S1E16 - SEVERED Origins - "Brazil" PT02

Severed: The Ultimate Severance Podcast

Allen Stare

Performing Arts, Tv Reviews, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

HEY THERE, REFINERS!
Welcome back for more "Severed: Origins." This time out, we are continuing our re-watch of the 1985 Terry Gilliam dystopian sci-fi comedy "Brazil."

We've got a LOT to cover....and we won't even finish it this week. The coffee is on, refiners...time to boot up your workstations and open the file called "Brazil."

Having trouble finding "Brazil"? It's been pulled from streaming services all over the U.S. You can find the 142 minute copy on the free "Internet Archive." Here's a link:

https://archive.org/details/7.9-8-brazil-1985

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Severed, the Ultimate Severance Podcast.
0:10.2	Welcome back, MacroData Refiners. Once again, you've found yourself listening to Severed,
0:19.2	the Ultimate Severance podcast.
0:21.6	I'm your host, Alan S.
0:23.6	I got down here early this morning, so the coffee is already on.
0:27.2	Grab a cup and fire up your workstation.
0:30.0	You remember last time we started the file, Brazil, as part of the Severed Origin series?
0:35.9	Terry Gilliam's 1985 loopy dystopian vision was a huge influence
0:40.5	on Dan Erickson and the Severance creative team. Last time we gathered, we met Sam Lowry. Sam is a
0:47.9	government functionary working in the Ministry of Information's Records Department. It's a low-level job,
0:55.1	but Sam loves it. Oh, sure, Sam has dreams. It's a low-level job, but Sam loves it.
0:57.4	Oh, sure, Sam has dreams.
0:59.8	It's just they're weird dreams,
1:02.5	like flying with huge feathered wings and rescuing a damsel in distress.
1:05.6	Sam has no dreams when it comes to his career.
1:09.2	He has no interest in advancing at work, although his mother
1:12.6	thinks he should be more ambitious. Through a printer error caused by a literal flying bug,
1:18.5	an innocent man is taken in for questioning by the information retrieval arm of the ministry.
1:24.6	The man, a Mr. Archibald buttle, happens to live below a woman who looks amazingly
1:31.0	like Sam's dream girl. When we last saw Sam, he'd awakened in the middle of the night to find his
1:36.5	air conditioning was on the fritz. He called central services with an emergency. A man dressed all in black
1:42.4	and armed with a pistol intercepted the call.
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