Jabberwocky (Film)

• Michael Palin: Dennis Cooper
• Harry H. Corbett: Squire
• John Le Mesurier: Passelewe
• Warren Mitchell: Fish fingers
• Max Wall: King Bruno the Questionable
• Terry Gilliam: Man with Beer
• Bernard Bresslaw: landowners
• Antony Carrick: Kaufmann
• Peter Cellier: FIRST MERCHANT
• Derek Francis: Bishop
• Neil Innes: second Herold
• Terry Jones: Poocher
• Paul Curran: Mr. Cooper Senior
• David Prowse: Red Herring and Black Knights

Jabberwocky is a film from 1977 by Terry Gilliam with reference to the poem " Jabberwocky " by Lewis Carroll. Charles Alverson and Terry Gilliam wrote the screenplay.

Action

The film tells the story of Dennis Cooper ( cooper with journeyman degree). He lives with his father in a small village and dreams of improving the world through his ideas. When his father dies, it takes Dennis to the city, away from his loved ones through to prestige and merit.

He gets into many adventures. Even against the dangerous Jabberwocky ( a dragon-like monster ), which makes the forests around the city unsafe. When he finally defeated this and thus the medieval world makes a bit more secure, he will finally be respected by his loved ones, but at the same time wins the princess' heart of the Empire, the fall in romantic revelry their existence eked out in the still standing tower of the castle.

Background

Terry Gilliam parodies with this film, the medieval period and the transfigured ideas that prevail about it today:

• Decaying buildings
• Hygiene
• Knowledge horizon of human
• Monarchical rule
• Jousting Knights and existence
• Superstition and religion and much more.

Criticism

"With references to modern times -studded satire on the ' good old days ', magnificent reception, amazingly real in the equipment, but with appreciable lengths. The macabre, often the boundaries of cynicism grazing humor is certainly not for everyone. "

" Jabberwocky (1977 ), Gilliam's first exclusive Government work should be an ' answer ' to the American monster movies in the way of the white shark, the continuation of [ twisted by the Pythons ] Medieval Fantasy [ the Holy Grail, (1974 ) ] and a first exemplification of his later themes: fear as a motor for power and enrichment. The monster Jabberwock ( loosely based on Lewis Carroll's poem ) makes in Terry Gilliam Middle Ages everything that is bad enough, even worse, but not bad enough that you could not even make money on the victims. A ' monster movie with heart ' Vincent Canby called at that time in the New York Times Gilliam film. That would have been quite a pleasing program. The heart, however, was how it looked criticism in Europe, ' anti-capitalist '. "