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I enjoy this film more overall than Holy Grail mainly because it has a cohesive storyline and the jokes are more consistently funny. Just FYI... having members of the troupe playing women is a long-standing feature of everything they made. George Harrison (of Beatles fame) paid for them to make the film so they had a bigger budget. And many religious groups were predictably enraged by the film, and it was even banned in some places.
It was banned in Aberystwyth, West Wales until 2009 when outgoing mayor Sue Jones-Davies, who played Judith in the film, attended a screening in the seaside town along with Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
I think the deal with the spaceship was to remind us that the events taking place on earth are fairly insignificant compared to those on the cosmic stage which puts the narative of earth centric religions on the ridiculously self centred end of the spectrum. Also I assume the 'christmas star' the wise men followed at the begining was actually the ship in space, perhaps suggesting peoples tendency to interpret the scientifically unknown as the supernatural.
Interesting take on the spaceship escape. I simply imagined them writing the script á la "but how does he get down from the tower?" "He falls and an alien spaceship scoops him up" "Works for me"
You're probably overthinking this. A lot of Python's stuff doesn't really have a meaning . They just do it because you don't expect them to do it. (Very Spanish Inquistion of them I know) The spaceship scene was done to basically give Terry Gilliam something to do in the film since he was not co-directing this one. Also the scene gave them an excuse to hop on the Star Wars fad that was all the craze in Hollywood at the time.
@@88wildcat oh, I get that. And in another film I would tend to agree. However this film had SO much to say about religion and the absurdity of how people do it, I think it's reasonable to read stuff into choices they made.
Interesting theory, I assume it was there because they thought "wouldn't it be super funny if an alien spaceship shows up and has no impact on the story whatsoever?"
It's also a plot device used in ancient Greek and Roman plays called a "Deux ex Machina" or "Hand of the Gods" in which the hero is saved from their certain demise by the direct intervention of the gods.
In the Biggus Dickus scene the guards were actually extras that were just told to stand there and not laugh, but were not told what was going to happen. That was their real reaction.
@@hbsavage0387 It's the truth of comedy. Guards everywhere have to learn not to laugh. I've always wanted to walk up to a Buckingham Palace guard, in a toga, and start off with "You wesemble a vewy gweat fwiend of mine, in Wome...his name is...."
So much fun to watch a reactor who gets the often subtle and intelligent humor of Monty Python. There are several video compilations of some of their best sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus. Most of them are freakin' hysterical.
Oh joy! Another Monty Python movie reaction! Poor Brian gets screwed over by everyone including his own mother. I feel sorry for him despite the weirdly upbeat song at the end. I hope you react to the other Monty Python movies. Out of those two, my favorite would be And For Something Completely Different which is a rehash of sketches from the Monty Python show.
In the scene where Brian is dragged before Pontius Pilot; the extras were told that if the laughed they wouldn’t be paid. Their attempts to not laugh were genuine.
This is a myth, since at the end they are all laughing together on cue, not to mention the scene having to be filmed out of sequence (the changing camera positions are a clue).
George Harrison bailed this movie out with his own money because as he put it when asked why at the premier: “I wanted to see the movie.” Python was having trouble getting backing from nervous studios concerned about the religious satire aspect of the plot. The studios, because of the recent success of Star Wars, all kept suggesting that Python come up with an outer space movie that they would be more than happy to finance. So, Python gave a big Roman middle finger to the studios by including that seemingly out of context space ship with the wonderfully weird alien pilots scene. George Harrison was one of those Beatle type Liverpudlians that were so popular back in the day... Thanks for making videos eh.
We all know about George's connection to the Pythons, but isn't it a pity John wasn't also involved - the man of "we're more popular than cheese is", etc Personally I wish the spaceship scene was ten times as long - it could've been to this movie what Crimson Permanent Assurance almost-was to the next.
@@chimpinaneckbrace - Blasphemer! You're no better than those Gourdian Brianists, spitting on our lord's message by wearing two shoes. The Sandalian way is the only way to achieve true enlightenment.
