I watched this movie in Tel Aviv in the early 90s. It was a full room, over a hundred people. Only myself, and one other guy laughed during the entire movie. Everyone else sat in stony silence. When it was over, I waited outside for the other laugher, and we had a great time recounting our favorite scenes and reenacting them as best as we could recollect. Everyone else shuffled off with dour faces, as if they had just watched a documentary on the holocaust. I guess Monty Python are not for everyone...But they are wonderful, IMO. Love them...love them....love them......
In the UK it caused outrage with the church of England sending in the big guns denouncing it as un-godly, terrible, end of society stuff. Of course they had not watched it, even more so with the film actually having a "cameo" of Jesus in one scene. You know when something is on shaky grounds when you have to protect/legislate against humour.
@@tomooo2637 It was also forbidden in Norway. The filmmakers used the notoriety to promote the film, with posters in Sweden reading, "So funny, it was banned in Norway!"
@@shaya_g it made fun of fanaticism and factionalism, both of which were rife in Judea at the time -- a generation later the Jews rebelled against Rome, and while the Romans were besieging Jerusalem rival factions inside the city rioted against each other and ended up burning some of their own granaries. That sort of behavior deserves to be mocked. The Romans were presented as quite silly too, and a lot of the Jewish characters were standing in for things that were going on in Britain in the 60s and 70s as well. I'm Jewish and I think the film is brilliant.
funnily enough this movie was (briefly) banned here in Norway for blasphemy (blasphemy was still against the law, even though it was mostly a dormant law at that point), which prompted Swedish movie theaters to advertise it as "a movie so funny that it was banned in Norway" :p
@@zbynekurbanek3345 I guess a major studio couldn't make "Triumph of the Will" or "Birth of a Nation" now, except as a parody. That would be out of bounds. However, independent cinema, religious cinema, underground cinema, politically provocative cinema, they're all thriving, but, not in traditional movie theaters. We live in a world with hundreds of millions of high quality video recorders in the hands of millions of people. Editing software Kubrick or Wise or Gilliam could only have dreamed of can be had for free. So make what you want. Offend whom you will. Oh, and remember the words of Groucho Marx, "I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members."
@@grimmstryke9627 theyre both fruit... but Im really convinced by evidence that the basic logical reasoning behind both concepts is the same - so hate speech is blasthemy... nothing more nothing less (because hate speech is not about "hate" - you cannot prove or disprove hate in speech - hate is an internal feeling of individual, only the speaker himself knows if he hates or not...) Hate speech laws are about banning saying things you dont agree with (or the law maker doesnt agree with) - the very same as how blasthemy laws work - they are also about bannign saying things the law maker doesnt agree with (and again you cannot prove or disprove if some god is offended by blasthemy... only the god himself knows if he is offended if he exists) ...so thats the fruit part - theyre exactly the same concept. it just depends who doesnt agree with what.
I remember going to see this in the local cinema in 1979 when it came out. I was fourteen and I laughed like a drain all the way through! Good times! 😁
A segment packed with some of my favourite Python moments, - the sheer randomness of the lady carrying the sick donkey "I haven't got time to go to no stonings, he's not well again...." - the concept of being the one throwing gravel at a stoning - the idea that the victim being a local citizen should make any difference to the affair
Presumably a local boy would know the laws and thus not make a fuss complaining of being killed over a law he couldn't know about. And/or he'd put on a good show for them because he knows that it's a fun event around there.
"Should be a good one this afternoon: Local boy!" is kind of a UK reference to boxing/wrestling, I suppose in that if it's a 'local boy' then at least he's likely to have some local, and therefore more vocal, support, thus adding to the excitement and perhaps his performance.
I particularly like the little cackle from Deuterony when the religious leader gets a rock to the back of the head! 🤣 The whole film is utterly brilliant and is in my top movies of all time.
An amazing movie, it's actually returned to selected UK theatres over the next few days to celebrate the Easter weekend. Just sadly none near my home nor at the right time of day.
"it's written" means exactly what it says - it's mandated in some official text or book - it usually refers to some requirement in the bible or other fictional religious tome.
But in this context, it implies that it is written in the bible, or the torah. There is no such law against women being at stonings in the torah, or anywhere in the bible as far as i know.
