Terry Gilliam
5 titles · american genre
A clerical error kills the wrong man and a bureaucrat spends Brazil trying to correct the paperwork, in a country where ducts run through every room and torture is billed to the victim's family. Retro-futurist clutter fills the frame: too much set, wide lenses, everything tilted. The dreamers get crushed by procedure with reliable consistency. Twelve Monkeys sends a prisoner back through time to a plague he cannot prevent and lets him be wrong about what he is remembering.
Signature
- Wide-angle distortion and frames crowded to the edges.
- Retro-futurist production design assembled from junk.
- Bureaucracy as the true antagonist.
- Fantasists whose imagination does not save them.
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Lineage
Earlier films these works draw on, and the films they went on to shape — each link checked to name a film that actually came first.