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Terence Vance Gilliam (born November 22 1940 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) is a film director.
Terry Gilliam started off as an American animator and strip cartoonist; one of his early photographic strips featured
John Cleese.Moving to England, he animated features for Do Not Adjust Your Set
and later joined Monty Python's Flying Circus, of which he was the only American member. He was the principal artist-animator of the surreal cartoons with which Monty Python's television series was frequently interspersed. He also appeared in several sketches and played parts in the films.
Gilliam's distinctive animation style utilized antique photographs - mostly from the Victorian era - and featured portions of the photos moving. The style was copied decades later in the children's television cartoon Angela Anaconda and in a series of television commercials for Guinness Beer.
Terry Gilliam has gone on to become a film director. Gilliam's Brazil is known among cineastes as a drastic example of how things can go wrong when a director does not have final cut and the studio steps in to "take control" of a situation it sees as spiralling out of control; Gilliam's battles with the studio are notorious and well documented.
In many projects, he tries to show his sharp opposition towards the bureaucracy and administrative regimes. He also tries to make the difference between
higher and lower layers of society visible with a disturbing and ironic style. His movies usually feature a fight or struggle against a great power which may be an emotional situation, a human-made idol, or even the person him/her-self. Mostly, the struggle does not end happily. There are usually a paranoid and dark atmosphere and unusual characters who once were normal members of the society. In addition to dark and disturbing touches, his scripts also feature a dark sense of humour, a heritage of the Monty Python team.
His films have a distinctive look, often recognizable from just a short clip. There is often a baroqueness about the movies, with, for instance, computer monitors in one film equipped with magnifying lenses, and in another a red knight covered with flapping bits of cloth. He also is given to incongruous juxtapositions, say of beauty and ugliness, or antique and modern.
Gilliam is a graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Films directed:*Monty Python and the Holy Grail (co-directed with
Terry Jones) (1975)*Jabberwocky (1977)*Time Bandits (1981)*The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983) - A short supporting feature that accompanied Monty Python's The Meaning of Life*Brazil (1985)*The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen (1988)*The Fisher King (1991)*Twelve Monkeys (1995)*Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)*The Brothers Grimm (2005)*Tideland (2006)
He also has several projects in various states of development, including an adaptation of Good Omens.
Gilliam's unsuccessful efforts to film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, based on Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote, were the subject of the documentary Lost In La Mancha.
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SubculturesReaders Pick Top 10 Wired.com Summer Photos
: Classes are ending, vacation plans are depleting offices around the country and attention spans are evaporating in the sun. It's summer once again, and in case you forgot why you were so stoked on it last year, our readers have chosen 10 photos to remind you. Over the past two weeks of voting we've received many truly excellent submissions, with these 10 superb photos gaining top ranking among voters. Andrew Brooks won the contest with Sunset Over Wheatfield at left. Mr. Brooks will be receiving a subscription to Wired magazine and a digital picture frame for his desk.
Since we had so many great photos that we think should've received more votes, we've also compiled a Wired.com Editor's Choice Summer Photo Gallery.
Our next twice-monthly photo contest is squares. Show us your best photographic ode to this classic shape. Check out the contest page for more information.
Left:
Sunset Over Wheatfield
Submitted by Andrew Brooks
Photographer's comment:
"Late summer 2006, in the south of England."
: Hurry, We're Almost There!
Submitted by Chumdinger
Photographer's comment:
"Running to our favorite swimming spot on Maui, Hawaii."
: Secret Secret Garden
Submitted by Eric Cabahug
Photographer's comment:
"Come inside and let's play."
: Summer Fishing
Submitted by Matt H
Photographer's comment:
"A net fisherman at Majuro in the Marshall Islands ending the day with the sun setting across the lagoon."
: Playing in the Ocean
Submitted by Jacob Maentz
Photographer's comment:
"Two children playing in the water at sunset."
: Watering the Dog
Submitted by CM
Photographer's comment:
"Boy feeding the dog some water."
: The Best of Nightmares
Submitted by Hanna Eliasson
Photographer's comment:
"Took this one shortly after seeing Terry Gilliam's fantastic movie Tideland and becoming very inspired by the surrealistic yet rural moods of it. (I also took the title from the movie.) The scene is just outside of Grimeton in Swedish landscape Halland."
: The Serve
Submitted by Aaron Young
Photographer's comment:
"Volleyball in Newport Beach, California."
: Kenyan Sunset
Submitted by Mat Hayward
Photographer's comment:
"The best summer I ever had ...."
: Cool. Down.
Submitted by Bosh
Photographer's comment:
"A description is required, but none will be provided :)"
Published: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT - Source: Wired.Com - Read the article
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