I heard their chief weapon is surprise... surprise and cruelty. Their two chief weapons are surprise and cruelty... and fanaticism, their THREE main weapons are...
The list of people who came together to fund this movie is impressive: Thank you George Harrison of the Beatles for helping everyone "come together" in support of this project.
Yes, the great British comedian Spike Milligan does a brief but funny cameo. I think it's when the two groups of followers split up. He's looking upward, speaking enthusiastically to God, with his arms raised. When he's finished, he looks around, and everybody's gone, so he just meekly walks off.
There was a John Cleese interview once... to paraphrase it he said "we set out to do comedy that defied definition... Pythonesque is now a word in the Oxford English dictionary proving that we failed completely" And YES to the Meaning of Life
What a lot of people maybe don't get is that this is EXACTLY how Latin teachers in English public schools behaved back then! Including the pinching of the hair above the ear and then raising the victim upwards. Go ahead: try it! And now imagine being 12 years old and a grown man doing that to you.... John Cleese basically IS my Latin master in that scene!
Michael Palin will always be the fav Python to me, great delivery and performance. Outside of comedy, he's done many amazing travel documentaries in his time.
Not only that, Michael Palin has "secretly" spent half his life singing and songwriting, pretending to be Peter Hammill, after the real one sadly died in that waterbed shop...oh, just a minute...
"YES! WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT!" "I'm not..." Of all the lines for your mom to remember from this film, He's a very naughty boy is peak. This makes her a cool lady. Your mom is a cool lady.
Best about that line: It was not actually from one of the Pythons. I remember Cleese speaking about it: one of the hundreds of extras in that scene commented during the introduction given by the Pythons ("Listen, this is what's going to happen and you will stand there and shout this...") that it would be funny, if one would shout "I'm not" and Chapman cackled and said: DO THAT! And so he did.
For a long time at biker rallies, somebody would shout "I'm Spartacus!" in the middle of the night, when people were trying to sleep in their tents. Then other people would shout, "I'm Spartacus!", "No I'm Spartacus!!" and sooner or later you'd hear, "I'm Spartacus and so's my wife!".
Are you aware of John Cleese's sitcom "Fawlty Towers"? It has been called the funniest sitcom of all time. Only 12 episodes . . something that must be seen.
Awesome show. I saw it first in college on the local PBS station because they would always show it during their telethon because it was the best thing they had.
The jailer that shaved his head is Terry Gilliam. He is the one that does the animations and the only American in the group. He went on to direct a lot of movies.
When the crowd follows Brian , the old guy left stood there as the crowd runs on, with his hands up looking confused, that guy is a massive hero of the Monty Python crew, his name was Spike Milligan, a very famous british comedian .
Spike Milligan considered himself Irish in fact but yep, upvoted anyway :). (he was certainly a giant of British comedy, lived in the UK for a long time etc.)
@@anonymes2884 Spike was born in India of British parents, fought for the English in the second world war, got PTSD and then found out the laws of citizenship were changed and he was not considered to be a citizen of the UK. This got him worked up, as you can imagine.
Spike was amazing. The Goon show was the progenitor of most modern British anarcho-comedy. Q was my favourite comedy show growing up. Didn't understand half of it but Spike just had the ability to make me laugh no matter what.
For anyone interested in the origins of British humor, it is worth seeking out the various seasons of his "Q" TV series. Hugely influential on Python, the Goodies, etc.
The thing about the "Biggus Dickus" scene is that the guards were not told what was happening. They weree only told, under no circumstance are they supposed to laugh. Which of course makes everything 10x funnier
One of my favorite stories related to this film is back during the Falklands War, a British Naval Cruiser was hit by an Argentinian anti-ship missile. The ship listed and eventually capsized. When rescue helicopters reached the overturned ship they discovered the entire crew sitting on the upsidedown hull singing Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.
A small correction: the British lost two destroyers in the Falklands War, HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry, so I assume that this refers to the crew of one of these two ships. The Argentines lost a cruiser. It was the "General Belgrano" sunk by the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror. Nevertheless, the story is good and British in spirit.
@@ThreadBomb Because it wasn't intended to be like that. It's just an erratum to the detail that it was a destroyer, not a cruiser. And the story itself is great. Best regards.
A who's-who of Python in this movie: Terry Jones: He played the mother, he played the hermit who hadn't spoken in 18 years, he played the priest who wants to help carry the cross (and ends up getting crucified himself!), and he played the main heckler in the crowd. And he directed the film! LOVE Terry Jones! Love that you loved Terry Jones, I feel he is THE most underrated Python! Michael Palin: It's more like who DIDN'T Palin play? Pontius Pilate, the hung-up prisoner, the sympathetic crucifixion organizer, the healed-leper, he was the wire-haired "prophet" that you were asking about, he was one of the three main members of the People's Front of Judea (lol), and I'm sure he played a lot more! The man of a million characters. There are two writing teams in Python: Palin and Jones write together Eric Idle: The haggler, "Loretta", the wise-cracking guy who escapes being crucified, singer at the end. He wrote his stuff all by himself. I always think of him as the George Harrison of Python. George Harrison produced this movie, actually! Graham Chapman: Brian, Biggs Dikkus. (And King Arthur, in Holy Grail!). He co-wrote with John Cleese John Cleese: You know which ones John Cleese is! Terry Gilliam: He does all the animation, which was a big part of the TV show. He appears once in a while, usually in really ugly, goofy parts, like the stuttering guy that you pointed out had really shaved his head. In Holy Grail, he played Patsy, the guy playing the cocoanuts throughout the whole movie. LOVED this reaction! (PS You're allowed to prefer Holy Grail! I prefer this one, but I love both! The TV series is the REAL Holy Grail! Frickin' brilliant!
I was about to write that Terry Jones is the most underrated Python too. Favourite lines are, "Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?", "How do you know so much about swallows?", and I can't hear King of the Britons without imagining "King of the who?" in that screechy voice.
Apparently they couldn't come up with a satisfactory ending for the movie, so Eric Idle wrote "Always Look at the Bright Side of Life" in about an hour...
Goddamn, I've seen this movie at least a dozen times but I didn't catch until now that Reg is, of course, saying "parentland" to avoid having to choose between motherland and fatherland.
Wow, I've never noticed after 30 years of watching! It's the film that keeps giving. I had noticed the sisterly greetings & I love that they started calling her Loretta straight away, apart from the line, 'Why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?"
Yeah, that single word conjures scenes of them "in committee" beforehand, debating the precise usage so as to offend the fewest (all of course while Brian is being crucified :).
The best commentary on religious hypocrisy I've ever seen. Cleese and Palin debated religious leaders at the time of the film's release on TV - and true to form, although those leaders were vehemently decrying the blasphemous nature of the film... they hadn't even seen it. Proudly said they didn't need to during the debate.
