>>17156389it's existential horror, in a way
think 1984, but an actually great kino, with surrealist/absurd humor (the best kind of humor) on top
it's fucking great
but the jewish producers thought it was too dark, and tried to turn it into a boring love story with a happy end, by recutting it behind his back
and Gilliam had to humiliate them by showing his great, original cut to journos, and buy full pages in newspaper calling them out and telling them "let me release my movie!"
which worked
same thing happened to American History X, but we don't even have the original version where Dereck was supposed to shave his head back at the end
here, they asked the retarded edward norton to recut it, flattering him by telling him he was so intelligent and talented (he's a good actor, but a niggerwitted retard otherwise)
very sad, because the moralistic take prevents it from being a great movie
>>17156393yes: it's destroyed in the so-called director's (scenarist's) cut
it's pretty crazy when you watch them back to back
the original is great, while, again, I keep looking at my watch with the writer's cut
