Monty Python's Life Of Brian - [April Fools'] 'Romans go home' Latin Lesson 60fps FI - Sub ESP
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- Опубліковано 31 бер 2016
- One of the most thrilling grammar lessons of all time, tied in with an incredible chase scene, remarkably improved by a special set of presets of 60fps conversion.
HAPPY APRIL FOOLS' DAY!
Make sure to watch it at least on 720p quality as it is rendered with SVP frame interpolation to achieve 60fps. Due to this, there are some minor graphical glitches present.
This is my educational attempt in order to make the format more popular, which in my opinion works great in a lot of media, being one of the main ones anime.
I subtitled it in rioplatense Spanish, I hope you like it. - Ігри
Most accurate representation of how it feels to learn latin.
Especially the whimpering!
Ironically... still not as intense as learning German
@@yanuchiuchihaanimegamesand3907 You must be joking. Learning German is a piece of cake compared to trying to learn Latin.
Well, Cleese was a Latin teacher, and the scene is based on his experience...
Definitely flashback time every time I see this scene - and makes me laugh now, but not then haha
I'll never understand why the term "grammar nazi" took off, while the term "grammar centurion" didn't
We can try to promote that better term.
Yes, I second that motion.
Too long: "grammar Roman" would be fine, though :)
Lol I wonder if people did jokingly call them that during the middle ages or after the Pax Romana days
Because grammar centurion would be seen as a badge to be proud of
Love how the Centurion just draws his Gladius as soon as Brian says "dative"
Some grammar crimes must be punishable by death.
He butchered his beautiful language!
Grammar nazis agree.
Centurion Cleesius.
Why did Brian say "dative"?
@@jimmikulsky4810 some teachers lazily teach to just translate dative as "to (noun)" instead of teaching them the english of what an indirect object is.
A Latin student's plaint
"Latin is the deadest language/As dead as dead can be/It killed the ancient Romans/And now it's killing me."
Now write this in Latin
@@emanuelldaluzcaminha9122 Latina lingua mortua est, mortua quam maxime. Prima necavit Romanos et nunc necat me.
@@justinleecw Good job, you get to eat tonight.
It seems you have never travelled to Retro Romania where Latin is still alive !!
@@susannmoeller1656 do you think they are actually alive there or are they just vampires pretending to be?
I'd bring a mirror with me and a crucifix, some garlic and a stake...hmm steak sounds nice...but yeah...just to make sure they are dead dead 😆
"Romanes eunt domus? People called Romanes they go to the house?"
"It it says 'Romans, go home!'"
"No, it doesn't
Never fails to make me laugh
They go the house. Domus is in subject form.
No it doesn't
@@desertigloo2383 yes it does
In Google Translate it actually does translate to Romans go home, but knowing actual Latin conjugation it's totally wrong
They go the house, without “to” 😂
If you're gonna write anti-roman messages of dissent YOU BETTER DO IT PROPERLY!!!
It means more if it's done properly.
You *HAD* better do it properly.
@@darksim1930 Well-corrected; the Centurion would be proud.
*proper
@@gravyjones8305 The Centurion could’ve killed Brian for opposing the Roman Empire.
The lesson: grammar is more important than politics.....
Correction: grammar is more important than life, based on the sword-to-throat ratio [and English teachers the world over could be heard rejoicing].
tell that to the actual American president
Res ipsa loquitur
sempre! Immer!
As I see it, they couldn't care less what inferiors think, but they have to teach proper language to barbarians before killing them.
This is actually one of the most brilliant scenes the Pythons ever did.
Or anyone.
I agree. It's hilarious 😂😂
It is pure genius
Language teacher: If you don't know, just make a guess
Also teacher when I make one:
One guess
Your teacher had a sword?
@@theblackwidower your's didn't?
@@theblackwidower That's old-school nuns for you
"... Hail Caesar and everything, sir."
lmao. This always get me.
"I'll cut your balls off."
"Oh thank you, sir!"
