Am I the sole human here who watched this in the cinema when it was released? I clearly recall seeing it too. Few movies can retain their impact after four decades. I salute you, Gilliam.
saw it in the theatre when it came out in California, the year I graduated from high school with my best friend, who was the one who turned me into a Python fan.
Saw it in the theater. Later rigged file cabinet drawers to at least spring out forcefully when opened in tribute. Software engineer by trade but totally loved this.
So how "absurd" by comparison was everything and everyone that caused the 2008 global financial collapse + nightmare ? Was that also a perfect daydream antidote to a boring day at work? An impossible fantasy? Paul G
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, the adventures of Baron Von Munchausen and the Brothers Grimm are all fantastic movies. Makes me proud he is a fellow Minnesotan
What an amazing imagination it took to even think of this totally unique concept. This has to rate as one of, if not the greatest comedy short of all time.
PointyTailofSatan yes I agree, it definitely took a truly unique mind to come up with this one! Here’s another gem in case you haven’t seen this before. ua-cam.com/video/RRMfXlJMmPU/v-deo.html
The most important part OF THE ENTIRE FILM was omitted! It occurs just before the start of this clip, where the modern insurance executives consider the point of "Just how much is there left to own?" and this brings up the topic of the Human Soul. Some very important things were mentioned between that point, and the final point when they say "So... souls don't develop because people become distracted? Hey look at that building!!!" (proving the point.) PS: John Cleese studied Gurdjieff.
@@_GOD_HAND_ Thanks again. I read about Gurdjieff. He lived a very long life! I can understand how his philosophy translated into the many facets of Monty Python.
5:10 Full Speed Ahead, Mister Cohen! It's fun to charter an accountant, And sail the wide accountant-sea. To find, explore, the funds off shore, And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy. It's pamby-manly insurance, We'll up your premiums semi-annually. It's all tax deductible; We're fairly incorruptible, We're sailing on the wide accountant-sea.
This isn’t just absurdity. It’s a New Yorker Political Cartoon come to life. How piracy and corporate politics are one and the same. Huh. This seems to be happening more nowadays than ever... Especially over here in the U.S....
When i was little my parents were watching this with friends and i accidentally saw the this portion, Spent the next 10 years or so thinking i imagined it. Imagine my surprise when i saw it again as a teenager 😅
“The pirate instinct of the insular nation has a wholly different understanding of economic affairs. There economic activity is considered a matter of combat and booty-ultimately, the individual’s share in the booty. The Norman state, which developed a refined technique of amassing money reserves, was based entirely on the piracy principle. The feudal system was introduced as a magnificent and elegant means to the same piratical end.”
Looking at this now, there is something strangely whimsical and melancholy about it all. Most of those men are almost certainly dead, and capitalism is as ruthless and cutthroat as ever. And yet there is always the dream of those accountants- the dream of sailing off into the sunset after brutally murdering your competitors and ending the world that put you in a cage. Who among us hasn't dreamed that dream?
It's a brilliant sketch that reflects the state of British finances of that era. The accountants "exploring the funds offshore" is not unlike Slater's offshore company setting up low tax accounts around the world, until his arrest in Singapore, as well as Goldsmith leaving Britain and conquering Wall Street following Reagan relaxing financial policies. No doubt this sketch flew over the heads of many people.
@@th0r0shvener52 I don't know about that, I think the relaxation of financial policies led to the cut-throat, murderous ways of wall street more and more etc, culminating in the 2008 financial crash.
@@Hawthorne-Studios it did. But it wasn't the first time. In 1982, when The Meaning of Life was being completed, unemployment in Britain reached 3 million people, and there were already riots in the streets. That's why the movie starts with "In the bleak days of 1983...following the doldrums of a ruinous monetary policy..." they're referring to Thatcher era British monetary policy.
@@th0r0shvener52 i'm not disagreeing, Thatcher's deregulation led to the mess later on, in fact as soon as the late 80s the financial chickens were coming home to roost.
For anyone in the lunatic fringe, you see Matt Frewer as the last suit standing who jumps. Matt Frewer played "Max Headroom". I'll let you look that up.
