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| Genre | Comedy |
| Format | AC-3, Collector's Edition, Multiple Formats, Color, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Subtitled, Dubbed, Widescreen, Dolby See more |
| Contributor | Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, John Cleese |
| Language | English |
| Runtime | 1 hour and 34 minutes |
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The Life of Brian
Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe them. At it's center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is caught up in the new religion and reluctantly mistake for the promised messiah, providing ample opportunity for the entire ensemble (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin) to shine in multiple roles as they question everyone and everything from ex-lepers, Pontius Pilate and haggling to revolutionaries, crazy prophets, religious fanaticism, Roman centurions and crucifixion, forever changing our biblical view.
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Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe them. At it's center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is caught up in the new religion and reluctantly mistake for the promised messiah, providing ample opportunity for the entire ensemble (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin) to shine in multiple roles as they question everyone and everything from ex-lepers, Pontius Pilate and haggling to revolutionaries, crazy prophets, religious fanaticism, Roman centurions and crucifixion, forever changing our biblical view.
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.53 inches; 3.2 Ounces
- Item model number : 3342278
- Media Format : AC-3, Collector's Edition, Multiple Formats, Color, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Subtitled, Dubbed, Widescreen, Dolby
- Run time : 1 hour and 34 minutes
- Release date : January 29, 2008
- Actors : Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Jones
- Dubbed: : Portuguese
- Subtitles: : English, Portuguese
- Language : Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1)
- Studio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B000VE439Y
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #8,842 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,124 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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The movie generally involves a case of mistaken identity that affects a Nazarene named Brian, born on the same day as, and right downstream from, you-know-who. This mistake affects Brian's life through the course of the entire movie, even after he joins a fanatic sect of Roman-hating terrorists. Though the Wise Men who mistook him for Jesus early in the film corrected themselves, Brian still has a hard time convincing the sheepish, desperate people who follow him everywhere that he isn't a messiah while trying to escape Roman capture.
Cleese, Idle and Palin especially shine in this film, playing many disparate parts...Cleese as 1) A Roman centurion, 2) Reg, the leader of a terrorist faction Brian happens onto, and 3) A high priest/Pharisee/Sadducee - whatever, holding a zany trial for someone who has said the Lord's name in vain; Idle as: 1) Stan, a terrorist with gender identity problems, 2) A crazy but extremely lucky guy who never gets crucified though he's due for it, 3) A guy who taunts a fellow at the sermon on the mount by repeatedly calling him "Bignose", 4) A stuttering gravedigger, 5) A stoning rock, false beard and gourd vendor and 6) The guy who sings "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" to Brian while hanging from a cross; Palin plays: 1) Pontius Pilate, 2) a particularly zealous member of the terrorist band Brian joins, 2)A squirrelly beggar complaining about being cured, 3) a VERY mild-mannered head counter at Brian's crucifiction, 4) The guy Idle taunts at the sermon on the mount and 5) A verbose false prophet. Even Chapman, the one playing Brian, also plays the role of Biggus Dickus, the lisping friend of Pontius Pilate as well as the hapless "Red Sea pedestrian" himself. Terry Jones plays Brian's mother and an ascetic who has his vow of silence ruined by Brian stepping on his foot.
When I first saw this movie, I didn't remember laughing so much since seeing Richard Lester's "Help!" and "Hard Day's Night" at the Circle In The Square up in Greenwich Village back in 1967. A true masterpiece of zany comedy as only the British seem able to do it.
Wouldn't it be great to see either Rowan Atkinson's or "Grant/Naylor's" take on religion? The possibilities are endless!
Unfortunately, the controversy from some of the more sensitive religious reviewers posted on this site led me to believe that The Life of Brian would contain more of the same spot on satire as contained in The Meaning of Life. Any religious satire contained in this movie, however, was subtle at best. Though funny, even brilliant at parts, the humor of this movie is centered more around life in Biblical TIMES rather than actual Biblical EVENTS. This fact also, strangely enough, leads me to assume that some of the people submitting reviews of this film ... like, i don't know, say the guy who thought he had the moral authority to declare that Graham Chapman's death from cancer was inflicted by God as a direct consequence for making this movie ... have never even seen it. But I guess that this is the exact brand blind ignorance the movie is ultimately making fun of, isn't it? So I guess the joke is on you.
At any rate, although the movie gets even funnier with familiarity and offers its share of classic Python scenes (the Biggus Diccus, Haggling, and Stoning scenes all had me in stitches), I preffered both The Meaning of Life and The Holy Grail to The Life of Brian because of the greater variety of humor offered in the hodge-podge of shorter storylines. But it's definitely worth watching ... and if you're a fan: the extras on the criterion collection make it worth owning. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. And maybe if you're lucky, God won't even smite you if you chuckle here and there.
