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Baron Munchausen Rides Again |
| Section: THE ARTS / FILM |
| Author: Lawrence O' Toole |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1989 |
| Size: 2,186 Words, 12,870 Characters |
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When the screen opens upon Terry Gilliam's new extravaganza, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, which, according to some reports, has cost as much as $75 million, the audience is confronted with a peaceful panorama of tents of Turkish forces laying siege to a nameless European city.
"The Late 18th Century," superimposed titles announce somewhat grandly.
Next, even grander: "The Age of Reason."
Then, "Wednesday."
Terry Gilliam knows that nothing validates reality as much as specificity.
Quickly the camera sallies forth to find rapid-fire images of death and destruction--falling bricks and structures, various explosions, fresh red wounds everywhere, bodies squashed like insects under thumbs, smoke and dust covering everything like a huge scrim. The Turks ...
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...ms all great children's literature, and Gilliam charges his scenes with the unexpected thrills and pleasures of movies from the silent era. (There's a delightful bit where the Baron's miniature army of five sends a mouse out to frighten the Turks' elephants.) Come to think of it, a great deal of the film is silent. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a blessed thing--it reinstates wonder. vbcrlf
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