This film was aired in Italy when I was in high school, learning Latin. I still remember the day after, my schoolmates and I were laughing to tears
Mia madre (santissima, madonna) quando non capivo come funzionava il locativo di domus mi ha fatto vedere sta scena, ancora non l’ho capito, ma ci siamo fatte due risate
It gets me everytime when the guard takes out his sword and holds it on Brian's throat when he answers Dative :D
a grammar nazi before nazis even existed, a grammar proto-nazi if you will
What's so bad about answering "dative" wrongly?
@@NobleKorhedron If I remember correctly a place can be dative if it is static and accusative if there is motion involved. It is a simple rule my teacher hammered into me and my fellow students. I think were he allowed to carry a sword, he´d drawn it as well if we´d done it wrong like this.
@@NobleKorhedron The dative is often translated with the preposition "to," as in "tibi librum dono" "I am giving the book to you," but you would not use it to say "I am going to Rome."
@@NobleKorhedron
What's more impressive then john cleese's mastery of Roman verb usage is how quietly he can walk in all that armor.
All that silly walking paid off, I s'pose.
Latin!
When the Pythons were kids, learning Latin was standard.
helps not to have microphones near you
Leather not metal.
"This is motion towards, isn't it, boy?"
Gets me every time
For me it is "But go is an order, so you must use..."
For me it's the centurion being most annoyed by Brian confusing motion-towards with the dative (which is for an indirect object), the joke being that both things can be expressed in English by the word 'to'.
This and "Biggus Dickus" are just hilarious!
Ah, dative sir!
@@martind4562 *holding a sword on your throat*
"This is 'motion towards' isn't it boy?" triggered so many memories of childhood Latin lessons that it now lives in my head not only rent free: but in a spacious two bedroom apartment with utilities included and a delightful seaside view.
"Right, now don't do it again."
As a new Latin student I can’t explain how relatable this is
Same here, I've started learning and my brain is already fried 😅
Yep, been teaching myself since March. I no longer fear Hell.
@@napoleonsolo5929 fear hell?! HAH! Honey I know how summon it.
same.... I just started and it kills me
@@napoleonsolo5929good for you. I teach it to anyone who wants to learn.
Literally every latin teacher ever
@@mn3702 I tried to smudge it off my screen.
@@mn3702 I have the dark mode on. He has no power over me!
I absolutely love that in the Rome Total War Remastered game there is an achievement for defeating the Julii family/faction called "Romanes eunt domus", purposely worded exactly like this as a reference to the movie. They've got a lot of other very clever ones too :)
Fallout New Vegas has an easter egg where "romanes eunt domus" is written on the wall in one of the legion bases (a faction who dresses like romans)
The Pythons worked at so many levels in every single scene. They punched up, down, left, right and center while extending an olive branch in all directions AND bringing some sorely needed teachable moments into the mix. Comedy titans.
As a greek,( where we use all that grammar) I had never related to how painful it is to learn all those rules. This video changed my whole perspective of the world.
These exact rules exist in german aswell...
@@nyChannel09 Well, it's a lot easier if you've grown up with it...
It it says Romans go home.
No it doesn’t.
Yes it does.
No it doesn’t.
This isnt an argument! Its just contradiction!
Darthvirus1992 No it isn’t.
"Oh sory, this is abuse."
Sorry!
Commander Shepard no it isn’t
My husband took Latin in school, showed him this and he’s still laughing lol
One of the most hilarious scenes in the movie. Also very nice showcases that MP were bunch of very smart and educated people.
Actually, with the latin pronunciation, he might as well say Romanus goes like? anus instead of annus… great hidden joke… :D
I wish more current comedians were like this
Cleese taught Latin.
MP were clergy bent, until they became unbent.
"If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off." :'D One of the best Monty Python parts ever.
A very credible threat
Which? The balls? 😂
Reflecting roman mentality, at the same time ridiculing it. Well done indeed
yeah. they had harsh punishments
My 14 years old son asked me why he must learn Latin. Thanks a lot Monty Python for this brilliant help.
By this you mean that he asked after being inspierd after that scen and for that reason you're gratefull or you showed this to him after he asked and now you thank them since you don't need to bother with his request XD?
