{"id":11756,"date":"2008-02-07T14:06:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T21:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/02\/07\/the-ministry-of-silly-interviews.html"},"modified":"2008-02-07T14:06:29","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T21:06:29","slug":"the_ministry_of_silly_int","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/the_ministry_of_silly_int.html","title":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Silly Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

An actually not-very-silly, but quite nice, AV Club interview with John Cleese<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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AVC:<\/b> Do you think The Life Of Brian <\/i><\/b>is the best of the Monty Python films?<\/b> <\/p>\n

JC:<\/b> Yes, I do. And it’s very interesting, because there’s a big difference of opinion between the English and the Americans. The Americans all love The<\/i> Holy Grail<\/i>, and the English all love Life Of Brian<\/i>, and I’m afraid on this one, I side with the English. I think that the first 45 or 50 minutes of Holy Grail<\/i> is terrific. Really, really good. I’m very proud of it. But then I think in the middle, there’s a scene with a three-headed giant that I think is always weaker than anything else. And I think that some of the sequences in the middle are not as strong. And then the ending\u2014we sort of get away with the ending, but I don’t think the ending is great. Whereas I do think that Life Of Brian<\/i>\u2014there’s about two points when the story just sort of jumps the rails. The way Brian falls out of a house that’s being searched by the centurions, and lands, and has to start pretending that he’s delivering sermons, or prophecies\u2014that’s not done well. And I think there’s one other one, but otherwise, as a story, it works much better than anything else the Pythons ever did. The jokes are terrific, and it’s about something really important.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It’s an expanded version of the interview in this week’s Onion<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And don’t miss The knights who say “nerd”: 20 pop-cultural obsessions even geekier than Monty Python<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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