THIS WAS AMAZING ❤❤❤👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥LOVED THIS short a bunch. Thanks for having it up. Loved the high set design and crazy whimsy for this fantasy version of accountants😆
The well built "clerk" with the glasses shaking his booty during the song is the old music hall song writer Leslie Sarony. You can find a lot of his stuff on here. Worth checking out, an underated comedy great.
"The more things change, the more they stay the same" It's best to trim the stupidity of the powerful to a manageable size early and often - less collateral damage...like where we find ourselves now :P
It gets weird/strange/odd when the small building having business pirates looks like Gallalee Hall [Physics Department] at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, the home of Crimson Tide football.
@AngrypunkNaysayer: Thanks, but the glory goes to Monty Python; so watch their version of the Holy Grail saga and take good note of any appearance of French folk in the movie.
Any time I play a game that involves ships and piracy (sea or space), I always name my ship after the legendary pirate ship the Crimson Permanent Assurance.
From IMDB: Acme Construction Company Payne, Bickers and Dogood Ltd. Stn. Pendons Ltd. V. Rich and Son Doneys (Florence) Mirage Land Co. Arctic Geo. Lab. Co. Liver Donors Inc. World Wide Wine Corp. Universal Amalgamations Ltd. Consolidated Steel Co. Micro Computer Inc. Moonscape Products Ltd. Rubber Goods Incorporated D. Odgey Enterprises Ltd. Money Factor Printers Ltd. Better Plastics Corps. D. Crepid Holdings Super Big Ltd. Space Propulsion Lab Interstellar Travel Corp. Dawking's Mining Co. Lange and Sons (International) Cooper's (Purveyors) Dickinson Kincain Association The All Enveloping Co. Ltd. O. Verpaid Associates Ltd. E. Normous and Sons A. Maze and Lee Huge Horace Mann and Yure Ltd. R. Devious Inc. Wakefeld and Daughter Vast Holdings (Europe) Ltd. Phil Thevich Consortium Fastness and Vast Co. Ltd Star Bright Merchandise Org. X. Tortion World Wide Ltd. Cartwright Tutorials Black and White Picture Co. Ltd. R. J. McArthur Parks Ltd. Walker, Walker and Jones Bros. Data Travel and Experiments And it repeats from there.
I've seen this movie about fifty times, no exaggeration, and the only part I still don't get is "Find the Fish". I assume it's some sort of inside joke.
Sometimes the Pythons amaze me, though they are not smart by intellectual ability, they seem to be smart by instinct (somewhat): They may have tried to ridicule the boring modern business life by a elderly pirates flick but the German philosopher Oswald Spengler did in fact consider the foundation of English economical thinking to be the piracy of the old Normans, which has developed into the modern economic system, turning the pirate into a millionaire:
Wrong. The bit you're speaking of occurs in "The Meaning of Life" proper, and is explained by the Narrator as a hijacking of the main feature until another building is dropped on the Crimson Permanent Assurance. Also: MP sure had it in for chartered accountants, huh?
As an accountant, I can verify that this is 100% accurate
Great documentary... =)
Controller here and I can assure, working with our Accounting department sometimes really feels like this
Does this mean the Earth is flat all along?
i mean you are pirates aren't you?
@@georgemccartney8906 not all along... only in the middle
Am I the sole human here who watched this in the cinema when it was released? I clearly recall seeing it too. Few movies can retain their impact after four decades. I salute you, Gilliam.
saw it in the theatre when it came out in California, the year I graduated from high school with my best friend, who was the one who turned me into a Python fan.
It was brilliance by Gilliam. I also thought that "Brazil" was a fantastic adaption of Gilliams thoughts.
I remember seeing it as well but can’t remember what it was on with.
Saw it in the theater. Later rigged file cabinet drawers to at least spring out forcefully when opened in tribute.
Software engineer by trade but totally loved this.
For all of the symbolism in this film, I like the absurdity of this sketch because it's the perfect daydream for a boring day at work.
So how "absurd" by comparison was everything and everyone that caused the 2008 global financial collapse + nightmare ? Was that also a perfect daydream antidote to a boring day at work? An impossible fantasy?
