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The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen


The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a role-playing game published by Hogshead Publishing in 1998. "The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen" is a multi-player storytelling/role-playing game. It is based on the stories about Baron Munchausen. "The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen" was published by Hogshead Publishing in 1998. James Wallis was able to publish his game "The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen" in 1998, the first of what would later be called the company's "New Style" RPGs
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. Grigori Gorin used the Baron as the hero of his 1976 play "That Very Munchausen"; a film version was made in 1980. "Baron Prášil", a Czech musical about the Baron, opened in 2010 in Prague. The following year, the National Black Light Theatre of Prague toured the United Kingdom with a nonmusical production of "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen". In 1932, the comedy writer Billy Wells adapted Baron Munchausen for a radio comedy routine starring the comedians Jack Pearl and Cliff Hall. In the
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a cartoon, "Adventures of Munchausen". In the Soviet Union, Soyuzmultfilm released a 16-minute stop-motion animation "Adventures of Baron Munchausen" in 1967, directed by Anatoly Karanovich. Another Soviet animated version was produced as a series of short films, "Munchausen's Adventures", in 1973 and 1974. The French animator Jean Image filmed "The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen" in 1979, and followed it with a 1984 sequel, "Moon Madness". Oleg Yankovsky appeared as the Baron in the
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Vincent Canby called the film "consistently imaginative" and a "spectacle [that] is indeed spectacular and worth the admission price and patches of boredom"; he said the "major credit must go to Giuseppe Rotunno, the cameraman; Dante Ferretti, the production designer; Richard Conway, who did the special effects, and Peerless Camera Company Ltd., responsible for the optical effects. Without them, "Baron Munchausen" would have looked about as big and as interesting as a 25-cent postage stamp." The film was nominated
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Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia


Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia is a 1785 novel about a fictional German nobleman written by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe. The lead character Baron Munchausen is loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen (1720–1797, ), the fictionalized character was created by Rudolf Erich Raspe. The novel was the basis of the 1988 film "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen". An eighteenth-century German nobleman, Baron Munchausen, experiences a series of amazing adventures. They
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in 1785 as "" (or "Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia"). The tales were further embellished and translated back to German by Gottfried August Bürger in 1786. These tales were frequently extended and translated throughout the 19th century, further fictionalized in the 1901 American novel "Mr. Munchausen". The stories were adapted into various films including "Baron Munchausen's Dream" (1911, Georges Méliès), "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1943, Josef von Báky with script
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by Paul Peroff in the United States in 1929. Colonel Heeza Liar, the protagonist of the first animated cartoon series in cinema history, was created by John Randolph Bray in 1913 as an amalgamation of the Baron and Teddy Roosevelt. The Italian director Paolo Azzurri filmed "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" in 1914, and the British director F. Martin Thornton made a short silent film featuring the Baron, "The New Adventures of Baron Munchausen", the following year. In 1940, the Czech director Martin Frič filmed "Baron
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critics and was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup. In an unnamed war-torn European city in the "Age of Reason", amid explosions and gunfire from a large Ottoman army outside the city gates, a fanciful touring stage production of Baron Munchausen's life and adventures is taking place. In a theatre box, the mayor, "The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson", reinforces the city's commitment to reason by ordering the execution of a soldier
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 adventure fantasy film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, and Uma Thurman. The film is based on the tall tales about the 18th-century German nobleman Baron Munchausen and his wartime exploits against the Ottoman Empire. The film was a box office bomb, grossing just $8 million against its $46 million budget and losing the studio $38 million. However, it received positive reviews from
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. Pierre Henri Cami's character Baron de Crac, a French soldier and courtier under Louis XV, is an imitation of the Baron Munchausen stories. In 1998, the British game designer James Wallis used the Baron character to create a multi-player storytelling game, "The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen", in which players improvise Munchausen-like first-person stories while overcoming objections and other interruptions from opponents. The American writer Peter David had the Baron narrate an original short story, "Diego and the Baron",
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#146 (British series), with both interior and cover art by the British cartoonist Denis Gifford. In the first published illustrations, which may have been drawn by Raspe himself, the Baron appears slim and youthful. For the 1792 "Sequel to the Adventures of Baron Munchausen", an anonymous artist drew the Baron as a dignified but tired old soldier whose face is marred by injuries from his adventures; this illustration remained the standard portrait of the Baron for about seventy years, and its imagery was echoed in Cruikshank's
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attempts to escape them through imagination: "Time Bandits", through the eyes of a child, "Brazil", through the eyes of a man in his thirties, and "Munchausen", through the eyes of an elderly man. When the production finally came to a successful closure, several of the actors commented on the rushed tightness of the whole project. Said Eric Idle, "Up until "Munchausen", I'd always been very smart about Terry Gilliam films. You don't ever be in them.
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lived happily ever after". The Baron leads the citizens to the city gates to reveal the city has indeed been saved, though it is unclear if the events of the battle occurred in a story or in reality. Sally asks, "It wasn't just a story, was it?" The Baron grins, rides off on Bucephalus, and then disappears. Tall tales based loosely on the German adventurer Hieronymus Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Münchhausen, or Baron Munchausen, were compiled by Rudolf Erich Raspe and published for English readers
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lie[s] born of the joy of life". Théophile Gautier "fils" highlighted that the Baron's adventures are endowed with an "absurd logic pushed to the extreme and which backs away from nothing". According to an interview, Jules Verne relished reading the Baron stories as a child, and used them as inspiration for his own adventure novels. Thomas Seccombe commented that "Munchausen has undoubtedly achieved [a permanent place in literature] ... The Baron's notoriety is universal, his character proverbial, and his name as familiar
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who had just accomplished a near-superhuman feat of bravery, claiming that his bravery is demoralizing to other soldiers and citizens. Not far into the play, an elderly man claiming to be the real Baron interrupts the show, protesting its many inaccuracies. Over the complaints of the audience, the theatre company and Jackson, the "real" Baron gains the house's attention and narrates through flashback an account of one of his adventures, of a life-or-death wager with the Grand Turk, where the younger Baron
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"A House-Boat on the Styx", "Pursuit of the House-Boat", and "The Enchanted Type-Writer". Shortly after, in 1901, Bangs published "Mr. Munchausen", a collection of new Munchausen stories, closely following the style and humor of the original tales. Hugo Gernsback's second novel, "Baron Münchhausen's New Scientific Adventures", put the Baron character in a science fiction setting; the novel was serialized in "The Electrical Experimenter" from May 1915 to February 1917
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is a flamboyant and witty visual treat". On Metacritic, it has a score of 69 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating "Generally favorable reviews". Regarding the obvious gap between the movie's troubled production and its eventual triumph of aesthetic cinematic form on the screen, Jeff Swindoll wrote in his 2008 DVD review of "Munchausen" for "Monsters and Critics": "For the absolute hell that the production of the film turned out to be, you really don't see any of that tension on
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any more prints. He said, "I've never seen anything like this." There it was. Then it becomes this kind of legend–which it deserves to be... even if it's the wrong legend. "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" has a 92% approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 51 reviews, with a weighted average of 7.33/10. The site's consensus reads: "Bursting with Terry Gilliam's typically imaginative flourishes, this story of a possibly deranged Baron recounting his storied life
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1979 Russian television film "The Very Same Munchhausen", directed by Mark Zakharov from Grigori Gorin's screenplay, produced and released by Mosfilm. The film, a satirical commentary on Soviet censorship and social mores, imagines an ostracized Baron attempting to prove the truth of his adventures in a disbelieving and conformity-driven world. In 1988, Terry Gilliam adapted the Raspe stories into a lavish Hollywood film, "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", with the British stage actor and director John Neville in the lead. Roger Ebert,
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's "The Seagull" in late 1985. From 1986 to 1987 Pryce played the lead part in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "Macbeth", which also starred Sinéad Cusack as Lady Macbeth. Also in 1986 he starred in the film "Jumpin' Jack Flash". Pryce worked once again with Gilliam in "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988), playing "The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson". The film was a notorious financial fiasco, with production costing more than $40 million, when the
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protocol and his falling in love with Princess Bianca, a damsel in distress held prisoner by the Sultan, leads to a series of romantic and fanciful adventures that transform the modern scientific space traveller into a hero rivalling the Baron. Among the exciting and satiric adventures are sword and sea battles with the Turks, being swallowed by a giant fish, and ending the conflict between two warring kingdoms. The film was released internationally throughout the 1960s, including a 1964 American dub under "The Fabulous Baron Munchausen". Howard Thompson of "
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The Fabulous Baron Munchausen


