The Astor Cinema in Perth, Western Australia ran "Life of Brian" for something like twelve months. As a 15 year old lad who loved irreverent humour, I think I paid my entry fee (five dollars back in the good old days) about ten times.
This was back in the era when a cinema's main feature was preceded by some boring documentaries about wine making, formula one cars and some French street performer who trained acrobatic cats (no, that is not an exaggeration)!
So, I sat back before "Life of Brian" ready to have my mind numbed by yet another doco named "Away From It All" about all the wonderful sights to see in places I was never likely to go to. However, as things progressed, it started becoming more and more sarcastic and that was when I recognised the dulcet tones of John Cleese as the narrator. As he continued it became clear that he hated these time-fillers just as much as the audience did to the point where it ended with the inevitable climax.
After my first viewing, I looked forward to watching, re-watching and re-re-watching "Away From It All" as much as "Life of Brian". To this day I find it incomplete to watch one without the other. Fortunately, YouTube has saved the day yet again!
This was back in the era when a cinema's main feature was preceded by some boring documentaries about wine making, formula one cars and some French street performer who trained acrobatic cats (no, that is not an exaggeration)!
So, I sat back before "Life of Brian" ready to have my mind numbed by yet another doco named "Away From It All" about all the wonderful sights to see in places I was never likely to go to. However, as things progressed, it started becoming more and more sarcastic and that was when I recognised the dulcet tones of John Cleese as the narrator. As he continued it became clear that he hated these time-fillers just as much as the audience did to the point where it ended with the inevitable climax.
After my first viewing, I looked forward to watching, re-watching and re-re-watching "Away From It All" as much as "Life of Brian". To this day I find it incomplete to watch one without the other. Fortunately, YouTube has saved the day yet again!