Brazil (1985) Reaction & Review! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- I felt like this was one of Gilliam’s best films. To me, Fear and Loathing is still my favorite, but objectively this film might be better. The themes tackled in this film warrants re-watching. The actual story was genius and the music, sets, props and music were just icing on this tasty cake. Pryce and DeNiro were very good in their respective roles. I still haven’t watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail yet. That has been described to me as being among Gilliam’s best work so that will naturally be my next Gilliam film. This, however, was just amazing.
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0:00 Intro
1:35 The Film
22:14 The Review
31:12 Outro
Hey guys, I'm Shaneel (Shan). Welcome to the channel!
My reaction and review to Brazil (1985) for the first time. Hope you enjoy the video!
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OMG!!! I believe this is the First Reaction of BRAZIL on CZcams.
Awesome choice... one of my top 5 faves.
Apparently, no one else is brave enough to try it.
Nope - Tamara's Never Seen did it three years ago. czcams.com/video/rq6nVv9_BVY/video.html
@@bryanread6663 cool, gotta go check it out.
Still, uber-rare.
@@bryanread6663 that's a review, though, not a reaction
Terry Gilliam said that the germ for this story began when he saw a man sitting alone in a beach chair, on a polluted rocky shoreline/beach in an industrial area in England. The man had on colorful shorts and sunglasses and was enjoying music from a portable radio. Gilliam said he looked like he was pretending he was on a beach in Brazil, ignoring the reality of how 'ugly' the world around him had become. This is a weird movie, often misunderstood but it is very very deep. Thank you for your reaction and commentary!
I suggest the Terry Gilliam-movie "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988)!
I second this
Then you have to complete the trilogy with Time Bandits
It’s my favorite Gilliam film. I’d love to see a reaction to it
I agree wholeheartedly. one of my all time favorite movies
A masterpiece. When they land on the moon.... love this movie!
Baron Munchausen is an excellent film too, with a good portion of humanitarian messages
Edit: Brazil is probably the most underrated SF&F movie in the history of the Galaxy
I'd say "Android", starring Klaus Kinski is way more underrated, to the point that almost no one even remembers it exists anymore.
Baron Munchausen is a serious trip! The artistry of the costumes, sets, and lighting is mind-blowing.
I love Brazil but I hated Baron
Gilliam is a gem. "The Fisher King" has been a long-time favorite of mine that should've gotten way more attention than it did.
There are at least three different versions of Brazil. The original 142 minutes European release, a shorter 132-minutes prepared by Gilliam for the American release and another different version, nicknamed the Sheinberg Edit, from Universal's then boss Sid Sheinberg, against whom Terry Gilliam had to fight to have his version released, A.K.A. the 'Love Conquers All' version.
@@niefali Probably. I don't remember what scenes were different between the American and European versions. This was NOT the "love conquers all" version, because that one had a lame happy ending.
@@roubador no scenes are different, but some scenes has, as always, been removed from the US release.
The song that plays throughout the whole movie is a Brazilian song called "Aquarela do Brasil" (Watercolor of Brazil), well known overseas as just "Brazil". The song in itself is a musical ode to the Brazilian motherland, and is used as a leitmotif in the film.
Shan, you have GOT to check out Gilliam's "Time Bandits". It's the film that put him on the map for most people.
Check out The Fisher King after Time Bandits.
Time bandits, yeah!
and Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
This👆🏼
mrkite Time Bandits & Baron Von Munchausen might have been an easier jumping off point😆
Time Bandits, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and this film (Brasil) are a *sort of* trilogy of Gilliam films. Definitley 3 of this most visually stunning films. Be sure to to check out the other "cuts" of this film when you can.. they're very different.
"Terry Gilliam gave us the happy ending and took it away" He's good at that.
So glad you watched this! Watched this a million times when I was a kid. My recommendations off of this would be The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Time Bandits and Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead (by Tom Stoppard, but only if you are familiar with Hamlet).
If you want another Gilliam film, I recommend The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Not the best film Gilliam's ever made, But it's wonderfully cast, scored, and acted. I think it was the first time as a child that I was ever exposed to a film that wasn't rational. Even the fantasy films of my childhood their own internal logic. Baron Munchausen just said, "Look, do the want the story or do you want a discourse on logic?"
The lead characters mother is played by Katherine Helmond. She played Mona in "Who's the boss".
