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CUT TO the BEETLE droning up near the ceiling.

The TECHNICIAN is disturbed by the buzz of the BEETLE as it whirrs around the fluorescent light. He rolls up some paper and forms and gets up to swat the insect.

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A beautiful golden sun is setting. The sky is on fire. The CAMERA starts to move downwards. A large neon sign rises into shot. It rests on top of a skyscraper and fills the frame. The building is neither past nor future in design but a bit of both.

Slowly we pan downwards revealing the city that spreads below ... A glittering conglomeration of elevated transport tubes, smaller square buildings which are merely huge, with, here and there, the comparatively minuscule relics of previous ages of architecture, pavement level awnings suggesting restaurants and shops ...

Transparent tubes carry whizzing transport cages past us ... an elevated highway carrying traffic composed primarily of large transport lorries passes thru frame. As we descend, the sunlight is blocked out and street lights & neon signs take over as illumination.

Eventually we reach the upper levels of a plush shopping precinct.

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Xmas decorations are everywhere. PEOPLE are busy buying, ogling, discussing, choosing wisely from the goodies on display. SHOPPERS are going by laden with superbly packaged goods ... the shop windows are full of elaborately boxed and be-ribboned who-knows-what. In one window is a bank of TV sets - on the great majority of the screens is the face of MR. HELPMANN - the Deputy Minister of Information. He is being interviewed. No-one bothers to listen to HELPMANN. INTERVIEWER Deputy minister, what do you believe is behind this recent increase in terrorist bombings?

HELPMANN Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people seems to have forgotten certain good old fashioned virtues. They just can't stand seeing the other fellow win. If these people would just play the game, instead of standing on the touch line heckling -

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INTERVIEWER Do you think that the government is winning the battle against terrorists?

HELPMANN On yes. Our morale is much higher than theirs, we're fielding all their strokes, running a lot of them out, and pretty consistently knocking them for six. I'd say they're nearly out of the game.

The TECHNICIAN is tottering on one leg on the chair on the desk as he strains to swat the BEETLE. Swish, swash, oops, WHAP! Gottcha!!

INTERVIEWER But the bombing campaign is now in its thirteenth year ...

HELPMANN Beginner's luck.

The BEETLE's career comes to a halt ... squashed flat on the brilliantly clean ceiling ... or has it? As the TECHNICIAN clambers down from the rickety heights, the BEETLE's carcass comes unstuck from the ceiling and drops silently into the typewriting machine which hiccoughs, hesitates and then types BUTTLE has been carried out of herthen bedroom and dumped into the letter "B" and hesitates and continues so that the the of is her screaming mother. BOY BUTTLE has his toy next lap name BUTTLE, Archibald. machine gun knocked out of his hands by a TROOPER who we see is identical in dress to the action men BOY BUTTLE has been playing with. He rushes to his mother as guns are viciously trained on them. TROOPS are kicking open the doors of other rooms and generally doing a good job. An OFFICIAL, wearing plain clothes, now enters from the front door and during the turmoil is reading aloud from an official document. It goes something like this: OFFICIAL I hereby inform you under powers entrusted to me under Section 47, Paragraph 7 of Council Order Number 438476, that Mr Buttle, Archibald, residing at 412 North Tower, Shangri La Towers, has been invited to assist the Ministry of Information with certain enquiries, the nature of which may be ascertained on completion of application form BZ/ST/486/C fourteen days within this date, and that he is liable to certain obligations as specified in Council Order 173497, including financial restitutions which may or may not be incurred if Information Retrieval procedures beyond those incorporated in Article 7 subsections 8, 10 & 32 are required to elicit information leading to permanent arrest - notification of which will he served with the time period of 5 working days as stipulated by law. In that instance the detainee will be debited without further notice through central banking procedures without prejudice until and unless at such a time when re-imbursement procedures may be instituted by you or third parties on completion of a re-imbursement form RB/CZ/907/X ... of the same, most of which is part of the paper while the chaos reigns. As the front door the captive relative peace returns, broken by anguished sobbing.

