The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 127: Brazil (1985) (Patreon)

We're kicking off our month of Weird-Ass Dystopian Cities with Terry Gilliam's classic satirical nightmare, Brazil! Join us as we pick apart this strange world of failing systems and bureaucratic ass-covering that holds absolutely no similarity to the real world in which we live. Heh. Heh.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 127: Brazil (1985)(00:00:11) - Intro.(00:01:47) - Our movie this week: Terry Gilliam's Brazil! But which version?!?(00:06:11) - A cinematic Rosetta Stone.(00:17:26) - Our respective attachments to various Gilliam and Monty Python things.(00:21:35) - Was this movie successful? Also, digging into the production.(00:28:04) - Our star-studded cast.(00:37:40) - An intro of exploding televisions and ruinous clerical errors.(00:43:40) - The dreams of Sam Lowry.(00:47:31) - Untangling the web of responsibility for the Buttle/Tuttle affair.(00:52:01) - Break!(00:52:28) - We're back, and it's time to stretch some flesh.(00:58:24) - HVAC anarchy.(01:03:46) - Sam decides to make a house call.(01:10:14) - Central Services gets revenge.(01:16:17) - A Christmas party full of demons.(01:19:26) - Welcome to Information Retrieval.(01:22:49) - The Lint reveal.(01:27:07) - Sam can't stop running into his dream woman.(01:35:06) - Sam has had enough.(01:41:50) - A post-coital SWAT raid.(01:50:05) - A jailbreak in the cooling tower, and things go off the rails.(01:55:27) - The funeral of the seeping woman, and all is not as it seems.(01:59:59) - Final thoughts.(02:06:26) - Our film for next week: Walter Hill's The Warriors!(02:09:48) - Outro.