A Film at 45: Life of Brian

0:00 Hello everyone, and welcome back to nineteen seventy nine. In a Film Buys limited series, A Film at forty five. I am David Burns. And I'm Scott Hoffman, And as usual, we're dusting off the end of a decade that changed cinema forever with a fresh look at monarch classics, at hidden gems that we can't stop watching. In this episode, we're growing further back in time than ever with one of the most iconic and controversial comedies of all time, Money Python's Life for Bride. You've got it all wrong. You don't need to follow me, You don't need to follow anybody, got it? Think yourself, you're all indistinual. Yeah, unlea, the true Messiahs, the nicest divinity. What just goes agive me more right?

0:51 I am far up, a motion picture destined to offend nearly two thirds of the civilized world and severely annoy the other third. Brian, the babe they called Brian. He had arms and legs, and hands and feet. This boy whose name was Brian, he grew and grew. Oh you get the idea. If these lyrics ring a bell, then you certainly know we are talking about Muney. Python's Life of Brian voted by many in the fifty Greatest Comedy Films of All Time and included in the one thousand and one Movies You Must See Before You Die Money.

1:37 Python Scott has brought us many treats, the Holy Grail being one of them. But I am sure there are many authors who have never seen this film, So how would you describe this to them? So the year is what zero? Ad? Yeah, just south of the BC era, this Jesus adjacent movie begins next door to the Birth of Christ, pronicling the life of a reluctant messiah Bordon next door Brian Cohen? Is that a play on BC? Anyway? Was Brian born just minutes before h Anyway? After an animated retelling of Brian's plummet through adolescence to adulthood, we catch up with Brian in first century Judea. He lives with his mother, making a meager living selling stadium snacks as he falls in love with a rebellious woman and soon gets swept up in a tale of mistaken identity as people follow him around believing that he's the Messiah. But he's really just Brian.

2:29 He's just Brian. So the BC thing didn't even occur to you before? Was he born like seconds before? Jesus? I guess. I didn't think about that until you mentioned it. Wait a minute, they had to have tended that, because come on, it's Monty Python. While the Wiseman show up and they're kind of like, here are all these gifts. Then it's like, wait a second, give those back, we need to go next door. You know that whole opening with a three wise man, because I mean this movie starts off very serious, right, yes, and you know, with the powerful music. He was like, okay, here we go, and then it really falls off the rail and becomes Monty Python quickly. Yes, yes, absolutely, you know. Just giving the gifts and then then when they leave and then they realize, oh, wait a minute, we've gave that to the wrong person and come back.

3:14 Just yeah, a bit of unfortunate makeup in that scene, and if you've seen it you'll know what I mean. But it launches us right into uh Terry Jones as the mother. It's just classic fashion. Every line that Terry says in that role is just makes me laugh. Yeah, me too, What is murr? Anyway, It's all all right, come back, but maybe without the ball. It's classic lines throughout this entire film. I mean you would just laugh almost from beginning to end in this thing. And then we go to this those wonderful animations that Monty Python does so well where we get the Brian song, you know, over the credits and stuff like that. I love watching those animations they did with Python Holy Grail too, Yeah, and I think they was a flying circus obviously, the TV series that they did. I just love those animations and.

4:07 It was was it wasn't it Terry Gilliam that did all those animations, I believe, So, yeah, that is crazy. But yeah, it's a very iconic. Uh, I don't know what to call it. It's basically ahousing kind of cutouts, yeah, right, but in a very clever way. Yeah. Absolutely, And it's always it's always unique to watch. You know, once you've seen this movie many times, you go back and watch it again, you still sit there and watch those credits because they're done so well. Yeah, you have to all with the falling Brian kind of going through, right. Yeah, this movie was very unique in itself. And I believe Money, the the the actors who are behind Money Python They even said that this was when they were in their prime. They feel Life of Brian was the definitive movie where they felt like they were hitting on all cylinders here, and they were in my opinion, because I mean, I love the Holy Grail, don't get me wrong, but the Life of Brian is just something else to behold.

