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"How is it that Spamalot: The Movie is not already in production??"

It was made a few years ago:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/
:)

To be fair, I think a movie based on a musical based on a Monty Python movie might be pushing it too far. On stage, it's harder to be compared to the original cast. On screen - against a film that also had musical numbers, obviously albeit fewer than the stage version - everyone would be saying, "Well, he's no John Cleese / Graham Chapman / insert-Python-here".

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What exactly do you mean by "Religious kooks?"

Anyway, Life of Brian is not really blasphemous, because it only takes place during the same time as Christ. Brian is not a mockery of Christ--he even tries his best to explain to people that he is not the messiah. Originally, the Python team were going to make it about Christ, but after studying His life, they found that they couldn't do it, because He's done so many good things. So instead, they decided to do a story that took place during Christ's time. The Sermon on the Mount scene was quite funny, I must say. You have to wonder if something like that really happened in the listening audience.

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every sperm is scared of what? I think this may be one of those "freudian" slips- brings some interesting images to mind, like those little guys fighting among themselves about who's going to be the brave one to penetrate the ovum. Now, that might make a good Monty Python skit!

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Yay! This will be great, I loved that movie!!

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Spamalot the movie is called Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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I remember when The Life of Brian came out. I thought it was hysterical. My mother thought it was Heretical!

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In response to Geoff,
Yes a movie about a musical about a Monty Python Movie might be too much. However It has been done before The Producers is, in my opinion, one of Mel Brook's best films that was turned into a musical and then turned into another movie based on the stage musical. It worked.

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In response to #3, if you actually watch the movie it will make a lot more sense. I would personally love to see another Python musical. I caught SPAMALOT while it was in previews in NYC, and it was one of the best shows I've ever seen (although the original cast of The Producers still wins IMO). I'd definetly go.

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La Cage aux Folles was a French play that was turned into a French film that was turned into a Broadway musical that was turned into an American film. I loved them all (except the Fr play which I didn't see).

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Sometimes its good to leave well enough alone. I am of the "Life of Brian" decade, I was a teen when it got blasted all over the place. Luckily, I came to Los Angeles and the wonderful, daring "Z" Channel showed it in all it's glory. It was one of the only films from the Python troop that I didn't care for. Who knows, it might make a better stage play but at first blush I say leave well enough alone and go straight to "The Meaning of Life".

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#1 - click on your own link. Der! That's not SPAMALOT, that's the HOLY GRAIL.

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hey #11, DER, the play spamalot was based on the movie monty python and the holy grailand that is what the link is for....
DER! (ok where exactly did DER come from? have always wondered that)

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i came up with it
DER is mine

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Having seen Spamalot this summer, I would say I was happily surprised that while it used much of the Holy Grail film, it went off in its own original directions and was a smart spoof of Broadway itself. There were so many inside jokes, it might takes several evenings to catch them all; Fiddler on the Roof, Phantom of the Opera, Guys and Dolls,Funny Girl etc were among those stung. However, it also made me realize what great actors all the Pythons were (and are.) While the current performers are good in their own right, none was close to the incredible comic brilliance of the original film, which to this day is the ONLY comedy I ever saw in a theatre which had people literally falling into the cinema aisles in laughter.
Making Life of Brian will be even more difficult to pull off on stage as it already sacrificed its climactic song to Spamalot, but it could perhaps be done...still, the acting would never be as good.

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Not to start a North American War but der comes from duh but the Canadians already having the eh thought that another h at the end of a u was too much so changed it to a er (they like the e up ther I guess)
Actually in seriousness I am guessing it is duh except easier to type der as the er is above the d from a variation on leet speak.
Gaidin

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#3 - Re-read the quote, the song is called "Every Sperm is Sacred." The word "sacred" means holy. The word "scared" (though it contains the same letters) means frightened. Now your post makes no sense. The song, incidentally, is hilarious.

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I think all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am.

And further, I've met a lot of people, and I'm convinced that the vast majority of wrong-thinking people are right.

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I LOVE IT! The title comes from my favorite line in the movie, when Brian Cohen's mother finds him in bed with a woman, & she yells to the adoring crowd outside:
"'E's not the Messiah, 'e's a very naughty boy!"

BTW, if anyone thinks the movie is heretical, don't let them read the book about the making of it. There were some deleted scenes that are truly hysterical/heretical!

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