The Fabulous Baron Munchausen () is a 1961 Czechoslovak romantic adventure film directed by Karel Zeman, based on the tales about Baron Munchausen. The film combines live-action with various forms of animation and is highly stylized, often evoking the engravings of Gustave Doré. A digital restoration of the film premiered on 5 September 2016 at the Telluride Film Festival in the United States. The film begins with footsteps leading to a pond. The camera continually moves upwards to show the flight of butterflies, birds, and a progression of historical
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attempted without success to bring legal proceedings against Bürger and the publisher of the translation. The following tables summarize the early publication history of Raspe's text, from 1785 to 1800. Unless otherwise referenced, information in the tables comes from the Munchausen bibliography established by John Patrick Carswell. The fictional Baron Munchausen is a braggart soldier, most strongly defined by his comically exaggerated boasts about his own adventures; all of the stories in Raspe's book are told in first-person narrative, with a prefatory note explaining that "the Baron
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, "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and most notably, "Dangerous Liaisons". In the comedy "Johnny Be Good", she played the girlfriend of a top high school quarterback prospect, and in "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", she made a brief appearance as the goddess Venus; during her entrance she briefly appears nude, in an homage to Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus". In the Oscar-winning drama "Dangerous Liaisons", co-starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich, Thurman
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and that's one quality in a director that I admire the most." When "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" was finally completed, David Puttnam, who had obtained the film's US distribution rights for Columbia Pictures, had been replaced as CEO of Columbia; coupled with Gilliam's prior quarrels with major studios over "Brazil", the film saw only very limited distribution in the US, earning $8 million in US box office. In "Madness and Misadventures", Robin Williams commented on the low number of
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by Erich Kästner), "The Fabulous Baron Munchausen" (1961, Karel Zeman), and "The Very Same Munchhausen" (1979) directed by Mark Zakharov, who depicted Munchausen as a tragic character, struggling against the conformity and hypocrisy of the world around him. The film was over budget; what was originally $23.5 million grew to a reported $46.63 million. Gilliam, acknowledging he had gone over budget, said its final costs had been nowhere near $40 million. In "The Madness and Misadventures
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Münchhausen in Afrika", made as a vehicle for the Austrian singing star Peter Alexander, appeared in 1957. Karel Zeman's 1961 Czech film "The Fabulous Baron Munchausen" commented on the Baron's adventures from a contemporary perspective, highlighting the importance of the poetic imagination to scientific achievement; Zeman's stylized "mise-en-scène", based on Doré's illustrations for the book, combined animation with live-action actors, including Miloš Kopecký as the Baron. In the Soviet Union in 1929, Daniil Cherkes released
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the screen. ... the film is a fantastic, whimsical treat. ... "Baron Munchausen" is full of whimsy, fantasy, bright colors, and fabulous characters. None is as fantastic as the Baron himself as played, with a twinkle in his eye, by the grand John Neville." Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and found that it was "told with a cheerfulness and a light touch that never betray the time and money it took to create them", appreciating "the sly wit
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Munchausen by Internet


