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- Synopsis Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer), the leader of a traveling show, has a dark secret. Thousands of years ago he traded the soul of his daughter, Valentina, to the devil. Now the devil has come to collect his prize. To save her, Parnassus must make a final wager: Whoever collects five souls first will win Valentina.
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An elderly sage, Doctor Parnassus, runs a travelling theatre troupe, which includes his teenage daughter Valentina, barker Anton, and dwarf Percy. The troupe's main attraction is a portal to a magical "Imaginarium", a surreal dream world that transforms according to its participants' desires and offers them a choice between difficult self ...
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Outside a London pub, an elderly bearded sage named Doctor Parnassus runs a nearly bankrupt travelling theatre troupe, which includes his teenage daughter Valentina, a sleight-of-hand expert and barker Anton, and a dwarf assistant Percy. The troupe's main attraction is a portal to a magical "Imaginarium", a surreal dream world that transforms accor...
Heath Ledger as Tony Shepard. When Ledger died during production, the latter duration of the role was recast for certain scenes to show "physically transformed versions" of the character within the...Writing
Director Terry Gilliam and screenwriter Charles McKeown wrote the script, their first collaboration since The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). When he was approached with the basic concept by Gilliam, McKeown thought of the central character of Parnassus "as a semi-eastern medicine man evolved", and in retrospect he further said about the script's sensibilities, "It is about the theme of imagination, and the importance of imagination, to how you live and how you think and so on. And tha...
Filming
The film received an initial budget of $25 million, but its final budget was about $30 million. Gilliam and his cinematographer Nicola Pecorini went wider than ever before on focal length with a new 8mm Zeiss lens, unusual even for Gilliam movies which are known for wide-angle imagery. The widest lens on a Gilliam film had been a 9.8mm Kinoptik. Production of the remaining computer generated imagery effects shots were done in Vancouver.
Post-production
Principal photography in Vancouver wrapped, as planned, on 15 April, but the production was soon beset by further tragedy when producer William Vince died of cancer, just two days after model shooting back in London had wrapped. Fellow producer Amy Gilliam, Terry's daughter, remembered, "[Bill Vince] always said, 'If you get your film in the can, you'll be all right.' And I kind of believe that he stayed with us to know that happened." Eventually, while on post-production, Gilliam himself was...
The film opens with St Paul's Cathedral in the background (by the north bank of the Thames), and the first show is performed under the rail tracks at Green Dragon Court, directly next to Borough Market, with Southwark Cathedral in the background (in Borough, London, on the south bank of the Thames), where the drunken lout molests the performers and...
The original motion picture soundtrack of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was composed by Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna who had previously worked on Gilliam's Tideland (2005). Gilliam wrote lyrics for the two songs "We Love Violence" and "We Are the Children of the World", the latter of which spoofed Michael Jackson's famous "We Are the World"an...
Before it was finished, the film had already received healthy interest from worldwide distributors and had sold out across the world. However, it received mild response from many distributors in the United States. Gilliam said that Fox Searchlight Pictures and other distributors had declined to release it in the US. Eventually, its US distribution ...
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 64% of 197 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 5.97/10. The website's critical consensus is that "Terry Gilliam remains as indulgent as ever, but The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus represents a return to the intoxicatingly imaginative, darkly beautiful power of his ...
Web site: Dreams on Dr Parnassus. – Behind-the-scenes articles and exclusive interviews with cast and crew, by Phil Stubbs.
Web site: "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (12A) . . 14 August 2009 . 15 December 2012.Web site: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) . Box Office Mojo.Web site: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) – Financial Information . . 5 August 2017.News: Heath Ledger's final film 'struggling to secure release' . https://web.archive.org/web/20090303214239/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/4913936/Heath-Ledgers-final-film...- Nicola Pecorini
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- Terry Gilliam
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With Andrew Garfield, Christopher Plummer, Richard Riddell, Katie Lyons. Having made a deal with the Devil himself for immortality many millennia ago, the now decrepit mystic Doctor Parnassus fights for the freedom of his only daughter's soul.
- (154K)
- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
- Terry Gilliam
- 2010-01-08
In the stories that Doctor Parnassus tells to his daughter Valentina, the midget Percy, and his assistant Anton, he claims to have lived for more than one thousand years; However, when he fell in love with a mortal woman, he made a deal with the devil (Mr. Nick), trading his immortality for youth.
Jul 11, 2020 · The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is about a story, or rather, stories within stories. It focuses on a traveling show run by the incredible Doctor Parnassus, a mystic man with the power to show you your dreams.
Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer), the leader of a traveling show, has a dark secret. Thousands of years ago he traded the soul of his daughter, Valentina, to the devil. Now the devil has...
- (196)
- Fantasy, Adventure, Mystery & Thriller
- PG-13
May 24, 2009 · Parnassus takes place in a contemporary London that Gilliam paints as a grim city populated by narrow-minded individuals with no sense of imagination. It is a despairing, old man’s vision of a...
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