Re: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Fred_C_Dobbs</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Talk about your differences of opinion.
If you're a fan of Terry Gilliam's work, this is a must-see. First of all the camerawork is brilliant. It's dark and disturbing and surreal, classic Gilliam, somewhat reminiscent of Brazil. But as with all Terry Gilliam films, bring popcorn and your willing suspension of disbelief or don't come at all.
It's a Faustian plot with Tom Wait in the role of Ol' Scratch. You know that any movie featuring Wait is going to be quirky but Tom Wait in a Terry Gilliam film is offbeat raised to the second power. The part was subtly played, I thought, and made a very sympathetic character of "Mr. Nick."
Vern Troyer's comic timing is impeccable as the sideshow carnie and caretaker to the elderly Doctor Parnassus. I'd like to see him playing more height-irrespective roles like this one.
After Ledger's death, his character's scenes were finished by alternately substituting Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law. The change is rolled into the plot by means of Ledger's character, chased by Russian mafiosos, fleeing into the "Imaginarium," where anything imaginable is possible. Once inside it, he throws the mobsters off his trail by imaging himself a different appearance.
Gilliam's films remind me of a Max Ernst painting. I'm not quite sure what it is I'm looking at but I just can't stop staring. And there's always the feeling that whoever did this just isn't normal. </div></div>
I agree I liked the movie, it had a dark Tim Burton type feel but the story was good and the movie visualy was great. I got from the movie that it was meant to be the different faces of Leagers character. A lier has more than one face type thing. Great movie if you are into movies like this.
