Includes audio commentary by Terry Gilliam and theatrical trailer.DVD Features:
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Region 1
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Keep Case
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Disc One:
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Widescreen - 1.85
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Single Side/Single Layer
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Dolby Digital Surround - English
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Additional Release Material:
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Audio Commentary - Terry Gilliam - Director
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Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0
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Featurette - What is Brazil
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Documentary - The Battle of Brazil: A Video History
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Production Interview - Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown - Screenwriter(s)
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Production Interview - Norman Garwood - Production Designer
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Production Interview - James Acheson - Costume Designer
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Production Interview - Michael Kamen - Composer
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Behind the Scenes Footage
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Original Theatrical Trailer
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Text/Photo Galleries:
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Storyboard
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Stills/Photos - Publicity and Production Stills
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Disc Three:
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Audio Commentary - David Morgan - JournalistReleased for one week in New York City and Los Angeles on December 18, 1985, to qualify for Academy Award nominations. Received a general release on February 14, 1986.
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Filmed at Lee International Studios in Wembley, London's Dockland, a south London power station, a Kent oil refinery, and the Palais d'Abraxis apartment complex in Marne-La-Valee in Paris.
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After the production could no longer afford to shoot in Lee International Studios, they filmed the fantasy sequences right behind the studio--ironically, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, a place, according to Gilliam, "where all the paperwork in Britain was stored."
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Estimated budget: $15 million. Universal Pictures supplied $9 million of that budget but nearly shelved the project because of president Sidney Sheinberg's feeling that the film was too long and too depressing. When BRAZIL won the Los Angeles Critics Best Film Award anyway, Universal was forced to release it to the public.
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The film's original running time of 142 minutes was cut to 131 minutes for its American release.
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The title was taken from the 1930's Xavier Cugat hit "Aquarela do Brasil," written by Ary Barroso, which appears frequently in the film. Variety reported that director Terry Gilliam wanted to call the film 1984 1/2 instead of BRAZIL.
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Named Best Film of 1985 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
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According to the opening scene, the film begins at 8:49 a.m., "somewhere in the 20th century."
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Among the Ministry of Information's sayings are Information: the key to prosperity; The truth shall make you free; Suspicion breeds confidence; Happiness: We're all in it together; Trust in haste--regret in leisure; Don't suspect a friend...report him; and Who can you trust?
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Terry Gilliam worked for a man named Harvey Kurtzman when he was employed at a magazine in New York; Sam Lowry's boss in BRAZIL is named Kurtzmann.
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Charles McKeown cowrote the script and appears in the film as Lime, which is quite possibly a reference to the character of Harry Lime in THE THIRD MAN .
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Terry Gilliam's wife, Maggie Weston, is credited with hair and makeup design.
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Holly Gilliam, one of their two daughters, plays Holly.
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Percussionist Ray Cooper, who is credited as music co-ordinator, appears in the film as a technician.
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Terry Gilliam regular Julian Doyle is credited as the second unit director and with model & effects photography.
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Don't miss Katherine Helmond's riotously disturbing facelift scene--every time she is on camera she looks much younger.
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Gilliam considered BRAZIL to be a cross between Walter Mitty and Franz Kafka.
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"I've always had a great distaste for authority and bureaucracy and all the additives that they breed," Gilliam has said.
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The film had a number of endings that Gilliam fought over with Universal, who wanted a happy ending to bring in more of an audience.
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Gilliam said of the film, "Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with a grey iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black. The sun was setting, and it was really quite beautiful. The contrast was extraordinary. I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.' The music transported him somehow and made his world less grey."
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The film was originally called Brazil because the bug that leads to the typo (central to the plot) was originally seen in Brazil in an opening sequence that was later cut. Brazil is also the name of the piece of music used as a basis for the film's score: Aquarela do Brasil by Ary Barroso.
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An alternative ending to the "love conquers all" version was proposed by the studio, finishing when the Ministry of Information is blown up; Gilliam referred to this as "the Rambo ending".
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Jack's triplets are played by Gilliam's daughter Holly. In one scene, Jack calls her by another triplet's name, to which she replies: "My name's Holly."
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The shadowy smoking figure that stalks Sam at various points in the film is played by an uncredited Terry Gilliam.
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Jill's truck is a Scammell Commander. In one of the shots where she gets out, the word "Scammell" can be clearly seen in chrome letters on the bottom of its door.
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Sam's "personal transporter" is a Messerschmitt KR200 with a jet engine attached to the back.
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When Sam forgets to exit the public transport vehicle at "Level 41" and gets trapped in the doors, the one-legged woman standing in the vehicle begins to fall over but is propped up by the other actors in the vehicle.
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Although those who have already seen the movie know this, it may surprise newcomers somewhat that the fellow on the movie artwork doesn't look very much like Sam Lowry.
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