It 'hard to get close to last film by Terry Gilliam maintaining a certain critical lucidity, or something like that. Why The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as a work of cinematic art can not be "judged" without having in mind the events that have disrupted the production process. I write this almost feeling guilty: I saw the film almost two months ago and I did not like, or at least I'm not entirely convinced. I found it dull and heavy, not very successful as a story, just not up to its author. This morning to refresh my memory before beginning to write - in essence to say crap about the movie - I went to read the Wikipedia entry on The Imaginarium . And I discovered a lot of things that I did not know. I mean, I knew that this was the last film of Heath Ledger, but not much else, and reading I learned that Heath died at about one third of the shooting. The film was built around him, in the sense that the involvement of Ledger was a key factor in the financing of the project. Gilliam when he learned of the death of the actor in New York thought at first that the adventure is just over there, but then, determined to save the film, began looking for a way to continue shooting. Initially considered the idea of \u200b\u200busing computer graphics, but then had an idea that - seen from here and now - is pretty clever: If the character played by Heath Ledger, Tony, can travel within the mind of someone else, what prevents you from thinking that he can change every aspect of travel, according to many "internal variability" that characterize the inner each of us human beings? And so Gilliam called the court to his friend Johnny Depp, with whom he had already shared the disaster production of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote , and two other bigwig like Jude Law and Colin Farrell, Friends Ledger: All to play the role of Tony, the changing appearance of changing the mind of Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer). And then the tragedy of death, and with it a production difficulties apparently insurmountable, is transfigured in the light of the fiction film.
I remain of the opinion that this is not to be counted among the highest levels of Gilliam's art: the script (which was not changed in any way despite the problems) is a bit ' weary, the story involves up to a certain point and the proverbial visionary author seems a bit 'blurred ... But the film deserves to be seen not only for the enormous effort that required for the affection and Heath Ledger which is soaked. At least the interpretations can not discuss it: we know who it was who the Ledger and its three supporting actors / substitutes; Plummer is a sacred monster and see it working is always good, and, last but by no means least , Tom Waits that is part of the Devil itself would be worth the entire film.
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