BSP Episode 256: 12 Monkeys

Release date: 12/29/1995

Universal Pictures

Directed by

Produced by

Screenplay by

Based on Le jetee by Chris Marker

Cast

Bruce Willis

Madeleine Stowe

Brad Pitt

The hosts review:

Pimpin’ Back Seat Book Club!
Hugh Jackman is the Wolverine of singing.
Les Miserables singing reviews.
Loving and hating ABBA.
P….a….c….i….n…g
Great example of time-travel sci-fi.
You can’t change time.
Bob… another time traveler or Cole’s psychosis?
“I wouldn’t mind seeing a Brad Pitt Joker”
Brad Pitt’s rants made Fight Club unnecessary.
Breakdown of Terry Gilliam’s successes.
The music is insane and off, it works really well.
“All I see are dead people.”
Glad that it didn’t have a Hollywood ending.
Time is fixed. Time loops are fixed. Time travelers are fixed.
This sci-fi was a mind game, as opposed to special effects.
Setting the movie in the year that it came out was a great move, but a few things didn’t age well.
Any time you have a character in science fiction named Cassandra, PAY ATTENTION.
Cole, as the time traveler, didn’t do actually change time himself.
It wouldn’t have worked if it was faster paced, and it wouldn’t be a Terry Gilliam movie.
On to Batman.
Tony reads another of Goines’ rants.

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

Terri Gilliam gave Bruce Willis a list of “Willis acting clichés” NOT to use, including Steely Blue Eyes Look.
Most of the actors took a pay cut because they wanted to work with Gilliam.
In a scene where Cole is drawing his own blood, there is a shadow of a hamster in a wheel. This took a whole day to film because the hamster wouldn’t move, and Gilliam is a perfectionist and insisted that this detail should work as intended. For the rest of the production, Gilliam’s perfectionism was nick-named “The Hamster Factor.”

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