(wind blusters)
(enigmatic music)
(man) Filming's getting up! Let's make a start.
Wakey, wakey, folks!
(Terry) I thought this was rehearsed. Fuck, man!
(jet roars)
Cut, cut, cut! What's going on?
-We're fucked. -(he mouths)
(thunder rumbles)
Ladies and gentlemen, just listen up for a second.
There's a large bunch of lightning and a storm about to hit us.
(rain pouring)
(panicked voices)
(man) Terry!
(mud squelching)
I've never, never, never...
seen such a sum of bad luck.
(man) I'm going to refuse to shoot Jean Rochefort on a horse
until he's medically fit.
(Terry) Agh! I am apoplectic, you can you hear me.
The movie is paramount. It's, it's ahead of my children...
ahead of my wife.
(man) We can't make the film, not the film you want to make.
You know, I'm sorry to be...
as always, the bearer of fucking bad tidings and...
It's almost like, I've forgotten about this film.
It's like it doesn't exist, it can't exist,
cos if it does exist it's too painful.
(gentle music)
(Terry) I've done the film too often in my head,
too many times I've seen it.
I've been through it, I know how it goes. Uh...
Is it better to just leave it there?
I really don't know.
I literally do not know.
(enigmatic music)
(roaring)
(Terry) Why does anybody create?
Cos we can.
Cos we don't have a choice.
It's hard.
Life is hard, art is hard.
And the idea that it should be fun?
Who the fuck invented that story?!
I mean, I'm amazed that you still want to do it. Are you...?
I don't want to do it. I just want to...
As I tell people, this is not a film,
this is a medical condition.
I have what is like a brain tumour
that must be removed so I can get on with my life.
I've gotta get myself physically up to this fucking thing.
We're all older now.
It's old men fumbling in the dark.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
This is my old Quixote with Doré illustrations.
There we are.
The dead mule, which is in the movie.
There's Quixote. The problem has always been
trying to find a Quixote as thin and gaunt...
and aged as Doré drew him.
Doré's illustrations are so brilliantly conceived, thought out.
The costumes...
everything about it is well researched.
So it's the most cinematic in that sense.
These are just storyboards.
But, God, they're amazing.
God. Mmm!
[bell tolls somewhere in the distance)
"Too much sanity may be madness," said Don Quixote,
"but the maddest of all is to see life as it is
and not as it should be!"
(interviewer) Well, I'll ask the question, where is the film now?
We've been, for the last year, dealing with some German and French lawyers.
This has been going on and on,
and we're getting very close now to getting the rights back.
So with any luck it could be within the next month or so.
(enigmatic music)
We've almost got all the pieces of 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' back together again.
The plan is to start shooting in September -
Ewan McGregor and Robert Duvall.
(reporter) 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' has been delayed once more,
this time due to John Hurt's pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
Just when you think you're there, another disaster befalls.
(reporter) The film finally seemed to be moving forward
after seven failed attempts in almost two decades.
(Terry) This just keeps coming up again and again,
and it keeps crashing, so it's the Sisyphean moment of my life.
Whether I really should even be continuing even trying to do it,
I don't know. My wife says walk away from it.
(Mark Kermode) The project is on again and this time
it stars Adam Driver and Michael Palin,
and is scheduled to shoot in autumn.
(reporter) Terry Gilliam's 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote'
has been delayed only days before production was due to begin.
(Terry) It looks very much like we've got the money this time.
Hey! How are you. Good to see you.
Yeah, gosh.
[Jonathan Pryce) The relationship that I have with Terry
has gone all the way back to 'Brazil'.
I couldn't say no, really.
Everything that went wrong was just waiting for me to get old enough
to play Don Quixote.
(Terry) 'Brazil' was such an important film
in what I loosely call a career,
and Quixote might be the end of it all,
so the circle might be complete,
I can then relax, cos it's been such a long, long obsession...
the idea of making this film.
(Wogan) You've got to be possessed...
to want to continue making a movie under those kind of circumstances.
Yeah. The problem is once you start on these things, it's hard to stop.
(woman) What is the attraction of the tale of Don Quixote? I mean, why persist?
(Terry) It's, I think, the need to dream, the need to have...
battles to fight that are greater than you.
Stand your ground, foul and fearsome giant!
I am Don Quixote de la Mancha!
(birds chirp)
-Hi. -(laughing)
-Hey, how are you? -Hi.
(Terry laughs)
-When did you get in? -Uh...
-When was it? -You got in two days ago.
Two days ago, yeah. You arrived today in the morning, right?
Wait till you see her blonde.
(conversation continues indistinctly)
(flamenco music plays)
(enigmatic music)
How many incarnations of this film have you been on, Nicola?
