His long-time co-writer Charles McKeown comments about Gilliam's recurring interests, " the theme of imagination, and the importance of imagination, to how you live and how you think and so on [...] that's very much a Terry theme.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, director David Yates paid homage to Gilliam's 1985 film Brazil.

La Jetée was the inspiration for 12 Monkeys, ( 1995 ) director Terry Gilliam's film about time travel, memory, and madness.

Skulls feature prominently, as well as gothic architecture, absurdly large weapons and shoulder-armor, and bizarre imagery reminiscent of director Terry Gilliam's work, as well as a strong dose of black comedy.

With Gilliam's hiring as director, the script was rewritten by Gilliam and Tony Grisoni, but the Writers Guild of America refused to credit them for their work, thus Kruger received sole credit.

Gilliam's films have a distinctive look not only in mise-en-scene but even more so in photography, often recognizable from just a short clip ; in order to create a surreal atmosphere of psychological unrest and a world out-of-balance, Gilliam makes frequent use of unusual camera angles, particularly low-angle shots, high-angle shots, and Dutch angles.

" This attitude markedly differs from the common definition in photography which qualifies 40mm to 65mm as the focal length of a normal lens instead due to resembling natural human field of view, unlike Gilliam's signature style defined by extreme perspective distortion due to his usual choice of focal length.

Other recurring collaborators include Gilliam's cinematographers Roger Pratt ( Brazil, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys ) and Nicola Pecorini ( Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Brothers Grimm, Tideland, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus ), and his co-writer McKeown ( Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus ).

Up until the 1990s, each of Gilliam's non-Python films was to feature at least one of his fellow Monty Python alumni ( particularly Palin, Cleese, and Idle ), and for his finished projects Gilliam has worked with the following actors more than once ( in order of first film appearance ):

Other projects Gilliam has been trying to get off the ground since the 1990s are an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities ( starring Mel Gibson ), an adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain ( which has been adapted into movies several times before ), and a script titled The Defective Detective that Gilliam has co-authored with Richard LaGravenese ( who wrote Gilliam's The Fisher King before ).

Apart from a cameo in Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky and a memorable minor role as a drunken vicar in BBC sitcom The Young Ones, Jones has rarely appeared in work outside of his own projects.

The house has appeared in many films, including Terry Gilliam's Brazil ( 1985 ), Slipstream ( 1989 ), Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut ( 1999 ), Philip Kaufman's Marquis de Sade biopic Quills ( 2000 ), The Mummy Returns ( 2001 ), Ali G Indahouse ( 2002 ), Johnny English ( 2003 ), and Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins ( 2005 ), where it was used as the gothic Wayne Manor.

* One of Terry Gilliam's cartoons in Monty Python's Flying Circus has the police using a large portable hole in the road to catch criminals, they fall in, then the hole is taken to the lockup and thrown upon the ceiling causing the criminals to fall out.

It ends when Terry Gilliam's animations play around with Cartman and everything is crushed by the giant foot.

Gilliam's animations mix his own art, characterized by soft gradients and odd, bulbous shapes, with backgrounds and moving cutouts from antique photographs, mostly from the Victorian era.

Regarding Gilliam's theme of modernity's struggle between spirituality and rationality whereas the individual may become dominated by a tyrannical, soulless machinery of disenchanted society, film critic Keith James Hamel observed a specific affinity of Gilliam's movies with the writings of economic historian Arnold Toynbee and sociologist Max Weber, specifically the latter's concept of the Iron cage of modern rationality.

After the lengthy quarreling with Universal Studios over Brazil, Gilliam's next picture, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, cost around US $ 46 million, and then earned only about US $ 8 million in US ticket sales.

The show combines Polunin's clown style, characterized by deep non-verbal expression and interaction with the audience, with Gilliam's rich visuals and surrealistic imagery.

In late 2009, Terry Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was released, with Waits in the role of Mr. Nick.

