Director Terry Gilliam: “We’re living in a time where irony is not recognized anymore”
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"No, I'm making fun of humanity, and we are an absurd species of creatures." God bless you, Terry Gilliam, I love you!
A brilliant line indeed.
Absurd 💯!
I agree with him
I can't believe this genius has gone most of his career struggling to find funding for his films. Thank you to the late George Harrison for bankrolling Time Bandits.
It happened to Ken Russell too. At the end of his career, he was using a hand-held video camera in his back garden.
Money makers don't see the genius, they see the $$ and nothing past their noses for that matter.
12 monkeys was absurdly good
@@Kazekoge101 yes, considering he didn't write it.
Harrison bankrolled Life Of Brian if I'm correct
Gilliam is one of the universe’s greatest dreamers and so much more than “that American animator from Monty Python” He’s long been amongst my favourite film directors with the likes of 12 Monkeys, Brazil, Time Bandits and the hugely underrated duo of The Fisher Kung and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. The fact he struggles to fund his films whilst millions of dollars are thrown at lame remakes, reboots and other tepid shite is, quite simply, a fucking tragedy. We need more minds like Terry’s …
I suspect the difference is not the content of the move. Producers care very little about that. I think it's whether or not the director bows and scrapes to the producer and agrees to their ridiculous modifications to the script, cast, location, etc. I can't imagine Terry G doing that and so he is probably seen as a 'difficult' director.
Thank you for articulating what I was thinking while watching this short clip. I think that his lack of funding comes in large part from basic envy -- Gilliam is a magnificently effective story-telling genius ... and for this, those lesser than him, offer no light on his success.
Thank goodness George Harrison helped them with The Life of Brian.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was my favorite film when I was a little girl in the 80's alongside The Dark Chrystal, Time Bandits, The Secret of Nihm, Labyrinth and Monty Python films.
Thank goodness my father had impeccable taste in cinema.
He's not wrong. Irony is treated like hate speech from some of these idiots who forget that humour is one of our best weapons against hate.
He's so spot on. I'm a writer in Hollywood. I've written for some big-name comics, screen and teleplays, even some jokes for the stage. Yes, millennials and GenZers don't understand irony and they are leading the charge for the humorless.
see i dont get this, because gen z and millenials have created more ironic and more offensive content that has ever existed in the form of memes, video edits and sketches. Yeah its not on TV or whatever but it exists on such a magnitude that it would take you years just to go through it all. people are just out of touch with internet culture. Big tech and the media has been trying to suppress it for years now @@angusorvid8840
… Until the humor insults you. Then you turn into a hypocrite.
@@b1crusade384 Well I like a joke as much as the next person... BUT
@@b1crusade384 Everyone has a right to be offended.
It is when you weaponize that offense it can be a problem.
Gilliam and Python are more important than one can recognise. Tyranny is terrified of humour. Because humour is humanity, it unites us. And evil people want a disunited world.
Source?
@@hb8213Source of what??
@markmawhinney4440 Just wondering if any data exists to support the claims made in the OP. Maybe a survey of so-called tyrants and "evil people"? Or maybe OP pulled a bunch of lame platitudes out their ass to gas up a comedian they like.
@@hb8213There's nothing in that statement that requires a source lmao. It's just an opinion dude, everyone has one
@@ufoash440 Opinions about evil & tyranny based on personal mythology instead of facts should not be taken seriously.
when Terry described his script, I can't believe the interviewer didn't follow up with, "So it's a documentary?"
Something John Cleese would ask.
@@hanknorris5642 😂😂😂exactly! God bless the Pythons 🐍❤️
Terry demonstrates how we can save ourselves a whole lot of grief by beginning at acceptance.
Just saw John Cleese in person (he’s not dead yet!). Anyway, he spoke of the importance of being able to laugh at yourself, and how we ALL need to get back to that. Monty Python are more important today than they ever were. Cheers!
He will be soon, he's very old.
That's actually the last thing we need right now.
@@folksurvivalSo everyone should be self-righteous and full of themselves?
@@shoujahatsumetsu Nope, I never said that.
Irony is not recognized and critics are not accepted. Everybody thinks he's born perfect the way he is, nobody has anything to learn, nobody makes mistakes. We all take ourselves too seriously
Welcome to 2024! 🎉
@@AvaAdore-wx5ggYeah, the problem is it's more like a parasitic need for affirmation. Animals consume - it's the only way they propagate.