I have, like, seven folders,
so seven different years.
-So seven different attempts? -Yeah.
Nicola!
Hello, how are you?
Are you ready for this new adventure?
Yeah. Fuck it. Same old adventure.
Ah! Ha-ha!
Aqui, aqui, aqui!
(Terry roars)
OK.
Me llamo Raoul.
We've got to have him in the film.
I mean, he's just too much.
I hope he's OK because he was so fantastic.
(laughs) Ola!
-Que tal? -Oh, that would be good,
cos, I mean, we all - Nicola, everybody wants... Benjamin.
We all say Raoul has to be in the film somehow. (laughs)
Bye-bye.
That's fantastic. (laughs) He's great.
What's nice about the film at the moment...
We've got the original Sancho Panza, he's back.
It's not a giant, it's a windmill!
(laughing)
Benjamin Fernandez, the original designer.
How are you?
It's a great reunion of slightly older people.
This time we've gotta do it, finally!
(gentle music)
(Terry) Some people think it's heroic.
More truthful, it's foolish and stupid.
But that's what obsessions are about.
You just let them lead you down the garden path to the abyss.
(heartbeats)
I had a mini stroke.
A mini stroke, which is actually...
What they're called is an eye stroke is what it is.
So it affected my vision a little bit, that's all.
-So I guess it's a yes? Yeah? -Yes, please.
N... Jesus!
N, B, H, E, Z, U.
That one below that - E, C... Is it N? V.
Now try to find your nose with your eyes closed.
OK, very good. Very good. OK.
Very good.
And just look to the light.
Quixote struck me more powerfully
when I reached middle age
cos that's what I thought Quixote was very much about.
It's like a last hurrah.
The tale of this old man whose body was failing,
who at the same time, his spirit and willpower
was thriving, flourishing.
He's an older man. He has one last chance to, uh,
make the world as interesting as he dreams it to be.
(daunting music)
If anybody's got a better idea than the script,
-do mention it. (laughs) -(man) OK.
Whoosh! A great shadow swoops across
Don Quixote and Sancho like a black wing.
Quixote looks up. Whoosh!
(as Quixote) A giant with arms six miles long!
She is in great danger.
Quixote lowers his lance and charges the windmill.
Prepare to die, foul and fearsome giant!
-(laughing) -Boom!
The lance impales the sail. Boom!
And Quixote is wrenched from Rocinante.
-Thrown violently to the ground. -Whooaaa!
Action, more, harder go, go, go, go, go!
Quixote gathers energy, throws himself into it, slashing, wailing and yelling.
-Help! I am in here! Help! -(laughing)
The farmer flings himself at Toby's feet, clings pathetically to Toby's leg.
(laughing)
(snorting, laughing)
(as Quixote) That an ignorant peasant should find interest in a book he cannot read!
(Terry) There's a nice feeling, "Oh, we're making a movie again."
But then I also have this other knowledge of our limited budget and time.
The money hasn't come in. The deals we've been doing,
the marketplace has got no faith in this movie.
And I begin to wonder whether I should even be doing the movie.
It's better to leave a ruin there
then people can imagine what the castle would have looked like.
(enigmatic music)
Bruegel has always fascinated me because I think
if he had been living now he would be making films,
cos his paintings are just full of stories on top of stories,
on top of stories. They're full of amazing characters.
When we did 'Holy Grail' and 'Jabberwocky',
it was really Bruegel that we were trying to put on film.
What I love about him, the people are just full of life.
Everything is going on in them.
We just literally stole as many ideas
as we could from him with no shame at all.
(contemplative music)
We still have too much colour?
-It looks very good. -Yeah...
Just this, it just has a little bit rather than...
such a straight line, it's just a slight, slight, slight concavity.
It's there but it could... I think right in this point,
right in there, just a tiny bit more.
(woman) OK.
Is it too narrow? Let's ask the question.
-Too narrow? -Yeah, too thin. What do you think, there?
-(laughing) -(man speaks Spanish)
(Terry) This is the romantic scene the audience has been waiting for, an unspoken love.
-Not the nose. -(laughing)
Let's do nose comparison shots.
Two profiles, see who's got the better nose.
A bit more, Jon, yeah. Come on, guys, get that camera!
Get the noses. Look at that. A bit more, Jon, that way.
(laughing)
Lovely. Great.
She's doing what?
There's no money, is what I keep saying.
And that's why Amy's money has got to come in fast this week.
Stupid.
Amy, I'm feeling your dad's pain.
It sounds like things are a little bit shaky, hmm?
Well, yeah. It's always about the money.
Yeah, someone said... I don't know, a while back,
"Oh, Terry could have made this a few years ago."
