Life of Brian
Movie • 1979 • Comedy
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Abandonment
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Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
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Off-screen, but Brian's father disappears (as in leaves)
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Abuse
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It's a very quick moment, but a woman slaps a baby (the baby is off-screen). It's very absurd tho.
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In the beginning when Brian is still a baby his mother slaps him to get him to stop crying.
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Brians mother is kinda abusive
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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Brian's a pushover, so he holds to grudges against his mother's abuse
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Is someone gaslighted?
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People insist Brian is the messiah, but he knows it's not true
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone stalked?
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Brian I suppose
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Addiction
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Animal
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Assault
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There is briefly an attempt but it gets stopped
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Talks about Brian’s mother being raped
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A woman accidentally gets slapped.
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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Someone from the People's Front of Judea gets poked in the eye during a fight
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Is there excessive gore?
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There's a comedically excessive amount of gory body parts in the establishing shot of the gladiator show.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Brian falls and lands on another man's foot. The man says Brian crushed it
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Is there decapitation?
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A body with a severed head briefly at the gladiator show
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Is there throat mutilation?
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No mutilation, but a guard threatens Brian by holding a sword at his throat (with the sword touching tge skin)
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Crushed by a rock during a stoning that backfired. Nothing is seen
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Does someone break a bone?
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A man says his foot got crushed
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Is someone stabbed?
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The entire Judean People's Front squad near the end of the movie.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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A few "posessed" people briefly appear, they MIGHT look like it
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Comedic bonk on the head, catch the body moment
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does a non-human character die?
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An alien ship crashes. The bodies are not seen though
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Does a major character die?
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The movie cuts away before the actual moment of death, but it's made very clear that it's about to happen.
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Disability
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Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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There are two characters who seem to be disabled in some way, it's supposed to be funny. It's later shown that they are faking their disabilities, so it's likely that the actors aren't disabled.
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Fear
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Is someone possessed?
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Not graphic, but "posessed" people briefly appear
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Gross
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Does someone spit?
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Brian gets spit at in the prison.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Is there incarceration?
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Brian is put/dragged into prison where he stays for a while. Also another man is shown (and talked about) to have been incarcerated for a very long time
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LGBTQ+
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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There is one trans woman and the other characters have to get used to her new name.
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Medical
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Are there heart attacks?
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A gladiator dies from a heart attack after chasing his opponent around the rink
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Mental Health
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A group of people stab themselves
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A successful one, if that counts
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Aliens suddenly appear, not mentioned by other characters
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Some scenes are set in small spaces: a narrow stairway, a narrow+crowded street and a really small living space. If that counts
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Noxious
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Does a baby cry?
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In the beginning you can hear Brian crying.
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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To sum up the previous comment: the voice of one character adresses the audience and makes a few (joke, untrue) comments about tge production of the film
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Pregnancy
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Baby Brian in a manger, though he is unseen
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Prejudice
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There's a trans character who gets misgendered at first, but her group of friends adapts to the new pronouns quite well.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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A very recurring gag for the Monty Python is seing them dressed and act as women
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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several characters are mocked for their speech impediments throughout the film
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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There is blackface but not in a joking way. One of the wise men in the beginning of the movie.
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the main character, a Jew, uses anti-Semitic slurs to describe himself during an angry rant
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Does the black guy die first?
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There are no black people in this film.
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Is there aphobia?
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A man mocks a trans woman for not being able to bear children.
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Is there hate speech?
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the main character, a Jew, uses anti-Semitic slurs to describe himself during an angry rant.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Yes one of the 3 wise men
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Relationships
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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The main plot is about Brian accidentally starting a new religion and being seen as the Messiah.
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Mentioned by a "prophet"
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Sex
Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Not on-screen, but the characters are shown nakes afterwards.
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Are there nude scenes?
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After a night with Judith where she is shown full frontal, Brian flings open the windows and flashes the entire town of Judea (and us) for perhaps one second.
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Is someone terminally ill?
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Several people are said to have leprosy
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Social
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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Main character is crucified, but it's played for laughs.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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A spaceship does.
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Does a plane crash?
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it's a spaceship, actually
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Violence
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