George Harrison famously is pretty much the reason Monty Python was able to make its brilliant Life of Brian - when asked why he was willing to mortgage his house and put in $4M so that Monty Python could make the movie, George Harrison supposedly replied "because I want to see the film."
Eric Idle famously called it "the most expensive movie ticket ever bought."
One of the main points of Life of Brian is that while they believe that Jesus existed and tried to do good things, his words were inevitably misheard or misconstrued once in the hands of other people and 2,000 years later now we really have no idea about anything Jesus may have truly intended.
Meanwhile, I found this quote from John Lennon (and by "found" of course I mean "saw it in one of the bazillion lists of John Lennon quotes online"):
“I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They’re all saying the same thing — and I believe it. I believe what Jesus actually said — the basic things he laid down about love and goodness — and not what people say he said. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.”
Is it possible that Monty Python heard that quote and it triggered something? Thus making it possible that Harrison wasn't the only Beatle with an oversized influence directly on the making of the film?
No idea, I've never heard any such thing myself, but damn if that quote's not lingering there.
Cleese and Palin touch on it here during their infamous debate about the movie on the BBC2 discussion show Friday Night, Saturday Morning with critic Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the Bishop of Southwark.
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