Iedereen weet als je terug of vooruit in de tijd wilt reizen, je dit het beste in een Delorean kan doen met de Power of Love van Huey Lewis blastend door je speakers. Maar de website Topless Robot heeft nu deze lijst gemaakt met bizarre manieren van tijdreizen. Mijn Favoriet is Time Bandits (1981), en als je die nog niet gezien hebt, kan ik je deze dan ook echt van harte aanraden.
6) The Map, Time Bandits
A lot of us have fond memories of this inspired bit of Gilliam craziness, and if you saw it only once at a young age, it's likely that most of what you recall is that it contains dwarves and Robin Hood and David Warner saying "Nipples on men?". Underneath all the spectacle, the actual plot was even more insane. The six dwarves (who may supposedly correspond to the six members of Monty Python) are former servants of the Supreme Being who used to create smaller aspects of the world like bushes and trees. Charged with fixing holes in time, they decide instead to steal a map of those holes and set off to rob history of its riches. It's not this director's best film (a bit repetitive, especially towards the end) but it's up there in my book; it is also said to form the first part of the unofficial "dream trilogy" with Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. In the stalwart Gilliam tradition, there is a myriad of scenes that are mind-blowing in their composition and must have been insanely expensive to produce, although Lost in La Mancha was still to come. But the central conceit is a strong and original one, and it's definitely not everyday you see a time travel film that involves God, Sean Connery and a guy with a ship on his head.