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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Life of Brian (1979)
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A frustrating conversation with H.G. encouraged me to enjoy a little
blasphemy before it gets criminalized.

I never did see this movie when it was originally in theaters and have
seen it only on tv, plus clips of the movie's most quotable lines.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

He's not The Messiah! He's a very naughty boy!

TCM showed it and other Python movies, all premieres on the channel.

I think what annoyed me were the comic accents some of them were doing.
It wasn't Cockney; it was just squeaky. Plus the sound was less than
ideal. I found it difficult to listen to at times.

Otherwise it was great fun. The best bits are John Cleese's scenes with
leading one of the leading revolutionary movements which splintered from
another and they couldn't remember what the esoteric difference was, nor
could they recall the name of their own movement. In a later scene,
Cleese organizes one of his "corporate committee" discussions in which
no one can make a decision about what to do. After Python, Cleese would
do a series of corporate training films in the same vein.

Michael Palin milks the Biggus Dickus scene for all it's worth and the
extras -- who had been ordered not to react -- each cracked up one by
one.

I had forgotten: This movie invented pandering to transgenderism. Stan
(Eric Idle) announces he's a woman named Loretta and is fighting Rome
for the right of (biological) men to bear children.

Always look on the bright side of life.