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I think probably because it isn't very quotable. The whole sequence is primarily visual, and Python fans rely on quotes for communication. Apparently, they wanted to let Terry G create an opening short, but nobody told him when to stop.
The Crimson Permanent Assurance is a 1983 British swashbuckling comedy short film directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Sydney Arnold and Guy Bertrand. [2] It plays as the prelude to the film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983). The film includes actor Matt Frewer's debut performance.
Box office. $42.7 million. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, also known simply as The Meaning of Life, is a 1983 musical sketch comedy film written and performed by the Monty Python troupe, directed by Terry Jones. The Meaning of Life was the last feature film to star all six Python members before the death of Graham Chapman in 1989.
In art, certain themes are evergreen. They never go out of date. Among them are love, death, and the intrinsically dehumanizing nature of corporations. In 1983 Monty Python tapped into one of the Great Themes with their short film The Crimson Permanent Assurance.
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A group of elderly office clerks who work for the Permanent Assurance Company, a staid British insurance accountancy firm which has been taken over by The Very Big Corporation of America, rebel against their corporate masters when one of them is sacked. Having locked the surviving supervisors in a safe and thrown their boss out of a window on a mak...
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1. Michael Palin 2. Graham Chapman 3. Terry Gilliam 4. Eric Idle 5. Terry Jones
According to the new Monty Python's Meaning of LifeDVD, it was this short that immediately won the audience in the Cannes Film Festival.At the beginning, the building used for shooting was the Lloyd's Register (of Shipping) No.71 office in Fenchurch Street, not to be confused with the Lloyd's of London Insurance Building.The film's score was based on the works of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, mainly his work The Sea Hawk (1940 film).- 3 min
The Crimson Permanent Assurance was originally conceived by Gilliam as a 6-minute animation sequence in the middle of the film (at the end of Part V), it was later expanded to a 16-minute live-action piece, to the point where it no longer fit into the framework of the film and became a pre-movie short film in its own right.
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