Talk:Terry Gilliam/Archives/2015

On the richness of his presentations

Currently there is this quote in the article: "[M]y films, I think, are better the second and third time, frankly, because you can now relax and go with the flow that may not have been as apparent as the first time you saw it and wallow in the details of the worlds we're creating. [...] I try to clutter [my visuals] up, they're worthy of many viewings." I wish someone could find a third party source to extend this point. I personally was astonished by what I noticed when I watched Time Bandits and Twelve Monkeys several times. I discovered numerous details that I had never noticed before. Off hand I don't know of any other director who does this to the degree that Gilliam does. Only by watching these films several times do you come to fully understand them. (I first thought that providing specific examples might be good but, like a spoiler, might ruin the experience for the first time viewer.) Does anyone know of a citable source to use to make this point in the article? __209.179.32.155 (talk) 19:48, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

You could argue that it's due to his early fondness of 1950s MAD Magazine and particularly their artist Will Elder who was known to cram lots of background gags into his panels (especially his TV spoof of Howdy Doody remains a fan favorite and a classic that keeps getting re-printed and I think even digital copies can also be easily be googled). Don Rosa is another early fan of Elder's who grew up to infuse the same kind of "richness" into his own comics as does Terry with his films. --80.187.108.51 (talk) 19:44, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Filmography

The filmography should be a straight list of films Gilliam directed. There is no need for a large chart listing every project with which he was somehow connected. ---The Old Jacobite_{The '45} 19:26, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Why so? Being a writer or an actor is being a real part of a movie. A list of the movies he directed could be enough if he only wrote and starred in movies he directed, however it is not the case. His involvment in other works, including of course the Monty Python, are important enough to be noticed on his page as writing and acting work are a part of someone's filmography, even if they can be considered as less important than a directing work. This is was is made for many directors such as Peter Jackson, Edgar Wright, and many others If you think that the whole think is too big for the article, then we can list the films he directed in the "Filmography" category but create a Terry Gilliams Filmography article, as for directors with long filmographies such as Spielberg or Tarantino. Because yes, Gilliam do have a really long filmography, so an other article could be justified, but not listing the movies he wrote and/or starred in in an article directly concerning him is not.--Hyliad (d), 23:26 9 June 2013 (CEST)