Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) *First Time Watching Reaction! | Most Requested Movie |
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- Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) *First Time Watching Reaction! | Most Requested Movie |
In this video we react to watching for the first time Monty Python's Life of Brian. Life of Brian has been our most requested movie ever. It is from the same makers of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Watch us react to seeing Monty Python's Life of Brain we also give our thoughts and rate Life of Brian at the end. For more first time watching reactions subscribe today!
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As a Christian when this would pop up on cable I was afraid to watch because I thought it would be mocking Christ being blasphemous. That’s why I never watched this. I will give it a chance now viewing it as fiction, and have some laughs.
@@T-Rex_007 Blasphemy is a victimless crime.
What did it say on Natalie's top? I can only read from a flat surface.
8:45 LSD? To see God?
Glad you both enjoyed it. Would y’all consider watching Blazing saddles in the future?
This movie was banned in Norway for a while due to accusations of blasphemy.
The Swedes didn't miss a beat: "The movie so funny it was banned in Norway!"
Nowadays anything banned in swede in proudly hailed in Norway such as freedom of speech :)
Also banned in Huddersfield!
Where ?
I'm a Christian, and my brother and sister in law are both vicars, and it was my brother who introduced me to Python when I was five. It is the most intellectual silliness you will ever see. Thank you for watching it.
Thanks for sharing!
@@ForceOfLightEntertainment😊"Oh, the humanity!"
I'm Christian and I like to watch this movie every Easter.
The scary part of this movie is that though the Pythons had no background in theology so much of the background of the movie rings true to first century Judaism and historical Jesus scholarship. Methinks the pythons had a few moles in the faculties of theology at Oxford and Cambridge…
It's a complete comprehensive piss take on every idiotic uneducated superstitious dogma mindsets (religion) through out history, sorry if you didn't understand the idiotic falicicies indoctrinated through generations after generations that this movie portraits brilliantly... entertaining video but blind indoctrinated religion is holding humanity back, educate yourself better about your own (religion=superstition)...and maybe you will laugh harder at the illogical ridiculousness of every known religion/ideology practiced today!
As an atheist, I think the movie is clearly mocking religious people, groups, and institutions (in addition the Romans themselves), not really Jesus himself, and some of those institutions and leaders thereof didn’t like that, so they accused it of blasphemy.
As a Christian I agree with you. This film makes fun of silly people deciding to beleive in silly things. Jesus, the Pythons, freely admitted at the time, they could find no folly in and so made no fun off. The only dodgy bit is the crusifiction scene, which I and most christians rightly or wrongly, turn a Nelson's eye to on the basis that it is ironic and funny and is set off scene to Jesus death as an inocent man dying for others.
@@piers995 Agreed. Because Brian can also represent a man with good intentions at the wrong place and time in history, as many then might have. The big obstacle would have been the people themselves. Brian does because, of all the multiple those he knew who might have had any reason to aid him, only a single one needed to have “come through”, yet none did. A commentary again on the people of the times.
(On the zoom out, you can just make out Brian’s own head bopping to the song, meaning he finally joined in. After all, what other options was he left with?)
As an English person it cleary calls out the jews
The actress playing Judith was elected Mayor of a town in the 90's where this movie was banned because of her nude scene since it's release in the 70's. She was able to get support and moved to lift the ban and then it turned out that the ban was never put into place legally. Everyone had assumed it was, lol.
After she became mayor the town held an open air viewing of the movie in the town square. :)
Sue Jones-Davies was mayor of Aberystwyth from 2008 to 2009. She's Welsh, which is in the UK.
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important She just had to be Welsh with that surname.
The scene where she walks out naked she wasn’t supposed to do that, hence the look on Graham and Terrys faces; Terry Gilliam loved the look on their face so much he wanted to keep it in, so…
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important that explains why Brian's mum called her a "Welsh tart"
The old bearded guy who started a speech and then the crowd ran on was Spike Milligan. He was a legendary British comedy actor and writer. Monty Python’s comedy is based on his comedy and every member of the group said he was their hero and inspiration.
