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When people called Monty Python’s Life of Brian blasphemous, Terry Jones said: “I took the view it wasn't blasphemous. It was heretical because it criticised t
by cammikebrown 5y ago
When people called Monty Python’s Life of Brian blasphemous, Terry Jones said:
“I took the view it wasn't blasphemous. It was heretical because it criticised the structure of the church and the way it interpreted the Gospels. At the time religion seemed to be on the back burner and it felt like kicking a dead donkey. It has come back with a vengeance and we'd think twice about making it now."
- hammock 5y agoWhat year is that quote from? I feel like religion is back on the out again.
- Zababa 5y agoSeems to be from the 10 October 2011 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/oct/10/life-of-brian-terry-jones https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/oct/10/life-of-brian-t...
- gweinberg 5y agoWhen did he say that? Today you couldn't make Life of Brian because it makes fun of the transgendered.
- djur 5y agoIt's not like those jokes are the core of Life of Brian. They're incidental, part of the comedy culture of the time. It is impossible for comedy to be truly timeless. If someone was making a movie like Life of Brian today, some of the jokes would be different, sure. But that's true of anything.
- ryanmcbride 5y agoright because there's no examples of modern comedy that uses trans people as the butt of their jokes... None at all. Certainly no massively successful Netflix standup specials or anything like that.
- ryanmcbride 5y agoYou can downvote me but I'm right. The LGBTQ+ community doesn't have the stranglehold over Hollywood that you think it does.