5:04 Yeah. It's interesting how, you know, when I was growing up with my python, it was all about Holy Grail. Right now, Maybe it's because the only one that I had really seen on rotation, but like you know, pop culture references and all this other kind of stuff always has Holy Grail coming up rarely. Life of Brian, even though it's lauded as a more iconic comedy movie like a masterpiece, right, but doesn't seem to get as much attention as Holy Grail. Maybe Holy Grail is safer. I don't know. Maybe I think because the religious overtones and stuff they were in this and what they're trying to do. I know this caused some friction with religious groups and stuff like that when this first came out, But I think maybe that might be a part of it. And you're right, the Holy Girl is safer in that aspect, But still I Love the Life of Brian. Yeah, I haven't seen this in a long time, so watching this again, I found myself just buzzed out laughing this film. But these lines that they have, I forgot the biggest dickis was in this movie. Oh and God, I won't get to that, but that's that whole seed. I just I just cry every time because I'm laughing so hard. Well, let's let's back up little bit, let's talk a little bit. But I guess that's the sermon on the mount with Jesus is having and when you're the way in the back and they can't really hear what he's saying.

6:30 Uh, that's that of the cheesemakers, right, Well, that's one of the things, like I think that's a good example of how and I think it was Michael Palin that made this kind of defense of the movie when they were being confronted. I forgot the name of the talk show was, but very kind of famous British talk show where they're kind of almost attacked by I think it's a prominent author and a a pretty prominent religious figure that are talking about how they're they're mocking things like the Shiven on the Mountain which they're not. They're treating everything with complete reference. They did nothing to kind of poke at it. It's just imagine you're there and you're way out in the back and you can't hear what they're saying, so yeah, speak up. That's innocent enough, right, it was.

7:19 And the whole, the whole, big nose. My goodness, he just kept going on. My gosh, they are just so much experts at comedy. I really wish they would have hung together a little bit longer to give us more than what we've got. But it's just going back to this gold that you have with this comedy just reminds you of just how incredibly good they were at what they did. Well and the dedication they had to it. So yeah. To say nothing of Graham Chapman in the title role of Brian was I didn't know he was struggling with alcoholism. I didn't either, Yeah, and had gone through a very intentional process to dry stuff out, so to speak, and even when so far as to use some of his medical skills as a doctor to help with some people on set and the medical attention. So there. I know, we'll get into this a little bit later in the production, but the links that they had to go to to get this made is absolutely reflected in their performances. You can see the passion they had for this.

8:29 Oh yeah, absolutely. One of the scenes, Well, there's so many scenes in this movie that I just absolutely love. It's really hard for me to pick my lights because they're all just so good. The stoning scene, Scott, when you have all these females that are there and obviously you find out that you know, females are not supposed to be at the stonings, right, and you have so many of the wives apparently are there. But then you have John Please, who is I guess it was he a priest? I guess, I guess like the officiator, the officiator or whatever he was of stoning and stuff like that. And uh as, yes, he's egging on the crowd, and the crowd is getting all excited because they want to stone this guy, and you know, you're the rockets thrown out of no right? Who did that? Who through that?

9:19 Who did? And they're all like female voices, are there any women here? Well? And then they kind of leap on that whole like, you know, just saying the word say name Jehovah. And then everybody ends up getting stoned, and then at the end of what the four of the spectators come up with a giant bowlder and just squished jug This character. To me, John Cleese is absolutely a standout in this crowd, any any scene that he's in, uh with Finn fantastic. The one of the ones that stands to me the most is the grammatical graffiti lesson.

10:04 Yes, so the. Fact that John Cleace used to be a Latin instructor, so when he's giving Brian his lesson in Latin, it's grammatically perfect, and he's just like, no, no, no, this is how you have to say it. If you want to write it, now write it one hundred times. And then he's done, and he climbs down and he sees two new soldiers that are like, what's all this? Then yeah, so. Good, yep, me too. And of course you have the wonderful the GDA People's Front or the People's Front. It's just. What have the Romans ever given us? Besides the aqueduct, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education.