The movie was filmed in Tunisia and the weird thing is that Spike just happened to be on vacation there by pure coincidence. And that’s why he has this small cameo.
True...Spike was visiting places hed fought in the war in north africa
The used the sets and locations made for an earlier God pic.
Except he was Irish, not British.
Spike served in Libya during the war right next to Tunisia I wonder if he travelled back to areas from his past experiences
"I'm Brian... no, I'm Brian" etc. was a reference to the scene in the movie Spartacus where everybody was sticking up for the real Spartacus.
John Cleese (the centurion who insisted on proper Latin, even in the form of graffiti), actually taught Latin at his old prep school for a couple of years before Monty Python took off.
No, he did not. He was a teacher there but he did not teach Latin. In his autobiography he says he taught English, history and geography,
@@cibor Yes he was a teacher and apparently, he stole a female pupils car to drive to a conference he was key note speaker at, as he'd missed the train!
@@darren6202 So that's where he got the idea from for the movie Clockwise
@@JohnImrie :D
"What have the Romans ever did for us?" 😂
😂😂
There’s a whole thematic part of this movie poking fun at leftist movements. How they endlessly debate the fine points of their ideologies and get nothing done, how groups fragment and split because of tiny ideological differences, how they consider each other to be greater enemies than whomever the supposed oppressor is, and how, even when they are disciplined and organized and ready to lay down their lives, they are completely ineffectual (the suicide squad).
Reg (John Cleese) is the consummate leftist, leading committees, releasing statements of solidarity, and sending others to do the dirty work.
I laugh when right wingers get their underwear twisted up about “antifa” because the extreme left just isn’t organized enough to be a threat.
@@MarcosElMalo2 It's also poking fun at organised religion in exactly the same way.
@@allanmanaged5285 It's also poking fun of the historical infighting among the Jews at that time.
@@MarcosElMalo2Are you somehow under the delusion that that's a purely left wing flaw?
"Greek really is that complicated" - well, Latin was the language Brian used writing on the wall.
And my statement remains true 😜
It's all Greek to her.
@@ForceOfLightEntertainment Greek was an existing language at the time (and the language used to write most of the bible later on).
@@madmoody100"existing" is kind of an understatement :D It was basically the "English" of the time.
It’s all Greek to Americans
"You're all different!"
"Yes! We are all different!!"
"I'm not."
😂
Funniest lune in a movie full of very funny lines.
@@Rob_F8F ANY priest should double over in laughter at "SPEAK UP"
The rulebook to the role-playing game Paranoia, which was set in a futuristic closed city run by a computer that'd gone insane, had an entire page covered in little computer screens with the message "I AM AN INDIVIDUAL" on them, apart from one, two thirds of the way down, which said "I'M NOT".
Fun facts: "i'm not" was ad libbed
What happened to the "He's NOT the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy! " scene? Funniest line in the whole film.
The nudity.
I've never understood why that should be funny.
For me the funniest line is John Cleese's "how shall we fuck off O Lord".
@@notvalidcharacters Because Jesus was simply a naughty boy.
@@notvalidcharacters I do...most of all after it when someone asks "If it is not too personal, are you a virgin?" She: "If it is not too personal??? How personal do you want it to get!"
@@jaysimoes3705 That just seems like the obvious response though. The punch line there is when the crowd goes "she is, yup".
George Harrison remortgaged his house to give the Pythons $4 million to make Life of Brian. He has a brief cameo. Harrison's 'Hand-Made' film company went on to produce other classics 'Time Bandits', 'Mona Lisa''Withnail and I' and 'Nuns on the Run' among others. ♥️
Withnail and I well worth a watch.
Imagine !
"It's every man's right to have babies if he wants to..." Sounds like every Disney board meeting.
😂😂
Sounds like Hollywood in general 😂
Agreed... just as stupid as a virgin birth/pregnancy..?
Cleese is turning this into a musical. The wokies are hassling him to remove this scene. Thankfully, he's refusing.
This! Thank you.
"Wait till Biggus Dickus hears of this!"