After appearing mostly in TV films, such as the Ian McEwan-scripted The Ploughman's Lunch, and Martin Luther, Heretic, he achieved a breakthrough with his role as the subdued protagonist Sam Lowry in Terry Gilliam's 1985 film, Brazil.

When The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was finally completed, David Puttnam, who had originally got the film's distribution rights in the US for Columbia Pictures, had been replaced as CEO of Columbia ; coupled with Gilliam's prior quarrels with major studios over Brazil, the film saw only very limited distribution in the US, earning $ 8 million in US box office.

" He compared the film's budget problems to the even more serious problems of We're No Angels that commonly go unmentioned, and he went on to declare its difficulties as a mixture of " trade press " still being upset about Gilliam's battle with Universal over Brazil, nepotism, and an intrigue on behalf of Ray Stark successfully trying to have Puttnam removed from Columbia, coupled with the fact the studio was being sold at the time:

" Cleese ends Gilliam's singing by shooting him with a shotgun.

She played a taxi driver in Terry Gilliam's ' 12 Monkeys ' ( 1995 ) where she had a scene with Bruce Willis and Madeline Stowe.

A group of four boys walk up to Bleek Gilliam's brownstone and ask him to come out and play baseball with them.

The film ends with a shot of Mount Rushmore with Mays Gilliam's head added ; complete with bling.

Cavanagh developed many projects with Terry Gilliam's producer Ray Cooper for John Kamen's company Radical Media.

A subsequent United Kingdom paperback edition followed in 2003 from Weidenfeld & Nicolson, with Gilliam's infamous blurb on the cover: " F * cking wonderful!

* October 5-Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcase for the first time on BBC Television, with Terry Gilliam's animations.

La Jetée was the inspiration for Mamoru Oshii's 1987 debut live action feature The Red Spectacles ( and, later for, parts of Oshii's 2001 film Avalon as well ) and also inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ).

He starred as Dennis the Peasant in Terry Gilliam's 1977 film Jabberwocky.

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Waits continued to appear in movie acting roles, the most significant of which was his uncredited cameo as a disabled veteran in Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King.

Idle received good critical notices appearing in projects written and directed by others – such as Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1989 ), alongside Robbie Coltrane in Nuns on the Run ( 1990 ) and in Casper ( 1995 ).

Originally created by Rand MacIvor ( under Art Director John C. Galt ), who was inspired by Terry Gilliam's " gilliamations ", the opening animation sequence was a sequence of surreal images set to Rossini's William Tell Overture, performed in a Dixieland jazz arrangement by The National Press Club and Allied Workers Jazz Band.

The scene is perhaps the best example of Eisenstein's theory on montage, and many films pay homage to the scene, including Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, Tibor Takacs ' Deathline, Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box, George Lucas's Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Chandrashekhar Narvekar's Hindi film Tezaab, Shukō Murase's anime Ergo Proxy and Peter Sellers ' The Magic Christian.

He made his breakthrough screen performance in Terry Gilliam's 1985 cult film Brazil.

During the early 2000s Pryce starred and participated in a variety of movies, such as The Affair of the Necklace, What a Girl Wants, Unconditional Love and Terry Gilliam's unfinished The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.

He also delivered comic turns in Terry Gilliam's Brazil ( 1985 ) and Super Mario Bros. ( 1993 ).

The Baron Munchausen tales were made famous when they were ' borrowed ', translated into German, and embellished somewhat by Gottfried August Bürger in 1786 — and have been among the favourite reading of subsequent generations, as well as the basis of several films, including Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

Production designer Dennis Gassner was influenced by fascist architecture, particularly the work of Albert Speer, as well as Terry Gilliam's Brazil ( 1985 ), Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art Deco movement.

This was the first film Terry Gilliam directed in which he was not involved in writing the screenplay, as well as Gilliam's first film not to feature any other members of Monty Python.

In the 1980s, he had memorable roles in Time Bandits ( 1981 ), Greystoke-The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes ( 1984 ) and Terry Gilliam's Brazil ( 1985 ).

Next, in a cameo comic rendition, in Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits from 1981.

The same year, he starred in Terry Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, alongside Christopher Plummer.