Life of Brian - ROMANES EUNT DOMUS

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  • Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
  • The scene of Monty Python's movie "Life Of Brian" where Brian is given a latin lesson. Great film, genius team!!!
    Subtitle
    CENTURION: What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'?
    BRIAN: It-- it says, 'Romans, go home'.
    CENTURION: No, it doesn't. What's Latin for 'Roman'? Come on!
    BRIAN: Aah!
    CENTURION: Come on!
    BRIAN: 'R-- Romanus'?
    CENTURION: Goes like...?
    BRIAN: 'Annus'?
    CENTURION: Vocative plural of 'annus' is...?
    BRIAN: Eh. 'Anni'?
    CENTURION: 'Romani'. 'Eunt'? What is 'eunt'?
    BRIAN: 'Go'. Let--
    CENTURION: Conjugate the verb 'to go'.
    BRIAN: Uh. 'Ire'. Uh, 'eo'. 'Is'. 'It'. 'Imus'. 'Itis'. 'Eunt'.
    CENTURION: So 'eunt' is...?
    BRIAN: Ah, huh, third person plural, uh, present indicative. Uh, 'they go'.
    CENTURION: But 'Romans, go home' is an order, so you must use the...?
    BRIAN: The... imperative!
    CENTURION: Which is...?
    BRIAN: Umm! Oh. Oh. Um, 'i'. 'I'!
    CENTURION: How many Romans?
    BRIAN: Ah! 'I'-- Plural. Plural. 'Ite'. 'Ite'.
    CENTURION: 'Ite'.
    BRIAN: Ah. Eh.
    CENTURION: 'Domus'?
    BRIAN: Eh.
    CENTURION: Nominative?
    BRIAN: Oh.
    CENTURION: 'Go home'? This is motion towards. Isn't it, boy?
    BRIAN: Ah. Ah, dative, sir! Ahh! No, not dative! Not the dative, sir! No! Ah! Oh, the... accusative! Accusative! Ah! 'Domum', sir! 'Ad domum'! Ah! Oooh! Ah!
    CENTURION: Except that 'domus' takes the...?
    BRIAN: The locative, sir!
    CENTURION: Which is...?!
    BRIAN: 'Domum'.
    CENTURION: 'Domum'.
    BRIAN: Aaah! Ah.
    CENTURION: 'Um'. Understand?
    BRIAN: Yes, sir.
    CENTURION: Now, write it out a hundred times.
    BRIAN: Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.
    CENTURION: Hail Caesar. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
    BRIAN: Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar and everything, sir! Oh. Mmm!
    Finished!
    ROMAN SOLDIER STIG: Right. Now don't do it again.
    [CENTURIONS chase BRIAN]
    MAN: Hey! Bloody Romans.

Комментарии • 1,3 тыс.

  • @AtlasBlizzard
    @AtlasBlizzard 5 лет назад +2237

    The best thing about this is that John Cleese was a Latin teacher, so he knows exactly what he's talking about!

    • @70snostalgia
      @70snostalgia 5 лет назад +280

      As well as how to act like a latin teacher!

    • @tomtrinchera8405
      @tomtrinchera8405 4 года назад +160

      The chief reason he wrote this scene. Listen to the Criterion commentary track sometime, Cleese talks about the scene and how much fun it was to shoot it.

    • @subd8522
      @subd8522 4 года назад +35

      The real TIL is in RUclips comments

    • @jemimaschuller629
      @jemimaschuller629 4 года назад +102

      As a Latin student, I can confirm that this 'Romani ite domum" has correct grammar : ) (for once movies got it right *facepalm*)

    • @TheBestCommenterEVER
      @TheBestCommenterEVER 4 года назад +91

      @@jemimaschuller629 i mean they were all cambridge and oxford alumni after all

  • @ndbchannellocustgroveva1952
    @ndbchannellocustgroveva1952 6 лет назад +1319

    If my high school Latin teacher were issued a sword, my experience would have looked exactly like this.

    • @skovner
      @skovner 4 года назад +30

      I had a anachronistic one - he wanted to take a gun into class.

    • @Driven2Beers
      @Driven2Beers 3 года назад +1

      Wow, Purcellville... that's really out there. I've lived in Fairfax County most of my life until I ended up here in the Thousand Islands region of NY. How'd I get here? Long story. But I'll tell you that I used to love snow before I moved up here.

    • @TheCassiusTain
      @TheCassiusTain 3 года назад +13

      interesting, my latin teacher had several authentic roman garments for different time periods of the roman empire. There would probably have been a Gladius in there somewhere. I still see her every year on the roman festival at the local Museum as an actress portraying a roman woman

    • @booqueefious2230
      @booqueefious2230 3 года назад +3

      @@skovner My History teacher had a functional civil war rifle in her closet lol

    • @xano2921
      @xano2921 Год назад

      @@TheCassiusTain That's amazing

  • @ElevenDollarCheese
    @ElevenDollarCheese 3 года назад +883

    Love the most British line ever, "what's this then?"

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast 3 года назад +65

      As said millions of times by many thousands of British policemen.

    • @NickHarman
      @NickHarman 2 года назад +35

      @@DieFlabbergast Actually, 'what's all this then?'

