The Fisher King has power. Real power. It can affect the way you think and the way you feel. When IT was first released in 91 I heard so much about it. That when I did see it well the hype was not a lie. This movie has so much going on and it tells so many different stories at the same time it entertains us. It is most of all a story about hope and redemption after being damned.
JAck Lucas is a shock jock. he makes his living by shocking his listeners. When he tells one unbalanced man over the air that the wealthy upper class are no better then inbred animals who are evil and must be stopped . the man takes a shotgun to a popular bar and opens fire killing seven people then himself. Jack is on the cusp of having it all . But after hearing this loses it all. His mind breaks on him. Three years later Broke and penniless Jack is living with Anne. A video store owner who loves him madly. but Jack is broken. he can't love all he feels is guilt. Then he decides in a drunken stupor to end it all. He stands at a bridge ready to jump when a gang of rich kids mistake him for a bum. They drag him off the bridge and beat him up. Then douse him with gas to burn him alive. Then Suddenly a unlikely saviour appears. He is Parry. A man who imagines himself as a Knight. He has a army of homeless people who fight the youths off. and Parry befriends Jack. He tells him the tale of the Fisher King and then shows him the picture of a millionaire and points to a cup like object and claims it's the holy grail. Parry tells Jack that HE is the one to get the Grail for Parry. Jack dismisses it. But Jack finds out in a strange way that Parry was at the bar the night the madman urged on by JAck's words went on a rampage and killed Parry'wife. after that he slipped into a strange kind of madness. Parry was once Henry Sagan a noted historian who taught Grail lore at a university. After his wife's death he slipped into his own world. Jack feel guilty for him. But when Parry shows him a woman he has fallen in love with. Parry is too shy to ask her out or too shy to even speak to her. But JAck takes it upon himself to get these two perfectly matched people together. But fate has other plans for Jack Lucas. and that forms the stunning climax of this incredible movie where love truly does conquers everything. This film is so powerful and so moving . And Roibin Williams is so great in it . You sometimes forget it's just a movie.
JAck Lucas is a shock jock. he makes his living by shocking his listeners. When he tells one unbalanced man over the air that the wealthy upper class are no better then inbred animals who are evil and must be stopped . the man takes a shotgun to a popular bar and opens fire killing seven people then himself. Jack is on the cusp of having it all . But after hearing this loses it all. His mind breaks on him. Three years later Broke and penniless Jack is living with Anne. A video store owner who loves him madly. but Jack is broken. he can't love all he feels is guilt. Then he decides in a drunken stupor to end it all. He stands at a bridge ready to jump when a gang of rich kids mistake him for a bum. They drag him off the bridge and beat him up. Then douse him with gas to burn him alive. Then Suddenly a unlikely saviour appears. He is Parry. A man who imagines himself as a Knight. He has a army of homeless people who fight the youths off. and Parry befriends Jack. He tells him the tale of the Fisher King and then shows him the picture of a millionaire and points to a cup like object and claims it's the holy grail. Parry tells Jack that HE is the one to get the Grail for Parry. Jack dismisses it. But Jack finds out in a strange way that Parry was at the bar the night the madman urged on by JAck's words went on a rampage and killed Parry'wife. after that he slipped into a strange kind of madness. Parry was once Henry Sagan a noted historian who taught Grail lore at a university. After his wife's death he slipped into his own world. Jack feel guilty for him. But when Parry shows him a woman he has fallen in love with. Parry is too shy to ask her out or too shy to even speak to her. But JAck takes it upon himself to get these two perfectly matched people together. But fate has other plans for Jack Lucas. and that forms the stunning climax of this incredible movie where love truly does conquers everything. This film is so powerful and so moving . And Roibin Williams is so great in it . You sometimes forget it's just a movie.