21 April 2011

Bright side

Life of Brian

(1979)
You know the scene where the crowd under Brian's balcony demands to see him, and his mother finally relents and agrees to let him come out for a minute, but no more, and he comes out and talks a bit, and then his mother pulls him back inside, and the crowd says, in unison, "That was never a minute," and she says yes, it was? Well, it's really about a minute, seven seconds.

Next year we'll talk about the unusual pattern of exposure and concealment of naughty bits in that sequence.

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