    • @ianjackson4721
      @ianjackson4721 2 года назад +4

      “Dodgy Dave” is one that I’ve heard a lot recently

    • @beep-beep
      @beep-beep 2 года назад +11

      “You what??”

    • @LatkaXtreme
      @LatkaXtreme 2 года назад +3

      "Go Home, this is a motion towards, isn't it by then?"

  • @zimeron1
    @zimeron1 10 лет назад +1596

    "Dative!" *whips sword out* "Accusative, Accusative!" gets me every time. xD

    • @fredlougee2807
      @fredlougee2807 5 лет назад +21

      Pastor Weichmann was more polite, but no less demanding.

    • @KevTheImpaler
      @KevTheImpaler 5 лет назад +16

      If it was Romans stay home it might have been the ablative.

    • @GlaceonStudios
      @GlaceonStudios 2 года назад +12

      @@KevTheImpaler I think really it would be the locative.

    • @KevTheImpaler
      @KevTheImpaler 2 года назад +9

      @@GlaceonStudios I think you're right.
      Romani manete domi!

    • @urosmarjanovic663
      @urosmarjanovic663 2 года назад +17

      Fastest drawing of gladium that I've ever seen in a movie.

  • @philkarn5661
    @philkarn5661 10 лет назад +1601

    I still think this is one of the funniest bits the Pythons ever did. Must make up for all those Latin lessons they suffered through in boys' school.

    • @PetrSedlacek
      @PetrSedlacek 10 лет назад +14

      Agreed! Perhaps along with the Dead Parrot sketch :) Can't wait to see the remaining 5 Pythons in London in July.

    • @philkarn5661
      @philkarn5661 10 лет назад +47

      Interestingly enough, Google translator translates "Romanes Eunt Domus" as "Romans go home", not "People called Romanes, they go the house".

    • @philkarn5661
      @philkarn5661 10 лет назад +19

      Clem Cole Which is why the sketch is so damn funny.
      I only took 3 years of French, but it's close enough to get the joke.

    • @jbjaguar2717
      @jbjaguar2717 10 лет назад +64

      Phil Karn It translates it incorrectly. The literal translation is 'They go house are Romans' (assuming a missing verb 'to be' implied by the accusative). It would have made no sense to a native Latin speaker.

    • @philkarn5661
      @philkarn5661 10 лет назад +1

      Jb Jaguar Thanks!

  • @thevectrexlover
    @thevectrexlover 9 лет назад +1581

    Grammar Romans.

  • @sameash3153
    @sameash3153 3 года назад +371

    The fact that Cleese played more than one centurion in this scene always makes me laugh. He leaves and then immediately comes back.

  • @GritimoTheOdd
    @GritimoTheOdd 5 лет назад +444

    This is just a great example of why I like Python so much. They don't just go for one level of humor. They put in everything, from crass profanity shock value to high level pokes at education and language. Often in the same film if not the same scene. They just encompass Humor as a whole.

    • @booqueefious2230
      @booqueefious2230 3 года назад +9

      This is so much funnier than Holy Grail. I know people probably quote that movie more often, but Life of Brian is just a higher level of humor.
      Also, the cast was getting along pretty well for Life of Brian; they were at each other's throats while filming Holy Grail

    • @kevinstachovak8842
      @kevinstachovak8842 2 года назад +2

      Brilliant nerdy kids gone bad and so, so funny! 100 years from now whom shall remember the trendy musicians of today? But people will still quote MP

    • @poiuyt975
      @poiuyt975 Год назад +3

      @@booqueefious2230 The Pythons were basically learning how to make a movie with Holy Grail. I still love it and it's incredibly funny, but The Life of Brian is much better as a movie.

  • @EmmaBonn96
    @EmmaBonn96 9 лет назад +1330

    Grammar Centurions: mildly less offensive when compared to Grammar Nazis

    • @DavidOakesMusic
      @DavidOakesMusic 7 лет назад +67

      Commanding a Grammarmy.

    • @christopherwhitelaw1197
      @christopherwhitelaw1197 5 лет назад +28

      Grammar Nazis? Ohhh, you mean educated people.

    • @HazzronIV
      @HazzronIV 5 лет назад +65

      Grammar Nazis are really anal about grammar and generally very rude to others. The Grammar Centurion is very strict but otherwise fair and very educative in his practice or he'll cut off your balls.

    • @fedos
      @fedos 4 года назад +5

      ​@@christopherwhitelaw1197 The idiots who think it's appropriate to "correct" other people's "grammar" are among the most poorly educated people.

    • @DCLayclerk
      @DCLayclerk 4 года назад +8

      fedos Possibly. Or would you leave room for the possibility that they are just trying to help people better themselves?

  • @EHH246
    @EHH246 3 года назад +261

    I love how the centurion is more concerned with his grammar than his vandalism.

    • @ihsahnakerfeldt9280
      @ihsahnakerfeldt9280 3 года назад +72

      Lol that's the entire point

    • @ad480p
      @ad480p 2 года назад +34

      I love it when comments point out the joke/s

    • @davidgilbert4464
      @davidgilbert4464 Год назад +5

      How did Pilate put it in the Jesus movie? If he crucified everyone who railed about the taxes he'd have to cut down half the cedars in Lebanon?