10:49 And besides all of that, what are they giving us? Yeah? So many, so many good scenes. And I know the scene towards the end where Brian goes free from the well. They want to put him free from the crucifixion, and everyone begins shedding I am Brian. Apparently that was a parody of Spartacus. Yeah, I am Spartacus, I am as, I'm Brian, and so is my wife. So good. But that's the ending, of course, but you know, we'll obviously get to that a little bit later. That brings us to the scene with Pilot, the Biggest Dickas scene. So apparently they rehearsed this scene, but then they removed all the background people who were in it and putting people who were not. I didn't know what was going to happen. Yeah, so when they were in there it they got genuine reactions from people as they were doing that scene. I think that was brilliant.

11:41 Scott absolutely, yeah. I mean, you know, you would think like the actual joke in my opinion, like Biggest Dickas. Obviously you know there's a you know, initial reaction, but it's not quite as funny as watching the scene unfold, right, Like you can see Michael Palin's face starts to kind of contort and his timing of how he's trying to get them to laugh. That's just genius design, it is. And yeah, the fact that they went through so many takes and then, like you said, changing the extras to make sure you got that genuine reaction. I watched it a second time to see if I could see a genuine reaction from them. And the there's the one guy where he gets right up into his face like almost like he's ready to give him a kiss. The contortions that actor goes through to try to avoid laughing is is fantastic.

12:38 And you can tell it's genuine. I mean, what's going on you to see the muscle, the muscles in his face and how he's reacting to that. So yeah, it's it was brilliant. It was a good move on their part to actually pull it off that way in my opinion. Yeah, so, okay. There's one that kind of struck me as odd, the impromptu salvation by the extraterrestrials. Oh the kind of Hitchhiker's guide scene. Yeah, that like enough for something completely different, like that totally came out of left field. Yeah, I actually have forgotten about that scene when it happens like oh yeah, this this just happened to this movie didn't. It right, that's your concessions, did.

13:19 Exactly, Yeah, which which leads us to the the the haggle scene. Where is it you're doing it, You're doing it wrong. You're doing it wrong. At least ten insulted. This is good goat's hair, whatever it. Was, and it's That's another thing that I love about Monty Python is how they just carry on a scene so far, but it doesn't get old, you know, you just continue to laugh and see where they're going with it, and it just goes on and on and on. But yet it still is hysterical at watching how they how they do it. Yeah. Well, I mean it's it seems like that that are so far from the story of Christ. Mm hmm is why to me? I agree with Michael Palin. I don't necessarily see any thing sacrilegious about it. No, If anything, it's something that you know, people that pay attention to the stories can see the angle that they're taking, you know, the the shots that they're taking over people haggling over beards, not necessarily having anything to do with Jesus whatsoever.

14:25 But yeah, the whole when they when they think that he's the Messiah, you know, the argument of the shoe. Are they going to follow the gourd? Right? You know that all that stuff was hysterical man. Right, Well, you know it's that kind of half baked sermon where he's kind of watching the guards go away and he's like and then it's uh, it's uh nothing, okay, I'll see it later. And that's what captures everybody's attention. They're like, wait, what else was he going to say? Well, it must be big and meaningful. What what about this gord? Oh we have to follow him with the gourd and the shoe. Here's his shoe, and you know, oh yeah, I think that's what John Cleese's big points is that it's lampooting people who aren't necessarily thinking for themselves. Yeah, just kind of follow me into a big crowd, because at one point they're you know, yeah, they're they're worshiping a shoe. They're worshiping a gord and has nothing else to do with it whatsoever in it, but you know, not making fun of Christ himself.

15:27 No, And this is one of those scenes that just builds and builds and builds. You know, the comedy starts building on itself more and more and more until you get to that final point when they eventually follow him and he falls into that pit and you know, makes the guy talk who hasn't talked to like forever. Oh god, oh god. Yeah, Terry Jones with the giant beard. Yeah, really long beard covering some things that please I'm glad it was covering. Yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't seem to take much to get Terry Jones to you know, run around in the altogether, you know, chasing people away from his junior proplushes in the nude. No hats off to the costume department for wrapping that beard in right. Away, right, And then the whole thing is that, oh would you just go away? How should we go away? Oh?

