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Brazil Brazil is a serpentine story with surrealist shifts set in a bleak, retrofitted future. Sam Lowery is a low-level, paper-pusher, bureaucrat technician who fantasizes about the woman of his dreams. Lowery spots the woman of his dreams in real time and while trying to catch her ends up tangled in terrorist intrigues all because of a typo at the ministry. What is not to be loved about this dystopic black comedy? How did it end up with cult status? Gilliam is a British director who had access to American funding. The critics loved the film. Brazil won awards before it was released in theaters. So what happened? Gilliam and Universal were not on the same page. Universal thought it was hard to market the |
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film and therefore, Brazil received less attention. The advertising was weak and only a handful of theatres had showings. Also at this time such films as Back to the Future and The Color Purple were released which could have left fewer people in the audiences. Due to this self induced failure to please mass audiences, Brazil was accepted into the cult status for there were a lot of devoted fans for this dysfunctional industrial world created in Brazil. SIGNATURE LINE - ''That is your receipt for your husband...and this is my receipt for your receipt.'' |
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