Gulliver's Travels (DVD)

...practice and aims to marry Gulliver's wife manages to get Gulliver committed to a mental home. Can Gulliver prove his sanity or is he really mad. Did his adventures only exist in his mind or do the fantastic lands he describes a reality? CAST, PERFORMANCES AND OPINION Ted Danson .... Lemuel Gulliver Mary Steenburgen .... Mary Gulliver James Fox .... Dr. Bates Ned Beatty .... Farmer Grultrud Edward Fox .... Gen. Limtoc Robert Hardy .... Dr. Parnell ...
...to make the ambiguity over Gulliver's sanity the main dramatic narrative in the story and Gulliver relates the adventures of his travels in the form of various flashbacks cleverly interwoven in the main thread of the story. This way of presenting the plot helps divide the action into clear distinct chapters and also I'm sure made it easier to present this adaptation as a TV mini series. Although deviating from the original novel the mains points ...

Mauri 21.11.2003 · Read full review
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Gulliver's Travels is, as I am sure you already know, an all-time classic novel by Jonathon Swift, and is one of the sharpest satirical novels ever written. There have been many film / TV versions, few of which have adhered closely to the original storyline. On a compilation we got recently for a bargain basement price, I came across this version. As far as following Swift's overall storyline goes you can forget it, but that doesn't stop it from ...
...Potter films, this version of Gulliver's Travels is notable for being one of the first films to ever mix live action and animation. The storyline revolves almost entirely around Gulliver's adventures in Lilliput, the tiny land full of tiny people, where two empires wage bloody war over which end a boiled egg ought to be broken. I'm sure you know the basic story - Gulliver gets shipwrecked on Lilliput, is taken captive by its inhabitants who think ...

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...published the original text of Gulliver's Travels in 1726, and was seen as a risqué political satire, in which Gulliver finds himself in a series of increasingly peculiar environments - the original book is published in four sections, and covers the exploration of no fewer than in 39 chapters - I only mention this to draw to your attention that it is a text of some substance, certainly wasn't intended as a childrens' book. The film starts off in ...
...to a Georgian house, and onto a sailing ship (back to the studio). There's an entirely unconvincing storm scene where a model ship is filmed in slow motion in a big tank, and Gulliver is washed up on the shores of a mystical land - from then on, the film takes the form of Harris wandering about an empty set, surrounded by animated characters. Had he not taken part in the phenomenally popular 'Harry Potter' films before his death in October 2002, ...

dobieg 19.12.2003 · Read full review
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