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Fisher King

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Fisher King
guardian of the Grail. [Ger. Legend, Parzival; Arthurian Legend: Walsh Classical, 227]

Fisher King
old, maimed king whose restoration symbolizes the return of spring vegetation. [Medieval Legend: T. S. Eliot The Waste Land in Norton Literature]


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Some may laud the writer of Brazil, Baron Munchausen and The Fisher King as a wildly inventive British maverick.
THE FISHER KING More4, 9pm Terry Gilliam's much-loved offbeat drama in which a radio DJ's life is saved from peril by a down-andout who he then joins on a quest for the Holy Grail.
For every outright comedy like "Flubber" or "RV," he has done as many dramas or darker films like "Insomnia" or "The Night Listener" - perhaps more when you consider movies like "Good Morning, Vietnam" or "The Fisher King.
 
 
 
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