Cut Nazi Jews Scene in ‘Life of Brian’ DVD
November 17, 2007
(Thanks Butnessel)
From the JTA.
The director of “Life of Brian” said he regrets cutting a “Nazi Jews” scene due to its current relevance in Israel.
The scene in the Monty Python film has been restored to a new DVD edition of the 1979 satire of the life of Jesus. The “Otto” scene depicts a mustachioed first century Jewish fascist whose followers sport symbols combining the Star of David with swastikas.
Terry Jones, the director and an alumnus of the comedy troupe, told the Daily Telegraph in an interview published Monday that he did not cut the scene for taste reasons.
“It was a very funny scene, but it wasn’t relevant, it wasn’t part of the story,” Jones said. “When I took it out, the film just flowed so much better.”
Jones now regrets cutting the scene.
“I think what it addressed is extremely relevant today with what’s going on in Israel,” he said.
Eric Idle, a fellow Python who wrote the scene, “put his finger on something; it was quite prophetic.” Jones said.
The scene can be seen here, btw:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=h1dZ0YddG7w
A first century Jewish fascist relevant to what’s going on in Israel today?
Such an image has been relevant to Israel since the days of Yitzak Shamir a notorious Jewish fascist who later went on to become the BBR’s(Bloated Banana Republic’s)leader!
The ostensible fascist/liberal/socialist credentials of any given politician often become irrelevant when one comes to study the really Earth-moving institutions,think-tanks and politicians who dominate the planet.
Rockerfellerism thrived during the Cold War because it went about the business of achieving its goal of world dominion in a new form.The difference between the citadels of money-power and revolutionary power that existed in the minds of men at that time were of little moment if one asked oneself one simple
question……what if the Cold War was a conflict staged simply for the masses?
What if similar men with a common aim secretly ruled in both camps and propose to achieve their ambition through a clash between the masses of both states?
These are questions that retain their relevance when one considers the foreign policies of states like Israel and the US today.