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oh yea,
Ive recently in the past few years becoming a really big Hunter S. Thompson fan
this of course "fear and loathing"
not really concerned if many dig this one, just figured i would use this for profile ID.
enjoy.
Ive recently in the past few years becoming a really big Hunter S. Thompson fan
this of course "fear and loathing"
not really concerned if many dig this one, just figured i would use this for profile ID.
enjoy.
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There is a few guys i knew when i was a kid that are now street people.
I'm sure some people could but your reading text from a guy who has to watch his caffeine intake. I once drank 3/4 of a bottle of southern comfort and didn't get a buzz. What i got instead was a rapid heartbeat. The fact is that some people can't live up to the image of a super drug/alcohol user.
There is a reason i call myself "SpAsTiC" and its a ugly reason.
Now i got a well stocked liquor cabinet its all bought and paid for honestly and no Mexican family was killed for it. Its there for certain times and being a person who cares means picking the right time.
I'm sure some people could but your reading text from a guy who has to watch his caffeine intake. I once drank 3/4 of a bottle of southern comfort and didn't get a buzz. What i got instead was a rapid heartbeat. The fact is that some people can't live up to the image of a super drug/alcohol user.
There is a reason i call myself "SpAsTiC" and its a ugly reason.
Now i got a well stocked liquor cabinet its all bought and paid for honestly and no Mexican family was killed for it. Its there for certain times and being a person who cares means picking the right time.
Hey, both read the book AND saw the film (AND have the poster up on my wall).
What do you think about the movie, and the the other works its director has done so far? Terry is my favorite of them all, even better than Andrey Tarkovsky, Oliver Stone (well, mostly for JFK and Nixon only...), and even Kubrick.
What do you think about the movie, and the the other works its director has done so far? Terry is my favorite of them all, even better than Andrey Tarkovsky, Oliver Stone (well, mostly for JFK and Nixon only...), and even Kubrick.
Well, I must admit so far I haven't read any more by Hunter beside Fear and Loathing. At least I know that he was having a real blast when Terry had a private screening for him prior to the film's official release.
Just to make sure though, in my post above I was talking about Terry Gilliam, the guy who did the film, as well as Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), The Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1996), and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (2009).
Just to make sure though, in my post above I was talking about Terry Gilliam, the guy who did the film, as well as Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), The Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1996), and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (2009).
oh wow,
i know all those films and the only one I disliked was Time Bandits.
just have to forgive me I need to try it again, but the time i saw it, i really didn't like it.
but, wow, I don't know why I never really think a whole lot about directors, i suppose i should, but usually i think a bit about writers, a story that could stand on its own without needing a movie, but, your right, sometimes its a good director that can make a bad story good, lol.
but yea, Terry Gilliam, wow, he is pretty amazing.
i know all those films and the only one I disliked was Time Bandits.
just have to forgive me I need to try it again, but the time i saw it, i really didn't like it.
but, wow, I don't know why I never really think a whole lot about directors, i suppose i should, but usually i think a bit about writers, a story that could stand on its own without needing a movie, but, your right, sometimes its a good director that can make a bad story good, lol.
but yea, Terry Gilliam, wow, he is pretty amazing.
Terry wrote many of his films himself, especially those of his 1980s Trilogy of Imagination. As for the directorial side, what's really made Terry stand out for me ever since my mom rented Munchausen for me back in the mid-90s is his magic eyes, his ultra-wide angle lenses with extreme perspective distortion that make you see things in a totally new, grotesque way. Such an enormous *DEPTH* to every single shot they give. Terry's magic eyes have spoiled me so much any other kind of photography looks just dull, flat, and plain pedestrian to me.
The pictures resulting from it are great for illustrating Terry's two main influences both as a writer and director, which are
a.) 1960s progressive, critical counter-culture (seminally in MAD Magazine's irreverence, Terry worked for its editor-in-chief Harvey Kurtzman in the mid-60s next to Robert Crumb and other underground cartoonists) and how normal, conservative society looks all grotesque from its POV, that's where Terry's original sense for satire, absurdity, and grotesque psychedelic images is from even way before he joined Monty Python,
and b.) child-like innocent wonder and excitement, which is where all his fantasy (and partly fantasic sci-fi) comes from.
Both combine into his two main themes, imagination vs. pure logic or unimaginative, greedy business, and imagination vs. sanity. Often-times, you can't really tell if his protagonists are really experiencing these adventures or if it's only all happening inside their heads. He stages "reflections" or "echoes" between the "real" and "fantastic" worlds in his films, most obviously in Time Bandits and 12 Monkeys so you can read these as clues that maybe, all we see on screen could be a purely imaginative (or drug-induced, hallucinated) "realm of fantasy" inside the protagonist's head merely inspired by the "realm of reality".
But in the end, it never really matters that much as the fun, relief, and/or insights Terry's protagonists might gain from the fantasy worlds they're thrown into, escaping from a dull, unbearable reality. In a way, Terry keeps saying through his films that sanity and "consensus reality" are just overrated and that often, "a lie can be much closer to the truth than bare fact" as he said in relation to Munchausen. For Terry, our creative imagination and how we live and think based upon it is much more important than reason, status, and money.
Of his two influential aspects above, you can see a.) (satire and crique of society) purest in Brazil, 12 Monkeys, and Fear and Loathing, and b.) (child-like wonder and wide-eyed fantasy) in Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Tideland (his only film next to Jabberwocky I didn't really "get") and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
The pictures resulting from it are great for illustrating Terry's two main influences both as a writer and director, which are
a.) 1960s progressive, critical counter-culture (seminally in MAD Magazine's irreverence, Terry worked for its editor-in-chief Harvey Kurtzman in the mid-60s next to Robert Crumb and other underground cartoonists) and how normal, conservative society looks all grotesque from its POV, that's where Terry's original sense for satire, absurdity, and grotesque psychedelic images is from even way before he joined Monty Python,
and b.) child-like innocent wonder and excitement, which is where all his fantasy (and partly fantasic sci-fi) comes from.
Both combine into his two main themes, imagination vs. pure logic or unimaginative, greedy business, and imagination vs. sanity. Often-times, you can't really tell if his protagonists are really experiencing these adventures or if it's only all happening inside their heads. He stages "reflections" or "echoes" between the "real" and "fantastic" worlds in his films, most obviously in Time Bandits and 12 Monkeys so you can read these as clues that maybe, all we see on screen could be a purely imaginative (or drug-induced, hallucinated) "realm of fantasy" inside the protagonist's head merely inspired by the "realm of reality".
But in the end, it never really matters that much as the fun, relief, and/or insights Terry's protagonists might gain from the fantasy worlds they're thrown into, escaping from a dull, unbearable reality. In a way, Terry keeps saying through his films that sanity and "consensus reality" are just overrated and that often, "a lie can be much closer to the truth than bare fact" as he said in relation to Munchausen. For Terry, our creative imagination and how we live and think based upon it is much more important than reason, status, and money.
Of his two influential aspects above, you can see a.) (satire and crique of society) purest in Brazil, 12 Monkeys, and Fear and Loathing, and b.) (child-like wonder and wide-eyed fantasy) in Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Tideland (his only film next to Jabberwocky I didn't really "get") and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
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