Monty Python's Meaning of Life

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is the fourth (or fifth if one Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl counts) of the humorous film group Monty Python and released in1983. ==Story[ Edit] == In this last film of Monty Python, the six comedians looking for the meaning of life (on their own comic way). The film is divided into 7 chapters, the film aren't counted. ===For film: The Crimson Permanent Assurance[ Edit] === The Crimson Permanent Assurance is about the old men of the homonymous account agency that revolting against the managers and the parent company. In doing so, they go there as pirates off with the building, which as a kind of pirate's ship on land transport. Then they attack the skyscraper of its parent company, The Very Big Corporation of America, to. Then sail them under a sailor song the sea of business on, however, turns out to be flat. the world after which they lose weight.

The movie was directed by Terry Gilliam, went over 1 million over budget back and was made without the knowledge of the other Python members. He worked the best before the film actually began and therefore he was mounted at the beginning. This short film was one of the causes that the entire film was nominated for the best film inCannes. ===Main Movie[ Edit] ===
 * Part I: The Miracle Of Birth, the first chapter, is, as the title says, about births. Doctors (Chapman and Cleese) carry a birth, but are more concerned with the equipment than the woman, the child and the husband himself. The second part is about a Catholic man who are yet another child gets. He then sings a happy song about why according to God every sperm is sacred: ' Every sperm is sacred ' ("Sperm song").
 * Part II: Growth and Learning, the second chapter, shows how a schoolteacher, played by John Cleese literally gives sex education to a class totally uninterested pupils.By way of punishment should a team of pupils play rugby against a team of teachers who turn out to not shy away from brute force and foul play.
 * Part III: Fighting Each Other, the third chapter, let three war situations see:
 * The first shows how five soldiers in the first world war want to give gifts to their mentor (Jones), while they are all six under fire and killed one by one.
 * The Colonel (Chapman) shows the previous sketch as film screened to have, to tell why war is necessary. Outdoor wants a sergeant-major (Palin) start with a drill, but allows his soldiers to leave if it turns out that they have better things to do.
 * The next scene is set during the Anglo-Zulu war. An officer called Perkins (Idle) is lost his leg. The field doctor (Chapman) claims that the leg is bitten by a tiger, although it is not in Africa. They decide to track down the animal and discover two men dressed up as Tiger (Palin and Idle). They have a very complicated series of excuses why they walk around in costume, but this sketch is abruptly broken off by a man (Gilliam) that "the middle of the movie" announcing.
 * The Middle of the Movie: a strange woman (Palin) invites the public to Find the Fish to play. In a surreal setting questions a man with extraordinarily long arms (Jones), a transvestite (Chapman) and a butler with a wondering where the fish olifantenkop could be located.
 * Part IV: Middle Age, is about an American tourist couple (Idle and Palin) that philosophy in a thematic restaurant order if topic, but the topic return if the conversation is disappointing.
 * Part v: Live organ transplants, is about a man with a donor codicil (Gilliam) identified by two ' doctors ' (Cleese and Chapman) are asked to donate his liver. When he refuses, he is, without anesthesia, deprived of his liver on the spot. His wife (Jones) is then also asked to her liver and if they can make no decision comes The Man in Pink (Idle) from the fridge and sings "The Galaxy Song", showing how to void the existence on Earth actually is.
 * In a meeting room of an office building is busy discussing the meaning of life, in which one of the preliminary conclusions is that not enough people wear hats. The building is unexpectedly attacked by Crimson Permanent Assurance from the movie. This problem is then solved by one of the skyscrapers on top of the building drop of Crimson Permanent Assurance.
 * Part VI (A): The Autumn Years, is perhaps the most famous/infamous scene. The sketch plays in an expensive restaurant, where a singer (Idle) the Penis Song performer. Then enters the far too thick Mr. Creosote (Jones) with contempt, the restaurant, the waiter (Cleese), orders the entire menu and vomits everything under. The last dish, a razor thin Samar, shows fatal and makes him explode.
 * Part VI b: The Meaning of Life, takes place in the same restaurant where all the rubbish of Mr. Creosote to the cleanup is. The waiter and cleaning lady (Jones) carry a conversation about the meaning of life, but if they make an anti-Semitic comment the waiter throws a bucket full of vomit over her. Then the audience is invited by another waiter who them for miles through the city to its geboortenhuis brings. He gives his own vision of life there: helping others, but being evil when he doesn't get the response he wants.
 * Part VII: Death
 * A man sentenced to death because of sexual harassment (Chapman) has its own execution may choose. He is rushed by topless women, so he plunges off a cliff and afrent in his grave.
 * In an animated short film committing suicide leaves to a tree by itself from the branches of a tree to throw off.
 * Grim Reaper (Cleese) arrive at a lonely country house, where the owner (Chapman) and his wife (Palin) for a gardener to him first. They welcome him as "Mr. Death" on their party, where their guests (including Gilliam, Palin and Jones) philosophical questions and wonder if there is a hereafter exists? The death get tired of it and with contempt, them, after which he reveals that they are all already died by corrupted salmonmousse. He then takes them to heaven, where all the characters from the movie together are in a kind of Las Vegas-style nightclub. There is a corny musical number Sung: "Christmas in Heaven".
 * This is abruptly terminated by the same woman from The Middle of the Film, this time with The End of The Film. Here we get to hear the meaning of life, which, however, little suggests: "try to be kind to each other, avoid unhealthy eating, read a good book every now and then, make for some exercise and try to live in peace and harmony with people of all peoples and Nations."