Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!! 

Yeah, and nowadays we would need the same kind of movie about the life of Mohammed, the founder of Islam.

@@marcelklappert2127 why?

@@richieclean Because, if you can't laugh about yourself and your religious beliefs, you are a fanatic, a potential murderer or terrorist. For example: If someone would call me as a German "Nazi", that wouldn't trigger me.

@@marcelklappert2127 because you are one

@@tommacduff4330 Go back to your cave troll boy.

Best single line in the entire film.

They'll be stoned before we get there

Blessed are the cheese makers.

I use the meme on Trump Supporters. XD

And be sure to check out John Cleese's eulogy, it was absolutely hilarious.

@@mhlevy very true. Ironic part about cleese giving the eulogy is they never quite got on

I tell this to people and they don't believe me but every word is true.

I served in the US Navy back in the 80's, and I was part of the Damage Control team, so I know EXACTLY what you're talking about! and it was awesome that the crews bravely sang that particular song during a scary time as that.

@@garycrow1943 I posted about this on another reaction a few months ago, and someone accused my of lying 😂. Go figure. Doesn't take much to check the facts

They are playing it at funerals??? WoW. Didnt know ´that. Here in Germany we play just boring Shit...

@@edfrancis66 That doesn't surprise me one little bit.

Oh, details, details. The way you go on about it, you’d think it was some sort of holy scripture or something.

Hi T.B.R. S., to learn more about the blessed cheesemakers, then read " The Sermon on the Mount ".

@@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710 Don't you mean “The Sermon on the Mounds“, which was a discussion Jesus had about cows udders?

@@DrunkenCoward1 Nope.

@@DrunkenCoward1 Candy bars, you heretic.

One can see from scenes like this that the church got a bit miffed at the Monty Pythons. Even though they said that "its not about Jesus. Its about this guy called Brian that lived at the same time as him." But the parallells were a bit to on the nose for the church to believe them.

@@cuffzter That's the church's problem though, not Monty Python. They were never disrespectful to Jesus and Brian CLEARLY isn't him, as shown in the beginning.

@@cuffzter Most of those complaining hadn't even seen the film. The actual "Brian as a messiah" element is actually a relatively short segment of the film overall.

@@cuffzter They poke fun at the people (and crucifixion) not Jesus who it appears Brian took a liking to. He tried relaying the little he heard from the Sermon on the Mount when he pretended to be a prophet. Jesus' words fell on deaf ears, the ex-leper is another example.

I read a “for dummies” book on the old testament, and it turns out that taking off a shoe was in fact a gesture used to secure deals back then.

Ya not many Americans recognise spike , loved his old TV comedy shows

I'm kinda old...The Goon Show was something that I grew up with as a kid. Spike, Harry and Peter were my heroes. I had the pleasure of meeting Spike when I was very young and he was visiting his Mum who was living in Woy Woy. I'm now a bloody old man who has no claim to fame aside from being able to balance a chopstick on my nose to make the people in line at my local Chinese restaurant laugh uncomfortably at my circus trick...

The “Romani eunt domus” skit is probably one of the funniest things ever committed to film.

George Harrison has a cameo as well, when the swarm is outside Brian's window and they all say, "Yes, we're all individuals." George says, "I'm not," and ironically gets shushed.

@@davidwatson22 His TV stuff is good but it's his writing and performing as part of The Goon Show comedy radio show from the 1950s with Peter Sellars and Harry Seacombe that's his finest work.

that always comes to my mind also whenever i see that scene. i would not be the least bit suprised if it was in their minds also when writing it.

@@ravenmasters2467 Well that is the joke so :p

It's really pretty true of colonialism generally.