Yep. But I'll always remember her from the t.v. comedy-serial, "Soap."
Just what I was thinking.
@@jean-paulaudette9246 I didn't care for Soap but I think it's because I was too young.
@@jean-paulaudette9246 I loved her as Jessica Tate!
Excellent! I hope "Fisher King" is on your list, that would make a great reaction video. And I totally agree with your opinion about "Fear and Loathing"
Your analysis at the end of all your videos are so well articulated and really provide a full and genuine reaction to the film. There is literally no other “film reactors” on CZcams that do what you do. Keep up the great work...I will be a subscriber/Patreon for life
Wow. Props to you for checking out this masterpiece. Subscribed. 18:00 I totally watched it on acid at 16.
The realization that everything we see from 20:00 on is just in the protagonists mind as he was being tortured was such a devastating psychedelic realization - I spent the next two hours in the bathtub listening to the Beatles “a day in the life” over and over.🤣
Came down watching blade runner with vodka and felt a lot better. Kids don’t try this at home btw.
This is one of my TOP 5 favorite movies of all time. So much going on, such great performances, story, direction and production. Been waiting for a "first time reaction" for this for years! Woohoo!!
Absolutly love this movie it works on so many levels. The Normal layer an 1984 style dystopian thriller. As a critic on Goverment, bureaucracy, consumerism and society in general. As an film about self fulfillment and what i like the most as a film about esotheric. You can totaly watch this film as an allegory to find your higher self within you. BTW the symbolism is great in this movie and every setdesign also works on different levels as well.
Such a bizarre movie. I saw it for the first time when I was a teenager and just loved it!
It's a trilogy about imagination
Time bandits : youth
Brazil : middle age
The adventures of Baron Munchausin : old age
That's a very interesting way to present the classic Gilliam trilogy (of unrelated, yet style-wise similar films)
An unofficial trilogy but yes, my declaration was not unfounded.
There is a companion book called The Battle of Brazil, which is about Terry Gilliam’s fight with Universal Studio head, over the final edit. The studio wanted a happy ending, Gilliam wanted to stay true to his vision which had given the green light at the start, but a change in studio management almost destroyed it. The studio edit would have changed the characters roles as to who was innocent and guilty. Universal did release their version for television, which is a completely different film. Criterion has released a special edition with both versions of the film. I recommend watching both. It shows what studio meddling can do to a film.
Cannot up-vote enough. The Criterion version (3 DVDs, one with the Gilliam cut, one with the butchered and almost an hour shorter studio version, and a documentary disc) is a perfect deep-dive into how the studio process can absolutely mangle a film - and also one of the first "social media" campaigns (two decades before that really existed as a concept) after Gilliam took out full-page ads in Variety magazine exposing the studio meddling and calling on his fans to (successfully) push back.
I don't know if Sam's mother having Jill's face at the end is just random craziness or if the movie is telling us that Jill happens to resemble a younger version of Mrs. Lowry. It would be a slightly disturbing explanation for why his subconscious chose that face for his dream girl.
The first time I saw this, I did NOT recognize Robert DeNiro and was completely shocked to see his name in the credits at the end!
Awesome movie! I first saw this in college in the 90s and it blew me away. Can't wait for you to check out Time Bandits as well!
Oh, joy! I love this film, this is my favourite film, and someone is actually reacting to it - and of course it's you (just like you said you would).
This was the 1st film in Gilliam's future trilogy, the 2nd is "12 Monkeys" and the 3rd is "The Zero Theorem."
With others I recommend seeing "The Fisher King" and "The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen."
This movie is a cult classic! It's also one of the weirdest Sci-fi Comedy Movies ever made.
There is a big influence in this from Orson Welles 1962 film adaptation of the Franz Kafka novel " The Trial " . A really underrated movie .
Never saw the film, the story creeped me out. Kafka has that knack.
Brazil the fantastic movie of Terry Gilliam ❤️❤️🤖🧠👩💻📺🎬
What surprised me was Gilliam claiming he had never read "Nineteen Eighty-Four". The film seems to me to be an obvious gloss on Orwell's dystopian nightmare.
@@yt45204 I hadn't heard that! There's also the way the word "Brazil" occupies the same place in this story as the word "Shakespeare" does in Orwell's tale, namely that it evokes for the main character a sense of beauty and freedom that is so missing in his reality as to be utterly alien.