Happy Easter, and thanks for the erm, 'appropriate' Easter post😉Love the film, and still think this film has the one of greatest comedy moments. Brian 'You're all individual!' Crowd replies 'yes, we're all individual' and a small voice from the back says 'I'm not' . I am such a comedy nerd🤓. Keep the great posts coming
Funniest thing is the two bored Roman soldiers - looking at each other as if to say 'should we be doing anything', and obviously thinking 'why bother'.
Such a great movie. The double joke about the Middle East in the 70s and the multiple warring factions, same as during the time of Jesus. The bit about the guy wanting to have a baby and being ridiculed for it, the committee that never does anything but talk about meetings, just hilarious.
The leader of the gang always finding an excuse to not get into any risk of get caught, and a few other things, actually reminded me of "politics" in my own youth ...
i absolutely love this movie and my view count is at 42 ( once a year on christmas, just like the LotR trilogy ). In the German synchro the scene ends also with the big boulder being dumped on the judge, but with a dry "Nice Throw" commentary Also a fun anecdote: at the wedding of a dear friend, me and a bunch of other close friends composed and performed a musical with scenes and songs adapted to events of the life of both the bride and groom, ending with "Every Sperm is Sacred" (another Monty Python Song), cause the bride was expecting ( they married after being in a relation for a decade, so no shot gun involved 🤣). I was standing right in front of the priest, doing the wedding. The thought process that i could see on his face when he was nodding to the melody, then stopping, realizing the lyrics, then shrugging and continuing to nod to us singing was pure gold. Keep up with your reactions, they are very entertaining to watch and for me it is also walking Memory Lane in a good way. 🥰
@@12dougreed thats why i prefer to watch most movies in english, but sometimes the synchronisation into other languages works even better than the original. there is one crime show from the early 70's "The Persuaders" with Roger Moore and Tony Curtis, that had a German Synchro, that was so hilariously good, that it was the most successful show at that time in Germany
I watched this as a student. In a college theatre, full of students. Try to imagine the volume of the laughs. Years later. I won a telephone competition. And the prize was two tickets to see the film in Leicester Square and meet the cast. That was after Graham passed, but the rest showed aside from Eric. Had hoped to meet Spike Milligan, but hey ho.
Thanks for being quality entertainment, as always. Six days until I move now, so fingers crossed I can regulate just enjoy Manders videos like normal soon 👍 fucking ball ache moving house though I suggest nobody ever does it 🤣
Here in Denmark the commercials said "So funny that it's banned in Norway"😂 ( our dear neighbours with a very similar language to ours 😉 - so we always joke about each others back and forth ). And it was actually true - at least for a while 😂
Now that really is a Monty Python thing if I ever saw one! BTW, thank you for giving us Sandi Toksvig, the greatest Dane in British history which is ironic cos she's tiny!
What better way to ridicule the insane customs of the past. It was clearly human beings taking every opportunity to be legally brutal to their fellow humans. Sadly, those habits still exist.
Religion is just that. A belief. If you don’t believe in religion then that is also a belief. In both cases these beliefs are to be respected. Being offended is only an issue for the person being offended. It’s not the person who is delivering the offensive material who has the issue. Freedom of speech and expression > religion.
The thing with the Monty Python films is even though there is an over arching story, they are still very much like the TV show in that the scenes often come across as smaller skits within the main story. It is especially true with Meaning of life, but even Life of Brian and Holy grail have very much a sketch show formula. I think that while I know you have had to cut this down, the individual scenes do lend themselves to smaller reactions. You can't for really do that with a lot of comedy films.
Agreed. It feels kinda like the crew got together and wrote a loose script. Along the lines of "What if a guy was born same time as Jesus and shenanigans ensued?" They then proceed to come up with the scenes for the day/week that'll set them on that path. It's disjointed in the best of ways
@@belegur8108 I mean, at the end of the day, they, at that point in time were SKETCH comedians primarily. You can feel that in most movies. They have an overarching story, sure. But like, the Black Knight scene was surely written without considering it. Same for the Knights that say NI. (I remember that movie best) That's why it's no surprise they were a "figure it out later" type.