16:15 Just well, you know f off so exactly. Well even before that, I think before that, when the multitude appears outside Brian's door or outside his window, I guess after he's just had an amorous night, and uh Terry Jones, uh yeah, Terry j just is the mom yeah, yelling at him. He's a very naughty boy. He's not a messiah. He's a very nutty boy. Now go away. They're like no, yeah, no, we're all here, and they're shouting the lines in unison. I think that's genius design.

16:55 It was, and how they all just kept responding to the questions and stuff like that, especially when bar And came out and you know, was addressing the crowd. Yeah, it was perfect where. They're reluctantly saying like, oh, okay, we will like all together like a choir. Yeah, it was. It was. The whole movie was brilliant. So the whole Crucifixion scene, you know, before that though, when they're they're they're being taken out and he's like, crucifixion, good out the door line left one a cross each. Yeah, like an airline attendant. Yeah, because crucial fixion. No, they said set me free. What I think I'm allowed to go? Okay, I'm just kidding. Crucifixion.

17:40 It's like you almost had them if they're letting me go. And then he ends up being taken down from the Crucifixion. He's the one that gets allowed to go. Yeah, and he's like wait a second, I'm just kidding. It's gonna like don't you understand what they're doing, like get out? Uh? But yeah, that the whole crucifix is where we get that main earworm. Oh we always look at the bright side of life, Like, it's very hard not to whistle along to that. It is. Yeah, And my understanding too is Eric Idol, who did that on scene, wasn't happy with it, so he redid the actual you know, singing to it somewhere else. I guess they just dubbed it over because he just wasn't happy with it. Yeah, I mean it's it's so You're right, it is an earworm that just doesn't go away. I found myself even singing that song well after watching this movie.

18:33 Yeah, yeah, there's definitely certain situations in life where you're singing that song is kind of an anthem. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. All right, Well, let's look through the lens, Scott, let's talk about some behind the scenes, anything interesting that you might have found. Well, the the big one that jumped out to me, and I hadn't made this association, which is surprising considering how much I'm a fan of handmade films, and for me specifically, it's Time Bandits that sticks out among all those productions. But knowing that one of the Beatles, George Harrison, helped to make this possible because their original production company EMI, or an original financier of this saw the script after they had already started funding of it and bothered to read it, which is, I guess probably a good idea to read the script that you're supporting, because they considered it blasphemous. And it was George Harrison who pawned his home in London and his office building to raise the four million pounds they needed to finish making the movie.

19:46 So when somebody asked him why, he said, because I wanted to go see it. So Eric Idol had joked later, that's the highest price anybody's ever paid for a cinema ticket. Well, it would have been made without him, So thank you George for that exactly. And from that we get a lot of classics. I mean, there's Time Bandits, Ohna, Lisa Lockstock in Two Smoking Barrels. The interesting discussion that Jeff and I had around nineteen eighty six is Shanghai Surprise one of George Harrison's regrets. But a lot of greatness came out of this. And to know that it started with such a big classics, such a big success, I think is a great story for Hyden mad Films.

20:31 Oh yeah, absolutely, I mean this is a huge follow up to The Holy grail Hu. Yes, you know so, and they knocked it out of the park again with this I believe what six cast members played forty characters. Yeah in this film. Yeah. They didn't even bother to give them credits, right, It's just they were in it because why bother. You'll be here for days, Yeah, you would be. And you realize what's going on here. It's money. Python They're going to be playing tons of different characters throughout the film, so it makes perfect sense. Yeah. So I mean this, this film, you know, despite the controversy, which we can talk about a little bit more, it played continuously for seventy five weeks in London's West End from November seventy nine to March of eighty one.

21:19 I think it was it in the North. In the US, it grossed one hundred and forty thousand opening weekend total gross is more than nineteen million, the highest grossing British film that year, and the fourth highest grossing film in nineteen seventy nine in the UK. So considering, I mean, you know, I was going to say, considering how controversial it was, that's kind of a surprise. But maybe not, because everybody who recognizes it's a comedy. Word of mouth is going to get people into the seat, into the seats, into the theater. Likewise, was a controversial, right, they're gonna say, oh, we've got to see what we're so outraged about, and rendo the theaters to see it.

