blknwite at 2014-02-20 11:08:13:

Brazil (1985) by Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown. CUT TO WIDE SHOT of DOCTOR's surgery. It looks a bit like a cross between an operating theatre and a boudoir. The cold steel, glass and plastic surfaces are badly disguised with pastel coloured chintz and satin. At the dressing table sits the old WOMAN, SAM'S MOTHER. Behind her stands the DOCTOR. He is much like his surgery. He has tailored his surgical garments like a gigolo's dressing gown. It seems that he has done a bit of tuck-taking on himself. There is a certain plastic smoothness to his skin, but all in all he has been fairly successful. SAM is pacing around, raving. SAM (angrily) I just wish you would stop interfering, mother! I don't want promotion. I'm happy where I am. MOTHER No you're not. Jack Lint is a lesson to you - he never had your brains but he's got the ambition. You haven't got the ambition but luckily you've got me. And Mr Helpmann. Mr Helpmann was very close - DOCTOR Now, Mrs Lowry, don't get upset (so SAM) Please wait in reception, Mr Lowry, you're giving her wrinkles. MOTHER You see! SAM (groans) DOCTOR Now Mrs Lowry, try to relax. You must trust me. I'll make you twenty years younger ... SAM Huh! DOCTOR (giving Sam a dirty look) ... twenty-five if we just drain the excess fluid from the pouches ... MOTHER Dr Jaffe, you're a genius. Would you like to be Surgeon General? Four Star. I know everybody. DOCTOR Well they won't know you when I've finished with you. The DOCTOR reaches into his smock pocket for a coloured marker. He starts colouring up her face with strokes of different coloured markers. DOCTOR First we must eliminate the excess derma ... so! ... Then the flaccid tissues under the eyes ... And now the forehead ... Zip! I lift the wrinkles and worry lines right up into the wi- into the hairline, comme ca ... SAM looks disgusted. DOCTOR And now the template ... There ... there ... there ... Now a bit of sticky ... There we go! (triumphantly) Already she is twice as beautiful as she was before - voila! The DOCTOR moves his body aside, revealing MRS LOWRY's face, covered with coloured lines and wrapped in cellophane held in shape by cellotape. SAM stares at her. SAM My God, it works. http://youtu.be/Bnx95KyQEAA