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Mind Game and Brazil

posted 18 years ago by HaruhiPwnzLife
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I just finished watching Mind Game today (loved it, watched it twice already), and it reminded me A LOT of the British (I think...) movie Brazil. Both of them were light comedies with deep meaning behind them, that at least for me, became fully apparent at the end. Since neither of these are quite what I would call mainstream, I'm not sure how many people have seen both, but has anybody else who has noticed this?

And for anybody who hasn't seen Brazil and liked Mind Game, I would reccomend it to you.

[–] dnk4854 18 years ago

i always tought i'd be the only one connecting the 2 films

[–] Lawson_he 18 years ago

I searched on this site and there were like 5 movies named Brazil, which year is the one you're talking about?

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[–] HaruhiPwnzLife 18 years ago

Yeah, the Terry Gilliam one. Nice to see someone else has seen this connection as well :D.

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[–] flanger216 17 years ago

How are either of those movies 'light comedies?'

[–] Projectedlight 17 years ago

I'd consider them very 'deep' comedies. They're far from light.

The connections I can see are:
Both have philosophical observations to share
Both have bizzare yet brilliant endings
Both deal with one's place in society, and to some extent, escaping it
Both are masterpieces

That's about it though.

[–] njumeil 15 years ago

Many movies share those. Far fetched connection.

[–] cregox 16 years ago

I've watched Brazil long ago... I was intrigued why Terry Gilliam would give that name to a movie, after all, I live in Brazil.

Anyway, it didn't remind me at all "TG's 1984", but I can see similarities after you pointed it out.

One of them would be on the soundtrack. On Mind Game's "sex scene", when Myon kisses Nishi, right after the poo monster (in which there's a background music that reminds me some kind of brazilian song as well), it starts to play a bossa nova rhythm, and its lyrics are saying disconnected phrases: "conheco-te, ha quanto tempo" (I know you, for how long), "o que aconteceu" (what happened), "esta tudo bem" (it's all right). I'm not sure on the "conheco-te", her asset is very weird, maybe it's japanese, and so I wouldn't know. :P

Well, there is an urban legend, or something like that, saying Terry would have been inspired in making Brazil after hearing "Aquarela do Brasil" while he was at some UK beach. He'd never had visited or heard much about the country itself at that time. In the end, the movie have some aspects that reminds me a lot of politics and chaos around here. Every election day we can see that paper monster on any street.

[–] patrick3675 14 years ago

The theme music of Terry Gilliam's Brazil is Django Reinhardt's tune with the same name. Great tune.

[–] cregox 14 years ago

It has been some time, but I don't recall hearing that specific version from Django Reinhardt's ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0MTQpDgSFc ), while I do recall the other ones listed here in imdb ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/soundtrack ). Granted, there are quite few different song versions in the film. He really did love it back then.

[–] regnarghost 15 years ago

Huh. They are nothing alike.

[–] Motopsycho2 14 years ago

anyone who thinks these two are similar,haven't understand them both at all

[–] polysicsarebest 14 years ago

Nah. Nothing alike.

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