Top SFX shots No.44: Brazil

Robert De Niro's improbably heroic plumber (and 'freelance subversive') makes two exits-by-guy rope in Terry Gilliam's enjoyable perversion of Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four, but the second one is the real jaw-dropper. Gilliam stands with James Cameron (himself once a successful effects artist for Roger Corman) in the role of exemplary old-school FX guru, with a preference for build-and-film rather than adding anything later.

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