#sam lowry

[cirilee]

movie: brazil (1985) audio: dead finks don't talk - brian eno

[sillysymbol]

bro thinks he's free

[operqghost]

wish more people were familiar with brazil (1985) because i am constantly screaming into the void about that damn movie and it makes me SICK

[missanthropicprinciple]

Make a poll with five of your all time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone’s favorite.

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tagging: @cinemaocd @citizenscreen @niccage @hermannsthumb @safetytree

[yonderghostshistories]

Gonna try do a redraw portrait thing of that (in)famous scene from Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" (1985) (ya'know the one? The scene where Michael Palin's character Jack Lint is wearing the weird, creepy porcelain doll-like baby mask just as he's about to do Sam Lowry in? Yeah, that one!)....

[astralbondpro]

Brazil (1985) // Dir. Terry Gilliam

[scifi-smashorpass]

Sam Lowry (Brazil)

[magichourmovies]

I Love these movies....

[lycantherous]

Sam Lowry is so my poor little transfem meow meow

[operafantomet]

Lisanne Clémence Veeneman and the Corps de Ballet in the Restaged Tour in Vienna

[the-kingofdoritos]

I could write a whole essay about how much i do not trust Celia or her intentions rn

[cirilee]

they deserved better 🥺

[cunked]

how does terry gilliam feel knowing he created one of the most transgender dystopian films ranked only below the matrix

[sillysymbol]

sam lowry study yay

[annabelle--cane]

hang on, okay. absolute reach of a conspiracy theory time. this post by @backonthehellsitein2023 talks about how lowri ann davies is almost certainly going to play a major character in the magnus protocol. and this post by @pinkelotjeart gives some pretty compelling evidence that agnes and gertrude are still alive in the protocol-verse. right? right.

my new hot take is that lowri isn't going to be playing either of the leads, alice or sam, I think she's going to be agnes. why?

her character in tma was visited by a fire ghost that many have theorized to be the ghost of agnes, giving a connection to her.

to me the the phrasing of her kickstarter interview ("what we can say about lowri's involvement in the magnus protocol is that she will play a pretty important character...") reads to me less like she'll be playing a lead and more an important side character.

keeping her role under wraps like this makes me think that her character in and of itself is a surprise. we already know that alice and sam exist and will be in the show, and if their actors were already decided when the kickstarter launched then it may have made sense to announce that, too. but if agnes montague, messiah in absentia supreme, were set to appear in-person in-voice on-podcast? letting that slip ahead of time would be the ultimate spoiler for the whole show.

the july kickstarter update said that they'd only just begun casting, so lowri's role must be somehow different or remarkable if it was decided on so early. granted, this could just as easily point to her being a protagonist, but I think agnes would be a notable enough role that she might also warrant a different casting process.

though lowri has done a bunch of acting in various rq podcasts, her main job is in production, and I think it unlikely that they'd give her a big main role in a projected 90-episode show along with her other important production responsibilities. yes, alex did that to himself with his roles in tma, but he is insane and thus is an outlier.

having said that. I also do want to get in print that I think there's a non-zero chance that she might be playing younger/alternate universe gertrude. because of this joke in part 1 of the s5 q&a.

[drconstellation]

Brazil and The Dream of Escape

I was delighted to find in the Xtras that the machine created to be used by Furfur to use to find out how many demons Shax could requisition for storming the bookshop was inspired by the movie Brazil. This is another nod to Monty Python member Terry Gilliam, who directed this film, and who almost directed the failed GO film in the 1990's.

I love this film. Always have. Yes, I was around when it came out in 1985. I'm that old. It's always been in my top 5 favourite films. And its totally relevant to Good Omens.

Brazil can be described as a dark dystopian story based on the novel 1984. It doesn't have a happy ending, but its funny, horrific, ludicrous, romantic and timelessly beautiful all at the same time. Its so iconic that when ever I see its influence in other productions its been unmistakable.

It stars Jonathan Pryce long before he was a James Bond villain or the head Sparrow in Game of Thrones, a comedic turn from Robert de Niro and a handful of other famous faces that you are bound to recognise, such Bob Hoskins, Ian Holm and Jim Broadbent.

Pryce, as Sam Lowry, lives in a world that is strictly controlled with paperwork that comes in multiple copies, where people are routinely arrested and tortured and a long running unexplained terrorist campaign sees bombs explode in the most random of places. Sam has dreams of a beautiful woman floating in the sky, and he is a sliver-armoured winged hero trying to rescue her. He eventually finds that she is real, and finds out her name through various means via his work and contacts. He tracks her down, but that is where it all starts to unravel as she is mixed up with an unfortunate case of mistaken identity.

Its easy to see the common themes and elements that run through the film with GO: the desire to run away and escape (that doesn't work,) a totalitarian authority controlling the masses, propaganda, piles of paperwork, an undercurrent of rebellion, torture and abuse, forbidden love between classes, a villain hidden in plain sight.

There is an art deco aesthetic to the film that also carries over to other films and shows it has influenced, and the busy work floor scene that stops on a dime to watch the tv show de jour while the boss isn't looking is one of the highlights of the film.

It was a reference of this that caught my eye in the Cohen Brothers modern fairy tale The Hudsucker Proxy, where they copied the busyness of the work floor for their mail room scenes, but also the art deco aesthetic. That's another film that is always in my top five films, and could go a round of comparisons with GO - its got time stoppage, an angel appearance and a near-godlike manipulator.

It also appears, surprisingly, in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The casino at Canto Bight is Brazil inspired, in the way its introduced to us, its decor and the music. I know some people hate this film because of what they did to Luke, but I love it, the whole thing is just utterly gorgeous to look at.

And if you've watched any of Loki recently, since S2 of that show finished not long ago, you would also seen some influence from Brazil in the retro look.

I love the classic art deco style. my grandparents had an art deco house that I spent many of my childhood hours in. The style itself is a clean, unadorned look, and often is meant to give a look of movement, speed or strength. A classic example of this is the Bentley, of course, which comes from the height of the art deco era in the 1930's.

Hell is the other place we see the Brazil influence in GO, where is looks like it's constantly several decades behind the times, with overhead projectors and manual typewriters and odd looking not-quite steampunk contraptions.

Brazil is available to stream on Disney at the moment, if you'd like to take a look. I highly recommend it, its one of those influential films that once you know it, you see its long reach in the most unexpected places.