or to control others. Chronic manifestation of factitious disorder is often called Munchausen syndrome, after a book about the exaggerated accounts of the adventures of Baron Munchausen, a German cavalry officer in the Russian Army, that was written by Rudolf Erich Raspe. When the symptoms of another person, such as a child or an elderly parent, are purposely induced by the caregiver, it is called factitious disorder imposed on another, or Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Feldman noted that the advent of online support groups, combined with access to vast
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is a lot here to treasure", and Ebert concluded overall, "this is a vast and commodious work", "the wit and the spectacle of "Baron Munchausen" are considerable achievements". Additionally, Ebert considered John Neville's title role performance as appearing "sensible and matter-of-fact, as anyone would if they had spent a lifetime growing accustomed to the incredible". "The Washington Post" called the film a "wondrous feat of imagination", though "except for Williams, the actors
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young daughter of the theater company's leader, saves him and persuades him to remain living. Sally races to the wall yelling for the Turkish army to go away, and the Baron accidentally fires himself through the sky using a mortar and returns riding a cannonball, narrowly escaping the Angel of Death once again. Insisting that he alone can save the city, the Baron escapes over the city's walls in a hot air balloon constructed of women's underwear, accompanied by Sally as a stowaway. The balloon expedition proceeds to the
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of Munchausen" (included on the bonus DVD of the 20th Anniversary Edition of "Munchausen"), producer Thomas Schühly said that as part of a deal with 20th Century Fox before it ended up with Columbia, a budget plan had been set up for $35 million, "and it's strange, the "[film's]" final cost was 35 "[million]". ... We always had a budget of 34 or 35 million, the problem was when I started to discuss it with Columbia,
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-seek, the dual personality of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the literal skin, or hide, that creates a boundary between the inside and the outside, the self and the other. 1999 In 1999, Gaskell produced two series, "Sally Salt says" and "by proxy", both of which featured Sally Salt, the female protagonist in "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", a 1988 British comedy film based on the tall tales told about 18th-century German baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchausen.
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". Kearsley's version was a marked popular success. Over the next few years, the publishing house issued further editions in quick succession, adding still more non-Raspe material along the way; even the full-length "Sequel to the Adventures of Baron Munchausen", again not by Raspe and originally published in 1792 by a rival printer, was quickly subsumed into the body of stories. In the process of revision, Raspe's prose style was heavily modified; instead of his conversational language and sportsmanlike turns of phrase
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Bucephalus


" includes a story about Alexander taming Bucephalus that mirrors the events in the film. In the 1988 film "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", Baron Munchausen's horse is named Bucephalus. "The Crystal Bucephalus" is an original 1994 Doctor Who novel written by Craig Hinton. On the 1997 album "Come to Daddy" by Aphex Twin (Richard David James), he named one of his most impressive experimental tracks "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball" to incite listeners to think of great horses trotting into battle. In the animated
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Mr. Munchausen


Mr. Munchausen is a novel by John Kendrick Bangs, written in the style that has become known as Bangsian fantasy. It is the fourth book of Bangs' Associated Shades series. The book's full title is: This is a satire of the long book and chapter titles often prevalent in the 18th and 19th centuries, and a reference to the adventures of the original Baron Munchausen. In various library, collectibles, and sales catalogs the long title of the book is usually truncated in various ways. Originally printed by Noyes,
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the verge of exposure, he absconded. He finally moved to Ireland where he managed a copper mine on the Herbert Estate in Killarney. He died in Killarney, County Kerry, of typhoid, in November 1794. The Baron Munchausen tales were made famous when they were 'borrowed', translated into German, and embellished somewhat by Gottfried August Bürger in 1786—and have been among the favourite reading of subsequent generations, as well as the basis of several films, including Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" inspired by
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and Campaigns in Russia", a 49-page book in 12mo size, published in Oxford by the bookseller Smith in late 1785 and sold for a shilling. A second edition released early the following year, retitled "Singular Travels, Campaigns, Voyages, and Sporting Adventures of Baron Munnikhouson, commonly pronounced Munchausen", added five more stories and four illustrations; though the book was still anonymous, the new text was probably by Raspe, and the illustrations may have been his work as well. By May 1786, Raspe no longer
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had control over the book, which was taken over by a different publisher, G. Kearsley. Kearsley, intending the book for a higher-class audience than the original editions had been, commissioned extensive additions and revisions from other hands, including new stories, twelve new engravings, and much rewriting of Raspe's prose. This third edition was sold at two shillings, twice the price of the original, as "Gulliver Revived, or the Singular Travels, Campaigns, Voyages, and Adventures of Baron Munikhouson, commonly pronounced Munchausen
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Baron Munchausen's Dream


