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What movie is this?

  • 06-04-2005 3:44pm
    #1
    corblimey
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    A man walks along a street. The winds starts to get up and a loose sheet of newspaper gets stuck to his leg. He pulls it off but another piece sticks to his arm. As he goes to take that off, more pieces get stuck to him until he's completely covered in newspaper.

    Then either the wind dies down or someone comes along. Either way, the paper falls away and the man is gone!

    Anyone know what movie this is? It's about 20 years since I saw this scene and I wouldn't mind seeing the rest of the movie.


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  • #2
    monkeyfudge
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    It's Brazil by Terry Gilliam.

    The man would have been Robert DeNiro.


  • #3
    corblimey
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    Cheers, monkeyfudge. I don't fancy my chances of renting that down Xtravision.


  • #4
    Goodshape
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    Very good show. Shouldn't be too hard to buy on DVD - a nice Criterion edition came out not so long ago.


  • #5
    monkeyfudge
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    You might get lucky. I've certainly seen far more obscure films in Xtravision.

    play.com have it for £6.99 here

    It's a very good film. Well worth owning.


  • #6
    monkeyfudge
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    Goodshape wrote:
    Very good show. Shouldn't be too hard to buy on DVD - a nice Criterion edition came out not so long ago.
    Yeah. The Criterion edition sounds interesting. Doesn't it have as an extra feature the cut of the film that the studio wanted on it...

    The studio didn't want to release Brazil the way Gilliam wanted it.

    So I'd say the studio version could be very funny to watch.


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  • #7
    Goodshape
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    Yea. Actually, I'm not sure it got released over here (the Criterion edition that is). My copy is region one and comes with three discs - the directors cut of the film, the studio cut of the film (about 40mins shorter and edited so much that it's quite a different story) and another disc with a fair few documentarys.

    Plus commentary on both versions of the film. Well worth picking up if you get the chance.


  • #8
    KdjaCL
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    On sky movies classic 2 @ 11pm tonight.

    But i sure when you read this tomorrow it mean nothing :D


    /its actually always on.

    kdjac


  • #9
    solo1
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    Terry Gilliam has a gift all right. Only Terry Gilliam could cast Robert deNiro in a small role as a renegade terrorist plumber and get away with it. Only Terry Gilliam could make a movie based on a large part of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" the same year that John Hurt and Richard Burton star in the far more literal (and hence not as good) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and get away with it.

    and so on.


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