The whole idea behind colonies is to exploit a country for it's resources to benefit the people of the mother country. In the case of India you had a relatively advanced country and people who were fragmented by religious differences and petty squabbles between neighbors. This allowed the British and french to move in and take control. One big difference between the British and the french was that the french simply wanted economic benefits but not to get bogged down in colonial issues. Fewer french came to live or settle while the British who come from an overcrowded island were always trying to dump some surplus people in a new colony like America or Australia. They involved themselves much more deeply in Indian politics and trained and armed native troops to do their fighting. The french never made the same effort. After losing a few sea battles they fought a halfhearted war and withdrew as this was the middle of the Napoleonic period. Actually one of Bonaparte's reasons for invading Egypt was to set up a route to India but again the revolution had gutted the best of the french naval officers who were almost all nobles thus the to french fleet went from being the equal of Britain's in the late 1700s to being second rate, and the biggest cause of Napoleons defeat. Meanwhile Wellington and Clive imposed british rule over the subcontinent and soon thousands of military men and civilians arrived to create a ruling class that remained until the Japanese attacked. In the decades of British rule much European culture and inventions arrived to make the Sahib's more comfortable, of course some of this trickled down to the Indian nobility and even to the lower classes. The British helped to improve much of Indian society even if it was never their intention. By the end of the second world war men like Ghandi who was trained to be a lawyer were able to organize and momentarily overcome their differences in order to achieve their independence. It only took a few years for India to become a major Asian power mainly thanks to all they learned and gained from the Brits, but you have to remember all the humiliation, abuse and thousand killed trying to free themselves. There was always an argument among Brits whether to force greater cultural changes indian society. The vast social gulf between rich and poor, religious conflict and the terrible way Indian women were treated as bad as much of the middle east, Africa and Asia all treated women to this day. Rape, abuse, murder are all comited upon women with little effort to stop or change. The Brits decided to Iook the other way to many cultural faults in order to maintain their economic grip but in the end they were thrown out and the best hope for generations of Indian women left with them. Now to be fair much improvement has been made but there is still a long way to go. That India is far ahead of most of that region though is thanks to the British. Back in Roman Palestine there was much improvement under the Romans but due to the fanatics among Jewish groups years of war and conflict would engulf the region much as it still does today. My personal belief is no man should ever harm another over religion. If God wants to kill someone he can do it himself, no true God would ever demand killing from his followers. Until we get the fanatics of all religions out of the way there will never be peace.

@@r.g.o3879 nice write-up, but there will never be peace in any case. It's right there in the Fallout slogan. Evidently, it must confer some evolutionary advantage.

He has an enormously expressive face.

Also the dismayed look he gets when both Biggus Dickus and Pilate are going to give a joint public speech. lol.

@@greigclement9081 More like horrified.

I read that they didn't tell him she was gonna be naked and that was his genuine reaction, dunno if that's true tho

The actress, Sue Jones-Davies, was later Mayor of Aberystwyth in Wales. She was told the town had banned Life of Brian for over 30 years. She then sponsored a charity screening of the film in the town, which some of the cast attended. (It later turned out that it hadn't actually been banned!)

@@metetural9140 Terry Jones, who played Brian's mother, also directed the film so I seriously doubt he would be unaware of that

@@MLennholm Not if in the script she wasn’t supposed to be fully nude and the actress decided to prank everyone on that.

​@@davidw.2791I, for one, applaud that English full frontal humor.

Love the details. Also, my favourite example of Deus Ex Machina.

That's fantastic. Thank you for the info!

Also the joke of them falling back to Earth in the same spot they left from after going way out into space.

Good for her , i remember her ( naked again) in 1984 with john hurt. It was banned in Ireland too up until the 90s ( nlmost saw it on pirate copies)

It was banned for years in Ireland too

It’s like an inverse of Ben Hur. Instead of Ben Hur himself seeing the light and even be close to Jesus when the Passion is happening, those dumb people derailed themselves and lost out on listening to Jesus’s great words because they THOUGHT they found the messiah Brian.

Id definitley add my voice to those calling for a "A Fish Called Wanda" reaction vid. I agree that i think The Schmitts would love it.

Yes to this

👍👍👍

Wow! A new one, on me! I'll keep my eyes peeled for it.

HILARIOUS movie!

Right!

Agreed. A great movie.

Clockwise is one of my favorite movies! John Cleese is always hysterical!