For me the best scene is Cleese giving latin lessons to Brian. Cleese was a School teacher for a few years before he started with the BBC and taught - among others - Latin. Cleese loved that scene, he wrote it for himself. And btw: a few years after this movie came out, the UK fought Argentine in the Falkland war and Argentine shot the Royal Navy Frigate Sheffield with an Exocet missile and the ship caught fire. The sailors tried to put the flames out , but after several hours the order to abandon ship came. The sailors, wearing survival suits and knowing rescue was getting close went into the sea and formed human chains to keep together. When a few hundred yards away from the burning ship, a lieutenant started to sing "always look on the bright side of life" and thus they were found 10 or 20 minutes later, all survivors clinging to oneanother singing this song. One of the most British things I can imagine.
Interesting point of trivia regarding Sue Jones-Davies who played Judith. In 2008, she became a Plaid Cymru town councillor in Aberystwyth. Between June 2008 and May 2009, she was Mayor of Aberystwyth. Upon taking the office, she was informed that the town had banned Life of Brian and prohibited it for nearly 30 years because of her nude scene. It subsequently emerged that although Ceredigion county councillors had reviewed the film in 1981, and found parts "quite unacceptable", they did not officially ban it. She sponsored a charity screening of Life of Brian. In July 2008, Jones-Davies was interviewed on BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio 2 about the film and its status in Aberystwyth. She was also profiled on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. The film was screened on 28 March 2009 at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre. It was attended by cast members and the co-writers of the film, Michael Palin and Terry Jones. The event was broadcast on BBC One on 12 May 2009 as a documentary titled Monty Python in Aberystwyth: A Mayor and Two Pythons.
I love how, when Brian is trying to preach to the crowd, when he tries to speak of things that are reasonable and good he gets nothing but arguments and angry questions, but as soon as he starts rambling randomly, people are enthralled.
The lady who plays Judith is (or was not sure) elected to be the mayor of Aberyswyth in Wales, where this movie is still banned. The day she took office she lifted the ban , but she could only lift it for 1 day 😂
The jailer and the guard who couldn't talk but could, with the bald head, is Terry Gilliam, who is also the animator who came up with that intro cartoon as well as the spaceship scene. He was also the Bridgekeeper in Holy Grail and the trusty servant Patsy. The other Terry, Jones, was Brian's mother and the man in the hole who hadn't spoken for 18 years. He was the director. Terry and Terry were co-directors of Holy Grail. The vague philsopher with the frazzled hair was Michael Palin, who was also Pilate, the ex-leper, the hung-up prisoner, and the crucifixion intake official. Eric Idle was "Loretta" (named after Paul McCartney's 'sweet Loretta Martin' in a nod to George Harrison's funding), the haggler-seller, the enthusiasic crucifixionee, and the singer at the end (which he wrote). And the other guard who couldn't talk. And then John Cleese was the official in charge of the stoning (first scene shot), Reg of the PFJ, the recurring centurion guard, the main follower who delivers the best line of the film ("how shall we fuck off, oh lord?"), and of course they all joined the crowd of followers, the central point of the whole film. Graham Chapman was the lead, Brian, as well as Biggus Dickus. And yes, "don't try to predict the ending" applies to everything MPFC ever did.
Terry Gilliam was the only American member of Python and typically had only smaller/non-speaking roles, but he did all of the animation and some of the directing. He went on to direct a bunch of great movies after Python.
I like to think that Biggus Dickus was actually Brian's father, having given a fake name when "wooing" Brian's mother. I mean, they do share quite the resemblance...
Eric Idle's song "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" was actually a big hit when it was released as a single. It was top 10 in Australia, no. 3 in the UK & no. 1 in Ireland...amongst other countries.
Great reaction. This is my favorite Monty Python movie- not because it is necessarily more funny than The Holy Grail, but because it manages (without specifically making fun of Jesus, as you astutely noticed) to pack a serious message about blind faith between all the humor and silliness.
A lot of people say their were ahead of their time, but they were also very popular in their time and one of the biggest thing in comedy. Monty Pyhton is timeless good, it's perfectly.
One of the jokes regarding Pilate's speech impediment that most people miss is with that scene where he's going to release someone and asks for a suggestion from the crowd. The crowd makes fun of him by saying names with "R's" in them. If you think of the actual biblical story, Pilate asked for a name from the crowd, between Jesus (no "R") and Barabbas (with an ""R") and the crowd chose Barabbas.
But also comes from Greek theatre. When the plot got stuck or the hero couldn't continue, the gods would suddenly appear and change the narrative, solving the problem.
Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the Romans ever done for us?
A lot of people assumed this movie was mocking Jesus. It wasn't. It was mocking the way people misinterpret what Jesus was talking about. "I think he said blessed are the cheesemakers." is a perfect example.
What people miss more is that it is mocking the slew of European left wing political groups from the 1970s who spent more time arguing with each other than they did arguing with their opposition just as much as it is mocking people's relationships with religions.
It’s also illustrates an interesting period of time with Jerusalem under occupation, but before the destruction of the temple. In addition to Jesus, there were many who thought John the Baptist might be the messiah and several other groups had their own chosen messiah.
Right. But thats not to say that Monthy Python must be regardet as some kind of moral authority on anything. The have made some really terrible massaging. For example the beloved "what have the romans ever done" bit is basically justifying colonialism. Also some really nasty bits about Ireland in their portfolio as well. Not very insightful coming from Brits...
A couple of years prior to Life of Brian, there was a big-budget miniseries called "Jesus of Nazareth" directed by Franco Zeffirelli with a stacked cast. The Pythons used many of the same locations and sets. When I first saw Life of Brian, my class at school were midway through watching the Zeffirelli series in RE class. The lessons suddenly became a lot more entertaining after that as many of us started recognising those locations and quoting the Python movie in class.
Vis-a-vis the Python movies: And Now For Something Completely Different was basically them redoing a bunch of the sketches from the TV show, Holy Grail was them doing sketches with structure and some narrative, Life of Brian was (mostly) a narrative, and then Meaning of Life was them doing a bunch of new sketches with a loose structure and very little narrative (again). Thumbs up to watching Meaning of Life, and even And Now For Something Completely Different. I'd also recommend some of the Pythons' individual works: A Fish Called Wanda (and its spiritual sequel, Fierce Creatures), Brazil, Time Bandits, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
"And Now for Something Completely Different" is a good way to see some of the classic Python sketches, if you're not about to watch the whole TV series.
There is also their film And Now For Something Completely Different, which is a compilation of skits from their TV show remade for the big screen. And there is a live concert film called Live at the Hollywood Bowl which is a lot of fun.
The 'shaved head' actor is Terry Gilliam, the only American in Monty Python. He's the artist that does all their cartoons like the opening credits. He's also the animator that had a heart attack in Holy Grail so the "cartoon peril was no more."
