Cogito
07-20-2002, 10:55 PM
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="5" color="#000099"><!- FILM TITLE START ->Lost in La Mancha<! - FILM TITLE END -></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000099"><!- SUBTITLE START ->A filmmaker’s apocalypse<!- SUBTITLE END -></font>
<!-BEGIN IMAGE URL -><img src=" http://i.imdb.com/Photos/CMSIcons/N/000/04/16/Headshot.gif" align="right"><!-END IMAGE URL -><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><!- ENTER STORY TEXT HERE -> In spite of his first attempt ending in disaster, with his leading actor Jean Rochefort suffering from a prostate infection, jet pilots repeatedly buzzing the set in an attempt at catching a glimpse of Johnny Depp, and a biblical storm carrying off the set’s equipment, Terry Gilliam is – much like his subject – not giving up.
Orson Welles spent nearly 20 years trying to make a movie about the madman from La Mancha. He once pitched another book adaptation: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, which was deemed too ambitious, and so he went on to make Citizen Kane instead. Years later, Conrad’s novel became Apocalypse Now, incidentally dubbed Apocalypse When by the film industry due to its troubled production. A brilliant documentary named Hearts of Darkness was later released, which chronicled the making of Apocalypse Now.
Terry Gilliam’s Quixotic quest is the subject of such a documentary. It is named Lost in La Mancha, and is scheduled for release on August 2. The makers are the same bunch that made the documentary about Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys. Its title, “The Hamster Factory” should remind anyone who’ve seen it of the infamous shot involving the hamster, the treadmill and Bruce Willis…
Lost in La Mancha may, or may not be a good promotion for Gilliam’s project, which is due to start back up in 2003, when Depp has an opening in his schedule. Depp plays an ad executive who gets unstuck in time, and ends up in the 17th century Spain, where Mr. Quixote mistakes him for his steady sidekick. Some exiting rushes are included in the documentary, including one of Depp beating up a fish who picks a fight with him. Depp screams, "What were you thinking of? I'm a man! You're a fish!"
Sounds like Gilliam. Sounds like fun.
Source: <a href= http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,757409,00.html>Guardian Film Unlimited</a>
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Report by: <font color="#000099"><!- BEGIN REPORTER NAME ->Cogito<!- END REPORTER NAME -></font></font>
<!-BEGIN IMAGE URL -><img src=" http://i.imdb.com/Photos/CMSIcons/N/000/04/16/Headshot.gif" align="right"><!-END IMAGE URL -><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><!- ENTER STORY TEXT HERE -> In spite of his first attempt ending in disaster, with his leading actor Jean Rochefort suffering from a prostate infection, jet pilots repeatedly buzzing the set in an attempt at catching a glimpse of Johnny Depp, and a biblical storm carrying off the set’s equipment, Terry Gilliam is – much like his subject – not giving up.
Orson Welles spent nearly 20 years trying to make a movie about the madman from La Mancha. He once pitched another book adaptation: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, which was deemed too ambitious, and so he went on to make Citizen Kane instead. Years later, Conrad’s novel became Apocalypse Now, incidentally dubbed Apocalypse When by the film industry due to its troubled production. A brilliant documentary named Hearts of Darkness was later released, which chronicled the making of Apocalypse Now.
Terry Gilliam’s Quixotic quest is the subject of such a documentary. It is named Lost in La Mancha, and is scheduled for release on August 2. The makers are the same bunch that made the documentary about Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys. Its title, “The Hamster Factory” should remind anyone who’ve seen it of the infamous shot involving the hamster, the treadmill and Bruce Willis…
Lost in La Mancha may, or may not be a good promotion for Gilliam’s project, which is due to start back up in 2003, when Depp has an opening in his schedule. Depp plays an ad executive who gets unstuck in time, and ends up in the 17th century Spain, where Mr. Quixote mistakes him for his steady sidekick. Some exiting rushes are included in the documentary, including one of Depp beating up a fish who picks a fight with him. Depp screams, "What were you thinking of? I'm a man! You're a fish!"
Sounds like Gilliam. Sounds like fun.
Source: <a href= http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,757409,00.html>Guardian Film Unlimited</a>
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