Subj : Re: The Secret Life of Brian
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From : Captain Ozone
Date : Thu Jan 04 2007 09:00 am
From: "Captain Ozone" <
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> channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/can_you_believe_it/debates/brian.html
>
> (Channel 4) Monty Python's seminal comedy Life of Brian , made in 1979,
> is one of the most controversial films ever produced. This Channel 4
> documentary examines how the movie caused a global furor amongst
> religious groups, who saw it as blasphemous, disgusting and 'made in
> hell'.
>
> ===
> Top 10 Monty Python News Stories:
>
http://www.ng2000.com/fw.php?tp=monty-python
At the time of the release of "LOB", I was what one might call a holy-roller,
evangelical, fundamentalist, etc., whatever...(I've dialed it down a bit since
then.)
I saw this movie, ignoring the idiocy of those who had not, got the "joke", and
laughed my glutes off.
I even gave them points for being somewhat historically and politically
accurate
in that, at the time of Jesus' appearance, the Hebrews were desperately hoping
for the coming of a /political/ Messiah (to relieve them from Roman
oppression)
and anyone who came with a message of hope of deliverance was met with (for the
most part) undue adulation. When Brian is mistaken for such a messiah by these
desperate adherents ("a sign, a sign from the Lord!"), the joke gets rolling,
and in my not-so-humble opinion, there is nothing egregiously blasphemous,
sacreligious or otherwise about this movie.
OK, maybe the part where (one of ) Cleese's character says, "How shall we f***
off, O Lord?", and another where we get the full Monty (har!) from Chapman at
the window.....but /really/, some people *must* lighten up.
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