Michael Palin is the MVP in my opinion! He plays so many roles and all so well!! My personal favorite is his "messiah" who preaches about things we misplaced 😂😂😂
Great reaction, young lady, to a great movie. I grew up with Monty Python. I was 11 years old, living in England in 1970 when their show came on the BBC. I watched all their movies when they were in theaters. They've had a profound influence on my personality. If you want to see some more of John Cleese, I would suggest reacting to "Fawlty Towers." It's brilliantly hilarious.
I'm old enough to have watched the TV series when it started - I think the first episode was filmed on May 11th 1969 in front of an audience largely consisting of Pensioners. Folklore is that they were expecting to see an actual Circus.
@Stewart-m7i That's why my dad let us watch it. The TV Times listed it, and he said, "There's a Circus on tonight. Let's watch it." We were all hooked after that first episode.
Me in my German class: Der Römers gehen im Hause My German teacher: *Takes out her Gladius* What did you just say?? Me: Romans go homne! My German teacher: *Starts pulling my ear* No, it doesn't, how do you say "Roman" in nominative plural?? and so on...
I've seen games of football (soccer) in England where a team is 4-0 down with a few mins to go and all the fans of the losing side start singing Bright Side Of Life. The real mad thing with this film is that they went to Tattooine to make it.
My favourite bit: "You'll probably get away with crucifixion." "What!" "Oh yeah. First offense." "Guard!" Nail 'im up I say!" "Guard!" "Nail some sense into 'im!"
You mmissed the best part of Brian's speech to his throng of admirers. He tells them they are all individuals, and they all repeat in unison "we are all individuals." And then one dude says "I'm not." Classic....
I prefer The Holy Grail, but everything the Pythons do is brilliant. I'd also recommend "A Fish Called Wanda", which stars John Cleese, Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis. John Cleese also co-wrote the film.
The "guy who shaved the top of his head" is Terry Gilliam, who has gone on from Monty Python to direct MANY great movies. Thanks for this reaction. And YES, do Meaning of Life. It's a lot more sequential sketch based, like Holy Grail. My favorite line in it to wait for if /when you do: "Why are you dressed as a tiger?"
The inspiration for virtually all post-war British anarchic comedy was a radio show called The Goon Show in the 1950s which launched the careers of Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Seacombe and Michael Bentine. Monty Python were very much inspired by The Goon Show, in fact Spike Milligan has a cameo in Life of Brian: he's the old guy who starts to preach, but then the crowd just moves off and ignores him, leaving him to walk off awkwardly. It'd be hard to react to The Goon Show directly because it was only ever radio, but there does exist a "Goon-Show-Adjecent" movie called The Case Of The Mukkinese Battle Horn, featuring Sellers, Milligan, and another famous British comedian called Dick Emery. Very funny, very much worth watching, and very short...
There's one Goon Show that was televised, "The Last Goon Show of all", back in 1972. It's worth a watch if you can find it, but it has a lot of running jokes and so a newcomer could be put off by its typically nonsensical delivery etc.
A film so divisive that you couldn't see it in neighbouring countries (Norway and Sweden were almost proud of the spat that developed), but sufficiently inoffensive that our Religious Education teacher felt relaxed enough to show us the video of it in class one Xmas! Admittedly this was in the mid-1980s. A similar situation developed in what was loosely called 'Music' class, when we were invited to bring in a record of our choosing. So of course someone brought in... 'Anarchy in the UK'.
I was unnaturally timid, inhibited politically and in other ways, at that time, so when I had that music-class opportunity all I did was bring in a Chick Corea record. And just like in a real jazz club, everyone else ignored it and talked amongst themselves.
The scene where Brian is schooled in Latin is 100% correct. Most of the members of Monty Python went to Cambridge or Oxford, and Cleese and Chapman were very good at Latin. So the misspellings and the corrections they make all make sense. There is a very good video from a Latin teacher which goes over the whole scene in detail: ruclips.net/video/UfH6gjxTTgE/видео.htmlsi=fVlaW7kUj12_dquZ
Well, beyond that, learning Latin in school was pretty standard in most grammar schools of the age. So the sketch is mean and impatient teachers like those from Pink Floyd's 'brick in the wall', schooling a child on his grammar.
It was a statement on being taught Latin at school and of the teaching style of the time where a teacher would do something as extreme as gold you by the ear until you got it right
@@RoccondilRinon EXACTLY! He happened to be in Tunisia on holiday when the film was being made and the Pythons, of course, roped him in. Sadly, he didn't get quote his own immortal line "Put Him in the Curry"!
He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy, my favorite line from the movie! Definitely keep on with reacting to Python films and maybe some key episodes from their TV series
There's a nearly hour long video on youtube (been up for years) with more or less a debate between Cleese and Palin vs. a couple of stuffy old religious types (one is a bishop or something), about this movie. It's a great watch because it shows how times have CHANGED so drastically -- and how this film is a big part of that. Before this, making fun of religion in any way was just...not done.
Cleese and Palin vs. the Bishop of Southwark (Mervyn Stockwood) and Malcolm “The Pouncer” Muggeridge. Muggeridge was among the biggest names in anti-communist journalism in the U.K. at the time, after having radically changed from being a communist himself. He was also an insufferable gadfly on numerous Christian, conservative, right-wing issues, and opposed many things from the 1960s, including the Beatles, drug use, birth control and sexual freedom. Muggeridge did not appreciate Monty Python or their “blasphemous”, “tenth-rate”, “miserable little film”. He preferred more traditional entertainment, like groping women in taxi cabs. Yes, it’s an amazing tv interview.
There's also a fourth film (which is the first film) called 'And Now for Something Completely Different' and a stage show called 'Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl' which are all hilarious.
"Typical Hollywood audience, all the kids are on drugs and the adults are on rollerskates." followed by "This is for all you who think your American beer is so special. We think your beer is like having sex in a canoe!' "Sex in a canoe?!" "Yes! It's F****ing close to water!!!"
I'm a Brian. When questioned about the name of the film, the Pythons thought it was the most boring name in the world... I agree with them! Genius! I had to go to a different town to watch this, as it was banned in my local town in Scotland at the time of it's release....One of my favourite films...and I'm proud to be a 'Brian' purely because of this film.
The movie "And Now for Something Completely Different" is actually their first movie. It's a compilation of favorite skits from their TV series redone with a movie budget. It'll give you a chance to see what their TV series was like. Also, you should watch "Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl". It's a documentary film of their live performance that includes recreations of many of their skits. My favorite being "The Argument Sketch". They also do a very funny skit called "The Four Yorkshiremen". The live show is mostly sketches from the Flying Circus TV show. But there's also stuff from record albums, stage shows, and TV shows they were in before Flying Circus.
Glad you went for another Monty Python movie, The meaning of life is wild also. Great couple skits in it for sure you'll never forget, like Mr. Creatose. "It's just a wafer thin mint sir" LOL
Thank you so much for reacting to this. When someone pronounces the letter "r" as a "w", it's called rhotacism. Rhotacism is a speech impediment that makes it difficult for people to articulate the "r" sound.
