{"id":7548,"date":"2012-04-30T19:46:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T23:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7548"},"modified":"2014-12-15T15:41:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T21:41:12","slug":"12-monkeys-1995-terry-gilliam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7548","title":{"rendered":"12 Monkeys (1995, Terry Gilliam)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t seen this in a long time.  Love the <em>Vertigo<\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/103\">La Jetee<\/a><\/em> references, and the <em>Vertigo<\/em>-via-<em>La Jetee<\/em> references.  Katy was pleasantly surprised that Brad Pitt used to have energy.  With such a perfect script, I&#8217;m surprised the writers haven&#8217;t done anything except a Kurt Russell actioner since.<\/p>\n<p>Where Are They Now: Madeline Stowe hasn&#8217;t been in movies since 2003, is starring in a new show Katy watches.  Chris Plummer (Brad&#8217;s dad the famous biologist) came back to play <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4106\">Dr. Parnassus<\/a>.  His plague-unleashing assistant David Morse was in <em>Drive Angry 3D<\/em> last year. Jon Seda (Bruce&#8217;s ever-present fellow prisoner from the future who hands him a civil war pistol in the airport) is in <em>Treme<\/em>.  And Bruce Willis has an upcoming movie called <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8148\">Looper<\/a><\/em>, in which he travels from the future and his past-self sees him (almost) die.<\/p>\n<p>Gilliam:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I loved the idea of trying to make people consider the thought that to save the world five billion people might die. . . . But now you know that the world demands that things change. The word \u201cculling\u201d comes to mind. There&#8217;s going to be a culling of human beings soon. I don&#8217;t know what it will be. David&#8217;s thing was that a plague will do it. War? Famine? These things, the old favourites, are always there. Basically, I think there are too many people. And it&#8217;s not just that there are too many people; there are too many people who all want all these things that we have. That&#8217;s the problem. It&#8217;s Malthusian: there&#8217;s population and resources and, when they hit imbalance, look out boys and girls!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t seen this in a long time. Love the Vertigo and La Jetee references, and the Vertigo-via-La Jetee references. Katy was pleasantly surprised that Brad Pitt used to have energy. With such a perfect script, I&#8217;m surprised the writers haven&#8217;t done anything except a Kurt Russell actioner since. Where Are They Now: Madeline Stowe hasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,1270,1524,529,1566,247,1034,111],"class_list":["post-7548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-bruce-willis","tag-dystopia","tag-monkey","tag-pitt","tag-prison","tag-terry-gilliam","tag-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7548"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9680,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548\/revisions\/9680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}