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Aka: The Meaning Of Life
Why are we here, what's it all about? The Monty Python-team is trying to sort out the most important question on Earth: what is the meaning of life? They do so by exploring the various stages of life, starting with birth. A doctor seems more interested in his equipment than in delivering the baby or caring for the mother, a Roman Catholic couple have quite a lot of children because 'every sperm is sacred'. In the growing and learning part of life, catholic schoolboys attend a rather strange church service and ditto sex education lesson. Onto war, where an officer's plan to attack is thwarted by his underlings wan...
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ting to celebrate his birthday and an officer's leg is bitten off by presumably an African tiger. At middle age a couple orders 'philosophy' at a restaurant, after which the film continues with live organ transplants. The autumn years are played in a restaurant, which, after being treated to the song 'Isn't It Awfully Nice to Have a Penis?' by an entertainer, sees the arrival of an extremely fat man. He can eat a lot, but also throw up quite copiously. The Grim Reaper brings for the final stage of human life, death, a visit to a mansion, where the people are rather interested in him. But life doesn't stop at death. It's onto heaven, where it's always Christmas.
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Het Monty Python team tracht de zin van het leven te doorgronden via een aantal bizarre sketches, die het menselijk leven van geboorte tot dood en daarna doorlopen.
The Meaning of Life is without a doubt the most tasteless of the Monty Python feature films; it also happens to be one of the funniest. Life's questions are "answered" in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a pre-credits sequence at a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. One of our favorite bits involve the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor, pointing out that there's nothing in his contract preventing this. And of course, there's the scene with the world's most voracious glutton, who brings the art of vomi...
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ting to new heights before his spectacular demise. Be warned: though hilarious, this may be the grossest bit of comedy filmmaking ever conceived (there aren't enough words in the world to describe it in detail!). Loyal Pythonites Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin star in The Meaning of Life and share writing responsibilities, while Jones is in the director's chair this time out.
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The Meaning of Life News Articles
Michelin-starred chef Rowley Leigh is offering film-goers gourmet food while they watch the film. A great idea or a terrible one?Several memorable meals have been eaten onscreen during movies – think of the suggestive munching of fruit in Tom Jones and the exploding gourmand Mr Creosote in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life – but culinary options for customers have been notoriously restricted.The traditional double bill of popcorn or hotdogs has entered the language of film criticism: populist works are sometimes dismissed as "popcorn cinema", while viewers of certain movies are advised to forego the ketchup with their frankfurter. More recently, the multiplex menu has expanded in length, if not distinction, with pick 'n' mix sweets, "slurpie" ice drinks and the now-ubiquitous paper trays of nachos covered in melted cheese.However, a new initiative at the Odeon atop the Whiteley's shopping centre in west London tantalises cineastes with the possibility
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