Baron Munchausen's Dream (), also known as Les Aventures de baron de Munchhausen and Monsieur le Baron a trop bien dîné, is a 1911 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès. After an evening of entertaining guests, an intoxicated Baron Munchausen goes to sleep only to experience a variety of disturbing and otherworldly dreams. Méliès greatly admired the Baron Munchausen stories created by Rudolf Erich Raspe, and may have used them as inspiration for his celebrated film "A Trip to the Moon". However, "Baron Munchausen's
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Gilliam found new producers, he started production once again. Driver and Kurylenko were still attached as Grisoni and the female lead, with Pryce cast as Don Quixote. Pryce had previously starred in Gilliam's films "Brazil" (1985), "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988), and "The Brothers Grimm" (2005), and was also cast in the original 2000 production of "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" in a different role. Gilliam stated, "Jonathan has been wanting to [
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presumed to be pervasive and more stable over time, and thus offers a worse prognosis. People affected may have multiple scars on their abdomen due to repeated "emergency" operations. The name "Munchausen syndrome" derives from Baron Munchausen, a literary character loosely based on the German nobleman Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen (1720–1797). The historical baron became a well-known storyteller in the late 18th century for entertaining dinner guests with tales about his adventures during the Russo-Turkish War. In 1785 German-born
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, the eternal keeper of the enormous Tun remains Perkeo of Heidelberg, once a court jester and master of the castle’s spirit production (and a famously Herculean wine drinker). The Tun is referenced in Rudolf Erich Raspe's "The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen", Jules Verne's novel "Five Weeks in a Balloon", Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables", Washington Irving's "The Specter Bridegroom", Mary Hazelton Wade's "Bertha", Mark Twain's "A Tramp Abroad" and Wilhelm Busch
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into a short English-language book, this time identifying the narrator of the book as "Baron Munchausen". Other than the anglicization of Münchhausen to "Munchausen", Raspe this time made no attempt to hide the identity of the man who had inspired him, though he still withheld his own name. This English edition, the first version of the text in which Munchausen appeared as a fully developed literary character, had a circuitous publication history. It first appeared anonymously as "Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels
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book "Entertaining Munchausen“ was awarded second place in the All-Russian contest "Book Art” held in Moscow. In 2009, The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe was again awarded in the "Art of the Book" contest. In 1997, the book "Small But Proud Birdies" was awarded in the same first degree. In 2003, Nikolay Vorontsov was awarded "Man of the book" for "Samson and Roberto" by Ingvar Ambjørnsen published by Azbooka Publishing House. In 2008, he
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Gilliam." "Munchausen" is the third entry in Gilliam's ""Trilogy of Imagination"", preceded by "Time Bandits" (1981) and "Brazil" (1985). All are about the "craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible." Gilliam explains that, "The one theme that runs through all three of these pictures is a consistently serious battle between fantasy and what people perceive as reality." All three films focus on these struggles and
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release prints that Columbia produced, saying "[Puttnam's] regime was leaving, the new one was going through this, and they said, 'This was "their" movies, now let's do "our" movies!' It was a bit like the new lion that comes in and kills all the cubs from the previous man." In a 2000 interview with IGN, Gilliam said about the contemporary press perception of the film being a financial disaster how "It seemed actually appropriate that Munchausen–the greatest
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: "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" – Dante Ferretti 1990: "Dick Tracy" – Richard Sylbert † 1991: "Edward Scissorhands" – Bo Welch 1992: "Strictly Ballroom" – Catherine Martin 1993: "The Piano" – Andrew McAlpine 1994: "Interview with the Vampire" – Dante Ferretti 1995: "Apollo 13" – Michael Corenblith 1996: "Richard III" – Tony Burrough 1997: "Romeo + Juliet" – Catherine Martin 1998: "The Truman Show" – Dennis Gassner 1999: "
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"A River Runs Through It" and Henry Selick's adaptation of Roald Dahl's "James and the Giant Peach". During this period Eberts was also responsible as executive for the expensive flop, "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", which went on to some popular success in home videocassette and DVD rentals. Eberts moved to Paris in 1991. "Dances with Wolves" was an early picture of Eberts to feature a Native American theme. Later productions included (as producer or executive producer), Bruce Beresford's "
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. During the city's celebratory parade, the Baron is shot dead by Jackson and the Angel of Death appears a final time to take the Baron's life. An emotional public funeral takes place, but the denouement reveals that this is merely the final scene of yet another story the Baron is telling to the same theater-goers in the city. The Baron calls the foregoing "only one of the many occasions on which I met my death" and closes his tale by saying "everyone who had a talent for it
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gained control over all subsequent U.S. broadcasts of its programmes. The case also led to them gaining the foreign rights to all Python shows from the BBC, once their original contracts ended at the end of 1980 (a unique arrangement at the time). As revealed in "The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen" (included on the bonus DVD of the 20th Anniversary Edition of Python member Terry Gilliam's 1988 film "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"), Python Pictures was to originally bring in part of the funding for "
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are never more than a detail in Gilliam's compositions". Richard Corliss wrote: Everything about "Munchausen" deserves exclamation points, and not just to clear the air of the odor of corporate flop sweat. So here it is! A lavish fairy tale for bright children of all ages! Proof that eccentric films can survive in today's off-the-rack Hollywood! The most inventive fantasy since, well, "Brazil!" You may not believe it, ladies and gentlemen, but it's all true.
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snuff" out into the sea creature's cavernous interior, causing it to sneeze the heroes out through its whale-like blowhole. The Baron, young once again, sails to where the Turkish army is located but the Baron's associates are too elderly and tired to fight. The Baron lectures them firmly but to no avail, and he storms off intending to surrender to the Grand Turk. His companions rally to save the Baron, and through a series of fantastic acts they rout the Turkish army away and liberate the city
