (Die unendliche Geschichte is a 1984 Fantasy film based on the German novel of the same name by Michael Ende 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.

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. Father Christmas is a name used in many English speaking countries for the gift-bringing figure of Christmas. A chimney is a system for venting hot Flue gases or Smoke from a Boiler, Stove, Furnace or Fireplace to the outside " 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. Metal detectors use Electromagnetic induction to detect Metal.
• 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 is 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. Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, or simply " Santa " is the 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.

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 Broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast Radio shows and Television shows to multiple individual stations without going through

• 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. Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion Examples include the man in the white lab coat in the beginning (that kills the fly that causes the film's events) isn't watching an interview with Helpmann, but an "Arrest and Detainment" show about Tuttle and Sam's fellow employees watching the film without music with gunshots left. Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. A gun is a particular Weapon that propels Projectiles The projectile is generally fired through a hollow tube known as the gun's barrel.
• The scene at the restaurant starts the film with Shirley offering Sam the salt, and the explosion in the restaurant. A restaurant is a retail establishment that serves prepared Food to Customers.
• 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 do not 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.
• 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 do not 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 looking at you, kid. Casablanca ( is an American Romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and " 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.

Critical response

Chicago Sun 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, "The movie is very hard to follow. The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily Newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. Roger Joseph Ebert (iːbɝt born June 18, 1942) is an American film critic and Screenwriter. I have seen it twice, and am still not sure exactly who all the characters are, or how they fit. "^[6]

Los Angeles Times Critic Kenneth Turan described the film as "the most potent piece of satiric political cinema since Dr. Strangelove. The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed Kenneth Turan ( (b 27 October 1946) is an American Film critic and Lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University ^[1]

New York Times film critic Janet Maslin was very positive towards the film upon its release. Janet Maslin (born 1948 is an American Journalist. She is best known as a film and literary critic for The New York Times 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. "

In 2004 the magazine Total Film named Brazil the 20th greatest British movie of all time. The year 2004 in film involved some significant events Major releases of sequels took place Magazines, periodicals or serials are Publications generally published on a regular schedule containing a variety of articles, generally Total Film, published by Future Publishing, is the United Kingdom 's second best-selling Film Magazine. 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. The year 2005 in film involved some significant events Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Devil's Rejects, Cheaper Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and Richard Nelson Corliss (born 1943 is a writer for Time magazine who focuses on Movies, with the occasional article on music or sports Richard Warren Schickel (born February 10, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an Author, Journalist, and documentary In 2006 Channel 4 voted Brazil one of the "50 Films to See Before You Die", shortly before its broadcast on FilmFour. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began 50 Films to See Before You Die was a television programme first shown on Channel 4 on Saturday 22 July, 2006, to celebrate the relaunch of Film4 is a free digital Television channel in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, owned and operated by Channel 4, that screens

Wired Magazine ranked Brazil number 5 in its list of the top 20 sci-fi movies. Wired is a full-color monthly American Magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993 ^[7]

Entertainment Weekly listed Brazil as the sixth best science-fiction piece of media released since 1982. Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is a Magazine published by Time Inc ^[8]

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. Robert Thomas could refer to Rob Thomas (musician, singer-songwriter leadsinger of Matchbox Twenty Robert Thomas (counterfeiter, 18th-century The Capital Times (or just Cap Times) is a Newspaper published in Madison Wisconsin by Capital Newspapers. . . ".

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

On the website Rotten Tomatoes, it ranked 97% Freshness. Rotten Tomatoes is a Website devoted to reviews information and news of Movies.

Cultural references in Brazil to other works

• 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. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 film written and performed by the comedy group Monty Python ( Graham Chapman, John Cleese 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. The Battleship Potemkin ( Броненосец «Потёмкин», ru '''''Bronyenosyets Potyomkin''''' sometimes rendered as The Battleship 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. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 who used the Pseudonym George Orwell, was an English writer ^[9]