    • @deletedaccount175
      @deletedaccount175 Год назад +6

      Yeah it's a play on them being so arrogant about their way of life and stamping it on everyone, that they'd ignore direct dissent to be grammar sticklers

    • @edgarazevedo1306
      @edgarazevedo1306 Год назад

      ​@@deletedaccount175 reminds me of people from united states in WOW thats humiliated others for speaking any language other than english in NA servers. While forgetting that in North America at least 3 major languages are spoken and that the entire number of americans is 1,003 billion people not only 300.

  • @xxMpEGxx
    @xxMpEGxx 6 лет назад +245

    "People called Romanes go the house" xD I don't know why, I find this word constellation hilarious xD

    • @NH2112
      @NH2112 2 года назад +23

      They go the ‘ouse.

  • @notroll1279
    @notroll1279 Год назад +108

    I remember watching this for the first time in 1982 - shortly after my Latin classes ended. Rarely in my life have I laughed so hysterically...

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Год назад +6

      What makes this even better, Cleese used to be a Latin teacher. Self-deprication at it's finest.

  • @jblo92
    @jblo92 6 лет назад +461

    I'm weak! He said "dative" for motion towards and the centurion nearly cut his throat for it. The entire sketch is brilliant but that tiny bit there is just sublime. *That* more than any other grammatical mistake infuriates him the most. It truly is a throat-cuttable offense.

    • @MahlatseThibela
      @MahlatseThibela 5 лет назад +22

      Nothing pisses that Centurion off than hearing a grammatical error. LMFAO... the Centurion had enough and he was about to cut this bastard's head off

    • @ElevenDollarCheese
      @ElevenDollarCheese Год назад +7

      True. Accusative is really the one you shouldn't forget. Dative and genitive...eh..

    • @mariebcfhs9491
      @mariebcfhs9491 10 месяцев назад +2

      People called Romanes they go the house

  • @robbiesize
    @robbiesize 10 лет назад +192

    All comedy roads lead to Brian.

  • @thefutureprez2016
    @thefutureprez2016 9 лет назад +950

    There should be a restaurant that has a meal called "conjugate the verb"
    That way, somebody can order a "conjugate the verb" to go...

    • @Haitchpeasauce
      @Haitchpeasauce 9 лет назад +27

      +thefutureprez2016 Well done, sir. I am pleased.

    • @paulbuschman8318
      @paulbuschman8318 9 лет назад +23

      +thefutureprez2016 THAT is an internet winner!

    • @ian_b
      @ian_b 8 лет назад +7

      +thefutureprez2016 This comment deserves internet fame.

    • @kulturfreund6631
      @kulturfreund6631 7 лет назад +7

      Hey I found out that "King" in Norwegian is "Kong".
      King Kong.
      ...in Swedish it´s even "Kung"

    • @SA-rb5xq
      @SA-rb5xq 7 лет назад +2

      Kung Fu - en väldigt känd och mycket omtyckt herre från fjärran Öst.

  • @NevanSlone
    @NevanSlone 5 месяцев назад +18

    “It says Romans go home!”
    “…. No it doesn’t”

  • @OneJacobOfMany
    @OneJacobOfMany 11 лет назад +491

    The wasteland of New Vegas led me here and I regret nothing.

    • @OneJacobOfMany
      @OneJacobOfMany 10 лет назад +58

      Yes. You must have the "Wild Wasteland" trait. I won't spoil where the reference is, you can easily find it on any of the FONV wiki's.
      I love Bethesda but Obsidian really is who I want to see another Fallout from.

    • @GaaraSama1983
      @GaaraSama1983 7 лет назад +6

      yeah I also think FONV was the best 3D Fallout til now.

    • @jacobwells9207
      @jacobwells9207 7 лет назад +6

      It's at Cottonwood Cove

    • @crystalquasar6841
      @crystalquasar6841 7 лет назад +1

      Same here, lol. I just found the graffiti and remembered my four years of Latin.

    • @1vaultdweller
      @1vaultdweller 7 лет назад +12

      There is also the Holy Hand Grenade

  • @klunkemoster
    @klunkemoster 17 лет назад +55

    My latin teacher made the whole class watch the entire film just because of this scene... That was the best latin lesson ever

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Год назад +8

      Ah the classic "I forgot to prepare my class so we're watching Python"

  • @FredDude27
    @FredDude27 8 лет назад +676

    I bet the modern education system would benefit from this Centurion!

    • @nietzchepreacher9477
      @nietzchepreacher9477 6 лет назад +7

      Michael Wilson in fairness with a name like Häll there's a good chance he's not English so we can let him off thus time

    • @morsletum5348
      @morsletum5348 5 лет назад +8

      ​@@nietzchepreacher9477
      He meant Jordan.

    • @kulturfreund6631
      @kulturfreund6631 5 лет назад +1

      Me thinks so too.

    • @razz0rric106
      @razz0rric106 5 лет назад +2

      Broadsword to Danny boy

    • @KaizoeAzurum
      @KaizoeAzurum 5 лет назад +1

      @Jordan Darrell Yes, we do.

  • @seanhuds229
    @seanhuds229 3 года назад +55

    I love the way the next patrol just stare at Brian for a few seconds in absolute disbelief and fury at what he has done to their palace.