Brazil is one of my favorite movies, though I used to see it as just this crazy dystopian fantasy, but then, in the post-9/11 Bush era, it felt much more uncomfortably true to life than it had when I'd seen it previously.
7:12, Bob Hoskins and Derrick O'connor. May they both RIP.
and tear
The adventures of Baron Munchausen is also a great movie lost in time you can review 8).
Finally - a full reaction to "Brazil" Thank you!
The films of Terry Gilliam will be held up and examined and studied for decades to come I feel as they seem to fit around the fringes of mainstream cinema and art house movies - their subjects make it difficult to label, pigeonhole and indeed market which has often led to the detriment of their box office. Indeed by just saying a "Terry Gilliam Film" is sometimes enough to either entice people to watch or for people to shun as it doesn't fit in with their world view of what movies should be. That is all to the good for the sake of posterity as the films stick out as unique or highly memorable.
If you start with "Holy Grail" you have to bear in mind it was done on a shoestring budget, co-directed with fellow Python Terry Jones and is very much a Python film not a "Terry Gilliam Film". If you like Monty Python then great but if you are not familiar it's a particular kind of comedy that can be quite marmite.
His first Gilliam film was "Jabberwocky" (1977) - a medieval comedy film - again with a tiny budget but some great camerawork and set pieces.
He then co-wrote and directed "Time Bandits" (1981) which is where you start to see so many Gilliam trademarks - the super wide 14mm lens, low POV, absurdist situations, playing with the borders of fantasy and reality...and so on.
Brazil (1985) is definitely the pinnacle of pure Gilliam - subsequently he does reach the same heights from time to time but never as consistently and cohesively as Brazil.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) on the face of it might look more like a children's film - and indeed children do seem to really take to it more so than adults - but again repeated viewings show what a detailed, intricate and multi-layered piece this actually is. This marks the end of the first Gilliam era with the next era focusing on Gilliam being director for hire in Hollywood.
Brazil came at just the right time - it was often referred to as 1984 1/2 and all the themes you picked up on were being fully embedded and starting to flourish in the mid 80's (Thatcher's Britain, Reagan's America, the bureaucracy of the EU etc) all still as pertinent today.
The wonderful music you noticed was done by the marvellous Michael Kamen - one of his earliest scores and one of his best. Michael was also a great arranger and orchestral collaborator for acts such as Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Queen, Metallica & Kate Bush (he got Kate to record a version of Brazil sadly not used in the film but is on the soundtrack album). Michael scored Gilliam's next film "Baron Munchausen" which is just as wonderful. Michael was cruelly taken from us in 2003 at only 55 but leaves a legacy of fantastic music.
Was so happy when i saw this reaction! Finally! I hope it gets around to other reactors. Now if i could just get some True Romance that'll be my two favorite movies!
A great Gilliam film! A lot of people dont appreciate the subtlety and imagery throughout, but Im pretty sure you will. :D I love the social commentary throughout.
I love this movie. Note that the studio objected to the ending and wanted something happier. Of course, being a dystopian story, that would have totally undercut the movie's basic message, so Gilliam refused. Sadly, when the movie was re-edited for television, the ending was mangled, and changed to end with the hero being rescued.
Oh, Wow! Brazil?? This has been one of my favorite movies ever since the first time I saw it.
It also holds a special place with me because it was one of the very few times in my life that I saw a movie knowing (almost) absolutely nothing about it before hand. It was the mid-80's and my buddy and I were browsing movies at the VHS rental store, we couldn't find anything until I picked Brazil off the shelf and read that it was directed by Terry Gilliam who I knew as a member of Monty Python. I figured it was some Monty Python-esque comedy movie so we decided to give it a try....and it blew me away!
(If you liked this, I'd also recommend Gilliam's 'Time Bandis' and 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen".)
I love this film so much! So many layers and themes to analyze.
20:40 I always felt that they took inspiration from this scene for the Ministry of Magic in the Harry Potter franchise.
I'd love to see you react to some Wenders films. I'm sure you'd be able to appreciate them. Maybe "Wings of Desire" or "Paris Texas" if you haven't seen them. I haven't seen any reactions to them.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Time Bandits are both brilliant Gilliam films.
10:33, that was a spoof of the Cave Scene from Empire Strikes Back.
Wow Shan, you're really digging into the barrel of films to watch, but that's what I dig about your channel! Keep it going!