@@caistigh2062 also fun fact, "Holy Grail" * spoiler alert* ends in such a sudden way, because they ran out of money at that point 🤣🤣🤣 and yes, i was a faithful watcher of Monty Python's Flying Circus ... Dead Parrot, How-To-Fight-A-Tiger, Silly Walk, pure comedy gold. I absolutely adore this dark british humor... and i am a born and bred German 😜🤪
Great laugh and reaction, I love this film and watch it each year as each gag stands the test of time Brian just parallels Jesus' story from the start. one of the lines that stood out for me is Brian: I'm not the Messiah! Follower: I say you are, Lord, and I should know, I've followed a few! If Life of Brian has a message it is that the viewer should think for himself before blindly following any recently minted messiah (“He’s a very naughty boy”). The key scene is that in which Brian’s followers chant as one: “We are all individuals!”
I would submit that the the message is that you should think for yourself and not blindly follow ANY messiah - recently minted or not. But it is a hilarious movie.
I remember Cleese and Palin confronting Malcolm Muggeridge and an Anglican bishop who thought that this film was blasphemous and they ripped them to pieces. It isn't: it's just bloody hilarious.
That debate is on UA-cam. They claimed that Brian was really Jesus and the film mocked him, so they obviously hadn't even watched it as the whole point of the movie is that Brian is NOT Jesus.
They even admitted they had not even watched the beginning of the film when it is made perfectly clear that Brian is not Jesus. Jesus is wonderfully portrayed by the actor Kenneth Colley in the early Sermon on the Mount scene - Did he say ‘blessed are the cheese makers’?
The film "Monty Python's Life" of Brian was banned in several countries, including in Norway, which meant that in the neighboring country of Sweden (where I'm from) the cinemas gave the film the subtitle "The film that was so funny it was banned in Norway". John Cleese and Michael Palin engaged in a debate on the BBC2 discussion program "Friday Night, Saturday Morning" with the journalist Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the Bishop of Southwark, who both were against the film and considered it blasphemous. That debate is worth checking out (available here on UA-cam) as the only ones who seem to have something inside the frontal bone are the two comedians who gave serious, well-researched points, while their two counter-debaters who represented the Church of England engaged in cheap jibes, point scoring and both mostly came across as two pompous idiots who didn't even seem to have a clue what they were talking about.
Try watching the Biggus Dickus scene in the Palace where Brian is brought before Pilate. The extras were told they were not allowed to laught or they would be off the film
Religion, probably the easiest target for the pythons to take the piss out of. I remember seeing it when it first came out and it just gets funnier with age
It is not that I get bored of it, it is that this is taken from a longer video and the intro/outro I made for the longer video would make no sense, and making a new one is unnecessary 🤪
I love this film but 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' is my favorite. First seen as a kid in the late 80's. At that time I could only watch both films with German dubbing voices, and it worked.
Monty Python was about the only bunch of comedians who could tell a joke or sketch without a clue and still be funnny. The Holy Grail did the same with the arrests in the end.
I know I keep saying it, but you have to see their Holy Grail movie. If you enjoyed Life of Brian, then the Holy Grail will have you creased with laughter. A happy Easter to you Mandy!
@@geoffpoole483 I guess that it is because there are so many religious nutters (of all persuasions) in the world that just have to get the "urine" taken out of the stupid fools for us to get some peace! 🙄
Quite probably the best movie about religion and human credulity ever made. And if I weren't English I would actually be saying that it is the best, it doesn't miss the mark once and you'd have to be an idiot to think that it is at all blasphemous.
It really IS one of the funnies movies ever made, and it is utterly timeless, it is as good today as when it was first released. Much because they were making fun of EVERYONE (everyone except for Jesus which makes all the criticism it got when it came out so funny in hindsight)
That movie is so saturated with satire and "points" it unbelievable, unfortunately most people miss it. It should be mandatory in the educational system.
"How does blasphemy work?" They believed that magic was unquestionably real, and names carried power. So uttering the name of the Lord was a blatant misuse of magical power, bound to bring negative consequences to everyone. Hence a blasphemy that deserved a stoning.
Somehow I don't think we will ever see a similar film about the life of another prophet, not unless the makers have a death wish. I am sure you know who I mean.
I love how the Roman guards just look at each other like "why have we bothered with conquering these imbeciles?"
