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Summary: Revised edition from Applause Books
Review: The author has updated this 1987 book with fresh interviews, historical perspective, and with previously unpublished details. Publication date for the new edition from Applause Books is August, 1998.
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Summary: If it's about Gilliam it's got to be good
Review: This is a great book about the troubles of releasing the movie Brazil for Universal Pictures. It's much more sympathetic than Andrew Yules Losing the light which is another fine book. It includes the screenplay which is a bonus.
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Summary: The fight to get Brazil away from Sid
Review: This is an updated, revised, expanded version of the 1986 book by the same author. (Same title, too.)It's really good, covering the fight to release the director's cut of the film. The villain is Sid Sheinberg, one of the executives at Universal. Sid says he doesn't want to change Gilliam's movie, but he wants to change the end. Changing the end changes the whole POINT of the film. So Sid pretended that the battle is over the length of the movie. He tried to get between the producer (Arnon Milchan) and Gilliam. He sort of succeeded, too. Then the LA critics chose Brazil as the movie of the year, even though it hadn't been released. (The author was one of those critics.) That move raised the stakes much higher, and ultimately led to Gilliam's victory.
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Summary: A look at Hollywood and a talented director
Review: What went into the release of Brazil is a fascinating look into how Hollywood operates and the lack of respect they have for the makers of movies and the audince that pays to watch the movies. A fascinating look at the "dumbing down" of movies and why it is so.
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Summary: A look at Hollywood and a talented director
Review: What went into the release of Brazil is a fascinating look into how Hollywood operates and the lack of respect they have for the makers of movies and the audince that pays to watch the movies. A fascinating look at the "dumbing down" of movies and why it is so.
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Summary: A Good Book
Review: When I was a little kid my favorite story was David and Golaith. I especially liked the part where David cuts the giants head off at the end. THE BATTLE FOR BRAZIL isn't exactly a story of biblical proportions. But it is a war worth reading about. Jack Mathew's book chronicles the creative and business side of one of the strangest films ever made. The book is an act of life imitating art and exposes the deep flaws in the Hollywood system, and the subborness of the little man who won't give up. Read the book and see the movie. You'll be really glad you did.
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Summary: A Good Book
Review: When I was a little kid my favorite story was David and Golaith. I especially liked the part where David cuts the giants head off at the end. THE BATTLE FOR BRAZIL isn't exactly a story of biblical proportions. But it is a war worth reading about. Jack Mathew's book chronicles the creative and business side of one of the strangest films ever made. The book is an act of life imitating art and exposes the deep flaws in the Hollywood system, and the subborness of the little man who won't give up. Read the book and see the movie. You'll be really glad you did.
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