Brazil Page #3

Synopsis: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro), he meets the woman from his daydream (Kim Greist), and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Production: Universal Pictures
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Metacritic:
88
Rotten Tomatoes:
98%
R
Year:
1985
132 min
1,036 Views


GIRL BUTTLE:

How will he get down from upstairs?

BOY BUTTLE:

It's a secret.

We follow GIRL BUTTLE out of the sitting room into ...

18 INT. HALLWAY AND CHILDREN'S BEDROOMNIGHT 18

GIRL BUTTLE enters her bedroom. There is little or no

light there, and she sees a bulky figure apparently

lowering himself into the room from the direction of the

ceiling.

GIRL BUTTLE:

(unalarmed)

You've come ...

As she moves, the light from the hallway shows us the

figure of what looks like a commando on a night raid,

slowly sliding down a pole in he middle of the room. The

pole at the top end disappears through a hole in the

ceiling. Things become immediately clearer

19 INT. BUTTLE SITTING-ROOMNIGHT 19

Crash! It's a raid! Battle-dressed SECURITY TROOPS smash

trough the door. Another ONE, swings from a rope, kicks in

the window from the outside and enters that way. Most

alarmingly of all, a shower of plaster comes down from the

ceiling in which a fairly neat round hole appears and

through the hole comes a fireman's pole down which slide

TWO MORE SECURITY TROOPS. The whole thing is short, brutal

and violent.

BUTTLE is grabbed violently and stuffed into a baglike

canvas device that covers him from head to waist. A metal

clamp goes round his neck, a metal bar slides up the back

of the bag. His hands are handcuffed to the metal bar. In

seconds he has become a canvas parcel. Meanwhile, GIRL

BUTTLE has been carried out of her bedroom and dumped into

the lap of her screaming mother. BOY BUTTLE has his toy

machine gun knocked out of his hands by a TROOPER who we

see is identical in dress to the action men BOY BUTTLE has

been playing with. He rushes to his mother as guns are

viciously trained on them. TROOPS are kicking open the

doors of other rooms and generally doing a good job. An

OFFICIAL, wearing plain clothes, now enters from the front

door and during the turmoil is reading aloud from an

official document. It goes something like this:

OFFICIAL:

I hereby inform you under powers

entrusted to me under Section 47,

Paragraph 7 of Council Order Number

438476, that Mr Buttle, Archibald,

residing at 412 North Tower, Shangri

La Towers, has been invited to assist

the Ministry of Information with

certain enquiries, the nature of

which may be ascertained on

completion of application form

BZ/ST/486/C fourteen days within this

date, and that he is liable to

certain obligations as specified in

Council Order 173497, including

financial restitutions which may or

may not be incurred if Information

Retrieval procedures beyond those

incorporated in Article 7 subsections

8, 10 & 32 are required to elicit

information leading to permanent

arrest - notification of which will

he served with the time period of 5

working days as stipulated by law. In

that instance the detainee will be

debited without further notice

through central banking procedures

without prejudice until and unless at

such a time when re-imbursement

procedures may be instituted by you

or third parties on completion of a

re-imbursement form RB/CZ/907/X ...

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Terry Gilliam

Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor, comedian and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. more…

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