#eric idle loretta

[loretta-dont-you-oppress-me]

Finally I have my own video clip, even with music.

Loretta - You'll be a woman soon.

Music by Urge Overkill

#loretta #life of brian good omens overload #life of brian edit #life of brian #monty python #urge overkill #trans positivity #trans rights #transgender #eric idle #eric idle loretta

[andagon]

If not for you

The next song is a musical wish of @loretta-dont-you-oppress-me. The song was written by Bob Dylan and dedicated to his friend George Harrison. Enjoy:

Happy Valentine's Day to all who love ...

and especially to you, Loretta ...

Loretta with George Harrison

#loretta #dj dagon #if not for you #bob dylan #george harrison #eric idle #eric idle loretta #valentines day #Youtube

[yonderghostshistories]

Here's a poorly done meme expressing my love for the shipping of the 2 MOST BEAUTIFUL AND ABSOLUTELY LOVELY TRANS ICONS, 🏳️‍⚧️❣️ Loretta and Gabriella Montoya ❣️🏳️‍⚧️! Enjoy!!

(@commonguttersnipe you're very much right! They'd be besties for life!! Also, yes, please do write that Gabriella x Loretta being bffs fanfic, it's needed AHHH!!!!!)

#the six idiots #themthere #monty python #Gabriella Montoya #Loretta #jim howick #eric idle #bill (2015) #Life of Brian (1979) #Gabriella x Loretta

[lukiverse]

I just rewatched Life of Brian and I was thinking the Monty Pythons actually did quite a lot for LGBTQIA+ people. Yes, it hasn't aged perfectly but they did make contributions to normalising cross-dressing and subverting gender-roles. In a lot of ways they were well ahead of their time.

Take Loretta (played by Eric Idle), the trans woman in the people's front of Judea in the life of brian. Her first appearance shows her coming out to the other members of the resistance, who ridicule her desire to have children but don't actually ridicule her identity, and quickly begin using her preferred name.

Like I said, it's obviously not perfect and they still showed a lot of ignorance, but considering the time period I'm quite impressed.

#monty python #life of brian #transgender #drag

[coochiequeens]

So here you have something there's never been a complaint about in 40 years, that I've heard of, and now all of a sudden we can't do it because it'll offend people. What is one supposed to make of that?

Actors warned John Cleese that his Life of Brian stage show should not include a scene about a man wanting to be a woman and have a baby, the comedian has said.

The Monty Python star is working on a stage production of the troupe’s 1979 comedy film, The Life of Brian, which parodies the Messianic message of the New Testament.

In the film version, a character named Stan explains that he wants to be a woman called Loretta and “have babies”, before being told by Cleese’s character Reg that this was impossible.

This exchange reportedly met with opposition from actors in a readthrough of the script for the planned stage show because it could “offend people”, raising doubt as to its inclusion in the final production.

'You can't do that stuff nowadays'

Cleese said performers involved in the readthrough told him: “We love the script, but you can't do that stuff about Loretta nowadays.”

Speaking to the audience for his one-man show, he added:  "So here you have something there's never been a complaint about in 40 years, that I've heard of, and now all of a sudden we can't do it because it'll offend people. What is one supposed to make of that?

“But I think there were a lot of things that were actually, in some strange way, predictive of what was actually going to happen later."

The potentially offensive scene features Eric Idle as Stan telling his fellow members of the People's Front of Judea “I want to be a woman”, and adding “from now on, I want you all to call me Loretta”.

He explains that this is because he wants to have babies, and explains that “it's every man's right to have babies if he wants them”.

'You haven't got a womb'

Cleese’s character Reg explains “you haven’t got a womb”, but the People’s Front decide that they will champion Stan’s right to have babies, as it is "it is symbolic of our struggle against oppression”.

Cleese revealed the concerns with the script amid a growing debate about gender ideology, which purports that people born female who identify as male are men, and could give birth to children as men.

This idea has been reflected in the NHS, with the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust recently employing the phrase “birthing people” instead of mothers in an announcement about perinatal mental health care.

In 2021, Brighton and Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust unveiled “gender inclusive” phrases to be used as best practice by medical staff, advising that “birthing parent” was the more appropriate term.  The word “breastmilk” was replaced with “chestmilk”.

'I've changed some things'

While it remains to be seen if Cleese’s script will include Stan’s wish to be a woman, the star has said that audiences can expect some differences between the stage show and the film.

Cleese said: "I think Life Of Brian is our best film. We are going to do it in London in the second half of next year and I've changed certain things."

According to the Daily Mail, he said: "There is a new character - Fiona Pilate, Pilate's wife - who falls in love with Brian. And, spoiler alert, Brian does not get crucified. But rest assured he will still sing Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life."

The film was accused of being blasphemous when it was first released, and was banned in Ireland as part of a clerical backlash against the comedy, often cited as the greatest of all time.

