If you enjoyed one, you'll enjoy them all! 🤘🌎❤

OK Jen, we had some good laughs with this one. Now we need to get back to some good Sci Fi. My suggestion, Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey 😊

3rd Monty Python movie, please. 👍

Fun facts One of the people in the crowded house scene is George Harrison of the Beatles (spot the Liverpool accent) The guy left alone in the street in the chasing the Messiah scene is Spike Milligan of the Goons😉

The third one does have one of the greatest musical numbers in cinema

Not a lot of people know this but Neil Innes (the guy running from the gladiator and the minstrel in Holy Grail) came up with the whistle. I heard him in interview once explain that there were these gaps between the lines in the chorus and Eric was trying to figure out how to fill them. Neil, who was Pythons musical director on their albums, came up with the whistle. The instrumental version played whilst the end credits rolled was actually Neil whistling.

@@GrilloTheFlightless And to bring it full circle, Innes was in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, which plays the music (a song called "Death Cab for Cutie" and yes that's where the band got the name) in the strip-tease scene in the Beatles' movie Magical Mystery Tour.

@@sourisvoleur4854 that was anteresting set up. Paul McCartney’s brother Mike (of the Scaffold) suggested using the Bonzo’s in the film and Paul was all for it. For some reason John really didn’t want them in it. Roger Ruskin-Spear of the Bonzo’s said that John was “really up his own arse about it”. But Paul got his own way. There are some interesting publicity images of the Bonzo’s wearing t-shirts with “Lump it John” written on them. Vivian stanshall recalled that Paul sent them off to his hairdresser in preparation for the film. I apologise in advance for what I’m about to say, as it involves a word some may find offensive, but Vivian said “they made us have these pooftah-jobs done. It was outrageous!” The title for Death Cab For Cutie itself came from the title of an article in a lurid try-crime magazine that Vivian and Neil had been reading. Of course the Bonzo’s, and Neil particularly, became quite friendly with some of the Beatles. He was good pals with George right to the end and also remained friends with Mike McCartney/McGear, to the extent they even formed a band together called GRIMMS (which stood for Gorman, Roberts, Innes, McGough, McGear, Stanshall - although Stanshall was fired before they really recorded anything)

And Eric Idle and Neil Innes also paired to make The Rutles, a fantastic mockumentary that parodied The Beatles. George Harrison made a cameo appearance as a reporter in one scene.

@@schfooge Paul Simon and Mick Jagger also appeared, as themselves, being interviewed about how the Rutles impacted their music.

Well, George did make his money back. And then some. Still it was a big risk going in.

Harrison also made an appearance as a beard seller.

And it led to him producing many films, which made him millions.

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Big risk? He put out Friar Park up as security. If the movie had flopped he would have to find another place to sleep.

I could watch an endless loop of reactors reacting to that scene for days. It may be the most out of left field scene ever shot in a movie.

Talk about your MIRACLES... 😳😲🤯

pretty sure they were pandering to the star wars crowd it was a pretty big deal at the time

It was just after Star Wars so they ticked that box and moved on.

It's also a reference to various small, fringe cults who believe that Jesus was an alien. See, for example, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raelism.

Perfection scripting....

That gag was ad libbed during filming.

"I'M BRIAN OF NAZARETH AND SO'S MY WIFE!"

My favourite line remains, "How shall we fuck off, o lord?".

You only need "You are all individuals." "I'm not!"

@@LeviBulger Somehow, British comedy does lowbrow better than anyone.

It may be an unpopular opinion but this film is my least favorite of the 3 Monty Python theatrical releases mainly due to the fact that due to the cohesive narrative structure of Life of Brian I feel some of the jokes go on too long. Their form of absurdist comedy works best if you don't push the joke too long.

@@bjgandalf69 Weird. I can't think of a single sequence in this movie that overstays its welcome.

@maxducoudray OK, maybe I phrased that wrong. I prefer when they do this form of signature comedy that it gets switched up more like in Holy Grail or the skit format of Meaning of Life.

I'm partial to the Spanish Inquisition.

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It's pretty much the unofficial national anthem for the UK, and gets played at God-knows-how-many funerals

@@christianwise637 I kinda want it to be played at my funeral as well. I'm German though, haha.

@@christianwise637 Starting with the guy who played Brian's.

I believe that this song was written for the movie by the late great Harry Nilsson. He was friends with Eric Idle.

@@edwardthorne9875 No, it was written by Eric Idle

That's actually a mighty big aspect that you are setting "apart" here. I am not a native speaker of English and when I first watched the movie at age 10 or 11 (not the original audio), I didn't understand the lyrics of the song. But I did get the James Bond reference immediately.

Every attack by religious people on this movie was "You're making fun of us to such a degree and accuracy that it makes us think, which makes us uncomfortable, so we're going to pretend this movie makes fun of Jesus"

Ireland as well . Banned

Yeah it's getting annoying now I mean like if your watch crocodile Dundee 2 on the TV when he throws a python at a guy and yells "oh shit" they cut him saying that out

"I'm a hooknose, a heebee...I'm Kosher mum, and proud of it". Why the Christians got their (big) noses so out of joint over this film, when the Jews made no fuss over this stereotype has baffled me since I saw this on its initial release.