I watched this movie in Tel Aviv in the early 90s. It was a full room, over a hundred people. Only myself, and one other guy laughed during the entire movie. Everyone else sat in stony silence. When it was over, I waited outside for the other laugher, and we had a great time recounting our favorite scenes and reenacting them as best as we could recollect. Everyone else shuffled off with dour faces, as if they had just watched a documentary on the holocaust. I guess Monty Python are not for everyone...But they are wonderful, IMO. Love them...love them....love them......
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In the UK it caused outrage with the church of England sending in the big guns denouncing it as un-godly, terrible, end of society stuff. Of course they had not watched it, even more so with the film actually having a "cameo" of Jesus in one scene.
You know when something is on shaky grounds when you have to protect/legislate against humour.
@@tomooo2637 It was also forbidden in Norway. The filmmakers used the notoriety to promote the film, with posters in Sweden reading, "So funny, it was banned in Norway!"
I can see why the trope-ridden portrayal of Jews didn't go down well. It is very funny, but it is very edgy.
@@shaya_g it made fun of fanaticism and factionalism, both of which were rife in Judea at the time -- a generation later the Jews rebelled against Rome, and while the Romans were besieging Jerusalem rival factions inside the city rioted against each other and ended up burning some of their own granaries. That sort of behavior deserves to be mocked. The Romans were presented as quite silly too, and a lot of the Jewish characters were standing in for things that were going on in Britain in the 60s and 70s as well. I'm Jewish and I think the film is brilliant.
funnily enough this movie was (briefly) banned here in Norway for blasphemy (blasphemy was still against the law, even though it was mostly a dormant law at that point), which prompted Swedish movie theaters to advertise it as "a movie so funny that it was banned in Norway" :p
was banned at some council areas in Wales until recently
well blasphemy laws are back and now called hate speech laws... but the same thing... well see how long our movies last this time :P
@@zbynekurbanek3345 I guess a major studio couldn't make "Triumph of the Will" or "Birth of a Nation" now, except as a parody. That would be out of bounds. However, independent cinema, religious cinema, underground cinema, politically provocative cinema, they're all thriving, but, not in traditional movie theaters. We live in a world with hundreds of millions of high quality video recorders in the hands of millions of people. Editing software Kubrick or Wise or Gilliam could only have dreamed of can be had for free. So make what you want. Offend whom you will. Oh, and remember the words of Groucho Marx, "I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members."
@@zbynekurbanek3345 lmao thats like comparing apples with oranges
@@grimmstryke9627 theyre both fruit... but Im really convinced by evidence that the basic logical reasoning behind both concepts is the same - so hate speech is blasthemy... nothing more nothing less (because hate speech is not about "hate" - you cannot prove or disprove hate in speech - hate is an internal feeling of individual, only the speaker himself knows if he hates or not...) Hate speech laws are about banning saying things you dont agree with (or the law maker doesnt agree with) - the very same as how blasthemy laws work - they are also about bannign saying things the law maker doesnt agree with (and again you cannot prove or disprove if some god is offended by blasthemy... only the god himself knows if he is offended if he exists) ...so thats the fruit part - theyre exactly the same concept. it just depends who doesnt agree with what.
I remember going to see this in the local cinema in 1979 when it came out. I was fourteen and I laughed like a drain all the way through! Good times! 😁
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@@MandyCaneLane Age doesn't come without it's benefits! 😁
It's one rare film that had those who objected, throwing paint at the screen.
@@rbrooks2007 Pfff, better paint than rocks...
@@BookieKillah We could have shaved their heads and burned them as witches I suppose.
One of the greatest movies ever made!
This is still one of the most brilliant scenes in any comedy ever!
A segment packed with some of my favourite Python moments,
- the sheer randomness of the lady carrying the sick donkey "I haven't got time to go to no stonings, he's not well again...."
- the concept of being the one throwing gravel at a stoning
- the idea that the victim being a local citizen should make any difference to the affair
And absolutely no attempt at making the fake donkey look real.
Or the idea of selling stones in the first place. And being successful!
@@fransbuijs808 Selling bottled water in a modern Western city works very well
Presumably a local boy would know the laws and thus not make a fuss complaining of being killed over a law he couldn't know about. And/or he'd put on a good show for them because he knows that it's a fun event around there.
