Loved “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” movie, in fact I love every movie he made! He does such original movies and still he hasn’t got the acclamation he so well deserves!
I always have been a fan of Terry Gilliam. I like his films because he puts a lot of imagination into them. On the other hand, his style is amazing to me, even recognizable from one single frame.
My favorite Gilliam film is easily The Fisher King. Probably has something to do with the fact that I studied English history in college and went into radio as a career. The best part was the end, with the fireworks over Central Park as a not even subtle middle finger to the studio machine. "Here's your happy ending, motherfuckers."
This is easily the best, brief description of how Hollywood actually works as a business. The studios are not creative entities at all, they are a version of investment banks, and they operate according to the same incentives.
'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen' is still one of my favorite movies. Hollywood are blood-drinking vultures looking for a better corporate quarter and more profit. I truly wish artists could create their work without the 'vampires' trying to suck all of the money from it before and after it was made. USA entertainment industry is disgusting.
Brothers Grimm was so so. Other than that Gilliam is among my favorite movie directors along with Speilberg, Kubrick and a few others. Glad he finally got to do his Don Quixote film. It's pretty good!
@@pjmlegrande It's surprises me each time. I forget how really good it is until it comes time to watch it again. So many of his leave me with a great feeling.
@@robzilla730 Hail Caesar, as enjoyable as it is, is not what Gilliam is likely to conjure up. They didn’t want to fund his “normal” movies, let alone his cinematic take on them.
People are always talking in an industry like Hollywood and if you get a reputation for being difficult you can carry on as long as you're perceived as successful. If you're not successful _and_ difficult, your opportunities decline.
Cinema geniuses almost inevitably run into trouble. Sooner or later, jealousy from other directors finds their Achilles' heel. Or producers trap them in order to gain control over what they'll do and how they'll do it. If there's one thing producers hate about film visionaries, it's the impossibility of controlling them. That's a mortal sin and it explains in good part why Gilliam encountered so many difficulties in realizing his projects. Producers didn't trust his directing style and that generated clashes where the director seldom has the upper hand.
His films are equal parts brilliantly quirky and vastly intriguing. I liked most of them. But just like Tim Burton's efforts, sometimes some self-indulgent and fantastic flights of wonderful and unique imagination (beautiful, gross and yet absurd to watch) gets lost for the sake of telling a good story. Angst wins again in most of his efforts, as a dull coda, leaving me feeling a little void when I leave the theatre. Makes it hard to want to go back. The Wizard of Oz did a lot of the same things leaving me haunted by its melancholy ending that still managed to satisfy and touch my soul. It is unforgettable.
He speaks nothing but TRUTH !! He should be teaching master classes on the business of film making. It’s all so, so TRUE. Hollywood in nothing but a political, closed door, back stabbing regime of morons who know nothing about the craft of storytelling.
"Hollywood in nothing but a political, closed door, back stabbing regime of morons who know nothing about the craft of storytelling." That is the opinion of those who have never tried to make movies anywhere but Hollywood. Other countries are FAR WORSE. Hollywood is about untaxed profits. If you have the potential to earn untaxed profits Hollywood will take a chance on you. Outside Hollywood it's entirely about politics and nothing else. Hollywood is business, everywhere else is pretentious wannabe auteurs who check every political and social boxes.
I recently read that Sarah Polley does not have fond memories of the unsafe working conditions during the filming of "Baron". That said, I love 12 Monkeys.
These meetings, I got to pitch a story once, TV series, you will find most "execs" waiting for some consensus, something they can latch on to and agree with. Outliers are hard to find...
I absolutely loved Baron Munchausen!!! The studio's only look at the money made to determine success vs a movie that people want to see 30 years later. Which is why when a "film critic" says anything about a movie, I ignore it. I'd much rather read about "random bob's" movie blog about the movie, at least he will be honest.
Sounds like this is what Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's new company is looking to achieve : give everyone a piece of the pie, with transparent accounting, and everyone makes money, not just "the talent"
Which is hilariously ironic considering early in their careers they had ambitions to be "the talent" get rich and send their kids to private schools. If they felt that strongly about wealth distribution they should give 60% of their net worth away. Oh wait...