‘Holy Grail”, ‘Meaning of Life” and this film are just the tip of the iceberg as far as Monty Python material goes. There’s plenty more to explore featuring the six members of the troupe. You were correct in noticing that “Holy Grail” was less of a linear story than this one. The Pythons did get their start as a sketch comedy troupe after all. Hopefully not spoiling anything by letting you know that “Meaning of Life” is more sketch oriented as well. Would recommend that you check out the original television show to really get the flavour of their humour. If that’s too much of a commitment, there’s always “And Now For Something Completely Different”, their first feature length film (“Grail” came after that). It was basically a ‘greatest hits’ compilation of the best skits from the show. Beyond those 4 movies, there is a whole universe of side projects to explore, from the many directorial projects of Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones to the musical parody of “All You Need is Cash”, the ‘documentary’ of the fictitious band ‘The Rutles’. It’s a deep rabbit hole. Just don’t let it tear your head off…😊
Coby: "I'm starting to learn not to expect..."
Everyone In Comments In Unison: "THE SPANISH INQUISITION!"
(Quietly in the background: "Well, I didn't". Ok, not quite everyone).
Except, I did expect it to be the the #1 comment. ha!
THE COMPHY CHAIR! Hahahahaaa
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I heard their chief weapon is surprise... surprise and cruelty. Their two chief weapons are surprise and cruelty... and fanaticism, their THREE main weapons are...
Is there trouble at the mill?
I love that minutes after Brian "founded" his new religion, his disciples had already split into 2 branches, gourd followers and sandal followers.
yup.
Don't forget there was already a dispute as to whether it was shoe or a sandal.
Reminds me of that Emo Phillips joke.
Edit: The joke in question: ruclips.net/video/l3fAcxcxoZ8/видео.htmlsi=stv5VbcniFVdrHZx
and go straight on with persecuting the unbeliever, which is always the point.
just goes tonshow how silly religion really is
The Holy Grail is a cop out, and Life of Brian just leaves you hanging...
I get it ;)
. . .but teaches you to look on the bright side of life ;)
if only could brian drank from a cup before getting crusified...
I was going to suggest it was a cross-out
I laughed. Much harder than I expected to.
Very very good puns, friend.
(crowd) "Yes! We're all individuals...!"
(individual) "...I'm not..."
That's my favourite bit. But most people miss it completely. :-D
@@2-wheeledlife437I didn't miss it.
I also love that most of them are holding poles with either gourds or sandals attached to them.
Single greatest line in the history of cinema😁
This absolutely is my favourite line in the whole film, it always has been from my first viewing
The list of people who came together to fund this movie is impressive: Thank you George Harrison of the Beatles for helping everyone "come together" in support of this project.
And just because he wanted to see it “The Worlds Most Expensive Movie Ticket” Class act :) Makes a cameo appearance too, blink and you'll miss it.
@@BrodieVickers-tk9sd it took me so long to find that cameo ... Blink and you'll miss it indeed!
what was funny to me was the church "Coming together" to try to take the movie apart.
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Yes, the great British comedian Spike Milligan does a brief but funny cameo. I think it's when the two groups of followers split up.
He's looking upward, speaking enthusiastically to God, with his arms raised. When he's finished, he looks around, and everybody's gone, so he just meekly walks off.
There was a John Cleese interview once... to paraphrase it he said "we set out to do comedy that defied definition... Pythonesque is now a word in the Oxford English dictionary proving that we failed completely"
And YES to the Meaning of Life
Can we have your liver then?
'Romanes eunt domus. People called Romanes they go the house'? Greatest scene in movie history.
this just proves, there is always time for a latin lesson in the middle of a comedy 🤣
PTSD for anyone who struggled through learning latin XD
Lol, I dont think of the 'Roman empire' every day but i do think of this scene....😂 "E-Tay...."
What a lot of people maybe don't get is that this is EXACTLY how Latin teachers in English public schools behaved back then! Including the pinching of the hair above the ear and then raising the victim upwards. Go ahead: try it! And now imagine being 12 years old and a grown man doing that to you.... John Cleese basically IS my Latin master in that scene!
'Sic transit gloria' -- 'I didn't know Gloria was sick!"
John Cleese was a REAL latin teacher, and thats what makes it funnier if you know
"Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" has become the #1 song requested for funeral services.
Michael Palin will always be the fav Python to me, great delivery and performance. Outside of comedy, he's done many amazing travel documentaries in his time.
my late father loved those travel documentaries, along with Terry Jones off beat travel documentaries too!
Not only that, Michael Palin has "secretly" spent half his life singing and songwriting, pretending to be Peter Hammill, after the real one sadly died in that waterbed shop...oh, just a minute...
"YES! WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT!" "I'm not..."
Of all the lines for your mom to remember from this film, He's a very naughty boy is peak. This makes her a cool lady. Your mom is a cool lady.
Best about that line: It was not actually from one of the Pythons. I remember Cleese speaking about it: one of the hundreds of extras in that scene commented during the introduction given by the Pythons ("Listen, this is what's going to happen and you will stand there and shout this...") that it would be funny, if one would shout "I'm not" and Chapman cackled and said: DO THAT!
And so he did.
I'm Brian and so is my wife.
I am wife, and so is my Brian.
@@ThreadBomb Welease Bwian
@@ThreadBomb Bwian eh! what about woderwick?
For a long time at biker rallies, somebody would shout "I'm Spartacus!" in the middle of the night, when people were trying to sleep in their tents. Then other people would shout, "I'm Spartacus!", "No I'm Spartacus!!" and sooner or later you'd hear, "I'm Spartacus and so's my wife!".
I’m not really Brian. I’m just pulling your leg.
Are you aware of John Cleese's sitcom "Fawlty Towers"? It has been called the funniest sitcom of all time. Only 12 episodes . . something that must be seen.
Just watched some of it yesterday!
I'm not.
@@RideAcrossTheRivernow you are!
A FISH CALLED WANDA
Awesome show. I saw it first in college on the local PBS station because they would always show it during their telethon because it was the best thing they had.
The jailer that shaved his head is Terry Gilliam. He is the one that does the animations and the only American in the group. He went on to direct a lot of movies.
Best movie 12 Monkeys, Brad Pitt is "insanely" good in that one.
@@martenfredin213 he also directed "Brazil"
Brazil is his absolute masterpiece!
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Yes! I totally agree. And not just because he’s called Jeff. Mr Pitt is fantastic. I wonder if he’s been in other films.
He's not the Messiah, He's a very naughty boy... is on Graham Chapman's headstone .... he played Brian
aww, i did not know that, thank you. im a huge fan of him in particular out of all of them, after reading some of their biographies.
He was cremated and his ashes scattered in Wales. You're thinking of his blue plaque on a London pub.
