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• Twelve Monkeys Contains strong language. Sombre time-travel thriller in which a convict from 2035 is sent back in time to find the cause of a virus which has wiped out most of the planet's population.
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Director – Terry Gilliam, Screenplay – Janet & David Webb Peoples, Based on the 1962 film La Jetee by Chris Marker, Producer – Charles Roven, Photography – Roger Pratt, Music – Paul Buckmaster, Visual Effects – Peerless Camera Co, Special & Mechanical Effects Supervisor – Vincent Montefusco, Production Design – Jeffrey Beecroft. Production Company – Universal/Atlas-Classico.

Cast

Bruce Willis (James Cole), Madeleine Stowe (Dr Kathryn Railly), Brad Pitt (Jeffrey Goines), Christopher Plummer (Dr Leland Goines), Frank Gorshin (Dr Owen Fletcher), David Morse (Dr Peters)

Plot

In the year 1997, a virus was released, killing billions and forcing the remnants of humanity to relocate underground. Several years later, convicted criminal James Cole is offered a pardon if he will volunteer for a dangerous experiment – to travel back in time and collect information about how the virus was initially spread. In Baltimore of 1990, psychiatrist Kathryn Railly interviews Cole who has been arrested and placed in a psychiatric institution, believed to be insane because of his claims to come from the future. In 1996, Cole reappears and abducts Railly, forcing her to help him as he seeks to stop Jeffrey Goines, another patient from the institution who leads the revolutionary Army of the Twelve Monkeys and is planning to unleash the virus. As Kathryn starts to believe what Cole is saying is true and they head toward the time of the happening of a recurring vision from Cole’s childhood, Cole realizes his attempts to prevent the future may well be what ended up causing it in the first place.

Twelve Monkeys comes from Terry Gilliam. Terry Gilliam is a former member of the Monty Python troupe, although is nowadays better known as a director with films such as Jabberwocky (1977), Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989), The Fisher King (1991), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), The Brothers Grimm (2005), Tideland (2005), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), The Zero Theorem (2013) and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018).

Terry Gilliam’s films are not always easily accessible films – they are bleak and pessimistic and filled with a dark sense of gallows humour. They are often wildly over-scaled and self-indulgent but they also achieve moments of visionary surrealism that few other films do. Gilliam seems to delight in puncturing heroism. This is perhaps the singular connecting theme of all his films. Most of Terry Gilliam’s heroes – Michael Palin in Jabberwocky, Jonathan Pryce in Brazil, John Neville’s Baron in Baron Munchausen, Jeff Bridges in The Fisher King and Bruce Willis here – seem heroes surrounded by an innately cruel universe that appears involved in some conspiracy to thwart them at every turn. Their journey to heroism seems less one about overcoming insurmountable odds than about overcoming pessimism and failure inside themselves. Yet being thrust into the role of heroism in Terry Gilliam’s universe is no guarantee of success either – in three of Gilliam’s six films up to this point, the hero does not triumph at the end. [Also worth checking out here is Lost in La Mancha (2002) concerning Terry Gilliam’s failed attempts to make a film based on Don Quixote and the eventual film versionThe Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), the mother of all stories about deluded heroes].

With his previous film The Fisher King, as well as here with Twelve Monkeys, it can be observed that Terry Gilliam usually works better when operating from a script by somebody else rather than one he has had a hand in. Both The Fisher King and Twelve Monkeys are much more focused as scripts, less all over the place and dominated by extravagant set-pieces as earlier Gilliam-scripted efforts such as Time Bandits, Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen were oft wont to do. Terry Gilliam also has the good luck in these cases to be serviced by exceptional scriptwriters – in the case of The Fisher King, Richard LaGravanese, an Oscar nominee who has crafted works like The Bridges of Madison County (1995), A Little Princess (1995), Beloved (1998), The Horse Whisperer (1998) and, in the case of Twelve Monkeys, David Webb Peoples, who co-wrote Blade Runner (1982) and had then just come from his Oscar-winning work on Clint Eastwood’s breathtakingly nihilistic anti-Western Unforgiven (1992).

