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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 fantasy adventure film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce and Valentina Cortese. An international co-production of the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany, the film is based on the tall tales of the 18th-century German nobleman Baron Munchausen and his wartime…
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People today associate liars with mainstream media. Until recently a single historical figure served for that symbolic purpose. Baron Munchausen, 18th Century German aristocrat, became European celebrity for his entertaining and often embellished tales about his military service in Russia. His fame was immortalised by 1785 book by Rudolph Erich Raspe which further embellished its exploits, adding fantastic elements…More
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source The subject of this post is fairy tales, Yes, the ones with dragons, fairies, unicorns, mermaids, princes and princesses, bandits and wiches. Everyone one of us have heard at least one of them. Our parents uesed to read to us at bedtime, when we were young. Why? Because they are entertaining and with all this mythical creatures, the superhuman abilities our imagination went wild. But also, in every fairy tale…More
While $45 million dollars a budget is peanuts in today's world, in 1988 this was considered borderline madness. It hurts even more when a movie that was so heavily promoted absolutely bombs at the box office in a time when that is absolutely essential for success. It's even worse when the movie that bombs is actually wildly entertaining and that is how I felt about this movie back then, and also now. src:format(jpeg…More
This is a weird movie. Not just a little weird but the kind of weird where you're wondering if you're having some sort of sixties acid flashback when you were born twenty years later. The story follows a 9 yr old girl who follows a weird guy on a weird adventure throughout the universe looking for his weird friends to help save her weird town. They go to the moon, hell and all the oceans. I don't get terry gillium r…More