Tomorrow on BBC 2 theres lots of Monty Python stuff including culture show with Michael Palin at 7.40, the monty python story from 9.30 and Gilliam's Brazil at 11.45.

 

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also SPAMalot is out now in this country

 

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a) Life Of Brian

B) Brazil

c) Graham Chapman

Talking about the film Brazil.

 

I love the theme to the movie.......

 

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Kate Bush - Brazil

"Brazil" - bloody FANTASTIC film, one of the best British films ever made IMO!!!! :cheer: Gilliam is an absolute genius film-maker, when he's actually LEFT ALONE BY THE FUKKIN' PRODUCERS that is..... <_<

 

"Life of Brian" is my candidate for his second best film....

"Brazil" - bloody FANTASTIC film, one of the best British films ever made IMO!!!! :cheer: Gilliam is an absolute genius film-maker, when he's actually LEFT ALONE BY THE FUKKIN' PRODUCERS that is..... <_<

 

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yeah watched it the other night. v good!!!

 

i hope they dont frickin remake it :lol: (have to find out if its handmade :lol: ) well except maybe if its given to wong kar wai

 

i didnt realize how many famous people are actually in that film as i've only ever seen the 'wings' (above) and the clip at the end where its like a warped version of Prof X in the belly of his Xavier Insitute in the X-men and its got Michael Pallin and Jonathan Pryce in it. tbh i didnt know Bobby De Niro was in it!! as well as Jim Broadbent and that bloke off allo allo.

 

 

i like how it was like the children of men and that it was kinda 'futureback' :lol: so like it was made in the 80s but set in the future but also having design features that made it look like it was set 40 or 50 years before that in a mad parrell universe. it was cool.

 

 

and now for something completely different on tv on sunday at 9. itv3

One thing that's puzzled me for years is, wasn't there a film short (I could have sworn it was just before "The Life of Brian") being a spoof travelogue about Venice and it numerous Gondolas?

It starts of seriously, then the presenter gets more and more irate until he is turning the Venitian air blue.

I'm starting to think I've imagined the whole thing.

One thing that's puzzled me for years is, wasn't there a film short (I could have sworn it was just before "The Life of Brian") being a spoof travelogue about Venice and it numerous Gondolas?

It starts of seriously, then the presenter gets more and more irate until he is turning the Venitian air blue.

I'm starting to think I've imagined the whole thing.

 

yes it was directed by him and is actually part of the list that i got the films from, but i left it out of his list as it was a short. its called the The Crimson Permanent Assurance

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crimson_Permanent_Assurance

yes it was directed by him and is actually part of the list that i got the films from, but i left it out of his list as it was a short. its called the The Crimson Permanent Assurance

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crimson_Permanent_Assurance

Thanks for the info, but what you're quoting is the film within the Meaning of Life film.

The Crimson Permanent Assurance was integrated into the Meaning of Life as well as being a film short before the Meaning of Life started. That was about Financiers or something?

I thought there was another short film. In this case a spoof travelogue prior to the start of "The Life of Brian"?

The presenter in it was talking about what to see and do in Venice. Saying you could take a trip on a Gondola... And here you can find more Gondolas, over there even more Gondolas, and here's yet some more "FLICKING" GONDOLAS!!! :lol: (or words simular to that).

Maybe it was a film short on TV, maybe it was on on Channel 4 or something, immediately prior to showing say The Life of Brian and so maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick and have been labouring under the delusion, it was a part of a Monty Python skit.

Then again, maybe it is part of Monty Pythons work?

Edited October 21, 200618 yr by Sound-Bite

Then again, maybe it is part of Monty Pythons work?

 

best look on imdb thats all i can say :lol:

best look on imdb thats all i can say :lol:

imdb, what's that? :unsure:

I have since looked on google and after typing in "more f**king gondolas" (without the asterixes :lol: )

it appears that it was on a few :huh: "Life of Brian" DVD'S.

Can't fathom out why it wasn't just simply included as standard on the DVD.

imdb, what's that? :unsure:

 

you mean you dont know what the imdb is? wow thought that was an e-brand that everybody would know!!

 

www.imdb.com - internet movie database

you mean you dont know what the imdb is? wow thought that was an e-brand that everybody would know!!

 

www.imdb.com - internet movie database

Ta.

I'll have a look!

Ta.

I'll have a look!

 

its likey the biggest film site info thing on the web. most peeps first point of call for films.

Brazil is a startlingly brilliant movie..... and Life of Brian HAS to be the best Python movie. Cleese is my favourite member of the team - but they're all superb, really - much missed, never forgotten.

 

I really want to go see Spamalot - anyone else planning a trip to see it?

 

 

I really want to go see Spamalot - anyone else planning a trip to see it?

 

It's deffo on MY list of things to go to that's for sure....