@@lordrainbow5029 The second one, obvious :)
Just to fine this scene funny. The only reason.
It was friday, we told to our latin/greek teacher we saw the lesson really boring and difficult
Thank God. Next monday she came with a DVD of Life of Brian and she told us to pay attention to this scene. It was one of the funniest moments of my high school years
Im glad im not the only one whose teacher showed it in latin class
Anyone who has ever had the misfortune to be taught latin will acknowledge this scene to be a work of genius.
I love how clear is that brian will be caught and yet the thriller music is still building up tension :-p
I love how the gladius is on the right side with the dominant right hand - the attention to historical accuracy!
reminds me of my Latin teacher...
John Cleese was LITERALLY a Latin Teacher for 2 years which is why this scene is so accurate :D
I can't imagine how long he had been waiting to draw a sword on a student!
I had Latin teacher (IN THE US) say he wanted to bring a gun into the classroom.
Another threw a student into the blackboard, breaking it.
Early 1970's.
What is it about Latin teachers?
When I was learning latin, my teacher brought up to the blackboard one of the students and asked him about his homework. He didn't know crap about latin (it was university course, some had latin in high school). And the thing went like this:
Student: Uhm.... Uhmmmm....
Teacher: So? What tense do we have here? Hm?
S: Uhm...Abla...
T: INDI...
S: Indicativus praesentis...uhm... pass..?
T: ACTIVI
S: ...Activi
T: ...
S: ...
T: You don't understand anything, do you?
S: ...I'm sorry.
T: *DO NO TELL ME YOU ARE SORRY. DO NOT APOLOGIZE TO ME. YOU SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO THE ENTIRETY OF LATIN LANGUAGE!!!*
S: ...
😂😂😂🤣
So how old are you? :)
1:51
Say what you will, dude is quick on the draw
There is only one mistake in this hilarious lesson: "Domum" is the accusative and not the locative of "domus". The locative is "domi".
The bit that gets me is..
Centurion: What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? People called Romanes, they go, the house?
Brian: It says, "Romans go home "
Centurion: No it doesn't
Centurion: What’s Latin for Roman? Come on!
The "No it doesn't" was probably a reminder of Cleese's part in the "Argument clinic" sketch...
@@notroll1279 no it wasn't :)
@@Fluffski2006 Thisss.... is typical...
@@martind4562 Romanus.
One of the first recorded Duolingo lessons.
As someone who went to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey three different times, this is just spot on.
The what, the "*Defense* Language Institute"!?
@@wuloki Yes- The Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center - DLI-FLC. It's located on the Presidio of Monterey, California. It's a language school used by the Defense Department to train linguists.
I went there for German (47 weeks) in 1990, Spanish (26 weeks) in 1994, and Persian Farsi (47 weeks) in 1997 while an Army interrogator. I kept reenlisting for other languages. Officers, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted from the services as well as Attaches (how the hell do I add an accent to an e??) go there.
Instructors are native speakers and classes run all day, five days a week.
This entire exchange from Monty Python is exactly how my German classes were, since German has three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter), and even more cases (Nominative, Dative, Accusative, and Genative) which all determine how verbs are conjugated.
Here's the link- www.dliflc.edu/
@@RobertPWills I'm actually German and learned Latin in school, even though I forgot most of it at this point. But it did help to understand how languages work.
I just wondered about the name, and how a language institute could be involved with defense/the DoD.
[on a computer running Windows with an US keyboard, hold ALT and type 0233 on the keypad. This gives you the é. See here: sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/windows/codealt/#accent ]
I guess you wanted to say "how nouns are declinated" when referring to cases. Don't worry, I often comment in a hurry too.
In Germany, you usually learn English as the first and French as your second language. Rarely, some highschools teach Latin as the first language and English as the 2nd. I was on on one of those.
Holy shit Latin sounds difficult as hell. I got sweaty when he started conjugating.
Nah, it just sounds like any romance language.
This is where Semitic language has a bit of an edge.
