“All Experience was a nightmare”: released 37 years ago, this film was an absolute disaster in the cash registers, but it was still a surprise to be classic

Cinema history corresponds to the examples of films that were disassembled in front of the cashier’s doors, despite sometimes the pharaoh’s funds that the studios were introduced. Especially if we consider an example for a job that cost $ 100 million for production, the profitability barrier should be 2.5 times the production budget.

There is a hierarchy in failures. The worst, the most devastating, the Americans have the term: Box Bomb Office. The pronunciation is sometimes incorrectly and through the nuances. With a $ 200 million budget and a $ 400 million revenue, a film such as Eternals, for example, is considered a severe commercial failure. Especially like a marvel -like stable. But this cannot be considered a devastating failure.

Production budget is $ 115 million for US $ 10 million for income (18 million Box Bomb Office American. He led his production company lost, Carolka pictures, $ 97 million, or inflation, today more than $ 195 million …

“The whole experience was such a nightmare and painful …”

During this observation, filmmaker Terry Gilliam could almost create a school case, a career, a roller. The director often overcame studios that regularly restricted his creative vision. The most famous example of this issue is Brazil, his homerous show, which brought against the head of the universal of that time.

A quarrel that celebrated his career in the saw, which left a trace. “This guy was exhausted a few years ago or, I think he died. He no longer lives in this body. That’s all I can say” He was entrusted with a frustrated, frustrated, site microphone in July last year TermSpeaking of it, the 3rd person’s singular, as if to emphasize this era better.

Add: “I will tell you, I am not watching my movies after their completion. The Adventure of Baron de MachusenAnd I haven’t been watching him for so long, because all his experience was such a nightmare and painful “…

Extravagant, hasty, heroic, mythical, such is the Baron of Machusen!

A romantic account of this Baron de Munchasen’s exploitation (Who really existed) He has become one of the most popular characters in German literature and has been adapted many times to the cinema. The version, which was signed by Joseph von Buck in 1944, became known, as the Third Reich’s order was an Agfacolor film.

In 1988, Terry Gilliam should not be ashamed, far from him. History? It happened in the 18th century. The city is going to obey the Turks’ attacks. Only the royal theater stands, where actors and machinists are trying to see the audience with a drink, but constantly concerned.

They present the “Baron de Machusen Adventures” on this day, when in the middle of the stage, an old man gets up and argues for the identity of Baron de Machusen. He then offers the incredible residents to the Turks. To do this, he asked them to help him find four former adventure satellites …

Carried by a staging Full of plume, wonderful sets signed by dante ferretti, The Chief Decorator of Fellini, A John Neville Embodying A Formidable Baron and Supported by A Casting Very Young Uma Thurman, Sarah Polley, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver reed, Robin Williams, and Even the Former Companion of Gilliam of the monthy python periodod, Eric Idle, a little surprising.

On the other hand, it was a hell … The initial production budget (today equivalent of $ 64 million), Giliam left the inflation spiral to reach $ 46.63 million or more than $ 126 million.

In 1988, Article from Los Angeles Times Showed a bag of bags that played behind the film behind the film …

“This unexpected budget has exceeded the shadow of the most ambitious and potentially spectacular project, supported by David Putnam, who was forced to resign as the president of Colombia when the parent company Coca-Cola Co.

British filmmaker Putna warned Hollywood against the dangers of excessive costs when he took Colombian leadership fifteen months ago. Ironically, he and his acols rapidly faced the budgetary problems of Menchausen, even if his reasonable approach was to cinematic funding by protecting Colombia, with the direct responsibility of the studio.

As Colombia has completed an agreement that refunds all financial responsibilities for Machusen, which is shot in Spain and Italy, the film cannot become a fiasco fiasco Porte du paradis“

“That really left me some results …”

Even … production delays, expenses, legal problems, film filming place in Rome at Cinecitta Studios, and the absence of promotion during the change of direction in Columbia studios, shoots were not far from trouble for the team.

And even dangerous as Told him in 2007 Actor Sarah PolleyWho was nine years old at the time. “It really left me a few results … it was dangerous. There were so many explosions near me that it was traumatized for the baby, whether it was dangerous or not. For a long period of time without freezing and counting hours. It was physically exhaustive and dangerous.”

The film was released only in 117 copies barely in the United States. Despite the criticism, it is generally very positive, the result in the cash register was absolute fiasco. The film brought only $ 8 million, with more than $ 21 million today if we act with inflation.

It led to the loss of the studio in the equivalent of the current $ 105 million, which made this work one of the biggest failures that had ever collected at the US box office. The four quotes collected on the Oscars, unfortunately, will change absolutely nothing in the disaster …

37 years after the release, the adventure of Baron de Machanen is rightly considered one of the best works of Terry Gilliam’s abundant imagination and largely found its place in the hearts of many filmmakers.

In 2022, ESC published the beautiful edition of the film by combining the Blu-Ray / DVD, in the Mediabook format. It is also available in VOD. You know what to do if you have never seen this experience and its fever imagination, which we want to make it endless.