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. The Baron and Vulcan's wife, the Goddess Venus, attempt a romantic interlude by waltzing in the air, but this cuts short the hospitality and Vulcan expels the foursome from his kingdom into the South Seas. Swallowed by an enormous sea creature, the travellers locate Gustavus, Adolphus, and the Baron's trusty horse Bucephalus. The Baron (who again appears elderly after being "expelled from a state of bliss") encounters the Angel of Death for the fourth time. Finally they escape by blowing "a modicum of
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ride. Bodenwerder sports a Munchausen monument in front of its Town Hall, as well a Munchausen museum including a large collection of illustrated editions of the stories. Another Munchausen Museum ("Minhauzena Muzejs") exists in Duntes Muiža, Liepupe parish, Latvia, home of the real Baron's first wife; the couple had lived in the town for six years, before moving back to the baronial estate in Hanover. In 2005, to mark the real-life Baron's 285th birthday, the National Bank of Latvia issued a
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well-respected The Enemy Within Campaign; Hogshead's updated Enemy Within campaign (1995-1999) was very well received. Wallis was able to publish his game "The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen" in 1998, the first of what would later be called the company's "New Style" RPGs. John Scott Tynes designed "Puppetland" (1999), the next New Style game. "Violence" (1999), by Greg Costikyan (aka Designer X), was, according to Shannon Appelcline, "
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Columbia would not go beyond 25. ... Everybody knew from the very beginning that this cutting out was just a fake. ... The problem was that David Puttnam got fired, and all these deals were oral deals. ... Columbia's new CEO, Dawn Steel, said 'Whatever David Puttnam "[has]" said before doesn't interest me'". Regarding the new regime's apparent animosity towards all of Puttnam's projects and "Munchausen", Gilliam added in the same documentary, "I was trying very hard
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a few extremely expensive movies beset with production problems. After the lengthy quarrelling with Universal Studios over "Brazil", Gilliam's next picture, "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", cost around US$46 million, and then earned only about US$8 million in US ticket sales. The film saw no wide domestic release from Columbia Pictures, which was in the process of being sold at the time. In the mid-1990s, Gilliam and Charles McKeown developed a script for "Time Bandits 2", a project that was never
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name was released in the United Kingdom in 1990. It aired as part of WGBH's children's series, "Long Ago and Far Away". Rabbit Ears Productions also produced an audiotape version, featuring Robin Williams, which was released on Showtime in 1991. It aired as part of Rabbit Ears' "We All Have Tales" series. In addition, Terry Gilliam's 1988 film "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" contains several elements inspired by this story, particularly the opening sequence set at the court of the Grand
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to Gilliam, Warren Skaaren, and Hamm rather than McKeown, used the character Rorschach's journal as a voice-over, and restored scenes from the comic book that Hamm had removed. According to "Watchmen" artist Dave Gibbons, filming was to take place at Pinewood Studios. Silver wanted to cast Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dr. Manhattan. Because both Gilliam and Silver's previous films, "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and "Die Hard 2" respectively, went over budget, they were only able to raise $25
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It was physically grueling and unsafe." Production designer Dante Ferretti afterwards compared Gilliam to his former director, saying, "Terry is very similar to Fellini in spirit. Fellini is a wilder liar, but that's the only difference! Terry isn't a director so much as a film author. He is open to every single idea and opportunity to make the end result work. Often the best ideas have come out of something not working properly and coming up with a new concept as a result. He is very elastic
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. Versions of the fictional Baron have appeared on stage, screen, radio, and television, as well as in other literary works. Though the Baron Munchausen stories are no longer well-known in many English-speaking countries, they are still popular in continental Europe. The character has inspired numerous memorials and museums, and several medical conditions and other concepts are named after him, including Munchausen syndrome, the Münchhausen trilemma, and Munchausen numbers. Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen was born on 11 May 1720 in Bodenwerder, Electorate
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in 2018. Sadler's Wells Theatre produced the pantomime "Baron Munchausen; or, Harlequin's Travels" in London in 1795, starring the actor-singer-caricaturist Robert Dighton as the Baron; another pantomime based on the Raspe text, "Harlequin Munchausen, or the Fountain of Love", was produced in London in 1818. Herbert Eulenberg made the Baron the main character of a 1900 play, "Münchhausen", and the Expressionist writer Walter Hasenclever turned the stories into a comedy, "Münchhausen", in 1934
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's life is saved only by his amazing luck plus the assistance of his remarkable associates: Berthold, the world's fastest runner; Adolphus, a rifleman with superhuman eyesight; Gustavus, who possesses extraordinary hearing, and sufficient lung power to knock down an army by exhaling; and the fantastically strong Albrecht. When gunfire disrupts the elderly Baron's story, Jackson cancels the acting troupe's contract because of the Baron. The Baron wanders backstage, where the Angel of Death tries to take his life, but Sally Salt, the
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Prášil", starring the comic actor Vlasta Burian as a 20th-century descendant of the Baron. For the German film studio U.F.A. GmbH's 25th anniversary in 1943, Joseph Goebbels hired the filmmaker Josef von Báky to direct "Münchhausen", a big-budget color film about the Baron. David Stewart Hull describes Hans Albers's Baron as "jovial but somewhat sinister", while Tobias Nagle writes that Albers imparts "a male and muscular zest for action and testosterone-driven adventure". A German musical comedy, "
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discernible in the intonational innuendo". The early French filmmaker Georges Méliès, who greatly admired the Baron Munchausen stories, filmed "Baron Munchausen's Dream" in 1911. Méliès's short silent film, which has little in common with the Raspe text, follows a sleeping Baron through a surrealistic succession of intoxication-induced dreams. Méliès may also have used the Baron's journey to the moon as an inspiration for his well-known 1902 film "A Trip to the Moon". In the late 1930s, he planned to
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James Wallis (games designer)


