The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.
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Dario Argento virtually dramatized Little Red Riding Hood in his nasty slasher Suspiria Most are more subtle than that with these themes and intimations; a possible hypothesis for the adult adoration with horror is indeed associating them with the tales from childhood.
The former is on show in Disney adaptations of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, whilst the latter has alternately been played straight (Ridley Scott’s Legend) , reworked for contemporary significance ( A Tale In Terror’s historical twist on Snow White, featuring Sigourney Weaver’s Evil Queen); or given a knowing postmodern edge (Terry Gilliam’s The Brothers Grimm ; Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood) .
Think of "The Princess Bride" on an even bigger scale or "Shrek" in live action or Terry Gilliam's "Time Bandits" or "The Brothers Grimm" with similar laughs.
Because the films we have seen, at least since the start of the 21st century, have felt compromised (“The Brothers Grimm”), muddled (“The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus”) or borderline-unwatchable (“ Tideland”).
But "The Zero Theorem" represents an alarming backslide, perhaps even past Gilliam's last film to play the Lido, 2005's desperate "The Brothers Grimm."
The Brothers Grimm sat on the fabled Miramax shelves for years, reportedly the recipient of tinkering and second-guessing by Harvey Weinstein; the resulting picture was a halfhearted effort that satisfied neither Gilliam fans nor the wide audience for which it was repurposed.
His creative output since 1995’s “Twelve Monkeys” has been rough: an ambitious but spotty take on Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” middling fare such as “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” (famously disrupted by Heath Ledger’s death) and “The Brothers Grimm.”