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  • Terry Gilliam himself has reviewed a bunch of TV commercials that shamelessly "borrowed" the atmosphere and visuals of his movie. He also feels like a lot of Misaimed Fandom is at play because Brazil had themes against consumerism, and yet it's being used by the makers of those commercials to sell products.

Comic Books

  • Dylan Dog has referenced the movie on multiple occasions:
    • Mainly, Hell's Archive of London (which debuted in issue #46 "Hells") bears a striking resemblance to the Ministry of Information, with the addition that it's run by a man with two faces and some of the personnel is composed of object/animal/human hybrids straight out of a Bosch painting.
    • In "Golconda!" (#41) a car seller is given a suitcase full of cash by the Man with the Bowler Hat, who drives off while the money bills swarm the salesman and cover his entire body. When his coworkers try to help taking the money off of him, the man has disappeared, similar to Tuttle vanishing after getting attacked by paperwork.
    • In "The Bomb!" (from Dylan Dog Special N.27) Dylan is arrested by an Alt-Right regime and when he's about to get tortured inside the chimney of a nuclear plant, the "terrorists" break in and rescue him. The resistance leader Gericho is also modeled after Brad Pitt's character from 12 Monkeys, another Terry Gilliam movie.

Film - Animation

  • WALL•E: Michael Kamen's "The Office" has been used in the first trailer. In the film itself, WALL•E created a makeshift TV with an iPod and a fresnel lens which magnifies its small screen and makes it strongly resemble the retro-futuristic computers used in Brazil.
  • The same music is in the first trailer for Bee Movie, which made for funny results when people went to see Ratatouille and got both that and the WALL•E trailer back to back.

Film -- Live-Action

  • Batman (1989): Tim Burton and Anton Furst studied Brazil as a reference for the look of Gotham City and Brazil's cinematographer Roger Pratt was also hired to further recapture its mood.
  • The Fisher King: In this other Terry Gilliam movie, a poster of Brazil appears in a scene set at a video store.
  • π: The set design of Max Cohen's apartment was influenced by the aesthetics of Brazil.
  • The Descent: Director Neil Marshall has stated that Brazil served as an inspiration for the UK Cruel Twist Ending in which the protagonist's escape from the cave turns out to be a Fantasy Sequence and she has a final comforting vision of her deceased daughter as the Crawlers are heard closing in.
  • Lord of War: The protagonist mentions a person named "Kurtzman" upon meeting a character played by Ian Holm, who also played Mr. Kurtzmann in Brazil.
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005): Being a race of Obstructive Bureaucrats, the Vogon have their rectangular, monolithic ships positioned like the giant pillars from Sam's dreams when they're stationed on the surface of their homeworld.
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1: In the Ministry of Magic, a walking bureaucrat is followed by a swarm of note takers. Later, Yaxley is briefly attacked by flying sheets of paper like Tuttle. These nods to Brazil pay tribute to the fact that Terry Gilliam was originally eyed to direct the Harry Potter movies.
  • The Last Circus: Possibly referenced when the main character has a Dream Sequence in which he's trying to reach out the woman he's in love with, who's floating in a heavenly sky similar to Jill in Sam's dreams.
  • Scream 4: The film's poster appears in a classroom.
  • Sucker Punch: In one of her Power Fantasy adventures, Baby Doll fights a giant samurai. It quickly gets over the top when she dukes it out with two more giant samurai, one armed with a gatling gun.
  • Cockneys vs. Zombies: Referenced when the office lady that mistakes the protagonists for construction workers (when they're only donning that disguise for the bank robbery) asks for their forms, "the C114 and 27B/6".
  • The Double: A twisty Kafka Comedy that takes several cues from Brazil for also focusing on a Vast Bureaucracy office drone in love having his life spiraling out of control.
  • Jupiter Ascending: In the Commonwealth Ministry scene Brazil is heavily referenced, from Gilliam having a cameo in it, to the protagonist bringing up the 27B/6.
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi: The Canto Bight security arrests Finn and Rose for the "parking violation 27B stroke 6".
  • Bye Bye Morons: On top of Gilliam having a cameo, the film has characters named Lint, Kurtzman and Tuttle.

Live-Action TV

  • Are You Afraid of the Dark?: In "The Tale of the Misfortune Cookie" the main character is haunted by a masked Chinese warrior. When he defeats the warrior, he discovers that he has his own face beneath the mask.
  • Chuck: In "Chuck Versus the Fat Lady" the van of the Fulcrum agent following Chuck and kidnapping Jill is labeled "Tuttle Electric", in reference to Robert De Niro's character.
  • Loki: The movie served as an influence for the Time Variance Authority.

Newspaper Comics

  • During one Halloween Episode arc of Retail, Cooper laments to Lunker about how no one recognized his costume (Evil from Time Bandits) cause no one had seen it. After he walks away, Lunker suggests while he has seen Time Bandits, he liked Brazil better.
    "Like how Gilliam blended comedy with pointed social commentary."

Video Games

  • Grim Fandango: Manny Calavera works for the Department of Death and uses a Zeerust typewriter-computer similar to those seen in the film. Like Sam, Manny also messes with the pneumatic tube system.
  • Grand Theft Auto 2: The game is set in an undefined dystopian metropolis with a retrofuturistic feel "Anywhere, USA" during a likewise ambiguous time period. One of the vehicles available for the player is a Messerschmitt-inspired bubble car called "Schmidt" that can catch fire.
  • Splinter Cell: In the "CIA HQ" mission, a targeted character is in the "Information Retrieval" department.
  • Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory: In the beginning of the "Displace" mission, if you interrogate the first guard you encounter, Sam will joke about being "Harry Tuttle", and the guard will remind you to fill out a 267B/6.
  • We Happy Few: The tones and the dystopian England setting were influenced by Brazil. The first playable character, Arthur Hastings, is also similar to Sam Lowry in being an unremarkable everyman working for the bureaucratic administrative center of the Parade District.
  • In Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach's Ruin DLC, one ending, in which Cassie puts on the VANNI mask upon reaching a Fredbear cutout and imagines a Happy Place where Gregory and herself are safe from the Mimic, is referred to in the game files as the "Brazil Ending".

Western Animation

  • Futurama: In "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" the Central Bureaucracy headquarters are heavily influenced by Brazil, the way the characters enter through a big door is a Homage Shot of Sam entering the Information Retrieval for the first time. Matt Groening has confirmed the homage in the DVD commentary.
  • Rick and Morty: The ending of Rick J-22's subplot in the Season 3 episode "The Ricklantis Mixup" is a reference to Sam Lowry's fate as he too believes to have escaped the tyrannical society he lived in, only to be revealed as a fantasy where his mind retreated.
  • Tear Along the Dotted Line: In episode 5 of this Reference Overdosed show, Zero, upon being shocked that Valentina is without her bestie Ludovica (comically depicted as two heads sharing the same body), wonders if they got surgically separated imagining them in the torture chamber from Brazil to be operated by a Malevolent Masked Man that resembles Jack Lint.

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