"I swear that these kinds of movies are what my dreams are made of" might be the best and most sincere piece of movie reviewing I've ever heard. What a beautiful reaction to a unique film!
You should look for the 1943 version that UFA under Goebells made. I think there's a copy of it on youtube with English subtitles. They were trying their best to make the German populace have something super escapist to take their minds off of the war and if you can leave behind the fact that it was in Nazi Germany by Nazi's it's great. There's really no way you could tell if you didn't know. It's just a great movie. There's a bunch of it that Terry Gilliam straight lifted from that version for his version. Anyway, highly recommend. FWIW.
@@shawn6669 actually the UFA version was a response to both The American film "The Wizard of Oz" and the British film "The Thief of Bagdad", both being super impressive fantasy films that pushed the boundaries of film making. Goebbels had seen them and like a good little Nazi, set out to show them how the Master Race did this better than anyone... especially the Americans and the English. The source material comes from the real Baron Munchausen and a man who had met him in their youth at University plus much older source material in Germanic tales and fables. There was an American cartoon character called Commander McBragg who was a riff on the Baron, who would recount fantastically ridiculous adventures from his life. But the UFA version is fun, Gilliam's is better, and I saw it on TCM some years ago. If you get a chance, check it out.
I was so happy to do a search for reactions to this wonderful movie and find yours. It's one of my favorite movies, and one that I've seen more than any other in the theater due to our local theater putting it in double features for a number of weeks with other movies that I also wanted to see. I'd go see the other movie, then stay for a rewatch of Baron Munchausen. The whole story of the movie is the conflict between wonder and reason, with the Baron as the champion of wonder and the official - the Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson - as the champion of reason (of course while being completely illogical throughout). Which one is in ascendancy physically affects the Baron. When reason prevails, he is old and frail, but when wonder is ascendant, he is young and vibrant. When both are in competition, he is somewhere in between. This is why the official is so upset when the Baron defeats the Sultan - enough to kill him - because it was the victory of wonder at the expense of reason. But it is when wonder is at its zenith that the Baron's powers are at their greatest, when he can do things like take an entire crowd from a stage play into the reality it portrayed, or ride a cannonball, or pull himself and his horse up by his own ponytail, or lower down from the moon by cutting rope from the top (until someone starts to doubt him by being rational, at which point the magic fails). It may even be his belief in them that allows his companions to do their amazing feats. He doesn't want doctors because doctors were the peak of rationality and science. Left on his own, he would recover from such minor wounds, but doctors, they would cancel his powers, and kill him. One touch that a lot of people miss (I did the first few times) is that when Sally sees Death hovering over the Baron and throws the candles at it, causing it to burst into flame, what is left behind is a painted stage curtain - a prop - with Death painted on it, and it is that which caught fire. This may be one of the few times when reason being slightly ascendant works in the Baron's favor, as it replaced something wondrous but terrifying with something completely mundane. Robin Williams is not officially in this movie. If you look at the credits, low down on the list is the King of the Moon ("Rei di Tutto, but you may call me Ray"), who according to the credits was played by Ray D. Tutto.
Yes! Been wishing for people to react to this one for ages. So happy someone finally did! This is the reason you're everyone's favourite Scottish lass.
'The Fisher King' is an awesome Gilliam movie that you should definitely watch, Dawn. By the way, I discovered you way back because you reacted to '12 Angry Men'... you're bloody brilliant!! And your childlike humour is so endearing 🤭
A sometimes forgotten Terry Gilliam movie that is quite good is The Fisher King with Robin Williams. It's slightly less mad than some of his other movies but it's still very good.
The only person to do a reaction to this film, and the right person to do it. The next Gilliam movie you should put in your radar is "Brazil" directors cut only, Gilliam's opus dystopian dark comedy. Best Dystopian future movie ever!
The Adventures of the Baron Munchausen ties with Time Bandits for my favorite Terry Gilliam film, followed immediately by Jabberwocky. It's also one of the weirdest uncredited Robin Williams' roles and one of Uma Thurman's earliest roles. It's a fantastically odd movie that just warms my heart every time I watch it.
The horse, Bucephalus, was named after Alexander the Great's horse which is very famous. Bucephalus was said to be a huge black horse with a white star and blue eyes. According to stories about Alexander he was considered to be untameable, until Alexander did so. He was Alexander's favourite charger and the horse he rode into numerous battles.
Out of all of Terry Gilliam's movies (which I adore in their entirety,) this is by far my favorite. The parallels between this movie and another of my absolute favorites, BIG FISH, are undeniable.
