Is LIFE OF BRIAN blasphemous? I would have to say "no." Here's a bit of what I wrote in my review of the movie. You can find the complete review
over here.
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From time to time, there comes a movie that strengthens your faith in the Almighty. This is not one of those movies.
In fact, the Monty Python troupe went out of their way to get this one point across. This movie is not about Jesus Christ. It's not about the arrival of The Promised One. This movie is about an ordinary man who is mistaken for the Messiah. And this ordinary man has a very ordinary name. Brian. The product of a torrid love affair between his mother the slut and a Roman centurion named Naughtius Maximus.
Brian hates the Romans even though his father is one. The way he handles this conflict within himself is by joining a group of revolutionaries known as the People's Front of Judea (not associated with the Judean People's Front), a group plotting to expulse the Romans from their territory. Pretty soon, Brian is over his head in trouble and becomes a wanted man for his crimes against Roman decency. To make things worse, while trying to hide from the Roman legions by blending in with a group of weekend philosophers, people start to pay attention to his babblings. He wasn't trying to say anything special! He was just hiding out!
Now he has a group of "followers" following him around wherever he goes! And people think he can also perform miracles! The demands get worse and worse by the hour! He cries out he's not the Messiah! No one believes him! Can Brian shake these clowns off? Or will he become another victim of Roman intolerance against anything not Roman?
So despite the fact this movie has been condemned by almost every religious group in the world (including a few not affiliated with Jesus Christ), this is not a religious movie. The character of Jesus does appear for less than a minute, but that's it. Just a cameo. This movie is about Brian and no one else.
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Flame suit is now on!
P.S. Crucifixions were a very popular Roman invention. Even Spartacus and all of his surviving rebel slaves were nailed up there.