@@ctttt7019 Well, you have to start somewhere. And who knows how much of their wealth they give away behind the scenes. Remember what George Michael did. Gave millions to charities on condition that it was either anonymous, or that the charities contracted that it would remain anonymous. And I think most young people in their position would aspire to get rich and have all the trappings. I know I would have ! But now I'm much more of a socialist.
To be fair, even people who WORK with him say that he's chaos incarnate. Sarah Polley has written about her experiences publicly, Gilliams claim is that he didn't even have any idea, despite Eric Idle and the cinematographer backing her up. There's no denying his imagination, Time Bandits, Brazil and 12 monkeys are brilliant, some will add others, but to even have three that you wrote or co wrote and directed is quite the accomplishment. Still, some imaginative people likely should stay animators:) Those movies are practically animations given the cinematography, had he gone and done them with Studio Ghibli or something then I think a lot of trouble would have been spared.
Well consider how Hollywood has changed even since 2007 in regard to streaming services and profits compared to people making up for loss at the box offices with selling hard copy VHS or DVD like in the 80s and 90s now look at the writers strike too because the creative department is not getting their fair share either guess it gets spent on special effects and casting top stars for parts? Terry makes more art house movies David Lynch said that genre has been dead for years so if you want that sort of thing instead of action or rom comes or slasher movies (popular genres) it's a bit disappointing. I don't know about what happened with Brazil was it too dystopian because 12 Monkees was dystopian and Brad Pitt got a golden globe win for it it was taken seriously by the industry.
The best movie directors of all time, in order: (1) Terry Gilliam; (2) John Carpenter; (3) David Lynch; (4) Stanley Kubrick; and (5) Quentin Tarantino.
@@robzilla730 firstly you should so good 🤣 and Paramount was basically telling matt and tray about how to do south park. It led to their formula for success being we do everything plus you do nothing equals success
I respect Terry hugely for his work on Python and for Brazil. However outside of that, I have not enjoyed or had a good opinion of his directorial work on films like the Fisher King, Munchausen, and Quixote. If I were a studio, I would not back him as his films don't make money as they appeal to his taste and not to popular taste. There are some directors I admire who are not commercial, but Terry is just not as good as he thinks he is. Studios exist to make money. Artists can create, but they need to create films that make money, and if they don't care about their films being commercial, then they are just self indulgent. I think Terry falls into this category. Case in point is Quixote. A marvellous and timeless story. He gets to make his film version and it's dreadful and forgotten in an instant. I doubt that he cares. He could have made a marvellous version of that story but instead just indulged himself with meaningless nonsense. I think that's really sad. He has only himself to blame for his reputation for making non- commercial films.
Brazil was too accurate in its perception and storytelling of exactly the sort of world our “libertarian” and our investor class actually does want for all of us.
Lmfao libertarianism means limited to no government....your modern central banking and big central government national debt and budgets and incestous relationships with multinational corporate owners is the problem and that takes BIG GOVERNMENT. Read more books Wow.
If you don't want brazil IRL then vote for trump who plans to cut government spending and power. Cutting their budget is the only way to limit government power. This is basic shit. My 5th grade kid knows this. Embarrassing
The fundamental problem with Terry is that he's a straight up communist. There's a saying that "all a hammer sees are nails", which best describes his obsession with blaming capitalism for everything. And yet all his visions are expensive with a low reward possibility. The advice is that if you want to make big-budget films, you have to sell out a bit. You can't expect producers to sell your movies if you're not thinking about selling it to the masses. This is also a person that got his break at an extremely young age, made a bomb called jabberwocky, and spent the rest of his career feeling entitled and a victim at the same time. A typical walking bag of contradiction.
Brazil is a masterpiece.
Every single one of his films is
nah
@@RafaCarrillo Ehhhh... Zero Theorem kinda sucked imo
Yes yes it is
Yep. Despite the sabotage.
Loved “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” movie, in fact I love every movie he made! He does such original movies and still he hasn’t got the acclamation he so well deserves!
The GOAT.
Munchausen is an awesome movie.
12 monkeys is pure brilliance.