References in popular culture

• In the 1997 video game Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, there is a cheat code called 'eriamjh' which enables the player character to fly. A video game is a Game that involves interaction with a User interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. Star Wars Jedi Knight Dark Forces II (often abbreviated JK or DF2) is a First person shooter computer game
• 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 video game is a Game that involves interaction with a User interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory is a critically acclaimed third-person Stealth-based video game developed and published by Ubisoft. Background Sam Fisher is a veteran of the CIA Directorate of Operations of the U 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. Hot Hot Heat is a 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
• The opening line of the British black 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). Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos shrieked vocals highly distorted guitars played with Tremolo picking, 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. Geek Rock (also known as nerd rock, but distinguishable from the Hip hop genre Nerdcore) is a musical subgenre of Alternative rock, although Robert Mario De Niro Jr (born August 17 1943 is a two-time Academy Award -winning American Film Actor, director and producer
• Wired's Threat Level blog ("privacy, security, politics, and crime online") has the URL "http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/"
• The complex bureaucracy that employs Hermes Conrad in Futurama bears intentional similarities to Brazil. Wired is a full-color monthly American Magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993 A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of Uniform Resource Locator is an URI which also specifies where the identified resource is available and the protocol for retrieving it Hermes Conrad (Born AD 2954 is a character in the Futurama Animated series. Futurama is an Emmy Award -winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and
• The Dead Kennedys song "Soup is good Food" contains the lyric "you no longer exist". Dead Kennedys was an American Hardcore punk band from San Francisco, California.
• In film π, the technology of Brazil inspired the design of Max Cohen's apartment. ^[10]
• In an interview with MTV, Terry Gilliam said that at the end of nine months of filming he lost all feeling in his legs and entered a catatonic state for a week. MTV ( Music Television) is an American Cable television network based in New York City. ^[11]
• The government vehicles seen in the film are Messerschmitt automobiles, German one seater cars built in the 50s-60s by the Messerschmitt firm that built fighter planes (Me 109) in WWII for Germany (the cockpits of the planes and the cars resemble each other), an apparent symbol of totalitarianism. The Messerschmitt KR175 Bubble car (1953–1955 was the first vehicle built by Messerschmitt under its 1952 agreement with Fritz Fend. Messerschmitt AG was a famous German Aircraft manufacturer known primarily for its World War II Fighter aircraft, notably the Bf 109 WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout
• The writers of the Paranoia role-playing game openly cite Brazil as a source of inspiration for the game's dystopian world, Alpha Complex. Paranoia is a humorous Role-playing game set Along with the Central Processing Unit's strong resemblance to the bureaucratic hell of the Ministry of Information, the supplement book Service, Service! features a Technical Services guerrilla serviceman archetype, called a Tuttle.
• Progressive-psychedelic band Brazil take their name from the film, as well as borrow many of its themes. Brazil was an Indiana rock band Although the band eschews labels and are often categorized with the punk and Post-hardcore music scenes that is
• Brazil was the codename of what became the third release of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system. Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a Distributed operating system, primarily used for research An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination

See also

• List of films recut by studio
• Nineteen Eighty-Four

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Matthews, Jack. The following is a list of notable films that were modified by the studio after their original theatrical release particularly films that were edited without the director's permission or involvement Nineteen Eighty-Four (also titled 1984) by George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair) is a 1949 English Novel "Dreaming Brazil". Essay accompanying DVD release by The Criterion Collection. The Criterion Collection is a Privately held company that distributes "authoritative" consumer versions of "important classic and contemporary films"  
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). The Criterion Collection is a Privately held company that distributes "authoritative" consumer versions of "important classic and contemporary films" The Criterion Collection is a Privately held company that distributes "authoritative" consumer versions of "important classic and contemporary films"
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. ^ :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Brazil (xhtml)
7. ^ Wired Magazine, Issue 10. The Criterion Collection is a Privately held company that distributes "authoritative" consumer versions of "important classic and contemporary films" 06, Jun 2002 (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/scifi.html?pg=6)
8. ^ Josh Wolk. "The Sci-Fi 25", Entertainment Weekly, 2007-05-07. Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is a Magazine published by Time Inc Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses Retrieved on 2007-06-21. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.  
9. ^ "George Orwell, Big Brother is watching your house", Evening Standard, 2007-03-31. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor (English) 
10. ^ Adams, Sam. "Pi Brain", Philadelphia City Paper, 1998-07-23. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Events 1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe France. Retrieved on 2008-03-10. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing (English) 
11. ^ Carroll, Larry. "Terry Gilliam Tilts At Hollywood Yet Again", MTV Movie News, 2006-10-16. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Retrieved on 2008-03-10. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing  

Further reading

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

External links

• Brazil at the Internet Movie Database
• Brazil at Filmsite.org
• Brazil at Rotten Tomatoes
• Review by Science Fiction Weekly
• BRAZIL Screenplay, Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard & Charles McKeown, Daily Script website
• Brazil at Future Times Magazine
• DGA magazine interview with Gilliam