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Ich mag keine "Kultfilme", denn oft genug trifft Harald Schmidts Definition zu: "Ein Kultfilm ist ein Film, den jeder Sch**ße findet, aber keiner traut es sich zu sagen." Hier gilt dies ziemlich sicher nicht, denn das schräge Produkt der Komikertruppe "Monty Python" ist auch im Jahr 2023 voller hochaktueller Inhalte und belegt, dass sich die Menschheit wohl tatsächlich nur im Schneckentempo entwickelt und bestimmte Dinge sich noch lange wiederholen werden. Und so nehmen John Cleese und Co. jegliche Dogmatik aufs Korn und pläydoyieren für mehr als nur philosophischen Individualismus, so dass die knapp 90 Minuten Laufzeit wie im Fluge vergehen. Natürlich muss man schon eine gewisse Begeisterung und Offenheit für den speziellen Humor der Briten aufbringen, aber das lohnt sich auch über 40 Jahre nach Veröffentlichung des Werkes, das mit Genderthematik, politisches Handlungsversagen und Fake-News überraschend nach wie vor auf Höhe der Zeit ist - vielleicht sogar mittlerweile als "visionär" bezeichnet werden muss. Übrigens: Wer es ganz authentisch mag, möge unbedingt in die OV reinschauen, denn auch wenn die deutsche Synchro nicht so übel ist, wirkt alles auf "Britisch" nochmal bissiger. Untertitel kann man im Zweifelsfall ja immer hinzuschalten.
Zur Technik der Scheibe: Von einem Film aus dem Jahre 1979 erwarte ich kein audiovisuelles Feuerwerk, aber "Das Leben des Brian" schlägt sich auch auf dieser Ebene recht wacker. Die Farben sind zwar nicht immer sonderlich intensiv, aber dafür stimmen Schwarzwert und über weite Strecken auch die Schärfegrade. Wer als Vergleichsobjekt die DVD zu Hand hat, wird die Verbesserung deutlich bemerken. Der deutsche und englische Ton liegen in Dolby TrueHD 5.1 vor, was aber nicht wirklich viel zu bedeuten hat. Raumeffekte gibt es nur ganz sporadisch, aber immerhin haben die Frontlautsprecher in einem "Stereo"-Mix recht gut zu tun und alles klingt auch satt genug. Noch einmal: 42 Jahre hat das Ding auf dem Buckel und präsentiert sich dafür in Bestform. Extras gibt es auch gefühlt ohne Ende: Entfernte Szenen, Audiokommentare der Komikertruppe, eine "Doku" über Brian, einen Blick ins Drehbuch, diverse Radiospots, Trailer und auch noch eine Fotogalerie...also quasi alles, was das Herz begehrt. Und ein Wendecover gibt es auch noch obendrauf.
Ein gut gealterter Film in überraschender Frische und mit tonnenweise Extras. Kaufen, denn zum Feste gibt es eben nur das Beste!
There are outstandingly brilliant funny films, like Airplane! and This Is Spinal Tap , that never transcend the string of loosely-themed set pieces that was their genesis and, whilst compulsory viewing, don't pretend to operate as real motion pictures (in fairness some of Christopher Guest's later output, and in particular Mighty Wind , does). There are wonderful films that happen to be funny, and maybe even wonderful comedies that aren't all that funny.
But Monty Python's Life of Brian, while it pulls you in with its homely premise and, true to Python form, plays out very much like a string of set pieces, effortlessly transcends its genre into timelessness and profundity. That it's still as challenging today as it was on release (for different, but not that different, reasons) is part of it, but that doesn't speak to the pure cinema of it. The closing scene, as classic a sketch as any Monty Python devised, isn't just a magical set piece, but is a bittersweet and timeless commentary on the absurdity of life and, to boot, a genuinely moving swansong for Monty Python itself (leaving aside the somewhat challenging existence, for this theory, of 1983's The Meaning of Life ). There are some transcendent moments in the history of cinema, and the cheerily whistling, toe-tapping routine of condemned men on crosses, pulling out to a twilight wide shot, is as superb as any of them.
The sketches are of course brilliantly funny and all eminently, inevitably and annoyingly quotable by males of a certain age, but the underlying absurdities they point up, dearly held sacred cows all - the absurdity of stoning someone for saying Jehovah, the absurdity of political protesting for the principle of it, the wilful absurdity of "miraculous" explanations for innocent behaviour (says the hermit who has just accidentally broken a vow of silence, Brian having trod on his foot: "I hadn't said a word in eighteen years until he came along". The crowd: "a miracle!"), and the sum total of all of this mayhem: the absurdity of life itself - are decisively executed and keenly observed. This is by no means wacky private schoolboy humour of no consequence: this is cutting social satire, and it is to all of our discredit that, nearly thirty years on, the motivated prurience of religious groups has barely abated.
In the accompanying disk there is a terrific documentary charting the reception of this film on general release in 1979, which to us old dogs really doesn't seem that long ago, but on the strength of that documentary may as well have between before the Boer War.
