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Jabberwocky, Spanish lobby card. 1977 Submitted by @videorecord

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BRITAIN, 2050: As the government’s struggle against the underground leggings market continues, puffa jacketed gangsters run their leggings speakeasies in cities up and down the country.

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Jabberwocky

I figured I’d feature some other projects of the Pythons’ for a bit. First up is one directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Michael Palin (Terry Jones appears briefly at the start), and as you can guess from the title inspired by a certain poem by Rev. Charles Dodgson.  Well, it takes a few ideas, and the rough design of the monster from the original illustrations, and uses them to tell its own story.  This is a satirical take on commercialism, as our main character Dennis has the right ideas about efficiency at exactly the wrong moment, while also showing how the ruling classes will happily use a bad situation such as a monster on the loose for their own benefit.  It also touches upon the idea of one’s dreams, something Gilliam always comes back to, in this case having a character who want’s relatively little out of life, but ends up going down a very different path, ending up with a lot of things he didn’t want, and has no idea what to do with.  

The film carries on from Holy Grail’s take on Medieval times, with a vision of it so manky, you wonder how this film got a PG rating.  Seriously, how the heck did half the stuff that happens in here get past the BBFC?  Still, one thing I’ve noticed about Terry Gilliam films is that they are often very well cast, he nearly always gets together quite a surprising range of familiar faces, and this is no exception.  There are plenty of familiar character actors from British film and TV (Rodney Bewes, Warren Mitchell, John Le Mesurier...) which as well as giving the film a strong note of class, makes it ideal for my Doctor Who connections drinking game.  (According to my research, there are about 18 faces from the world of Who, but if you can notice more than half of them without IMDb and a lot of pausing, you really haven’t gotten the concept of a drinking game)  Actually, there are quite a few Star Wars connections too, including Vader himself David Prowse, again buried in a tonne of armour.  This sort of gets a bit forgotten as it’s at the start of Gilliam’s filmography, but it’s a fun little film, a bit scattershot, but there’s a lot to enjoy, from accusations of cannibalism to a Knights’ Tournament that’s resolved by a game of hide-&-seek.  

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Jabberwocky, Spanish lobby card. 1977 Submitted by @videorecord

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Jabberwocky, Spanish lobby card. 1977 Submitted by @videorecord

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Max Wall portrait by Maggi Hambling

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Max Wall (Ian Dury cover) - Englands Glory.

“The great star of the music hall doing a version of Ian’s tribute to Englands jewels”

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Who were Andrew O’Donnell and Max Wall? The 2 Irish students who died hours apart from Greece.

Andrew O’Donnell and Max Wall will be discussed in this post. We will tell you how the two students died hours apart in far away Greece. Who were Andrew O’Donnell and Max Wall? Andrew O’Donnell was 18 years old while Max Wall was his age mate. The two were Leaving Cert students. The pair died tragically in the Greece Island of Ios. Image credit: IrishMirror Andrew was a  student of St. Michael’s…

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