Leave it to one of the Money Python boys to call things like they are when it comes to Hollywood's most sacred pet causes. In this case it's DVD piracy and Terry Gilliam pulls no punches.
Gilliam's next project, Tideland (check out the Cinema Blend Preview Pulp for more info), is due out later this year and looks to be one of his weirdest submissions to date. That being the case, this hardly seems the time for him to be ticking off the folks funding his oddities, not that that ever stopped him.
"It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money," said Terry in a BBC interview, "I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven't been sympathetic to mine. When you look at one of their accounting sheets you realise you're never going to see a penny, so if someone wants to rip them off that's fine with me."
Fair enough, Terry, though I doubt they'll see things your way. Especially when the can't even get people steal copies of Brothers Grimm.
"If you're going to pirate, though, make sure the quality's good. Have some respect for what you're pirating!"
Now there are some words of wisdom.
I only mention this as a news story because it seems like this kind of an attitude may not get Gilliam much love in the future and his position as a major motion picture director is already on the rocks. Meanwhile, Uwe Boll manages all kinds of financial backing despite turning out crap that makes Gilliam look like Steven freakin' Spielberg. It's the kind of irony that only a Python man could smile at.
Thanks to FilmRot for the filtered version of the Britishly verbose BBC interview.
