The Reel Rejects - MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (1979) MOVIE REVIEW - FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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Starting point is 00:01:22 Citizens of the Reject Nation just in time for Christmas, it is time to celebrate some Christ en masse. This is Monty Python's life of Brian, and we haven't seen it ever. No, none of them. Not one. This is the first of the Monty Python's. Yeah, we're doing it. That said, we've never seen any Monty Python.

Starting point is 00:01:43 So Monty Python could be a journey we go on together if this goes well. So please do like. Please do comment. Let us know below what your favorite Monty Python movie is. Let us know what your favorite, I don't know, Psalm. What section of the Bible is your favorite or chapter? I call them clips. clip from the Bible. Do you enjoy?

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Starting point is 00:06:43 Well, now if you're listening to this on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, please do like and or review. Let us know how you're enjoying it. We're going to dive into a review of Monty Python's The Life of Brian, which we just watched for the very first time and what an experience it was I didn't know what to expect I didn't know thematically tonally

Starting point is 00:07:05 objectively spiritually what to get into but it was good it was weird it was definitely not of my era and that was also fun like I definitely think that

Starting point is 00:07:17 this informed a lot of things from comedy that I grew up with but it predates it by a generation or two you can see the DNA of a lot of comedy in here For, like, where we developed, what do you think? I mean, I love that they're in all of the, they're in every single sketch. Like, I don't know why I didn't know that, but Monty Python, like, the whole cast plays all the characters, which I love.

Starting point is 00:07:38 Yeah. I thought it was great. I like the, I think what I like the most is, like, the pacing of the tone in, in, like, the era and the exact comedy that they're doing, they do the pacing and the tone of it really well in this. like there's a specific style that they follow and uh i like that also the fact that like every sketch is kind of like a metaphor telling you something about uh like christianity or religion or like the jesus stuff uh also like i don't know it just called to a lot of things but also adding in humor to it which i really really liked yeah i think the narrative worked really well to deliver messages in an absurdest way.

Starting point is 00:08:24 Like there's so many metaphors and there's so many moments of like, you know, he's not, he doesn't want to be a leader and he's just trying to say to live your own life and everybody taking that on. And we even commented a couple times

Starting point is 00:08:34 about like how scripture can be manipulated and how people themselves interpret it differently and therefore run awry. So it was fun to have, like you're saying, every three to five minutes was a different individual section that then combined it would act into a three-act structure

Starting point is 00:08:51 it's really well written to have so many different pieces add up to a whole, but each piece could be its own key and peel sketch. Yes, exactly. I agree with that. Like, it'd be like if Chappelle's show was a feature, like grabbing a bunch of little vignettes of comedy, but having this overarching story, it's really impressive writing.

Starting point is 00:09:12 And I liked that I didn't have, I honestly can't tell you who 90% of the cast was, and I know those actors. And it's so long ago, I really enjoyed the escape to just go like I don't have any association with these folk I can just enjoy the absurdity and I think one of my favorite moments was the the peak absurdism of the alien because like that was oh yeah that was just a punchline like it was just so he could escape to come back and just why and I love that I feel like because he was in like a yellow submarine looking like spaceship yeah definitely it's some Beatles vibe right and but also isn't there a thing correct me if I'm wrong and I probably am but in like latter day saint stuff or Mormonism like he goes in no joke a yellow submarine or a spaceship and he that's how Joseph gets it's like Salt Lake City and that's why when you die you get you get a planet with your wives I swear to God you guys I am not obviously I'm

Starting point is 00:10:13 not making this up because it's so absurd but I was like oh are they calling out that one weird part where they're like he took a yellow boat submarine over here and it's in their book of whatever they call it my favorite thing about religion is it all sounds just as crazy as the last thing i know uh i no disrespect to any religious folk but i i know less about religion than i know about my five eight grandparents ago i just don't i don't know i don't know this world and i'm sure there's a lot of really funny humor if you have layers to it if you have yeah like if we knew more about any of it we would be like oh ha ha ha ha ha ha Behind the scenes, Real Rejects, when we got here, Greg pulled us aside and went, do you know about Jesus?

Starting point is 00:10:53 And it was the funniest Sunday school moment where I was like, not, like, I've seen Mel Gibson's movie. And I just went, the father, the son, and the holy ghost. Yeah, I think there's like a Trinity thing, which wasn't in here. No, not at all. I also, like, there was no, he wasn't the son of God. We didn't really go to Jesus. We didn't go to him, like, at all. Brian just got born next door.