"Should be a good one this afternoon: Local boy!" is kind of a UK reference to boxing/wrestling, I suppose in that if it's a 'local boy' then at least he's likely to have some local, and therefore more vocal, support, thus adding to the excitement and perhaps his performance.
I love how the regular Roman soldiers are always the most normal and mature people in the movie.
Yes, the Romans look on in tired amusement, shaking their heads. Like look at these idiots. 😕😕😕
Well, except when they're correcting your Latin grammar. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@MarlinMay and when they hear the name bigus dickus
Especially Biggus Dickus, who we don't actually see but understand to be particularly mature. 😆
@@Hertog_von_Berkshire Biggus makes an appearance, I believe...
"There's always one isn't there" 😂 Love that line 😂
Love python,doesn’t matter how many times we watch it we always have a laugh.
I particularly like the little cackle from Deuterony when the religious leader gets a rock to the back of the head! 🤣
The whole film is utterly brilliant and is in my top movies of all time.
An amazing movie, it's actually returned to selected UK theatres over the next few days to celebrate the Easter weekend. Just sadly none near my home nor at the right time of day.
There's always the DVD...
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I have it on VHS, hell I even remember BetaMax...
@@gwryan1 Shit, you must be as old as me...
"it's written" means exactly what it says - it's mandated in some official text or book - it usually refers to some requirement in the bible or other fictional religious tome.
Definitely a staple of British comedy cinema, this. Iconic moments throughout
I have seen this move several times and i laughed just as hard each time.👍❤
What has Monty Python ever done for us..? 😉
'Well, you did say Jehovah'. 🤣
One of the best lines in a movie.
Best comedy film ever . Don't argue.
Ah, "It is written". I often use that at work when someone asks why something is done in a particular way. Baffles 'em every time!
But in this context, it implies that it is written in the bible, or the torah. There is no such law against women being at stonings in the torah, or anywhere in the bible as far as i know.
@@qbasicmichael Your sect of Splitters must be using the abbreviated version. 😁
you should watch the whole movie, British comedy at it's best, and well ahead of it's time
I have seen it. There is an edited UA-cam passed version on my channel
Back in the day when comedy was actually funny....
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@0:50 'It's written' like written in the scriptures, word and law of god
The Beatle George Harrison financed this film .
Can't imagine it cost more than a few grand lol.
No, I financed this film...
It even earned him a very small part in it 😉
@@andythoms8130 Seriously?
@@B-A-L haha course not, it just looks so low budget but ive watched it so many times, love it.
Happy Easter, and thanks for the erm, 'appropriate' Easter post😉Love the film, and still think this film has the one of greatest comedy moments. Brian 'You're all individual!' Crowd replies 'yes, we're all individual' and a small voice from the back says 'I'm not' . I am such a comedy nerd🤓. Keep the great posts coming
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Just found your channel and your reactions are brilliant, thank you
I am honoured! Thank you! 🤗
One ov my all time fave films...hands down..
Funniest thing is the two bored Roman soldiers - looking at each other as if to say 'should we be doing anything', and obviously thinking 'why bother'.
I have watched this several times. After becoming a Christian and getting a degree in theology from a university I can promise you it's even funnier.
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
Such a great movie. The double joke about the Middle East in the 70s and the multiple warring factions, same as during the time of Jesus. The bit about the guy wanting to have a baby and being ridiculed for it, the committee that never does anything but talk about meetings, just hilarious.
The leader of the gang always finding an excuse to not get into any risk of get caught, and a few other things, actually reminded me of "politics" in my own youth ...
Such a great film... And so many brilliant scenes. I watched the film numerous times, and I can laugh again and again. 😀
i absolutely love this movie and my view count is at 42 ( once a year on christmas, just like the LotR trilogy ).
In the German synchro the scene ends also with the big boulder being dumped on the judge, but with a dry "Nice Throw" commentary
Also a fun anecdote: at the wedding of a dear friend, me and a bunch of other close friends composed and performed a musical with scenes and songs adapted to events of the life of both the bride and groom, ending with "Every Sperm is Sacred" (another Monty Python Song), cause the bride was expecting ( they married after being in a relation for a decade, so no shot gun involved 🤣).
I was standing right in front of the priest, doing the wedding. The thought process that i could see on his face when he was nodding to the melody, then stopping, realizing the lyrics, then shrugging and continuing to nod to us singing was pure gold.
