'Brazil'

While watching this film, I wondering who was the richest, most successful member of the Monty Python troupe.

Graham Chapman died too early and didn't do much after the break-up. Terry Jones, too, hasn't done much. I would suspect Eric Idle and Michael Palin come next. Then John Cleese.

That leaves the soft-spoken, rarely-seen Terry Gilliam. The guy behind the animation from the Python sketches and films. The only American.

He's directed The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys, Jabberwocky, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Time Bandits and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Add in the abandonment of the Don Quixote film and Heath Ledger's death during Imaginarium gives him a sort of mythic appeal, as if he's part of the mystic of film.

Furthermore, he turned down opportunities to direct Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Braveheart.

I'd declare Gilliam the most successful, but there's nothing wrong with what the others have done with their careers. Gilliam happens to be a very good filmmaker. Brazil is just a bit of that success.