22:07 Exactly. It's that that easy free publicity is what you're doing, you know, exactly exactly. It makes sense. It works to this day, it still works, you know. I know this film was shot on location in Tunisia, and I believe it re used a lot of the old sets from Jesus of Nazareth from nineteen seventy seven, So I mean, good use of putting all that back into your play again for my python anyway, So we didn't have to build those sets, so that helped with the budget. Right exactly exactly. I the what I find humors too is Brian's selling what were those snacks he was selling? Oh, like wolf nipple chips? Here, what are they?

23:02 Wolf nipple chips? Drama, Daria pretzels, jaguar ear lobes, tuscan me fried batt badger splingings and out. Yeah, yeah, I love that. John Cleese is like, uh, I don't know, Fine, give me a bat bag of outter nooses whatever, whatever. Jeez, I swear, but no, I. Don't know who you. It sounded kind of tasty. For a second. I was like, well, I wonder what auto nooses auld like, and they're like, you know, peanuts. Hmm, yeah, could be. I guess didn't. Didn't George Harrison make an appearance in this movie? Uh? He did? I forget where. He's it's the storm around the mount I believe. In he Yeah, I think it's a blinking you miss it it is?

23:43 It is enough you can find him, yeah, which I mean, if he's going to help you fund the movies, I guess you probably should kind of insert him into the movies somewhere, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, no kidding. All right, well Scott, let's take a little break and then we'll come back. We'll talk briefly about the score. All right, sounds you good? All right, everybody, welcome back. We are talking here a film at forty five. We're talking about Monty Python's Life of Brian. Let's score it so I know. The music was done by Jeffrey Bergen. Again, I kind of mentioned earlier. When this movie first starts, the film felt very serious at first, even the music I felt felt like epic, like you were going to get this amazing score that would be very fitting to again, I'm going to say it Jesus of Nazareth that was done in nineteen seventy seven.

24:34 Maybe it felt like they matched that theme beautifully with the score. Jeffrey Bergen's score throughout the movie was really well done. But I think most of the focus was on, you know, the songs that were in this Brian's song obviously at the beginning, Yeah, the end we get Eric Heidel singing the always on the Bright Side of Life, which are two. Obviously the last one is more of the year worm that you're going to get than the Brian song. But still both of them I thought were fantastic, think well done. Yeah, well, and that first time kind of sticks with me, like even as we're talking about it, that's the song that's spinning around him ahead. And it might be because we were recently talking about James Bond and Sonya Jones is the one who sang the opening song, but a lot of people believe that Shirley Bassy, who sung the sang the Goldfinger theme song John Help but mixed the two.

25:30 Wait, I could see that. Yeah, it definitely has that kind of style. But you know, it does a great job of just kind of going through basically just chronically normal life, right like he had arms and legs of the head, and he grew and grew and grew. It's kind of interesting that as though, although it seems sounds like, you know, it's about a lot of maturation and growing up and things like that. Apparently Sonya was only sixteen years old, oh my god when she recorded the song, which is interesting because it sounds like it's an older person. It does. Yeah, that surprises me to hear that, actually, because it does not sound like a sixteen year old no way.

26:12 Yeah, but it's done very well. Yeah. You know, again, I don't think there's anything offensive about either one of them, but no, yeah, it's just funny and it works. It really is. Yeah. All right, well let's quote this, scott Any. Did you find interesting quotes? Yeah, I mean, I come back to handmade films and I'm saying that there's a lot of different things I'd like to kind of look into about this. So in Robert Seller's Very Naughty Boys, The Amazing True Story of Handmade Films, Eric Idol says if you looked at the British film industry of the nineteen eighties and took handmade films out, there would be almost nothing left. They were basically ignored. Ben Timlett, co director of An Accidental Studio, which is another documentary about handmaide tales or handmade films.

