The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009 Directed by Terry Gilliam
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A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
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Terry Gilliam always makes shit movies.
He made this movie.
It's shit.
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus by Terry Gilliam is a Faustian Time Bandits of sorts and, for a kids movie, it sure is thematically dark and mature. Don’t let the Tim Burton CGI and the safe, Monthy Python humor fool you, things get serious fast. The film is mostly known for Heath Ledger’s final screen appearance and the actor’s untimely death nearly puts the whole project in permanent hold. Of all the notorious production mishaps that Gilliam have faced throughout his career, this definitely takes the cake. And yet he proves once more that he’s a resilient filmmaker who’s good in a crisis, staying adaptable time and time again. Despite the tragic circumstances and the risks involved, he finds a…
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Bonkers, lovely to look at, and despite the threat of a potentially fatal production disaster, it overcomes it and makes the film better than it could have been anyway.
R.I.P Heath.
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There is something magical about this film for me. Somehow, this film captures perfectly what it feels like to be a child. It feels like, as you get older, you forget more and more how to have fun. At eighteen years, I am by no means old. But I am old enough to have forgotten what it feels like to be young, really young I mean. I'm talking about being six years old, building forts in the snow, or out of blankets, or just in your mind. The days when the box that your TV comes in is more fun than the TV itself. Or when you could run around your house for hours, and never get bored.
At its…
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Instead of giving Gilliam money to make these movies they should donate to charity.
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As a movie, it fails. The stilted dialogue, the aimless story, the jokes that fall flat. How it succeeds, and wildly, is as a metaphorical autobiography of Terry Gilliam, our own filmmaker Faustus, who knows all about difficult choices, sacrifice, and deals with devils. If you're interested in Gilliam, and know his work, you'll have much to ponder including one ballsy ending. If you're not, I'm afraid there's not much else to see. Also works a little too well as Heath Ledger's epitaph, to the point where the fact that they didn't change any of the original script becomes a bit uncanny.
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A director's tome on the power and importance of storytelling, art and creativity. A weak hypothesis, it's true, but strong results speak for themselves.
Kinda reminded me of INCEPTION.
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I love you Heath lol.
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I think I just had a stroke or something.
Heath was good, well - he seemed to be for whatever the hell was going on.
As for everything else I have no idea. Don't pretend you understood the 'message' or the theme of existentialism or imagination either unless you read up after. -
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus by Terry Gilliam is a Faustian Time Bandits of sorts and, for a kids movie, it sure is thematically dark and mature. Don’t let the Tim Burton CGI and the safe, Monthy Python humor fool you, things get serious fast. The film is mostly known for Heath Ledger’s final screen appearance and the actor’s untimely death nearly puts the whole project in permanent hold. Of all the notorious production mishaps that Gilliam have faced throughout his career, this definitely takes the cake. And yet he proves once more that he’s a resilient filmmaker who’s good in a crisis, staying adaptable time and time again. Despite the tragic circumstances and the risks involved, he finds a…
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Bizarre and wonderful, the way the actors were interchanged was excellent.
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Algo faltó. O sobró. No sé.
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On Jan 21st, my wife had just finished having surgery. In her hospital recovery room, she was trying to relax so I decided to put the TV on to see what was playing. It was a news program and when we saw what they were reporting, the air left the room. That’s how we found out about Heath Ledger’s untimely death. At that time, the Dark Knight had yet to come out to blow us all away and reinforce that we had lost a major talent that was really starting to come into his own. Then we heard about the project he was on when he passed. Terry Gilliam always has had a history of troubled productions so to hear…
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I am a big fan of Terry Gilliam and appreciate his other more-out-there works like The Adventures of Baron Munchausen but I did not enjoy nor appreciate this film. A lot of people saw it because it was Heath Ledgers last film and I'm sure they were even more disappointed by it as he doesn't have much charisma or flair. I was very intrigued at the beginning but it doesn't captivate the imagination...or attention...like it should have. It just turned into an incredibly CGI'd mess.
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Ich will diesen Film vorerst mal nicht bewerten. Zumindest ich habe den Film nicht komplett verstanden und muss ihn wohl noch mindestens 2x schauen, bis ich da durchblicke.
Die interessante Tatsache, dass Heath Ledger während den Dreharbeiten verstorben und durch prominente Schauspieler ersetzt wurde fiel zumindest mir nicht sehr deutlich auf.