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OT: Another Python gone: RIP Terry Jones

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  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,088

    I had totally forgotten that Terry Jones wrote the screenplay to Labyrinth. Huh!

     

  • AnotherUserNameAnotherUserName Posts: 2,727
    Oso3D said:

    I had totally forgotten that Terry Jones wrote the screenplay to Labyrinth. Huh!

     

    Now that is funny! Thats one of my sister in laws favorite movies. If my mother in law found out it was written by one of the minds behind Python, she would proably not be very pleased.

  • WinterMoonWinterMoon Posts: 2,016
    Oso3D said:

    I had totally forgotten that Terry Jones wrote the screenplay to Labyrinth. Huh!

    The movie with David Bowie?

     

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,195
    WinterMoon said:
    Oso3D said:

    I had totally forgotten that Terry Jones wrote the screenplay to Labyrinth. Huh!

    The movie with David Bowie?

     

    I had to look it up because I had no idea either 

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091369/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_wr#writers/

    indeed 

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,296
    edited January 2020
    WinterMoon said:
    kyoto kid said:
    K T Ong said:

    I thought some of the Monty Python films weren't exactly in good taste. But my condolences all the same...

    ...well, when The Meaning of LIfe was released, the Pythons confessed their aim was to offend "absolutely everyone", adding "It is guaranteed to offend".

    It's kind of funny how Monty Python's offensiveness has almost come full circle. I read an article (from some online mag, probably not worth finding and linking), about how their work is still highly insensitive in *Current Year* but for reasons they never realised when they made it. When it was new it was offensive because it took aim at the establishment, which at the time wasn't used to be poked at yet. Then there was a periode where people got more and more chill, and the bite wasn't as bad as it had once been. But now that we're modern and enlightened, we know whats offensive and not in a way those old time people never had the insight to understand. Bottom line: MP's work was made for a different world and not all of it is suitable for modern audiences, the author claimed. 

    WM, trying not to get in hot water, just parroting (no pun intended, as she is Norwegian and potentially offended) something she read somewhere.

    The thing about the Pythons is that they were intentionally offensive, and even the things that might now be considered in poor taste if done by other comedians from the same period like Benny Hill or the Goodies still work for the Pythons.  A good example is the brief use of blackface in "Life of Brian" ... normally this kind of thing induces a cringe in modern audiences, but the Pythons get away with it because one of the main running schticks of the troupe had always been that, with the rare exception of the occasional pretty girl (usually played by Carol Cleveland,) every single part in the show was played by one of the Pythons. In a weird way, it would almost be more offensive to for the Pythons to have come out and said "we're going to play everyone in this movie except..." and then rattled off a list of specific racial and ethnic groups.  It also helps that they just as willing to parody themselves.  For example, Grahamn Chapman, who plays the mincing Biggus D.....  (don't think DA will let the full name pass given they cencored the straight-off broadcast television image I posted of Jones) in Life of Brian was one of the very few openly gay comedians in the entire entertainment industry at that point, while Terry Gilliam, who had almost become a missionary before he somehow found himself creating ofdd animations and directing feature films, ended up as part of the Spanish Inquisition.           

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  • ondergetekendeondergetekende Posts: 41
    AnotherUserName said:
    kyoto kid said:
    K T Ong said:

    I thought some of the Monty Python films weren't exactly in good taste. But my condolences all the same...

    ...well, when The Meaning of LIfe was released, the Pythons confessed their aim was to offend "absolutely everyone", adding "It is guaranteed to offend".

    laughI havent been offended by a single Python movie.

    *starts humming Never Be Rude to an Arab*

     

    But at least John Cleese can rest assured. I believe it was Terry Gilliam who convinced Cleese (since he was a total sucker for enlightenment and higher meaning and all that, back when it was a fad to go to Tibet, and Gilliam thought it was all BS) that the Pythons would die in order of the credits, which was alphabetically, with Graham Chapman first and John Cleese second.

  • SlimerJSpudSlimerJSpud Posts: 1,456

    How about the game show "Prejudice" from the TV series? Gawd!

  • Matt_CastleMatt_Castle Posts: 3,024

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