There are at least three different versions of Brazil. The original 142 minutes European release, a shorter 132-minutes prepared by Gilliam for the American release and another different version, nicknamed the Sheinberg Edit, from Universal's then boss Sid Sheinberg, against whom Terry Gilliam had to fight to have his version released, A.K.A. the 'Love Conquers All' version.

For the rest including a list of the differences (major spoilers at the link), see:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/alternateversions

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8. I watched the 142 minute directors cut with the original ending.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014, 05:44 PM

Jun 2014

I couldn't imagine it ending any other way. You lose the philosophy of the film by having it end on a positive note.

The philosophy of the Bible makes necessary the Revelation. Cut out that final chapter of the saga and you have an aesthetic, meaningless story.

csziggy

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10. Suopposedly it's part of a trilogy

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Sat Jun 28, 2014, 09:29 PM

Jun 2014

But what the other parts are seems to be dependent on Michael Palin's mood when he's interviewed.

Gilliam sometimes refers to this film as the second in his "Trilogy of Imagination" films, starting with Time Bandits (1981) and ending with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989).[3] All are about the "craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible."[3] All three movies focus on these struggles and attempts to escape them through imagination—Time Bandits, through the eyes of a child, Brazil, through the eyes of a man in his thirties, and Munchausen, through the eyes of an elderly man. In 2013, Gilliam also called Brazil the first instalment of a dystopian satire trilogy it forms with 1995's 12 Monkeys and 2013's The Zero Theorem.[14]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_%281985_film%29#Writing

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