# 147 Life of Brian (1979)

Life of Brian is Monty Python's feature length movie about a man who was born on Christmas night in a stable and kept being mistaken for Messiah. For those of you who don't know, Monty Python was a British comedy group from back in the day that had a great impact on modern day comedy.

I haven't heard so many good jokes in a very long time. It's hard to pick out just a few that I liked the most, but I'll try. The first one is when the members of "The People's Front of Judea" are sitting in the amphitheater, and one of them announces that he wants to be a woman and to have babies. Then one of the men says that it is symbolic of their struggle against oppression and another man says that it is symbolic of his struggle against reality. Well, the whole conversation was very funny.

Another one of my favorite scenes is when a Roman centurion is trying to correct Brian's Latin grammar, and help him write "Romans, go home" instead of "the people called 'Romanes' they go the house", and forces him to write it a hundred times. The third one is when one of the members of "The People's Front of Judea" says that apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, the Romans have never done anything for them.

Monty Python is a group of very talented people. Their dialogues are full of satire. Besides, they deliver a very solid performance, especially I would like to note Michael Palin who portrayed Pontius Pilate and eleven (!) other characters. One good thing about comedies is that they don't age as much as films of other genres. Unfortunately there isn't many comedies on IMDb Top 250 list, and in my opinion, there is too few good comedies out there, but this one was awesome.

Favorite quote: "Life's a laugh and death's a joke".

Interesting fact: In the interview section of Monty Python's Flying Circus: Live at Aspen (1998) (TV), John Cleese confides that, since there were massive protests against the movie from all denominations of Christianity, he would joke with Michael Palin: "We've brought them all together for the first time in 2000 years!"