All of these for sure. Brazil twice as much so

He also plays the prophet who is covered in mud. Keith Moon was going to play that part but he died two weeks before filming began.

Religion hasn’t.

Kevin Wood: Especially the "What have the Romans ever done for us?" scene. And, yeah, religion has held up quite well. There are more religions than ever, and most aren't as violent as they used to be back in the day

I think the transgender joke makes it as relevant now as it ever was.

@@ravenmasters2467 Terry Jones said multiple times in the years before his death that this movie couldn't be made today because of political correctness and religious extremism.

@@BoredMarcus i think thats absolutely right. but i also think you would agree that that doesnt make it any less relevant.

Having also done O Level Latin i agree. Funny thing is our Latin teacher was a scouser and spoke Latin with a thick, Liverpudlian accent, which was hilarious in itself. i can still here him now almost 40 years later. "amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant" (imagine the thick scouse accent).

I know that feeling. I speak italian with a Cork accent

Cleese actually taught Latin before this, so there's a good reason it feels spot on

Yes, and he has a cameo in the film, too. George was best friends with Eric Idle. If you get a chance, and you’re a Beatles fan, go check out “The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash”.

BTW, there was going to be another famous rocker cameo in it, too. Keith Moon, the drummer for The Who, was supposed to play the "Mud Prophet" (the guy on "Prophet Row" who was covered in mud and just wearing a loin cloth). However, he unfortunately died before it could happen.

A young Tracey Ullman can be seen as well.

Ken was also in "Jabberwocky" as one of the religious fanatics.

Never thought of that, but it does make sense, though in this case they were trying to save themselves rater than Brian. "I'm Brian, and so is my wife!"

the funny thing is when his girlfriend comes back and tells him that she'll never forget him it's almost certainly another Spartacus reference.

It was also homaged - played straight - in The Mask Of Zorro.

WHAT HAVE THE NORWEGIANS EVER DONE FOR US ?

My Latin teacher actually used this scene as a lesson back in my youth because it was just perfect.

Imperative?

​@@Trygvar13 Apart from the physical threats of violence, my first Latin teacher was just as old school as the centurion.

Biggus dickus, he leads a quack woeman legion.

Charles McKeown, Chris Langham, Bernard McKenna and Andrew MacLachlan played the guards in scene 13, brilliant acting and a brilliant script, it's very funny, it's a shame people think these actors were extras and don't give them the credit they deserve, some people think they were threatened with not being paid if they laugh, or some other nonsense around the scene.

It's just meant to establish Brian's life is parallel to Jesus.

That was well said. They are adorable, a joy to watch and love the discussions.

I also love how they hold hands throughout their videos. It's adorable.

My favourite is “What do I say? 'Yes?'“ “Yes.“ “Yes!“ It's the first time I've ever heard a word joke that minimalist. It repeats the word “Yes“ three times in a row, yet all of them are funny in themselves.

Agreed. great film.

Having also done O Level Latin i agree. Funny thing is our Latin teacher was a scouser and spoke Latin with a thick, Liverpudlian accent, which was hilarious in itself. i can still hear him now almost 40 years later. "amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant" (imagine the thick scouse accent).

That's one of my most favourite movies.

Also 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen' , 'The Time Bandits' and of course 'Brazil'

That will be never made today or rebooted.

I actually first watched it in religion classes, which is ironic.

@@DrunkenCoward1 Not at all. I think in Germany it's pretty normal to watch it in religion class, when it's close to school's end for the summer or smth :D

I wasn't raised to be religious in the first place, but this movie really cemented the foundation for my disdain for religion later in life.

It isn't about religion being stupid. It's about people being stupid and misunderstanding and abusing religion. The religion itself was never criticized, and Jesus was actually shown with a fair amount of reverence.

@@RexFuturi Misunderstanding is a prerequisite for religion, not something that stands outside of it.

It's rhotacism, not lisping. Otherwise known as Elmer Fudd Syndrome.

Why does everyone in this comment section mix up Pontius Pilate and Biggus Dickus?? Biggus Dickus has the lisp, not Pilate.