Fun Fact: When Pontius Pilate (Michael Palin) addressed the soldiers daring them to laugh, he was truly daring them. The soldier extras were ordered to stand there and not laugh, but not told what Michael Palin was going to do. Michael Palin, in fact, can barely stifle his own laughter when saying "Biggus Dickus" in front of the soldier asked if he finds the name "risible".
Also, watching y'all laugh was a lot of fun. This movie is so iconic and was very controversial when it was released. It's amazing how well it holds up even after nearly 50 years.
Thank you!
Thanks!
They were told they would not be paid if they laughed, so they tried very hard and gave the best reactions you could get.
Bull.
People keep saying this but it's bollocks.
Most of those guys were well known British TV and movie actors at the time.
😎👍 A couple of years after this came out, there was "Time Bandits," which is sort of like half a Monty Python film. It has John Cleese and Michael Palin in it and it was directed by Terry Gilliam. It was hugely popular at the time, being the second biggest box office hit of 1981 after "Raiders Of The Lost Ark." I have no idea why, 43 years later, it seems to have been almost completely forgotten about.
Yes, great movie!
The holy grail is a comedy more in the parody genre and the absurdity of skits. Life of Brian is a satire, it's ponders the human condition in general and the absurdities we are willing to go into in the name religion, or political identity. To me they are both 9 out of 10 in their respective genres.
I'm not sure if it is just because i have seen both so many times at this point, but The Life of Brian, to me, is their best work. Probably because it has more to say, but also, I think, it is paced better than The Holy Grail. Anyway. Great stuff.
One of the greatest satires on ideology and followers from any walk of life--religious, political, whatever. When I introduced my wife, who is a devout Catholic, to this one, I was afraid she might get offended, but this turned into her favorite Python flick!
I love the one part with the alien ship that makes it feel like a different movie and then it goes back to the chase scene like the space scene never happened
The best Monty Python stuff is weird and funny and extremely clever. By that metric, Life of Brian is top of the list.
Like them I rate the Holy Grail a bit higher. This one 9 out of 10 and the other 10 out of 10.
I hope you will watch Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) as well.
And also Live at the Hollywood Bowl! Bringing them back to the sketch comedy that mad them famous. Also a theatrical release
I’ll never forget your reaction to the rabbit attacking the knights in Holy Grail. Absolutely hilarious. Geoff from Fremantle Western Australia 🇦🇺🙏
That scene really got us 😂
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A fish called wanda next
"Understand?"
"Yes, sir."
"Now write it out a hundred times."
"Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir."
"Hail Caesar. And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off."
Fun Fact: The six Monty Python members played 40 characters.
Cameos Cameos Fact: Spike Milligan was on vacation in Tunisia while this movie was being shot and when the Python team realized he was nearby, they offered him a part. George Harrison briefly appears as Mr. Papadopolous. The costume designer Charles Knode appeared as the passer-by who saw Brian (Graham Chapman) emerge from the crashed spaceship.
Political Parody Fact: This movie pokes fun at revolutionary groups and 1970s British left-wing politics. The groups in this movie all oppose the Roman occupation of Judea, but fall into the familiar pattern of intense competition among factions that appears, to an outsider, to be over ideological distinctions so small as to be invisible, thus portraying the "narcissism of small differences" phenomenon.
Music Enthusiast Fact: Sonia Jones, singing the opening song, is often incorrectly believed by fans to be Shirley Bassey. The song was done in the style of John Barry, and fans often comment on how it sounds like Bassey singing the Goldfinger (1964) theme song. Though Jones sounds mature when she sings the song, she was actually just 16 years old at the time it was recorded. Eric Idle originally recorded Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (1979) in his normal singing voice. After deciding this was not quite right, he re-recorded it with a Cockney accent, singing the new dub in a hotel room with mattresses pushed up against the walls. The line "Bernie, I said, they'll never make their money back" refers to Lord Bernard Delfont pulling out of financing the movie at the last minute.