Snuff is just tobacco that has been ground finely enough that you can snort bumps of it as you might cocaine etc. It's a faster more intense hit of nicotine. And yes, it definitely makes you sneeze (and have brown snot).
It's not always very fine powdered actually. In Bavaria and Austria a variant is common (or 'was' .. its dying out slowly) named 'Schmalzler' that is not extremely fine powdered and a tad oily (Schmalz is lard which was added, today some sort of oil is used) .
Snuff is powdered tobacco. In modern times it is used for chewing tobacco (though that’s usually shredded rather than powdered), but at this point in history it was used to provoke in the user the pleasant [sic] sensation of sneezing. To hide the dark stains, handkerchiefs were made of brown material during this period.
Sneezing is part of the experience but its more about the nicotine being absorbed by the mucus tissue in the nose ... it's a smokeless alternative to smoking.
I'm told that this is meant to be part of a loose trilogy on imagination through life. Where "Time Bandits" = childhood, "Brazil" = middle age, and "Baron Munchausen" = old age.
@@KrazyKat007 You are incorrect. From Wikipedia - "Gilliam says he used to think of his films in terms of trilogies, starting with Time Bandits. The "Trilogy of Imagination", written by Gilliam, about "the ages of man", consisted of Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). All are about the "craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible."[16] All three films focus on these struggles and attempts to escape them through imagination: Time Bandits through the eyes of a child, Brazil through the eyes of a man in his thirties, and Munchausen through the eyes of an elderly man. In the summer of 1986, he cut ties with Arnon Milchan and 20th Century Fox and started directing Munchausen through his own new Prominent Films banner independently.[17]"
This movie is incredible, and it led directly to Terry Giliam's movie masterpiece, "Brazil." It's the most visually stunning movie I've ever seen, and I am so glad to have seen it when it first came out in a movie theater. Brazil has been described as "Monty Python does George Orwell's '1984.'" It also features Michael Palin!
The heroic soldier at 3:34 was played by Sting. Venus was played by a young Uma Thurman, in one of her first roles. Jonathan Pryce (Horatio Jackson) was also in Terry Gilliam's film Brazil.
If you like Terry Gilliam, there are two French films that you really should watch. "Delicatessen" from 1991 and "The City of Lost Children" from 1995. They are both slightly anarchistic fun, fantastic scenographies, rich in detail and simply amazing.
"I'm excited! We're going on adventures," Just how I feel when I watch this film. So much fun. Definitely towards the top of my list of favorites. "It makes me happy," I'm sure there are other theories but I think Munchausen was a powerful bard who wove a spell through his story telling that defeated the enemy. Cheers.
No one does medieval-gothic surreal fantasy like Terry Gilliam. Fine perforrmance from the late great John Neville and delicious support from Robin Williams, Oliver Reed, Eric Idle, Charles McKeown and others, and wasn't young Sarah Polley terrific as Sally? The character has a long history in film and literature and first appeared in a 1785 novel by German author Rupert Raspe, based on a famed but rather fanciful boastful adventurer he actually knew. I read that Gilliam spent considerable time and energy feuding with the studio producers to achieve the vision he wanted. To me, a marvellous and memorable film. Trust our Dawn to bring it back to us.
I remember a movie review when this came out that commented on what was then the astronomical $100 million budget for this film, saying: "with a lot of big budget movie you wonder what all that money could have possible gone to. With this movie, you see every color that they spent."
Absolutely No One has reacted to "Popeye" 1980 Robin Williams as Popeye, Shelley Duvall (The Shining, and Time Bandits) as Olive OIL. Be the First. please, please, please, please, please.. :) love your flick reactions.
I can't believe you ( or anyone for that matter ) are reacting to this. It is so little known but it is one of my favorites. A truly unique adventure story, unlike anything else. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
27:37 It's a famous picture of her emerging from the water - she basically formed out of Uranus's genitals being thrown into a specific part of the sea and arrived on shore either on a dolphin or in a sea-shell or just standing on water fully naked in what was basically the worlds first 'Hello boys'. She's a goddess, she can basically do whatever she wants She was married to Hepheastus/Vulcan and like most of the gods and goddesses cheated on him, with a few people but most famously with Ares/Mars the god of war. Hephaestus literally caught them in a net - made out of gold, thin as a spiders web so you could only see it if you really looked but strong so they couldn't just break themselves out of it.
Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron von Münchhausen (Bodenwerder, 11 May 1720 - ibid., 22 February 1797), was a German baron who in his youth was a page to Anton Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and later enlisted in the Russian Army. He served there until 1750 and took part in two military campaigns against the Turks. Upon his return home he probably told several incredible stories about his adventures. From these amazing and fictional exploits-which included riding a cannonball, traveling to the Moon, and pulling himself out of a swamp by his own ponytail-1 Rudolf Erich Raspe, a German librarian, scientist, and writer, created a literary character who was somewhere between extraordinary and antihero, sometimes comic and buffoonish, and sometimes inspiring some pity: Baron Munchausen (a common spelling of the literary character's name in Spanish, influenced by English transliteration). This character is a recognized myth of children's literature, heir among many to Don Quixote and Gulliver's Travels, with a philosophical message radically opposed to the prevailing rationalism of the time. It is not clear how much of Raspe's material comes directly from his relationship with the real-life baron. He probably met him at the University of Göttingen, where he studied law and jurisprudence, but most of the stories are from older sources.
A fever dream of a movie... and it is marvelous. Since the last time i saw this movie a few years ago, I saw a video about one of the first ever sci fi stories from 125AD... and i just realized how the much the Moon bit must have been inspired by it, its got giant vulture mounts at least. "I still see a nipple"... and thank god for that.
You should watch "Eric the Viking"! It's directed by the other Terry and has John Cleese and Terry Jones in it (as well as him directing). My 2c. Cheers! S.
Thanks so much for watching this. There are next to no reactions to it. And not sure why. It's such a unique, well-done movie that idk how it didn't become an instant iconic classic. I guess some greats just slip through the cracks sometimes. Also that's Sting at 3:33. The musical great and my favorite solo artist.
Not sure why either. The movie is bonkers, but it's so well done and enjoyable. I actually saw this in the theater as a kid. This is also one of Uma Thurman's first movies too. She plays Venus/the pretty woman in the cast. For Dawn: As far as the end, the Turks did not abandon their camp, they were defeated. The blend between story and reality is pretty fuzzy. I love at the start when it pans from the stage to the Sultan's palace in one shot. So what we see as the play actually happens. The sea monster is the fish from the beginning, etc.
@@boomieboo True. That bizarrness is, however, something relatively few viewers find agreeable, compared to many oher traits and quirks of movies, so that might explain some part of why this film did not make quite as much of a splash.
As a German I loved the stories of Münchhausen als child.... and as adult I love this movie soooo much... every cast is perfect....There exist in some place an animated serie of his shotstories... perhaps you should seek it and try it....
This film is whimsical, odd, beautiful. I love this film. Now in era of CGI this film looks somehow better with its special effects. I do love Robin Williams in this.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassas is recommended and very much in the style. Sadly it is the film where Heath Ledger died in the middle of the production.
Interestingly there is a Psychological condition Called "Munchausen by Proxy" that was named after the main character in this story. It is based on a story by Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 1785 book " Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia.
Perhaps you will like Yellowbeard, a comedy pirate movie starring three members of Monty Python plus some Mel Brooks actors and other stars you might recognize.
I don't know why but I was thinking about this movie, particularly the scene where the good sight guy vs the the ears guy get old and help each other. Such a cool coincidence!
The real character in the movie is an old man and he's telling his adventures in the first person, exactly like the character in the book. As the audience listens to the stories, they enter into the fantasy...so you're seeing the old man and you're seeing him in the story...that's where it seems to flip back and forth between reality and fantasy. At the end, he's an old man and the movie dips back into reality...until he disappears as a young man. You get left with this "Is this character real or a fantasy, and which one is more important to me?" In a way it's like seeing an actor portray a real person doing incredible feats, like James Bond or Jason Bourne or Superman or Batman...nobody is that good, but we all want to be.
That's three of my recomendations already viewed then.. Jabberwocky, Twelve Monkeys and Brazil. Ok, some more that involve the Python lot... Clockwise (John Cleese), Fear and loathing in Las Vegas (filmed by Terry Gilliam), Ripping Yarns (TV series starring Michael Palin), and Yellowbeard (Graham Chapman, Eric Idle and John Cleese, along with Nigel Planer and numerous others).
My parents owned the laserdisc (pre-DVD physical media) of this, so I watched it as a kid multiple times before the age of 10. Until I rewatched it recently, I had forgotten most of the plot, but quite a bit of the imagery and set pieces really stuck with me all these years: especially Robin Williams and the moon sequence, Uma Thurman as Venus 😍, and the angel of death, to name a few. Such a wild and bold movie. Stylistic filmmaking like this just doesn’t get made anymore.
Again, I have never seen this film before, however, based on your previous edits of films I know well, good lord, you really do know what you’re doing. I am appreciative and jealous in equal measure. There is a reason this channel is better than most. Stellar content. Thank you.