Paul G
This is a better documentary about the 2008 financial crisis than The Big Short
“The Dow Jones closed today at a 3 month low, when several Wall Street executives were made to walk the plank”
One of the best shorts ever. Terry Gilliam is a brilliant director.
This and Brazil are brilliant.
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, the adventures of Baron Von Munchausen and the Brothers Grimm are all fantastic movies. Makes me proud he is a fellow Minnesotan
What an amazing imagination it took to even think of this totally unique concept. This has to rate as one of, if not the greatest comedy short of all time.
PointyTailofSatan yes I agree, it definitely took a truly unique mind to come up with this one! Here’s another gem in case you haven’t seen this before.
ua-cam.com/video/RRMfXlJMmPU/v-deo.html
That's what makes Monty Python so special.
Now that's what I call a hostile takeover.
Clayton Cherry hahaha
That's my idea of a real 'hostile takeover'.
Asset reallocation and liquidation
HAHAHAHAHA
The most important part OF THE ENTIRE FILM was omitted! It occurs just before the start of this clip, where the modern insurance executives consider the point of "Just how much is there left to own?" and this brings up the topic of the Human Soul. Some very important things were mentioned between that point, and the final point when they say "So... souls don't develop because people become distracted? Hey look at that building!!!" (proving the point.)
PS: John Cleese studied Gurdjieff.
no, that comes up later in the film.
@@backslash68...to recycle the opening sketch. a very python thing to do.
Who is Gurdijef? I'm a huge Cleese fan.
@@jeffryhammel3035 Gurdjieff was a proto New Age guru from the early 20th century
@@_GOD_HAND_ Thanks again. I read about Gurdjieff. He lived a very long life! I can understand how his philosophy translated into the many facets of Monty Python.
5:10
Full Speed Ahead, Mister Cohen!
It's fun to charter an accountant,
And sail the wide accountant-sea.
To find, explore, the funds off shore,
And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
It's pamby-manly insurance,
We'll up your premiums semi-annually.
It's all tax deductible;
We're fairly incorruptible,
We're sailing on the wide accountant-sea.
Sail Awayyy
And balance the books
Sail Awayyyy
And balance the books.
*****??
I wish The Pythons would release a full version of this song.
Crimson Permanent Assurance, I salute you. May your income always outweigh your expenditure!
I'm taking Macro Economics as my first college course.
And I watch this film.
I know what I'm going to be dreaming about tonight.
Nice little cameo by Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam as window cleaners at 0:47
Michael Palin window cleaner: What in Jesus H. Christ is happening here?
XD!
This isn’t just absurdity. It’s a New Yorker Political Cartoon come to life. How piracy and corporate politics are one and the same.
Huh. This seems to be happening more nowadays than ever... Especially over here in the U.S....
but you forgot the world has an edge to it.
One of the most brilliant sketches ever committed to film - Python were comedic geniuses, pure and simple. They are without equal.
I used to sing the Accoutancy Shanty while doing my Business Math/Accounting homework. My classmates all thought I was making it up!
Almost makes you want an office job.
Almost
A l m o s t
6:11
Priceless ending for this short film.
Never judge modern theories about the shape of our world.
Best pirate movie ever. Jack Sparrow is the apprentice. These are the masters.
Gives Errol Flynn a run for his money.
5:25 You can clearly hear Idle singing.
When i was little my parents were watching this with friends and i accidentally saw the this portion, Spent the next 10 years or so thinking i imagined it. Imagine my surprise when i saw it again as a teenager 😅
lol one of the greatest scenes in movie history and it isn't even known to most.
The Mortal Engines but with less budget.
Also 36 years ago.
And just made for hilarity's sake.
*I just realised the 80's are soon 40 years ago.*
And with better plot. Far better plot.
I was just looking for this because the movie reminded me of this!
Man the Mortal Engines movie was such a letdown, I really wanted to see Panzerstadt-Bayreuth chasing down London only to get zapped as it closes in
“The pirate instinct of the insular nation has a wholly different understanding of economic affairs. There economic activity is considered a matter of combat and booty-ultimately, the individual’s share in the booty. The Norman state, which developed a refined technique of amassing money reserves, was based entirely on the piracy principle. The feudal system was introduced as a magnificent and elegant means to the same piratical end.”
