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[Monty Python's] 'Brian' Gets Second Life
Variety via Yahoo News ^
| Mon Mar 22, 7:00 PM ET
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Posted on 03/23/2004 7:50:46 AM PST by ecurbh
LONDON (Variety) --- In direct response to the American uproar over Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," the Monty Python team is planning a 25th anniversary Stateside re-release of its comedy "Life of Brian."
The 1979 movie, about the hapless Brian of Nazareth who spends his life (and death) being mistaken for the Messiah, will be distributed by Rainbow Releasing, which previously handled the U.S. re-release of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
Plan is to open the pic at the end of April in New York and Los Angeles. Columbia TriStar, which owns the international distribution rights, may also consider a re-release in selected foreign territories.
"A lot of people in America have said that they couldn't figure out a way to deal with the public reaction to Mel's movie," producer John Goldstone told Daily Variety. "This is a kind of antidote to Mel."
"Brian" caused controversy on its original theatrical release, with some Christian leaders accusing it of blasphemy. But the pic's defenders have always argued that its satirical targets are zealotry and intolerance rather than faith itself, with Brian clearly differentiated from the real Christ in the movie.
The Pythons --- John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and the late Graham Chapman --- won back the worldwide rights to "Life of Brian" in a 1996 court case against Paragon Entertainment, which had acquired the movie as part of the HandMade library.
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: lifeofbrian; montypython; thepassion
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This film makes Ben-Hur look like an epic!
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posted on
03/23/2004 7:50:46 AM PST
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ecurbh
To: ecurbh
"Suicide Squad.....ATTACK!"
Umph......
To: Pan_Yan; Excuse_My_Bellicosity
ping
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03/23/2004 7:52:01 AM PST
by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Much of your pain is self-chosen. --- Kahlil Gibran)
To: dakine
Will you be seeing this???
To: HairOfTheDog; Corin Stormhands; Overtaxed; ksen; Bear_in_RoseBear; Rose in RoseBear; RosieCotton; ..
Python Ping.
Brian: I am NOT the Messiah!
Arthur: I say you are Lord, and I should know. I've followed a few.
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posted on
03/23/2004 7:54:07 AM PST
by
ecurbh
(In 88 days ecurbh will marry HairOfTheDog!)
To: Pan_Yans Wife
Blessed are the cheese makers
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posted on
03/23/2004 7:54:10 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I will defend to your death my right to say it)
To: ecurbh
I just LOVE that movie.
Romanes eunt domus ... we're all individuals ... the Judean Peoples Front (as opposed to the The Peoples Front of Judea ...) I love it ...
To: Puppage
Its not meant to be taken literally, it refers to any manufacturer of dairy products ...
To: ecurbh
"Look on the sunny-side of life"
To: MrsEmmaPeel
It's one of my all-time favorite movies. I'm stunned when people can't see the satire in it.
"always look on the bright side of life."
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posted on
03/23/2004 7:55:48 AM PST
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EggsAckley
(....."I see the idiot is here"............)
To: ecurbh
bump
To: Puppage
Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!
L
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posted on
03/23/2004 7:56:58 AM PST
by
Lurker
(Don't bite the hand that meads you.)
To: EggsAckley
It's one of my all-time favorite movies. I'm stunned when people can't see the satire in it. I know. I'm like you. Its simply wonderful. Some people (like the bloody Romans) have no sense of humor.
To: Lurker
Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! Ha! THat's NOT Brian. That's Holy Grail.
To: ecurbh
"What have the Romans ever done for us?!"
"Well, we have an alphabet and a codified system of laws."
"Besides that!!"
To: rogercolleridge
One of your faves.
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posted on
03/23/2004 7:58:11 AM PST
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LisaFab
To: Gefreiter
All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
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03/23/2004 7:59:50 AM PST
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ecurbh
(In 88 days ecurbh will marry HairOfTheDog!)
To: Gefreiter
They built good roads!
To: ecurbh
Brought peace
Peace? Shut Up!
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posted on
03/23/2004 8:05:12 AM PST
by
KJacob
To: ContemptofCourt
"Splitter!!!"
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posted on
03/23/2004 8:05:44 AM PST
by
Howlin
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