Keep up with your reactions, they are very entertaining to watch and for me it is also walking Memory Lane in a good way. 🥰
Impossible to translate most of the English humour into Deutsch
@@12dougreed thats why i prefer to watch most movies in english, but sometimes the synchronisation into other languages works even better than the original.
there is one crime show from the early 70's "The Persuaders" with Roger Moore and Tony Curtis, that had a German Synchro, that was so hilariously good, that it was the most successful show at that time in Germany
I watched this as a student.
In a college theatre, full of students.
Try to imagine the volume of the laughs.
Years later.
I won a telephone competition.
And the prize was two tickets to see the film in Leicester Square and meet the cast.
That was after Graham passed, but the rest showed aside from Eric.
Had hoped to meet Spike Milligan, but hey ho.
To misquote Winston Churchill: 'Never in the field of human comedy have so many laughed at so much provided by so few!'
Oh, that skit again. This one was funny. I remember you uploading this a few months ago, but I watched the whole thing again, cause it was fun.
Perfect video for Easter Sunday - although possibly blasphemous! Haha Happy Easter Mandy! 😄🙏
Haha, seemed appropriate 🤪
And a packet of gravel......gets me every time.
Somewhere else in the movie is the question if the stones are fresh...🍒
Such a funny movie. Thanks for your reaction & Happy Easter too Mandy 🐣🥙🍀
Thanks for being quality entertainment, as always. Six days until I move now, so fingers crossed I can regulate just enjoy Manders videos like normal soon 👍 fucking ball ache moving house though I suggest nobody ever does it 🤣
"Are you the Peoples Front of Judea?" "F-off, we're the Judean Peoples Front"
Splitter !
The Life of Brian is definitely the funniest movie ever made. The Holy Grail is a close second.
Here in Denmark the commercials said "So funny that it's banned in Norway"😂 ( our dear neighbours with a very similar language to ours 😉 - so we always joke about each others back and forth ).
And it was actually true - at least for a while 😂
Now that really is a Monty Python thing if I ever saw one! BTW, thank you for giving us Sandi Toksvig, the greatest Dane in British history which is ironic cos she's tiny!
@@B-A-L Monty Python was also very popular over here in DK, once we got the "idea" - at first we thought it was a bit weird 😂
i like the "good shot" line at the end.
If aliens landed in my front yard and demanded information on our species, I would invite them inside for some beers and viewing of Life of Brian.
there should be a good one this afternoon a local boy that line cracks me up everytime
What better way to ridicule the insane customs of the past. It was clearly human beings taking every opportunity to be legally brutal to their fellow humans. Sadly, those habits still exist.
Still exist? Alive and well, sadly. "
I want to be called Loretta. I want to have babies. It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them...."
@@MJKobernus I'm with you all the way. Let me know how you get on. 😁
"It's WRITTEN, THAT's why!"
"Blasphemy", according to automatic translation = "blessed for me"
😂 ... you always seem to know when I need a good laugh ☺ ... thanks for the snippet
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Watched all the monty python films mandy there so funny legends xx
"local boy" refers to it being a local (as opposed to an out-of-towner) irrespective of the person's age.
I first watched the Monty Python crew back in 1972 they are comical geniuses
One of my favourite all time films, take a look at Monty python's the meaning of life, another all time great , regards from England 🍺🍹👍
I remember my town (Nottingham) banned this at the time and i had to go over to the next county to see it.
Monty Python group was absolutely fabulous......
This still causes controversy, the courage these guys had to create this , they just went for it.
Religion is just that. A belief. If you don’t believe in religion then that is also a belief.
In both cases these beliefs are to be respected.
Being offended is only an issue for the person being offended. It’s not the person who is delivering the offensive material who has the issue.
Freedom of speech and expression > religion.
Just like non stamp collecting is a hobby?
You can thank George Harrison. He bankrolled it when no one else would. When asked why he did it, George just said because he wanted to see the movie.
@@jerometaperman7102 Yep. His "Handmade Films" turned out some great movies that might otherwise not have seen the light of day!
Packet of Gravel just passed over her head
The thing with the Monty Python films is even though there is an over arching story, they are still very much like the TV show in that the scenes often come across as smaller skits within the main story. It is especially true with Meaning of life, but even Life of Brian and Holy grail have very much a sketch show formula. I think that while I know you have had to cut this down, the individual scenes do lend themselves to smaller reactions. You can't for really do that with a lot of comedy films.
