Talk:Terry Gilliam/Archives/2014

Animation

Half of the content in the animation section are unreferenced assertions about Gilliam's animation style being mimicked in television shows, movies, and commercials. If there are no references for any of this, it should all go. Surely more important things can be said about his animation work, and the people who have been ifluenced by same, yes? ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 16:30, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

What's more, it appears to be repeated at least twice nearly verbatim in different sections of the article... -- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. (talk) 07:03, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I have removed the content I described above, and bring it here for discussion:

The style, a type of cutout animation, has been mimicked repeatedly throughout the years: the children's television cartoon Angela Anaconda, a series of television commercials for Guinness stout, the "Children's Television Sausage Factory" openings that inspired opening animator Barry Blair of Nickelodeon series You Can't Do That On Television!, John Muto's animation in Forbidden Zone, and the television history series Terry Jones' Medieval Lives.

Unless this can be referenced, it has no place in the article. ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 23:17, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

In the documentary Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (IMDB page), it is stated that Gilliam's animation is inflenced by Stan Vanderbeek's work and shows an example that looks very much like Gilliam's Python animations. This is probably worth investigating and including in the article. 99.245.230.104 (talk) 07:30, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Atheism

A comment about Gilliam's atheism has been removed because the link wasn't clear. It said this:

For years, he at least forbade himself from owning a smartphone. But last year, he gave in and took one home from the Zero Theorem set. Recently, the phone broke for a few days, and he panicked. "It's black and it looks like the monolith from 2001 and I'm the ape there worshipping it." (Not that he's into worship. The former Minnesota seminary student managed to ditch religion and the U.S. government by reinventing himself as a British atheist: "America's winning the war of bureaucracy," he sighs).

So while the article makes a passing remark about him "reinventing himself as a British atheist", there's actually no quote from Gilliam saying it. It seems to be an opinion of the article writer, rather than an actual factual statement.

Of course, if there's another link which shows explicit evidence of Gilliam being atheist, then put that in. --One Salient Oversight (talk) 02:21, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Terry has referred to himself on several occassions as still more or less a Protestant, not least of all because of his relevant upbringing in Medicine Lake, Minnesota. Some references to it are in his interviews on the production of Munchausen, where he discusses the differences between the "Roman-Catholic" and the "Protestant" ways of film-making and dealing with cast and crew, specifically referring to himself as Protestant to this day. Then there are other interviews about his childhood and the reason why he moved away from the places he grew up in, because the ways in which they were practicing their Protestantism "back home" felt more and more suffocating to him. So Terry "went to the Big City and out into the world", so to speak, because while he's still more or less Protestant (with maybe a few far-eastern mystic leanings added in since then), his God "is one who can take a joke" rather than being "a petty, sadistic and paranoid control freak". --84.180.255.151 (talk) 14:09, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

The Defective Detective

IMDB has recently categorized The Defective Detective as "in development", with a tentative release date of 2014. Noteworthy? --79.193.55.160 (talk) 21:39, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Have sources other than IMDb discussed it? IMDb is not a reliable source for this sort of information. Doniago (talk) 14:04, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Gee, I wonder if Terry's still gonna make it in the remaining 23 days... --84.180.255.151 (talk) 14:16, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

There's an interview here where he mentioned there's been talk of reviving the project. A few weeks back I heard another interview where he said they were considering adapting the script to a TV series, but I can't find the link at the moment. Nothing solid yet, in any case. —Flax5 19:13, 8 December 2014 (UTC)