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* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: The opening and closing theme, as well as George Harrison's song "Dream Away" during the end credits. (Harrison produced the film.) |
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: The opening and closing theme, as well as George Harrison's song "Dream Away" during the end credits. (Harrison produced the film.) |
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* [[Esoteric Happy Ending]] |
* [[Esoteric Happy Ending]]: {{spoiler|Judging by the very negative portrayal of consumerism and mundane thinking that Kevin's parents represent, the filmmakers might see their total destruction to be a good thing for Kevin in the long run.}} |
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* [[Genius Bonus]] |
* [[Genius Bonus]]: The unspoken tension between Agamemnon and his wife foreshadows [[Blood Is Squicker in Water|the end of their relationship and his kingship]]. |
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* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: Evil's army. As if a hoard of screeching, 8 ft. tall creatures with hook hands and cow skull heads weren't scary enough, they can also ''shoot missiles out of their eyes''. |
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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]] - John Cleese, Michael Palin, Ian Holm, and Sean Connery play historical figures in the movie. Also David Warner as Evil, [[Star Wars|R2D2]] as Fidget, and the voice of [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|Judge Claude Frollo]] as [[Powers That Be|The Supreme Being]], [[Hilarious in Hindsight|representative of all that is good.]] Katherine Helmond, best known for ''[[Whos the Boss]]'' and who would reappear in ''[[Brazil (film)|Brazil]]'', played the Ogre's Wife. Shelley Duvall also makes a cameo. The announcer is played by Jim Broadbent of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fame, among many other roles. |
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* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: The Time Bandits were written as little people so that audiences would accept a child as their equal. Thus, the filmmakers were planning on audiences seeing little people as less than full adults. |
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: The Time Bandits were written as little people so that audiences would accept a child as their equal. Thus, the filmmakers were planning on audiences seeing little people as less than full adults. |
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Latest revision as of 04:33, 26 June 2014
- Crowning Music of Awesome: The opening and closing theme, as well as George Harrison's song "Dream Away" during the end credits. (Harrison produced the film.)
- Esoteric Happy Ending: Judging by the very negative portrayal of consumerism and mundane thinking that Kevin's parents represent, the filmmakers might see their total destruction to be a good thing for Kevin in the long run.
- Genius Bonus: The unspoken tension between Agamemnon and his wife foreshadows the end of their relationship and his kingship.
- Nightmare Fuel: Evil's army. As if a hoard of screeching, 8 ft. tall creatures with hook hands and cow skull heads weren't scary enough, they can also shoot missiles out of their eyes.
- Unfortunate Implications: The Time Bandits were written as little people so that audiences would accept a child as their equal. Thus, the filmmakers were planning on audiences seeing little people as less than full adults.