Agreed. It feels kinda like the crew got together and wrote a loose script. Along the lines of "What if a guy was born same time as Jesus and shenanigans ensued?" They then proceed to come up with the scenes for the day/week that'll set them on that path. It's disjointed in the best of ways
@@caistigh2062 i think that's exactly how the script writing of this movie happend 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@belegur8108 I mean, at the end of the day, they, at that point in time were SKETCH comedians primarily. You can feel that in most movies. They have an overarching story, sure. But like, the Black Knight scene was surely written without considering it.
Same for the Knights that say NI. (I remember that movie best)
That's why it's no surprise they were a "figure it out later" type.
@@caistigh2062 also fun fact, "Holy Grail" * spoiler alert* ends in such a sudden way, because they ran out of money at that point 🤣🤣🤣
and yes, i was a faithful watcher of Monty Python's Flying Circus ... Dead Parrot, How-To-Fight-A-Tiger, Silly Walk, pure comedy gold.
I absolutely adore this dark british humor... and i am a born and bred German 😜🤪
@@belegur8108 How did you go with the old George Cole series "Root into Europe:? 😉
blessed are the cheesemakers
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**any manufacturer of dairy produce.
"How does it work"? Well, that's 3rd Commandment and it can be somewhat tricky in interpretation so some folks are taking it quite literally.
LMAO! OMG! I still laugh at this scene, ebven though I first saw it when the movie was new! And your laugh just makes it better!
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Living on the island of jersey at the time ( channel Islands) unfortunately the movie was banned.
Made up for it when I got back to the UK .
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It's the most brilliant comedy film ever imho
Great laugh and reaction, I love this film and watch it each year as each gag stands the test of time
Brian just parallels Jesus' story from the start. one of the lines that stood out for me is
Brian:
I'm not the Messiah!
Follower:
I say you are, Lord, and I should know, I've followed a few!
If Life of Brian has a message it is that the viewer should think for himself before blindly following any recently minted messiah (“He’s a very naughty boy”). The key scene is that in which Brian’s followers chant as one: “We are all individuals!”
"I'm not"
Well Stone me I got some dialogue wrong 😅
I would submit that the the message is that you should think for yourself and not blindly follow ANY messiah - recently minted or not. But it is a hilarious movie.
I remember Cleese and Palin confronting Malcolm Muggeridge and an Anglican bishop who thought that this film was blasphemous and they ripped them to pieces.
It isn't: it's just bloody hilarious.
That debate is on UA-cam. They claimed that Brian was really Jesus and the film mocked him, so they obviously hadn't even watched it as the whole point of the movie is that Brian is NOT Jesus.
@@deeestuary what’s also funny is that a short while after, Rowan Atkinson and the Not the Nine o’clock News team did a skit parodying that debate…
I watched that live. It was brilliant.
They even admitted they had not even watched the beginning of the film when it is made perfectly clear that Brian is not Jesus.
Jesus is wonderfully portrayed by the actor Kenneth Colley in the early Sermon on the Mount scene - Did he say ‘blessed are the cheese makers’?
@@BP-kx2ig it wasn’t supposed to be taken literally. Clearly it applied to all makers of dairy produce…
The film "Monty Python's Life" of Brian was banned in several countries, including in Norway, which meant that in the neighboring country of Sweden (where I'm from) the cinemas gave the film the subtitle "The film that was so funny it was banned in Norway".
John Cleese and Michael Palin engaged in a debate on the BBC2 discussion program "Friday Night, Saturday Morning" with the journalist Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the Bishop of Southwark, who both were against the film and considered it blasphemous. That debate is worth checking out (available here on UA-cam) as the only ones who seem to have something inside the frontal bone are the two comedians who gave serious, well-researched points, while their two counter-debaters who represented the Church of England engaged in cheap jibes, point scoring and both mostly came across as two pompous idiots who didn't even seem to have a clue what they were talking about.
end of scene , yes.
but there is a entire movie.
the glorious MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN.
