A low budget release, Gilliam’s film cost about $5 million to make but grossed over $42 million.His second, quite memorable, role consists of two shots, filmed in an afternoon. The actor’s schedule did not allow him to appear when the battle was being shot, but Connery suggested that he could play a role in the final scene. Sean Connery was not originally intended to appear in the final scene, but was meant to appear in the final showdown with Evil.
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Gilliam shot the entire movie from a low angle to give an impression of a child’s-eye view of the world.Only one Harrison composition is featured, “Dream Away,” which plays over the closing credits. Ex-Beatle George Harrison helped finance the film, served as executive producer, and is credited with “songs and additional material” for the movie.The film was co-written by Gilliam with his old Monty Python’s Flying Circus mate Micheal Palin, who is responsible for the snappy dialogue.The success of the idiosyncratic Time Bandits allowed Gilliam to proceed making imaginative, genre-defying films. Gilliam began the script in an attempt to make something marketable and family-friendly, since he could not find anyone interested in financing his innovative script for Brazil.Gilliam did not intend from the beginning to make three films with similar themes he only noticed the connection between the three films later, after fans and critics pointed it out. Time Bandits is the first movie in what is known as Gilliam’s “Trilogy of Imagination” or “Trilogy of Dreams.” It deals with the imagination in childhood the second movie, the bleak Brazil (1985), with adulthood and the third, Baron Munchausen (1989) with old age.He finds that the diminutive and incompetent gang is tripping through time robbing historical figures using a map showing holes in the space-time continuum of the universe that they stole from the Supreme Being things get complicated when Evil devises a plan to lure the bandits into the Time of Legends in order to steal the map for himself. One night, a gang of six dwarfs bursts into his bedroom while fleeing a giant floating head, and Kevin is swept up among them and through an inter-dimensional portal in their scramble to escape. PLOT: 11-year old Kevin is largely ignored by his parents, who are more interested in news about the latest microwave ovens than in encouraging their son’s interest in Greek mythology. The landscape is populated by the giants, ogres, and sinister crones of legend and fairy tale, all in the service of Gilliam’s weird, ecstatic vision.”– Bruce Eder, “Time Bandits” (Criterion Collection essay)įEATURING: Craig Warnock, David Rappaport, David Warner, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Shelley Duvall, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm seven dwarves)-careening through time-twisting interactions with Napoleon, Robin Hood, and Agamemnon (played, respectively, by Ian Holm, John Cleese, and Sean Connery). Plunging headfirst into history, myth, legend, and fairy tale, Gilliam sends his characters-a boy and six good-natured if rather larcenous little persons (i.e. “…Gilliam fearlessly brings the logic of children’s literature to the screen.
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