LOL. You don't live in reality at all. It's hilarious how out of touch and deluded old people are. You are not oppressed.
What an intelligent man. And his sincere gratitude towards the interviewer when he said that he liked his film makes him very humble as well.
This interview clip should be seen by more people.. Time Bandits and Brazil are timeless classics..
Yes! And Fisher King.
@@FannyPlusvi The Fisher King is absolutely my favourite. Now that's about humanity. It's perfect. Take that away and we're no longer human.
Yes, including ELON MUSK
As was 12 Monkeys
This is literally what i needed right now. Thank you Terry for being a real human being.
Please refer to her as Loretta. She's a black lesbian 🖤 in transition. Love 🖤
One of my favourite filmmakers, genuinely visionary and witty and visually sumptuous!
His comments on A.I. and technology are exactly what a colleague and I have been saying as we watch it eroding the shores of our voice over careers.
I'm sorry to hear that, matey. Hope you're doing ok. It's affecting my illustration industry too.
@@oneworldfamily I think illustrators and designers are being hit harder. I recently had the PR department of a major entertainment studio asking me information about A.I. image generation because they wanted to work on concept art ideas before handing them off to designers.
We've been fortunate in that games, and film and series dubbing still require actors and script adaptors, and we've been lucky to see that growing with the studios we work with, however the e-learning and training courses that filled in the gaps disappeared almost overnight. It reached a point where the ratio of quality to cost reached a level clients could excuse, and for things like employee training they have a captive audience anyway, so it doesn't matter if it sounds slightly off.
On the other side, we've been working for 2 years with one client who uses our performance to drive their voice generation, changing our voices. I've heard from the editors that the end results are a bit flatter than the original, and that some are better than others. It seems that actors who adjust the way they speak for each character get better separation in the final version. It allows for a small pool of actors to dub an entire series making it more efficient and providing more hours for those who make the cut. Obviously for people who aren't chosen it's not a positive.
There have been many technologies we do not use as a society.
We do have the ability to say “no we don’t want this.”
I love this guy and been a huge fan for 50 years but I disagree with him about having to accept AI and technology. We don't have accept anything that is dangerous. Humanity keeps accepting and tolerating, while we watch whatever it is kill us.
AI will shortly be affecting the music industry too. Feeling you buddy.
Whenever ideological thinking dominates, irony dies. It means the populace feels threatened and therefore any hint of danger from wrongthink is taken seriously.
WHY has irony died though? Irony was in vogue from the mid 80s to about 2010, but then the world started falling apart. When that happens people look to others for help and support and that leads them into ideological tribalism. To ignore the cause of ideological thinking dominating is to ignore the problem - ie, everyone is afraid for the future for the first time in a long while.
Our Canadian government is banning certain Southpark episodes from Canadians. The left are totalitarian and people don't realize it yet still.
@@ScentsofStyle99I would argue that absurdist humor could cure that but what happens is narcissist demagogues seize the opportunity to grab power and worsen "ideological tribalism" as you aptly put.
@@ScentsofStyle99 The world isn't falling apart. Or rather, no more than what it ever has. The change is the Internet. Clickbait journalism, instant news, algorithms tailored to your ideological bias, *social media*. That's what's changed. The perception that the world is worse is being algorithmically thrust upon us in a torrent of negative and biased information.
It's absolutely criminal that this mad genius who's given me so much joy as a child and now as an adult, cannot get funding for doing the very thing he was put on this earth to do. If I ever win the lottery I would give him however much he would need.
It's because he's deemed a 'British' director, who hates the Hollywood scene.
Gilliam is one of my favorite directors off all time and I love his perspective. He still has that spark.
Words of great wisdom and truth! Thank you Mr. Gilliam!
One of the best lessons he has learned in life is "Don't work with the Weinsteins." A lesson he learned after working with the Weinsteins.
Another film by Terry Gilliam? We desperately need this guy to keep making movies.
I wish Mr Gilliam great health to be able to stay on this planet as long as possible!
Terry is a genius. I loved Python as a kid but my favourite parts were all Terry's animations. The way had made them and how they came across in real time watching them was magic. You don't get animators these days with all the software produce that level of quality!
I disagree with the quality comment, but you definitely dont find as much absurdity in animation and that medieval style, though. Felix Colgrave is an example, and Guldies is another.