game was never published. By 1996, Wallis was also working in the computer industry and shortly after moved into magazine publishing, working on "Warhammer" in his spare bedroom on evenings and weekends. By the end of 1997, cashflow had improved so Wallis moved the company to an office, and hired Matthew Pook. Wallis was able to publish his game "The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen" in 1998. He helped the principals of ProFantasy Software resurrect the Dragonmeet convention in 2000. On 26 November 2002, Wallis announced
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was being sold at the time: The negative stories about the shoot that were turning up in the Hollywood press were coming, we found out later, from a source at Film Finances–which was the completion bond company on the film. Their lawyer was a guy named Steve Ransohoff, whose father was Martin Ransohoff–who was Ray Stark's friend and partner. [...] I thought it was quite extraordinary, because the stories were doing two things – they were making me and the whole project look like it was
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Serbian comics


Notre-Dame"), Sergej Solovjev's "Carev štitonoša" ("Emperor's Squire"), "Robin Hud" ("Robin Hood") and "Ajvanho" (an adaptation of Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe"), Lobačev's "Master Death", "Baron Minhauzen" (an adaptation of Rudolf Erich Raspe's "The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen") and "Biberče" ("Pepper-Boy", based on the Serbian fairytale of the same name), Konstantin Kuznjecov's
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, an elaborate expansion of the stories, appeared in 1846. In his 1886 philosophical treatise "Beyond Good and Evil", Friedrich Nietzsche uses one of the Baron's adventures, the one in which he rescues himself from a swamp, as a metaphor for belief in complete metaphysical free will; Nietzsche calls this belief an attempt "to pull oneself up into existence by the hair, out of the swamps of nothingness". In the late 19th century, the Baron appeared as a character in John Kendrick Bangs's comic novels
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Moon, where the Baron, who has grown younger, finds his old associate Berthold, but angers the King of the Moon, a giant with separate minds in his head and body, who resents the Baron for his romantic past with the Queen of the Moon. The death of the King's body, and a bungled escape from the Moon, brings the trio back to the Earth, and into the volcano of the Roman god Vulcan. He hosts the group as his guests and reveals Albrecht is working as his servant
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Baron Munchausen (; ) is a fictional German nobleman created by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 1785 book "Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia". The character is loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen. Born in Bodenwerder, Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the real-life Münchhausen fought for the Russian Empire in the Russo-Turkish War of 1735–1739. Upon retiring in 1760, he became a minor celebrity within German aristocratic circles for telling outrageous
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is supposed to relate these extraordinary Adventures over his Bottle, when surrounded by his Friends". The Baron's stories imply him to be a superhuman figure who spends most of his time either getting out of absurd predicaments or indulging in equally absurd moments of gentle mischief. In some of his best-known stories, the Baron rides a cannonball, travels to the Moon, is swallowed by a giant fish in the Mediterranean Sea, saves himself from drowning by pulling on his own hair, fights a forty-foot crocodile,
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the writer W. L. George, concluded that the namesake's identity was irrelevant to the general reader, and Richard Asher named Munchausen syndrome using the anglicized spelling so that the disorder would reference the character rather than the real person. On the other hand, Münchhausen remains strongly connected to the character he inspired, and is still nicknamed the "Lügenbaron" ("Baron of Lies") in German. As the Munchausen researcher Bernhard Wiebel has said, "These two barons are the same and they are not the same."
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commemorative silver coin. In 1951, the British physician Richard Asher published an article in "The Lancet" describing patients whose factitious disorders led them to lie about their own states of health. Asher proposed to call the disorder "Munchausen's syndrome", commenting: "Like the famous Baron von Munchausen, the persons affected have always travelled widely; and their stories, like those attributed to him, are both dramatic and untruthful. Accordingly, the syndrome is respectfully dedicated to the baron, and named after him". The
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Jack Pearl


