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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Professor Wagstaff)
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Subject: Re: The cheese connection (Life of Brian)
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Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 12:54:06 EST
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> How could someone who saw the movie "Life of Brian" claim that Brian
> represented Christ?  In case you forgot, Christ is a character in the movie.
> A separate character, portrayed as very wise and benevolent.  Sheesh!
> 
> Life of Brian is not about Christ, or about Christianity.  It is about
> religions and followers, and the absurdities often perpetrated by religions
> and followers.  Nothing else.  [TIM MARONEY]

I mentioned in a previous article that the original working idea for the film
"Life of Brian" was the story of Jesus and the advent of Christianity, hence
the original working title "Jesus Christ: Lust for Glory".  The notion of
substituting ANOTHER Jewish kid of the same time period who was mistaken for
the messiah was done to *placate* the potential distributors and backers of the
film (who probably wouldn't have touched "Jesus Christ: Lust for Glory" with a
ten foot cross).  Though the basis of the original idea was the advent of
Christianity, the points the movie made became more generalized.

P.S. to Tim:  read my last two articles to Laura with regard to definition of
religion.  If the same poll Laura took asked the question: "Is a tomato a
vegetable?", would the answer of the majority of people have any bearing on
whether or not it *is* one, given the accepted definition of a vegetable (and
of a fruit)?
-- 
"Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end."
						Rich Rosen   pyuxd!rlr