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(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 furore amongst religious groups, who saw
it as blasphemous, disgusting and 'made in hell'.

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(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'.

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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.

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From: "George Kincaid" <gkincaid000@centurytel.net>

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.
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(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.

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