Twelve Monkeys

Twelve Monkeys is definately some of Terry Gilliam’s best work. They actually spent almost 2 weeks shooting a simple shot of Bruce Willis drawing blood from his arm, due to the simple fact that in the background was a hamster in a cage that Gilliam was obsessed with having it run in it’s wheel, but everytime they shot the scene the hamster was either asleep or just didn’t feel like running in it’s wheel. This is what the industry has deemed ‘The Hamster Factor’ a term Gilliam has left the industry forever… obsession with shooting a shot in perfection with not a simple thing (be it a hamster not in the right place at the right time) being left out. This is why the end result of Gilliam’s films feel so surreal but so life-like, as though you could reach out and touch the scenery. This film’s main focus is sanity Which makes for alot of fun. A MUST SEE.

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Mmmmm, didn’t like Twelve Monkeys that much, seemed a bit predictable and overrated for its own good, to be honest. I don’t think this movie can even touch Brazil, what I view as Gilliam’s best work.

This is still one of my favorite movies, I cant say I agree with RIck as far as being predictable, considering that they didnt stop the horrible plague from wiping out most of humanity. However, I do agree Brazil is still far superior to 12 Monkeys. But I still love 12 Monkeys, in fact, this makes me want to go watch it again, and, I think I will.

nice job ruining the ending buddy

Hahahaha Anonymous… Yeah, people should warn about spoilers now and again…
Anyway, love this film, prolly my Gilliam’s fav. I like Brazil also, but I consider 12 monkeys better.

Ok, ok, for all those upset at the ’spoilers’, why not check out my fan fic script for the 12 Monkeys SEQUEL. Basic, straight-forward account from about 6 hours after the airport scene to about April 1997. I attempt to address the one big paradox in 12 Monkeys; that is, ‘what about that loose end that we left behind in 1996 — this woman, Kathryn Railly? She knows what is about to happen!’
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Here’s something to which we may not give much thought in our comfortable, modern lives.

As evidenced by the ongoing threat from H5N1, bird flu, Ebola or SARS, viruses are not something that Man has yet brought under control. And with such deadly organisms in our midst, perhaps our “trust” in scientists as both the gatekeepers as well as the ones to solve any problems that arise may be ill-placed.

The pandemic scenario in the 1995 film, “12 Monkeys” clearly illustrated this dilemma and was, I believe, the most plausible, disturbing apocalyptic vision in motion picture history. It may reassure us to dismiss what the solitary antagonist did in that story because it was just a movie. However, nuclear war, terrorism and even natural disasters pale to the human devastation that such a deranged person in a position of secure access, as was “Dr. Peters”, could exact on his fellow Man.

Inspired by that marvelous film, as an ambitious personal project I have written a trilogy of sequels that cover a 30-year timespan.

Ellen Ripley (”Alien”) and Sarah Connor (”Terminator”) have gained prominence in motion picture history for their roles as apocalyptic heroines of the highest order. Add to that list Dr. Kathryn Railly of “Cassandra”. Although sharing their compassion, dedication and perseverance, this woman’s repertoire does not include gun skills or martial arts. Instead, she brings to the table her academic and scientific background, Hippocratic Oath, and an unyielding faith in how the “system” is supposed to work.

Still, in this story nothing can prepare Kathryn for the unimaginable circumstances she faces. These include her personal quandary — she meets only disbelief and ridicule as she tries to alert authorities to the madman spreading his heinous virus across the globe.

Even worse, this cruel reality is apparently but an unchangeable “flashback” of the pandemic survivors in the future. Evidently, all of this has “already happened”.

As the terrible events unfold, does it mean Kathryn can, can’t, should or shouldn’t try to act to stop them? Does knowledge of the world’s “fate” mean that “free will” — to try to intervene and stop the holocaust — is irrelevant or even unnecessary? Or is a conscious decision to “act” the most important thing of all about “fate”?

In “Cassandra”, only a dedicated cop who falls in love with Kathryn comes close to believing her and recognizing the threat. She finds herself in a dying world where hope lies with the scientists in the future whom Kathryn, unbeknownst to her, helped to survive the apocalypse in the first place.

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Enjoy!

How exactly is this movie cyberpunk? I can see some cpunk elements, as in most science fiction but I most certainly wouldn’t classify this film as being cyberpunk. I think ‘dystopic science fiction’ is a much more accurate genre for it.

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This movie asks the same questions as so many before and after it “Is the world that I see around me real.” From Decartes to matrix and now to inception the question has bothered us for so long but instead of aswering directly it shows us how what is considered as the truth is nothing more than general opinion.

The thing i specialy liked about this movie was how you can make someone question its own sences by only using words. It just works ‘cos how one can know that he’s insane.

There weren’t realy that much cyberpunk elements but nevertheless it is a great movie and I just got huge urge to watch it again.

An alternative re/view on The Twelve Monkeys… Enjoy
http://www.mindsetcentral.com/archives/7978