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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 410074" data-attributes="member: 8">BRAZIL (1985)[ATTACH=full]54442[/ATTACH]This has been my most-wanted film for quite a while even though it&#039;s all there on &quot;that other website we often visit&quot;.I tried to watch it then but found the spoken dialogue impossible to follow. It didn&#039;t help to adjust the volume because that also increased the loudness of the score and every other sound effect.For some reason the DVD was kinda difficult to find but a few days ago I found a brand new copy for only 8 euros.It&#039;s an Italian import but the image on amazon guaranteed English audio and subtitles. I was a little surprised to find out that it also has French and Dutch subtitles - which means that it isn&#039;t an Italian release but an Italian made European release.Well, anyway, the subtitles made it possible to find the perfect compromise regarding dialogue vs. score and now I&#039;ve finally watched the whole thing.It&#039;s really great in every aspect, a bonafide masterpiece if you like, but the feeling&nbsp; I had was sort of like The Eurythmics in Willy WonkaLand. There&#039;s none of that synthpop music in it but at the same time there&#039;s something distinctively nostalgic eighties about it.I usually find it difficult to buy into dystopian scenarios because it suggests that the worst thing has already happened, dramatically speaking it has nowhere to go.But Brazil&nbsp; does it from a 1940s point of view and the result is brilliantly convoluted and hilarious. Even if nothing happened then it would still be a very entertaining film.Bob Hoskins plays an heating engineer villain and Robert De Niro plays an heating engineer superhero. You&#039;ll never see that in any other film.I think Jonathan Pryce was born to play this role and it must have been a challenge to always be &quot;in the moment&quot; in such a non-stop energetic production.It is perhaps the most perfect title for a film that doesn&#039;t actually happen in Brazil, and the variations on the Brazil theme are beautifully done. The only version I knew was the disco remake by the Ritchie Family.[MEDIA=youtube]Nyl0YotL-7Q[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 410074, member: 8"] BRAZIL (1985) [ATTACH type="full"]54442[/ATTACH] This has been my most-wanted film for quite a while even though it's all there on "that other website we often visit". I tried to watch it then but found the spoken dialogue impossible to follow. It didn't help to adjust the volume because that also increased the loudness of the score and every other sound effect. For some reason the DVD was kinda difficult to find but a few days ago I found a brand new copy for only 8 euros. It's an Italian import but the image on amazon guaranteed English audio and subtitles. I was a little surprised to find out that it also has French and Dutch subtitles - which means that it isn't an Italian release but an Italian made European release. Well, anyway, the subtitles made it possible to find the perfect compromise regarding dialogue vs. score and now I've finally watched the whole thing. It's really great in every aspect, a bonafide masterpiece if you like, but the [I]feeling[/I] I had was sort of like The Eurythmics in Willy WonkaLand. There's none of that synthpop music in it but at the same time there's something distinctively nostalgic eighties about it. I usually find it difficult to buy into dystopian scenarios because it suggests that the worst thing has already happened, dramatically speaking it has nowhere to go. But [I]Brazil[/I] does it from a 1940s point of view and the result is brilliantly convoluted and hilarious. Even if nothing happened then it would still be a very entertaining film. Bob Hoskins plays an heating engineer villain and Robert De Niro plays an heating engineer superhero. You'll never see that in any other film. I think Jonathan Pryce was born to play this role and it must have been a challenge to always be "in the moment" in such a non-stop energetic production. It is perhaps the most perfect title for a film that doesn't actually happen [I]in[/I] Brazil, and the variations on the Brazil theme are beautifully done. The only version I knew was the disco remake by the Ritchie Family. [MEDIA=youtube]Nyl0YotL-7Q[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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