Shan, I'm going now. I couldn't have written your summation any better. Nothing to contribute, moving along except to say that I appreciate your appreciation of the props. See, how I resisted saying, "props to the props." Rube Goldberg would have been proud. Best. Leo.
I'm so glad you reviewed this and I agree you're going to need to watch it a few more times probably because this movie was basically 40 years ahead of its time.
Also there's a lot of really interesting themes explored in the movie Time bandits even though it's under the guys of a children's movie but it's a Gillian property and pretty epic in its way.
Seeing this pop up in my feed just absolutely made my day.
0:31 "Trust me." Oh I do Shan, now more than ever, and you're absolutely right. Hehehe. Love it!
2:57, yes it was also inspired by Metropolis, The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, Blade Runner, Time Bandits, The Third Man, and 1984.
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is my favorite comedy and ranks #6 on my All-Time Favorites List, but "The Fisher King" is my favorite Gilliam film, ranking #3 on my list. It features my favorite performances from cast members Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Amanda Plummer, Mercedes Reuhl, and Michael Jeter. You MUST watch it. It's a romantic dramedy which keeps the fantastical elements more subtle than most Gilliam films, but when they happen, it's truly magical. It's a story of growth and redemption that must be watched by everyone multiple times. Please react to this amazing film.
So many faces recognisable from other iconic characters in British culture:
Genial Harry Grout, René Artois, Roy Slater, Bicycle Repairman, Francis Urquhart, Pod, Harold Shand...
20:42 "What's happening to him?" (referring to Tuttle)
"Harry Tuttle - A Man Consumed By Paperwork" - the name of the track on the score.
Gods I love this movie!
This is my Fathers all time favorite movie...which is probably why i look at the world the way i do.
Yep. Me too.
Omg, I haven’t watch this movie in years. I always loved it. I’m having another great experience with you.
This is one of my favourites of all time. Well done for spotting there may be no terrorists, just government incompetence. Personally I find the ending to be a happy ending as Sam escapes the system and finds love in the only way possible by retreating into his own mind, to a place they can no longer touch him.
I remember renting this film after my supervisor at work said he loved it. But it was so long ago, I can barely remember what it was about.
Fantastic to finally see a reaction to one of my favourite movies of all time. A Casablanca theme also running through so much of this. Such an underrated movie made by a master with an incredible cast. And since so few people seem to have ever seen it.... really, really hard to describe it to someone! Ten year later he did "12 Monkeys" which I found a perfect follow on. Beautiful.
10:30 The Samurai represents "the system", and he fears that if he fights the system it will be a losing battle, and he will only end up destroying himself in the process. It's a very deep movie that requires multiple viewings. Just as when everything is closing in on him at the end of the film, they represent 1. His fear 2. His guilt 3. and the System It is ultimately too much for him to handle, and he succumbs to madness and despair. It's a very sad and bleak film :(
I think it's more to do with the fact that he fantasizes about heroically fighting the system, but in reality, he *is* the system in some small part. He's responsible for his failure to grapple with his own complicity in evil.
What a great movie with so many familiar faces :Gorden Kaye from Allo Allo ! ,Peter Vaughan (Aemon Targaryan),Jim Broadbent from Moulin Rouge ,Bob Hoskins , Ian Holm, Jonathan Pryce,Robert de Niro and Monthy Python members.
My favorite Gilliam movie, you don't see a movie with so much creativity that often. Apparently they didn't know what to call this movie and then noticed the song playing on the radio. Whimsical on so many levels.
Monty Python's Holy Grail is a bit of a mess of a movie, it's basically made by a bunch of students who didn't know how to make a movie. But it is a classic you should watch, it's hilarious. Terry Gilliam only codirected that movie with Terry Jones which led to some conflicts so on Monty's next movie, Life Of Brian, Jones was the only director (Gilliam still acted in, wrote and did animations for it). That is also a comedy masterpiece you should watch.
"Here is your receipt for your husband and my receipt for your receipt."
Glad you get to watch one of my favorite movies of all time. The ending always gets to me.
This is a wonderful reaction and discussion of a frightening, yet very funny movie, with important things to warn us about. You need to watch it many times to catch half of everything here, and each time it's more rewarding.
FYI, Jack was played by Monty Python partner to Gilliam, Michael Palin. An irony here in the casting is that Palin generally recognized as the gentlest and "sweetest" of the Python troop. One of the strongest and most chilling moments, to me, is when Jack lifts his mask off to Sam, and you see his actual expression and reaction to what he has to do.