Terry Gilliam filmed this in Italy as suggested by other directors. It is less expensive to film there. He said it was a very difficult shoot. The language barrier and less "structured" studio system made for some very long days. Great director, great film. Time Bandits, Brazil and Baron are an unspoken trilogy of sorts. All deal with hopes and dreams being unfulfilled and a flight into fantasy. I love Brazil but this is the best IMO.
It actually ended up being way more costly to shoot in Italy beca of the rampant corruption and various Italian executives pocketing money and bilking the production every chance they got. When all was said and done, it actually would have been cheaper to shoot in Pinewood Studios in London.
the scene with the naked lady in the giant oyster shell (Venus) is taken from a renowned painting entitled "The Birth Of Venus" by Botticelli (late 1400's)
I love this movie. My brother and I saw this in the cinema and he didn't have the same reaction. "He's old, he's young, he's old, he's dead, he's alive..." I bought the book, Losing the Light and the making of this movie was fascinating and frustrating at the same time. Brilliant score, too.
Why does she need to choose either of those films over this one? And she’s exploring everything branching off the tree of Monty Python so she will get to those at some point.
@@lewismaddox4132The Fisher King is definitely a movie more reaction channels need to do. Most reaction channels neglect this Munchausen movie as well.
"What is THIS?!" That is Gilliam's hommage to the famous painting "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli, (bonus trivia: for several years it was used by Adobe for their program Illustrator) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus
I saw this when I was 7 years old. I saw it 10 or so times in the theater. It got me interested in stage plays which is what I did all through school and university. The costumes, the settings, and dear god, the casting, all just perfect! Uma is so young but looks so lovely in her two roles.
"I swear that these kinds of movies are what my dreams are made of" might be the best and most sincere piece of movie reviewing I've ever heard. What a beautiful reaction to a unique film!
This is still my favorite of Terry Gilliam's movies. It's just so delightfully odd, and, fantastical.
I sent a friend to the theater to watch it for me and he enjoyed it a lot. I suffer from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Proxy syndrome.
You should look for the 1943 version that UFA under Goebells made. I think there's a copy of it on youtube with English subtitles. They were trying their best to make the German populace have something super escapist to take their minds off of the war and if you can leave behind the fact that it was in Nazi Germany by Nazi's it's great. There's really no way you could tell if you didn't know. It's just a great movie. There's a bunch of it that Terry Gilliam straight lifted from that version for his version. Anyway, highly recommend. FWIW.
@@shawn6669 actually the UFA version was a response to both The American film "The Wizard of Oz" and the British film "The Thief of Bagdad", both being super impressive fantasy films that pushed the boundaries of film making. Goebbels had seen them and like a good little Nazi, set out to show them how the Master Race did this better than anyone... especially the Americans and the English. The source material comes from the real Baron Munchausen and a man who had met him in their youth at University plus much older source material in Germanic tales and fables. There was an American cartoon character called Commander McBragg who was a riff on the Baron, who would recount fantastically ridiculous adventures from his life. But the UFA version is fun, Gilliam's is better, and I saw it on TCM some years ago. If you get a chance, check it out.
I was so happy to do a search for reactions to this wonderful movie and find yours. It's one of my favorite movies, and one that I've seen more than any other in the theater due to our local theater putting it in double features for a number of weeks with other movies that I also wanted to see. I'd go see the other movie, then stay for a rewatch of Baron Munchausen.
The whole story of the movie is the conflict between wonder and reason, with the Baron as the champion of wonder and the official - the Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson - as the champion of reason (of course while being completely illogical throughout). Which one is in ascendancy physically affects the Baron. When reason prevails, he is old and frail, but when wonder is ascendant, he is young and vibrant. When both are in competition, he is somewhere in between. This is why the official is so upset when the Baron defeats the Sultan - enough to kill him - because it was the victory of wonder at the expense of reason. But it is when wonder is at its zenith that the Baron's powers are at their greatest, when he can do things like take an entire crowd from a stage play into the reality it portrayed, or ride a cannonball, or pull himself and his horse up by his own ponytail, or lower down from the moon by cutting rope from the top (until someone starts to doubt him by being rational, at which point the magic fails). It may even be his belief in them that allows his companions to do their amazing feats.
He doesn't want doctors because doctors were the peak of rationality and science. Left on his own, he would recover from such minor wounds, but doctors, they would cancel his powers, and kill him.
One touch that a lot of people miss (I did the first few times) is that when Sally sees Death hovering over the Baron and throws the candles at it, causing it to burst into flame, what is left behind is a painted stage curtain - a prop - with Death painted on it, and it is that which caught fire. This may be one of the few times when reason being slightly ascendant works in the Baron's favor, as it replaced something wondrous but terrifying with something completely mundane.
