Terry Gilliam talks about the animations for MPFC

[coralbrain91]

I love how the baby eats the woman.

[coralbrain91]

THAT WAS HILARAS!!!

[debuichef]

surrealism indeed

[lelapindore]

Gilliam is without doubt the greatest director and animator of all time.

[OscarApollo]

@lelapindore There's quite a lot of doubt about that, actually. Quite a lot of people think Orson Welles is the greatest director of all time, and in terms of animators, well... personally, I think the best is Rod Scribner.

[themontypythonmuseum]

@OscarApollo Orson Welles... What about Kurosawa as best director of all time?

[OscarApollo]

@themontypythonmuseum Well, I was just giving an example to prove that "Terry Gilliam is the greatest director of all time, without doubt" is a pretty dubious claim. There's a lot of candidates - Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick...

[themontypythonmuseum]

@OscarApollo Yes, or perhaps I never "got" Orson Welles.

[lelapindore]

@OscarApollo

What I really meant to say is that Gilliam is one of my personal favorites :)

(to me, the statements must necessarily mean the same thing)

I suppose the world could vote on who is the "greatest film director of all time" but 6.7+ billion people will never agree on one person... and I'd be depressed if they did, as that would be an indication of an extremely homogenized global society.

[snodcurl]

a teacher to us all

[Apolloin]

Whilst some of the animated skits were amusing in the show, I always found his work largely superfluous to the movies - especially the good ones.

A technique that was already dated when MPFC aired. As for his initial comment - if you examine the careers of Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese and Terry Gilliam I think you'll find that history has judged justly.

[themontypythonmuseum]

How would you say history has judged? They're all middle aged and mostly americanised?

[nelaqua]

he´s a genious and one of my favorite directors