The truth is no! There's never been enough money,
because people might read the script,
-but people don't read the script with Terry's eye. -Yeah.
(Terry) Every film I do, I've storyboarded.
It comes from being a cartoonist.
I draw it out, so I can actually visualise the film.
It's like I close my eyes, I can see the film, so I just start...
drawing that, and that's the way it starts happening.
(interviewer) Do you see what you do as a film-maker
any different, do you think, than most other directors?
I think I work hard at trying to offer up
a different perception of the world.
43 million buckaroonies.
Fantasy isn't easy. It's hard work
creating these incredible worlds, you know.
60ft high people with detachable heads don't come easy or cheap.
(woman) $40 million and all these problems with 'Baron Munchausen'.
(man) It was regarded as one of the biggest flops in movie history.
How do you follow that, if anybody lets you, after all that money you've spent?
There are a lot of stories waiting to trap you out there
and I got caught in the film disaster story.
(Terry) I don't see how we get through this.
My stomach is now in my throat, is where it is.
Because I've been here, 17 years ago, with this kind of ridiculous bullshit.
The budget on this thing is $32.1 million,
which, by European standards without an American investment,
is a big chunk of change.
For what we're trying to do, it's half the money we need!
And now we're back at about $16 million.
It's about half of what it was when we were doing Johnny Depp.
This is crazy.
Fine. This isn't real, it's just a dream, it doesn't hurt.
-It doesn't hurt. Ow! Jesus Christ! -Isn't that lovely?
What a beautiful movie. Whatever happened to that film?
(Quixote) It may happen that before we pass six days together
I shall conquer a number of kingdoms.
Fuck you! We had a deal.
What a film that would have been.
(crickets chirping)
(woman) This is like too long, the sleeves are too long.
I know that this is too small.
-These are too tight. -No, this, I think... (sighs)
I don't know.
Yeah, I know. It's...
interesting.
(woman) Do you want to try this?
This is what they normally wear.
(he speaks Spanish)
(woman) I can take a picture maybe.
It's hard to really...
(camera clicks)
...see something with this.
It's not what it should be.
-Yeah. -Yeah, I know. That's what's...
(woman) It's not one you really look at.
It's... It's...
I mean, it looks... Yeah.
I mean, this is not at all what we wrote.
Yeah. Yeah.
-(woman) We can take it off. -(he speaks Spanish)
They've got two more days work on that, is what I think.
I'm going to show you all
so everybody can look at what the fucking thing is supposed to look like.
Fuck it!
He hasn't seen a camera since December 2012.
That's a long fucking time
and, therefore, together with 20 years in the making...
Yeah? Aaargh! He boils up.
(indistinct conversation)
(enigmatic music)
(inaudible)
CGI. Listen, I am very happy not to do fireworks, it's one less shit.
It's fine, yeah.
See, we're back on budget with that decision.
As I say, back on budget when something has been taken out of the budget...
-That was in the budget! -Something that was never in the budget!
We didn't know that. It was in the script, it must be in the budget.
-If it's in the script, it's in the budget. -(laughter)
(enigmatic music)
(Terry) Where is the money going to come from to make this movie, is what I'm wanting to know.
Because if all this is true, everything's costing much more than we had planned,
and I don't see how we're going to make the movie.
It's now at the point, the stage, that I'm getting really nervous about everything
and I'm not a nice person when I'm nervous.
I'm no longer an A-list director.
Over the years, it's been more and more frustrating.
I've got too many ideas that don't conform to whatever the current thinking is.
I get the films made, and then they don't get seen.
You're already dead, you're a ghost, a spook.
(coughs)
And the last several films haven't made any money,
so that kind of clinches the deal.
(indistinct conversation)
(baby cries)
(Nicola speaks indistinctly)
There are no answers. I would like to have an answer.
And the post-production part.
(enigmatic music)
Don't do this, Terry, don't do this.
Leave it as a dream.
(banging on glass)
(heavy breathing)
(wind blusters)
My nightmare is that we're going to disappoint a lot of people.
Is it going to be good enough to at least match people's expectations?
It's something that I've always feared.
(gentle music)
(music swells)
(man shouting)
(shouting)
(horse whinnies)
I don't see that there should be any limitations
to what you can do in films and I like the idea of just going
absolutely over the top, see how far we can go.
See how many people we can drag in, amaze, astound,
and for a couple hours out of their lives they get to live in other worlds.
(wind blusters)
(engine revs)
(explosion)
We cannot fly to the moon,
we cannot defy death.
We must face the facts,
not the folly of fantasists, like you, who do not live in the real world.
(glass shattering)
(gentle music)
(woman) Dah-nah!
