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The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 127: Brazil (1985)
🕑 Added 2025-03-04 00:10:41 +0000 UTCWe're kicking off our month of Weird-Ass Dystopian Cities with Terry Gilliam's classic satirical nightmare, Brazil! Join us as we pick apart this strange world of failing systems and bureaucratic ass-covering that holds absolutely no similarity to the real world in which we live. Heh. Heh.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 127: Brazil (1985)
(00:00:11) - Intro.
(00:01:47) - Our movie this week: Terry Gilliam's Brazil! But which version?!?
(00:06:11) - A cinematic Rosetta Stone.
(00:17:26) - Our respective attachments to various Gilliam and Monty Python things.
(00:21:35) - Was this movie successful? Also, digging into the production.
(00:28:04) - Our star-studded cast.
(00:37:40) - An intro of exploding televisions and ruinous clerical errors.
(00:43:40) - The dreams of Sam Lowry.
(00:47:31) - Untangling the web of responsibility for the Buttle/Tuttle affair.
(00:52:01) - Break!
(00:52:28) - We're back, and it's time to stretch some flesh.
(00:58:24) - HVAC anarchy.
(01:03:46) - Sam decides to make a house call.
(01:10:14) - Central Services gets revenge.
(01:16:17) - A Christmas party full of demons.
(01:19:26) - Welcome to Information Retrieval.
(01:22:49) - The Lint reveal.
(01:27:07) - Sam can't stop running into his dream woman.
(01:35:06) - Sam has had enough.
(01:41:50) - A post-coital SWAT raid.
(01:50:05) - A jailbreak in the cooling tower, and things go off the rails.
(01:55:27) - The funeral of the seeping woman, and all is not as it seems.
(01:59:59) - Final thoughts.
(02:06:26) - Our film for next week: Walter Hill's The Warriors!
(02:09:48) - Outro.
Comments
Quinn
I think it's really necessary to see the balance of satire and commentary. It's satirizing fascistic bureaucracy because those things are inherently dumb. I think this move works incredibly well.
girlbiter
Iβd argue Brazil was more influenced by Kafkaβs The Trial than 1984 but that is just me βπ€
GrumpyGrizz
What a strange movie. I watched it for the first time ever last night. And I am not sure what to think. I think it drips with style and awesome retro/future tech. But I donβt think itβs a good movie personally. Iβm looking forward to listening to the episode to find out where you guys came out on it.
