Born in the United States but now a British citizen, Terrence Vance Gilliam (/lim/ 22 November 1940) is a director, animator, actor, comedian, and former member of the Monty Python comedy company.
Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), The Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1995), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), The Brothers Grimm (2005), Tideland (2005), and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2005) are only a few of Gilliam’s 13 feature films (2009). Being the only non-British member of Monty Python, he resigned from his American citizenship and became a British national in 1968.
Controversy
Reiterating his “black lesbian in transition” remark, calling the #MeToo movement a “witch-hunt,” and suggesting that some of Harvey Weinstein’s claimed victims are “adults who made choices” have all brought fresh criticism down on the director Terry Gilliam.
The 79-year-statements old’s were swiftly criticized, with PinkNews calling them “a pathetic attempt to claim that white guys are the true victims.”
The director of Time Bandits and former member of Monty Python’s ensemble originally came out as a black lesbian in interviews last year; his most recent comments, made while promoting his new film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, appeared in the Independent and can be read in full here.
A presentation of “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on July 4, 2018, in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, was attended by British film director and screenwriter Terry Gilliam. Picture by Michal CIZEK/AFP Photos by MICHAL CIZEK/AFP/Getty Images
When asked about diversity, Terry Gilliam has said, “I tell the world today I’m a black lesbian.”
“I’m tired, as a white male, of being blamed for everything that’s wrong with the world,” Gilliam remarked.
As for the #MeToo movement he had this to say: “I want people to accept responsibility and not simply always throw a finger at somebody else, saying, ‘You’ve ruined my life.'”
He elaborated, saying, “#MeToo is a witch-hunt. In my opinion, a lot of good individuals or people who are only a little annoying were being treated badly. That’s not how it works. I’m not a fan of herd behavior.
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Director Scorsese Left His Most Incendiary Remarks for Harvey Weinstein
The disgraced film mogul will go on trial for criminal sexual assault allegations in New York next week.
Weinstein, 67, is accused of sexually assaulting two women in 2006 and 2013. He has pled not guilty. So far, he has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than 80 women. Everything said about Weinstein having sex without consent has been rejected by him.
To paraphrase Terry Gilliam’s logic: “When you have power, you don’t take responsibility for abusing people. You like being in control. Indeed, it is how things function in the actual world.
This man claimed that Weinstein’s alleged victims were “ambitious adults… I feel sorry for Harvey’s many victims, but Hollywood is full of extremely ambitious adults who can and do make their own decisions.
To a large extent, Gilliam was restating remarks he made the previous year (2018) at a film festival in the Czech Republic. Then he continued, “I tell the world now I’m a black lesbian because I no longer want to be blamed for everything wrong in the world because I used to be a white male.” Let me introduce myself; my name is Loretta, and I’m a black lesbian in transition.
After making such comments to the Independent, he remarked, “You can despise what I just said. No problem! Not at all! Believe what you will, but fundamentalism invariably leads to “You have to attack other people who are not like you,” and that drives me nuts.
Proposed Plans for the Future
Talks between Gilliam and Laika, the company responsible for Coraline and ParaNorman, began in 2014. He has worked on and off for many years on an adaptation of Gilliam and Richard LaGravenese’s novel The Defective Detective (who wrote The Fisher King).
Gilliam mentioned his meeting with LaGravenese to discuss adapting The Defective Detective into a miniseries while marketing The Zero Theorem in theatres across the United States. It would mark Gilliam’s first time directing a television project if this materializes.
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In 2010, Gilliam Attended the 36th American Film Festival in Deauville
Together with Paul Auster, Gilliam penned the script for a film version of Mr. Vertigo, which was released in the second half of 2011.
At the 2018 Brussels International Film Festival, Gilliam revealed that he was once again developing Mr. Vertigo and that Ralph Fiennes had been cast in the lead role.
Gilliam has developed projects for a wide variety of artists and mediums, not just as a film director. Variety announced on December 16, 2010, that Gilliam was going to be credited as “creative advisor” on an animated steampunk spoof of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four called 1884, in which the voices of several former Monty Python cast members would be used.
In a webchat with The Guardian in October 2015, Gilliam said that he was developing “a TV series based on Time Bandits” and “another based on a story by Richard LaGravanese and I written after Fisher King, called The Defective Detective.”
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