{"id":5709,"date":"2021-01-15T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=5709"},"modified":"2023-03-27T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T22:05:00","slug":"the-man-who-killed-don-quixote-is-terry-gilliams-8%c2%bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-man-who-killed-don-quixote-is-terry-gilliams-8%c2%bd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is Terry Gilliam’s 8\u00bd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If I hadn’t seen The Man Who Killed Don Quixote<\/em> with my own eyes, I’d have trouble believing it exists. So Terry Gilliam<\/a> has finally made his Quixote<\/em>; but it might be more accurate to say that he finally made his 8\u00bd<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a way, Gilliam has been making this movie over and over for years. Longtime fans will recognize his longtime themes of guilt, unhealthy fantasy, escape, and delusion. His infamous, years-long struggle is cleverly written into the story. Adam Driver<\/a> plays a film director reflexively hailed as a genius, but for a work so obscure that it is remarkable for it to surface in a bootleg copy — but yet somehow also so well-known that he is asked to superficially replicate it for a television commercial. I wonder if it was ever contemplated to incorporate the small amount of footage shot in 1998 with Jean Rochefort and Johnny Depp<\/a>, but I suspect the last thing anybody involved with this cursed project wanted was more legal issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Terry Gilliam tempts fate, on the set of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I appreciate that while The Man Who Killed Don Quixote<\/em> is extremely Gilliamesque in its themes, it is rarely egregiously so in its art direction. In the 1996 documentary The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys<\/em>, Gilliam observed that by that point in his career, craftspeople were so aware of and influenced by his work that he found they could deliver Gilliamesque costumes, props, and sets without his input. Things escalated to the point of self-parody in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus<\/a><\/em>‘ woozy digital phantasmagoria, but thankfully things here are once again mostly practical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trivial perhaps, but if I may add a heartfelt complaint: a pox on Screen Media Films for authoring a blu-ray specifically designed to not remember where you stopped, and to disable the FFWD, NEXT, or MENU buttons during the trailers. I will never understand this kind of consumer hostility. Why punish the movie lovers who have paid to own or rent your film?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I hadn’t seen The Man Who Killed Don Quixote with my own eyes, I’d have trouble believing it exists. So Terry Gilliam has finally made his Quixote; but it might be more accurate to say that he finally made his 8\u00bd. 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