What Script Fact: When Michael Palin as Pontius Pilate addressed the soldiers daring them to laugh, he was truly daring them. The soldier extras were ordered to stand there and not laugh, but not told what Palin was going to do. Palin, in fact, can barely stifle his own laughter when he asks if "Biggus Dickus" is "risible" to one of the soldiers. The famous scene required a fair bit of planning. Michael Palin, John Cleese and Graham Chapman rehearsed it many times the day before the shoot, with other extras playing the Roman centurion guards, so as to get their timing and movement right and to allow director Terry Jones to ensure the lighting, camera blocking and positioning were all correct. On the day of shooting the extras were changed at the last minute, as Jones knew that the only way the scene would work was if the extras did not know in advance what was going to be said to them so as to capture their reactions to the dialogue and Palin's delivery of it. The resulting comedy gold from this scene is mostly due to the unrehearsed reaction of the new extras. Jones made sure that the whole scene was shot in just two takes. It is believed the second take for most of the setups were the ones used in the film.
"It's the Right of every MAN to have babies if he wants them!", "Don't you oppress me!"
Half a century ago, it was Absurdist Humor!
Now? REALITY has become Absurdist!
I would laugh at the irony if it wasn't so sad.
The reason for the space ship absurdity is this was released 2 years after Star Wars came out, at a time when if you wanted a film made it had to be a star wars rip off, of which there were so many, whereas Python could not find anyone to finance their film. So they stuck a spaceship sequence in it purely so they could feature a spaceship prominently on the film poster as a joke, given its brief and absurd irrelevance to the plot (literally, it interrupts the plot just to put it back where it was).
I've always interpreted the spaceship scene as if it were a 'Miracle'! To the onlookers Brian leaps off the tower and miraculously lands at the bottom uninjured, a true miracle. Of course no one remembers the spaceship crashing! LOL
and there are a few groups that say Jesus was an Alien, rather than son of god
If you know your Christian Bible you will realise there is a section in there that is often interpreted as aliens visiting Earth. That's why the scene was in there. Simply highlighting the many absurd things in the Bible.
Star Wars was an obvious influence on the scene, especially with the spaceship chase… but it should also be known for context that the 1970s was a huge decade for discussion of the whole “ancient astronauts” theory, riding off the popularity of the book Chariots of the Gods? and a number of TV documentaries throughout. So aliens in biblical times was a very hot topic when this movie was being made…
the "What have the Romans ever done for us" skit is hysterical
It really is!
To be perfectly honest, I’ve never seen this movie. I am also a Christian and I thought I would be offended. But if it didn’t offend you two ladies, then it shouldn’t offend me. So I will be watching the movie in the future.
It shouldn't offend you.
There isn't one single joke in here that is directed at Jesus.
Like anyone else has said, this movie is poking fun at the institution of religion.....which deserves to be poked at.
I've heard that some of the members of the Pythons became accepting of the faith due to the amount of research they did in preparation of this movie.
I can't substantiate that claim. Its just something I've heard over the years and like to believe is true though.
Terry Gilliam as the Jailer was absolutely wonderful
The comedy in "The Holy Grail " is more obvious> one of the funniest parts of this for me was when the Centurion (John Cleese) is teaching Brian how to write Latin
The joke really being that it reminds British people of their school days back when we were taught Latin with Cleese being the class teacher.
As someone who took three years of Latin, it really hit home.
I played Always Look On The Bright Side of Life from a speaker next to my wife at her wake. Needless to say, not everyone appreciated it, but she would have.
My mum had it at her funeral too and in fact it's one of the top ten songs to be played at funerals in the uk for decades. The number one was held by the clock noise counting down from the game show Countdown. We are a funny lots us brits. Am sure your Mrs appreciated it in her own way as did you and its a memory of your last laugh together. . I personally want everyone in fancy dress at my funeral but hey each to their own eh ? Lol. Truly sorry for your loss btw. May your life ahead be filled with laughter and happiness just as she would want it.
