Just one of many brilliant scenes from the epic comedy "Life of Brian" by Monty Python. PS: Subtitles is the originals from the blu-ray. All rights belong to their respective owners.
@@caleblawrence2743no they pretty famously aren’t, this was shot as improv for the director to understand how his actors would play the scene out naturally, and this happened lol
Fun fact : the actors playing the soldiers were supposed not to laugh but since they could not hold it in, the person playing Pontius Pilatus started testing them by repeating "Biggus Dickus" so they basically improvised.
From what I've heard, in an interview they said that everything was scripted exactly as shown. Except the final line, the wife's name was supposed to be something else.
At the end, you could swear the guys behind the cameras and pretty much everyone on the set bursted into laughter, but the guy kept acting it. That's probably what makes it so funny - I saw it several times, and I am still dying
Cause that's literally what happened lol The burst of laughter you hear in the background was the film crew losing it before everyone else couldn't hold it in anymore
The way he looks at him and then looks back kills me! 😭😭😭 AND IT’S ACCURATE TOO, some guards/soldiers laugh, then when the leader isn’t looking they look at the back of their head 😆
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This scene never fails to crack me up. My first time seeing this was in the theatre. But the second time was on videotape with my parents and friends of my parents. We were all laughing, but my dad especially so. In fact, it was the hardest I had ever seen him laugh. It was like tears were shooting out of his eyes. He'd been a Disney and Hanna-Barbera animator, and was used to crazy humor, and--from being in the Navy--where the Art & Animation Department was a bunch of pranksters, blowing off steam from the stress of WWII. And, from being a fan of "serious" British films, he was very much into the parodying of officialdom (which Python does in spades).
@Bortolt Yuep yeah "caesar" is a title. It remained a synonym for "emperor" throughout history and it has many regional variations like the germanic kaiser or the russian tsar (csar). Think of it like how sometimes we refer to off road cars as jeeps (even though we don't care about the actual brand of the car we're talking about) or to vacuum cleaners as hoovers.
This gave me the best memories as child, i still howl with laughter everytime i watch Monty Python, I am grateful to my dad for introducing me to pure comedy brilliance.
I absolutely love this scene, Michael Palin's Pilate is hilarious! First time I saw it though was awkward as I was watching with family members who were just nowhere near as amused by it as I was, so I ended up bottling it up to an extent just like the centurions were doing, but could only hold in so much ;-) Ever since I've labelled any situation where you want to burst out laughing but you're not supposed to as 'a Biggus Dickus moment'!
This scene always reminds me of the tragic myth of Bophadese. Basically Achilles but his weakness was his groin. Everybody knows about Achilles heel, nobody talks about Bophadese nuts.
Holy crap i tried my HARDEST to not laugh, trying to get the idea of how F'ing difficult it was for those unaware actors to hold back their laugh as much as humanly possible. that is by far the most creative and funniest comedy moment ever to grace the film industry.
@Just a Random astromech There's a small strand of truth behind the myth: the guards laughing wasn't in the original script, they were told not to laugh (but not threatened with being fired), then one of them couldn't help but laugh and the director thought it was funnier that way and they changed the scene
Fun fact: The actors playing the soldiers were not told what Pontius Pilate and the centurion were going to say. What they WERE told, though, is to hold their laughs back as much as they could. Pretty much that's their first-time reaction to the jokes and those are genuine laughs. This scene was improvised 😂
@@blank888 Nah, never said the whole scene was improv but the guards were unware of what the other actors would say. They also had to react off the top of their head depending on the guards' reactions.
I KNOW OH LORD my teacher in 7th grade was reading from a story and we were following along and I swear the more we read the dirtier it sounded and eventually even he was in tears 😂😂😂 we literally couldn't finish reading it!!!
I can relate, even to the Praetorian guard in the sketch.. our NCOs in the army used to punish us for laughing while obviously doing everything in their power to make us laugh
I heard that they told the extras that they are not allowed to laugh during this scene and would be fired if they did. This means the soilders are not acting but genunely doing their best to hold the laughing back.
I know there are many facets to this piece and everyone has their favourite, but I just love the expressions of Pilate and the Centurion at the start of their conversation. Its all in the eyes.
Except for Caesar, that actor did so well at keeping a straight face throughout the scene. The background soldiers were even been told to keep a straight face or they're fired, and they didn't even know about the joke, all this just to get pure laughter from everyone, talk about enforced method acting.
@@averagetwink. I’m fairly certain the whole biggus dickus was scripted, however the reactions of the guards were genuine because they weren’t told about it.
Classic scene. I still laugh and snort every time I watch this clip and I have seen it so many times starting with the film in the theater back in the day.
What cracks me up about this clip isn't even the names or the laughs, it's the way he fucking says "he has a wife you know" like he's on the verge of laughing too
Nope, he is not on the verge of laughing. He knows he is about to cause everyone in the theater to drop dead from laughter. That pause was pitch perfect. When I first saw this in a theater, when he uttered that line, there was a collective "dear God, NO!!!!", from nearly everyone in the audience.
@@lisagd22 it was actually 1 take, atleast from actor's sources, they were just told to "Not laugh & stand", without any info of the scene. But the director actually wants them to laugh but being told to "Not laugh" actually makes you want to laugh more. I can't really confirm it, so its up to you to believe it or not
@@fernandaabreu5625 Watch it. It is such a funny movie. Though it does poke some fun at the Bible and Christianity, so be aware of that if you follow that faith.
@@justinisorange gonna sound like a total idiot but English is not my native language, i ROFL'd my ass off with biggie dickus but I don't get the joke with his wife's name.. care to explain good sir? Sorry in advance for the trouble 😅
