I. QUESTIONAS ABOUT MOVIE BRAZIL (1985) To discuss in the class.

1. Why was it called Brazil?

The country of Brazil plays no role in the movie. Terry was inspired to use it after a trip the steel
town Port Talbot in Wales. As I understand, the movie has the name of "Brasil" by Ary Barroso, one
of the songs included in the movie. The lyrics describe an ideal life that stands in sharp contrast to
the dystopian civilization depicted in the movie.

2. What is movie about? What is the significance of the movie?

Brazil is a dystopian black comedy film about Sam Lowry, a low-level bureaucrat. Sam Lowry often
imagines himself as a heroic warrior protecting a girl. One day he is given the job of making an
effort to rectify the mistake of Buttle's arrest (Buttle is innocent man that was arrested instead of
wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle). Sam met a neighbor of the Buttles that was woman he dreams
about.
So, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her he becomes entangled in a
web of false identities, mindless red tape, and falsehoods.

Sam's continued quest for what is "real" and what is significant in a society where the only comfort
is provided by the televisions that take up every available space continues to be the film's primary
source of conflict, and the decision is left up to the viewer.
Brazil is about the conflict between mass-produced imaginations of infinite youth, material goods,
and power and small, individual dreams like flying and falling in love.

3. A working definition of Dystopia has been offered for this course as follows:

“a fictional society that incorporates contemporary social trends taken to horrendous extremes in which
the condition of life is extremely bad due to deprivation, oppression, or terror”. For a film to have a
convincing dystopic view of our urban future, the fictional society must connect with our own society with
sufficient plausibility by presenting identifiable current trends as part of the fictional society. Discuss a
particular transposition from contemporary society to the fictional society of Brazil. discuss the significance
of masks to Gilliam’s concept of dystopia.

A dystopian society is characterized by human misery in the form of squalor, oppression, disease,
overcrowding, environmental destruction, or war. Terry Gilliam describes a dystopian civilization in
which bureaucracy and technology have reduced people to machines. The people in this society
serve as toys for the machines and are readily manipulated by the government.

The mask is a representation of that society's anxiety over identity and effort to put the group
before individual understanding. For example, Lawry's mother, who is worried about the truth,
likewise wears a mask made from her own face. She discards her true identity and takes on a new
one when she changes her face, and any emotional connections she once may have had are lost to
her.
 The idea of using masking, where the present hides the future is further developed in the movie.
Real masks on police officers' faces, horror masks on the faces of helpless prisoners who have been
tortured, and a mask of innocent suffering on the face of the hypocritical "nine-to-five" torturer, a
contradictory system victim. Looks like, real masks are used to hide one's identity in a bureaucratic
society and to free yourself from the eyes of bureaucracy.

3. What is organization structure represented in the movie? What environment powers affects
utopian organization in the movie?

Brazil is a film where author shows his vision of the future generated by societies' bureaucracy and
organisation entities. Brazil is a dystopian future that is depicted without any connection to time or
place in particular. It makes excellent observations about how the government and technology fit
into this new society. The Ministry building is like main power in movie world. So, looks like
hierarchical org structure is presented in the movie.

5. What is the significance of the billboards bordering the highway? How you can explain "Big brother" idea
in the movie?

People sometimes use Big Brother to refer to a person, government, or organization when they
think it has complete control over people and is always checking what they do. It's an attempt to
control what reaches the public. The core concept of the "Big Brother" model of government,
which can see everything and has total control over the city, is shown. Also, signs (billboards) that
depict the daily propaganda that the public is exposed to may be seen throughout the movie. These
signs are used to show the control the government has over the people. Furthermore, there are
indications placed throughout to remind the viewers that nothing is what it seems.

II. Questions

1. How we can define the organization?

An organization refers to a structure in which people come together to attain some common goal.

2. What types of the organization do you know?

There are a variety of legal types of organizations, including corporations, governments, non-
governmental organizations, political organizations, international organizations, armed forces,
charities, not-for-profit corporations, partnerships, cooperatives, and educational institutions etc. A
hybrid organization is a body that operates in both the public sector and the private sector
simultaneously, fulfilling public duties and developing commercial market activities.

Organizational Structure Type: hierarchical, matrix, horizontal/flat, network, divisional, line, team-
based.

3. What are main attributes of the organization?

Identity (separate from members ID)

Instrumentality (facility/services)

A program of activity (activities=goals)

 Membership (skills/expertise and demo)

Clear boundaries (personnel/clients)

Permanency (long-lasting development)

Division of labor (specialization)

Hierarchy of authority (power, influence, status)

Formal rules and procedures (direct and control)

4. What are the main classification systems of organizations?

The functional aspect of public life (type of activities, NACE)

The ownership form

Legal - organizational form feature

Organization size factor (SME, CO)

Operating type character (stability, complexity and dynamism)

PUBLIC NON- GOVENMENTAL PRIVATE

Government: national, Individual persons Businessman

regional, local

Founder Persons ideas Business plan

Budget Membership fee Payments for services

and goods

5. What is organization culture? What are their elements?

It is shared values, principles, traditions, and ways of doing things that influence the way
organizational members to act. It influences what employees:

can do and how they view,

define, analyse, and

resolve problems and issues

elements: attention to details, outcome orientation, peple orientation, team orientation,

aggressiveness, stability, innovation and risk taking

6. What are the main stakeholders in the organizations? What are their intensions?
 The primary stakeholders in a typical corporation are its investors, employees, customers, and
suppliers. However, with the increasing attention on corporate social responsibility, the concept
has been extended to include communities, governments, and trade associations.

7. How you explain different environments of the organization? What are their impact?

organizations have an external and internal environment;

1. Internal environment / Micro environment.

2. External environment / Macro Environment.
a. General environment.
b. Industry environment.

An organization’s operations are affected by both types of environments.

The internal environment of the organization comprises organizational-related factors which

influence its capacity to achieve set objectives, develop and implement a viable plan, which
consequently contributes to its performance.

Elements existing outside the organizational control define the external environment. The
organization does not know how the external environment elements shape up. The external
environment elements constitute both the general environmental factors and the organizational
specific factors

8. What is internal and external environment forces? What are their role in the organization?

Internal environment

- Primary owner decisions and actions

- Primary owner-manager-coach

External environment

- public pressure groups

- suppliers

- competitors

- customers

9. Explain saying "Organization as an open system"?

A highly effective organization is regularly exchanging feedback with its external environment – it is
an open system. Healthy organizations regularly try to understand their environments through use
of environmental scanning, market research and evaluations.

10. What are the successful organizations?

 Organizations succeed over time only when they adapt to the speed and character of external
change. Every aspect of an organization — from how it operates and is structured to how it is led — must
match the current yet ever-shifting context in which it exists.