  • @dorsal08
    @dorsal08 14 лет назад +101

    I love the proud look on Brian's face until he realizes that these guards aren't idiots like the night shift!

  • @DieFlabbergast
    @DieFlabbergast 3 года назад +253

    The funny thing is, in Palestine at this period you would have been hard put to find a Roman soldier (apart from the very top brass) who could speak Latin, let alone write it correctly. Greek would have been the medium of communication, both between the Roman soldiers themselves and with the native Jewish population. Some of the "Romans" would have also spoken Aramaic, which was the Lingua Franca of the entire Middle East, and was the main language of the Jews. Hebrew was already a "scriptures-only" language.

    • @savourymilkman8147
      @savourymilkman8147 2 года назад +28

      @Yokato_TF2 Οι Ρωμαίοι πάνε σπίτι! (Oi Romaíoi páne spíti!) I grew up in a Greek community and can verify that even though I don't speak Greek This is definitely correct! I love how Google Translate actually translated Romans Go Home including the "Hey!" that starts the the sentence (Oi, kinda sounds like a brit saying "Oy!" it really means that its directing a command)

    • @Oscar97o
      @Oscar97o 2 года назад +1

      It's Aramaic!

    • @squirehaggard4749
      @squirehaggard4749 2 года назад +3

      You defy parody.

    • @NickPappas19
      @NickPappas19 2 года назад +40

      @@savourymilkman8147 Oh, this is just too delicious an irony. You have made the exact same mistakes as in the movie. Plus you translated it in Modern Greek, not Hellenistic period (Common Greek)

    • @Akmay-
      @Akmay- 2 года назад +3

      Huh, that explains some of the similarities between the adventures of Heracles and Samson, then, I guess...!

  • @BloodWolf752
    @BloodWolf752 8 лет назад +201

    My old Classics teacher loved this scene.....

    • @capnhawkins
      @capnhawkins 8 лет назад +11

      Same with mine! He showed it to us in class

    • @Geographus666
      @Geographus666 7 лет назад +5

      Mine as well. We always watched Life of Brian during the last latin class of the year.

    • @Elitist20
      @Elitist20 7 лет назад +8

      This is literally how Latin was taught at my school in the 70s.

    • @keithmuir5077
      @keithmuir5077 7 лет назад +1

      mine too

    • @GenGamesUniverse
      @GenGamesUniverse 6 лет назад +4

      I remember watching this in religious education for some reason and I ended up getting chucked out cos I couldn't stop laughing so much when this happened and the other stuff like the aliens and the "ooh you jammy bastard!" bit

  • @DjWellDressedMan
    @DjWellDressedMan 10 лет назад +177

    Only Python could write a sketch like this, pure genius!
    Explains why I bombed Latin

    • @sorsocksfake
      @sorsocksfake 10 лет назад +7

      Having had some Latin makes this scene so enormously funny... because it's so recognizable xD

  • @novaduh
    @novaduh 9 лет назад +322

    Before the grammar Nazis there were the grammar Centurions. Hail Caesar!

    • @cacksm0ker
      @cacksm0ker 8 лет назад +22

      Augustus did nothing wrong.

    • @raisukeuzarachi
      @raisukeuzarachi 6 лет назад +6

      dindv nvfin*

    • @swevixeh
      @swevixeh 6 лет назад +9

      Ave Victoria! **salutes in the Roman fashion**

    • @MadTheDJ
      @MadTheDJ 4 года назад +4

      Hail Caesar!

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast 3 года назад +3

      I imagine there were grammar Greeks even before the Romans.

  • @VladimirGLenin
    @VladimirGLenin 10 лет назад +278

    I never quite understood this scene until a few months ago when I started learning Russian and I encountered the case system. Now, this just makes me laugh everytime since I finally understand!

    • @ehonda7831
      @ehonda7831 7 лет назад

      Lenin? :)

    • @thesmithy
      @thesmithy 7 лет назад +14

      Rimlyanami idut dom :)

    • @hlar8605
      @hlar8605 6 лет назад +2

      I'd say "Rimlyantsi" =Ъ

    • @SovietRussianBear
      @SovietRussianBear 6 лет назад +9

      But the correct phrase is:
      Римляне, идите домой!

    • @hlar8605
      @hlar8605 6 лет назад +4

      SovietRussianBear
      Yep, but the very idea was to make it just as incorrect as the Latin phrase from the video.

  • @pavel343
    @pavel343 16 лет назад +62

    From the first time I saw this scene, I always think of my Latin teached of four years, Mrs. Lapsley. Since that was back in the early 1960's, I'm sure she's long since crossed the River Styx. I hope she was well rewarded in the afterlife for putting up with all of us Caesar wanna-bes.

  • @nobodynemoq
    @nobodynemoq 3 года назад +30

    One of the best scenes in Life Of Brian, maybe except for "All you are different - YES WE ARE - No I'm not!" ♥️

    • @titan133760
      @titan133760 2 года назад +2

      Apparently, the actor who said "No, I'm not!" in that scene ad libbed the line

    • @chriswysocki8816
      @chriswysocki8816 2 года назад +3

      My favourite bit is the one that starts with "What have the Romans done for us??!!"

