{"id":1253,"date":"2003-03-24T09:58:49","date_gmt":"2003-03-24T16:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/aa\/2003\/03\/24\/lost-in-la-mancha\/"},"modified":"2003-03-24T09:58:49","modified_gmt":"2003-03-24T16:58:49","slug":"lost-in-la-mancha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2003\/03\/24\/lost-in-la-mancha\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in La Mancha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0308514\">Lost in La Mancha<\/a> on Friday. This is a documentary of the doomed effort to produce Terry Gilliam&#8217;s magnum opus, the story of Don Quixote. Gilliam had been working on the idea since 1991, and only managed to start filming in 2001. The undertaking was terribly precarious even before it began, and as soon as it did begin, almost everything that could go wrong did, from big things to little. Floods, fighter jets, illness, and recalcitrant horses.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary made the point that Gilliam himself was somewhat like Don Quixote on a gallant but unrealistic quest, and indeed, there was an amazingly tidy parallelism between the story and the story-in-the-story. But something at the very end of the movie made me think that Don Quixote is the wrong fictional archetype to describe Gilliam. Ahab is more like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw Lost in La Mancha on Friday. This is a documentary of the doomed effort to produce Terry Gilliam&#8217;s magnum opus, the story of Don Quixote. Gilliam had been working on the idea since 1991, and only managed to start filming in 2001. 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