On the other hand, Twelve Monkeys, also like The Fisher King, is not an easily likeable film. Terry Gilliam seems to film with a wilful emphasis on ugliness – camera angles are often distorted, the lighting schemes unattractive and washed out, and Gilliam has his big name star Bruce Willis made up as a virtual derelict. However, for both films, to bear with Terry Gilliam’s vision is ultimately rewarding. First of all in Twelve Monkeys, Gilliam has created here a deeply shocking vision of the end of the 20th Century – an image of a society that has totally fractured at the edges and fallen into a decay that seems beyond any hope.

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As a time travel film, Twelve Monkeys is almost the complete antithesis of anything like The Terminator (1984) or Back to the Future (1985). It is like a Terminator film gone to Hell – imagine The Terminator or Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)’s long intensive night of struggle without the guarantee of either film’s triumph of humanism at the end. Bruce Willis’s hero is about as far away from Michael J. Fox’s skateboarding, hiply culture-quoting Marty McFly in the Back to the Future films as possible – he is not a hero, he spends most of the time running about naked or locked up as a psychiatric patient and seems to lack even the most elementary skills necessary to survive in the past. Furthermore, the stress of surviving in two temporal eras creates insanity – in one startling turnabout, he decides that he is mentally ill and the future he comes from is a delusion. Unlike the heroes of The Terminator and Back to the Future, he has not come to save the future, for the future is fixed and unchangeable, which leads to a beautifully fatalistic ending. The bleakness of this vision is startling.

What makes Twelve Monkeys exceptional is not just the bleakness of its vision but the intellectual game that Terry Gilliam and David Peoples play. The time travel story plays like an interlocking jigsaw of teasing clues and tiny puzzles – throwaway pieces like the graffiti on the wall, the cryptic messages on the answer-phone, the list of plague destinations. Each maps over onto a later piece of the film, all culminating in a time-paradox ending that is mesmerizing in its gradually unfolding revelations and surprises.

Twelve Monkeys is a remake of Chris Marker’s little seen experimental short La Jetee (1962). That said, Twelve Monkeys is less a remake of La Jetee than it is a variation on a similar plot. Twelve Monkeys keeps essentially the same plot structure but trims some aspects of La Jetee – like the trip into the future – and gives far greater substance in other areas – like the reasons for the trip into the past – plus fills out the romance and the background of the future. It also draws La Jetee‘s plot out into a more dramatically structured film and extends the twist ending.

Both are equally impressive films, although Twelve Monkeys is far better as a science-fiction film. La Jetee is construed as a languid, dreamy romance, wistful for an unattainable past; Twelve Monkeys adopts more of a thriller structure – its plot centres more around the paradoxes of time travel and the travellers’ plight in the past and is not interested in the romance. Despite its short 30-minute length, La Jetee has a slower pace, while Twelve Monkeys feels more tight and concise despite its greater length. Nevertheless, both, while essentially the same story, are equally unique and impressive films.

Bruce Willis takes a decidedly non-commercial part here – his humour and he-man persona is completely buried in the dirtiness and confusion of his character and he spends almost the entire film walking about in bewildered fractured confusion. Brad Pitt goes completely over-the-top and plays the twitchy nervous psycho to end all twitchy psychos. The performance has its amusements but Pitt overacts totally – how such a visibly mentally unbalanced character could manage to unite and organize an activist campaign is beyond the film’s stretch of credibility. Why the Academy of Motion Pictures ended up nominating Pitt for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar that year in the part is frankly bizarre.

The Syfy Channel remade the film as the tv series 12 Monkeys (2015-8) featuring Aaron Stanford in the Bruce Willis role.

Screenwriter David Peoples would go on to write a number of other genre works including Blade Runner (1982), Leviathan (1989) and Soldier (1998), as well as directing the interesting post-holocaust sports film The Salute of the Jugger/The Blood of Heroes (1990).

(Winner in this site’s Top 10 Films of 1995 list. Winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, Nominee for Best Production Design at this site’s Best of 1995 Awards).

Review by: Matt Brighton

Posted on: October 11th, 2018

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Plot: What’s it about?

It’s hard to believe that a member of Monty Python has become one of the most acclaimed directors of our day. With movies like Brazil, Time Bandits and The Fisher King under his belt, Gilliam has shown the range few directors have. Brad Pitt called his role in Fight Club the best script he’s ever been handed. I disagree. His role was very good, and he played it well, but in terms of a role that I remember him in, it’s here. The rest of the cast is superb as well, with Bruce Willis in the lead as James Cole, Madeline Stowe as psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the always wonderful Christopher Plummer. The film is now over two decades old and, looking back, it’s aged well. Add to that it’s now a television series, another long-lasting effect of the movie.