Jack Pearl, born Jack Perlman (October 29, 1894 – December 25, 1982), was a vaudeville performer and a star of early radio. He was best known for his character Baron Munchausen. Born in New York, Pearl debuted as an entertainer in "School Days", Gus Edwards's vaudeville act. He made the transition from vaudeville to broadcasting when he introduced his character Baron Munchausen on "The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air" in 1932. His creation was loosely based on the Baron Munchausen literary character.
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writer and con artist Rudolf Erich Raspe anonymously published a book in which a heavily fictionalized version of "Baron Munchausen" tells many fantastic and impossible stories about himself. Raspe's Munchausen became a sensation, establishing a literary exemplar of a bombastic liar or exaggerator. In 1951, Richard Asher was the first to describe a pattern of self-harm, wherein individuals fabricated histories, signs, and symptoms of illness. Remembering Baron Munchausen, Asher named this condition Munchausen's Syndrome in his article in "The Lancet" in February 1951
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The Very Same Munchhausen


The Very Same Munchhausen (, alt. translation - "That Very Münchhausen") is a 1979 Soviet fantasy dramedy television movie directed by Mark Zakharov, based on a script by Grigoriy Gorin. The film relays the story of the baron's life after the adventures portrayed in the Baron Munchausen stories, particularly his struggle to prove himself sane. Münchhausen is portrayed as a multi-dimensional, colourful, non-conformist man living in a grey, plain, dull and conformist society that ultimately tries to destroy his personality. The
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Reviewing the first edition of Raspe's book in December 1785, a writer in "The Critical Review" commented appreciatively: A writer for "The English Review" around the same time was less approving: "We do not understand how a collection of lies can be called a satire on lying, any more than the adventures of a woman of pleasure can be called a satire on fornication." W. L. George described the fictional Baron as a "comic giant" of literature, describing his boasts as "splendid, purposeless
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Dream" has little in common with the Baron character or his traditional adventures. Many of the props are recycled from Méliès's earlier films, such as an elaborate dragon puppet from the 1906 fantasy "The Witch." Effects in the film were created using stage machinery, pyrotechnics, substitution splices, and dissolves. The mirror sequence in the film is based on a routine that had long been popular in music halls. The effect was not produced with a real mirror, which would have reflected the studio windows and the camera
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fan club calling itself Munchausen's Grandchildren was founded in the Russian city of Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg). The club's early activities included identifying "historical proofs" of the fictional Baron's travels through Königsberg, such as a jackboot supposedly belonging to the Baron and a sperm whale skeleton said to be that of the whale in whose belly the Baron was trapped. On 18 June 2005, to celebrate the 750th anniversary of Kaliningrad, a monument to the Baron was unveiled as a gift from Bodenwerder, portraying the Baron's cannonball
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Time Bandits


Time Bandits is a 1981 British fantasy adventure film co-written, produced, and directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Sean Connery, John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Ralph Richardson, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, Peter Vaughan, and David Warner. Gilliam has referred to "Time Bandits" as the first in his "Trilogy of Imagination", followed by "Brazil" (1985) and ending with "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988). All are about the "craziness of our awkwardly
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The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear


Life Forms and Other Phenomena of Zamonia and its Environs" within the narrative. There are also similarities in the ironic sense of humor found in both works. It also has similarities to both "The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and "The Phantom Tollbooth" in its description of fantastical adventures and travels. It also owes a lot to the Moomintroll books. In order of appearance. Moers' Captain Bluebear character originally appeared in short segments of the "Sendung mit der Maus" ("Programme with the Mouse")
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the Karel Zeman (Czech director) movie "The Fabulous Baron Munchausen", made twenty years before ("Baron Prášil" 1961). Others during Raspe's lifetime were also aware of his authorship of the "Adventures", including his friend John Hawkins, the geologist and traveller to Greece who mentions Raspe's authorship in a letter to Charles Lyell. It was not till 1824 that the biographer of Bürger revealed the truth about the book. Raspe's dubious mining activities in Scotland provided the model for the character of Herman
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Alison Steadman


Number One" (1985), "Clockwise" (1986), "Stormy Monday" (1988), "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988), "Shirley Valentine" (1989), "Wilt" (1989), "Life Is Sweet" (1990), "Blame It on the Bellboy" (1992), "Secrets & Lies" (1996), "Topsy-Turvy" (1999), "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" (2004), "
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Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988) (as the god Vulcan); "The Lady and the Highwayman" (1989) with Hugh Grant; "The House of Usher" (1989); "The Return of the Musketeers" (1990) with Lester and Fraser; "Treasure Island" (1990) with Charlton Heston; "A Ghost in Monte Carlo" (1990); "Hired to Kill" (1990); "Panama Sugar" (1990); "The Revenger
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by asking rhetorically: Though Raspe's book is no longer widely read by English speakers, the Munchausen stories remain popular in Europe, especially in Germany and in Russia. As well as the many augmented and adapted editions of Raspe's text, the fictional Baron has occasionally appeared in other standalone works. In 1838–39, Karl Leberecht Immermann published the long novel "Münchhausen: Eine Geschichte in Arabesken" ("Münchhausen: A History of Arabesques") as an homage to the character, and Adolf Ellissen's "Munchausens Lügenabenteur"
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depictions of the character. Doré, illustrating a Théophile Gautier "fils" translation in 1862, retained the sharply beaked nose and twirled moustache from the 1792 portrait, but gave the Baron a healthier and more affable appearance; the Doré Baron became the definitive visual representation for the character. The relationship between the real and fictional Barons is complex. On the one hand, the fictional Baron Munchausen can be easily distinguished from the historical figure Hieronymus von Münchhausen; the character is so separate from his namesake that at least one critic,
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Michael Kamen


work, "Quintet," for the Canadian Brass. He also provided scores for the films "The Dead Zone", "For Queen and Country", "Polyester", "Brazil", "Someone To Watch Over Me", "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", "The Three Musketeers", "Highlander", "X-Men", "", "Licence to Kill," the "Lethal Weapon" series, the first three films of the "Die Hard" series, "
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Peter Jeffrey


