The Satirical Life of Brian

In Monty Python's satire, The Life of Brian, they mock the idea of Christianity.  Throughout the movie, they show how by chance, Brian is put in a leadership role that he could not want less. The story calls into question how Christianity came to be and how different religious group react with one another.

The movie started out with the of the birth of Brian, which happened in the same town as Jesus Christ, but in the story, the formation of stars that the Three Wise Men follow to find the Messiah, actually leads them to Brian's house.  How much does chance play a role in Jesus' story.  For Christianity, there is a lot to prove that it was not by chance. Later on in life, Brian shows his distaste for Roman Occupation and joins a cult, one of many, whose aim to rid their town and country of the Romans.

After joining this group, his life seems to spiral downhill.  He gets into trouble trying to prove his level of devotion to the cause, which is the same as Jesus Christ's as told in the Bible. Monty Python makes fun of religious groups by what tatics this particular group uses to get their voices heard and their objectives met. They plan to kidnap Pilot's, the Roman Emperor,  wife, and use her as blackmail.  This is in stark contrast of everything Jesus and Christitanity stood for.  While carrying out this plan, they are cut off by another group with the exact same intentions, and the two groups end up fighting and Brian is the only one left standing.

Before he is caught inflitrating the Emperor's castle, he was trying to avoid detection and had to portray a person speaking about a cause, much like a prophet would have done. With what he says, which is basically an incomplete moral statement, the people who are interested make up their own version of the ending, and become his followers, claiming him to be the Messiah.  Brian desperately tries to deny himself as the profit, but the crowd is no longer cares and only sees him as their savior.  This is satirical because the people made up the rest of the story Brian was only inventing, and therefore almost inventing him as the Messiah.  He tries to deny it again and again, but the only thing the people want to hear is how he has the answer to a better life and how to get to heavan.

Once he caught trying to kidnapp Pilot's wife, he is put up on a cross to be crucified. But once up there, in the Jewish section of where the crucifying was happening,  another man began preaching to not be downhearted about being faced with your inevitable death, but to think about happy things.  He begins signing a catchy, happy song with background music that the others on crosses begin singing and whistling to.  The lyrics of the song reflect the same messages  told in teachings of Christianity, which shows the idea that the religion is only there to to make people feel good about death, almost trying to ignore the reality of life.