The Monty Python's Life of Brian (of Nazareth): Screenplay (Monty Python) |
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Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle
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Pages: 128 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0413741303
Pub: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Pub date: 2001-04-19
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 147939
Reader Reviews:
Brian and the Missing Scene (0/0 people found this helpful)
The Life of Brian's popularity as one of the best known and loved comedy films is often overshadowed by the controversy it sparked even before it went into production. EMI famously pulled out of the project after been pressurised by Mary Whitehouse's moral majority organisation and the threat of been charged with breaching the blasphemy laws. The production was saved by George Harrison setting up Handmade Films to finance the venture and bring it to the screen.
The scrapbook was for many the only way to read, if not see, the film until the advent of video rental shops with its limited run and it's being banned from television for a decade. The script is even an improvement on the final cut as the sequence of Otto and his crack suicide squad was removed from the finished print under advice from lawyer John Mortimer.
The Cleese, Palin, Jones, Gilliam and Idle ensemble play a cast of timeless characters to interact with Chapman's faultless portrayal of Brian a man living at the same time as Jesus and his being taken for the messiah, `He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy'.
Classic pieces of Python fill the first half of the book, from the death to all Romans, except those concerned with drainage, roads, housing and those who have contributed to all Jews of both sexes and hermaphrodites, to the crowd demanding the welease of woger and of course the song `Always look on the Bright Side of Life'. Fantastic from start to finish, well worth the risk of being damned for all eternity.
Turning the book over, the second half, is a cut and paste affair similar to `Monty Python's Big Red Book' and the `Brand New Monty Python Papperbok' but with a biblical theme. This really adds nothing but does justify it being one of the largest books ever published.
I'm Brian and so's my wife! (0/1 people found this helpful)
Interesting enough. It is purely a transcript of the film. I would have preferred a few stills to liven it up, however useful for any python fans
He's NOT the Messiah, he's a VERY naughty boy! (6/10 people found this helpful)
Well, it's a book and it has words in it and some pictures of stuff and it's er...quite good. Actually this is a very good combination of script/behind-the-scenes and the usual surreal humour of the Pythons. Plus there is a full frontal nude page, where I swear you can see everything....
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