@Zeno_Evil Then you've gotta search for the Irish man's funeral where he has a speaker in his grave with a recorded message, it's fantastically funny.😂👍
The men having the right to have babies was completely a ridiculous joke when the movie came out. Now you see it as someones "view".
Great movie!
Whose view is this? Anyone in particular?
@Rob_F8F Presumably the same halfwits responsible for tampons for men.🙄
@@Rob_F8F I was thinking this myself. I have yet to hear someone no matter how woke say this. Shows how people are not really listening to what other people are saying.
Many of the skits in The Holy Grail were created because they didn't have the budget to shoot the movie according to the script. That's also why the six members of the team played multiple roles. Poverty-driven creativity started in the first scene, where they did the coconut-swallow sketch because they couldn't afford horses, and went through to the last scene, where they interrupted what should've been a battle scene with a police bust. Their "army" was 180 student volunteers, BTW.
'Biggus Dickus' is the funniest part in any film ever...
IMO the funniest film ever made.
There's a video on RUclips showing two of the Pythons (I think Cleese and Palin) debating two of the clergy about the film and the latter looked like pompous asses. They took it as an assault on Christ and the Catholic Church while the Pythons argued how a religion could be hijacked.
Always liked the scene where Brian's new followers were quickly divided into the denominations of the followers of the gord and the followers of the one shoe.
😂
@@ForceOfLightEntertainment when this film was released in South Carolina, some people complained to our then senator, Strom Thurmond. Thurmond called the owner of the theater chain and got the film pulled from local theaters. A couple of weeks later a locally owned theater downtown picked it up and there were big lines. While in line there were picketers on the sidewalk yelling about it being blasphemous. Our response was "You don't know that. You haven't seen it". The only times Christ is shown are his birth and a glimpse at the sermon on the mount. Nothing in those scenes say anything against Christ. It's not about him. It's about religion in general and how people get easily caught up in religions without a second thought. If anything, I'd say that the film has something positive to say about Christ. Notice that of all the street preachers, Brian gets the most interest when he repeats what he heard Christ say.
There's a very interesting discussion on RUclips from British TV that has some Python members, including John Cleese, defending the film against charges that it's blasphemous by clergymen in the discussion.
BTW, about ten years later, Martin Scorsese released The Last Temptation of Christ with Wilem Defoe playing Jesus. It faced similar protests because of scenes depicting what Jesus's life would have been if he had lived a normal life. Something the Devil tempts him with. In that case, the protests completely shut down the movie and it was it was quickly gone from theaters. Thankfully, home video gives people a chance to make up their own minds.
Watched these films over and over again, one year watched HOLY GRAIL with my brother, he TOTALLY forgot how funny it was :P
I do find Life of Brian way funnier, mainly I think because they both have that random-bunch-of-skits feeling but this feels like there’s a much more coherent and cohesive theme and overall narrative connecting them all together.
Yes, I think this is a better film because it has some budget and a coherent kind of story, but that's just my preference.
Grail is great with a lot of good scenes, but they could easily be independent of each other.
"Yeah, Greek's really hard" 😅 Especially when it's written in Latin. 😉
You'd think the Roman alphabet might have given it away...
I've always loved the Latin lesson. Elements of this film came vividly to mind while watching DUNE part 2. When I do favors for people, I tell them "I will wewease . . . Wodewick!"
I learned more about Christianity from this movie than any Sunday school class, just like I learned about Mormons and Scientology from South Park. Ripping on something shouldn't be construed as insulting but more like a love bite.
9:10 Latin
22:24 He's also the one that does all the animation. He's Terry Gilliam and he went on to direct movies of his own. The only American in the group.
I always thought the alien spaceship sequence was merely a bit of absurdism by the Pythons but since heard they had to justify how to get Brian from the top of the tower to the ground during the chase. Absurdly brilliant.
It's a really old plot device used in Greek and Roman plays called a Deux ex Machina or Hand of the Gods where the gods would randomly step in to save the hero from certain death.
God did the same thing to Jesus, when he was facing certain death, a higher power took him up and put him back in the same spot, lucky bastard!
