Directed and co-wrote by a Monty Pythoners Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin, with half of Monty Python in the cast.
Ian Holm as Napoleon.
John Cleese as Robin Hood.
Sean Connery as Agamemnon.
Jim Broadbent…
A very talented troupe of little people actors who, I’m embarrassed to admit, I had to look up…
David Rappaport (I didn’t realize he had died. )
Kenny Baker (I had totally forgotten that he was R2-D2 :smack: )
Malcolm Dixon
Mike Edmonds
Jack Purvis (who has also passed, and was apparently the only person who played a different role in each of the first Starwars Trilogy)
Tiny Ross
“Dear Benson, you are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence.”
“If I were creating the world I wouldn’t mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o’clock, Day One!”
He’s also the only person I can think of who was in all three of Gilliam’s Ages of Man trilogy. (Time Bandits as Wally, Brazil as Dr. Chapman, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as Jeremy/Gustavus).
I have vague memories of seeing the movie as a kid. The only part I can somewhat clearly remember is the kid imploring his parents not to touch some sort of rock that was in the microwave. They proceeded to do so anyways and promptly disappeared. This seemed to be of no great concern to the firemen who were there at the time and they proceeded to leave this newly orphaned boy alone on his front yard.
Kind of freaked me out - as a six or seven year old, I thought people like firemen and policemen were supposed to help you! :eek:
(I’m sure it made total sense given the rest of the movie, but that is the only part I remember).
I loved that one of Gilliam’s first lines in the director’s commentary was “I hate children’s movies. Because I hate child actors.” He then goes on to describe why he cast Craig for the part of Kevin: Craig’s brother had been auditioning for the part and doing all the “child actor” crap, and Gilliam saw Craig off in the corner quietly playing by himself and ignoring the grown-ups, and decided that was the kid he wanted.
I was also fairly young when I saw this movie, and I distinctly remember liking it, but also having a very negative reaction to some of the situations. Primarily, the scene at the end when his parents get zapped away, and the scene in the desert with the bull’s head mask.
I’m stretching my brain trying to remember, but during the movie, another member of the band is mentioned. He had a very odd name… Not that the rest of them had completely normal ones, but I recall them saying something along the lines of, “If (x) were here, he’d know what to do!”
Years later I managed to find a published copy of the script in a library. There’s an annotation that the missing character was supposed to be played by ‘Either Sean Connery or someone who looks like him…’ The note then continued that there’d be no way they could get someone like Sean to sign on to the film. Amusing tongue-in-cheek humor there.
And when it came out on VHS, you have NO idea how much I tried to freeze-frame the map in good enough resolution to make a copy of it…
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