    • @SynchroScore
      @SynchroScore Год назад +1

      "Fuck off!"
      "How shall we fuck off, O Lord?"

    • @majkus
      @majkus Год назад +1

      It took me years before I realized that the crowd all speaking in unison was a literal portrayal of passages in the Gospels like, "They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are sincere…" as if all of these people said the same thing all at once. Who knows what jokes I am _not_ getting when they're that clever?

  • @jeleuri
    @jeleuri 10 лет назад +148

    HOW MANY ROMAAAANS????

  • @MrThischarmingman2
    @MrThischarmingman2 6 лет назад +77

    According to my Dad, this scene is even funnier if you're like him and studied Latin at school (back then, it was a mandatory course).

    • @125steini
      @125steini 5 лет назад +7

      Your Dad is absolutely right... remembering ones own Latin classes makes this even more hilarious!

    • @ralphreinert
      @ralphreinert 5 лет назад +8

      My mother had degrees from Yale in both linguistics and Latin. She usually hated such silly humor as Monty Python, but when I showed her this scene she actually laughed.

    • @RetardedGoat16
      @RetardedGoat16 3 года назад

      Mandatory where? The US?

    • @MrThischarmingman2
      @MrThischarmingman2 3 года назад +2

      @@RetardedGoat16 The UK.

    • @ryanspencer6778
      @ryanspencer6778 2 года назад +1

      Knowing a bit of Latin, I can confirm. It's much better.

  • @madjack821
    @madjack821 5 лет назад +42

    I’m currently trying to learn Latin and this scene has become infinitely more hilarious to me now.

  • @RemnantTheCheese
    @RemnantTheCheese 9 лет назад +75

    Jeez, Rosetta Stone is super hands on nowadays.

  • @afonsosimplicio2429
    @afonsosimplicio2429 Год назад +3

    For 44 years, the film has been an example for the vernacular language. Written and oral language is not an individual or group choice. There are rules and norms. Terry Jones, congratulations.

  • @123tgw
    @123tgw 10 лет назад +48

    "Conjugate the word 'to go' ..... "How many Romans?"

    • @joesteinw
      @joesteinw 4 года назад +8

      All of them, I suppose? :P
      Sorry for replying to a six year old comment tho.

  • @Miranda9VM
    @Miranda9VM 10 лет назад +77

    As a Latin student, I can appreciate this so much XD

  • @SpitViciouz
    @SpitViciouz 12 лет назад +39

    Being a linguistics nerd, this was always my fav scene in the entire movie haha

    • @iceymonster4675
      @iceymonster4675 Год назад +1

      100%! Very first Latin class of University (for Linguistics) they made us watch this scene - absolutely brilliant!

  • @utubefuku7132
    @utubefuku7132 Год назад +9

    "It says Romans, go home!"
    "No it doesn't"
    God, this movie is incredible

  • @catholicdad
    @catholicdad Год назад +3

    "Hail Cesar 'and everything' sir" kills me.

  • @HolyKhaaaaan
    @HolyKhaaaaan 11 лет назад +39

    Wow... Romanisation is WAY more brutal than Hellenisation.

  • @DerTeeSäufer
    @DerTeeSäufer 7 месяцев назад +2

    This scene is just gold.
    When I watched it the first time I was so glad I didn't have to learn Latin in school.

  • @R4sKal
    @R4sKal 3 года назад +8

    Grammar corrections at swordpoint. The wet dream of every latin teacher.

  • @thGothicHobbit
    @thGothicHobbit 17 лет назад +5

    OMG I brought this clip in and showed it to my Latin class my freshman year of HS, as a "connection." I had seen this movie maybe a year previous, and I thought of this clip immediately upon receiving an assignment to find "connections" to Latin and Classics in ads, movie clips, etc. to share with the class.

  • @samiramarley
    @samiramarley 4 года назад +9

    Wow,... no comedy sketch has so perfectly illustrated what I had to endure as a student of Latin,.... my favorite sketch!

  • @jerlewis4291
    @jerlewis4291 2 месяца назад +2

    I was taking Latin in high school when this came out, and man I just died.

  • @JuanPabloArenas1
    @JuanPabloArenas1 14 лет назад +19

    Winston Churchill wrote about his latin classes when he was young
    "and what does O table mean?"
    "Mensa, O table, is the vocative case," teacher replied.
    "But why O table?" I persisted in genuine curiosity.
    "O table - you would use that in addressing a table, in invoking a table." And then seeing he was not carrying me with him, "You would use it in speaking to a table."
    "But I never do," I blurted out in honest amazement.

  • @RJALEXANDER777
    @RJALEXANDER777 3 года назад +59

    And to make it even better, Cleese really did terrify Graham when he had the sword to his throat. Graham had a habit of turning up to film drunk and forgetting his lines, so this was Cleese's bit of revenge. Graham wasn't acting.

    • @NickHarman
      @NickHarman 2 года назад +6

      I believe on this film Chapman was off the bottle and much better for it, it's in Cleese's autobiography

    • @eamonnmcloughlin129
      @eamonnmcloughlin129 2 года назад +6

      @@NickHarman that's true. He would show up drunk and bewildered on Holy Grail. 2 bottles of gin a day I believe.
      He cleaned up his act for Brian, but the damage was done. He died about 10 years after this film was made. :0( 1989?