Robin Williams is not officially in this movie. If you look at the credits, low down on the list is the King of the Moon ("Rei di Tutto, but you may call me Ray"), who according to the credits was played by Ray D. Tutto.
I never thought I'd see anyone react to this. You just earned my sub.
You'll love "Brazil", Dawn. One of Terry Gilliam's best films and nominated for a couple of Oscars... both of which it should have won.
Brazil is my personal fav. I think it's even more biting than 1984. Master of satire.
Yes! Been wishing for people to react to this one for ages. So happy someone finally did! This is the reason you're everyone's favourite Scottish lass.
This movie is special to me because I went to see it on the day my father died and he was a great story teller
'The Fisher King' is an awesome Gilliam movie that you should definitely watch, Dawn. By the way, I discovered you way back because you reacted to '12 Angry Men'... you're bloody brilliant!! And your childlike humour is so endearing 🤭
Absolutely the Fisher King
Yes please, do watch "The Fisher King". I rate it very highly indeed.
The best movie that nobody knows about!
Terry's vision for a film is unique. Like his art style there is no filter on his particular madness.
A sometimes forgotten Terry Gilliam movie that is quite good is The Fisher King with Robin Williams. It's slightly less mad than some of his other movies but it's still very good.
This reactor is quite delightful I think i'm going to subscribe to her
The only person to do a reaction to this film, and the right person to do it. The next Gilliam movie you should put in your radar is "Brazil" directors cut only, Gilliam's opus dystopian dark comedy. Best Dystopian future movie ever!
The Fisher King is another incredible Gilliam movie
The Adventures of the Baron Munchausen ties with Time Bandits for my favorite Terry Gilliam film, followed immediately by Jabberwocky. It's also one of the weirdest uncredited Robin Williams' roles and one of Uma Thurman's earliest roles. It's a fantastically odd movie that just warms my heart every time I watch it.
Glad I'm not the only one who remembers Jabberwocky, Erik the Viking is another python adjacent film, Terry Jones I believe.
My first celebrity crush came from this movie. The lovely Uma Thurman.
Venus came in like the painting "The birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli
I haven't seen this in YEARS!!!
AMAZING! I have never seen anyone react to this.
Wow. No one touches this movie. So glad you tried it.
Getting her into Monty Python and Terry Gilliam as a director has certainly worked out rather well, wouldn’t you say?
The horse, Bucephalus, was named after Alexander the Great's horse which is very famous.
Bucephalus was said to be a huge black horse with a white star and blue eyes. According to stories about Alexander he was considered to be untameable, until Alexander did so. He was Alexander's favourite charger and the horse he rode into numerous battles.
This is a great movie inspired by German literature. It shows you what SciFi was in the 1700s.
If you look up the painting "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli, you can see where that scene came from. They did a good job of replicating it.
Out of all of Terry Gilliam's movies (which I adore in their entirety,) this is by far my favorite.
The parallels between this movie and another of my absolute favorites, BIG FISH, are undeniable.
Is there a doctor in the fish?
Snuff is just tobacco that has been ground finely enough that you can snort bumps of it as you might cocaine etc. It's a faster more intense hit of nicotine. And yes, it definitely makes you sneeze (and have brown snot).
It's not always very fine powdered actually. In Bavaria and Austria a variant is common (or 'was' .. its dying out slowly) named 'Schmalzler' that is not extremely fine powdered and a tad oily (Schmalz is lard which was added, today some sort of oil is used) .
Snuff is powdered tobacco. In modern times it is used for chewing tobacco (though that’s usually shredded rather than powdered), but at this point in history it was used to provoke in the user the pleasant [sic] sensation of sneezing. To hide the dark stains, handkerchiefs were made of brown material during this period.
Sneezing is part of the experience but its more about the nicotine being absorbed by the mucus tissue in the nose ... it's a smokeless alternative to smoking.
Yes! Good for you for branching out green the typical reaction regimen.
I'm told that this is meant to be part of a loose trilogy on imagination through life.
Where "Time Bandits" = childhood, "Brazil" = middle age, and "Baron Munchausen" = old age.
You were told wrong.
The films have absolutely nothing to do with each other, other than all coming from Terry Gilliam
@@KrazyKat007 You are incorrect. From Wikipedia -
"Gilliam says he used to think of his films in terms of trilogies, starting with Time Bandits. The "Trilogy of Imagination", written by Gilliam, about "the ages of man", consisted of Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). All are about the "craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible."[16] All three films focus on these struggles and attempts to escape them through imagination: Time Bandits through the eyes of a child, Brazil through the eyes of a man in his thirties, and Munchausen through the eyes of an elderly man. In the summer of 1986, he cut ties with Arnon Milchan and 20th Century Fox and started directing Munchausen through his own new Prominent Films banner independently.[17]"
This was the movie that introduced me to Uma Thurman.