@@MantisEnergy According to the bible, if you believe that sort of thing, Jesus did die. He wasn't saved. He was crucified and was dead for three days before he was resurrected.
@@ronweber1402 I mean to say the belief is his spirit left the Earthly realm and returned to the same area.
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Deus = god
Ex = from
Machina = the machine
I think... now write that out 100 times!
Always look on the bright side of life!
I saw this in the theater in my teens and have always thought it one of the funniest movies ever made. Enjoy.
The Holy grail was funnier? 4/5? Blasphemy!! 😂 Joking aside Brian is my personal favourite but each to their own. I'm just glad you've been introduced to the Pythons. Thoroughly enjoyed watching you both enjoy some vintage British silliness.😁👍
"Wanker" is a moderate-strength British insult that is generally directed towards someone contemptible.
Well wanking is now accepted as a hobby, still not considered socially acceptable in a public place and mainly an individual activity it is still a fun insult to throw
My favourite bit of the movie is where Spike Milligan just walks off to our right as you look at the screen. It made me laugh way more than it should have when I first saw it😅
This movie was also banned in the Australian state of Queensland.
When I got it on VHS (here in New South Wales) they had on the box that it was banned in Queensland - obviosuly a selling poin
Life of Brian is so Monty Python and The next logical laugh out Loud is The Meaning of Life , always a Light Hearted Force of Laughter inside the Light
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You can skip meaning of life
Even they admired they did it so they could stop having to make films
In the Pontius Pilate scene, the guards weren’t told what was going to be said and were told to stand there and try not to laugh….red rag to a bull, their laughter that has them dragged off is genuine!!
Not true.
The guards were played by respected comic actors.
The 4 played 12 different roles in the film and one of them was part of the writing team.
Scene 13, was rehearsed and many takes were made, and everyone involved knew exactly what was going on.
@@peterdemkiw6858 you’re partly right but Palin did improvise a lot and the scene goes largely off-script from mentioning Biggus Dickus, especially when he says “Do you find it wisible….” They knew the basic script, but when MP improvised, they went along with it because he was well known for his improvisation
I am with you. I think Holy Grail is the funniest of the movies. Great reaction.
Thank you!
“Oh I ‘ang awake at night dreamin’ of bein’ spat at in the face, they must think you’re Lord Gawd Almighty Sonny!” Classic.
I love this movie! Works surprisingly well as the prequel to Dune 2, and just a mere 44 years beforehand!
_Dune_ came out in 1985, you prat.
After Grail someone asked Eric Idle what the next movie was, and he joked "Jesus Christ: the Musical!" But thinking about it, you can't really make fun of Jesus. He was just awesome. But you COULD make fun of people who blindly follow him (or anything, like the students on campuses today... )
This is by far my favorite. It has a stronger story and message, and solid characters. But I love them all, so there's that.
Next is Meaning of Life!
An old Jewish man is standing on the top of a hill, crying. He looks to the heavens and says "My Father, what shall I do?? My son has converted to Christianity!"
The clouds part, and a booming voice replies, "Yours too?"
PS - If you don't sin, Jesus died for nothing.
I thought that Eric Idle had joked " Jesus Christ : Lust for Glory " as the movie Patton:Lust For Glory had been released just a few years earlier. Pretty sure I saw an interview with Terry Gilliam when he mentioned that.
@@WithTwoFlakesYou’re correct. I’ve heard Gilliam, Cleese and Idle himself say this in interview.
Great Reaction! Everyone takes Monty Python differently. I also cracked up laughing when you both Reacted to the Killer Rabbit scene in the Holy Grail.
I first watched it in 1986 and after dozens of viewings over the years it still brings me to tears.
I'm pretty sure there are moments during the scene in which Eric Idle's character wants to be a woman in which he comes very close to laughing...
Now you need to watch a fish called Wanda!
The irony of Eric Idle calling Palin "big nose"...
You haven't seen the wildest of the Pythons until you've seen The Meaning of Life or Fawlty Towers
Fawlty Towers was just Cleese, none of the other Pythons were involved. Very funny anyway though and well worth a reaction.