"Eric, get the read-outs!" That voice.. OMG it's Matt Frewer!!
Trashcan Man from "The Stand".
also "Max Headroom"
Gilliam is such a genius at creating stuff like this
Pirates of the Carribean 6
2021: Goldman Sachs to buy Lloyd’s Register assurance arm
Screw Blackbeard. This the ship I'm interested in
I believe this is the best short film of all times.
Looking at this now, there is something strangely whimsical and melancholy about it all.
Most of those men are almost certainly dead, and capitalism is as ruthless and cutthroat as ever. And yet there is always the dream of those accountants- the dream of sailing off into the sunset after brutally murdering your competitors and ending the world that put you in a cage.
Who among us hasn't dreamed that dream?
It's a brilliant sketch that reflects the state of British finances of that era. The accountants "exploring the funds offshore" is not unlike Slater's offshore company setting up low tax accounts around the world, until his arrest in Singapore, as well as Goldsmith leaving Britain and conquering Wall Street following Reagan relaxing financial policies.
No doubt this sketch flew over the heads of many people.
@@th0r0shvener52 I don't know about that, I think the relaxation of financial policies led to the cut-throat, murderous ways of wall street more and more etc, culminating in the 2008 financial crash.
@@Hawthorne-Studios it did. But it wasn't the first time. In 1982, when The Meaning of Life was being completed, unemployment in Britain reached 3 million people, and there were already riots in the streets. That's why the movie starts with "In the bleak days of 1983...following the doldrums of a ruinous monetary policy..." they're referring to Thatcher era British monetary policy.
@@th0r0shvener52 i'm not disagreeing, Thatcher's deregulation led to the mess later on, in fact as soon as the late 80s the financial chickens were coming home to roost.
I love the accountant pirates. Very office punk
I don’t know why or how this roused me or brought me to tears.
Classic Terry Gilliam madness.
Absolute genius!
I wish this was its own feature length film
For anyone in the lunatic fringe, you see Matt Frewer as the last suit standing who jumps. Matt Frewer played "Max Headroom". I'll let you look that up.
Arrr - there's corporate raidin' to be done, lads!
When reddit realizes it can affect the market
THIS WAS AMAZING ❤❤❤👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥LOVED THIS short a bunch. Thanks for having it up. Loved the high set design and crazy whimsy for this fantasy version of accountants😆
The well built "clerk" with the glasses shaking his booty during the song is the old music hall song writer Leslie Sarony.
You can find a lot of his stuff on here. Worth checking out, an underated comedy great.
am I the only one that wants to see more of this sketch
"The more things change, the more they stay the same"
It's best to trim the stupidity of the powerful to a manageable size early and often - less collateral damage...like where we find ourselves now :P
12 years later.....if only we had listened.
WallStreetBets just brought this to life
6:18 proof that the earth is flat.
Joke.
Someone has to do it.
The truth is out there.
It *was* round,
before the giant cartoon foot stomped on it @~@
honestly my favorite monty python bit
I would watch a full length film of this
Actual footage of the Redditors purchasing Game Stop stock.
0:45 All these years later I only just realised those aren’t window washers, it’s Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam with a film camera!
2021 gamestop crisis in a nutshell
I remember lending this film on VHS to a work collegue. The thick bastard said 'That ain't Monty Python!'.
I watched this ages ago as a kid and just googled 'monty python old man pirates' and found it haha
That's what I call a hostile take over.
You did *what* with the entire movies budget, Terry??
I can't stop laughing...!!!
lol this is great, i just started watching monty python, its awesome. XD
Sailing upon the wide accountant seas!
When Max Headroom jumps out the window.
4:10
When Nickelodeon stock plummets....
Throw yourselves out the window...
Where is Captain Jack sparrow when you need him.
Now that was hilarious!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
It gets weird/strange/odd when the small building having business pirates looks like Gallalee Hall [Physics Department] at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, the home of Crimson Tide football.