27:01 The British film industry was much more interested in merchant ivory, whereas handmade was down and dirty and different and doing things the establishment couldn't get its head around. To me, that perfectly encapsulates what we're seeing in Life of Brian and Bandits. Oh yeah, absolutely. Mind bending kind of movies that I think anybody who grew up in the eighties and had access to them definitely benefit. It inspired a lot of greatness after that. Yeah, what about you? I agree with that. So I actually found a couple that I want to talk about. So I'm going to pull a Hoffman on this one. The first one is in an interview of section of the Monty Python's Flying Circus Live at Aspen that John Flee State in nineteen ninety eight said that because of the massive protest against this movie from all denominations of Christianity, he would joke with Michael Palin, and he would say, we've brought them all together for the first time in two thousand years, which is hysterical in itself. That they He's right, He's right.

28:01 I got another quote from John Cleese that I found was absolutely perfect. He says, if I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. If I can, if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at you acknowledge its truth. You know, John Cleese is brilliant. All these guys are brilliant. That are that that that make up Monty Python, all of them. Yeah, And like I said, I wish we had gotten more from them later on, you know. I know some of them have passed away over the you know, over the years and stuff like that, and they're a little bit of falling out too. I believe later on in life. I wish we'd gotten more from these guys because every one of them. Scott was a comedic genius, every one of them.

28:46 I mean, it's like the Beatles of comedy. It is. I feel like that's a really easy comparison to make. But they're they're massive. They're absolutely iconic. Yeah, they absolutely are. So you know, it's it's it's nice to see quotes like that because it's shows you how in tune they are with their comedy. You know, they take it so seriously, and they when they're writing the script, they're writing those words, they know how important every single word is that they're putting on paper because they have to lead the audience. Just like John Clee said. Hearing John defend it in that interview that I mentioned before, he has that moment where he's kind of imploring the you know, kind of the antagonist and antagonists in the debate that there's nothing that they're trying to do that's meant to be specifically controversial. There's nothing that's meant to be blasphemous. It's getting you know. I remember him saying, if people think nothing else from this, it's to think for themselves. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

29:52 Like when you're talking about religion, when you're talking about things like that, it seems like if somebody is thinking for themselves and working it out for themselve elves, it just makes it that much they're believe that much stronger, right, And I think it was just trying to take a moment and say, can we look at this kind of time period from a from a humorous perspective without belittling Jesus at all. I think they succeeded in that, And I think people that come to this with an open mind completely understand that. And if nothing else, it you know, buses them to take a moment to think about those events. I would think that would only serve to strengthen it, not to. We get it. Yeah, absolutely, I could agree more with that.

30:34 All right, let's move on to the rewind scott favorite scenes. We've talked about a lot of them already. There's, you know, like you had mentioned selling the snacks in the colosseum anytime when the what is the name of that the alliance that they can't get their own name right, that there's all that deliberating and even when you know she comes in and says like he's Brian's being taken out to be crucified right now. You have to save him. You have to go right now. And they deliberate for several scenes, asking all these questions by committee, trying to figure out if they would save him or not was just fun. Yeah, it was. And then the prisoner in chains who's kind of lamenting, like, oh, clearly you're their favorite boy. I wish I could spit on in the face I just had. I'd love to have shackles, you know.

31:34 Later on he would show him upside down in the window right as they're moving along with the crucifixions. Yep. So those are some of the stands out for me. What about you, anything that you find visible? So I've mentioned a couple of them. Obviously, the biggest stick a scene was absolutely hysterical to me, and I'm kind of like chuckling about it right now because just thinking about some of them lines. But one of the things that we really didn't talk about is when Pilot was addressing the crowd and they're they're getting him to talk, you know, to say our words and stuff like that. Roger is there a Roger. With biggest thickets? Yes, as Graham Chapman exactly.

32:15 And just how that the crowd was just rolling with left, that they were on their backs laughing so hard as they were egging on. That whole sequence was so good. There was one subtle bit that John Clice threw in there, and it's a it's a nonverbal thing, but it just worked so well. Like he walks in and Punsius is there, you know, talking to him, and of course they have that kind of exchange where John's character will kind of like misrepresent what he's saying or answering the wrong way. And then when Punches first points over to biggest thickets and says, oh, here's biggest thickets and he kind of looks at him and looks down at his crouch area and then looks back up at him and it strikes his shoulder like I don't get it. I don't see it.

