Subj : Re: The Secret Life of Brian To : Captain Ozone From : George Kincaid Date : Sun Jan 21 2007 11:37 am From: "George Kincaid" 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. "Captain Ozone" wrote in message news:459d16a7_3@x-privat.org... > MIne eyes have seen the glory of these words from *admin@ng2000.com*: > >> 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. > --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5 * Origin: FidoNet MONTE <--> alt.fan.monty-python (1:379/45) .