The director,who made The Fisher King in 1991 with Robin Williams in the lead role, said that seeing the film in the wake of the actor’s suicide cast it in a new lightThe film director and Monty Python member Terry Gilliam has said that The Fisher King, or the 1991 film he made with Robin Williams,has been cast in a totally new light in the wake of the actor’s suicide.
Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Gilliam said he rewatched the film ahead of a Blu-ray release by Criterion; the sequences in which Williams’ character is pursued by the Red Knight, or a tormentor from his own imagination,were given an eerie significance. “I didn’t acquire to push him because he believed that was true. He knew the darker side and what it means to acquire demons,” Gilliam said, and adding that Williams helped to turn the scenes from “cutesy” on the page to something much darker.
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Source: theguardian.com