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Toto · 11-29-2009, 03:01 PM

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“I was originally against doing a biblical film because I thought the costumes would be so boring,” says Terry Jones. But the group recognised the kernel of something interesting and started researching the subject. However, as Jones points out, they all realised that “Christ was a very good bloke, saying a lot of very good things that we all agreed with. Humour wasn’t in Christ at all.”

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Mindful of the potentially incendiary content, they sent the script to a canon at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. He agreed that the script was not blasphemous and said that it was “extracting the maximum comedy out of false religion and religious illusions”. He even suggested adding the now-celebrated scene in which someone is stoned to death for being blasphemous.

credoconsolans · 11-29-2009, 03:10 PM

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The Swedish marketed the film as “so funny it was banned in Norway”.

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Solo · 11-29-2009, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Toto

What did [the Romans] ever do for us?

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“I was originally against doing a biblical film because I thought the costumes would be so boring,” says Terry Jones. But the group recognised the kernel of something interesting and started researching the subject. However, as Jones points out, they all realised that “Christ was a very good bloke, saying a lot of very good things that we all agreed with. Humour wasn’t in Christ at all.”

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Mindful of the potentially incendiary content, they sent the script to a canon at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. He agreed that the script was not blasphemous and said that it was “extracting the maximum comedy out of false religion and religious illusions”. He even suggested adding the now-celebrated scene in which someone is stoned to death for being blasphemous.

A few years back, I had a chatroom chat with a Catholic priest - a Jesuit-trained literalist, btw - about the movie and he said he found it very, very funny, except the final singing on the crosses which he thought was pushing it too far. He was raving about the blasphemy stoning scene. I noticed in his posts he had the sort of some-of-my-friends-are-Jews attitude and his staple response to women priests was "will you point out the justification for it in the Book for me ?; because I can't find it."

Jiri

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