Synopsis
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
2009 Directed by Terry Gilliam
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
Christopher Plummer Lily Cole Heath Ledger Andrew Garfield Verne Troyer Tom Waits Johnny Depp Jude Law Colin Farrell Fraser Aitcheson Bart Anderson Patrick Bahrich Michael Bean Mark Benton Moya Brady Lisa Bunting Bobby Bysouth Wendy Carson Ben Cartwright Lorraine Cheshire Gwendoline Christie Chris Cochrane Joann Condon Erika Conway Ray Cooper Bruce Crawford D. Harlan Cutshall Simon Day Deni DeLory Show All…
Tina Maskell Bill Weston Neil Finnighan Alex Green Krista Bell Jamie Edgell Monique Ganderton George Cottle Stephanie Carey Andy Wareham Kylie Furneaux Ray De-Haan Andreas Petrides Celia Bond Maurice Lee Eli Zagoudakis Mike Vézina Jon Kralt Lou Bollo Julian Lightwing Heath Stevenson Carol Jackson Dena Fox Laszlo Juhász
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I didn’t enjoy Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus all that much, but damn it, I respect it a great deal. First, the star of the film, Heath Ledger, died tragically of a prescription drug overdose in the middle of the production. Second, at the end of principal photography, that which included three of Ledger’s friends substituting for him to complete his role, Producer William Vince succumbed to cancer. Finally, during post production, Gilliam himself was hit by a car. It’s a testament to his tenacity that he just wouldn’t let go, that he just wouldn’t give up on the movie.
I adored many things about the film; the sumptuous visual spectacle, the classic ‘deal with the devil’ conceit,…
scariest moment of my life was when tony took off his mask and i was expecting heath ledger to be underneath but instead i got johnny depp no thank u
In The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Terry Gilliam uses his signature campy surrealism for a poignant duo of goals: to autobiographically capture his own crisis as an aging storyteller, and to honor the legacy of Heath Ledger, who died midway through production. He’s a little more successful with the latter than the former.
Ledger’s friends Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell complete the late actor’s performance in absurd fantasy sequences, which Gilliam brilliantly integrates so that these substitutions actually make sense in the context of the story. The three actors all do a fine job finishing out Ledger’s final work, and never seem like they’re trying to steal the spotlight from him. Ledger’s own performance as a lovable scoundrel…
It's my 1st Terry Gilliam immerses us in the universe of our imagination, full of magic and dreams, with magnificent settings that reflect both the spirit of antiquity and modernity, and a little visual and narrative gem and its enigmatic plot .The director's dark fairytale is totally irrational in a simple, openly optimistic moral fable where every time you step into the mirror you enter a fantasy world.
I hope Heath Ledger was proud of his performance because he was phenomenal in this beautifully written story and it's a real ode to the imagination and the fact of changing face every time the main character enters the mirror I loved the idea and the appearances of Johnny Depp and Jude Law, but especially Colin Farrell to replace Ledger who unfortunately died during filming. Really sad to know it was his last film...
Heath Ledger died midway through production of Terry Gilliam’s ostentatious and bedeviled fantasy The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, principally before the director tackled the jellybean-colored fantasy sequences. Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepped in as substitutes for Ledger’s non-completed scenes, sometimes masquerading in disguise or aided by CGI to fill in for Ledger’s character. These key entrances arrive in the second half of the film.
In brief, this is a jumbled story about making improvements to a road show and negotiating a compromise with the Devil himself (Tom Waits) that follows up a long ago pact. But when a film’s opening scenes are this brash and abrasive, it can make you tune out before any of the good…