One of my all time favorites, timeless, no pun intended.
Gilliam is brilliant!
I would have preferred an even 13
pretty good for a time travel fantasy
@@michaelely3700 *odd
I always have been a fan of Terry Gilliam. I like his films because he puts a lot of imagination into them.
On the other hand, his style is amazing to me, even recognizable from one single frame.
Why on the other hand?
@@DaveMcIroy he's got 2 hands
@@marknewbold2583, salt is white.
Fear and Loathing. Brilliant.
Movie was ahead if its time
“Of course there are vampires. One only has to look at Hollywood.”
Sir Christopher Lee
Doctor Parnassus and Tideland are criminally underrated, Gilliam has cranked out some beauts 🤙🏼
The Greatest Filmmaker of All Time! A master and genius.
My favorite Gilliam film is easily The Fisher King. Probably has something to do with the fact that I studied English history in college and went into radio as a career. The best part was the end, with the fireworks over Central Park as a not even subtle middle finger to the studio machine. "Here's your happy ending, motherfuckers."
This is easily the best, brief description of how Hollywood actually works as a business. The studios are not creative entities at all, they are a version of investment banks, and they operate according to the same incentives.
Lost in La Mancha is an amazing documentary. Highly recommend it to any Gilliam fans.
Whenever I make a list of my top 10 favorite movies. I am always changing. Most of them. Except for Brazil. Brazil always stays on the list.
'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen' is still one of my favorite movies.
Hollywood are blood-drinking vultures looking for a better corporate quarter and more profit.
I truly wish artists could create their work without the 'vampires' trying to suck all of the money from it before and after it was made.
USA entertainment industry is disgusting.
Greed my friend. Greed.
Can we keep it light on the antisemitic dogwhistles, boy?
@@Gatsun WTF ? Get lost .
The man is a treasure. And Tideland is something else. How the hell did he come up with something like that? Absolutely genius.
Tideland is a really great film.
It says a lot - too much - about Hollywood that this genius finds himself on the outside.
Brothers Grimm was so so. Other than that Gilliam is among my favorite movie directors along with Speilberg, Kubrick and a few others. Glad he finally got to do his Don Quixote film. It's pretty good!
Agree, the rare Gilliam clinker
The Fisher King is on my short list of great films. I’m always moved by it even after many viewings
@@pjmlegrande It's surprises me each time. I forget how really good it is until it comes time to watch it again. So many of his leave me with a great feeling.
Honestly, if I had a pile of money, I'd give it to an artist like Terry, whether it made money or not. A great film is worth much more than money.
thags what george harrison thought and thats why we have life of brian
The Fisher King is an absolutely tragic and beautiful story
He should make a movie about Hollywood, I'd pay top dollars to see that.
YESSSSSS!
What a brilliant idea!
Hollywood wouldn’t.
@Mark Stevens why not? The Coens did...
@@robzilla730 Hail Caesar, as enjoyable as it is, is not what Gilliam is likely to conjure up. They didn’t want to fund his “normal” movies, let alone his cinematic take on them.
People are always talking in an industry like Hollywood and if you get a reputation for being difficult you can carry on as long as you're perceived as successful. If you're not successful _and_ difficult, your opportunities decline.
Terry! Thank you for solving the Hollywood riddle. I finally get it.
Cinema geniuses almost inevitably run into trouble. Sooner or later, jealousy from other directors finds their Achilles' heel. Or producers trap them in order to gain control over what they'll do and how they'll do it. If there's one thing producers hate about film visionaries, it's the impossibility of controlling them. That's a mortal sin and it explains in good part why Gilliam encountered so many difficulties in realizing his projects. Producers didn't trust his directing style and that generated clashes where the director seldom has the upper hand.
THANK YOU MR GILLIAM!!!!!!
The line producer is always the most creative person on the payroll.
Thanks.
What was wrong with Munchausen? Great film.
