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JABBERWOCKY - DVD *NEW
Format:
DVD
Rating:
PG (MPAA)
Actors:
Michael Palin, Deborah Fallender, Max Wall
Director:
Terry Gilliam, Terrence Vance Gilliam
Runtime:
105 minutes
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Opening with a quote from Lewis Carroll's classic nonsensical poem, Terry Gilliam's JABBERWOCKY is a darkly comic medieval masterpiece about a monster wreaking havoc on helpless villages. Michael Palin stars as Dennis Cooper, a happy-go-lucky ne'er-do-well stock taker who becomes the unlikely hero in a castle's efforts to defeat the great green beast. The unwitting and pathetic Dennis is in love with Griselda, the farthest thing from a classic princess heroine that film has ever seen. However, she wants nothing to do with Dennis, who is renounced by his father on his deathbed, setting him off on a hysterical adventure that winds up with him facing off against the monster itself. The jousting scenes are particularly funny--and very gruesome, lending the film its seriocomic tone that had the audience somewhat baffled at first, although it's now much loved. The film is a brilliant parody of medieval epics, featuring lavish costumes, a medieval score, and terrific sets. Monty Python regulars Terry Jones and Neil Innes make cameo appearances, as does director Gilliam himself.
Michael Palin, Deborah Fallender, Max Wall, John Le Mesurier, Annette Badland, Warren Mitchell, Harry H. Corbett, Rodney Bewes, Brenda Cowling
Rating: PG (MPAA) Content: n/a Runtime: 105 minutes Color: Color Extra Info:
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1- English
Dolby Digital 2.0- French
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary- 1. Terry Gillaim- Director, Michael Palin- Star
Trailer- 1. Original Theatrical
Sketch-to-Screen Comparisons
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Text/Photo Galleries:
Poster Gallery
Photo Gallery
EDITORIAL REVIEWS:
"...The most marvelously demented British comedy to come along since MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL....Very funny, yet it looks like an epic."
New York Times (04/16/1977)
ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION NOTES: Director: Terry Gilliam, Terrence Vance Gilliam
Producer:
Composer: Thomas DeWolfe Editor: Michael Bradsell Production Designer: Roy Forge Smith Screenwriter: Terry Gilliam, Terrence Vance Gilliam
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Opening with a quote from Lewis Carroll's classic nonsensical poem, Terry Gilliam's JABBERWOCKY is a darkly comic medieval masterpiece about a monster wreaking havoc on helpless villages. Michael Palin stars as Dennis Cooper, a happy-go-lucky ne'er-do-well stock taker who becomes the unlikely hero in a castle's efforts to defeat the great green beast. The unwitting and pathetic Dennis is in love with Griselda, the farthest thing from a classic princess heroine that film has ever seen. However, she wants nothing to do with Dennis, who is renounced by his father on his deathbed, setting him off on a hysterical adventure that winds up with him facing off against the monster itself. The jousting scenes are particularly funny--and very gruesome, lending the film its seriocomic tone that had the audience somewhat baffled at first, although it's now much loved. The film is a brilliant parody of medieval epics, featuring lavish costumes, a medieval score, and terrific sets. Monty Python regulars Terry Jones and Neil Innes make cameo appearances, as does director Gilliam himself.
Credits
Writer:
Charles Alverson
Cast:
Annette Badland, Brenda Cowling, Deborah Fallender, Harry H. Corbett, John Le Mesurier, Max Wall, Michael Palin, Rodney Bewes, Warren Mitchell
Details
Sound:
Stereo Sound, Surround Sound
Notes
DVD Features:
Region 1 Keep Case Widescreen Full Screen Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1- English Dolby Digital 2.0- French Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary- 1. Terry Gillaim- Director, Michael Palin- Star Trailer- 1. Original Theatrical Sketch-to-Screen Comparisons Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection Text/Photo Galleries: Poster Gallery Photo Gallery
Filmed on location in Wales and London and at Shepperton Studios, England.
Terry Gilliam was upset when the film was advertised as MONTY PYTHON'S JABBERWOCKY in the United States. Gilliam was purposefully trying to distance himself from the troupe and felt that the film was too dark and serious to be called a Monty Python film, that American audiences would go in expecting more of a farce. Judging from the initial box-office receipts, he was correct.
Gilliam had been interested in Lewis Carroll--ALICE IN WONDERLAND, specifically--since he tried unsuccessfully to stage the work in a grand manner at summer camp in 1961, when he was 20. He has said, "I always remember how important Alice was for everything I do. The title and the monster in JABBERWOCKY, the girl in MUNCHAUSEN is Alice."
Terry Gilliam makes two brief cameos as a man who thinks his rocks are diamonds.
Monty Python veteran Terry Jones makes a cameo performance in the opening scene as the poacher who unfortunately meets the monster.
The monster was not the result of special-effects wizardry; it was basically a man in costume walking backward.
Some of the sets for JABBERWOCKY were stolen from the set of OLIVER!
Gilliam wanted to purchase a sewer set and a catapult from Blake Edwards, who was making one of the Pink Panther sequels at Shepperton Studios, but Edwards chose to destroy the things rather than give them to another film. Thus, the sewer scene had to be changed.
Editorial reviews
"...The most marvelously demented British comedy to come along since MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL....Very funny, yet it looks like an epic." New York Times - p.14 - Vincent Canby
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