After Star Wars-level confidence and Dune-style narrative complexity, Jupiter Ascending's world building turns to a more unexpected sci-fi classic for inspiration to show the bureaucracy incumbent royal Jupiter has to go through to get her royal seal - Brazil. The ever-mounting frustration at endless legal loopholes, presented with fast-cuts and jaunty set design feels all but transplanted from Terry Gilliam's 1984-riff. If anything it's a bit out of place in an epic space opera, but at least The Wachowskis are more than happy to hour this inspiration - one of the files Jupiter needs is 27b/6, the same one Sam Lowry cites to stop two deceptively dangerous government officials in Brazil. However, this is actually an in-in-joke. In Brazil, that code was used to nod to George Orwell's residence when he wrote 1984; Canonbury Square Apartment 27B, Floor 6.
