Life of Brian at 40: an assertion of individual freedom that still resonates
"the BBC famously televised a debate ... Each side totally failed to understand the other"<p>Hardly. Palin and Cleese seemed to perfectly understand the ridiculous childishness of the comically pompous bishop and Muggeridge who both repeatedly avoided engaging and simply derided the film as "tenth rate" etc.<p>A curiously empty article about a film, which like Holy Grail has barely dated in the intervening decades.<p>For a more interesting take on Life of Brian at 40, see yesterday's "How we made": <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/apr/16/how-we-made-monty-python-life-of-brian-michael-palin-terry-gilliam" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/apr/16/how-we-made-mon...</a>