Alla fine degli anni Sessanta un gruppo di (neanche troppo) giovani e sconclusionati cineasti inglesi diedero vita alla formazione comica più geniale che sia mai stata creata, mischiando talento visivo, creatività, satira feroce, comicità fisica, verbale e giochi di parole, tanto nonsense, ma soprattutto una straordinaria ironia per cui tutto era il contrario di tutto che era a sua volta il contrario di tutto. L’unica parola accostabile a loro era ed è tuttora: “genialità”. Chi non ha mai visto un loro film, o anche un episodio del Flying Circus corra al videonoleggio, li scarichi, ma se li veda!! Purtroppo, dopo quel capolavoro comico che è “Il senso della vita” i Pythons si sciolsero, lasciandoci in eredità piccoli capolavori, ma soprattutto un piccolo e, apparentemente insignificante, “sistema filosofico” basato sull’assurdo e sull’ironia, sul prendere le cose alla leggera e sul non farsi schiacciare dagli eventi, anche se hanno l’aspetto di un piede enorme uscito da un cartone di Terry Gilliam… In tempi cupi e tristi, nonché maledettamente seri, come questi, la filosofia Pythoniana sarebbe di grande utilità: come combattere la meccanizzazione, l’efficienza dominante, il robotismo e la tecnocrazia galoppanti se non con la fantasia e la lucida follia dei Monty Python? Ahhh, patrimonio comune dell’umanità, perché la vita è troppo importante per prenderla sul serio… ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE (da “Brian di Nazareth”) ======================================== Some things in life are bad They can really make you mad Other things just make you swear and curse When you're chewing on life's gristle Don't grumble, give a whistle And this'll help things turn out for the best ... And ... (music slides into the song) ... Always look on the bright side of life ... (whistle) ... Always look on the bright side of life ... (whistle) If life seems jolly rotten There's something you've forgotten And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing When you're feeling in the dumps Don't be silly chumps Just purse your lips and whistle _ that's the thing. And ... ... Always look on the bright side of life ... (whistle) Come on. (others start to join in) ... Always look on the bright side of life ... (whistle) For life is quite absurd And death's the final word You must always face the curtain with a bow Forget about your sin _ Give the audience a grin Enjoy it _ it's your last chance anyhow. So always look on the bright side of death Just before you draw your terminal breath Life's a piece of shit When you look at it Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true You'll see it's all a show Keep 'em laughing as you go Just remember that the last laugh is on you And always look on the bright side of life ... (whistle) Always look on the bright side of life ... (whistle) Come on guys, cheer up. Always look on the bright side of life ... Always look on the bright side of life ... Worse things happen at sea, you know. Always look on the bright side of life ... I mean _ what have you got to loose? You know, you come from nothing _ You're going back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing! Always look on the bright side of life ... (fade) ======================================== GALAXY SONG (da “Il senso della vita) ======================================== Intro: WHENEVER LIFE GETS YOU DOWN, MRS. BROWN, AND THINGS SEEM HARD OR TOUGH, AND PEOPLE ARE STUPID, OBNOXIOUS OR DAFT AND YOU FEEL THAT YOU'VE HAD QUITE ENOUGH ... Just remember that you're standing On a planet that's evolving, And revolving at 900 miles an hour, That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, So it's reckoned, A sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me And all the stars that we can see, Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, At 40 000 miles and hour, Of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way. Our Galaxy itself Contains 100 billion stars It's 100 000 light years side by side, It bulges in the middle, 16 000 light years thick But out by us it's just 3 000 light years wide. We're 30 000 light years From galactic central point, We go round every 200 million years And our galaxy is only One of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding Universe. As fast as it can go, At the speed of light you know, 12 million miles a minute, And that's the fastest speed there is. So remember when you're feeling Very small and insecure How amazingly unlikely is your birth And pray that there's intelligent Life somewhere up in space Because there's bugger all down here on Earth. http://darjus.blog.tiscali.it