(Terry) Fuck, this is good!
That's fantastic. I mean, look at this!
I wonder how many people were working how many days to do all this stuff.
It fits me.
(woman) Gabriella told me in Italy that today...
-it's so expensive to do this. -Yeah, yeah.
(Terry) All these costumes, all these years, Gabriella had kept sequestered
in some dark part of Tirelli Costumes in Rome.
Nicola called Carlo, Gabriella's assistant,
who happened to be at that moment looking at the Quixote costume,
and I said, "Let's get it over here."
"Dear Gabriella and Carlo...
I can't thank you enough for keeping Quixote alive and safe in a box all these years."
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
Could I please see Don Quichotte?
(Terry) "I can't believe how beautiful it is.
The amount of detailed work in it is absolutely fantastic.
It would have been impossible on our budget to make anything like it.
We just tried the Don Quixote costume on Jonathan Pryce and it works.
It needs a few adjustments, but it's great
to have the chance to finally be able to use it in a finished film.
It will be our good luck charm
and you will be part of the film."
Maybe this is the kind of luck the film needs,
to have some of the original...
the original magic included.
Go and get them, Harry, quick.
Raaaah!
Can you fly? Can you fly? Here we go.
You're going to fly, Captain Planet. Ready?
(plane noises)
Oh no! Aargh!
(cartoon noises)
Wooh, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, woohoo.
Are you a grandchild to somebody?
-(baby babbles) -(Terry makes funny noises)
(Keith) You know, I remember in 1995 you said to Lou and me,
film-making is about two things, belief and momentum.
Yes. I'm worried about both at the moment.
(laughs)
Other people seem to believe more than I do,
so maybe that will get us through it.
I've become an old cynic,
so I've become a doubter.
A worrier. And what are you going to be?
(cartoon noises)
(baby laughs)
(Terry) Today is a very important day.
The last signature on the financing contract has been signed.
So now everything's in place, and everybody's happy,
except for me, who now has to make the film.
There's no way out.
I'm trapped.
I thought the only way it's going to be
is I'm going to have to die or get seriously ill,
or have another stroke, you know,
just something to get out of it.
Well, this is what you wanted.
Well, never get what you want is the thing one should remember.
Because, OK, now after all these years of making it,
however, um... knowing our limitations,
it won't be as good as I've been imagining it.
It's, I think I said it before, the weight of expectation,
my own and the fans'.
That is the hardest thing to get past,
that one is not delivering
what people are capable of imagining.
So, Terry, why are you still sticking with it?
Do you feel you've got to prove something?
(inhaling deeply)
(gasps)
(he speaks Italian)
(typing)
Where are we in time right now?
We're on the last day before the weekend
before the first day of shooting.
So you start shooting on Monday then? Only three days to go.
We're... We're dead.
We're gonna die horribly.
-It's... -I think we will just have to get started.
No, once we get started... Cos I've forgotten everything.
I'm at that stage, you're about to go on stage and you've forgotten all your lines.
-I have forgotten my lines. -Because you haven't gone on stage yet.
The moment you go on stage,
-it will all come like... -That's the dream.
-The flow. -That's the hope.
I'll try to remember to say "cut!", Miguel.
-(laughs) -Yeah. Don't worry because it's digital.
It's digital, yeah, exactly. I'll tell you,
it's gonna take me a week to get back into rhythm.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't worry about that.
I'm so far out. So much out of training.
Oh, no, don't worry about it.
(enigmatic music)
-Off we go! -It begins.
-This is actually...
This is just day six of our previous shoot.
Mentally, I've got myself in that state.
We're just picking up where we left off, that's all.
Different location, different cast.
The German dentist just left.
You must be joking! Look at all these cameras.
Yeah, the sun's shining, let's shoot, let's shoot.
(indistinct chatter)
(laughing)
Here, OK. Now, this is good.
This is good, this is excellent.
Where are the actors? There!
(laughing)
-Set! -And action!
(Don Quixote) I shall conquer several kingdoms and I shall crown you
king of one of them. King Sancho!
(laughing) That was good!
And cut.
-Cut! -Cut! That was a good take.
That was a good one.
(crew chattering)
Fuck, it's 10 o'clock. We're doomed.
That's good.
Oh, fuck, sorry. It just...
Undo this for a moment, quick.
We are fucking ourselves right now!
OK. Now that's done. Put the hat on. Let's go.
It's perfect, let's go!
Now!
Don't fiddle any more, folks. We are late.
OK, stop. Let's move to the rest of the scene.
It's not working, these camera positions are all wrong.
We're in the wrong place, we're doing everything completely wrong.
I mean, we're fucking up the rest of the scene,
is all I know is what we're doing right now.