Starting point is 00:11:16 Brian was just in the same He was just in the same arena Yeah the same like delivery room We had we had Brian Which was fun because I'm sure there are parallels I'm sure this is the story of Jesus Taken obviously to two absurd levels But I imagine it's a retelling in points

Starting point is 00:11:33 But not knowing I don't know Like meaning them asking his mom If she was a virgin Right like that And how that became Yeah Which I enjoyed how that became the narrative Like she reacted like she must be

Starting point is 00:11:45 Yeah Like, that was funny. But otherwise, like, there's probably a lot of stuff. The reason we didn't comment on it is we don't know. We don't really, we don't really know. I was trying to really think. I was like, oh, man, is he going to go into a rock tomb and we come out three days later? Is there a sequel to Lange of Brian?

Starting point is 00:12:01 I don't know, man. Also, is that what Mel's doing a passion to? Is it going to be the Easter story? Like, he comes back. Because that's what I assume he has to do. He has to do it. Yeah. Which is his comeback in modern day as Mel Gibson.

Starting point is 00:12:13 We need to get into a church. Before that. Yeah. It's got to happen. But I expected a little bit more of the limited amount I know. But also, I don't know what, like, the Easter Bunny, like, eggs have to do with Jesus or any of that stuff. Like, all of that's just as absurd as any of this to me. So I don't know.

Starting point is 00:12:30 You know what I mean? Like, do you just describe this spaceship? And I was like, it seems like it could be a thing. Maybe. I swear to God, you guys. That's intense. And it was like Joseph who wrote it. I remember it.

Starting point is 00:12:38 They're like, he does this. No. It's not his. It's like a separate. It's like a Joseph prophet. Redundancies. Yellow Submarine and Is that where the Beatles got the yellow submarine?

Starting point is 00:12:49 Maybe. Was from like a biblical thing? I swear, we're gonna, I'm gonna have to look it up. I mean, I'm tired right now, but once I get in the next month, I'll figure this out, you guys. So, or you guys will. Yeah, you can, I'm sure let us know in the comments below. There was no like Adam and Eve, the ribs. I thought maybe there'd be like some baby back ribs jokes.

Starting point is 00:13:12 My point is, all of the jokes I expected to. occur from my limited exposure did not um so i expected like you know some baby back ribs jokes some uh some easter eggs jokes some stuff that like from my limited knowledge so this was really interesting and fun for me because i didn't get most of it but i could still appreciate the humor um i would liken it to how i imagine people that have never read a comic would enjoy a comic movie where it's like i can enjoy the surface level of the entertainment but i'm sure there's so much going on for people like me in the comic sense to be like oh my god that's a blah blah blah like this is probably full of Jesus Easter eggs, Jesus, if you will,

Starting point is 00:13:47 where it's like there are elements that we just don't. Actually, Easter eggs would probably be a Jesus thing too because of the Easter eggs. Totally. The only thing we got was Biggest Dickus. Biggest Dickus is probably my favorite of the Holy Men. I know for me, it was, okay, my favorite part of the movie though, real quick was his slap.

Starting point is 00:14:04 Oh, but the slap was so good. The slap is my most favorite thing. I'm like, if anyone was like, you need to rewatch that, I'd be like, I feel like I'm good, but I would. Yeah. I enjoyed a lot of sections. Yeah. I found myself really being invested and then kind of wavering and then coming back.

Starting point is 00:14:22 And kind of going back and forth. I agree, which is I think how they keep probably most people invested because there are some short stints. You know, they're going to cut out of this eventually. So if they're losing you, it keeps moving and it's going to move into a different, a totally different sketch. Yeah, which is great because you're like, oh, thank God. We'll be through this in a sec. Yeah. Yeah, which is good.

Starting point is 00:14:43 And that's probably smart to have something in this narrative with styles of humor. Like, I particularly enjoyed the, I mean, the biggest dick is, I'm a child. So I really enjoyed a bunch of Romans trying not to giggle. That worked for me. Silly lisps and things. At one point, you said this could never get made. It definitely, from just the theme, just the concept, no one would let people play in this arena today. No.

