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Monty Python's Life of Brian, 1979
English, Latin
UK
Profile of Monty Python's Life of Brian
Monty Python's Life of Brian can be described as clever, offbeat, and witty. The plot revolves around mistaken identities, religions or cults, and antiheroes. Its comic aspect comes from farce and silly humor. Monty Python's Life of Brian's main genres are comedy, period, and parody. In terms of style, it stars an ensemble cast. In approach, it is not serious. Monty Python's Life of Brian is located in the Holy Land and the Roman Empire. It takes place in ancient times. The movie has received attention for being a cult favorite, a classic, and controversial. Note that Monty Python's Life of Brian involves brief nudity, mild violent content, and profanity.
Summary of Monty Python's Life of Brian
Monty Python delivers a scathing, anarchic satire of both religion and Hollywood's depiction of all things biblical with their second--and tightest--full-length film. The setting is the Holy Land in 33 A.D., a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in them, and exasperated Romans trying to impose some order. At the center of it all is Brian Cohen (Graham Chapman), a reluctant would-be messiah who rises to prominence as a result of a series of absurd and truly hilarious circumstances that parallel the life of Christ--providing ample opportunity for the entire ensemble (John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Chapman) to shine in multiple roles as they blaspheme and mock everyone and everything from ex-lepers, Pontius Pilate, and the art of haggling to crazy prophets, Roman centurions, and crucifixion.
Directed by Python Terry Jones, MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN is an uproarious biblical parody that does to ancient Rome what THE HOLY GRAIL did to the Middle Ages. Rome is run by pathetic wimps, liberation fronts fight with each other over acronyms, and gladiators put on bloody children's matinees as the people search desperately for someone to lead them out of their life of misery and poverty. And Brian is that man. Sort of. Well, not really. Chapman excels as Brian, a simple, quiet man suddenly thrust in the role of leading the revolution--while constantly being yelled at by his shrew of a mother.
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| Language: | English, Latin |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 17 August 1979 |
| Runtime: | 94 min |
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