This is... Yeah, so let's move. Fuck this!
(man speaks Italian)
No, we're fucking the day is what we've just done.
We are going to get stuck because we will not get through the next part of the scene.
So everyone can just go home and say, "Fuck!"
(Nicola) I mean, I believe we all are all different from what we were 17 years ago.
We're different in physical aspect,
we are different in the amount of experience.
We are different in the amount of burns we've got.
And, uh...
But I think that, both in my case and Terry's case,
we've been quite consistent in being fucked up the way we are.
Get on the fucking... Where's the mic?
-Give me that... -(she speaks Spanish)
-Here, here, here. -Here, here, Terry.
Nicola? What do I need to do?
Push something?
Thank you. This one?
-This one. -Ah, there. Nicola?
-Nicola, Nicola? -(woman) No, you have to...
-I am listening. -Nicola? Are you there?
Nicola?
-I am listening, over. -Can you hear me?
I have to push this. Fuck!
I wanted him there. That's where I want the shot.
-Him talking like that. -(Nicola speaking Italian)
(horse hooves clicking)
There we go. Now, hold, hold him, hold him. That's good.
-And... cut! -Cut!
What is it, what is it? No.
You know what? Tell him to look more above camera.
-Yeah, I think that's... -Straight above camera.
Yeah, that'll do it. Yeah, better.
And action!
Aah! Blasphemer!
The hand of Our God in heaven wrote me.
Not the filthy paw of a grubby peasant!
(laughing)
And cut!
OK, chicos, that's a wrap!
-Bravo! Quixote vive! -Day three!
Fantastic! Thank you, crew.
Thank you, actors. Thank you, everybody. Bravo!
Good, it looks great. Fuck, it's good.
Yeah, OK. That's great.
Cut!
Once again, straight away! I want it tighter.
We just lost a lot of the light that we liked.
This is gonna happen every fucking day is what's gonna happen.
Oh, Jesus!
Are you feeling more confident today, at least?
I am actually feeling nothing, which is probably a healthy choice.
Oh, God!
I fucked up badly here.
It's me that's the problem.
Sorry.
-Go for lunch. -Mark it!
The thing I don't get is why no sense of giddiness or relief?
Well, I am here to suffer. I am here to suffer like Quixote.
Do you want me to get a strap out and whip you on the back?
No, I'm normally doing that myself.
Mr Terry Gilliam...
Mr Gilliam?
(crew shouting) Terry! Terry! Terry!
(crew cheering, applause)
-Mr Terry Gilliam, this is... -(laughing)
We have just completed day seven of Don Quixote.
-A record! -This is the furthest you have ever been!
Thank you!
And there's no stopping us now!
48 more days and you will have Don Quixote in the can.
(cheering and applause)
(all chanting) Terry! Terry! Terry!
Everybody's been fantastic!
Yeah. Muchas gracias, para... o por? Todos.
(cheering and applause)
(drumming, chanting)
Cheers. After...
(cheering)
Cheers, señor.
Well, there you go, that's it, it's done.
I think it's bad luck to celebrate too early, in principle.
(singing in Spanish)
(gentle music)
(wind blusters)
(slow piano music)
(Terry) Fellini's '8½' is, to me, THE film that captures what it actually is like
to be a film director, to make a movie.
Clearly what has happened here is that Fellini was working on a movie,
he didn't know really how to finish it, it wasn't coming together
and so he wrote a movie about making a movie,
about a director who doesn't know how to make or finish his movie.
I first saw '8½' in my 20s, early 20s...
I was astonished by the use of time and storytelling.
Everything is fluid, everything is happening at the same,
whether it's your childhood whether it's the problem on the film.
I think it's the way I seem to see the world.
There are always moments in his films
that will stand up against anything else out there.
There are little bits of shrapnel that go in,
in a moment of just sheer clarity and brilliance and magic.
He's left more of those bits of shrapnel in my brain than most people have.
(man shouts in Spanish) Quiet!
Cue!
(actors laughing)
(actors' voices shouting)
(actors' voices continue)
(gentle music)
(actors' voices continue)
There's something that won't let go inside of me
that thinks I'm still the kid.
There's still this little guy inside that thinks he's still in his 20s
with all sorts of things ahead of him.
I think as you're running, if you can, try to...
Fuck, fuck! Jesus, get down!
Yeah, all of that. Sorry. (laughs)
I never get line reviews, but action readings I do.
(laughs)
Fuck!
(all talking)
-Fuck me! -Oh, fuck! Run!
And then you could turn around.
Fuck, it's a... (laughs)
(Don Quixote) A giant!
A giant with arms six miles wide!
She is in great danger.
-That's a windmill. -Rocinante!