OFFICIAL (proffering a pen and a thick book of pink receipts to Mrs Buttle) Sign here please.

HELPMANN

MRS BUTTLE (dazed. She signs weakly) What? where have you taken him?

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The TECHNICIAN gets up and balances a chair on top of his desk. He climbs up onto it attempting to swat the BEETLE still buzzing about the room just out of reach. Beneath him an automatic type-writing machine rattles away compiling a typed list of names under the heading "Information Retrieval, Subjects For Detention & Interview". The machine is being fed from a spool of paper which is being rhythmically chopped by an automatic guillotine which neatly leaves each name on a separate sheet, with the title above each name, each sheet following its predecessor into a holding basket. In CLOSE- UP we see the names on the sheets of paper building up in the holding basket: TONSTED, Simon ... TOPPER, Martin F. ... TROLLOPE, Benjamin G. ... TURB, William K. ... TURNER, John D. ... Every name begins with T.

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1 Ext. Cityscape, sunset

Helpmann

A beautiful golden sun is setting. The sky is on fire. The camera starts to move downwards. A large neon sign rises into shot. It rests on top of a skyscraper and fills the frame. The building is neither past nor future in design but a bit of both.

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Slowly we pan downwards revealing the city that spreads below. A glittering conglomeration of elevated transport tubes, smaller square buildings which are merely huge, with, here and there, the comparatively minuscule relics of previous ages of architecture, pavement level awnings suggesting restaurants and shops.

Transparent tubes carry whizzing transport cages past us ... an elevated highway carrying traffic composed primarily of large transport lorries passes thru frame. As we descend, the sunlight is blocked out and street lights & neon signs take over as illumination. Eventually we reach the upper levels of a plush shopping precinct.

2 Int. Shopping precinct, night X’mas decorations are everywhere. People are busy buying, ogling, discussing, choosing wisely from the goodies on display. Shoppers are going by laden with superbly packaged goods ... the shop windows are full of elaborately boxed and be-ribboned who-knows-what. In one window is a bank of TV sets – on the great majority of the screens is the face of Mr Helpmann – the Deputy Minister of Information. He is being interviewed. No-one bothers to listen to Helpmann.

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Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people seems to have forgotten certain good old fashioned virtues. They just can’t stand seeing the other fellow win. If these people would just play the game, instead of standing on the touch line heckling Interviewer In fact, killing people Helpmann – In fact, killing people – they’d get a lot more out of life.

We Pull Away from the shop to concentrate on the shoppers. Helpmann’s voice carries over the rest of the scene.

Interviewer Mr. Helpmann, what would you say to those critics who maintain that the Ministry Of Infor mation has become too large and unwieldy ...?

Helpmann David ... in a free society information is the name of the game. You can’t win the game if you’re a man short.

Fur bedecked shoppers pass in front of what appears to be banks of snow but as we pan along with them the “snow” turns out to be fire-fighting foam. It oozes out of a shop front that is a charred twisted mass of metal frames.

Workmen are busily sealing the opening with plywood sheets, Shoppers pay no attention to this. Xmas carols are being played by a Salvation Army style band calling themselves Consumers For Christ. Santa Claus’s grotto is busy, all is well with the world.

Interviewer And the cost of it all, Deputy Minister? Seven percent of the gross national produce ...

Helpmann I understand this concern on behalf of the taxpayers. People want value for money and a cost-effective service.

Interviewer Deputy minister, what do you believe is be hind this recent increase in terrorist bombings?

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Deputy Minister of Information. He is being interviewed. No one bothers to listen to Helpmann.

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Interviewer Deputy minister, what do you believe is behind this recent increase in terrorist bombings?

Helpmann Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people

seems to have forgotten certain good old fashioned virtues. They just can’t stand seeing the other felow win. If these people would just play the game, instead of standing on the touch line heckiling– Interviewer In fact, killing people – Helpmann – In fact, killing people – they’d get a lot more out of life.

