{"id":41234,"date":"2014-02-27T20:03:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T03:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/27\/movie-review-life-of-brian-1979.html"},"modified":"2014-03-03T10:09:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T17:09:18","slug":"movie-review-life-of-brian-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/27\/movie-review-life-of-brian-1979.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "Life of Brian" (1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Father-daughter movie week continues with the "Monty Python Makes Fun of Jesus". \u00a0<\/p>\n

Except that's not actually what Life of Brian<\/i>\u00a0is about. More damningly, it's "Monty Python Makes Fun of the Blindly Religious." And "… the Ideologically Fanatical." And "… the People Who Only Pay Lip Service." And, also "… Bureaucrats."<\/p>\n

It's also damned funny, even thirty-five later.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)<\/a>
\n I’d laugh at the silly people of 1979 who had a religious conniption over this not-really-a-tale-of-the-Christ, save that today there’d probably bombings and House resolutions involved … “Life of Brian” tells the tale of an extremely reluctant Messiah, Brian of Nazareth, whose life parallels (to his ignorant dismay) that of Jesus, from birth in a manger just down the block to, ultimately, crucifixion outside Jerusalem (albeit to the jaunty clos…\n <\/p>\n

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Father-daughter movie week continues with the "Monty Python Makes Fun of Jesus". \u00a0 Except that's not actually what Life of Brian\u00a0is about. More damningly, it's "Monty Python Makes Fun of the Blindly Religious." And "… the Ideologically Fanatical." And "… the People Who Only Pay Lip Service." And, also "… Bureaucrats." 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