Seeing her as Venus made me say "keep your eye on her; she's going places".
Everyone should experience a Terry Gilliam film at least once in their life. His approach to fantasy is magical.
27:16, search "Boticelli Birth of Venus"
I never get tired of the madcap genius of Terry Gilliam, He truly has a gloriously unique perspective.😁😎😂
I think Gillium met the challenge of blending the edges between fiction and reality
This movie is incredible, and it led directly to Terry Giliam's movie masterpiece, "Brazil." It's the most visually stunning movie I've ever seen, and I am so glad to have seen it when it first came out in a movie theater. Brazil has been described as "Monty Python does George Orwell's '1984.'" It also features Michael Palin!
Brazil came out before this.
What the other guy said
Just make sure you watch the director's cut of "Brazil" !
"I will tell you why: I have no reasons" Appreciate the honesty love :)
The heroic soldier at 3:34 was played by Sting. Venus was played by a young Uma Thurman, in one of her first roles. Jonathan Pryce (Horatio Jackson) was also in Terry Gilliam's film Brazil.
If you like Terry Gilliam, there are two French films that you really should watch. "Delicatessen" from 1991 and "The City of Lost Children" from 1995. They are both slightly anarchistic fun, fantastic scenographies, rich in detail and simply amazing.
Venus appearing in a giant shell is a reference to the well-known painting "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli.
I hadn't seen this in decades. As soon as i saw it was being reviewed i immediately found it online and bought it. Forgotten Favorite.
Such a fun, fantasy movie.
"I'm excited! We're going on adventures," Just how I feel when I watch this film. So much fun. Definitely towards the top of my list of favorites. "It makes me happy," I'm sure there are other theories but I think Munchausen was a powerful bard who wove a spell through his story telling that defeated the enemy. Cheers.
I can't believe I had forgotten about this old masterpiece!. I saw it in the theater when it came out and loved it!
No one does medieval-gothic surreal fantasy like Terry Gilliam. Fine perforrmance from the late great John Neville and delicious support from Robin Williams, Oliver Reed, Eric Idle, Charles McKeown and others, and wasn't young Sarah Polley terrific as Sally? The character has a long history in film and literature and first appeared in a 1785 novel by German author Rupert Raspe, based on a famed but rather fanciful boastful adventurer he actually knew. I read that Gilliam spent considerable time and energy feuding with the studio producers to achieve the vision he wanted. To me, a marvellous and memorable film. Trust our Dawn to bring it back to us.
"On the moon" is my favorite line
I remember a movie review when this came out that commented on what was then the astronomical $100 million budget for this film, saying: "with a lot of big budget movie you wonder what all that money could have possible gone to. With this movie, you see every color that they spent."
The wee girl Sarah Polley won an Oscar for screenwriting the other month
Thank goodness for that! I was quite worried about her, after the whole zombie apocalypse.
Absolutely No One has reacted to "Popeye" 1980 Robin Williams as Popeye, Shelley Duvall (The Shining, and Time Bandits) as Olive OIL. Be the First. please, please, please, please, please.. :) love your flick reactions.
I can't believe you ( or anyone for that matter ) are reacting to this. It is so little known but it is one of my favorites. A truly unique adventure story, unlike anything else. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
*TWELVE MONKEYS*
"Quick, back in the fish!"
Lives in my head rent-free forever.
Michael Kamen’s magnificent score seems to be forever waltzing around in mine.
You should watch A Fish Called Wanda, Dawn. So funny. It's got John Cleese and Michael Palin in it. I highly recommend it.
This is one of those movies that lull me to sleep, in a good way. It just makes me feel good. Hard to explain, but some will get it.
Bucephelous, that was Alexander the Great's horse's name. It means Ox Head in Greek.
Terry Gilliam's 'The Fisher King' (1991) with Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges
The person constantly whispering into Jonathan Pryce's ear at the beginning is legendary percussionist Ray Cooper.🥁
27:37 It's a famous picture of her emerging from the water - she basically formed out of Uranus's genitals being thrown into a specific part of the sea and arrived on shore either on a dolphin or in a sea-shell or just standing on water fully naked in what was basically the worlds first 'Hello boys'.
