Friday, February 14, 2014

Satirising Cine-Antiquity: Monty Python’s Life of Brian


Learning about Monty Python’s film history and the type of humor that was used for the film Life of Brian was interesting a little bit eye opening. I found it very interesting to read how one epic movie, Cleopatra, could take down a whole genre of movies.  But every con comes with a pro and the fall of the epic toga movie gave rise to this new parody like comedy genre, which I found much more enjoyable then the epic toga movies.  One of the main things that I liked about Life of Brian was that the jokes were not some dumb jokes that sometimes make no sense, but they were smart jokes that at times made you think and if you knew even a little bit of the history of the movies that they were making a parody of. The songs from the movie were incredibly catchy and extremely annoying after a few hors of having them stuck in my head.  No matter what I did I could not get rid of the song that kept playing over and over in my head. I think that the group of Monty Python was incredibly smart with the choices that were made with how to take a dead genre and use it to their advantage.  One of the main things that surprised me was how cartoony the movie looked.  With all of the other epic toga movies, they tried to make it look as realistic as possible but Monty Python took it to a whole new level, they tried to make it as realistic as possible that it ended up looking like a cartoon. They then played on that idea and made it so that it did have cartoons with the alien space ship scene.

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