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Title: The Battle of Brazil (The Applause Screenplay Series) by Jack Mathews, Terry Brazil Gilliam ISBN: 1-55783-347-8 Publisher: Applause Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Anyone interested in movies must read this book
Comment: Terry Gilliam's film Brazil is now regarded as a classic, and rightfully so. It's a perfect blend of words (McKeown, Stoppard & Gilliam's screenplay) and image, and succeeds in realizing a completely different and yet perfectly believable world. I'm an avid filmgoer, and I consider Brazil the *best* American film of the past 25 years (better even than Raging Bull). A brilliant sci-fi/fantasy/black comedy/romance/Orwellian vision of the future--or the present--the film details the efforts of Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) to find his dream girl, trucker/terrorist? Jill Leighton (Kim Greist) with the help of renegade plumber Robert de Niro. Ian Holm, Ian Richardson, and Bob Hoskins contribute wonderful cameos, and Michael Palin is as evil as he's ever been.
Although Jack Mathews is clearly on Gilliam's side (how could anyone with an ounce of sense NOT be?!), he lets Sid Sheinberg, who might possibly be Satan, speak, and Sheinberg simply hangs himself with his own words. Mathews' wonderful tome includes an original shooting script with some magnificent deleted sequences.
One important point to remember while reading Mathew's detailed account: The studio knew *exactly* what they were getting--the players involved had already *read the screenplay*! Gilliam's film was both on time and largely on budget, and yet the powers-that-be couldn't accept the film.
This story has a true-life happy ending--Gilliam's gone on to make The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys, and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, and, according to the imdb, is finally starting on Good Omens. Sheinberg? Retired and, in all likelihood, forgotten except for his role in this near-fiasco. Like in the film, imaganation triumphs. One wishes critics' groups would make a point of awarding a "Best Unreleased Film" of the year.
Read, and smile.
"Brazil... where hearts were entertaining June..."
Rating: 5
Summary: An EXCELLENT compendium to the film "Brazil!"
Comment: Jack Matthews' "The Battle of Brazil" not only contains the FULL story of Terry Gilliam's "battle" with Universal Pictures head Sid Sheinberg over the release of Brazil, but it also contains the complete annotated script for the film as well. This also includes photos from the film, both in color and black and white, and several pre-production sketches and other similar illustrations. Out of print since the late '80's I managed to snag a hardcover copy in 1992. This definitely a book that any fan of Terry Gilliam and especially the film "Brazil" should own.
Rating: 4
Summary: The fight to get Brazil away from Sid
Comment: This is an updated, revised, expanded version of the 1986 book by the same author. (Same title, too.)
It's really good, covering the fight to release the director's cut of the film. The villain is Sid Sheinberg, one of the executives at Universal. Sid says he doesn't want to change Gilliam's movie, but he wants to change the end. Changing the end changes the whole POINT of the film. So Sid pretended that the battle is over the length of the movie. He tried to get between the producer (Arnon Milchan) and Gilliam. He sort of succeeded, too.
Then the LA critics chose Brazil as the movie of the year, even though it hadn't been released. (The author was one of those critics.) That move raised the stakes much higher, and ultimately led to Gilliam's victory.
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Title:Brazil ASIN: 0783225903 Publisher: Universal Studios Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.96 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.98 |
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Title: Gilliam on Gilliam by Ian Christie ISBN: 0571202802 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Losing the Light: Terry Gilliam and the Munchausen Saga by Andrew Yule ISBN: 155783346X Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Book Publishers Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Dark Knights & Holy Fools: The Art and Films of Terry Gilliam by Bob McCabe ISBN: 0789302659 Publisher: Universe Publishing (NY) Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title:Time Bandits (Divimax Special Edition) ASIN: B0000844JJ Publisher: Anchor Bay Entertain Pub. Date: 27 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $21.73 |
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