Brazil -1985- Trailer Jun 2026

The trailer famously re-contextualizes the song "Brazil" (the Ary Barroso standard). In the trailer, the version goes from a cheerful, clipped commercial jingle to a slow, mournful dirge as the visuals get darker. This audio track has been sampled and homaged in dozens of subsequent movie trailers.

This is the version that history remembers with horror. After viewing Gilliam’s dark ending (where Sam Lowry goes insane in a concrete cell), Universal executives panicked. They demanded a "happy ending" and a trailer to match. brazil -1985- trailer