When the crowd follows Brian , the old guy left stood there as the crowd runs on, with his hands up looking confused, that guy is a massive hero of the Monty Python crew, his name was Spike Milligan, a very famous british comedian .
Spike Milligan considered himself Irish in fact but yep, upvoted anyway :).
(he was certainly a giant of British comedy, lived in the UK for a long time etc.)
@@anonymes2884 Spike was born in India of British parents, fought for the English in the second world war, got PTSD and then found out the laws of citizenship were changed and he was not considered to be a citizen of the UK.
This got him worked up, as you can imagine.
Spike was amazing. The Goon show was the progenitor of most modern British anarcho-comedy.
Q was my favourite comedy show growing up. Didn't understand half of it but Spike just had the ability to make me laugh no matter what.
Spike happened to be in the same location as the python crew when filming & was asked to be in a scene, he did & then dissapeared afterwards.
For anyone interested in the origins of British humor, it is worth seeking out the various seasons of his "Q" TV series. Hugely influential on Python, the Goodies, etc.
The thing about the "Biggus Dickus" scene is that the guards were not told what was happening. They weree only told, under no circumstance are they supposed to laugh. Which of course makes everything 10x funnier
Stop spreading this bullshit, It is scripted and acted.
Two words. Fawlty Towers.
Two more words "Ripping Yarns"
Don't mention the war!
I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.
One word: Barcelona.
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One of my favorite stories related to this film is back during the Falklands War, a British Naval Cruiser was hit by an Argentinian anti-ship missile. The ship listed and eventually capsized. When rescue helicopters reached the overturned ship they discovered the entire crew sitting on the upsidedown hull singing Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.
Makes you proud to be British. 🫡🇬🇧
I had to look this up. It was the HMS Sheffield.
A small correction: the British lost two destroyers in the Falklands War, HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry, so I assume that this refers to the crew of one of these two ships. The Argentines lost a cruiser. It was the "General Belgrano" sunk by the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror. Nevertheless, the story is good and British in spirit.
@@Rafa-pr5fe Okay, that's interesting, but I don't think it actually refutes the original post.
@@ThreadBomb Because it wasn't intended to be like that. It's just an erratum to the detail that it was a destroyer, not a cruiser. And the story itself is great. Best regards.
A who's-who of Python in this movie:
Terry Jones: He played the mother, he played the hermit who hadn't spoken in 18 years, he played the priest who wants to help carry the cross (and ends up getting crucified himself!), and he played the main heckler in the crowd. And he directed the film! LOVE Terry Jones! Love that you loved Terry Jones, I feel he is THE most underrated Python!
Michael Palin: It's more like who DIDN'T Palin play? Pontius Pilate, the hung-up prisoner, the sympathetic crucifixion organizer, the healed-leper, he was the wire-haired "prophet" that you were asking about, he was one of the three main members of the People's Front of Judea (lol), and I'm sure he played a lot more! The man of a million characters. There are two writing teams in Python: Palin and Jones write together
Eric Idle: The haggler, "Loretta", the wise-cracking guy who escapes being crucified, singer at the end. He wrote his stuff all by himself. I always think of him as the George Harrison of Python. George Harrison produced this movie, actually!
Graham Chapman: Brian, Biggs Dikkus. (And King Arthur, in Holy Grail!). He co-wrote with John Cleese
John Cleese: You know which ones John Cleese is!
Terry Gilliam: He does all the animation, which was a big part of the TV show. He appears once in a while, usually in really ugly, goofy parts, like the stuttering guy that you pointed out had really shaved his head. In Holy Grail, he played Patsy, the guy playing the cocoanuts throughout the whole movie.
LOVED this reaction! (PS You're allowed to prefer Holy Grail! I prefer this one, but I love both! The TV series is the REAL Holy Grail! Frickin' brilliant!
I was about to write that Terry Jones is the most underrated Python too. Favourite lines are, "Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?", "How do you know so much about swallows?", and I can't hear King of the Britons without imagining "King of the who?" in that screechy voice.
Apparently they couldn't come up with a satisfactory ending for the movie, so Eric Idle wrote "Always Look at the Bright Side of Life" in about an hour...
Her reaction when they started singing at the end, I've never seen anyone get that stoked over a song.😂😂😂
"Well, you did say Jehovah" is probably my absolute favourite movie line. It's just genius.
Goddamn, I've seen this movie at least a dozen times but I didn't catch until now that Reg is, of course, saying "parentland" to avoid having to choose between motherland and fatherland.
Wow, I've never noticed after 30 years of watching! It's the film that keeps giving. I had noticed the sisterly greetings & I love that they started calling her Loretta straight away, apart from the line, 'Why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?"
Yeah, that single word conjures scenes of them "in committee" beforehand, debating the precise usage so as to offend the fewest (all of course while Brian is being crucified :).
.... and hermaphrodites.
Yeah, I caught that for the first time this time too!!
The best commentary on religious hypocrisy I've ever seen.
Cleese and Palin debated religious leaders at the time of the film's release on TV - and true to form, although those leaders were vehemently decrying the blasphemous nature of the film... they hadn't even seen it. Proudly said they didn't need to during the debate.
For me the best scene is Cleese giving latin lessons to Brian. Cleese was a School teacher for a few years before he started with the BBC and taught - among others - Latin. Cleese loved that scene, he wrote it for himself.
And btw: a few years after this movie came out, the UK fought Argentine in the Falkland war and Argentine shot the Royal Navy Frigate Sheffield with an Exocet missile and the ship caught fire. The sailors tried to put the flames out , but after several hours the order to abandon ship came. The sailors, wearing survival suits and knowing rescue was getting close went into the sea and formed human chains to keep together. When a few hundred yards away from the burning ship, a lieutenant started to sing "always look on the bright side of life" and thus they were found 10 or 20 minutes later, all survivors clinging to oneanother singing this song.
One of the most British things I can imagine.
There's also Now For Something Completely Different, Jaberwocky, Time Bandits, and Live At the Hollywood Bowl.
and eric the viking
Fun fact I just learned. The guy playing Jesus also played Admiral Piett in Star Wars, Empire and Jedi.
WOW!!!
Interesting point of trivia regarding Sue Jones-Davies who played Judith.
In 2008, she became a Plaid Cymru town councillor in Aberystwyth. Between June 2008 and May 2009, she was Mayor of Aberystwyth.
Upon taking the office, she was informed that the town had banned Life of Brian and prohibited it for nearly 30 years because of her nude scene. It subsequently emerged that although Ceredigion county councillors had reviewed the film in 1981, and found parts "quite unacceptable", they did not officially ban it. She sponsored a charity screening of Life of Brian. In July 2008, Jones-Davies was interviewed on BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio 2 about the film and its status in Aberystwyth. She was also profiled on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. The film was screened on 28 March 2009 at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre. It was attended by cast members and the co-writers of the film, Michael Palin and Terry Jones. The event was broadcast on BBC One on 12 May 2009 as a documentary titled Monty Python in Aberystwyth: A Mayor and Two Pythons.
