< Brazil (film)

Brazil (film)/YMMV

Jill: Care for a little necrophilia?"

  • Cult Classic: The film itself.
  • Ear Worm: Ba ba ba, ba ba ba badada... The fact that it's one of only three pieces of background music and the most prominent of all of them certainly doesn't hurt.
  • Ending Fatigue: Terry Gilliam planned on the ending getting bigger and bigger, more and more romantic, and just wilder until it just got painful... and was subverted with a massive Bittersweet Ending. The Love Conquers All version cuts the subversion.
  • Fridge Brilliance: There's a SWAT team out looking for Jill, even though she's been declared dead; they eventually find and kill her. Sam should've realized that the bureaucracy is so inept and slow that falsifying the death report wouldn't be enough to save her.
  • Fridge Horror: Considering that information retrival charges can run you into bankrupcy in this world just imagine how student loans would work (at one point a guard urges Lowry to confess or he will have a good chance of ruining his credit history).
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • Torture with a scalpel and electric saw, by someone wearing a baby-face mask.
    • Jack Lint in general, simply because he's a Punch Clock Villain, who sees torture as just part of his job. Casual, systematic evil can be far more disturbing than being straight-up cackling evil.
    • Michael Palin is considered the 'nicest' Python, is described by many women (and men) as "cute", and in general is considered one of the most pleasant people in the world. Say, you know what sounds like fun? Watching him get his face blown off.
  • This Is Your Premise on Drugs: This movie is basically a Philip K. Dick story on happy pills. Crazy Awesome, anyone?
  • Vindicated by History: Initially unable to live up to the hype surrounding it (mostly concerning Gilliam's battle to get the proper version into theaters) and losing money at the box office, Brazil has joined the ranks of Dr. Strangelove and Fargo as one of the most memorable dark comedies of all time.
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