🤗 ua-cam.com/video/kHT4fTL2xgg/v-deo.html
Try watching the Biggus Dickus scene in the Palace where Brian is brought before Pilate. The extras were told they were not allowed to laught or they would be off the film
I have seen it 🤗
Haha, one of my favourite scenes.
are you doing the whole film? It is my favourite film to see reactions from
Itd be on Patreon i assume
Mandy already has: ua-cam.com/video/kHT4fTL2xgg/v-deo.html
This would never get made in today’s pc world
Religion, probably the easiest target for the pythons to take the piss out of. I remember seeing it when it first came out and it just gets funnier with age
the whole movie is a classic
There is a thing I had missed. At the walk to the stoning, Cleese says that Jesus doesn't realize that the meek are part of the problem.
middle eastern people with strong british accents hahaha, i love the absurdity
I recall this anytime someone is canceled for saying the N-word even descriptively.
There is a certain comic genius in having men pretending to be women pretending to be men.
Let's remember the very important verse John 3:36.
Twitching at the sound of the word woman, tskk tskk.
I don't know about that. Some women scare the hell out of yours truly! 😉
Until 2009 this film was banned in Glasgow, Scotland.
Advertised in Sweden as, So funny they banned it in Norway.
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In my opinion, this is the funniest scene from any movie ever.
And this is only the beginning.
Monty Phyton. The Young ones. Buttom. Two pint of lager and a packet of crisp. Red dwarf watch and laugh!
Your laughter is so infectious! 😆🤣
Thank you 🤗
The end song is the most popular song at funerals. Always look on the bright side of life.
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It is WRITTEN (in the old testament of the bible)
With new eyes heart and mind, how primitive are we? God bless us.
0:48 “It’s written (Moses’ Law) … that’s why”.
Where in the torah does it say women can't attend or participate in stonings?
@@qbasicmichael Splitters!!! You've been cherry-picking God's law!!! 👿🙄
I always wonder when someone would get bored of doing an intro and outro for every single small reaction video
It is not that I get bored of it, it is that this is taken from a longer video and the intro/outro I made for the longer video would make no sense, and making a new one is unnecessary 🤪
@@MandyCaneLane I was self projecting I got bored of it LOL.
Cut to the chase is better anyway., no waffle , no offence.
@@dullaf4099 what if you're chasing a criminal waffle?
@@miff227 chasing a waffle that’s committed a crime would be a sensory deprivation experience.
Possibly the bbest comedy of all time...I sure haven't seen anything else that made me laugh so much
Good Shot 😂
I love this film but 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' is my favorite.
First seen as a kid in the late 80's.
At that time I could only watch both films with German dubbing voices, and it worked.
Monty Python was about the only bunch of comedians who could tell a joke or sketch without a clue and still be funnny.
The Holy Grail did the same with the arrests in the end.
I know I keep saying it, but you have to see their Holy Grail movie. If you enjoyed Life of Brian, then the Holy Grail will have you creased with laughter. A happy Easter to you Mandy!
Holy Grail is excellent. I think it's unfairly overlooked because for some reason Life of Brian got lots of attention.
@@geoffpoole483 I guess that it is because there are so many religious nutters (of all persuasions) in the world that just have to get the "urine" taken out of the stupid fools for us to get some peace! 🙄
"How does blasphemy work?"
Its whatever the religious leaders, the priests, say it is.
"It's written" (in the scirptures).
Quite probably the best movie about religion and human credulity ever made. And if I weren't English I would actually be saying that it is the best, it doesn't miss the mark once and you'd have to be an idiot to think that it is at all blasphemous.
It really IS one of the funnies movies ever made, and it is utterly timeless, it is as good today as when it was first released. Much because they were making fun of EVERYONE (everyone except for Jesus which makes all the criticism it got when it came out so funny in hindsight)
I'd even say it is one of the funniest *and* one of the most serious movies of all times all in one
That movie is so saturated with satire and "points" it unbelievable, unfortunately most people miss it. It should be mandatory in the educational system.
"How does blasphemy work?"
They believed that magic was unquestionably real, and names carried power. So uttering the name of the Lord was a blatant misuse of magical power, bound to bring negative consequences to everyone. Hence a blasphemy that deserved a stoning.
Somehow I don't think we will ever see a similar film about the life of another prophet, not unless the makers have a death wish. I am sure you know who I mean.
Men pretending to be women pretending to be men