Well, in one sense. But when Terry Gilliam wonders out loud whether that film could get made today, and doubts it, you have to suspect he's right: the absurd objections of the Mary Whitehouse brigade might not pass muster these days, but equally pernicious (and absurd) ones from other religions have taken their place. When we tolerate religion but don't tolerate free speech you do have to wonder. In any case, it is interesting to see footage in that documentary of the Pythons' famous BBC2 debate with Malcolm Muggeridge and the Bishop of Southwark, if for no other reason because it's rare chance to see the permanently-genial Michael Palin so worked up as to seem visibly to be restraining himself from lamping Malcolm Muggeridge.
This "immaculate" pressing of the film didn't seem to be up to much for me - I was disappointed in the surround sound quality on the feature disk (I once owned a long player of the soundtrack, and remember the musical numbers being far crisper) and the bonus disc has little on it apart from the hour long making-of documentary, interesting though that was.
Lastly, kudos to the late George Harrison, who apparently single-handedly financed the film when no-one else would (and, presumably, made a killing!) without whom we may still be living under the dark auspices of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association.
OK, not that likely, but still.
Olly Buxton
Schwer zu sagen, ob sich die britische Komikertruppe Monty Python im Klaren darüber war, was sie mit der Veröffentlichung von «Life of Brian» für einen Sturm der Entrüstung auslösen würde.
Eine Parallelgeschichte zum Leben Jesu zu entwerfen und damit auf satirische Weise den Dogmatismus, welcher hinter den meisten religiösen Gemeinschaften steckt, aufzuzeigen, würde wohl auch heute noch in einigen Kreisen für Empörung sorgen – 1979 war man in Grossbritannien kurz davor, die blasphemische Truppe um John Cleese & Co. auf den Scheiterhaufen zu binden…
Nachdem der Film in vielen Ländern anfänglich boykottiert worden war, siegte schliesslich der gesunde Menschenverstand und mit ihm die Meinungsfreiheit. «Life of Brian» gilt heute, zu Recht, als einer der besten Filme der Monty Pythons.
Die originelle Parallelgeschichte, die geschickt mit dem Vorwissen der Zuschauer spielt, um diesen dann mit einer «alternativen Wirklichkeit» den Spiegel vorzuhalten, ist nach typischem Monty-Python-Muster aufgebaut. Viel schwarzer Humor mischt sich unter die religionskritische Satire. Gleichzeitig werden die menschlichen Schwächen, der ewige Wunsch nach einer Führerfigur sowie die irrationalen Verhaltensweisen der Masse meisterhaft aufs Korn genommen. Die Monty Pythons waren schon immer Meister darin, die absurden Zufälle, die das Leben bereit hält, zu zelebrieren.
Kurz, hinter dem oberflächlichen Klamauk steckt viel Weisheit – den Monty Pythons ist damit ein Meilenstein der Filmgeschichte gelungen. Der Streifen endet, wie könnte es anders sein, in einer spektakulären Massenkreuzigung mit Gesangseinlage (Always Look on the Bright Side of Life) – welche die ganze Szene ihrerseits ad absurdum führt…
BLU-RAY-BILD (4)
Das Bildseitenformat liegt in 1.85:1 (13:7 – US und UK WideScreen Kino-Format. Ursprünglich von Universal 1953 eingeführt) vor.
Das Bild ist erstaunlich sauber ausgefallen und weist grösstenteils eine beachtliche Tiefenschärfe auf. Bei Totalen wird das Bild etwas weicher, kann jedoch immer noch überzeugen. Die Farbgebung ist etwas blass ausgefallen. Ab und an ist leichtes Bildrauschen auszumachen, was jedoch den guten Gesamteindruck nur unmerklich schmälert.
Der Schwarzwert ist auf recht beachtlichem Niveau, und auch die Kontraste liegen deutlich über denen der DVD-Ausgabe.
BLU-RAY-TON (3,5)
Die Tonumsetzung liegt in Deutsch TrueHD 5.1 vor.
Schön, dass man sich hier die Mühe gemacht hat, einen Surroundton zu generieren – bei Filmen aus den 1970er-Jahren beileibe keine Selbstverständlichkeit.
Allerdings muss gleich ergänzt werden, dass die Surround-Lautsprecher nur sehr eingeschränkt eingesetzt werden. Der Film findet zu einem guten Teil ausschliesslich über die Frontkanäle statt. Dort wird jedoch mit einer beachtlichen Stereoseparation gearbeitet, so dass die Dialoge jederzeit bestens zu verstehen sind. Die Tondynamik ist gut und die Tonbalance stimmig ausgefallen.
Extras
Gibt es einige, habe ich mir jedoch nicht angesehen. Ein WendeCover ist vorhanden!
FAZIT
Nicht mein Lieblingsfilm der Monty Pythons, jedoch ein äusserst sehenswerter Streifen, der beste Unterhaltung bietet. Wer nichts mit schwarzem englischen Humor anfangen kann, sollte die Finger davon lassen.
Die Blu-ray-Umsetzung ist ausgezeichnet ausgefallen und macht die DVD-Ausgabe überflüssig.
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