Post #46597 by tikibars on Thu, Aug 7, 2003 12:05 PM

I once met Terry in a bookstore in London.

I was over there working on a record for some band, and we had a day off. I was in SoHo just looking at all the weird bookstores and record stores, poking around, seeing the sights. I was in this bookstore (I swear this is true) looking at a copy of The Battle of Brazil, a book about Terry's struggles in making Brazil. I look up from the book, and he's walking into the store!

So I put the book down really fast, I don't think he saw what I was reading, but since I was in the cinema section, it was no surprise that he wandered over. We got to talking, and he was super cool.

Mostly he was asking MY opinion on some things, and I thought that was great that he was genuinely interested in what one of his fans had to say about his movies. He asked me why Fear and Loathing was a commercial flop in the US.

I got a little animated (no pun intended), waved my hands about a bit as I was speaking, and told him something to the effect of: " I know this movie does not glorify drug use, and you know that this movie, or the book it is based on, does not glorify drug use, but the average MORON in America can't or won't see or understand the underlying message, and in America right now, it is INSANE to have made a movie, that to the general dipshits in the USA, is going to SEEM to be a pro-drug, anti-cops, pro-statuatory rape film".

He seemed pleased that I gave it to him straight, and so animatedly.

He told me about his next project (something that never got made), and signed the copy of Battle of Brazil - even though he didn't write it and I hadn't bought it (yet)!

The end.