The Meaning of life to me scores a 4 out of 10. Not one scene made me laugh.
I like LoB and HG about the same, for different aspects. I've always taken this film as a jab at organized religion and following one for all the wrong reasons. As Brian says. "You don't need to follow me. You don't need to follow anybody! You've got to think for yourselves! You're all individuals!"
“I’m not the messiah!!!”
“I say you are lord and I should know, I’ve followed a few.”
Fine, I am the messiah….NOW FU@& OFF!!!”
“How shall we fu@& off lord?”😂
They never explicitly say so, but I always think the moving star the 3 wise men are following at the beginning is the space ship in orbit. I think theres some sort of moral there about events playing out on a much bigger 'galactic' scale than religion which is very much earth centric
The whole laughing at Biggus Dickus was the actor playing Ceasar purposely trying to make the extras laugh
Two problems with that.
1, Caesar isn't in the film.
2, the guards were not extras.
Why pick favorites? I tend to just like their comedy style, it's deadpan. It's definitely adult humor. As a teen I didn't get it. Throw some life problems at a young person and the lightbulb might go on. Many people are used to laugh tracks to tell them when to laugh. Monty is just pure silliness. It uses a lot of advanced language skills that are inherently British. Many people don't like this sort of humor. Completely unrelated but Robert Shaw went on the Johnny Carson Show once and said in order to play the part of Winston Churchill he had to actually contract syphilis(Churchill's cause of death). They believed him . He went on other shows and they believed him. He was threatened by the producers with lawsuits. I pull legs regularly. So many people cannot understand dry humor. They want to hear ethnic jokes about 3 so and so's or some knock knock jokes or something. Once Python gets into your system it is rather like an incurable disease and you WILL find yourself breaking into character with perfect strangers who are only too obliged to play along. Python cast members often make remarks about this very American trait.
Life of Brian is the best of Python's movies IMO. 'What have the Romans ever done for us?'
For me, greatest of all the comedies 😁
And as a Norwegian, a long overdue step forward for our culture as it contributed significantly to the debate around the application of certain archaic views and law for which we were ridiculed (and rightly so) by our Swedish neighbours 😄
After the studio backed out of financing the film; George Harrison became the main source of money and even did a cameo in the movie. He made a nice profit as the film became a modest hit
7:11 these blokes were prophetic.
I missed the part when his mum found out he lost his virginity and a whole crowd grouped in front of their house. One asks: "Can I aks a question?" "If it is not too personal, are you a virgin?" Hahaha.
Lots of people recommending Python movies, but why not check out the original Monty Python's Flying Circus series?
'Dead Parrot', 'The Spanish Inquisition', 'How Not To Be Seen', 'The Ministry of Silly Walks', people still remember this show almost 60 years later for good reason.
So many hilarious sketches, one of the most unhinged and unpredictable shows ever concieved.
(Edit : Why did autocorrect think 'Puthon' is a real word? Ugh.)
I agree that Holy Grail is the best.
Life of Brian is brilliant but very topical....it makes me laugh a hell of a lot, and it is in my top 10 comedies all time, but Grail simply slaughters me.
Timeless classic
Yes, I am single. Wait, neither of you asked. My mistake 😎
There's a funny fact, some will say it's not true and others says it is, but I wanna believe it's true; On the Biggus Dickus scene the actors playing the guards were told not to laugh or they wouldn't get paid, so them holding their laughs in were genuine.
The movie is funded by George Harrison of The Beatles. The script got rejected by other movie companies because of its content, but George got to read the script and loved it so much that he actually took out a loan of his house so that they could get the budget to make the movie. When asked why, George said; I wanna see the movie...
Also, please do Monty Python's Meaning of Life and And Now For Something Completely Different =)
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Just something else entirely, but the girl on the left looks amazing ❤
Well worth the wait. Regardless of which you rank higher, the reaction was so much fun! And it's like......they're both great! They're both accomplishments! They're both classics! And no one is holding a weapon to our noggin', making us choose! They're a set! So congratulations for now having seen both! They were parodying the time period, and also the denominations of religion, how religions end up fighting each other. They're parodying elements of relgion. But it's definitely not a parody of Jesus himself, or his teachings. That was a conscious choice by the Pythons. Because you know the Bible and the history, you got many of the jokes lots of people miss. So it was a good time! THANKS!