@@Amadeus-ms9lt Yes, for as long as you don't need plurals
@@warkillerheroes
Plurals are alright once you get the pattern. Initially hard because the concept is alien to Romance & Germanic users. In the end, it's all cool.
@@Amadeus-ms9lt he was ref'ing singulare tantum the feminine one u know!
No one ever talks about the bottomless sack of red paint
Yes the language is exactly this much fun to learn.
Romans: "Good! Seems he's learned to spell Latin correctly..... ... HEY WAIT A MINUET!!!"
Basic summary of the scene:
Brian - OhnohecaughtmepaintingseditiousgraffitiOhnoI'mgoingtobetriedfortreasonandcrucified!
Centurion - You filthy rebel! How dare you butcher the Latin language! Let's write it properly, shall we?
Brian - Oh...
As an occasional part time Grammar Nazi, it’s not the blatant stupidity in the statement that offends, it’s the There / They’re / Their confusion that I object to.
“People called Romanes, they go, the house”?
Romans, go, home.
@@urosmarjanovic663 no it doesnt...
Essentially how the entire translation part of my latin exams tends to look
What's Latin for "Roman?"
Come on--
My God, that Roman patrol was pretty stealth there.
"This is motion towards isn't it boy!" is my favorite
No matter how many times i watch this, never get tired of it.
"Write it a hundred times" XD
“hail Caesar and everything sir!”😂
Romani ite Domum... I'm gonna have to remember that. No idea when it would come in handy, but still, good to carry some Latin around a place that isn't the Vatican.
We were doing some translation practice in preparation for our test
the teacher asked a student to decline the noun "Agricola" (technically a second-year Latin course but we had some slower members so we were reviewing basics) He goes agricola, agricole, agricolam, agricolas, agricolae, agricolis. The teacher, dumbfounded by his stupidity goes along with it. Now tell me the cases and different uses of each case. "agricola, nominative, subject" "good" "agricole, perfect tense, idk" it was at that moment when my teacher knew, he was surrounded by idiots
You were that Latin teacher, weren't you.
I never heard of someone messing the firs declination up so much lmao
damn, the image quality is absolutely top notch. In every other version I've seen to date you can just barely make out Cleese's face, here you can easily see every facial expression he makes.
What's this then? People called Romane, they go the house?
This scene is why I took Latin in high school and college... that and knowing Latin gives you 95% of the English language roots even if you have never heard the particular word before.
Closer to 60% actually.
cammameil maybe if you learned Anglo-Saxon, or Old, English you'd know atleast 95% of the root words.
El ton more like 60% but that dose count the scientific names for things
cammameil rubbish. Fifty percent of English is friggin German. The days of the week are Norse for christ's sake.
Are you serious? English is a germanic language. Learn the difference
GOOD LORD - that frame interpolation is dramatic as hell!
Latin teachers were like this in the early 1970's even in the US.
What's even funnier is that they didn't even have to check this out from latin books or anything. If I remember right one of the subjects that John had on he's A-levels done was Latin. So he most likely still remembered it.
Typical Centurion: I'll have you crucified!!!
Cleese Centurion: This sounds wrong! Fix it by writing it all over the palace!!
Best gag in the film!
“And don’t do it again!”
The best kinda centurion
"Hail Caesar, Sir!"
"It's pronounced Kaiser!"
*decapitates him.*
This scene not only speaks to learning Latin but truly to the Roman way of thinking, especially in the ranks of the army
I love how incredibly crisp and fluid it looks. Well done!
What surprised the second set of legionnaires the most was how well written it was. They were actually chasing them to hire him as a teacher for their kids.
Only Monty Python could take a lesson in Latin grammar and turn it into something hilarious. Those guys were geniuses.
3 minutes of pure comedy genius
That may be one of the greatest comedy sketches of all time!
The english language is used in such a funny way in this scene. "Right... now don't do it againe" and "Bloody romans!" are my favorite lines in the whole movie
The English in the biggus diccus scene is even better
"So your parents were womans?"
