film and architecture section: Twelve Monkeys by Terry Gilliam, film and architecture appreciation

category: Architecture and Film

film index: 75

relationship with architecture:

architecture has a metaphoric presence in telling the story line. Architect Lebbeus Woods has strong influence in one of the major scenes of the movie.

study subject in:
"film+architecture" Course, Harvard Design School. (click HERE for syllabus)

film: Twelve Monkeys (L'Armée des 12 Singes)

director: Terry Gilliam
writers: Screenplay: David Peoples, Janet Peoples, story inspired by: Chris Maker
production: USA
release: March 14, 1996
playtime: 130 mins
visual: colour
Language: English
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Genre: Sci fi
Cast: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer
size: 401/171 mb

influenced by: La Jetée by Chris Marker (click to go to related page)

reference: avaxhome.ws, www.warezws.org, www.foriegnmoviesddl.com,

Description and download:

12 Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, inspired by the French short film La Jetée (1962), and starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, and Christopher Plummer. The film depicts the world in 2035 as devastated by disease, forcing the human population to live underground. Convict James Cole (Willis) "volunteers" for time travel duty to gather information in exchange for prison release. When he first arrives in the past, Cole is arrested and locked up in a psychiatric hospital, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly (Stowe), a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines (Pitt), the insane son of a world-renowned virologist.

Gilliam undertook the same filmmaking style from his own Brazil (1985), including the art direction and cinematography (specifically using fresnel lenses). The interrogation room where Cole is being interviewed by the scientists was based on the work of Lebbeus Woods; these scenes were shot at three different power stations (two in Philadelphia and one in Baltimore). Gilliam intended to show Cole being interviewed through a multi-screen interrogation TV set because he felt the machinery evoked a "nightmarish intervention of technology. You try to see the faces on the screens in front of you, but the real faces and voices are down there and you have these tiny voices in your ear. To me that's the world we live in, the way we communicate these days, through technical devices that pretend to be about communication but may not be."

The art department made sure that the 2035 underground world would only use pre-1996 technology as a means to depict the bleak future. To create the majority of visual effects sequences, Gilliam awarded the shots to Peerless Camera, the London-based effects studio he founded in the late-1970s with visual effects supervisor Kent Houston (The Golden Compass, Casino Royale). Additional digital compositing was done by The Mill, while Cinesite worked on film scanning services.

imbd link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/
Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_monkeys

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Friday, December 4, 2009

Twelve Monkeys by Terry Gilliam, film and architecture appreciation

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