We Pull Away from the shop to concentrate on the shoppers. Helpmann’s voice carries over the rest of the scene.

Interviewer Mr. Helpmann, what would you say to those critics who maintain that the Ministry Of Information has become too large and unwieldy … ?

Helpmann David … in a free society information is the name the game. You can’t win the game if you’re a man short. Fur bedecked shoppers pass in front of what appears to be banks of snow but as we pan along

with them the ‘snow’ turns out to be fire-fighting foam. It oozes out of a shop front that is a charred twisted mass of metal frames. Workmen are busily sealing the opening with plywood sheets, Shopers

pay no attention to this. X’mas carols are being played by a Salvation Army style band calling them selves Consumers For Christ. Santa Claus’s grotto is busy, all is well with the world.

Interviewer And the cost of it all, Deputy Minister? Seven percent of the gross national produce …

Helpmann I understand this concern on behalf of the taxpayers. People want value for money and a cost effective service.

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Cut to TV screen with Helpmann still talking.

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That is why we always insist on the principle of Information Retrieval Charges. These terrorists are not pulling their weight, and it’s absolutely right and fair that those found guilty should pay for their periods of detention and the Information Retrieval Procedures used in their in terrogation.

Pull Back to reveal a rather clinical office. The TV rests on a desk. A White Coated Technician is sorting out his in- tray. Several Christmas cards are amongst he paperwork. He comes upon a Christmassy package which he rips open, to discover a shiny, metal ‘executive toy.

Cut to the Beetle droning up near the ceiling.

The Technician is disturbed by the buzz of the Beetle as it whirrs around the fluorescent light. He rolls up some paper and forms and gets up to swat the insect.

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The technician gets up and balances a chair on top of his desk.

He climbs up onto it attempting to swat the beetle still buzzing about the room just out of reach. Beneath him an automatic type-writing machine rattles away compiling a typed list of names under the heading ‘Information Retrieval, Subjects For Detention & Interview’. The machine is being fed from a spool of paper which is being rhythmically chopped by an automatic guillotine which neatly leaves each name on a separate sheet, with the title above each name, each sheet following its predecessor into a holding basket. In close- up we see the names on the sheets of paper building up in the holding basket: Tonsted, Sim-

Version 2 Improvements are: 1 Modern style – mixed use of Palatino Linotype and Lucida Sans.

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4 Group the information and put the most important information on the front.

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Deputy Minister of Information. He is being interviewed. No one bothers to listen to Helpmann.

Interviewer Deputy minister, what do you believe is behind this recent increase in terrorist bombings?

Helpmann Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people

seems to have forgotten certain good old fashioned virtues. They just can’t stand seeing the other felow win. If these people would just play the game, instead of standing on the touch line heckiling– Interviewer In fact, killing people – Helpmann – In fact, killing people – they’d get a lot more out of life.

We Pull Away from the shop to concentrate on the shoppers. Helpmann’s voice carries over the rest of the scene.

Interviewer Mr. Helpmann, what would you say to those critics who maintain that the Ministry Of Information has become too large and unwieldy … ?

Helpmann David … in a free society information is the name of the game. You can’t win the game if you’re a man short. Fur bedecked shoppers pass in front of what appears to be banks of snow but as we pan along

with them the ‘snow’ turns out to be fire-fighting foam. It oozes out of a shop front that is a charred twisted mass of metal frames. Workmen are busily sealing the opening with plywood sheets, Shopers

pay no attention to this. X’mas carols are being played by a Salvation Army style band calling them selves Consumers For Christ. Santa Claus’s grotto is busy, all is well with the world.

Interviewer And the cost of it all, Deputy Minister? Seven percent of the gross national produce …

Helpmann I understand this concern on behalf of the taxpayers. People want value for money and a cost effective service.

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Helpmann That is why we always insist on the principle of Information Retrieval Charges. These terrorists are not pulling their weight, and it’s absolutely right and fair that those found guilty should pay for their periods of detention and the Information Retrieval Procedures used in their in terrogation.

