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(Some Patsy) Followup Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote project is stalled yet again. If only there were a metaphor involving the futility of the project involving windmills that could be used   (digitalspy.com) divider line 41
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Any Pie Left
2010-09-06 10:23:08 AM
God hates Cervantes.

You MUST watch the documentary of how this project failed, as tfa says, it is called: Lost In LaMancha. Farking epic.
 
wee [TotalFark]
2010-09-06 11:04:21 AM
"If only there were a metaphor involving windmills that could be used to describe the futility of the project."

Unless, of course, you really meant that the project involving windmills was futile. Either way, I guess.
 
supichoo [TotalFark]
2010-09-06 12:03:07 PM
Lost in La Mancha 2
 
Julieahni
2010-09-06 12:39:23 PM
It's Terry Gilliam's holy grail.
 
Lampmonster
2010-09-06 04:32:39 PM
They just made a DQ movie. It was called Defendor.
 
The All-Powerful Atheismo
2010-09-06 04:33:12 PM
Julieahni: It's Terry Gilliam's holy grail.

It's Gilliam's 27b-6
 
Das Kiwizoid
2010-09-06 04:34:44 PM
Lampmonster: They just made a DQ movie. It was called Defendor.

Hah! I hadn't thought about it that way.
 
The All-Powerful Atheismo
2010-09-06 04:40:30 PM
Lampmonster: They just made a DQ movie.

Yeah but it wasn't as good as the Tasty Freeze movie
 
Lampmonster
2010-09-06 04:53:35 PM
Das Kiwizoid: Lampmonster: They just made a DQ movie. It was called Defendor.

Hah! I hadn't thought about it that way.

It's a fantastic movie either way. I just thought there were some great nods to Don in the characters and the results of their actions.
 
swahnhennessy
2010-09-06 04:55:58 PM
The man is cursed.
 
KatjaMouse
2010-09-06 06:26:39 PM
What surprises me is that he seems to make a movie every few years and although their not hits he still gets backing and has no or little trouble with distribution. So what the hell is up with the gotdamn Cervantes?
 
gamacrit
2010-09-06 06:41:21 PM
I'm a little short right now Terry, otherwise, I'd front you the cash.
 
Trocadero
2010-09-06 06:44:49 PM
To dreeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmm, the impossible dreeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmm...

To fight the unbeatable fooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

To riiiiiiiiiiggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhttttt the unrightable wroooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnngggggggggg...
 
Gangway Fathead
2010-09-06 07:21:11 PM
Brazil remains in my top 10. I love several of his other films and I admire his vision and determination, but it seems like he's been standing still for 15 years now.

He should take a break from his usual sturm und drang and make something on the scale of Fisher King again.

Yeah, I went there.
 
Dwight_Yeast
2010-09-06 07:30:54 PM
Any Pie Left: God hates Cervantes.

You MUST watch the documentary of how this project failed, as tfa says, it is called: Lost In LaMancha. Farking epic.

Terry's not the only one who failed. Orson Welles failed making a Don Quixote film decades ago.
 
Obnox
2010-09-06 07:36:24 PM
Duvall is a good actor, don't get me wrong, but he seems like a piss-poor substitute for Jean Rochefort. Is Rochefort too old and infirm? In Lost in La Mancha, Gilliam sounded like no one but Rochefort could play the part, and I came to almost agree with him.

/the flood in that movie was epic
 
HighZoolander [TotalFark]
2010-09-06 07:53:11 PM
"If only there were a metaphor involving windmills..."

Don't grind your grain before it's hatched?
 
Six_By_Nine
2010-09-06 08:19:52 PM
Gangway Fathead: Brazil remains in my top 10. I love several of his other films and I admire his vision and determination, but it seems like he's been standing still for 15 years now.

He should take a break from his usual sturm und drang and make something on the scale of Fisher King again.

Yeah, I went there.

I don't disagree with you. Dude has had such problems, and though I really like his work, I do think that he himself is part of the problem. He might just have one of those personalities that pisses people off that nobody's willing to grease a few wheels on his behalf.

It might be to his benefit to do something more mainstream, something more optimistic, and maybe it will allow a few more doors to open.
 
browneye [TotalFark]
2010-09-06 08:31:15 PM
Poor Terry. He had the worse luck in making movies.
 
Dwight_Yeast
2010-09-06 08:45:20 PM
browneye: Poor Terry. He had the worse luck in making movies.

I think Werner Herzog still has him beat with Fitzcarraldo: Jason Robard quit half-way through, Mick Jagger got sick, he had to deal with Klaus Kinski at his looniest, one of the workers cut off his leg with a chainsaw, another died of a snakebite, they were under constant threat from revolutionaries and smugglers and they still managed to drag a steamship over a mountain and finish the farking film.

/If you like Lost in La Mancha, you have to see The Burden of Dreams.
 
Obnox
2010-09-06 08:58:31 PM
Dwight_Yeast: /If you like Lost in La Mancha, you have to see The Burden of Dreams.

Ah, they have it on Netflix instant, along with Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World. Cooooool.
 
browneye [TotalFark]
2010-09-06 09:12:45 PM
browneye: Poor Terry. He had the worse luck in making movies.

Dwight_Yeast: I think Werner Herzog still has him beat with Fitzcarraldo: Jason Robard quit half-way through, Mick Jagger got sick, he had to deal with Klaus Kinski at his looniest, one of the workers cut off his leg with a chainsaw, another died of a snakebite, they were under constant threat from revolutionaries and smugglers and they still managed to drag a steamship over a mountain and finish the farking film.