'Ave 'Em" (1975), "Quiller" (1975), "Rising Damp" (1978), "Minder" (1980), "Nanny" (1981), "Juliet Bravo" (1982), "Yes Minister" (1984), and Dennis Potter's "Lipstick on Your Collar". In 1988, he played the villainous Sultan in the fantasy epic "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen". In (1993), "Our Friends in the North" (1996)
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University in Jerusalem in the past, and was also awarded, together with Gesher Theater, an Honorary Ph.D. from Bar Ilan University. In late December 2006, the play “Baron Munchausen” – The Whole Truth About the Lie, by the famous Russian playwright Gregory Gorin, directed by Yevgeny Arye, was staged. The character of the Baron Munchausen is known to all as the greatest exaggerator of all times. The playwright chose to deal with the Baron’s character and through this examine the gap between the Baron and the myth
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the area's aristocrats, that he developed a reputation as an imaginative after-dinner storyteller, creating witty and highly exaggerated accounts of his adventures in Russia. Over the ensuing thirty years, his storytelling abilities gained such renown that he frequently received visits from travelling nobles wanting to hear his tales. One guest described Münchhausen as telling his stories "cavalierly, indeed with military emphasis, yet without any concession to the whimsicality of the man of the world; describing his adventures as one would incidents which were in the natural course of
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as that of Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, or Robinson Crusoe." Steven T. Byington wrote that "Munchausen's modest seat in the Valhalla of classic literature is undisputed", comparing the stories to American tall tales and concluding that the Baron is "the patriarch, the perfect model, the fadeless fragrant flower, of liberty from accuracy". The folklore writer Alvin Schwartz cited the Baron stories as one of the most important influences on the American tall tale tradition. In a 2012 study of the Baron, the literary scholar Sarah Tindal
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Baron Munchausen's Dream


; instead, there were two actors on the set, one of whom mimicked the other's gestures from the opposite side of the imaginary "glass." The comedian Max Linder revived the mirror routine in his 1921 film "Seven Years Bad Luck". The film's original title is "Les Hallucinations du baron de Münchausen"; it is also known as "Les Aventures de baron de Munchhausen", and is known in English as "Baron Munchausen's Dream". The film was one of six commissioned from Méliès
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Terry Gilliam


: Other recurring collaborators include Gilliam's cinematographers Roger Pratt ("Brazil", "The Fisher King", "12 Monkeys") and Nicola Pecorini ("Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", "The Brothers Grimm", "Tideland", "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus", "The Zero Theorem", "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote"), and his co-writer McKeown ("Brazil", "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus")
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(1975), "Lion of the Desert" (1981), "Castaway" (1986), "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988), "Funny Bones" (1995) and "Gladiator" (2000). For playing Antonius Proximo, the old, gruff gladiator trainer in Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" (2000) in what was his final film, Reed was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. At the peak of his career, in 1971
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no matter how internally inconsistent they become, and he usually appears tolerantly indifferent to any disbelief he encounters in others. Illustrators of the Baron stories have included Thomas Rowlandson, Alfred Crowquill, George Cruikshank, Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen, Theodor Hosemann, Adolf Schrödter, Gustave Doré, William Strang, W. Heath Robinson, and Ronald Searle. The Finnish-American cartoonist Klaus Nordling featured the Baron in a weekly "Baron Munchausen" comic strip from 1935 to 1937, and in 1962, Raspe's text was adapted for "Classics Illustrated"
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The Fabulous Baron Munchausen


." "Le Monde"s film blog called Zeman's technique "perfectly fitted" ("parfaitement adaptée") to the Baron Munchausen stories, and described the result as "endowed with a splendid sense of humor and very inventive" ("doté d’un bel humour et très inventif"). The film historian Peter Hames described "Baron Prášil" as "perhaps [Zeman's] finest film." When the film was screened at the British Film Institute in the 1980s, it served as an influence for Terry Gilliam,
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Imagination" (written by Gilliam) about "the ages of man" in "Time Bandits" (1981), "Brazil" (1985), and "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988). 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 imagination; "Time Bandits" through the eyes of a child, "Brazil" through the eyes of a man
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Bill Paterson (actor)


, London and Maly Theatre, Moscow (1997). His most recent theatre is "Earthquakes in London" at the National Theatre in the summer of 2010. The early 1980s also saw Paterson beginning to appear in films, including "The Killing Fields", "Comfort and Joy" and "A Private Function" (all 1984). Other film credits include "Dutch Girls" (1985), "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1987), "The Witches" (1990), "Truly,
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