What I want to happen to EA and Ubisoft.
Meanwhile, at Melvin Capital
LOL
brings new meaning to "hostel takeover"
What Genious
Funniest part of this movie!
Glorious...
@AngrypunkNaysayer: Thanks, but the glory goes to Monty Python; so watch their version of the Holy Grail saga and take good note of any appearance of French folk in the movie.
Love it!
I dont remember this episode of the office
This is better than Mortal Engines
thats michael palin and terry gilleaum as the two workmen.
You can also see Matt frewer at 3:48 thru 4:14
I stand corrected, and yes - great fun!
ROSS!! GET THE READOUTS!!
Please.. Does someone have the score to this short film?
1:02 ATTACK!!! 🗡🗡🗡
Any time I play a game that involves ships and piracy (sea or space), I always name my ship after the legendary pirate ship the Crimson Permanent Assurance.
Supposedly, a lot of the names on the boards in the boardroom are joke names. But it's hard to read them they go by so fast.
From IMDB:
Acme Construction Company
Payne, Bickers and Dogood Ltd.
Stn. Pendons Ltd.
V. Rich and Son
Doneys (Florence)
Mirage Land Co.
Arctic Geo. Lab. Co.
Liver Donors Inc.
World Wide Wine Corp.
Universal Amalgamations Ltd.
Consolidated Steel Co.
Micro Computer Inc.
Moonscape Products Ltd.
Rubber Goods Incorporated
D. Odgey Enterprises Ltd.
Money Factor Printers Ltd.
Better Plastics Corps.
D. Crepid Holdings
Super Big Ltd.
Space Propulsion Lab
Interstellar Travel Corp.
Dawking's Mining Co.
Lange and Sons (International)
Cooper's (Purveyors)
Dickinson Kincain Association
The All Enveloping Co. Ltd.
O. Verpaid Associates Ltd.
E. Normous and Sons
A. Maze and Lee Huge
Horace Mann and Yure Ltd.
R. Devious Inc.
Wakefeld and Daughter
Vast Holdings (Europe) Ltd.
Phil Thevich Consortium
Fastness and Vast Co. Ltd
Star Bright Merchandise Org.
X. Tortion World Wide Ltd.
Cartwright Tutorials
Black and White Picture Co. Ltd.
R. J. McArthur Parks Ltd.
Walker, Walker and Jones Bros.
Data Travel and Experiments
And it repeats from there.
That fkn advert!
Seen it once on TV long time ago
"Reasonably violent men"
Occupy Wall Street!
freakin' brilliant xD
Bonjour l'algorithme de Google.
Matt Frewer was in it?
I can't stop laughing...
Funny that the Python crew and Matt Frewer played the Americans
The Python guys must do fine New Yorker accents.
I forgot Matt Frewer was in this scene. lol. Crimson Permanent Assurance FTW!
Ross Davidson from EastEnders
@eatyerbeans Later in the movie, I think. They came back to it.
Today Pirates wear ties?
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Spartans Tonight we dine in Hell.............
Oh Galadriel how could you
Wallstreet 1987!
There's a part 1?
Where's part 1?
I've seen this movie about fifty times, no exaggeration, and the only part I still don't get is "Find the Fish". I assume it's some sort of inside joke.
What? That's the funniest bit!
Was that Matt Frewer playing the American Executive who yells "Shit!" then falls out the window?
6:13 then why the heck did they fall of the giant island
Ah, that WAS Matt Frewer! =^[.]^=
Sometimes the Pythons amaze me, though they are not smart by intellectual ability, they seem to be smart by instinct (somewhat): They may have tried to ridicule the boring modern business life by a elderly pirates flick but the German philosopher Oswald Spengler did in fact consider the foundation of English economical thinking to be the piracy of the old Normans, which has developed into the modern economic system, turning the pirate into a millionaire:
Wrong. The bit you're speaking of occurs in "The Meaning of Life" proper, and is explained by the Narrator as a hijacking of the main feature until another building is dropped on the Crimson Permanent Assurance.
Also: MP sure had it in for chartered accountants, huh?