Gilliam in the Economist
Friday, May 18, 2012 at 5:22AM | by Otter An outstanding interview by The Economist of Terry Gilliam.
Everybody says that the studio system is bad for movies. But Gilliam makes the point that production-line movies that value “safety” are gradually changing audiences. (He’s also got some pretty scathing and funny things to say about Bush and Cheney infringing his copyright on Brazil.)
He’s got the film rights to Pratchett and Gaiman’s joint novel Good Omens (and if you haven’t read it yet, you’re depriving yourself… it’s the book that put forward the hypothesis that cassette tapes left in a car for a certain period of time morph into The Best of Queen, a hypothesis I tested back in the ‘80’s when you made mix-tapes on cassette for people you had crushes on, but could only find The Best of Queen or Boston’s first album or Journey’s Greatest Hits when you were looking for your amazingly cool mixes). There’s nobody I’d rather see direct that one.
Crazy old hippy.
Gives me a Monty Python frisson that I haven’t had since John Cleese gave Graham Chapman’s eulogy, and became the first person at a British memorial service to say “fuck.”