I don’t remember if I voted for this but I’m so glad that you chose it
"Fear and loathing" on 🍄.
10/10.
My introduction to Jonathan Price was as the wonderfully creepy villain in Something Wicked This Way Comes. You should check it out.
That's a teriffic film! I've been suggesting it to reactor-folks for years, but never any takers.
Yes! Great movie and wonderful book.
"It's like they're just used to it." I've thought-experimented before, imagining what it must be like living in a country with day-to-day threat of terrorism. Now I needn't any longer. Gilliam's done it for me. Best. Leo.
"Don't let them see they've upset you! Bloody terrorists try to get a rise out of you. Just ignore them."
I was so happy you did this movie. It is one of my favorites.
I 100% agree with your Fear and Loathing opinion. That is a book that was deemed impossible to transfer to the screen, but Gilliam did it brilliantly with a little help from the amazing performances of Johnny Depp and Benecio Del Toro
I've always wanted to watch this movie but never have. On the VHS of Fear and Loathing, Brazil was advertised.
Thank you for watching this gem of dystopian SF! It is dark British humor at its best!
The ending really shocked me as a teen. Happy endings are not supposed to get ripped out of you!
At the end he is being given a lobotomy. If you want to see Jonathan Pryce play an absolute villain, watch Something Wicked This Way Comes. Don't let the Disney production scare you off. The thing is absolutely dark and absolutely gorgeous to look at. The score is one of my favorites.
Wait was that . . . That was the great Ian Richardson! I love anything with him in it!
Oh wow! It is! I love him in everything from Tinker Tailor through Gormenghast. I love him in Dark City as well, and I often like to quote his, "SHUT IT DOWN. SHUT IT ALL DOWWWWWN."
@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures He made a fantastic Death in Hogfather, as well!
I would highly recommend Time Bandits if you enjoyed this.
I absolutely love Gilliam's cinematograpnhy and set designs. His worlds are so dense they're almost ominous. Like the movie itself is a living thing, somthing that might snap at any moment and bite your hand off. Next stop: THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE. If you liked FEAR AND LOATHING that will blow your mind.
The fact that you held run time as a negative is apropos. Read the history of Gilliam's war with the studio over the final cut. It's fascinating.
I'm hoping for you to react to "The adventures of Baron Munchhausen" soon!
5:05 the actor doing the Mother's face stretching was Jim Broadbent...who played the evil Police Chief in Hot Fuzz, among many many many other roles.
Also Horace Slughorn in some of the later Harry Potter movies.
He'll never better his role in Blackadder is the Spanish Infanta's translator though :D
@@sadmachine7486 My favorite role of his was as Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan, in Topsy Turvy. 💯
Shan... I am personally thrilled to see you react to it. A true hidden gem 💎
I watch this on cable... it had come out that year... it became my intro to Indy Filmmaking
Regarding Harry... It think that Robert was cast to represent Coolness. Sam was immediately taken by him as a REAL HERO. Almost a fictional character... It could even be thought of as Sam himself, like Fight Club. Was he, Sam, a terrorist? Multiple-Personalities?
I own three different cuts of the movie and there are Eight... so Terry told me at a Q&A 😊
There is a great book about the release of this movie, "The Battle for Brazil." The studio head hated the movie, and worked on an edit. Gilliam started showing his edit of it to critics, and built up award buzz and pressure for the studio to release as is. (The studio cut used to be shown as a TV edit, and it removes the ending, will Sam and Jill escaping.)
9:16, it is!! It's her, the girl of his dreams!
This is one of the best movies I can't stand. It is one of the most Kafkaesque experiences I've experienced in any piece of art. And I've read Kafka.
"I can pick Gilliam's work from a list of movies"... That wouldn't b too difficult. Lol 😝
When I watched it for the first time I was so confused, really didn't know what to think. Crazy movie!
This is the second of Gillian's unofficial trilogy about fantasy and how we use fantasy. Starting with Time Bandits, which is about how a child uses fantasy, and ending with "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen," about how an old man uses fantasy.
Tuttle was dissolved by the paperwork, the antibodies of the Bureaucracy.
One of my all time favorite movies. And definitely my favorite of Gilliam’s. I was obsessed with this in my college days.