"No, sir, Romans"
The little wascal has spiwit
@@ofunelewa1747 Oooh ... about eleven, sir.
@@ofunelewa1747yes, he did sir
Miss you, Graham.
Damn this is high quality. i feel like every time i've ever seen this movie it's about half the resolution and with healthy amount of film grain. And that's my official DVD copy.
After learning Latin in university for 7 weeks, this much more hilarious 😂
the best comedy of all time. period.
Quizlet is very useful for learning the declensions.
Troo
My grandfather was a latin teacher, and when he taught it to my father, he sat beside him, holding his ear the whole time: when my father made, or was going to, a mistake, my grandfather started twirl the ear, until my father got the right translation.
1:04 “No it doesn’t.”
The way he says makes it sound like he was going to arrest him at first but then the Latin teacher in him surfaced to teach him a lesson
"Domus? Nominative?" is a line that keeps popping into my head.
This sketch re- emphasises what a brilliant comic actor Graham Chapman was.
I have come to the understanding that the only pop culture that my teachers are allowed to talk about in class is Monty Python, and I love it.
This skit taught me more about grammar in general than 14 years of public school
"Now write it out a hundred times" 😂😂
As hilarious as the impromptu Latin lesson is, can we also just appreciate the joke of him doing graffiti with a literal paintbrush? XD
@@alistairwalker2850 Yes, that was the joke.
gets even funnier now that I'm learning latin at the uni
*draws a sword, "At uni."
when you start learning latin and have no idea wtf they're on about
It's incredible what they can do with digital enhancement nowadays
What makes me laugh is the way John Cleese says, No it doesn't 🤣
“Now write it out a hundred times.” I was in tears.
"*People called Romanes they go to the house*"
I like this Roman. He places correct grammar above patriotism. A true hero. ❤
It's very beautiful, fluid...moreso than the original footage. Very nice!
Masterpiece of modern cinema.... thankyou for the HD sir
This image is beautiful. Well done, sir.
This is how it feels to learn Latin in italy
What's funny about watching this clip is that other than the centurion's uniform it's probably pretty close to how Latin masters taught their students and it brought back memories to many especially in England from years ago when teachers could do that. It's still funny as hell to watch.
England isn't the only place that can claim this as their way of learning Latin. Man, when he says "Dative" instead of "Accusative", it brings back the reaction of all my Latin teachers. One even had a tendency to pull ones ear to a point where you got up from your chair, if you committed such a "crime".
Having done Latin for a few years beforehand, when I saw this in the Kinema I literally wet myself laughing as it was so perfectly true to learning latin at school. My latin mistress was a real taskmaster and I seldom received a mark above zero. Negative numbers were the norm.
I took Latin for 4 years, I think; I've blacked it out. Senior year I recall getting only ONE sentence right the whole year! Brilliant sketch.
@@carolemurphy6205 An impossible language that can only be learnt from birth, just thank goodness you aren't born in modern day Rumania.
I came here straight from my latin I class. I feel you Brian.
Thank you sir, hail Caesar sir!
Holy molly! This looks so clean!
as i watch this video, i can understand that many western students suffer from studying latin.... it is similar that korean, japanese, chinese, and so on, students suffer from studying ancient chinese(漢文)
I like that the Romans are more upset about improper grammar than seditious graffiti. Lol
I lost it when he pulled the sword lol
"It..it says 'Romans, go home!'"
"No, it doesn't..."
"Yes, it does!"
Their acting... so spot on!! when he got scared with a sword on his neck!!
Duuuuuude that video quality is insane
I literally learned that domus takes the locative in my gcse latin lesson yesterday that domus takes the dative haha
It's the one mistake in this scene. _Domum_ is the right word but it's an accusative for motion-towards. The locative - 'at home' - would be _domi_
@@MagnificentFiend Right, there’s a slight irregularity in that “Romans go home” is “Rōmānī īte domum” and not “Rōmānī īte ad domum”, but the locative case indicates location, not motion-towards. To use your example, saying “The Romans are (at) home” would take the locative: “Rōmānī domī sunt.”
My favorite part is when he says "Um"