Pull Back to reveal a rather clinical office. The TV rests on a desk. A White Coated Technician is sorting out his in- tray. Several Christmas cards are amongst he paperwork. He comes upon a Christmassy package which he rips open, to discover a shiny, metal ‘executive toy.

Cut to the Beetle droning up near the ceiling.

The Technician is disturbed by the buzz of the Beetle as it whirrs around the fluorescent light. He rolls up some paper and forms and gets up to swat the insect.

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The technician gets up and balances a chair on top of his desk.

He climbs up onto it attempting to swat the beetle still buzzing about the room just out of reach. Beneath him an automatic type-writing machine rattles away compiling a typed list of names under the heading ‘Information Retrieval, Subjects For Detention & Interview’. The machine is being fed from a spool of paper which is being rhythmically chopped by an automatic guillotine which neatly leaves each name on a separate sheet, with the title above each name, each sheet following its predecessor into a holding basket. In close- up we see the names on the sheets of paper building up in the holding basket: Tonsted, Sim-

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great majority of the screens is the face of Mr Helpmann – the Deputy Minister of Information. He is being interviewed. No one bothers to listen to Helpmann.

Interviewer Deputy minister, what do you believe is behind this recent increase in terrorist bombings?

Helpmann Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people

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Gilliam developed the story and wrote the first draft of the screenplay with Charles Alverson, who was paid for his work but was ultimately uncredited in the final film. For nearly 20 years, Gilliam denied that Alverson had made any material contribution to the script. But then when the first draft was published and original in-progress documents emerged from Alverson’s files, Gilliam begrudgingly changed his story. This was a bit late for either credit on the film or a listing on the failed Oscar nomination for Alverson. He has said that he would not have minded the Oscar nomination, even though he didn’t think much of the script or the finished film. Gilliam, McKeown, and Stoppard collaborated on further drafts. Brazil was developed under the titles The Ministry and 1984½, the latter a nod not only to Orwell’s original 1984 but also to 8½ by Federico Fellini, a director whom Gilliam often cites as one of the defining influences on his visual style when directing. During the film’s production, other working titles floated about, including The Ministry of Torture, How I Learned to Live with the System – So Far, and So That’s Why the Bourgeoisie Sucks, before settling with Brazil relating to the name of its escapist signature tune.

Gilliam sometimes refers to this film as the second in his ‘Trilogy of Imagination’ films, starting with Time Bandits (1981) and ending with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989). All are about the ‘craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible.’ All three movies focus on these struggles and attempts to escape them through

Interviewer Helpmann

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seems to have forgotten certain good old fashioned virtues. They just can’t stand seeing the other felow win. If these people would just play the game, instead of standing on the touch line heckiling– In fact, killing people – – In fact, killing people – they’d get a lot more out of life.

We pull away from the shop to concentrate on the shoppers. Helpmann’s voice carries over the rest of the scene.

Mr Helpmann, what would you say to those critics who maintain that the Ministry Of Information has become too large and unwieldy… ?

David … in a free society information is the name of the game. You can’t win the game if you’re a man short. Fur bedecked shoppers pass in front of what appears to be banks of snow but as we pan along with them the ‘snow’ turns out to be fire-fighting foam. It oozes out of a shop front that is a charred twisted mass of metal frames. Workmen are busily sealing the opening with plywood sheets, Shopers pay no attention to this. X’mas carols are being played by a Salvation Army style band calling themselves consumers for Christ. Santa Claus’s grotto is busy, all is well with the world.

And the cost of it all, Deputy Minister? Seven percent of the gross national produce …

I understand this concern on behalf of the taxpayers. People want value for money and a costeffective service.

Version 4 Two improvements are: 1 Adjust the font from Lucida Sans to Scala Sans.

Lucida is a font family with a great number of variations. It can convey formal and documental feelings. Though it has been used for screen and publications, it may not be that modern as Scala Sans. Personally, I think Scala Sans matches Palatino better, because they shares proportional figures and hand-written features (humannist styles).