Well that was interesting and fun. Never saw that one. Thanks for sharing with us. But I agree I liked Monty Python and the Holy Grail better but this was still good. 5 Hoots to you ladies. Have a wonderful day Michelle and Natalie!!! 🙂🧡💚 Nothing like a good Christian Woman!
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When this movie first came out in England, some Christians called for a boycott of it. And a comedy show, called Not the Nine O'Clock News did a sketch about it that had a Christian film being boycotted by followers of Monty Python. The sketch is on RUclips and is worth watching.
Holy Grail is funnier, but Life of Brian is a real movie, that's how I see it
its time for the meaning of life
“He is not the Messiah, he is a very naughty boy.” I said the same when MSNBC called Obama a Messiah figure.😳
Your super nice introduction style is very infectious I was smiling with y'all even before the movie started lol! keep on smiling it suits you both!
That’s so kind of you to say ❤🤗
Aww thank you!!
the meaning of life is great
It is true that this movie does not mock Jesus Christ. Anyone saying that it doesn't in any way mock religion is lying. But that's not a bad thing. 😊
I never noticed until now that HUGE mic 🎤 that just caught my eye 👀 🤭
I’ve never watched Monty Python’s Life of Brian before and I’m glad to have watched it with your guy’s reaction to it. Thanks Michelle and Natalie “the red” for another entertaining video 😊
Thanks for watching!!
At school I had a Latin teacher who exactly like John Cleese Roman character
The Sandalites were forced to wage war on Gourdites to make them see reason
Happy Tuesday! Great reaction! I enjoyed it! Have a wonderful day!
Thank you! You too!
You're welcome! 😊
Ladies my first time visiting your channel. Yes the baby in the crib is Brian. Per all Monty Python this is crazy.. In the stoning segment this mob is out for blood!! They don't seem to care who it is.. Ladies order your wolf nipple chips now! You two need to decide if you are followers of the shoe or the gourd. prepare yourselves for a naked butt..
Always look on the bright side of life!!
When we saw this in the theatre we had to pass a Catholic group protesting the movie. There was a huge, huge uproar about how sacreligious it was, even though Jesus appears only twice in the film, mostly in the background. This was, I thought a brilliant comment on the politics of the Middle East then, and now, with all the different groups fighting a common enemy and amongst themselves, about how religions can form then, and now, with all the messiahs preaching to the masses (who mostly misinterpret the message anyway), and some of the classic running gags. I still think it forty years and many rewatching later, and laugh just as much. That's my opinion anyways, but we're all different. Well, "I'm not."
now try THE MEANING OF LIFE
I think less in the way of quick gags is the trade off Life Of Brian made in return for being more of an actual film than Holy Grail.
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😇Wonderful and fun movie reaction. Thanks for bringing joy to your many viewers.
Like the description of mocking the brutality of the Roman era. Of the films Holy Grail also my favorite of Monty Python.
Thank you!!
My father went to see it when it was in theaters and there was alot of churches protesting the film, and my father had to punch out a protester because they were keeping him from the movie...
As for my experience it was my first monty python film ever and truly love how they trolled religion
I too have always preferred Holy Grail for the reasons you cited. Thanks for this reaction!
Thanks for watching!
Holy Grail was much more absurdist humor, Life of Brian was more of a political satire.
Of course, they both have absurdist humor and political satire, I'm just talking about the proportion.
So Holy Grail tends to be more funny for those of us who are not that familiar with the politics of the time.
Brilliant! Good to laugh with you guys! Aren't we grateful that George Harrison of the Beatles covered the costs? May I recommend: "The Gods Must Be Crazy" 1980? the original with Sandra Prinsloo and Darius Weyers. I love that movie. I think you will too.