Terry Gilliam is the best, magic reality
Legend
His films are equal parts brilliantly quirky and vastly intriguing. I liked most of them. But just like Tim Burton's efforts, sometimes some self-indulgent and fantastic flights of wonderful and unique imagination (beautiful, gross and yet absurd to watch) gets lost for the sake of telling a good story. Angst wins again in most of his efforts, as a dull coda, leaving me feeling a little void when I leave the theatre. Makes it hard to want to go back. The Wizard of Oz did a lot of the same things leaving me haunted by its melancholy ending that still managed to satisfy and touch my soul. It is unforgettable.
I always say if artists didn't indulge we wouldn't have art.
I often forget that he was born in America and then moved to the UK when he was about 25,
Fantastic Film
He speaks nothing but TRUTH !! He should be teaching master classes on the business of film making. It’s all so, so TRUE. Hollywood in nothing but a political, closed door, back stabbing regime of morons who know nothing about the craft of storytelling.
And if they offered him a lucrative project tomorrow, he would be right there next week.
Cry me a river, Terry!
"Hollywood in nothing but a political, closed door, back stabbing regime of morons who know nothing about the craft of storytelling."
That is the opinion of those who have never tried to make movies anywhere but Hollywood. Other countries are FAR WORSE. Hollywood is about untaxed profits. If you have the potential to earn untaxed profits Hollywood will take a chance on you. Outside Hollywood it's entirely about politics and nothing else. Hollywood is business, everywhere else is pretentious wannabe auteurs who check every political and social boxes.
I recently read that Sarah Polley does not have fond memories of the unsafe working conditions during the filming of "Baron". That said, I love 12 Monkeys.
Every action movie has unsafe working conditions. Accidents always happens
Yeah stop being a coward
@@stevemuzak8526 Ridiculous faulty generalisation.
@@stevemuzak8526 wrong
TERRY GILLIAM IS A GENIUS!!! ALL HIS WORK IS STELLAR❤❤❤❤❤😎😎😎😎😎
These meetings, I got to pitch a story once, TV series, you will find most "execs" waiting for some consensus, something they can latch on to and agree with. Outliers are hard to find...
He's definitely correct when he says that modern films are getting stupider and dumbener.
I absolutely loved Baron Munchausen!!! The studio's only look at the money made to determine success vs a movie that people want to see 30 years later. Which is why when a "film critic" says anything about a movie, I ignore it. I'd much rather read about "random bob's" movie blog about the movie, at least he will be honest.
4:38 simple makes sense
What does his t-shirt say?
Sounds like this is what Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's new company is looking to achieve : give everyone a piece of the pie, with transparent accounting, and everyone makes money, not just "the talent"
Which is hilariously ironic considering early in their careers they had ambitions to be "the talent" get rich and send their kids to private schools. If they felt that strongly about wealth distribution they should give 60% of their net worth away. Oh wait...
@@ctttt7019 Well, you have to start somewhere. And who knows how much of their wealth they give away behind the scenes. Remember what George Michael did. Gave millions to charities on condition that it was either anonymous, or that the charities contracted that it would remain anonymous. And I think most young people in their position would aspire to get rich and have all the trappings. I know I would have ! But now I'm much more of a socialist.
@@ctttt7019 What a stupid comment. It sounds like you aren’t familiar with their careers nevermind the business model their company is running.
So, Hollywood is Brazil. Got it.
Who maintains the duct work?
I couldn’t tell if he was talking about Hollywood or drugs.
Terry G - G for genius.
Gilliam doesn't appear to have aged in the past 25 years. Hollywood is worse off without his work.
Munchausen was a cool film...😎😎
I'm guessing he was thrilled to get a superstar like Bruce Willis for 12 monkeys, but even more thrilled at what a great job Willis did.
"Eyes down round and round. Lets all sit and watch the moneygoround".
To be fair, even people who WORK with him say that he's chaos incarnate. Sarah Polley has written about her experiences publicly, Gilliams claim is that he didn't even have any idea, despite Eric Idle and the cinematographer backing her up. There's no denying his imagination, Time Bandits, Brazil and 12 monkeys are brilliant, some will add others, but to even have three that you wrote or co wrote and directed is quite the accomplishment. Still, some imaginative people likely should stay animators:) Those movies are practically animations given the cinematography, had he gone and done them with Studio Ghibli or something then I think a lot of trouble would have been spared.