I also tried Avenir and Frutiger. It is said that Frutiger considers Avenir his finest work.

I think these two fonts are geometric. They are not very suitable for literature works, though it can be modern to combine San Serif font with Serif one.

2 Align all the contents to baseline grid. This is to make the passage tidy based on english writting styles.

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great majority of the screens is the face of Mr Helpmann – the Deputy Minister of Information. He is being interviewed. No one bothers to listen to Helpmann.

Interviewer Deputy minister, what do you believe is behind this recent increase in terrorist bombings?

Helpmann Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people Writing Gilliam developed the story and wrote the first draft of the screenplay with Charles Alverson, who was paid for his work but was ultimately uncredited in the final film. For nearly 20 years, Gilliam denied that Alverson had made any material contribution to the script. But then when the first draft was published and original in-progress documents emerged from Alverson’s files, Gilliam begrudgingly changed his story. This was a bit late for either credit on the film or a listing on the failed Oscar nomination for Alverson. He has said that he would not have minded the Oscar nomination, even though he didn’t think much of the script or the finished film. Gilliam, McKeown, and Stoppard collaborated on further drafts. Brazil was developed under the titles The Ministry and 1984½, the latter a nod not only to Orwell’s original 1984 but also to 8½ by Federico Fellini, a director whom Gilliam often cites as one of the defining influences on his visual style when directing. During the film’s production, other working titles floated about, including The Ministry of Torture, How I Learned to Live with the System – So Far, and So That’s Why the Bourgeoisie Sucks, before settling with Brazil relating to the name of its escapist signature tune.

Gilliam sometimes refers to this film as the second in his ‘Trilogy of Imagination’ films, starting with Time Bandits (1981) and ending with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989). All are about the ‘craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible.’ All three movies focus on these struggles and attempts to escape them through

Final Version Add two pictures before the part one of the screenplay shows.

Interviewer Helpmann

Interviewer Helpmann

Interviewer Helpmann

seems to have forgotten certain good old fashioned virtues. They just can’t stand seeing the other felow win. If these people would just play the game, instead of standing on the touch line heckiling– In fact, killing people – – In fact, killing people – they’d get a lot more out of life.

We pull away from the shop to concentrate on the shoppers. Helpmann’s voice carries over the rest of the scene.

Mr Helpmann, what would you say to those critics who maintain that the Ministry Of Information has become too large and unwieldy… ?

David … in a free society information is the name of the game. You can’t win the game if you’re a man short. Fur bedecked shoppers pass in front of what appears to be banks of snow but as we pan along with them the ‘snow’ turns out to be fire-fighting foam. It oozes out of a shop front that is a charred twisted mass of metal frames. Workmen are busily sealing the opening with plywood sheets, Shopers pay no attention to this. X’mas carols are being played by a Salvation Army style band calling themselves consumers for Christ. Santa Claus’s grotto is busy, all is well with the world.

And the cost of it all, Deputy Minister? Seven percent of the gross national produce …

I understand this concern on behalf of the taxpayers. People want value for money and a costeffective service.

Step 4 Finalization and Specification

Analyze the design (similiar to step 1)

Record the typographic identities

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Group the typographic identities into ‘character’ and ‘paragraph’.

Record variations and consistency.

em space 2p

Part 1

15mm

Format

Book title

Chapter title

33

Running head

Brazil

1p

32

18mm

Page number

es

em space

160.8mm

Size

ede

spac-

Margins

top and bottom = 18mm outside = 25mm inside = 15mm

Binding

sewn binding

Colour

ini-

18mm

96.5mm

pace

black and white

Baseline grid

increament = 12pt start 0pt at top of page

Running head

align to spine align to outside margin align to baseline grid

Page numbers

Scala Sans Regular 8/12pt

s, 25mm

136.5 Ă— 196.8 mm (portrait)

Book & character titles

Scala Sans Italics 8/12pt em space before or after

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