Jabberwocky (film)

Movie
German title	Jabberwocky
Original title	Jabberwocky
Country of production	Great Britain
original language	English
Publishing year	1977
length	100 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Terry Gilliam
script	Charles Alverson , Terry Gilliam
production	John Goldstone
music	Modest Mussorgsky , Marcus De Wolfe
camera	Terry Bedford
cut	Michael Bradsell
occupation
Michael Palin : Dennis Cooper Harry H. Corbett : Squire John Le Mesurier : Passelewe Warren Mitchell : Fishfinger Max Wall : King Bruno the Questionable Terry Gilliam : Man with a stone Bernard Bresslaw : landowner Antony Carrick : Merchant Peter Cellier : first businessman Derek Francis : Bishop Neil Innes : second herald Terry Jones : Poacher Paul Curran : Mr. Cooper Sr. David Prowse : Red Herring and Black Knight

Jabberwocky is a feature film made in 1977 by Terry Gilliam with reference to the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll . Charles Alverson and Terry Gilliam wrote the script. The film opened in German cinemas on December 15, 1977.

action

The film tells the story of Dennis Cooper ( Cooper with journeyman qualification). He lives with his father in a small village and dreams of making the world a better place through his ideas. When his father dies, Dennis moves to the city, away from his loved ones and towards reputation and merit.

In doing so, he gets into many an adventure. Also against the dangerous Jabberwocky (a dragon-like monster), who makes the forests around the city unsafe. When he finally defeats him and thus makes the medieval world a bit safer again, he is finally respected by his loved one, but at the same time wins the heart of the princess of the empire, who lapses into romantic indulgence in the still standing tower of the castle.

background

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

• decaying buildings
• lack of hygiene
• limited knowledge horizon of people
• monarchical rule
• Knight games and knighthood
• Superstition and religion and much more.

The castle that served as the backdrop is the 14th century Scottish Doune Castle .

The budget was approximately $ 500,000.

criticism

“A satire on the 'good old days' peppered with references to the modern age, excellent cast, amazingly real in terms of furnishings, but with noticeable lengths. The macabre humor, which often pushes the boundaries of cynicism, is certainly not for everyone. "

- Lexicon of international film

" Jabberwocky (1977), Gilliam's first sole directorial work, was supposed to be an 'answer' to American great white shark- style monster films , a continuation of the [ Python- made] medieval fantasy [ The Knights of the Coconut , (1974 )] and a first exemplification of one of his later leitmotifs: fear as a motor for power and enrichment. The monster Wailing Week (very loosely based on Lewis Carrol's poem) makes everything bad enough in Terry Gilliam's Middle Ages worse, but not bad enough that you can't earn money from the victims. Vincent Canby called Gilliam's film a 'monster film with a heart' in the New York Times . That would have been a pleasant program. But the heart, as the criticism in Europe saw it, was 'anti-capitalist'. "

- Georg Seeßlen (2005): The dreamers, the crazy and the swindlers - Terry Gilliam's pragmatic fantasy cinema

Web links

• Jabberwocky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Jabberwocky at rotten tomatoes (English)
• Jabberwocky at Metacritic (English)
• Jabberwocky in the online film database
• Jabberwocky , at Allmovie.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jabberwocky. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 30, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Terry Gilliam: Jabberwocky. April 15, 1977. Retrieved August 24, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Seeßlen, Georg (2005): The dreamers, the crazy and the swindlers - Terry Gilliam's pragmatic fantasy cinema , originally in: epd Film 10/2005, here: filmzentrale.com