She's a goddess, she can basically do whatever she wants
She was married to Hepheastus/Vulcan and like most of the gods and goddesses cheated on him, with a few people but most famously with Ares/Mars the god of war. Hephaestus literally caught them in a net - made out of gold, thin as a spiders web so you could only see it if you really looked but strong so they couldn't just break themselves out of it.
Terry has a style you can recognize but a vision all his own.
Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron von Münchhausen (Bodenwerder, 11 May 1720 - ibid., 22 February 1797), was a German baron who in his youth was a page to Anton Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and later enlisted in the Russian Army. He served there until 1750 and took part in two military campaigns against the Turks. Upon his return home he probably told several incredible stories about his adventures.
From these amazing and fictional exploits-which included riding a cannonball, traveling to the Moon, and pulling himself out of a swamp by his own ponytail-1 Rudolf Erich Raspe, a German librarian, scientist, and writer, created a literary character who was somewhere between extraordinary and antihero, sometimes comic and buffoonish, and sometimes inspiring some pity: Baron Munchausen (a common spelling of the literary character's name in Spanish, influenced by English transliteration). This character is a recognized myth of children's literature, heir among many to Don Quixote and Gulliver's Travels, with a philosophical message radically opposed to the prevailing rationalism of the time. It is not clear how much of Raspe's material comes directly from his relationship with the real-life baron. He probably met him at the University of Göttingen, where he studied law and jurisprudence, but most of the stories are from older sources.
The only thing that makes this movie more fun is your giggle.
Me and my sister LOVED this movie as kids!
I mean, the guy laughed in the face of LITERAL DEATH. The ultimate badass, in my opinion haha
And his headstone reads "HERE _LIES_ BARON MUNCHAUSEN."
I’ve always loved this film, ever since I first saw it.
A fever dream of a movie... and it is marvelous.
Since the last time i saw this movie a few years ago, I saw a video about one of the first ever sci fi stories from 125AD... and i just realized how the much the Moon bit must have been inspired by it, its got giant vulture mounts at least.
"I still see a nipple"... and thank god for that.
You should watch "Eric the Viking"! It's directed by the other Terry and has John Cleese and Terry Jones in it (as well as him directing). My 2c. Cheers! S.
if you like this movie, and time bandits, then you might like Erik the viking too,
directed by Terry Jones (there's a sea monster in it)
This, Time Bandits, and Brazil were 3 of my favorite movies growing up. This was wonderful. Thank you!
I loved this movie as a kid. To this day, I still say "Can I help you tiny mortals?" any time my cats are meowing at me about something
Thanks so much for watching this. There are next to no reactions to it. And not sure why. It's such a unique, well-done movie that idk how it didn't become an instant iconic classic. I guess some greats just slip through the cracks sometimes.
Also that's Sting at 3:33. The musical great and my favorite solo artist.
Not sure why either. The movie is bonkers, but it's so well done and enjoyable. I actually saw this in the theater as a kid.
This is also one of Uma Thurman's first movies too. She plays Venus/the pretty woman in the cast.
For Dawn: As far as the end, the Turks did not abandon their camp, they were defeated. The blend between story and reality is pretty fuzzy. I love at the start when it pans from the stage to the Sultan's palace in one shot. So what we see as the play actually happens. The sea monster is the fish from the beginning, etc.
It is bizarre and makes no sense, which doesnt appeal to everybody
@@lutzderlurch7877 Its bizarreness is a main part of its appeal.
And there isn't a movie in existence that appeals to everybody.
@@boomieboo True. That bizarrness is, however, something relatively few viewers find agreeable, compared to many oher traits and quirks of movies, so that might explain some part of why this film did not make quite as much of a splash.
For what reason ever they misspelled his name for the movie. It's actually "MÜNCHHAUSEN". On the other hand the Baron himself might not have cared.🙂
As a German I loved the stories of Münchhausen als child.... and as adult I love this movie soooo much... every cast is perfect....There exist in some place an animated serie of his shotstories... perhaps you should seek it and try it....
Best and funniest Gilliam, imo. And Uma Thurman's first appearance.
This film is whimsical, odd, beautiful. I love this film. Now in era of CGI this film looks somehow better with its special effects. I do love Robin Williams in this.
This is a part of the trilogy with Time Bandits and Brazil.
They’re not a trilogy.
The films have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
Snuff is finely ground tobacco and its purpose is the same as every other use of tobacco.
It’s very good 🎉. Time Bandits is very similar 😊 Snuff makes us sneeze..,nothing else
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassas is recommended and very much in the style. Sadly it is the film where Heath Ledger died in the middle of the production.
Interestingly there is a Psychological condition Called "Munchausen by Proxy" that was named after the main character in this story. It is based on a story by Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 1785 book " Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia.
