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*** Original questioner here; I like the answer above (starting "Why does it have to mean anything?"). That answer is so perfect I don't know why I didn't think of it actually. Helpmann's delivery of the line even seems like that's the joke that's being made. Anyway, years later, but thanks!
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** it's an anagram of the word 'JEREMIAH'.
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*** Doesn't that happen everywhere? The movie predates the whole "war on terrorism" but we as a society have no issue with these things. Or with having a place like Guantanamo Bay full of prisoners who are all sent there "as the right man" whether or not they are guilty of anything or even the correct person
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*** Doesn't that happen everywhere? The movie predates the whole "war on terrorism" but we as a society have no issue with these things. Or with having a place like Guantanamo Bay full of prisoners who are all sent there "as the right man" whether or not they are guilty of anything or even the correct person
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* In the YMMV tab it's stated that Gilliam is surprised by the American Right's liking of this film, as he meant the film to be a satire on right-wing values. This might make sense for traditionally quite big-government Britain, but I thought conservatism in America was more small-government. Gilliam himself is American[[note]]Gilliam is American born, but he has resided in Britain since the late sixties and renounced his American citizenship in 2006[[/note]]. Is this a case of SocietyMarchesOn, and American conservatism has drifted more to the small-government end than it was when Gilliam was growing up, and in TheEighties?
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* In the YMMV tab it's stated that Gilliam is surprised by the American Right's liking of this film, as he meant the film to be a satire on right-wing values. This might make sense for traditionally quite big-government Britain, but I thought conservatism in America was more small-government. Gilliam himself is American[[note]]Gilliam is American born, but he has resided in Britain since the late sixties and renounced his American citizenship in 2006[[/note]]. Is this a case of SocietyMarchesOn, society changing, and American conservatism has drifted more to the small-government end than it was when Gilliam was growing up, and in TheEighties?
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**It's also possible that Jill's death "resisting arrest" actually occurred at the department store, and her appearances after that are his fantasies beginning to bleed into reality. This would explain why she was apparently released despite the government being convinced she was a terrorist, how she showed up at his apartment despite never having been told where he lived, and her sudden shift in attitude toward him. Him breaking in to alter her file was actually the second death in the file, not the first.