    • @NickHarman
      @NickHarman 2 года назад +5

      @@eamonnmcloughlin129 In Cleese's autobiography he does say Chapman was focused and sober throughout Brian. He died of of tonsil cancer which had spread to his spine. I don't think it was alcohol related

    • @eamonnmcloughlin129
      @eamonnmcloughlin129 2 года назад +2

      @@NickHarman Ah thanks for the details of his death, but I did say he cleaned up his act for Life of Brian.

    • @Skandalos
      @Skandalos Год назад +2

      @@NickHarman Tonsil cancer sounds most likely alcohol related.

  • @farrex0
    @farrex0 Год назад +2

    I love how there is that one guy sweeping the dirt, lmao.

  • @wulfheort8021
    @wulfheort8021 Год назад +3

    This was the best thing ever when we watched this scene in Latin class.

  • @ArmandKarlsen
    @ArmandKarlsen 13 лет назад +15

    I crack up every time watch this scene. I had to take Latin language from 11 to 13 and the teacher was the absolute spit of the Centurion here.

  • @tubinho79
    @tubinho79 6 лет назад +51

    This is what kids who learn Latin languages go through...literally. (lol, If you've learned French, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish as a kid, you immediately identify with Brian).

    • @kzizzles8329
      @kzizzles8329 6 лет назад +4

      I identify with the Centurian when I am helping the students of spanish 1 at my school lol

    • @95DarkFire
      @95DarkFire 5 лет назад +3

      Same in German and Russian and literally most European languagues except English.
      Finnish has 18 cases ;)

    • @ghenulo
      @ghenulo 4 года назад

      I studied German in high school and Spanish in college. I don't know if I identify with Brian, but I understand the grammar terms the centurion uses.

    • @ghenulo
      @ghenulo 4 года назад +1

      95DarkFire, it's my understanding that Finnish cases aren't like e.g. German cases, but are instead more similar to English prepositions.

    • @windhelmguard5295
      @windhelmguard5295 4 года назад

      @@95DarkFire to be fair german has become a lot more simple, ever since the dativ killed the genitiv.

  • @cairncoyote6097
    @cairncoyote6097 3 года назад +6

    People called Romanes they go the house

  • @3rdand105
    @3rdand105 Год назад +3

    I used to wait tables in a diner by a college, and I greeted those students who completed their studies in Latin with "Romanes eunt domus!" They (both of them, actually) had seen the movie, and it was appreciated that someone outside of school would say anything at all in Latin, even if it was so horribly incorrect.

  • @Ginea25
    @Ginea25 12 лет назад +5

    The people who clicked "dislike" were probably traumatised by studying Latin. I really can't see ANY other explanation. This scene is pure genius and so is the rest of the movie

  • @deckie_
    @deckie_ 11 лет назад +15

    these are the first words our latin teacher taught us

  • @JoeOvercoat
    @JoeOvercoat 9 лет назад +24

    This is pretty much how it went with the nuns in grammar school. Except the sword, of course: they wielded a cross.

  • @joelhall5124
    @joelhall5124 5 лет назад +9

    Year 9 Latin class with Mr Ferris flashbacks.
    He never dressed in Roman armour though...

  • @Damian_1989
    @Damian_1989 Год назад +3

    This is the equivalent of finding a grammar nazi that is more grammar than nazi

  • @istara
    @istara 9 лет назад +35

    Takes me right back to Latin lessons at school!

  • @rakshithanand8262
    @rakshithanand8262 7 лет назад +12

    When you don't study for the Latin test and the teacher catches you writing the wrong answer 😅

  • @A_Haunted_Pancake
    @A_Haunted_Pancake 16 лет назад +25

    "Pie Iesu Domine.
    Dona Eis Requiem."

    • @Rasputin443556
      @Rasputin443556 4 года назад +1

      When I eventually read "Dies irae," which is a list of all the sinners and how they'll pay, it was anti-climactic to read the last lines. You lose a lot of fire and brimstone when you think of monks whacking themselves in their foreheads with books.

    • @acameron513
      @acameron513 4 года назад

      @@Rasputin443556 Dies irae solvet saeclum in falliva. That's all I know of it.

    • @M0butu
      @M0butu 4 года назад +2

      By the count of three!

    • @yukowolfang8645
      @yukowolfang8645 4 года назад +4

      *B O N K*

    • @ElevenDollarCheese
      @ElevenDollarCheese 3 года назад +2

      5 is right out.

  • @SIMMO9523
    @SIMMO9523 16 лет назад +5

    Getting back to the life of Brian, this is one of my all time favourite scenes!

  • @montcliffeekuban7278
    @montcliffeekuban7278 2 года назад +4

    This is exactly how I was taught Latin in boarding school. Mr Browning was, if anything, even more of an intimidating pedagogue than an actual Roman Centurion.

  • @pawejabonka5095
    @pawejabonka5095 4 года назад +9

    I've always found this scene funny but as a seminarian learning Latin I find it funnier than ever, mostly because of the similarities between this soldier and our professor when it comes to wrong declination and conjugation

  • @konman001
    @konman001 15 лет назад +6

    This scene definitely brings a new meaning to "damned if you do, damned if you don't"

  • @lymb3914
    @lymb3914 2 года назад +2

    I love when the new guard shows up, looking at the wall with incredulity, and then chasing Brian, it's so brilliantly funny and so subtle, it's easy to ignore, but them happening upon the scene, not understanding, and responding accordingly is one of the funniest moments in one of the funniest movies I've ever seen!

