Brazil (3/10) Movie CLIP - Harry Tuttle, Heating Engineer (1985) HD

Movieclips · 247.3K views · 2011-05-27 · 2:38

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Overview

A clip from Terry Gilliam's film Brazil in which the illegal heating engineer Harry Tuttle visits Sam Lowry to fix his heating problem.

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Used purely as a joke reference to Harry Tuttle and the film's dystopian bureaucracy.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2014–2023

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javier_e06 · 2023-09 · Joke / meme
I was considering putting a light but my desk right now resembles a wall panel from the movie Brazil. [VIDEO] Is hard to find the middle ground between clutter and chaos.
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mistersquid · 2021-08 · Joke / meme
> Is artist the right term here? Seems more like guerrilla engineer or guerilla highway management person. The name "Harry Tuttle" comes to mind. [0] [0] [VIDEO]
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sdenton4 · 2014-07 · Joke / meme
Wel they DO speculate that the low uptake is due to evil installation people who are maybe going around disabling the filter for everyone... Like this guy: [VIDEO]
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