John Cleese.s character tries to introduce him to Brian right after the you have to think for yourself speech.

I akso ike that John Cleese said, during the eulogy, "Personally, I'm glad the freeloading b*stard's dead" to roars of laughter.

A latin expert on youtube made an analysis of this and it was spot on. Most of it I still remembered from my Latin class back in the day. But I would have gotten the distinction between accusative and locative wrong. That is an edge case, but a common one.

@@windsaw151 Wow, I never figured that, that is interesting. I'm learning Latin myself

It's "grammar" BTW (with an 'a'). Normally I wouldn't bother but in this instance a pedantic correction seems entirely appropriate :).

@@anonymes2884 Now write that 100 times or I’ll cut your balls off.

@@anonymes2884 thank you for that, just don't let the Roman Centurion know that, he'd cut me up LOL

There's a Scottish reactor called Dawn Marie who has reacted to them films as well as all the Monty Python films and t.v shows, she absolutely loves the Python boys and their style of comedy, and loves seeing any of the cast making cameos in other films and t.v shows.

@@MarkLloyd72 I watch her and saw those reactions. She's good. One of very few who reacted to Baron Munchausen. Shame there aren't more with such a great movie.

@@benbamboo5558 Yeah I agree with you but sadly some reactors only do films they know will be a big hit, that's why I like Dawn's channel and Jens channel as they are both prepared to give any style of movie a go.

Time Bandits is mandatory at this point. ;)

By BEST you meant to say Animal Crackers. HOORAY For Captain Spaulding!

She would be great with Marx Brothers. A Night At The Opera definitely. A Day At The Races too.

I echo your suggestion for the Marx Brothers.

​@@chetstevensq Hello! I must be going.

A day at the races!

No It Isn't!

Is it just me or do that spacecraft have a cunning resemblence with The Beatles yellow submarine?

It is indeed correct! John Cleese used to teach Latin before he went into comedy.

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Since when did the church have total and complete authority over the country?

@@SamuelBlack84 Back in the 1970's the Church had a stronger influence and spoke out to condemn things it thought inappropriate. You can find a debate hosted by the BBC between Pailn & Cleese and a couple of high-up clergymen about "The Life of Brian" and the issues the Church had with it here on KZfaq.

@Steve Ross I've seen it, and it's pathetic. The church is just one of countless organisations distributing lies and peddling it as 'truth' Everyone should think for themselves and enjoy all the pleasures of the flesh

@@SamuelBlack84 Well, yes. They've been doing that for 2000+ years. Thankfully their influence has dropped sharply in recent times.

The church didn't ban it in the UK. A few local councils refused to allow it to be shown in their area (possibly under pressure from the church), but otherwise it was shown all over the place.

I always attribute the spaceship sequence to mocking movies throwing in sci-fi elements following the release of Star Wars.

I hadn't heard that song in a long time, and was wondering if it was Shirley Bassey!

@@ericbonham8159 The biblical connection with the likes of von Däniken's and Blumrich's best-selling books is irresistible. Those "ancient alien" theories were huge at the time, a time which largely pre-dated any retro references to Star Wars.

@@ftumschk Retro reference? This film was produced while Star Wars was still in release.

@@ericbonham8159 Indeed, which is why it's inherently unlikely that "Star Wars" tropes had begun to be commonplace at the time. It's self-evident that the alien abduction sequence was a reference to the fad of "ancient aliens" that had been rampant since von Däniken's _Chariots of the Gods_ book, film and sequels captured the popular imagination from the late 1960s onwards. In contrast, Star Wars only hit UK cinemas in December 1977, whereas the script for The Life Of Brian was finished in January 1978. Hardly enough time for "Star Wars" clichés to have bedded in to the extent that they could be ripe for satire in a Monty Python movie.

Check out The Rutles too.

Love that guy 😂😂

Actually, many theories about who Jesus was include the notion that he might have been an alien being, from a species with higher intelligence than ours, who came to Earth to help advance mankind. I think the spaceship rescue could have been inspired by that since the movie overall satirizes the bases for religious faith.

It’s also the title of his autobiography (or “A Sortabiography”, as it says on the jacket cover).

That is correct, its called "syncretism" which the church started doing once it got its official status in Rome, since they needed to "convert" hundreds of year old roman religion into the new Christianity emperor Constantine adopted, but the practice continued beyond Rome's demise...

He’s in it, a tiny cameo. He says “Allo!”

Cleese was a Latin teach, apparently.

Also small trivia fact: When the Falklands War broke out in 1982 Life of Brian was fairly new still, a British Destroyer, HMS Sheffield was hit by a missile and sank. Passing the time until they could be rescued the surviving crew sang "Always look on the Bright Side of Life" while in the water, because, as the song says: "Worse things happen at sea you know?"