Life Of Brian Popular Culture
Through out the history of popular culture there has been conflict between popular culture and religious institutions that feel that popular culture is a corruption of their faith and values. One of these conflicts arises when the comedy group Monty Python released their second feature film entitled The Life of Brian, which was received by popular culture as a successful movie but to religious Christian’s especially in the United States it was seen as a blasphemous portrayal of the life of Jesus Christ. It was released in 1979 and was the thirty-ninth top grossing film of the year the highest British film, fourth in the United Kingdom, and IMDb has gone on to rank it as the eighth most popular film of the year based on current user votes, having a lasting impact despite the negative media that
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It was recently voted the funniest film in the United Kingdom some thirty years after it was first released, making it as culturally relevant today as it was when it was released and maybe even more so with the recent trend to stop following organized religions. The main theme of the movie is that these religious acts happened so long ago and spread by word of mouth not to be written down till years after they happened they probably did not happen as they were written down, but still they are followed religiously until another group thinks that they actually have the answer and split from the main group forming a new religion until that religion has internal strife and it to has a split off and so on and so forth. They set out to make people think and if someone does not have the brains to think for themselves and see that the likeliness of theses religious doctrines being completely different from there original intensions is just as likely as them being what they are today should then they should start thinking for themselves instead of blindly following
It was recently voted the funniest film in the United Kingdom some thirty years after it was first released, making it as culturally relevant today as it was when it was released and maybe even more so with the recent trend to stop following organized religions. The main theme of the movie is that these religious acts happened so long ago and spread by word of mouth not to be written down till years after they happened they probably did not happen as they were written down, but still they are followed religiously until another group thinks that they actually have the answer and split from the main group forming a new religion until that religion has internal strife and it to has a split off and so on and so forth. They set out to make people think and if someone does not have the brains to think for themselves and see that the likeliness of theses religious doctrines being completely different from there original intensions is just as likely as them being what they are today should then they should start thinking for themselves instead of blindly following