(horse gallops)
I still get excited about things.
I want to make things. I want to make things.
Terry, what advice do you have for people out there
who want to make film animations?
Well, Bob, don't.
Keep well away from it. It's dangerous, nasty stuff.
(cartoon noises)
-Arms come off. -(ripping noise)
You can get cut-outs anywhere actually.
I use old pictures a lot.
These three old ladies - Duke of Wellington fits on very nicely and works.
This man's on wheels.
Oh, what a lovely little...
-(slurping) -Mmm!
(gentle music)
(man) What is...
-the meaning of life? -(audience laughing)
(screams)
(audience laughing)
(crew chattering)
Get them like that, and then hold two, hold two,
and then, it starts going away...
and then let them go, you basically stand,
and the cart goes away.
(conversation continues indistinctly)
(Don Quixote) Sancho, what's happening?
They are taking you back to your village. You'll be safe there.
No, I will die there. Sancho, help me.
Sorry, I can't.
How do two people...
who've never directed a film before in their lives direct a film?
Well! I don't know.
We're really learning as we do it. That's what's nice.
We've been given a whole feature film to learn how to make films on.
-Are you enjoying yourself? -Yeah. (laughing)
(Terry laughing)
Hello! Oh, look at this, they've made a nice new building.
Oh, looks good. Looks good.
Yeah.
Fantastic. Yeah, it's great.
(crew chattering)
We're gonna be right on the ground.
(action noises)
Baaaa!
Action. And get blades, blades, blades!
(actors grunting and groaning)
Aaagh!
Yaagh!
Agh! Aaagh!
-Oh, Jon, don't do that. -You OK?
-Yeah. -I'm fine.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to fall.
I really fell over.
(they speak Spanish)
Boom, boom! We've got him in.
So, if we got you doing a gallop like that, it would very nice.
-Right. -That's got a good speed because that's not trotting.
I'm just worried about his back because he's got a bad back.
We don't want him pulling it or any of things.
I am sure, yeah.
And action!
Prepare to die, foul and fearsome fiend!
(Terry) Fucking great! (laughing)
(applause)
(laughter)
You said you couldn't do it! You bastard!
-OK. -Are you happy?
I'm happy.
All right?
Oh, that's it.
Get all that.
Keep walking up there, catch the knight, go into the two.
Where's it going to be, the joust?
He starts up here. You're down there in the green patch, down there...
amongst the sheep. It's very funny.
Bang! It's over.
Right.
Is that good for the knight?
-Terry. -Look, I've got a lot of them.
Yeah, but you have to look at the monitors.
I like doing this though, this is fun.
-OK. -(laughing)
And action!
Release me from my enchantment!
(roars)
And cut!
-I think we did very well. We got through it. -Congrats.
And last time we were four days behind.
It has never happened ever before...
in any film I've done to win a day.
To win a day! I've never won a day anywhere.
Is that Amy?
We pulled it off.
Everybody pulled it off. It was really...
Ciao, Terry!
(laughs)
Yeah. Well, I'm not going to get excited yet.
We've got to get a few more... Huh?
We've got to get a few more under our belts. OK.
Yep, OK.
Great, fantastic. Thanks, thanks. Bye, bye. Bye.
Happy dad.
(laughs)
(sighs)
That's something done. And it's beautiful here.
So it's nice to be in places that are special...
and actually achieve something worthwhile.
It's probably the last time I'll say anything like that.
(chuckling)
Oh, fuck!
(gentle music)
(wind blusters)
And how is that light gonna work?
(man) I go up when you tell me to go up.
What's your line before the light?
(Adam Driver) "I don't deserve this."
"I don't deserve this," and then, boom.
-Can we bring it up slowly? -Yeah. You can do anything, no?
-OK, yeah. -Like throwing a temper tantrum?
Yeah, OK.
(woman) We've got time for one really quick last question.
(woman 2) It looks like this film will be finally finished.
(Terry) Once you're finished, you are judged.
(woman) Does it sometimes feel like fighting against windmills?
(Terry) It's totally that. The whole thing has been ridiculous.
-(woman) What drives you? -What drives me?
-Yes. -I don't know.
If I could understand why I keep doing this,
I would be a happier person.
It was like all the weight of history was on this production.
It's hard work. I really don't like making movies,
but I don't know how else to do it, so...
-Thank you, all. -Thank you.
-Thank you, bye. -Thank you.
Do you feel you are in control now, sir?
Nobody's in control. Why do you think... There's no control.
No, it gets more terrifying the closer we get to the end.
We might actually finish the film.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -It was much easier when we knew there was no chance.
-Yeah! -(laughter)
And then you will have fulfilled your dream. And then what?