Yep ... Gilliam is interesting ... and his films are so much more important than that unfunny forced English 'comedy' ... I can't stand Monty Python. 😂 ... and there's also something about the fans who go on about them that really irritate me. Especially if they're American.
@Fiveash-Art brit humor is very intellectual and dry. I think Python is brilliant, but Gilliams career has offered more emotional depth.
Mr. Gilliam is one of humanities treasures. As much as I love all the creators of Monty Python and the works of their lives and appreciate their opinions, I do find many of them have dark opinions on humanity and where we have come to. We are all just trying. I love how Mr. Gilliams description of humanity as an absurd species. We are. We have the most prodigious intellects of all species we know of. Yet we have not come to terms with our existence.
I look forward to any works done by Mr, Gilliam and all the creators of Monty Python. Except for of course Graham. That's asking too much.
Don’t forget Terry Jones!
@@blueabattoir Yeah I was heartbroken when Terry Jones passed, especially with the condition he dealt with.
God bless Terry Gilliam - man, he is so needed STILL!!!!!
The guy is a genius! 12 Monkeys and Brazil are favourites! Hope that you get another film out Sir!
I still laugh riotously at their sketches and will often take in one of their films! If you can't laugh at these many thrilling and tremendously entertaining things with which they have all blessed us, then the problem is with you! Their expertise has been genius for almost sixty years! I mean "Bring out your dead!", The Silly Olympiad, Queen Victoria Handicap, Argument, Dead Parrot, Spanish Inquisition, Fish Slapping Dance, Crunchy Frog, Every Sperm is Sacred, SPAM, The Black Knight, "How shall we fuck off, oh Lord?", The Ministry of Silly Walks, "Blessed are the Cheesemakers.", Knights of Ni, "We have found a witch!", and on and on. Majestically hilarious all!
🤣😂😉😎
I wonder WHERE that fish did go?!
@@warlockofwordschannel7901 That went wherever I did go! 😂😉😎
The fish slapping dance is one of my faves, just totally "silly" and forever entertaining. Plus anything involving the wearing of pith helmets and Bombay bloomers, is a good sign of imminent goofyness and guffaws!
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Still a legend Terry
I hope his film project gets funded. Great idea for a film. Great point in general. Thank god there are individuals like TG providing humor and perspective to all the craziness.
Yes. But now the likes of the BBC want to take it away?? It's even worse in the US. But they can still have a laugh in Germany and elsewhere.
Love all your work Terry ! After this interview I really admire you !
WHAT A BRILLIANT MAN ... just LOVE that guy and his films ... WHAT A LEGEND !
It's a sad freaking state of affairs when an artist like Terry Gilliam is not getting the money to make his film while a rubbish superhero/ action sequel is getting commissioned every damn hour.
You can say that again!
Studios are owned by corporations so Hollywood is essentially Wall Street. It's just about balance sheets, not art or quality. Those days are long gone.
It is, but it's also entirely predictable. The people that put money into those things aren't looking to make art. They're looking to turn a number into a bigger number. That's it. I remember a comedian talking about their role in comedy clubs. They said (heavily paraphrased) they weren't there to make people happy, or to do a genius set, or to speak truth to power, or any of that. They were there to sell chicken wings. That was the horrible truth at the core of the business. And at the core of most entertainment, as an industry.
@@mahna_mahna finally, someone who understands. I worked in development and production at Warner for about 15 years and when I hear people discussing it all as if it's some artistic or emotional business J laugh. It's Wall Street with prettier people. It's solely about asses in seats and spreadsheets. That's it. They don't care about diversity or equality, they just dive into whatever trend they believe will bring in the greatest ROI. That's it. Nothing deeper. Studios used to toss low budget vanity projects to good boys and girls who made them a ton of money first, like a dog treat. That's pretty much over with since the studios became adjuncts to corporate monoliths. Want better movies made? Don't show up to or watch the crap and get out there to see the good ones. That's all they respond to.
@@mahna_mahna Yeah it's the obvious consumer corporate dynamics. Earlier it was a bit less machine- like but now everything has been replaced by this unrelenting system. My question is, does the audience taste shape the business or vice versa because as long as you keep feeding and hyper promoting the formula product they will never know better.
Such an awesome guy. Brazil is one my favourite movies of his, and the movie of my childhood.
"Brazil", "The Fisher King" and "12 Monkeys" are masterpieces in the art of film making.
And I am sure his Don Quixote would have also been stellar.