It was banned by many small towns, who's small minded councils claimed it was blasphemous. Not due to nude scenes.
I love how, when Brian is trying to preach to the crowd, when he tries to speak of things that are reasonable and good he gets nothing but arguments and angry questions, but as soon as he starts rambling randomly, people are enthralled.
The lady who plays Judith is (or was not sure) elected to be the mayor of Aberyswyth in Wales, where this movie is still banned. The day she took office she lifted the ban , but she could only lift it for 1 day 😂
Aww. I wanted to say that ;)
"Do you find it...risible?"
Now there is a word that has to make a comeback.
I had to look it up. It means laughter inducing.
Not a joke - I asked a coworker if he felt that making copies was risible. He said, "Risible?" I said yeah, and he said, "Oh, for sure." 8-)))))))))
You mean "wisible"
The jailer and the guard who couldn't talk but could, with the bald head, is Terry Gilliam, who is also the animator who came up with that intro cartoon as well as the spaceship scene. He was also the Bridgekeeper in Holy Grail and the trusty servant Patsy.
The other Terry, Jones, was Brian's mother and the man in the hole who hadn't spoken for 18 years. He was the director. Terry and Terry were co-directors of Holy Grail.
The vague philsopher with the frazzled hair was Michael Palin, who was also Pilate, the ex-leper, the hung-up prisoner, and the crucifixion intake official. Eric Idle was "Loretta" (named after Paul McCartney's 'sweet Loretta Martin' in a nod to George Harrison's funding), the haggler-seller, the enthusiasic crucifixionee, and the singer at the end (which he wrote). And the other guard who couldn't talk. And then John Cleese was the official in charge of the stoning (first scene shot), Reg of the PFJ, the recurring centurion guard, the main follower who delivers the best line of the film ("how shall we fuck off, oh lord?"), and of course they all joined the crowd of followers, the central point of the whole film. Graham Chapman was the lead, Brian, as well as Biggus Dickus.
And yes, "don't try to predict the ending" applies to everything MPFC ever did.
Terry Gilliam was the only American member of Python and typically had only smaller/non-speaking roles, but he did all of the animation and some of the directing. He went on to direct a bunch of great movies after Python.
I like to think that Biggus Dickus was actually Brian's father, having given a fake name when "wooing" Brian's mother. I mean, they do share quite the resemblance...
"the enthusiasic crucifixionee" is brilliant! :-D
Eric Idle's song "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" was actually a big hit when it was released as a single. It was top 10 in Australia, no. 3 in the UK & no. 1 in Ireland...amongst other countries.
"Where's the Popular Front?"
"Oh, he's over there."
Splitter!!!! 😂
Great reaction. This is my favorite Monty Python movie- not because it is necessarily more funny than The Holy Grail, but because it manages (without specifically making fun of Jesus, as you astutely noticed) to pack a serious message about blind faith between all the humor and silliness.
Terry Gilliam is one of my favorite directors. His movies "12 Monkeys" and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" are very great movies!
"Brazil" is even better....
@martinbynion1589 ya agree
@@martinbynion1589 Brazil is my favourite (as long as it's not the Hollywood "Love conquers all" edit), but also The Fisher King is great.
He also directed "Time Bandits" and "The adventures of Baron Munchausen".
"He has a wife, you know..." always makes me laugh!
You can see the very moment the soul leaves the body of the centurion on the left.
I wouldn’t be able to hold it together, and it’s not even because of the main joke. It’s the hilarity of Michael Palin being stern.
My favorite monty python film of all. And one my most favorite films of all time.
A lot of people say their were ahead of their time, but they were also very popular in their time and one of the biggest thing in comedy.
Monty Pyhton is timeless good, it's perfectly.
"He wasn't the Messiah... he was a very naughty boy." is the movie's tagline, used in promotional materials (poster and/or trailer).
One of the jokes regarding Pilate's speech impediment that most people miss is with that scene where he's going to release someone and asks for a suggestion from the crowd. The crowd makes fun of him by saying names with "R's" in them. If you think of the actual biblical story, Pilate asked for a name from the crowd, between Jesus (no "R") and Barabbas (with an ""R") and the crowd chose Barabbas.
The spaceship was a Star Wars reference. In 1979, every movie needed a scene in space!
But also comes from Greek theatre. When the plot got stuck or the hero couldn't continue, the gods would suddenly appear and change the narrative, solving the problem.
@@antiqueinsider "deus ex machina" - god from the machine (the windlass contraption used to lower the actor from the scaffolding)
BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE was sung at Graham Chapman's funeral. It's also one of the most requested songs at modern funerals.
Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the Romans ever done for us?
If you want skit skit skit, you want The Meaning of Life.
Even more so And Now For Something Completely Different. Not to mention the Flying Circus TV series itself.
Unless she's having rather a heavy period.
The "Mad Jailer" who you enjoyed so much is played by Terry Gilliam, who co-directed Holy Grail, and went on to direct many great movies.
The Spike Milligan cameo is wonderful.
"symbolic of his struggle against reality"
Mind you he, like everyone else, calls her Loretta in the end.
@@BeOtterMyFriendAnything for a quiet life 😊
Which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans
@@eddhardy1054 If only more people would "live and let live" like that. That's all that most "Loretta's" want.
Most reactors now seem to think it’s a good idea they don’t get the satire
The song at the end is the most popular at British funerals even to this day.
How to tell me you're British without telling me you're British!
A lot of people assumed this movie was mocking Jesus. It wasn't. It was mocking the way people misinterpret what Jesus was talking about. "I think he said blessed are the cheesemakers." is a perfect example.
What people miss more is that it is mocking the slew of European left wing political groups from the 1970s who spent more time arguing with each other than they did arguing with their opposition just as much as it is mocking people's relationships with religions.
It’s also illustrates an interesting period of time with Jerusalem under occupation, but before the destruction of the temple. In addition to Jesus, there were many who thought John the Baptist might be the messiah and several other groups had their own chosen messiah.
It was mocking religion, especially christianity, it shows how ridiculous it is, Cleese is a staunch athiest, a educated man and critical thinker.
@@willjohnson8446 Jesus was just a radical jewish man, a insurrectionist, one of many in that time.
Right. But thats not to say that Monthy Python must be regardet as some kind of moral authority on anything. The have made some really terrible massaging. For example the beloved "what have the romans ever done" bit is basically justifying colonialism. Also some really nasty bits about Ireland in their portfolio as well. Not very insightful coming from Brits...
If there is ONE thing that we can take from this and "Holy Grail" is that Coby thinks that every human on Earth is John Cleese.
Well we wish we were
I'm not.
@ Yes you are.