I love the intros! My favourite one is on your Ferris Bueller reaction: "Herpes..." snigger 🤣
Perhaps you will like Yellowbeard, a comedy pirate movie starring three members of Monty Python plus some Mel Brooks actors and other stars you might recognize.
I don't know why but I was thinking about this movie, particularly the scene where the good sight guy vs the the ears guy get old and help each other. Such a cool coincidence!
I’ll be in my bunk.
The Fisher King
The real character in the movie is an old man and he's telling his adventures in the first person, exactly like the character in the book. As the audience listens to the stories, they enter into the fantasy...so you're seeing the old man and you're seeing him in the story...that's where it seems to flip back and forth between reality and fantasy. At the end, he's an old man and the movie dips back into reality...until he disappears as a young man. You get left with this "Is this character real or a fantasy, and which one is more important to me?" In a way it's like seeing an actor portray a real person doing incredible feats, like James Bond or Jason Bourne or Superman or Batman...nobody is that good, but we all want to be.
That's three of my recomendations already viewed then.. Jabberwocky, Twelve Monkeys and Brazil. Ok, some more that involve the Python lot... Clockwise (John Cleese), Fear and loathing in Las Vegas (filmed by Terry Gilliam), Ripping Yarns (TV series starring Michael Palin), and Yellowbeard (Graham Chapman, Eric Idle and John Cleese, along with Nigel Planer and numerous others).
"Terry Gilliam" and "Strange" go hand-in-hand.
My parents owned the laserdisc (pre-DVD physical media) of this, so I watched it as a kid multiple times before the age of 10. Until I rewatched it recently, I had forgotten most of the plot, but quite a bit of the imagery and set pieces really stuck with me all these years: especially Robin Williams and the moon sequence, Uma Thurman as Venus 😍, and the angel of death, to name a few.
Such a wild and bold movie. Stylistic filmmaking like this just doesn’t get made anymore.
32:14 “It makes you sneeze but what’s it for?” What’s it for is…making you sneeze.
Had the pleasure of seeing this in an art house theater with my father when I was young.
All have powers, but the Baron's is that he can twist reality through belief alone.
Again, I have never seen this film before, however, based on your previous edits of films I know well, good lord, you really do know what you’re doing. I am appreciative and jealous in equal measure. There is a reason this channel is better than most. Stellar content. Thank you.
It's a great film 😊
@@mikesilva3868 I’m going to buy a copy to watch in full. 👍
Hooray! Something mad we suggested :)
"Is he sucking? I thought he was blowing."
That's rather personal...
Terry Gilliam filmed this in Italy as suggested by other directors. It is less expensive to film there. He said it was a very difficult shoot. The language barrier and less "structured" studio system made for some very long days. Great director, great film. Time Bandits, Brazil and Baron are an unspoken trilogy of sorts. All deal with hopes and dreams being unfulfilled and a flight into fantasy. I love Brazil but this is the best IMO.
It actually ended up being way more costly to shoot in Italy beca of the rampant corruption and various Italian executives pocketing money and bilking the production every chance they got.
When all was said and done, it actually would have been cheaper to shoot in Pinewood Studios in London.
Even sting stars in this one as the brave officer :)
the scene with the naked lady in the giant oyster shell (Venus) is taken from a renowned painting entitled "The Birth Of Venus" by Botticelli (late 1400's)
Theres a great photo of Eric, Weird Al, and Puddles Pity Party out recently. Three legends of levity together in one place
I love this movie. My brother and I saw this in the cinema and he didn't have the same reaction. "He's old, he's young, he's old, he's dead, he's alive..." I bought the book, Losing the Light and the making of this movie was fascinating and frustrating at the same time. Brilliant score, too.
Spirit of the man came to tell the story and people were free.
Great choice! I'm not sure why you chose this over Brazil or The Fisher King, but at least you're heading into some Gilliam. Can't really go wrong.
Why does she need to choose either of those films over this one?
And she’s exploring everything branching off the tree of Monty Python so she will get to those at some point.
@@KrazyKat007 Just to make me happy.
I like Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges and Robert DeNiro.
@@lewismaddox4132The Fisher King is definitely a movie more reaction channels need to do.
Most reaction channels neglect this Munchausen movie as well.
"What is THIS?!" That is Gilliam's hommage to the famous painting "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli, (bonus trivia: for several years it was used by Adobe for their program Illustrator) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus
I saw this when I was 7 years old. I saw it 10 or so times in the theater. It got me interested in stage plays which is what I did all through school and university. The costumes, the settings, and dear god, the casting, all just perfect! Uma is so young but looks so lovely in her two roles.