It’s nice to hear a cool and funny guy talk like terry , there’s either a shortage of them these days or they are overlooked completely because they don’t fit the current weirdo narrative of the world these days . Bravo Terry for staying cool
In the US we can use the decline and eventual death of Mad Magazine as a barometer for our inability to properly value satire and irony. It has been happening for 30 years or so, but certainly today the coffin has all the nails it needs to be permanently shut. I don't think we can blame the current generation of youth for the entire collapse. Consider the lack of interest in satire of previous generations for creating the conditions that led to it. What happened over the years to the adolescent males that demanded the skepticism that Mad encouraged? They weren't shamed away from it.
Is MAD magazine gone????
Terry ! Thanks for this interview and for all Your work and for hours of smile that You give us for free :)!
So, THANK YOU !
Greetings from Czech
Thank you Loretta.
Very wise man - love him!
We are suffering from irony deficiency...
as head of my own comedy department, I would've simply said I would hire the best people for the series regardless or their coverings. Give me funny bones that work well together. End of.
Beautifully put!
In a better world... :(
Yeah but he was being funny. And should comedy really have limits. Should a man be arrested for calling a horse "gay"?
This is the world we live in and we need people to challenge it. We need the comedians to make fun of everything so we can actually get a better bearing on what's actually right and what's wrong.
Running a comedy department I'm surprised at your response.
You can't expect a television executive to be so eloquent.
After all they used up all of their talent, stabbing their way to the top of the "no real talent" ladder.
Something about his movies makes me sit and take notice. I love the cinema of Gilliam
As an American I think it’s background. My grandparents were from UK , my mother, cousins. So I prefer British comedy!!
This video made me feel less alone. Thank you, Terry Gilliam, for your humor and depth. The world would be much better if there were more people like you.
Brazil...what a wako of a movie. He truly captured what is a fever nightmare.
Irony is not recognized because younger generations do not even know the definition of the word. Thank you Alanis Morissette.
What an absolutely delightful human person
Thank you Terry for Time Bandits. One of my favourite movies ever. Seen it 100 times.
Really authentic person and great filmmaker
I was working in Highgate a few years back...Every lunch time we (2 of us) sat in the little park to eat a butty we got from the deli across the road and feed the pigeons...One day as I was walking back to site Terry was walking the opposite direction hunched shoulders like it's raining but it isn't...He was on a mission with his 'do not disturb' aura locals all know about...There was no one else around...As a Python and Gilliam fan I want to talk to my hero, I want an autograph, I want to tell him 'thank you', I wanted to shout 'We've got lumps of it round the back!'...even if I had got an 'FU!'...I want to make him smile...I said nothing...One of the toughest things to do as a fan...and...I still regret it
Gilliam is about the last few people on earth whose view on tech and ideas I can still agree with, I love that he's still kickin' in the industry
I don’t know how deep he dove into YT, but irony is so alive, we’ve developed the idea of layering irony.
The Pythons used to kill what ever was considered current trends of the time with their intelligent humor.😂 that's why they are legends
@@Fiveash-Artthey're brilliant, you just don't get the jokes. 😂
A genius that refuses to genuflect at the alter if madness. A visionary that is never not interesting.
Irony, politeness, consideration, a knowledge of how the world works, ....
Human beings are a failed species.
Cripes, I'd almost forgotten what an intelligent, sensible filmmaker sounds like. There are so few of them left these days.
A great man and a genuine nice man. Met him many times. Bless him 🙏 ❤️ Derek Lyons
Yes, and as a great person once said, "GET ON WITH IT!!...."
We should listen to our predecessors. Despite our youth, our ego, our vigor or outright contempt - They've been there and already trodden the same path many times.
Let in the old. Let in the new ❤
Glad to know he still preserves his sanity after all 😊
His statement about AI is so needed. Yes, it’s here, you cannot change that. You can only learn to adapt.
Gilliam's joke in Germany was an example of absurdist humour, not irony. Now there's irony.
Oh fellow Minnesotan non-gratis. Love your work!!!
I still remember the episode of "Yes Minister" where he explains that they joined the EU in order to wredk it. Similar approach here, the BBC embraces "diversity" in such a manner as to discredit the very concept.
These 6 men, their humor changed the way millions of people view the world.
Smart bloke. Smart blokes are not flavour of the month these days. But we will never surrender !
'Brazil' is a masterpiece.
Irony requires perspective, we’ve got the “bundles of reflexes” in spades instead.
