Word: pythonized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slice of the energy, irreverence and scapegrace spirit of rock culture. It was also the first major forum for the comedy underground that had begun to form in the late '60s. This was humor influenced by Mad magazine and the National Lampoon, Ernie Kovacs and Monty Python, William S. Burroughs and Johnny B. Goode. Under the shrewd editorial tutelage of Producer Lorne Michaels, this over-the-top farce, gussied up a bit for home consumption, became the house style at Saturday Night Live. With a bow to Hunter Thompson, Aykroyd called it "Gonzo television...
THERE HAS ALWAYS been an element of horror lurking behind the humor of Monty Python. In The Life of Brian, for instance, the members of the British comedy troupe presented us with the deeply disturbing image of a chorus of men and women singing "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" while being crucified at Golgotha...
...Brazil, an equally disturbing new film from Python member Terry Gilliam, this darkly comic "Bright Side" philosophy is brought to its ultimate extreme. Using a setting strongly derived from George Orwell's 1984, Gilliam gives us a hero whose world is so dark that he loses the ability to see anything but the bright side...
During the nine-month wrangle with Universal, Gilliam, a Monty Python alumnus who directed the 1981 surprise hit Time Bandits, felt as forlorn as his hero. The studio, which had just emerged from a noisy battle with Director Peter Bogdanovich over the cutting and scoring of his film Mask, demanded in March that Gilliam reduce his 2-hr. 22-min. Brazil, already in distribution in Europe, to the contracted 2 hr. 5 min. (The average running time for the last 25 winners of the Best Picture Oscar is a leisurely 2 hr. 26 min.; Universal's only other Christmas release...
...used to be afraid of snakes, and I wanted to like them," says Sara, explaining why she asked her parents to buy her Honey, a python. Sam, also a snake aficionado, has his two snakes at school because "it's a really neat experience to get to know and touch them...