Comments on: Titling

By: Amara

Amara — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:49:02 +0000

Thanks for the heads up colhawk! I thought she’d left the business for good. I’ve missed her music! Did you see that she has a song called pi?

http://www.katebush.com/katebush_html/lyrics.html

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Sweet and gentle and sensitive man
With an obsessive nature and deep fascination
For numbers
And a complete infatuation with the calculation
Of PI

Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity

3.1415926535 897932
3846 264 338 3279

Oh he does, he does, he does
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity
But he must, he must, he must
Put a number to it

50288419 716939937510
582319749 44 59230781
6406286208 821 4808651 32

Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity

82306647 0938446095 505 8223…

By: colhawk

colhawk — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:50:36 +0000

Another physics person who likes Brazil a lot.. First time I saw it I had to leave just before the end, but I was uneasy about the seeming happy ending.. I felt much better when I watched the whole thing later! I guess you could say our hero achieved some kind of nirvana in which he was beyond harm. Incidentally Kate Bush sang an interesting version of Brazil, no doubt in connection with her pal Terry. She just brought out a new album after a 12 odd years break.

By: schnitzi

schnitzi — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:29:13 +0000

I watched Brazil on TV a few years ago, and guess what? They had chopped off the very last scene, where the doctors faces lean into view, and you realize… They were apparently quite intent on making it a happy ending, in at least one forum they could control. Bastards.

By: Thomas Palm

Thomas Palm — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:57:46 +0000

Have you considered that some of those silly names may have been hints from the staff to leave the original title intact? In some places you don’t openly tell the boss that he is wrong.

By: Kea

Kea — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:48:03 +0000

Twelve Monkeys, yes, thanks. Not up there with Brazil but pretty darned good.
For comparable brilliance, how about Mulholland Drive?

By: David

David — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:43:46 +0000

Amazing…I saw Brazil many years ago and still think of it as the best film I ever saw. The memory of what happened in it is fading now, just remember being greatly impressed at the time and the one scene where the buildings start shooting up into the sky. It sure is surprising to see that quite a few others here also think this, since, e.g. the people I saw it with thought it was good but not fantastic, and most others I’ve mentioned it to since then hadn’t even heard of it (thought I was talking about “Boys from Brazil”). I wonder if there’s a natural inclination for physicists to like this film…

By: Cygnus

Cygnus — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:55:01 +0000

Kea: That's Twelve Monkeys, you're talking about I think. Brazil, is an awesome movie. Having sort of missed the obscure movies thread I'd like to mention that if you liked Brazil, you might also like Delicatessen. Though, in my opinion, Dr Stranglove beats all of these pretty comfortably for the top English film slot. And talking about science, anyone here seen October Sky?

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:54:22 +0000

dswift–yes, I noticed precisely that scene. Fantastic.

By: dswift

dswift — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:52:01 +0000

Ah. One who sees the light. It took me about 10 laps through Brazil before I finally stitched the whole thing together, at which point I declared Brazil the greatest movie ever made.

I admit that this grandiose pronoucement is irrelevant. Brazil is not a movie for movie buffs. Roger Ebert, for example, thinks Roadhouse is a better movie than Brazil.

What’s relevant is the fact that Brazil one of the great artworks of 20th century. I am prepared to argue this ad nauseam upon request.

To fellow Brazil fans who lurk, may I direct you to a moment of genius I bet few have taken in full? It’s the party scene when Sam is having an awkward chat with Shirley on a couch. He leaves her clumsily and apologizes. Wittin the space of about 1.5 seconds, Shirley delivers a mad assortment of expressions — pity, disgust, shame, forgiveness, et al. It’s an astonishing bit that demands frame-by-frame examination.

By: Kea

Kea — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:10:37 +0000

Brazil, yes! Definitely one of my favourites. I’m quite fond of other Gilliam films, too, such as the Monkeys one…what’s it called?