That's it! No dream anymore. You just go... (imitates shot)
That's it!
(gentle music)
I wake up in the middle of the night and I can't get back to sleep.
They think it's, you know, historical.
How wonderful it's gonna be that finally
I've achieved my dream.
I mean, I really think this is the last film.
Once it's done, there's a great void waiting for me.
And that scares the shit out of me.
(gentle music)
(Jonathan Pryce) My name is Don Quixote.
It's not easy living so long.
But I cannot die...
...unless perhaps I could rid myself of my dreams.
(Terry) I suppose, like Quixote, you get to a point where you just want to give up.
It's just been too hard. You just want to go to your bed and die.
But I'm not ready for that yet.
I'm not willing to give up the madness.
And action!
I am dedicated to chivalry and the protection of the weak.
(Don Quixote laughs heartily)
(groaning and banging)
You do not frighten me with your hellish wailing!
(wind blusters)
And... action!
(indistinct conversation)
Fucking, fucking...!
Action!
(yells)
-(woman) So, we need something here. -(Terry) From the feet.
It's where it needs to be. Yeah.
-So you're going to... -We don't have that.
-No. -OK. Well, I mean, there are so many things wrong.
I'm gonna look at these.
This is basically clear what it's supposed to be.
But there is something wrong in this. This is not even complete.
I don't know if it's written or not.
-We should be lower. -Lower, yeah.
We don't see legs!
That should be fairly easy to re-shoot.
But we don't... No, nothing is easy to re-shoot!
We don't have any time!
I wish people would understand these simple facts.
We're out of time. Yes, we can shoot and re-shoot forever.
We won't get through the rest of the film at that pace.
And it's like...
(sighs)
Fuck! That's not what we're doing.
No. I was going to ask you a question then.
(sighs)
(wind blusters)
(Terry) I guess it's like this when you're doing any
great adventures, towards the end,
you're sitting there pondering, "Did you achieve anything?
Did you change the world? Did you make a difference?"
I mean, at one point I wanted to make great films,
whatever that is, films that have meaning to people,
that actually change their view of the world,
things that inspire them.
I don't know where you get the energy all the time to keep doing it.
I mean, the stories are legion of you and the fights.
Somewhere along the line I discovered film-making
should be an adventure and the whole idea
is to go out and try to do the thing that everybody says you can't do.
Your last movie, 'Brazil', you had a lot of trouble with that as well.
They weren't going to release my film.
We did something that hasn't been done
in living memory in Hollywood.
We actually took on the studios. I eventually took out an ad
in 'Variety', a full-page ad directed to the boss at Universal,
saying "Dear Sid Sheinberg, When are you going to release my film, 'Brazil'?"
They started cutting the film, changing it, they wanted a happy ending.
We actually won, we got the film released as we made it.
What about future prospects? Are they going to think of you as a troublemaker?
-Yeah. -(audience laughing)
Every film is like an experiment
to see what one can get away with.
I think that's what's kept me going
is just sheer perverseness
and because the easy path is that way.
If the next film is an easy film, you know it's over.
(heavy breathing)
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
Action!
(roaring)
Cut!
Oh, fuck. The weather's gonna kill us. Clouds have come in,
the wind's howling, and I've got a bad stomach. Fuck this!
Are you feeling better today?
-You mean physically? -Yeah.
About the same. I don't know what it is. I think I finally earned an ulcer.
-It's not nausea? -Yeah, it's a stomach that just will not settle.
-And it's not just nerves. -Is there nausea involved?
No, not really. There's a dryness to the mouth, there's a soreness to the kidneys.
I think I need dialysis is what I need.
(wind howling)
Ocho y medio!
(Terry) Cut! Once again!
How many times does one have to say it?
Let's just get the shot!
(Nicola) Let's do it, let's do it.
-Action! -(laughing)
Cut!
CUT!!
-Fuck this. -You are panicking.
-Of course I'm panicking. -So, don't!
-Because you'll pass it to him. -Of course
And if he panics, we're fucked.
-I know. -So do ommm.
Oh! My stomach is not getting better. It's shit.
Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut! Don't do it.
We don't need a horse. We don't need a horse!
We need actors!
Actors!
Everybody up there, walking up the hill,
is in Juanho's shot! Get the fuck out of there!
Lay down on the road! Get out of our shot!
Jesus, fuck!
I've really lost it today. I've finally, finally cracked.
(wind howling)
(thunder rumbling)
You just realise you're not who you used to be.
You're not sure what your capabilities are.
Cos that other guy, the young one that was really talented and energetic
and fast on his feet, ain't that anymore.
He's long dead, that one.