Yeah, but the difference is that Gilliam isn't trying - either figuratively or literally - to drag a streamship over a mountain. He's just trying to make movies and keeps running into bad luck in the process.

Herzog, on the other hand, is just farkin' insane - insane enough literately drag a steamship over a mountain. Or to threaten to shot an actor and then himself if that actor left the set, as he allegedly did to Klaus Kinski on the set of Aguirre, the Wrath of God.
 
Dwight_Yeast
2010-09-06 09:24:03 PM
browneye: Herzog, on the other hand, is just farkin' insane - insane enough literately drag a steamship over a mountain. Or to threaten to shot an actor and then himself if that actor left the set, as he allegedly did to Klaus Kinski on the set of Aguirre, the Wrath of God.

That reminds me: Herzog's My Best Fiend is also awesome; it's a valentine to Klaus, and Herzog doesn't try to hide the fact that he was/is almost as much of an asshole as Kinski was.

/Loves Herzog
//And Gilliam
 
E_Henry_Thripshaws_Disease
2010-09-06 09:31:06 PM
if only George Harrison were still around to give him $$
 
John Buck 41 [TotalFark]
2010-09-06 10:47:18 PM
KatjaMouse: What surprises me is that he seems to make a movie every few years and although their not hits they suck as a rule * he still gets backing and has no or little trouble with distribution.

He must have pix of every Hollywood CEO farking a sheep.

* Holy Grail being the lone exception
 
Dwight_Yeast
2010-09-06 10:56:33 PM
John Buck 41: He must have pix of every Hollywood CEO farking a sheep.

If that were the case, he'd have made many more movies by this point; he spends most of his life trying to line up funding for projects which never get off the ground.

Michale Bay is a man who has pictures of studio execs with sheep.
 
Stile4aly
2010-09-06 10:59:48 PM
John Buck 41: KatjaMouse: What surprises me is that he seems to make a movie every few years and although their not hits they suck as a rule * he still gets backing and has no or little trouble with distribution.

He must have pix of every Hollywood CEO farking a sheep.

* Holy Grail being the lone exception

Brazil and 12 Monkeys at a minimum prove you wrong.

Not to mention Baron Munchausen, Fear and Loathing, and The Fisher King.
 
John Buck 41 [TotalFark]
2010-09-06 11:00:58 PM
Dwight_Yeast: John Buck 41: He must have pix of every Hollywood CEO farking a sheep.

If that were the case, he'd have made many more movies by this point; he spends most of his life trying to line up funding for projects which never get off the ground.

Michale Bay is a man who has pictures of studio execs with sheep.

Who is this Michale Bay you speak of?
 
Dwight_Yeast
2010-09-06 11:01:55 PM
John Buck 41: Who is this Michale Bay you speak of?

He's my secretary, and a shiatty typist.
 
Marshal805
2010-09-07 12:07:17 AM
Stile4aly: John Buck 41: KatjaMouse: What surprises me is that he seems to make a movie every few years and although their not hits they suck as a rule * he still gets backing and has no or little trouble with distribution.

He must have pix of every Hollywood CEO farking a sheep.

* Holy Grail being the lone exception

Brazil and 12 Monkeys at a minimum prove you wrong.

Not to mention Baron Munchausen, Fear and Loathing, and The Fisher King.

Baron Munchasen bombed when it first came out.
 
R-pac
2010-09-07 12:13:43 AM
Tough to aim any higher than this

images.amazon.com

Bad hotlinker...bad
 
jn1512
2010-09-07 12:16:10 AM
I reccommend you see The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. It really is great film and Lily Cole is soooooooooooooooooo gorgeous.
 
TF2_Pyro
2010-09-07 12:32:28 AM
Any Pie Left: You MUST watch the documentary of how this project failed, as tfa says, it is called: Lost In LaMancha. Farking epic.

I'm curious to know if important details were cut out to skew the view on the documentary, but there is still a lot to show just how much can go wrong on a set. It is on a list of "Must watch" films, in my opinion.
 
jennyz
2010-09-07 12:32:45 AM
Poor guy can't catch a break.

/Imaginarium was farking awesome for all the problems it had, though.
 
R.P.M.
2010-09-07 01:56:32 AM
Stile4aly: Fear and Loathing, and The Fisher King.

i always forget that he did these.

Brazil and all the "Monty Python" movies were mandatory watching from my Father, so Gilliam will always get a pass by me. i feel bad that almost every movie he does has so much trouble.
 
mat catastrophe
2010-09-07 06:50:14 AM
If I ever win the lottery, I am writing Mr. Gilliam a personal check to cover the costs of finishing this movie.
 
MessyDwarf
2010-09-07 07:45:28 AM
For the love of god man, just animate the movie please.
 
Dwight_Yeast
2010-09-07 09:07:56 AM
Marshal805: Baron Munchasen bombed when it first came out.

...and box-office success is no indication of quality. Your point?
 
KatjaMouse
2010-09-07 09:42:26 AM
jn1512: I reccommend you see The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. It really is great film and Lily Cole is soooooooooooooooooo gorgeous.

I want to back this statement up. BF and I rented this over the weekend and we both really liked it. We also thought that they resolved the lack of Heath Ledger quite elegantly.
 
Rokoh
2010-09-07 10:00:56 AM
DONKEY HOTEY
 
theorellior [TotalFark]
2010-09-07 12:23:59 PM
Rokoh: DONKEY HOTEY

Donkey Oaty. Get it right.
 
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