Satire In Life Of Brian

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1) Satire: Satire can be looked at as a method of teaching as it takes a serious topic and twists it to be looked at in a ridiculous and comedic stance. Usually, for this stance to work, the serious topic needs to be one that a majority of the people know, such as Jesus’s life as the base of the Monty Python movie, Life of Brian. Life of Brian was a satirical movie made to mock the snooty British upper-class and class system, but under the guise of a movie about/ related to Jesus Christ. Satire is still relevant today, because everyone loves a good laugh, and the learning aspect is just a bonus.
2) Epic Film Genre: In the years before the 1960’s, everyone pretty much learned about the classical world in history classes, this meant that everyone …show more content…

The scene takes a subject that is a topic of serious discussion in the modern world, such as gender roles and assignments, and presents it in a slapstick-less Moe, Larry and Curly kind of banter between two males, a female and an indecisive person. The Judaean Peoples Front is a group that fights the oppression brought upon them by the Romans. This scene was meant to mimic British society that was controlled by a class system (Gordon, Cleopatra and Life of Brian Lecture) and how dictatorial control can’t stop the people from being/doing what/who they want. Since the story is presented in a way that everyone knows, the scene needs to follow the ambience of the period; the four people are dressed in regular lower-class attire, on the steps of a coliseum. The producers are well versed in classical history, however they wanted to focus on the movie’s satire and the point it is trying to make (Gordon, Cleopatra and Life of Brian Lecture). Regarding camerawork, it doesn’t fluctuate much until the question of Stan’s gender comes into play, for what I can only assume is emphasis on the satire of the discussion of gender roles—either that or it is because the four of them are supposed to be the uneducated lower-class and they (well, only Stan, really) don’t know about basic bodily functions. In this scene, the emphasis, sound-wise, is on what the four are saying, so there is no music, only light “busy” talk in the background going

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