(mobile calling tone)
(people chatting)
-(Spanish answerphone) -(beep)
Hey, Terry, it's Keith calling. We're all down here at the bar.
People are asking where you are.
Come on down, I think you'll have fun.
You're almost through it, almost at the end.
Alright. Hope to see you, bye.
(beep) Hey, Terry, it's Keith calling.
Lou and I are down here in Plaza Alamillo.
We thought you would be here to meet us.
I'm hoping that everything is OK. Bye.
-That's so much closer. -Yeah.
(beep)
Hello, Amy, it's Lou.
Look, I just heard that Terry's at the hospital.
Lucia told us and, uh...
she also mentioned the catheter, which sounds awful.
So, when you talk to him, just tell him we hope he feels better soon.
(Terry) I was in my little service flat.
I'm getting ready for bed and brushing my teeth,
and I was getting colder.
And I saw just this bag of blood on my leg.
There's not so much urine coming out.
It just seems to me blood is pouring out of my body.
I'm thinking, "Am I dying here?
I'm on my own, after all of this time on the film
finally getting there and I die before we finish it?"
And it was quite a while before I finally called my assistant
and said, "I think I'd better go to the doctor. I may be dying."
(Keith) The first thing that came to your mind is,"I can't leave this film unfinished?"
(Terry) Making this film is what I need to survive...
just the animal will to survive.
(upbeat music)
(Keith) What day of production is this?
50-something or other... 56, 57, 58?
No sense of optimism, coming relief?
Not really. It's just...
endless, endless.
I entrust...
(inaudible)
Toby on the fork. That one. This again Toby.
-Yousaf. -Yes, sir.
Looking at all this,
neither of us still think we're gonna get it all today.
The producers are saying, "Oh, this is the last day."
Well, it's clearly not the last day if the shots are not getting done.
But maybe that's the new thinking - don't finish it, leave it as a dream.
(Keith) Would it be unfair of me to say that you don't want to finish this film?
Yeah, that would be unfair. I want the fucker out of my life.
Let's go! Pierre, come on! We gotta get this shot!
(man singing in Spanish)
(singing in Spanish)
It's too clean. It's too fucking clean.
Fuck it. Yeah!
Our last chance to make a mess.
Yeah, good, excellent, better.
So, I'm gonna water it.
Good?
Oh, fuck. This is the end of principal photography.
-Ready? -Set, set.
And... action!
Now!
(laughing) Go!
-That's good. Cut! -Got that?
That was good, I think. I think that was excellent.
What do we think? Last chance to change anything.
(cheering and applause)
And that completes principal photography...
...of 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote'. Thank you!
(cheering and applause)
Gracias a todos!
Yeah!
(cheering and applause)
(laughing)
OK!
Impossible!
(speaks Spanish)
(cheering and applause)
Gracias! Bravo! Bravo!
-I can't believe it. -I don't believe it either.
(laughing)
-Congratulations. -Thank you, thank you.
I get all teary eyed at these things. (laughing)
Thank you, thank you.
Ah, fuck this.
Fuck it, fuck it, fuck it, fuck it.
I don't know what the fuck it is...
It's just...
It's very weird, I don't actually feel anything. It's very weird.
(people chatting and laughing)
(announcement on tannoy in Spanish)
Ah, the world!
This is my room. It's supposed to be my room.
It designed sit on top of the house, to separate me from the family.
I'm not sure who it's keeping from whom, but we're separate.
(laughing)
(Don Quixote) She is in terrible danger!
(Keith) At this point, how would you answer the question...
is the film better left in your head?
(Terry) I think it's, it's a relief to get it out.
So you feel it was worth it?
I am very pleased with the film that we've made.
I just want to empty my head out right now.
And it's getting there, and just...
see if there's another world.
I mean, it's like multiple universes
and I'm just leaving one right now,
and I am going into one that I have no idea what it is.
But that's also dangerous, because if I don't keep
some form of adrenaline coursing through me,
which is usually...
The adrenaline comes from ideas, from frustrations,
from anger, from whatever. Without that, I'm a dead man.
(train rattling)
(Terry) Why does anybody create?
It's hard.
Life is hard.
Art is hard.
Doing anything worthwhile is hard.
I think what really matters
is that you get involved in the work...
and you lose everything.
Once the work has taken you over, and it does,
you're in the zone.
And it's you and the idea, and that's it.
And the zone is the best, the best drug on the planet.
It's painful. It's not all
butterflies and sunsets and all that.
It's like, fuck!
But you're out of your ego, your ego has vanished.
Your self-awareness disappears.
And I think those are the moments which are the most addictive.
I wanna be back in there.
(gentle music)
(man speaks French)
(wild cheering and applause)
(daunting music)