@@szeddezs Sorry, speech impediment. Oh the nits we pick.

@@TTM9691 Ok he was correcting you but it wasnt really nit-picking. I thought it was interesting and informative. And thats not having a go at you, i enjoyed and liked your comment, but i also liked that extra bit of info.

@@szeddezs i am not sure they are. i think they are incorrectly decribing Pontius Pilate's speech impediment as a lisp. i think thats what theyre "mixing up".

The 'hello' he says was dubbed on by Michael Palin.

Harrison is right behind Cleese when he tells the people possessed by demons to try to control them. Also one of the crowd members tossing out names when Pilate is addressing the crowd was going to be Bob Hoskins but he had busted out into bigger roles by the time they started filming so they named the character Bob Hoskins instead.

I was going through the East Midlands town of Southwell a few years back and spotted Romanus Ite Domum sprayed on a fence. Classy grafitti artists they have.

There is a RU-vid video with a guy going through exactly how correct the centurion's critique of Bwyan's latin was.

@@steriopticon2687 yes I listened to it Very enlightening

I had a fairly similar experience learning french in highschool. It's pretty universal to learning a language from a terrifying teacher.

John Cleese was a Latin teacher for a while, that's why it's so accurate.

Fun fact... Your fun fact isn't a fact and is in fact not at all true. The 4 actors playing the guards in scene 13 were professional comic actors and together played 12 different roles in The Life of Brian. Bernard McKenna, the guard behind Brian on the left is an icon within British television comedy and was personal friends with Graham Chapman Michael Palin and John Cleese, and was involved in filming from day one and also helped with writing, he played 4 roles in the film, he was never threatened with not being paid for laughing in scene 13... Chris Langham the guard pulling the face was also a well known comic actor and director, best known for his work on Not the Nine oclock News, he played 2 roles in the film. Andrew MacLachlan, the guard behind Brian on the right is a well known comic actor, he played 2 roles in the film. Charles McKeown the first guard to laugh, played 4 different roles in the film and was personal friends with Michael Palin and John Cleese had worked on Ripping Yarns and Faulty Towers.. The "fact" any of these actors were threatened with not being paid for laughing in this one scene is absolutely NOT a fact. Script for scene 13 is available and includes stage direction for guards to giggle.

Michael Palin is playing the Emperor he's the Governor.

@@peterdemkiw3280 Man, all these people who don't even know who the characters are meant to be.

LOL...Always!

Well done Pythons!

" Brazil " too.

@@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710 The 'proper' version :)

That scene created a continuity problem though. After they stopped filming it one of the crew told Chapman that everyone can see you aren't Jewish.

Judith was the GF, not the mother. Brian's mother's name is apparently Mandy, but I don't recall anyone calling her that in the film.

Well there is also "And now for something completely different", which is a movie that consists of a lot of the sketches of the TV show reshot for the big screen.

Though you have to be careful recommending "Meaning of Life", It has one of the grossest, most disgusting, scenes ever.

Oh yeah, you definitely have to do the Flying Circus

The Meaning of Life is the forth movie so if you didn't like it you could say it wasn't as good as the first three movies. But well done for knowing The meaning of life is a Monty python film.

@@peterdemkiw3280 The Meaning of Life is my favorite Python film...

Like gourmet crunchy frog chocolates.

Fun fact. All of what you said is nonsense. A myth nothing more. Scene 13 was made of many takes stitched together, the guards had the script which includes stage direction for guards to giggle, they were following the script. All the actors playing the guards were respected professional comic actors between them they played 12 different roles in the film. What you see with scene 13 is the result of brilliant actors following a great script. They were not told to not laugh under any circumstances, they were simply employed to act, they were give a script and give opportunity to rehearse. their hard work payed off with a brilliant scene that people think is genuine laughter.

Uggh. So untrue. All of the actors were well known. The point of the scene is that they are containing their laughter for fear of reprisal.

There was also a travel short narrated by Cleese IIRC.

@@Cheepchipsable Don't recall that one at my theatre but I certainly remember Don Was Cockroach..........mind you it was looong time ago lol