  • @carolinehall5230
    @carolinehall5230 8 лет назад +22

    My Latin teacher showed this to us. XD

    • @711Zephyr
      @711Zephyr 7 лет назад +2

      I hope he also told you, what's wrong about the centurion's explanation. ;-)

  • @Lovewilltearus69
    @Lovewilltearus69 15 лет назад +2

    Just been reminded about Life of Brian and had to see this again. No matter how many times I watch this, it never fails to delight....Absolutely superb, fantastically written and wonderfully delivered. Total genius.

  • @nocturnechanson
    @nocturnechanson 10 лет назад +43

    It's a shame so many assume that Monty Python is for geeks there's so much in there films that make me laugh till my sides hurt.

    • @nocturnechanson
      @nocturnechanson 7 лет назад +5

      Joshua Peiffer actually I meant these but autocorrect changed it. Kinda surreal getting a reply to a 3yr old comment.

    • @matissparadise5799
      @matissparadise5799 7 лет назад

      thars*

    • @MrTrablu
      @MrTrablu 4 года назад +4

      @@nocturnechanson surreal, you say ?

    • @revenant6371
      @revenant6371 3 года назад +4

      So u responded 3 years after, can u respond 7 years after? ;)

  • @rlgeldeard4960
    @rlgeldeard4960 3 года назад +2

    But, as we all know, whilst "domum" is the correct form in this sentence, it is not the locative, which would be "domi".....

  • @emperorpingusmathchannel5365
    @emperorpingusmathchannel5365 5 лет назад +3

    2:40
    I love this guy's voice. They have no certainty of what he did wrong and so this voice comes out.

  • @sameash3153
    @sameash3153 3 года назад +3

    It's funny because it's right but wrong at the same time. The locative isn't domum, it's domi. But it's right for the wrong reason, because the verb go doesn't take the object in the locative, so domum is actually right lol

  • @mask9558
    @mask9558 2 года назад +3

    Thank you fallout new Vegas for helping a young lad find this.

  • @BriteFrog
    @BriteFrog 2 года назад +2

    I love the part of Cleese twisting the ear, you can tell he may have had a bad experience of a rough Latin teacher in school lol...Conjugate "Eunt, to go" lol

  • @akechijubeimitsuhide
    @akechijubeimitsuhide 9 лет назад +35

    Stannis nod of approval

  • @mch158
    @mch158 13 лет назад +4

    "Now don't do it again!"
    That made my day.

  • @swedishmake-upgeek5650
    @swedishmake-upgeek5650 5 лет назад +5

    This might be the best scene in any film ever!

  • @isaacBrockofthe41
    @isaacBrockofthe41 11 лет назад +6

    As a kid I never got this, but now taking latin class this scene has become you immensely funny.

  • @SSGranor
    @SSGranor 9 лет назад +69

    Lingua mortua sola lingua bona est!

  • @jorgefiguerola1239
    @jorgefiguerola1239 Год назад +1

    Maybe I'm losing my mind, but when I saw this more than 30 years ago I recall this scene where Cleese pulls out his sword and puts it to the neck of the tagger saying with conviction and impatience,
    Conjugate the verb! Go on!
    Thinking there were a few versions of LB about.
    Anyone?

  • @mr_guy661
    @mr_guy661 10 лет назад +39

    Can't believe Fallout: New Vegas referenced this in an Easter Egg lmfao

    • @Zaluskowsky
      @Zaluskowsky 4 года назад

      Really? Sweeet

    • @Sergei_Ivanovich_Mosin
      @Sergei_Ivanovich_Mosin 4 года назад +2

      @@Zaluskowsky If you take the wild wasteland perk you can find it written on a wall in Nipton.

    • @fulldisclosureiamamonster2786
      @fulldisclosureiamamonster2786 4 года назад

      NV's developer Obsidian had many of the same people from Interplay, who developed the first two games. There's way more Monty Python references in the first two games lol

  • @JohnSmith-yw9nk
    @JohnSmith-yw9nk 6 лет назад +2

    Romanes eunt domus. An intentionally garbled Latin phrase from Monty Python's Life of Brian. Its intended meaning is "Romans, go home!", but is actually closer to "'People called Romanes they go the house'", according to a centurion in the movie.

  • @grenelef
    @grenelef 13 лет назад +5

    @lyndabynda "he doesn't say it IS the locative"
    Oh but he does! Check the subtitles in the description.
    P.S. Latin might be a nightmare, but a nightmare with a happy ending, believe you me.

  • @ethanl1359
    @ethanl1359 Год назад +2

    The first time I saw this movie, I was in university, halfway through the only Latin course I ever took in my life. Needless to say, the timing was perfect. I nearly pissed myself at this part lol

  • @onfzd
    @onfzd 16 лет назад +8

    My Latin teacher was like that too! Hahaha
    Monty Python are the best!

