";s:4:"text";s:5328:"First published on Mon 30 Sep 2013 17.35 BST. MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE FILM SCRIPT. He just couldn't keep a straight face. At the end of The Meaning of Life, the Grim Reaper takes the dead dinner guests to Heaven, a Vegas-style resort where it’s Christmas all the time, and a Tony Bennett-esque crooner is performing “Christmas in Heaven.”. 1. But some scenes, like Every Sperm and Creosote, are unforgettable. And Now for Something Completely Different is usually disregarded, because it’s just a collection of sketches from the troupe’s TV series, while Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life is considered to be a weak, hit-and-miss effort. As the title would suggest, The Meaning of Life tackles some of life’s biggest questions, including the question of its meaning. Jones made The Meaning of Life look brilliantly cinematic. Holy Grail had a structure, a loose one: the search for the grail. There were a lot of gasps, as we had expected. Our film is going to be called The Meaning of Life." We filmed Holy Grail in Scotland and Life of Brian in Tunisia, and we were all on set every day. I said: "Oh no! Poor Terry: it was a hot day and he just couldn't get this skin off. When the Pythons first came together after working on various other sketch shows and made their own, what set it apart was the wildly unpredictable tangents that each episode would go on. The vomit was compressed soup, actually. Holy Grail revolved around King Arthur’s search for, well, the Holy Grail and Life of Brian revolved around a satirical mirror version of the life of Jesus as the title character is mistaken for the Messiah. This meant we could spend an entire week on things like the sketch with Mr Creosote [the monstrously fat diner]. I found it hard to keep a straight face in the scene where I was the back end of a tiger – which was OK, since you couldn't see my face most of the time. With Every Sperm Is Sacred, which we turned into a lavish song and dance routine, we had to be careful with all the kids. The Meaning of Life has the group’s highest quotient of pitch-black humor, and it’s glorious. Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Monty Python’s Life of Brian rank among the greatest comedies ever made and exemplify the Pythons’ unique comic sensibility more perfectly than perhaps any other Python media. What a lot of viewers forget is that it does have a unique structure: the sketches are collected into chapters, each focused on a different stage of the human life cycle. That's why in the titles, there's a tombstone saying: "The Meaning of Liff." Certain things had to be dubbed later. Like the movie, the classic comedy on display makes the empty inconsequential void that is human existence much more palatable. The songs in the Python TV shows were always a little bit chirpy, done with our resident choir of about three people. Monty Python's Meaning of Life Script Part 1. So we didn't have the combined opinion of everybody. On the morning after the final scene, in which Mr Creosote explodes and thousands of gallons of vomit get hurled against the walls, the room was all cleaned up immaculately – and, within 12 hours, two people were married in there. This was paid homage in The Meaning of Life, which opens with the Terry Gilliam-helmed The Crimson Permanent Assurance, a 17-minute satire of corporate culture by way of a swashbuckling-adventure spoof. After opening with a short film, the movie begins to delve into the stages of life. What he actually said was: "A little rubber thing on the end of his sock." 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