THE ADVENTURES
OF BARON
MUNCHAUSEN (1989)
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DESCRIPTION:
Nominated for 4 Oscars in
1989 and directed by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam (The Fisher King),
The Adventures f Baron Munchausen stars John Neville, Eric Idle
and Uma Thurman. Neville is the eccentric Manchausen, an artistocrat who
relies on the power of his imagination - and a crackpot band of henchman
- to defend their village from plunder. Idle plays the loyal Berthold,
the world's fastest man, who hilarously outruns a speeding bullet all the
way to Spain in just one hour to save the Baron's neck! When Munchausen's
not collaborating with his screwball associates, he can be found walking
on air - literally 0 with the lusciously beautiful Venus (Thurman). Filmed
by Oscar nominee cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno (Best Cinemaography,
All That Jazz, 1979), with stunning special effects!
RATING: PG
STARRING:
John Neville:
Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron Von Munchausen
Eric Idle: Desmond/Berthold
Sarah Polley: Sally Salt
Oliver Reed: Vulcan
Uma Thurman: Venus/Rose
Jonathan Pryce: The
Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson
YEAR OF RELEASE: 1989
SCREENWRITER: Charles McKeown
and Terry Gilliam
DIRECTOR: Terry Gilliam
RUNNING TIME: 127 minutes
STUDIO: Columbia Pictures
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AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
ACADEMY AWARDS
(4 nominations and 0 wins)
Best Art Direction/Set Direction - Dante Francesca Lo Schiavo
(nominated)
Best Costume Design - Gabriella Pescucci
(nominated)
Best Visual Effects - Richard Conway and Kent Houston
(nominated)
Best Makeup - Maggie Weston and Fabrizio Sforza
(nominated)
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This film is part of Terry Gilliam's informal "imagination
trilogy". Although the movies are not specifically connected by characters,
Brazil, Time Bandits and this film all explore the nature
of imagination at the different stages of a person's life.
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The role of The Moon King was originally given to Sean Connery,
however Connery backed out of the role after rewrites made the character
much smaller than when Connery agreed to do the part. The part was then
recast with Robin Williams in the part, however you will not find his name
in the credits. Instead he is credited as Ray D. Tutto which is a bastardization
of the Italian phrase "Re di Tutto", which means "King Of Everything".
Coincidentally this is exactly what the Moon King refers to himself as
when he first meets the Baron.
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Writer/Director Terry Gilliam ran into numerous troubles
while filming this movie and went way over budget and extremely off schedule.
To make matters worse by the time this movie was released the people who
green-lit the project at Columbia Pictures had all been fired, and the
new heads of Columbia attempted to "bury" the movie by giving the movie
a extremely limited theatrical run and virtually no advertising budget.
Gilliam claims this was done because the executives were worried about
the film succeeding and making the people they had replaced look good,
although no official explanation has ever been given by the company itself.
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Terry Gilliam filmed a scene in which he himself plays a
small character who is immediately killed off, however he cut this scene
from the movie. Gilliam also had Christopher Lambert film a few scenes
for this film which also ended up on the cutting room floor.
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