A consortium of websites, fans and film lovers of the upcoming Terry Gilliam movie, "The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus" have banded together to start a website and forum to support the film.
The mission statement on their website home page is, "The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus Support Site and Forums is a website for fans and film lovers by fans and film lovers whose mission is to increase public awareness of the upcoming Terry Gilliam movie, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, and to help build a solid fanbase for the film, with the ultimate goal of seeing its wide release in theaters around the globe.
The group has over gained over 120 members from around the globe and boasts over 1,400 posts on their FORUM within the first two weeks of its existence (before even gaining notice of search engines). It is their goal to make the global public aware of the much anticipated Terry Gilliam film and carry the latest news, festival updates, release dates, photos, articles and more from around the world. The forum also carries both multilingual capabilities for users and a translator with a section for every country represented and a specific section for each of the main actors attached to the film as well as Gilliam.
Tired of being fed a steady diet of the same types of movies in theaters, not being listened to by the entertainment industry and being denied the right to see most great independent films anywhere except in large, metropolitan cities (if at all), the group made the decision to band together several weeks ago.
Says site administrator, Theresa, “not all of us are from New York, Los Angeles or London. Many of us are from small towns and cities. But, that does not make us any less deserving of seeing great films. We, the paying audience, should not be penalized or denied the right to see an amazing film because of any behind the scenes or arguments. Nor should we be denied the right to see a great film, because a film doesn’t have huge car chase scenes, superheroes, vampires or a $200 million budget.
It is beyond ridiculous to say a film will not win a healthy audience when the global audience, as a rule, doesn’t even know the movie exists. We’re not deluded, of course we understand the business end of the situation, however, we’d love to know just how long the entertainment industry thinks the public is going to keep taking this steady diet of the same old stories just with different titles.
Look at the films that have recently won the Oscars or made movie history, “Brokeback Mountain”, “Little Miss Sunshine”, “Capote”, “Milk”, Slumdog Millionaire. This says so much about what we are about. Most of the global general public never even got to see these movies until AFTER they won the awards because they didn’t show in theaters near them or there was no word of mouth about them for the general public until they were in award contention or the award was already won. That’s inexcusable.
Look at the cast of this film. These are some of the finest actors of our time. I, personally, have never seen a “bad” Johnny Depp performance, Heath Ledger was one of the greatest actors of his time, for heaven’s sake, the man just won an Oscar. And, Christopher Plummer…Well, the man is an icon. He is one of the greatest of the greats. There is simply nothing that man cannot do. He’s amazing. When you blend this with the other fine actors in this film, there is a great deal of good to be expected. And, in these difficult times around the world, we could all do with some amazement and fantasy. No one does that better than Terry Gilliam.
For these reasons, we felt the public should know about this film and that the industry should know we are out there. We are your audience. We are the people who buy your movie tickets. And, we are telling you what we want. And, we want to see this movie!”
posted by Theresa at http://www.imaginariumofdrparnassus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=76&p=1510#p1510