Starting point is 00:15:09 We're a bit. And also, I think there's a freedom to the British. I think, you know, Borat, you know, that is a, you know what I mean? Like, that's the modern take to me. I see Sasha Barne Cohen as the modern Monty Python. I agree. And in the middle was Mel Brooks to me. Mel Brooks is one of my favorite, like, comedian director writers.

Starting point is 00:15:29 Men in Tights, I love so much, it actually ruined the godfather. Because I watched Men and Tites, like, through my whole childhood. And then I watched Godfather in my, like, early 30s. Yeah. So when I watched The Godfather, I was like, I've seen all this. But like, as a joke. Like all of the cheek stuffing stuff, like all of those seeds were rude because they were funny to be in The Godfather. So that's Mel Brooks.

Starting point is 00:15:49 Like he and I went, I have no regrets. Thank you, Mel Brooks. But Mel Brooks is so funny that I couldn't like straight face watch the most famous of mob movies. Oh my God, I can't. So that's what I felt like this was definitely setting up. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I'm trying to think of like what were my other like favorite moments. also why is Judith so

Starting point is 00:16:11 fit? She had like, there's one cut to her and she has like 18 abs. I was like, girl, get it. Judith was doing the work. Yeah, and I like that the mom was like, leave her alone for a minute and he's like but I don't want to. Yes, that was a great line. I enjoyed that. And it was so thrown away.

Starting point is 00:16:28 It wasn't even like very loud, but I really really like that. I like the throwaway lines like with Mary walking away. I was like, oh, children, they don't, and when she's leaving him with the crucifixion, like what's gotten into the kids these days? I like the throwaway lines that they do with certain characters in this. Those make me laugh, like at the end of a scene of someone just saying stuff. Also, the mob, when they're following him and just like repeating things.

Starting point is 00:16:52 But when they are like, oh, yeah, we're going to just blah, blah, blah. I don't know. I really like that type of delivery, I guess you could say. I like to sing 200 extras. We don't get movies like this anymore. And why were they always? They were always like smiling and panting. They were like.

Starting point is 00:17:08 It was so hot, so happy. So, so Labrador Retriever Energy for all those followers. Actually, I think that one of those sequences is probably up there for me as well as the, the biggest dickest was just the,

Starting point is 00:17:19 the throwaway nature of the joke about how people can interpret religion. Because that carried on for a while. Like the tree, you know, all those things where it's just there, but it becomes a miracle. And how I think people need, certain types of people need to believe.

Starting point is 00:17:38 So how, especially when you're being persecuted, you'd need someone or something to give you hope and belief and faith and all that jazz. So obviously it wasn't handled seriously here. But the idea that these people feel persecuted, these people are being taken advantage of or, you know, not feeling like they're represented going like, this man can lead us. Like, please, someone lead us. And, you know, handled through humor and like as an outlet. But there's a lot of a truth in people wanting that, that freedom to follow. Yeah, there is. I mean, I think people are constantly looking for a leader.

Starting point is 00:18:08 but it also distracts them from like their own brain and what they're struggling with. Because I mean, when he's at the window, he's like, you're all different, you're all individuals. You got to go and figure it out for yourself. You can do it. Don't listen to anybody, except for most of the world is like, I would like to listen to somebody.

Starting point is 00:18:25 Is there someone I can follow? And maybe it's like a society where they're like, stand in line in kindergarten and follow him and follow that. I mean, not really, but you guys get what I'm saying. I mean, that's even the scene with the crucible. Like, the crucifix is like, they just listen. They just do it. Yeah, which is, that's right.

Starting point is 00:18:44 Especially when they're all on the good. That was my other favorite part. I loved that. Good. Did I take it left? That was one of my favorites. Another favorite to me would be the scene where they're breaking down all the Romans have done.

Starting point is 00:18:57 Oh, yeah. Where it's describing the Roman Empire. And the Roman Empire changed human beings. We do have, you know, law and agriculture and sanitation. Like, all that came from this era. And obviously, that's over hundreds and hundreds of years. But to make it so succinct, that joke was so funny to be of like, what, because every time they're always like, the oppressor, what have they ever done for us?

