A scene from Monty Python’s “Life of Brian (1979,” one of my favorite movies:
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Blessed are the cheese makers. Waiting in vain for the sequel, “Life of Mustaffa.”
A fine movie. John Cleese mentioned in an interview that the PFJ was modelled on the mentality of a small-minded British bureaucracy like a trade union, rather than a terrorist organization like the PLO or PFLP.
My favourite scenes are the stoning (“Are there any women here today?”) and the Latin lesson (“People called Romans they go the house?”)
yes, and…
besides, another illustrating video is the one about how to hurt people while pretending to be clumsy or helpful
The pre-Blog era, no doubt.
Funniest non-Mel Brooks movie ever.
“What ‘ave the Romans done for us?”
Always loved MP and that movie in particular. I wonder if it could be made today and, if so, be successful.
“I wonder if it could be made today and, if so, be successful.” It almost couldn’t be made back then. The production company, EMI, dropped it part of the way through because they thought the subject matter would be too controversial. Another EMI employee who was a big Monty Python fan decided to fund it himself. (You might have heard of him…guy by the name of George Harrison).
Apologies if everyone already knows this story 🙂
Brian’s Mom: “He’s not a messiah. He’s a naughty boy”
and,
“He’s gone, vanished.” “He’s been taken up.” (brief pause): “Oh – no, there he is.”
But it ends on a happy note.
I believe the lady bursting in in that video is Sue Jones-Davies, playing Brian’s girlfriend Judith Iscariot. She later went on to become the mayor of Aberystwyth, my current town of residence here in Wales. In a bizarre twist she found out that, outraged at the heresy therein, the local politicos had actually had in banned in 1979 and had never got around to lifting it. So she ceremonially unbanned it, arranged a showing at the local cinema and had Michael Palin and Terry Jones turn up to the screening!
billm99uk, I seem to remember it was banned in Liverpool and was also banned in Norway, leading the Swedes to say that “it was so funny that it was banned in Norway.”
This is often the feeling I get when discussing issues online.
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Blessed are the cheese makers. Waiting in vain for the sequel, “Life of Mustaffa.”
A fine movie. John Cleese mentioned in an interview that the PFJ was modelled on the mentality of a small-minded British bureaucracy like a trade union, rather than a terrorist organization like the PLO or PFLP.
My favourite scenes are the stoning (“Are there any women here today?”) and the Latin lesson (“People called Romans they go the house?”)
yes, and…
besides, another illustrating video is the one about how to hurt people while pretending to be clumsy or helpful
The pre-Blog era, no doubt.
Funniest non-Mel Brooks movie ever.
“What ‘ave the Romans done for us?”
Always loved MP and that movie in particular. I wonder if it could be made today and, if so, be successful.
“I wonder if it could be made today and, if so, be successful.” It almost couldn’t be made back then. The production company, EMI, dropped it part of the way through because they thought the subject matter would be too controversial. Another EMI employee who was a big Monty Python fan decided to fund it himself. (You might have heard of him…guy by the name of George Harrison).
Apologies if everyone already knows this story 🙂
Brian’s Mom: “He’s not a messiah. He’s a naughty boy”
and,
“He’s gone, vanished.” “He’s been taken up.” (brief pause): “Oh – no, there he is.”
But it ends on a happy note.
I believe the lady bursting in in that video is Sue Jones-Davies, playing Brian’s girlfriend Judith Iscariot. She later went on to become the mayor of Aberystwyth, my current town of residence here in Wales. In a bizarre twist she found out that, outraged at the heresy therein, the local politicos had actually had in banned in 1979 and had never got around to lifting it. So she ceremonially unbanned it, arranged a showing at the local cinema and had Michael Palin and Terry Jones turn up to the screening!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/5067927/Aberystwyth-embraces-Monty-Pythons-Life-of-Brian.html
billm99uk, I seem to remember it was banned in Liverpool and was also banned in Norway, leading the Swedes to say that “it was so funny that it was banned in Norway.”
This is often the feeling I get when discussing issues online.