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13 reviews for:
Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday: My Life with Brian
Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Kim Howard Johnson
3.39 AVERAGE
13 reviews for:
Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday: My Life with Brian
Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Kim Howard Johnson
3.39 AVERAGE
Quite an interesting look into the filming of Monty Python‰ЫЄs Life of Brian. I enjoyed hearing the inside stories and was impressed with the narrator‰ЫЄs ability to jump between accents.
It was filmed at the same location in Tunisia as Franco Zefffirelli‰ЫЄs Jesus of Nazareth.
I love the fact that they took a look at the life of Jesus and found nothing to parody, so they had to take a different tack.
If you‰ЫЄre a Python fan - or a fan of this movie, you‰ЫЄll probably enjoy this short book.
It was filmed at the same location in Tunisia as Franco Zefffirelli‰ЫЄs Jesus of Nazareth.
I love the fact that they took a look at the life of Jesus and found nothing to parody, so they had to take a different tack.
If you‰ЫЄre a Python fan - or a fan of this movie, you‰ЫЄll probably enjoy this short book.
Some reviewers complained of boredom. You need to like or want to learn about behind-the-scenes day-to-day movie making. It can be monotonous. I liked all of the small bits of commentary, technicals, getting to know the Pythons as people, Tunisian cultural bits. A lot of bits that made a pleasant whole for me.
Four members of MP wrote separate introductions - those are funny. The book itself is boring after not very long.
Since the movie for which he is describing the making was done 30 years ago, one had to wonder why this fellow waited so long to convert his notes, taken while an actor in the film, into a book. He had in the interim produced five other books about Monty Python. Perhaps the answer is because even he realized it wasn't going to be a terribly engaging reading experience. Still, there is some interest in anything about MP so he finally produced this tome.
Perhaps part of the problem is that the movie was not terribly difficult to make (or so it seems) - there isn't any "drama" (at least not in the first 100 pages) and there isn't much relating of humorous stories, either. The days he describes all seem one like another and while I'm sure it was great fun to be there, isn't so great to read about.
Alas.
Since the movie for which he is describing the making was done 30 years ago, one had to wonder why this fellow waited so long to convert his notes, taken while an actor in the film, into a book. He had in the interim produced five other books about Monty Python. Perhaps the answer is because even he realized it wasn't going to be a terribly engaging reading experience. Still, there is some interest in anything about MP so he finally produced this tome.
Perhaps part of the problem is that the movie was not terribly difficult to make (or so it seems) - there isn't any "drama" (at least not in the first 100 pages) and there isn't much relating of humorous stories, either. The days he describes all seem one like another and while I'm sure it was great fun to be there, isn't so great to read about.
Alas.