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A "must see" for Python fans.

Sean, want?

Yes please!

I always thought that Steve Punt would make a good Eric Idle...

He's not good, he's brilliant! All of them are in fact.

I'll pop it in the post mate.

Cast

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Stephen Fry as God

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Good choice. (Beats the hell out of Morgan Freeman.)

How about George Burns?

"so help me me".

OMG, this is fantastic...

I really want to thank you for posting this Strop...

It's available on Netflix, and there are a lot of excerpts on YouTube...

I was really impressed with Darren Boyd, (who played Cleese) and Charles Edwards as Palin and Rufus Jones as Terry Jones...

Here are a couple of examples:






Boyd has got John Cleese as Basil Fawlty down to a tee...

The voice, the mannerisms, the timing...it's almost eerie...

I haven't seen an actor grasp the public performance of another actor from an earlier age this effectively since Robert Downey Jr. played Chaplin...

If they ever decide to start doing remakes of Fawlty Towers, Darren Boyd is definitely the guy you want for the lead...

But my question is this...

It's obvious that Boyd learned how to play Cleese from studying Fawlty Towers, and some old Python sketches...

And he learned that part very well...

(I can see him doing a fantastic remake of the "Parrot Skit" or "I'd like to have an argument"....)

But is that really an accurate portrayal of how Cleese was behaving as himself off camera during the making of The Life Of Brian?

It's not meant to be Jim, they explain this in the movie.

The whole movie is done as a "Python/Fawtly" pastiche.

Palin is constantly referred to as "the nicest man in the world", a play on his Palin's Travels docos.

The whole movie is done as a "Python/Fawtly" pastiche.

Ahh, more as a "mockumetary" (or really as an homage), then as a documentary...

Well since I finally decided to get Netflix (I figured we had enough TV options; till I discovered that The Finder was on Netflix,.. and I decided I'd also like to take a look at Kevin Spacey's version of Francis Urquart)

I'll make a point of watching this in it's entirety over the weekend...

It does appear that they chose actors who were really well suited for the roles...

Homage is a very apt description, I wish I'd said that......you will gob, you will...

Gob wrote:Homage is a very apt description, I wish I'd said that......you will gob, you will...

hold on there will be none of that going on around here.

One very strange flick...

Yep, one could say it was Pythonesque.