With Terry Gilliam’s intriguing new movie The Zero Theorem arriving in UK cinemas this Friday, it seems an ideal time to look at the best of the director’s eclectic back catalogue.
Taking in everything from slapstick comedy to dark, satirical drama, WOW247's Mark Butler picks out what he considers to be the five greatest Terry Gilliam films.
WGTC writes: The Force Awakens actor Adam Driver has secured two high-profile roles in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote and Logan Lucky.
Terry Gilliam on Don Quixote: "But once you’re hooked, once the obsession is there, once the self-flagellation has taken over. It’s kind of out of spite that I’m doing it, to spite all the people saying ‘you’re stupid, give it up man!’ The most difficult thing about maintaining this obsession is that I can only disappoint a lot of people. The trailer has been running as Lost in La Mancha for 15 years! None of that will be in the film, none of those scenes"
Terry Gilliam: "To me it’s a far more profound ending because it allows the audience to make their own version of what that means."
Title's kind of deceptive in thinking he believes that for all happy endings, just the one in this film.
As LAD said, they can be rather predictable but sometimes they're pulled off very well.