Is Terry siting in the chair from Pee-Wee's play house?
Munchausen was fantastic!!
I LOVED Munchausen!
In Hollywood example...
"Opinion and Rumors are somewhere between Ignorance and Ignorance" Plato
A rare genius among us.
If Terry was introduced to a Martian colony living in the Bronx. There will be shouting, shots fired and a complete failure of the midtown waterway 😂
Well consider how Hollywood has changed even since 2007 in regard to streaming services and profits compared to people making up for loss at the box offices with selling hard copy VHS or DVD like in the 80s and 90s now look at the writers strike too because the creative department is not getting their fair share either guess it gets spent on special effects and casting top stars for parts? Terry makes more art house movies David Lynch said that genre has been dead for years so if you want that sort of thing instead of action or rom comes or slasher movies (popular genres) it's a bit disappointing. I don't know about what happened with Brazil was it too dystopian because 12 Monkees was dystopian and Brad Pitt got a golden globe win for it it was taken seriously by the industry.
I enjoyed Baron Von Munchausen.
The best movie directors of all time, in order: (1) Terry Gilliam; (2) John Carpenter; (3) David Lynch; (4) Stanley Kubrick; and (5) Quentin Tarantino.
Lol have you only seen 10 films?
@@marknewbold2583 I've seen "Tideland". Have you?
Just look at what happened with south park the movie.
Didn't watch it. What happened in a nutshell?
@@robzilla730 firstly you should so good 🤣 and Paramount was basically telling matt and tray about how to do south park. It led to their formula for success being we do everything plus you do nothing equals success
I've never seen anything Terry has ever done that hasn't impressed me one way or another.
I'd work for him for free. Just saying.
Has the camera man got ants in his pants? Cant decide what shot to use so chooses all of them in the one take moving around...man, get some training!
Jews make great creative accountants.
I wonder why Hollywood people are so good and cryptic with money and accountants...
Lots of practice
Something to do with the small caps their relatives wear
Smooth-brained, juvenile anti-semites.
I respect Terry hugely for his work on Python and for Brazil. However outside of that, I have not enjoyed or had a good opinion of his directorial work on films like the Fisher King, Munchausen, and Quixote. If I were a studio, I would not back him as his films don't make money as they appeal to his taste and not to popular taste. There are some directors I admire who are not commercial, but Terry is just not as good as he thinks he is.
Studios exist to make money. Artists can create, but they need to create films that make money, and if they don't care about their films being commercial, then they are just self indulgent. I think Terry falls into this category.
Case in point is Quixote. A marvellous and timeless story. He gets to make his film version and it's dreadful and forgotten in an instant. I doubt that he cares. He could have made a marvellous version of that story but instead just indulged himself with meaningless nonsense. I think that's really sad. He has only himself to blame for his reputation for making non- commercial films.
Isn't he a nonce tho?
Brazil was too accurate in its perception and storytelling of exactly the sort of world our “libertarian” and our investor class actually does want for all of us.
Lmfao libertarianism means limited to no government....your modern central banking and big central government national debt and budgets and incestous relationships with multinational corporate owners is the problem and that takes BIG GOVERNMENT. Read more books
Wow.
If you don't want brazil IRL then vote for trump who plans to cut government spending and power. Cutting their budget is the only way to limit government power. This is basic shit. My 5th grade kid knows this. Embarrassing
i believe the proper phrase is: MORE dumber.
The fundamental problem with Terry is that he's a straight up communist. There's a saying that "all a hammer sees are nails", which best describes his obsession with blaming capitalism for everything. And yet all his visions are expensive with a low reward possibility.
The advice is that if you want to make big-budget films, you have to sell out a bit. You can't expect producers to sell your movies if you're not thinking about selling it to the masses.
This is also a person that got his break at an extremely young age, made a bomb called jabberwocky, and spent the rest of his career feeling entitled and a victim at the same time.
A typical walking bag of contradiction.
You don't have to be a communist to see what capitalism does
wow..this makes so much sense. This is basically why everything that comes out now is a franchise, reboot, remake etc. And they ARE stupid films...
Lets hope AI will bring Hollywood down...:)
Mr. Gumby!!!!!