Subj : Re: The Secret Life of Brian
To : Captain Ozone
From : George Kincaid
Date : Sun Jan 21 2007 11:37 am
From: "George Kincaid" <
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I remember the commotion the Life of Brian caused in my hometown by some of
the local "holy rollers" or just generally uptight people. As I recall, the
main theater downtown was picketed by a few sanctimonious people who shouted
"blaphemer" and other such epithets at the moviegoers. (None of these folks
had, of course, deigned to actually see the picture!) I think the Pythons would
have howled with laughter--the picketers could have been a scene from the
movie! Some of the saner religious folks really thought it was a good spoof on
zealotry.
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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.
>
> --
> The *Original* Captain Ozone
>
> ...and I approved this message.
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