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By ED CHAMBLISS
Assistant Spotlight editor
It's Christmas time, somewhere in the twentieth
century. In the display window of a sidewalk shop,
several televisions arc on snowing a gung-ho
heating-duct salesman yelling why you should have
your old metallic ducts replaced by new ducts in
designer colors.
An old lady walks by with her shopping cart, and
the shop blows up. Fire and debris spew
everywhere, killing the unfortunate passer-by. And
that's the way the new bi/arre film "Brazil" by
Monty Python's Terry Gilliam begins.
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gave a polished performance for Sky with Diamc
such a young band. They've built album should {
a stong following since opening enough material
for "l ive Aid" in Philadelphia through a full p<
last year, and Saturday they gave headline act.
Columbians a taste of what has When singer 1
kept their hometown fans enter- nounecd "We'll
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Despite the name, the movie has nothing to do
with the country of Brazil. It is merely the name of a
1939 song played throughout the film. The film is
the story of a Walter Mitty type character named
Sam Lowry, a daydreaming worker for the department
of records, cxccllentlv nnrtrnucrt hu lnn!i?li!iti
Prycc.
Sam is perfectly happy in this strange "1984-ish"
society where signs proclaim "Suspicion Breeds
Confidence," and Consumers for Christ walk
around playing carols and collecting money.
Sam has his boss, Mr. Kurtzmann (lan Holm), in
the palm of his hand, and while Kurtzmann is in his
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WUSC-FM's newest programs ?
"Upbeat."
"Upbeat," which premiered in
December, i?> aired 6 p.m. every
other Wednesday and aimed at
addressing minority students'
concerns.
Programs in February arc
dedicated to the 17th annual
observance of Black History
Month, which is being celebrated
at USC with a variety of activities
organized by the Association of
A fro-American Students.
Wednesday's show will have
with the National Student E
next year.
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ter"), the group And for most of those swept
getic, non-stop up in "Hooter-mania," even
intent. tomorrow couldn't be soon
of their perfor- enough.
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normally plenty I.overboy fans have seen their
)pening act, but group in Columbia, and the
looters' fans. Canadian cniintet cave a snlwt
[lost of the cuts performance as Saturday's top
Might" and even bill, considering the group had
jue sound to a little new material to work with
ie, "l.ucy in the since its last appearance here,
mds." Another In 1983, the band boasted a
jive the group complicated laser light show and
to carry them sported a " Road Warrior" image
:rformancc as a complete with all-leather outfits
and bandanas on every limb,
.ric Ba/.ilian an- Saturday, the lasers were gone,
see ya soon" at although the lighting was still iininal
song "And pressivc; the only bandana was
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office, the workers watch old movies like
"Casablanca" on their computer terminals.
But at night, Sam has dreams and nightmares in
vvnich he tlies through the clouds in search of a
beautiful blonde-haired girl. In these dreams a huge
evil creature, dressed in Oriental battle armor, takes
her away and holds her captive. Sam awakes to a
cold sweat, never able to save his dream girl.
One day, back in reality, Sam sees the same girl
and falls hopelessly in love with her. To find out
more about her, Sam accepts a promotion his
mother (Katherine Hclmond) had wrangled for him
at Information Gathering.
Sam hates this job and even has to share a single
desk with another man. This wouldn't be so bad,
except the desk sticks through the wall, and the man
on the other side keeps pulling more of the desk into
his office.
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Layton (played by newcomer Kim Greist), and she is
in trouble with the government.
Sam's nightmares now become daymarcs and actual
reality as he goes against the security forces to
help his dream girl. I !e is occasionally helped out by
the outlaw-heating repairman-commando Harry
Tuttle (Robert Dc Niro).
This character is by far the best in the movie, even
though we only see him very rarely. His actions arc
always comical and usually outrageous, such as
always carrying a pistol and "escaping" by sliding
down a guy wire after finishing a job.
This film is just being released in America, but
has already swept many European film festivals.
urazn is a strikingly visual film, as is to be expected
by long-time animator Gilliam. If "Time
Bandits" was Gilliam's fantasy, then "Brazil" must
be his nightmare.
According to Gilliam, the film is a lighthearted
nightmare set in the other side of now. This "retrofuture"
feeling is accomplished mixing various
things from various eras. Televison screens from the
1960s arc mixed with the clothing of the late 1940s
and the cars and technology of the future.
Harsh shadows and brightly lit smoke arc
inute of it'
around singer Mike Reno's head,
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age to fill a concert hall. \
The' performance started
somewhat slowly, with the band
playing cuts off "I.ovin* Every
Minute of It," its recent release
that has received little attention H
compared to the success of its
previous three albums, "Lover- I
boy," "Get I.ucky" and "Keep H . ^
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Lovcrboy kicked in with a string t-?verboy entertains)
of former hits, including "Hot
Ciirls in Love," "Turn Me ped the hard-drr
Loose" and "Working for the performance.
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Auburn, a revue of the music of r .3^-v
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formers, including I lla l itzgerald,
Duke I llimuon and
Billie Holiday; I
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colors and unusual shapes seem to recall the recent
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of Doom" and "Conan the Barbarian." Most of
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It is obvious "Brazil" is a social satire. When someone
is arrested his spouse is given a reeeipt, and
when the prisoner is "in-tcrror-igated" by torture,
he is told, "If you hold out too long you could
jeopardize your credit rating."
The entire film is like a not-quite-right "1984."
The government is obviously in charge, but the
dominated public gets away with a lot of rcbelious
activity, some violent, others comical.
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dircctly taken from other films, and the most blatant
of these is a scene where Sam and an army of
renegade heating engineers arc escaping from the
Ministry of Information building and being chased
by the security forces.
Shooting, the security forces march down the
steps. This is cxactly like the Odessa Steps scene in
the 1925 Eiscnstcin silent movie classic
"Potemkin," except that instead of an old lady getting
shot in the eye through a pair of glasses, a
cleaning lady, who is waxing the floor, gets it.
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rolls down the stps, it is the floor waxer.
"Brazil" is a thriller, a quest, a fantasy, a black
comedy and a love story all mixed together in a
short-circuited Wearing Blender. Expect something
bizarre, strange and at some times, incomprehensible.
You may find yourself laughing at something
and suddenly realize, according to Gilliam, "I
shouldn't be laughing at that, that's horrendous."
But "Brazil" is a remarkably excellent film. It fits
together like the pieces of a puzzle. Everything is
related to everything else, and when it's done, it
may not be a pretty picture, but it's worth seeing.
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