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I have written many times over the years about how the career of Terry Gilliam resembles the career of Orson Welles, including in my review for Gilliam’s Tideland](http://www.cinematical.com/2006/10/26/review-tideland-jeffreys-take/). Of course, the types of films they made are different – Welles was more focused on the qualities of age and experience, while Gilliam is more interested in juvenilia and fantasy – but there are certain stylistic similarities, as well as biographical ones. Both men attempted and failed to make a Don Quixote](http://www.online-literature.com/cervantes/don_quixote/), both men’s films have suffered from poor distribution and advertising, as well as various forms of studio meddling, and both men saw the death of a leading actor during a production.
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