  • @DeirdreCatherineDoyle-q6m
    @DeirdreCatherineDoyle-q6m 22 дня назад

    Even mum and dad allowed me 2 stay up to watch. More they didn't get it, more I laughed

  • @Lucius1958
    @Lucius1958 6 лет назад +7

    "Right: now here's five pages of the Gallic Wars for you, to be turned in tomorrow."
    (I once helped a classmate with his Caesar, in exchange for weed)

  • @Blackadder125
    @Blackadder125 11 лет назад +5

    We actually watched this movie in Latin class once; pretty awesome of the teacher. Of course, he couldn't resist pausing the movie in this scene and asking us for the correction, though. XD

  • @jacobwells9207
    @jacobwells9207 7 лет назад +24

    Before Grammar Nazis, there were Grammar Romans

    • @zrspangle
      @zrspangle 4 года назад +1

      Grammar Centurions*

  • @telemachus53
    @telemachus53 Год назад +1

    Jeez, I mean everyone knows that the imperative is "Ite". And that Domus is of the 4th declension. Obviously he wasn't paying attention during his lessons.

  • @alexiaNBC
    @alexiaNBC 15 лет назад +4

    my Latin teacher always told us that he loved this scene. He often wanted to teach us in this same manner. I'm glad he didn't or heads would have rolled (literally)

  • @chasey1520
    @chasey1520 15 лет назад +1

    The whole Monty Python gang are comedic geniuses. whole movie was great.
    LOL "People called Romanes they go the house?"

  • @dorsal08
    @dorsal08 15 лет назад +9

    Any foreign language teacher has to love this scene!

  • @JaxontheOkay
    @JaxontheOkay Год назад +1

    "Dative?" ong if i was his teacher i would've whipped out my gladius on his ass for saying something stupid like that too lmao

  • @Wasserschloss
    @Wasserschloss 15 лет назад +5

    I had bloody six years of latin and I love it ^^

  • @countOfHenneberg
    @countOfHenneberg 7 месяцев назад +1

    Remarkable move silently skills they had dressed in armour.

  • @xotan
    @xotan 9 лет назад +21

    Romanes? - doesn't exist
    Eunt = they go
    Domus - the/a house
    Romans go home - Romani ite domum - "Romans go to home!" would be a reasonably ocrrect for of Latin.

    • @artstsym
      @artstsym 8 лет назад +17

      +David Monks Funny, that's what the video said, too. You guys must be in sync or something!

    • @amritlohia8240
      @amritlohia8240 8 лет назад +11

      +ETD Domi = at home.
      To home is accusative -> domum, as stated in the video.

    • @squamish4244
      @squamish4244 6 лет назад +2

      Every criticism has been found to be incorrect. These guys all had to learn Latin, and were all university-educated, and then they had to write many drafts of a script for a movie, so it should be unsurprising they got it 100% right here.

    • @kingbeauregard
      @kingbeauregard 6 лет назад +1

      I don't do Latin, so I'm not sure why they brought locative up at all. Is it because -- just guessing -- "domus" takes locative, which means that you don't need a preposition? Maybe something like the English "go home" rather than "go to home", where the nature of "home" as a stationary object means that you can use it like a direct object?

    • @playnow254
      @playnow254 6 лет назад +1

      Supposedly, it's a criticism of the UK education system.
      These guys clearly knew their stuff, and the final "Romani ite domum" is correct. Locative case for domus is domi, but if you're going *to home*, you don't use locative, you use accusative domum. Locative, as was stated above, is completely irrelevant here since it's only used to indicate something happening *at home*.
      Apparently, the UK emphasizes knowing these kinds of things (spelling of the locative case and that domus has it whereas most nouns don't) but don't emphasize knowledge on how to apply that knowledge. A Roman, even an illiterate one, would know that domi is the wrong word to use. Educated students in the UK, as the script implies, don't know such a basic principle.
      (Oh, and just a reference, English uses a lot of prepositions in places that Latin doesn't. In Latin, a preposition is not needed when you're going to, from, or around a place. Instead, Latin distinguishes those situations from each other with different cases. Accusative case is used for going toward something as well as for direct objects. Ablative case is used for going away from something, as well as for a ton of weird situations, such as "I write *with a pencil*." For going around or staying inside something, the ablative is usually used, but a few words such as domus use a locative case instead, and the locative is only used for this purpose.)
      CORRECTION: Prepositions are used in most cases, but for the place names of cities and islands, and the special words domus, humus, and rus, there are no prepositions. The point about the locative being irrelevant still stands.

  • @swagromancer
    @swagromancer Год назад +1

    Wow, the centurion was much more helpful and understanding than my Latin teacher used to be.

  • @shashwati
    @shashwati 14 лет назад +4

    @tubingen92 I seem to have a memory of John Cleese saying that he used to teach at Clifton College. I also seem to remember that one of the things he taught was Latin (I'd welcome any corrections).
    If these memories are real, then he's probably exactly the right person to consult, huh?

  • @hotelmario510
    @hotelmario510 10 месяцев назад

    My favourite gag in this is that Brian gets the case of "domum" right on the first try but the centurion still drives home the grammatical case to him just to make _absolutely sure_ he's grasped Latin grammar.

  • @gorgolyt
    @gorgolyt 9 лет назад +21

    2:44 died of laughter