LOVE IT the first youtuber who reviewed this master art of movie. Probably the best film i have ever watched. Even better then Citizen Kaine or Metropolis Bick like for me on this Video
i read that deniro desperately wanted the lead in this movie but gillium wanted price and so deniro accepted the small role
who remembers "The adventures of baron munchausen"
@@Jameson_Visual_Arts_Studios Truely is a marvel
Love that you're reacting to this. Such a disturbing movie. I watched it as a kid and found it terrifying. Nowadays it's more comedic. Reminds me of 1984 and 12 Monkeys.
I always thought... in some ways... that there WAS a happy ending.... because even as they had his body, they never had his mind.
Gilliam's masterwork. Absolutely brilliant film... and loved your reaction and commentary!!
For some years, Brazil was simultaneously one of my favourite films AND one of those films that I found almost impossible to watch in one sitting. There's a kind of over-abundance of imagination and bizarre imagery in every scene, so much so that it becomes difficult to process while you're watching. It's like Gilliam took a scattergun approach and tried to hit too many targets at once.
Once I managed to get my head around it all, it became one of my top three films of all time... until it was replaced by 12 Monkeys. In that film, I feel Gilliam had a tighter rein on the narrative and a sharper focus on what he wanted to say. This is still an imaginative tour de force, though, and still high on my favourites list.
@@Jameson_Visual_Arts_Studios That's both cool... and vaguely terrifying! ;-)
Brazil is such a brilliant film.
THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN!!!!!
the 'look' of the film was inspired by those old Fifties' 'How The World Will Look In The Future' informercials. In it, you see typical Fifies people doing typical Fifties things, but they fly around in private bubble cars/spacefships. Rather like that Fifties cartoon, The Jetsons. British comedian Harry Enfield did a spoof of these Fifties infomercials which you can find here on CZcams if you search for 'Harry Enfield Mr Cholmondley-Warner Life in 1990'. Hilarious!
Great choice Shan! one of my faves.
This was great, Shan! The first thing that I love is that, upon finishing the movie, you know immediately that repeated viewings bring out new things. I've seen it ten million times....and I was STILL noticing new things, just watching your reaction video! That said, your post film analysis is absolutely excellent, especially for a first viewing. This is definitely his quintessential work. You were talking about the run time being a bit long; I could have used a LITTLE less of the fantasy sequences and I think that would have nipped it in the bud. I'm sure you've read about how the studio released a version that had less of the fantasy sequences....but changed the ending into a happy one!!! Which is totally lame! This version - the original director's version - is the best.
You made me laugh when you said your friend watched this on acid, lol! Tell him that three of the greatest movies on acid are "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Koyaanisqatsi", and "Yellow Submarine". He won't be disappointed!!!!
Thanks for doing this one, Shan!
An absolutely stunning film that has only become more true as time has passed. I saw the original release in America which had the "happy ending" - the final reveal was not shown and the two of them end up happy in the countryside. Even with that ending I felt that it was in his head, that he had gone mad from the torture. The film is also seen as the base for "steam punk" in the machination of the computers, phones et al. As much as I love this film I find it very hard to re-watch.
I saw Brazil when it came out in the states in the 80's. The print I saw DEFINITELY had the twist ending where he's been driven to madness. Maybe they edited the real ending out in just some areas?
@@lisathuban8969 Could be - my friend and I had a bit of an argument as I said he had been driven mad and he said they had gotten away happily.
@@jeffmartin1026 That has happened in the past. Some areas of this country used to just cut scenes. I lived in Utah for three years in the 1990's. Spielberg got into a big fight with the LDS church because they edited out nudity in "Schindler's List".
As Denis AV noted below, the whole soundtrack is derived from the song "Brazil," the triumphant fanfares, the dream sequences, the opening bit in the information retrieval offices/car park scene … and especially the climax of the film, Tuttle's disappearance in the paper whirlpool, where the repeated bass figure (ostinato) is emphasized. The score could be titled "The Brazil Variations." Micheal Kamen at his best, along with Baron Munchausen.
Quick bit of trivia - the name of the form "27 B/6" is derived from the address where George Orwell was living at the time he wrote 1984: Apartment 6, 27B Canonbury Square, Islington London.
18:23 And THAT is how you know how dark the humor is in this movie. Funniest line in the entire picture.
An interesting retelling of Orwell's 1984 - great fun!