Life Of Brian (1979)
0.5 - Dinari given to Michael Palin’s ex-leper by Graham Chapman’s Brian.
1 - membership of the Judean People’s Popular Front (“Splitter!”).
1 - years the film was banned in Norway. During this time the movie was promoted in Sweden as “the film that is so funny it was banned in Norway!”
1 - number of alternate titles for the film. If Eric Idle had his druthers, it would’ve been called Jesus Christ - Lust For Glory.
2 - times the ‘real’ Jesus Christ appears in the picture (first during the Nativity scene, and then again later delivering the Sermon on the Mount).
10 - things for which we have to be grateful to the Romans (sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, public health and peace).
11 - number of years the film was banned in Italy.
17 - number of years the film was banned by Swansea City Council.
40 - total number of characters played by the Monty Python team.
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