James Cole (Willis) has been called from his prison cell. He’s been called to go back through time to stop and event happening, the Army of the 12 Monkeys. Now, the future of this movie isn’t at all like that of Star Trek or anything like that, it’s a run down, yet highly technologically advanced civilization that has been forced to retreat underground to live. The scientists, who rule with an iron fist, want to change all that and have been sending their inmates back through time (so far unsuccessfully) to stop an event that started all the confusion in the first place. The time machine itself looks more like something you would use to pump water off a ship than travel through time, but they don’t go into the inner working of it, and it’s just as well. Accuracy isn’t the time machine’s forte, either. Willis ends up at a battle in World War I and then misses his destination by another 6 years before landing at the right place and time. While on his second trip (he was only in WWI for a few minutes), he lands in the year 1990. He was given a telephone number to dial, that in the correct year (1996) would accomplish his mission, and instead he manages to get committed where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly and fellow inmate Jeffrey Goines (Pitt).

Pitt turns it up a notch and gives his character a very nervous, awkward sense. This garnered him his first Academy Award nomination (he lost to Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects), with others coming in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Moneyball (he lost both). This was also the beginning of the “era of Brad Pitt”, and some would argue that the sun has yet to set there. He was flying high with strong performances in Legends of the Fall and Se7en and these would continue into the new century. Bruce Willis, already an established star, turns in a subdued performance and the lovely Madeline Stowe, who we don’t see that much anymore, nailed her role as well. 12 Monkeys is a movie that makes you think and it’s not your typical “time travel” movie. There’s something to be said for that.

Video: How does it look?

12 Monkeys has always been a very visually entertaining film and Arrow’s transfer cleans up a lot of the picture that faltered in the previous versions. Colors are a bit richer and blacks seem somewhat deeper as well. The entire palette used for the movie is very bleak and muted, no doubt to reflect the atmosphere of the movie itself. Detail has seen an improvement and though there’s still a few problems with the source print, this is certainly the best the movie has ever looked on a home video format.

Audio: How does it sound?

We get a true uncompressed DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 track that sounds amazing. Granted, 12 Monkeys hasn’t ever really been the end all be all of dynamic audio, but there’s a richness and fullness to this track that I hadn’t noticed before. The LFE are quite active and I heard the most discrete sounds coming out of my surround speakers. Dialogue is rich and concentrated solely in the center channel. I’m happy to finally hear this movie the way it was meant to be heard.

Supplements: What are the extras?

Arrow Video has taken the reigns from Universal and has given us a few supplements, some of which have been on previous discs.

• Audio commentary – Terry Gilliam and producer Charles Roven’s track is the same one that was present on previous DVD and Blu-ray’s, but it’s nonetheless an interesting listen. Gilliam’s comments made me think and that’s something that most commentary tracks don’t do. If, for some reason, you’ve not had the chance to give this one a listen – do. It’s worth it.
• The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys – This documentary by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe focuses on most every aspect of the filmmaking process. We get interviews with the actors, the director who’s had his ups and downs with Hollywood despite producing some of the most unique movies out there. We get a look at the set design, production design and some insight into the script and storyboard process as well.
• Extensive image galley
• Theatrical trailer

The Bottom Line

Subdued and a film that gets the wheels turning, 12 Monkeys is and has been one of my personal favorites since I first saw it. The performances are interesting and textured and the disc itself looks as good as I’ve ever seen. The extras are a bit “been there, done that”, but they’re nonetheless an interesting mix. Recommended.

MOVIE INFO.
YEAR RELEASED
1995
RATING

Twelve Monkeys 1995 Dual Audio Speakers

R
DIRECTOR
Terry Gilliam
STUDIO
Arrow Video

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RUNNING TIME
129 min.
88%
TECH SPECS

• BLU-RAY
• (1.85:1)
• Video Codec: AVC
• Audio: DTS HD Master
• 1 Disc Set
DISC FEATURES

• Theatrical Trailer
• Audio Commentary
• Deleted Scene(s)
• Featurette
• Documentary
• Digital Copy

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