“Life's a piece of $hit When you look at it Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true You'll see it's all a show Keep 'em laughin' as you go Just remember that the last laugh is on you!”
9:22 The extras who played the guards had no idea what would transpire during this scene, they were simply told not to laugh, making their anguished faces legitimate 😂
I always thought that alien abduction was included in this 1979 movie as kind of a jokey nod to the popularity of sci-fi shows and films in the late seventies, shows like the first "Star Wars" from 1977, the "Battlestar Galactica" TV series from 1978, that "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" movie from 1977, etc. It was also a way to give animator/filmmaker Terry Gilliam an opportunity to showcase his talents.
john cleese was advised to remove the loretta scene from the stage adaptation not so long ago because it may be offensive, im very glad to say he politely declined
I support trans rights, but I wonder if whoever was offended missed the fact that, ultimately, Reg didn’t have a problem with Loretta identifying as a woman. The point of contention was that, even as a trans woman, she couldn’t give birth, which is just true.
@@0okamino sounds more like the producers were more nervous than anything. Speaking as a woman with transgender experience, the scene is 'mostly positive'. On the one hand, the character is written as a joke (boo on the writers), on the other hand, she's pretty quickly accepted by her friends (yay for on the writers). It's a fairly realistic scene as well, with her friends struggling a bit to understand and using correct pronouns, etc. This was, of course, before gender variant characters were written as villains.
@@MaceGill The whole thing really doesn't have anything to actually do with the issue because the issue didn't exist in 1979. It is really just using, what at the time was considered absurdity, as a metaphor for the way all of these radical left wing political splinter groups in England at the time could get so easily distracted from their main issue--class struggle and go off on what were really frivolous tangents at the time. Everyone always talks about how much of this movie is a spoof on religion but most people miss how much this movie is a spoof on those disorganized, disjointed, political movements of what was the present when this was filmed and how they spent more time, effort, and focus on quarreling with each other instead of actually accomplishing anything meaningful. How they would spend 95% of their time talking about the problems of the day and maybe 5% of their time actually trying to fix them. That is what the whole sewer scene was about. How these various groups would often consider another splinter group of theirs to be the enemy instead of the establishment which was supposed to be their enemy.
Comedian Alexei Sayle (played the Sultan in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade) grew up in a Jewish Communist household, and says that the Judean Peoples' Front skit was painfully accurate about the splits in the far-left movements in Britain at the time. Here's a great little bit of him revisiting those days. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K1_dRBCDfqo.html
It's the same with most left-wing movements all over the world today. Right wingers simply gather around the loudest baboon with the biggest, reddest ass, while lefties tear each other apart over miniscule ideological differences and split up into a million factions.
It's a really fun little video, there's a graphic showing how crazy splintered the far left had become - Alexei even references the Judean Peoples' Front, and confirms that his faction's leader was called Reg. 🤣
and look at it now.... totally and utterly insane with a political agenda and vision that could have come from the pen of Norman Bates - and the fat mong still champions socialism despite the death and wreckage in its wake.
I agree with you Jimmy. While I love The Life Of Brian, it's not quite at the level of The Holy Grail, which I consider the funniest film I've ever seen.
It's hilarious how every generation think they're the first to talk about men and women with sexual dynamics and who is a what or defined as whoever. It's nearly as old a topic as written history. The Egyptians did it, the Persians, Greeks, Romans.
The year I was born. Other movies that came out in 1979: The Jerk, Alien, Warriors, Rocky 2, Mad Max, Amityville Horror, Phantasm, 10, Meatballs, Escape From Alcatraz, and.......Star Trek 🤢
One thing I love is when certain reactors think the Loretta scene is "ahead of its time" in a positive way, but it's literally ridiculing the insanity of those people 😂
@szeddezs I'm sorry to say they certainly do..... also menstruate and lactate. There are uploads aplenty on here of these insane fools arguing that .....and recruiting for new members of the Norman Bates Appreciation Society.
