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    John Cleese Won't Cancel Loretta!

    John Cleese Won’t Cut Controversial ‘Life of Brian’ Scene for Stage Adaptation: ‘All of a Sudden We Can’t Do It Because It’ll Offend People’







    Monty Python star John Cleese has expressed disdain for modern sensibilities and “PC culture” on several occasions in recent years. The comedian found a new battleground for those convictions by claiming that his plans to mount a stage adaptation of the 1979 comedy “Life of Brian” have been “misreported” by the Daily Mail (in a now amended article), particularly in regards to the potential decision to revive a controversial scene involving a transgender character.

    Cleese shared his thoughts in a series of unthreaded posts on Twitter last Thursday.

    “A few days ago I spoke to an audience outside London. I told them I was adapting the ‘Life of Brian’ so that we could do it as a stage show (NOT a musical). I said that we’d had a table-reading of the latest draft in NYC a year ago,” Cleese wrote. “All the actors — several of them Tony winners — had advised me strongly to cut the Loretta scene. I have, of course, no intention of doing so.”

    In the original film, the scene features a character played by Python member Eric Idle who asks to be called Loretta and voices a longing to bear a child. Cleese’s character in the scene dismisses the request as “ridiculous.”

    “These were absolutely top-class Broadway performers and they were adamant that we would not get away with doing the scene in NYC!” Cleese continued. “Producers tend to be scaredy-cats, and they don’t remember that the protests in NYC when ‘Brian’ was released meant we never needed to do publicity!!”


    https://variety.com/2023/theater/news/monty-python-john-cleese-life-of-brian-cut-scene-1235627718/







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    Well, seriously, isn't it ridiculous, for a man to call himself a woman and, declare he wants to have a child?

    I mean, really, c'mon.
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    That Monty Python skit was way ahead of its time!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Abby08 View Post
    Well, seriously, isn't it ridiculous, for a man to call himself a woman and, declare he wants to have a child?

    I mean, really, c'mon.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Red Lily View Post
    That Monty Python skit was way ahead of its time!
    When "Life of Brian" came out it 1979 the film was attacked for being anti-Christian and mocking Jesus. Even though Jesus was a brief character in the film separate from Brian and treated with respect. The overall theme was the dangers of Religious fanaticism then and now.
    Funny how much as changed and we dare not point out any WOKE fanaticism or be cancelled!
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    I am in total agreement with John Cleese on his one. The whole premise of Life of Brian was to offend the religious fanatics. And that scene was hardly offensive.

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    It was prophetic Lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by XavierOnassis View Post
    I am in total agreement with John Cleese on his one. The whole premise of Life of Brian was to offend the religious fanatics. And that scene was hardly offensive.
    Thoughtless conformity and fanaticism has many forms not just religious. And that particular scene certainly made a point well before it's time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by XavierOnassis View Post
    I am in total agreement with John Cleese on his one. The whole premise of Life of Brian was to offend the religious fanatics. And that scene was hardly offensive.
    No it wasn't. The aim was not to offend anyone. The movie made fun of religion, ancient Rome, the disparity between classes and those that are easily led.





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    The Loretta scene is a perfect example of why the left have no sense of humor. The absurdity of the scene simply highlights the absurdity of the left's positions and they do not know how to combat that because you can't.





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