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- From: mei172@cch.coventry.ac.uk (guru)
- Subject: Re: Brasil and 1984
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:52:14 GMT
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- In article <kX4auB6w165w@cithara.uucp> spongebo@cithara.uucp (THE EYE-BALL KID) writes:
- >The original working title for BRASIL was "1984 & 1/2", and I think it is
- >safe to say it was inspired by 1984, if not based upon it. I believe Tom
- >Stoppard did the screen-play, and Giolliam added the imagery (as only
- >Gilliam could!).
-
- guru sez:
- I'd agree with that. Some of the stuff is just magnificent.
-
- >There are substantial differences in approach, though (obvious, right).
- >1984 was a political allegory based on Stalinist Russian and the
- >destruction by totalitarianism or the communist ideal (see also Animal
- >Farm, about the Stalinist purges).
- >
- >BRAZIL, on the other hand, takes the nightmare of contemporary
- >beaurocracy (and British beaurocracy IS like that) and creates it's own
- >totalitarian state.
-
- No, it's based on the idea of the postwar British Government. It's
- almost as if rationing had continued and not finished until about
- 1980. The society had stood still in almost every sense.
-
- I think there are also some interesting parallels with McCarthyism
- in the simple persecution of people who dare to question the system.
- --
- /~~~) / / /~~~) / /
- (___/ (___/ / (___/ These mind-expanding drugs have given me so much
- / imagination, I'm hallucinating grey vividly....
- (___/ mei172@cch.cov.ac.uk Victor Lewis-Smith
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