He is a genius those animations fkn priceless
The animator has not had a fatal heart attack just yet! I was 17 when I saw that for the first time, and I almost died laughing!
Remind me, was that something to do with live animation? I have poor recall but it feels I should know this......
So we appear still to have the sense of humour in Germany that Britain has lost.
no, it's apples to oranges; a crowd of people who gathered to see Terry on one hand, the bureaucratic elite and the angry activists on social media on the other
Anymore I am convinced this world needs The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
Well said.
BRILLIANT TERRY GILLIAM AND THE SAD TRUTH OF TIME WE LIVE NOW.
A creative genius. A great humanitarian. Thank you Terry!
Wise words.
What’s with the campy/cute background music? Did someone mistake an interview with one of the greatest comedic minds in history with a cute kitten video?
I'm writing a bit about the death of subtlety, context, nuance and implied meanings. Irony is lost on morons also.
Not just irony, we can't satirize anymore because this current generation cannot see past the surface.
Comedy today is: Pull funny faces, make funny noises, stare directly at camera whilst doing so.
Basically today it's "jangle the keys in front of the baby's face" because IQs seem to have dropped extremely sharply in the past 6-7 years... and sadly, those with that IQ have the power to break the careers of geniuses.
There will be a rebound. I'm sure of it. The world goes around in circles. New generations rebelling against what came before, that sort of thing.
Get off my LAWN!!!!! 🤬
We used to be a society of Monty Pythons...
Now we're all swirling around in the Skibidi Toilet
There are people who watched Monty Python when it first aired who are just as clueless and devoid of humor or nuance.
“Pulling funny faces, stare into the camera”
You’re inadvertently just describing boomer humour lol, I don’t think a lot of modern comedies really do that.m
Smart guy. He gets asked if times have changed and if that kind of humor could be done today, chuckles, and plugs his last film in the second sentence.
Thank you for a lifetime of laughter. Along with my teenage friends we would Voluntarily go into a house to watch Monty Pythons . We never went home voluntarily before curfew but for that crazy show we made a exception 👏👏👏👏👏☮️
"So from now on, please call me Loretta" 😅Classic response. And nothing could be truer than the comment that we are an "absurd species of creatures!"
And you're telling this to Euronews. That's brilliantly ironic.
Good questions and responses in this interview.
Monty Python is a very unique comedy that couldn’t be made today. Some people won’t accept jokes anymore, so as a result humour has nullified, censored and monitors. I wish there were more shows that could teach us how to laugh again.
Terry Gilliam's new movie idea is awesome.
Wonderful chap.
Is there a longer version of the interview available?
There is a whimsical s-f short story titled "God is an Iron". (I don't remember who wrote it. I read it back in the 80s)
The premise is: If a surgeon does surgery, a felon commits felony, and so on, then God must be an Iron. Even though I read the story nearly 40yrs ago, that lone has stuck with me. It's quite short, Like 5-6 pages at the most, to the best of my memory. It's worth a read. I'm gonna see if I can find
more info about the story.
EDIT:
I got the timeline wrong. I guess it was written in 2002, by Spider Robinson.
"Since he began writing professionally in 1972, *Spider Robinson* has won 3 Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Locus Awards for Best Novella and Best Critic, and numerous other awards. Twenty-four of his 30 books are still in print, in 10 languages. ... Google Books
Originally published: 2002
If he grows out his beard a little more, he'll just be the bridge keeper from Holy Grail.
Blue!
So few people know what irony is, any more.
Absolute Brilliance
Before social media I didn’t know how many people are humourless, perpetually offended and unable to understand context and message.
They really are like the NPC meme
My angry old uncle told me that Monty Python was my downfall! Thanks unk, I'm proud to fall so low! 👍🏻
The world might not request more groups of 6 white males right now … bit we could ceirtainly use a few more Terry Gilliams!
2.5 Million years ago, a friend of mine, made a tool from a stone and defended his tribe!
Wise man we need in this absurd world ❤
Nice bloke, I met him a couple of times leaning on a pub bar with a pint back in the 80s.
There must be intelligence in order for irony to be seen and recognized.
Bless this man
He's a legend.
Your background music is cruel and unusual punishment.
"You're making fun of somebody."
People need to stop being so narrow-minded. He's making fun of everybody. And everybody has things that deserve to be made fun of.
12 monkeys is one of the best sci-fi films ever made.