I might have thought the same. I knew who John Cleese was, before I ever saw Python. I’d seen Eric Idle in something else too.
As someone who took Latin in high school I can very much relate with the "Romanes eunt domus" joke. 😁😁
My high school Latin teacher let us watch it regularly due to that scene!
So can I as an after school Latin teacher. 😊
Coby, I love you! You've been the only reactor who totally got the jailers joke where they start speaking normally! I always laugh hard at that part!
A couple of years prior to Life of Brian, there was a big-budget miniseries called "Jesus of Nazareth" directed by Franco Zeffirelli with a stacked cast. The Pythons used many of the same locations and sets. When I first saw Life of Brian, my class at school were midway through watching the Zeffirelli series in RE class. The lessons suddenly became a lot more entertaining after that as many of us started recognising those locations and quoting the Python movie in class.
"You're all individuals". Crowd: "Yeahhhh". 1 guy: "I'm not". Best. Joke. Ever!
One difference between Holy Grail and Life of Brian was that Graham Chapman was actually sober for this movie.
And they didn't need coconuts.
@@88wildcat Course not! They don't migrate!
@@88wildcat It is because coconuts are tropical, and Jerusalem is an arid zone. Don't even get me started on how a swallow cannot carry one.
@@88wildcat They couldn't get any. European swallows are non-migratory. How would they get to the parentland?
Hmm .. they had lumps of it in the back
Kenneth Colley who plays Jesus also played Admiral Piett in the Star Wars films The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Vis-a-vis the Python movies: And Now For Something Completely Different was basically them redoing a bunch of the sketches from the TV show, Holy Grail was them doing sketches with structure and some narrative, Life of Brian was (mostly) a narrative, and then Meaning of Life was them doing a bunch of new sketches with a loose structure and very little narrative (again).
Thumbs up to watching Meaning of Life, and even And Now For Something Completely Different.
I'd also recommend some of the Pythons' individual works: A Fish Called Wanda (and its spiritual sequel, Fierce Creatures), Brazil, Time Bandits, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
And Jabberwocky!
"And Now for Something Completely Different" is a good way to see some of the classic Python sketches, if you're not about to watch the whole TV series.
" He's been taken up " " Oh no there he is. "
There is also their film And Now For Something Completely Different, which is a compilation of skits from their TV show remade for the big screen. And there is a live concert film called Live at the Hollywood Bowl which is a lot of fun.
Now you need to watch The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Erik the Viking, and A Fish Called Wanda.
The 'shaved head' actor is Terry Gilliam, the only American in Monty Python. He's the artist that does all their cartoons like the opening credits. He's also the animator that had a heart attack in Holy Grail so the "cartoon peril was no more."
Michael Palin is the MVP in my opinion! He plays so many roles and all so well!! My personal favorite is his "messiah" who preaches about things we misplaced 😂😂😂
Great reaction, young lady, to a great movie. I grew up with Monty Python. I was 11 years old, living in England in 1970 when their show came on the BBC. I watched all their movies when they were in theaters. They've had a profound influence on my personality.
If you want to see some more of John Cleese, I would suggest reacting to "Fawlty Towers." It's brilliantly hilarious.
As long as you don't mention the war. I mentioned it once, but..... ; )
Fawlty Towers is peak Cleese, but if Coby wants more Pythonesque films then A Fish Called Wanda should be top of the list.
@@mmhdata that too
I'm old enough to have watched the TV series when it started - I think the first episode was filmed on May 11th 1969 in front of an audience largely consisting of Pensioners. Folklore is that they were expecting to see an actual Circus.
@Stewart-m7i That's why my dad let us watch it. The TV Times listed it, and he said, "There's a Circus on tonight. Let's watch it." We were all hooked after that first episode.
The movie that taught us to always look on the bright side of life no matter what.😃
She doesn't know that they sang "Always Look at the Bright Side of Life" at Graham Chapman's funeral.
I love that the Three Wise Men got the wrong address! 😂
Me in my German class: Der Römers gehen im Hause
My German teacher: *Takes out her Gladius* What did you just say??
Me: Romans go homne!
My German teacher: *Starts pulling my ear* No, it doesn't, how do you say "Roman" in nominative plural??
and so on...
“The Argument Clinic” is a must-watch from the TV show. It’s a very short skit that’s on RUclips.
Brilliantly clever
I've seen games of football (soccer) in England where a team is 4-0 down with a few mins to go and all the fans of the losing side start singing Bright Side Of Life.
The real mad thing with this film is that they went to Tattooine to make it.
Yes, do the Meaning of Life, but brace yourself for a WIDE variety of WTF moments.
Hell yeah. WAAAAAAY more out there than anything else they've done....
Mr Creosote.
fishy fishy fish. Fishy fishy Ohhhh.
And bring the machine that goes "Ping!"
@@blatherama and it went wherever I did gooooooo
My favourite bit: "You'll probably get away with crucifixion." "What!" "Oh yeah. First offense." "Guard!" Nail 'im up I say!" "Guard!" "Nail some sense into 'im!"
You mmissed the best part of Brian's speech to his throng of admirers. He tells them they are all individuals, and they all repeat in unison "we are all individuals." And then one dude says "I'm not." Classic....
I prefer The Holy Grail, but everything the Pythons do is brilliant.
I'd also recommend "A Fish Called Wanda", which stars John Cleese, Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis. John Cleese also co-wrote the film.
when i was alittle kid in the 70s i'd stay up very late to watch monty python, benny hill, and saturday night live. made me the man i am today!
We’ve got lumps of it round the back 😂😂😂😂
The "guy who shaved the top of his head" is Terry Gilliam, who has gone on from Monty Python to direct MANY great movies. Thanks for this reaction. And YES, do Meaning of Life. It's a lot more sequential sketch based, like Holy Grail. My favorite line in it to wait for if /when you do: "Why are you dressed as a tiger?"
The inspiration for virtually all post-war British anarchic comedy was a radio show called The Goon Show in the 1950s which launched the careers of Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Seacombe and Michael Bentine. Monty Python were very much inspired by The Goon Show, in fact Spike Milligan has a cameo in Life of Brian: he's the old guy who starts to preach, but then the crowd just moves off and ignores him, leaving him to walk off awkwardly. It'd be hard to react to The Goon Show directly because it was only ever radio, but there does exist a "Goon-Show-Adjecent" movie called The Case Of The Mukkinese Battle Horn, featuring Sellers, Milligan, and another famous British comedian called Dick Emery. Very funny, very much worth watching, and very short...
There's one Goon Show that was televised, "The Last Goon Show of all", back in 1972. It's worth a watch if you can find it, but it has a lot of running jokes and so a newcomer could be put off by its typically nonsensical delivery etc.
@@Deegee_1969 And it's just the guys reading out the scripts, like a live radio recording, not acting them out.
