“Look, you’ve got it all wrong! You don’t need to follow me, you don’t need to follow anybody! You’ve got to think for yourselves! You’re all individuals!”
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Sue Jones-Davies, the actress who played Judith Iscariot in Monty Python’s Life of Bryan, is now mayor of the Welsh town of Aberystwyth* and is trying to lift the town’s ban on… The Life of Brian!
Some religious groups picketed cinemas which screened the film, and it was banned from being shown in some towns and cities, including Aberystwyth.
Nearly 30 years on, Mr Bell, vicar of the town’s St Michael’s Church, said the restriction should remain in place.
“There’s been no change in attitude or response to the film amongst the Christians who have spoken to me in Aberystwyth,” he explained.
“The film at its root is poking fun at Christ and we don’t want that to happen. I don’t think that the film should be shown. Why should the ban be removed?”
Asked if he had ever seen the film, Mr Bell said he had “seen a small clip, that’s all”.
Surprise, surprise. Read the whole thing.
*Gesundheit!
Tags: comedy, monty python, Religion, satire, whales“I think the movie should be kind of offensive”
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Tags: Film, Iraq, john cusack, satire, warJohn Cusack is outraged over the Iraq war, so the U.S. actor channeled his anger into a low-budget political satire — complete with a chorus line of scantily clad female amputees — that he hopes will offend.
Inspired by anger about the war and questions about the political power held by global corporations, “War, Inc” is set in Turaqistan, a fictional nation occupied by a private U.S. company called Tamerlane and run by a former American vice president.