32:59 But oh sure, yeah, yeah, well we'll go with it though, okay whatever, Yeah exactly, but yeah, no, those those are some of my favorite things. There's so many. It's hard to pick because the movies put together so well from beginning to end. When it comes to comedy that anything you're gonna pick in this film, it's it's it's gold, It absolutely is. And Dave, there's one other cast member that, Yeah, Admiral Piert from Empire and Jedi can this Colley I think yep, that's correct played a small role. Who was he? He played Jesus? Yeah, one of the smaller roles in the movie, but yeah, he's among some greats in this cast. Absolutely.

33:43 All right, let's talk about the impact of this film. I think we've kind of already hit on some of these elements of the impact many pathon and themselves huge impact on not just in Britain and England and all that, but when they came over to us, you know, here in the United States, and what they did for us and realizing on how good they were with their comedy. I don't know if you discovered the Life of Brian first, or if you discovered The Holy Girl first, you're still what you're gonna do is when you see one of those films, or if you watch The Flying Circus for Crying Out Loud first, or was it The Meaning of Life I believe was another one that they did. Yeah, I think eighty three or something like that, But which is I didn't really like that movie. But anyway, whatever movie you found of theirs, you're going to go explore them because they are so good at what they do.

34:36 Like you said, you know, they are kind of like the Beatles of comedy. And for me, and I'll use myself as a perfect example here, I discover them with the Holy Grail, and then that led me to the Life of Brian, and then that led me to Meaning of Life, which I I didn't like. But then I didn't realize that they had the Flying Circus. So when I discovered the Flying Circus, it made me so happy because I had a lot of content that I could go back through and watch of theirs and I'm going to use the word again, it was gold. All of their stuff was so well done that it just shows you the impact that they had on not just over in England, but what they had over here too.

35:17 Yeah. Well, and they definitely took chances with comedy. I feel like they definitely inspired people to go and take chances as long as you stay true to comedy, right, I'm not just doing it for the sake of shock, but knowing how to design sketches and films with that comedic timing and with those comedic instincts, they are things that they absolutely nailed. I feel like I discovered money Python on the syndication and I feel like it was always like a secret syndication kind of thing because I'd either catch BBC productions on PBS, I guess, or Nickelodeon for the Tomorrow people. But you know things like Doctor Who My brother would see that, and every every once in a while, Money Python would kind of sneak through the cracks. It wasn't something we ever had, like a play in time of day or a day of the week that we watch for it. It just happened to be something you kind of happened upon. And I think that's a great way to discover Money Python. A big feature length film, it might take a little while to kind of get like their their style of humor, and they're pacing and things like that, and versus if you get into it and kind of bite size sketches, it's kind of similar to Saturday and Alive that way, right, you know, to digest it in smaller bits. But after

36:48 a small sampling of that, I would absolutely recommend anybody who is getting into Money Python for the first time, absolutely you know, sampling with the Flying Sars, but very quickly get into Holy Grail and Life of Brian. I agree with you about meeting a Life. I don't think it was as struggle as a follow up. There's the restaurant scene. I just can't get through because to us just yes, it is over the edge for you, but definitely has a major impact on comedy and I think it's important for anybody to see. Yeah, absolutely, I agree. Where'd you see this at, Scott? I caught it on Netflix.

37:29 Okay. I think there's a few other money Python things you can see there, but pretty defined on Netflix. What about you? I own a physical copy. I have. I own everything Money Python actually flying everything on DVD. So yeah, I've just pulled out the copy and watched it. So yeah, all right. As always, I want to thank our listeners and hope you're excited as we are. We continue our dive in journey through the year nineteen seventy nine. If you want to reach us, you can find us at a film by podcast dot com. You can reach us at a film by podcasts at gmail dot com. You can find us on a film by podcast on all social medias. Until our film reals start rolling again, go out, watch something new, watch something different, and who knows what you will discover next. Remember always look on the bright side of life. Thanks everyone, Thanks