A film so divisive that you couldn't see it in neighbouring countries (Norway and Sweden were almost proud of the spat that developed), but sufficiently inoffensive that our Religious Education teacher felt relaxed enough to show us the video of it in class one Xmas! Admittedly this was in the mid-1980s. A similar situation developed in what was loosely called 'Music' class, when we were invited to bring in a record of our choosing. So of course someone brought in... 'Anarchy in the UK'.
I was unnaturally timid, inhibited politically and in other ways, at that time, so when I had that music-class opportunity all I did was bring in a Chick Corea record. And just like in a real jazz club, everyone else ignored it and talked amongst themselves.
The film so funny it was banned in Norway!
Best marketing strategy
_EVER_
Bright side of life was played at Graham Chapman's funeral. It's a popular funeral song now in the UK I believe (it originates from the movie though).
The scene where Brian is schooled in Latin is 100% correct. Most of the members of Monty Python went to Cambridge or Oxford, and Cleese and Chapman were very good at Latin. So the misspellings and the corrections they make all make sense. There is a very good video from a Latin teacher which goes over the whole scene in detail: ruclips.net/video/UfH6gjxTTgE/видео.htmlsi=fVlaW7kUj12_dquZ
Well, beyond that, learning Latin in school was pretty standard in most grammar schools of the age.
So the sketch is mean and impatient teachers like those from Pink Floyd's 'brick in the wall', schooling a child on his grammar.
It was a statement on being taught Latin at school and of the teaching style of the time where a teacher would do something as extreme as gold you by the ear until you got it right
I am glad you included "Red Sea Pedestrian", it is my favorite line.
Moses: “Oh sure, no hurry at all. Just have a stroll. Take your time. Not like my arms are getting tired here or anything.”
At 22:30, it’s actually a cameo appearance by a comedian named Spike Milligan
“A comedian” who was the biggest single inspiration and influence on the Pythons’ work.
@@RoccondilRinon EXACTLY! He happened to be in Tunisia on holiday when the film was being made and the Pythons, of course, roped him in. Sadly, he didn't get quote his own immortal line "Put Him in the Curry"!
His tombstone famously says "I told you I was ill" in Gaelic.
"Human nature!" That's where you nailed it. That's what it's all about, from beginning to end. Good watch!
He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy, my favorite line from the movie!
Definitely keep on with reacting to Python films and maybe some key episodes from their TV series
Eric Idle did a live stage musical based on this movie in 2014. It's called "Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)." Well worth the watch.
There's a nearly hour long video on youtube (been up for years) with more or less a debate between Cleese and Palin vs. a couple of stuffy old religious types (one is a bishop or something), about this movie. It's a great watch because it shows how times have CHANGED so drastically -- and how this film is a big part of that. Before this, making fun of religion in any way was just...not done.
Cleese and Palin vs. the Bishop of Southwark (Mervyn Stockwood) and Malcolm “The Pouncer” Muggeridge. Muggeridge was among the biggest names in anti-communist journalism in the U.K. at the time, after having radically changed from being a communist himself. He was also an insufferable gadfly on numerous Christian, conservative, right-wing issues, and opposed many things from the 1960s, including the Beatles, drug use, birth control and sexual freedom. Muggeridge did not appreciate Monty Python or their “blasphemous”, “tenth-rate”, “miserable little film”. He preferred more traditional entertainment, like groping women in taxi cabs.
Yes, it’s an amazing tv interview.
Which in itself was later parodied by "Not the Nine O'clock News" starring Mel Smith and Rowan Atkinson.
@@markhamstra1083 "...like groping women...." But (IIRC) wasn't he, in fact, a closet homosexual as well?
@rossmcconchie1316 the Bishop had a cross on his necklace & replacing that with a camera lens was a genius move 😂
@@rossmcconchie1316 that skit is on RUclips if anyone wants - it's really clever 👍
Unpredictable. This is one of Monty Python's most valuable qualities.
There's also a fourth film (which is the first film) called 'And Now for Something Completely Different' and a stage show called 'Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl' which are all hilarious.
"Typical Hollywood audience, all the kids are on drugs and the adults are on rollerskates."
followed by
"This is for all you who think your American beer is so special. We think your beer is like having sex in a canoe!'
"Sex in a canoe?!"
"Yes! It's F****ing close to water!!!"
I'm a Brian. When questioned about the name of the film, the Pythons thought it was the most boring name in the world... I agree with them! Genius! I had to go to a different town to watch this, as it was banned in my local town in Scotland at the time of it's release....One of my favourite films...and I'm proud to be a 'Brian' purely because of this film.
The movie "And Now for Something Completely Different" is actually their first movie. It's a compilation of favorite skits from their TV series redone with a movie budget. It'll give you a chance to see what their TV series was like.
Also, you should watch "Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl". It's a documentary film of their live performance that includes recreations of many of their skits. My favorite being "The Argument Sketch". They also do a very funny skit called "The Four Yorkshiremen". The live show is mostly sketches from the Flying Circus TV show. But there's also stuff from record albums, stage shows, and TV shows they were in before Flying Circus.
Monty Python can be summed up in six words... "And now for something completely different."
Funny thing is, graffiti was very common in Rome. People used it to communicate like leaving a note on a builtin board.
I can see "AMERICAE ITE DOMUM" on walls in the coming years.
Yeah but also plenty of disses, dick drawings, Kilroy was here type stuff
Glad you went for another Monty Python movie, The meaning of life is wild also. Great couple skits in it for sure you'll never forget, like Mr. Creatose. "It's just a wafer thin mint sir" LOL
Thank you so much for reacting to this. When someone pronounces the letter "r" as a "w", it's called rhotacism. Rhotacism is a speech impediment that makes it difficult for people to articulate the "r" sound.
John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin; How to Irritate People. Very much worth a watch.
‘Holy Grail”, ‘Meaning of Life” and this film are just the tip of the iceberg as far as Monty Python material goes. There’s plenty more to explore featuring the six members of the troupe.
You were correct in noticing that “Holy Grail” was less of a linear story than this one. The Pythons did get their start as a sketch comedy troupe after all. Hopefully not spoiling anything by letting you know that “Meaning of Life” is more sketch oriented as well.
Would recommend that you check out the original television show to really get the flavour of their humour. If that’s too much of a commitment, there’s always “And Now For Something Completely Different”, their first feature length film (“Grail” came after that). It was basically a ‘greatest hits’ compilation of the best skits from the show.
Beyond those 4 movies, there is a whole universe of side projects to explore, from the many directorial projects of Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones to the musical parody of “All You Need is Cash”, the ‘documentary’ of the fictitious band ‘The Rutles’.
It’s a deep rabbit hole. Just don’t let it tear your head off…😊
My favourite line from the song at the end is "Always look on the bright side of death.... just before you take your terminal breath"
Another awesome reaction to an amazing piece of cinema. Totally watch the Meaning of Life, it's full of laugh-making-ness. *high-fives*