Starting point is 00:19:17 Yeah. And it's still true that you're trying to escape, you know, the colonization oppressors, but the list of all of the accomplishments that happened under this regime, it's very interesting to look at the nuance of when you've got a dictatorship or an actual colonization or someone making law where it's safe to walk in the streets, but at what cost, that's a funny nuance to look into of of we're living in in our society in 2023 we're living in this very orwellian society of you know we feel safe because we have ring lights on our doors and like the cameras i don't because i don't want to be watched all the time but some people feel safe by

Starting point is 00:19:51 putting themselves in the position to be watched all the time and that's literally what we wrote about in the 80s as surveillance state so we we have surrey on her phone and we have all these things where it's like we literally are being listened to and watched and all the things that the 80s warned us about, but it's safer, so we do it. And in here, we've got, you know, this list of things the Romans have made society better about, but they're still oppressing. They're still not letting them be themselves. So it's an interesting commentary on what you're willing to accept as a hierarchy. Yeah, I agree. And it's also like educational too. Yeah. Like if someone just didn't know about the Roman Empire. What a way to learn. Wow, just watch this sketch real quick, kid.

Starting point is 00:20:30 all right let's uh go ahead and play that uh that should be good to play in schools right like if you're doing a class in the run of hire and then have this be the final like after you're done like this is the comedic take yeah here's the funny thing and now we all remember like what they did but also what they also didn't do well yeah like a nice summation of the accomplishments and the harsh yes yes because yeah i i enjoyed that balance i thought that was funny that was one of my favorite scenes was that just that run through and thinking about the nuance of a humor in that way like yeah and i was like is it called the school of Rock? Because I was like this. I think you were right when you said School of Rock because that animation with the title was in my brain. It was like that. And then that sketch also reminded

Starting point is 00:21:10 me that along with when he was doing the Romans Go Home. I was like, this is school of rock, but just out loud. Yeah. And yeah, that scene was great too. The Latin and the Bart Simpson repeating and all those elements were. And I was like, dang, I don't remember a lot of English. Yeah. And I don't remember how to conjugate Latin. God, no. That was impressive. I mean, Americans barely learn the one language we have to everyone else learns like four all right it's we are we are unfortunate we're not an educated people we're sorry romans didn't get this far sorry we do what we can uh as per a lot of people that are probably upset that we i mean this is a movie jabbing at religion so i'm hoping i didn't fit anyone with my my uh aggressive atheism but this was enjoyable monty python is definitely something

Starting point is 00:21:52 i have very little exposure to i'm more abstractly no terry gilliam through like you know Fisher King, Dr. Parnassus, Brothers Grimm, you know, he's got a legacy. And then John Cleese from being John Cleese, I would be curious about, you know, what's the other classic one? There's meaning of life. There's Holy Grail. The Holy Grail. I think those are big three. Yes.

Starting point is 00:22:16 Yes. And we haven't seen it. We haven't seen them. So if you want us to watch any of those, this is probably the way I'd watch them. Because in life, it's hard to make time for every movie. In life, I would not. I would not, I don't know that I would sign up to be like Monty Python and let's do it with everything that is out there.

Starting point is 00:22:34 That's, yeah, I'm going to own that. And you guys know me that I'm always complaining about in certain movies. If it doesn't have heart in it and makes me like feel a thing that I'm like, I don't know, it's pretty good, but I wanted it to have more of a heart to it. Obviously, this is not really going to go there. This is sketch and very hard comedy, which is why it's not a thing that I tend to cling to. It's from where we're the two that haven't seen because we don't, we're not drawn to satire to the scale.

Starting point is 00:23:02 No, no. But if you want us to watch the other ones, this is probably the way we will ever watch them. No disrespect to Monty or Python. It's just not generally coming on the TV. I'm more of a darker humor kind of like, you know, kiss, kiss, bang, bang, lethal weapon and bruges kind of fella. Boom, boom.

Starting point is 00:23:19 Those are my jam. So I would love to watch these. If you guys would love to have us watch these, we haven't seen them. So please do sign up below letting us know which ones you want us to watch. And this, I will say as we sign off, I did appreciate that it had that liveliness of live comedy. It felt like it points like a play. Like people laughing, people breaking, people breaking.

Starting point is 00:23:38 Like that S&L element. Yeah. And that made it more enjoyable because to see them doing that made it like of more fun time for me. Kept it alive. Yeah. So I would love to see the others if only for the spontaneity of like people breaking that, that joy, that jubilence of live theater that is, that did translate really well here. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:23:56 All right. That is going to do it to Lovelies. Thank you so much for joining us on this. Like comments and... Ring the bell. Ring the bell.

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