Brazil

Terry Gilliam\'s satirical dystopia imagined a world choking on its own paperwork — a forecast that anyone who has tried to cancel a subscription will recognize. The famous battle for the "director\'s cut" produced one of the most uncompromising endings in mainstream cinema.

• Studio reshot the ending without Gilliam's consent; Gilliam took out a full-page Variety ad demanding his cut.
• Original title was "1984½", a nod to Fellini.
• Some of the bureaucratic visual jokes were lifted from real government offices.
• Robert De Niro insisted on playing the air-conditioning rebel.
• Roger Ebert called it one of the strangest, most stunning works of imagination of the eighties.

• "We're all in it together."
• "DOM."
• "This is your receipt for your husband."
• "It's the bombers. They're getting through."
• "Have a Merry Christmas."