The Adventures of Baron Munchausen they approached the person again when they were done, he was met with the reply, "I'm not gonna pay you, because I don't want to seem to be doing anything that could benefit Terry Gilliam." "Munchausen" is the third entry in Gilliam's ""Trilogy of Imagination"", preceded by "Time Bandits" (1981) and "Brazil" (1985). All are about the "craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible." Gilliam explains that, "The one theme that runs through all three of these pictures is a consistently serious battle between fantasy and what people perceive as reality."
Baron Munchausen which he rescues himself from a swamp, as a metaphor for belief in complete metaphysical free will; Nietzsche calls this belief an attempt "to pull oneself up into existence by the hair, out of the swamps of nothingness". In the late 19th century, the Baron appeared as a character in John Kendrick Bangs's comic novels "A House-Boat on the Styx", "Pursuit of the House-Boat", and "The Enchanted Type-Writer". Shortly after, in 1901, Bangs published "Mr. Munchausen", a collection of new Munchausen stories, closely following the style and humor of the original tales. Hugo Gernsback's second novel, "Baron Münchhausen's New Scientific