#Free Speech Friday #Life of Brian stage show #John Cleese #monty python #Reg was just telling the truth #Loretta scene #Youtube

[commonguttersnipe]

Smash or Pass: Monty Python's Life of Brian character* edition

(*that means ALL the characters from the movie, unless otherwise you can only remember a few, which is also fine)

Brian- Smash (He’s not only the messiah, he’s also the standard)

Mrs Cohen- Pass (Only because she’s scares me…)

Judith- Smash (She’s pretty)

Loretta- Smash (Fun fact: she’s actually my wife)

Reg- Pass (He has back trouble y’know?)

Francis- Smash (Adorable little guy)

Mr Cheeky- Smash (I’m a sucker for a guy with a sense of humour)

Pontius Pilate- Smash (Sorry.)

Biggus Dickus- Smash (It’s literally in his name)

Centurion- Smash (I’ve come to the conclusion that John was really hot when he was younger)

Ex-Leper- SMASH (So gorgeous…)

High Priest- Pass (The beard.)

Mr Big-Nose- Smash (He can take me to the fucking cleaners anytime)

Nisus Wettus- Smash (He’s very calming)

Gaoler- Pass (He’s my sleep paralysis demon)

Gaoler’s assistant- Smash (Is it just because he’s played by Eric Idle? Yes.)

This was actually really fun…

#did I use this as an excuse to fangirl over Michael? #no. #life of brian #monty python #graham chapman #terry jones #john cleese #eric idle #michael palin #terry gilliam #70s #monty python’s flying circus

[nicklloydnow]

“When Life of Brian first appeared on Britain’s cinema screens in November 1979, it was the funniest film I had ever seen in the cinema. Back then, there was still a Christian church capable of a low, meaningful growl at this evidently facetious treatment of its founding credo. Yet the artistic integrity, the long serpentine backbone of Python, held firm.

A lot has changed since then. According to Cleese, the ‘Loretta’ scene, in which a male member of the People’s Front of Judea demands his right to have babies, raised eyebrows at a read-through in New York last year. ‘We love the script, but you can’t do that stuff about Loretta nowadays’, the Americans told Cleese. Here we see how an religious diktat, incomparably more impactful than anything from the church of the 1970s, has forced Cleese and Co to expunge one of Life of Brian’s most beloved moments.

In 1979, self-proclaimed defender of the faith Malcolm Muggeridge and the then Bishop of Southwark appeared on a late-night chat show to defend the Gospel against Life of Brian. They challenged John Cleese and Michael Palin for what they saw as the film’s tiresome, wanton, schoolboy vandalism of their faith. I remember watching it at the time. I was 14 and knew nothing of Muggeridge’s genuinely heroic stand against Stalinism, or rather against Fleet Street’s reluctance to address its evils. I was simply impatient with these old men and their indignantly quivering jowls. Get out of the way, I thought, you’ve had your day. We’re the young generation, and we’ve got something to say. Now I see that they were merely the Horatiuses at their own bridge, just as I am at mine now. One need only wait. The world rolls, and sooner or later you find it at your door.

That trans is the new religion has become a cliché. But it will rarely be illustrated more vividly than here, as its scowl humbles a jest that once stood up to Rome and Canterbury combined.

Scott Alexander once wrote on his Slate Star Codex blog that the new woke creed was rushing into the God-shaped hole left by the New Atheism movement of the early 2000s. It was persuasive. Although I still find it curious, if not downright suspicious, that trans ideology should have been so enthusiastically and noisily embraced by everyone from Goldman Sachs to Disney and basically the entire global corporate hegemony.

(…)

There is a part of me – my brain, specifically – that would rather Cleese (and Eric Idle) stopped trying to re-engineer and re-stage their earlier classic works altogether. The Pythons have made more last laps of the farewell circuit than Frank Sinatra. They are not, I fear, going to unearth untapped artistic potential. And there is a danger now, by allowing these kinds of artistic castrations, that they will begin to do real, Roger Waters-tier damage to their collective legacy.

In any case, the real blame for this has to lie with Cleese’s new opponents. Unlike today’s Christians, Loretta’s co-religionists would be willing to disrupt his production by any means necessary – from intimidating punters, shaming advertisers, withdrawing labour, etc. (Has there ever been more naked projection than in the nom de guerre of Stop Funding Hate?)”

#monty python #life of brian #simon evans #comedy #censorship

[everyoneislgbtpride-edits]

Loretta from Life of Brian is canonically a trans woman!!

#loretta #life of brian #monty python #canon #transgender #trans woman #request #eric idle

[lacking-hydration]

Some doodles of my favorite characters played by Eric that I don't talk about quite as much as the usual suspects...

(aka "Proof that Eric can pull off playing men and women fantastically")

#eric idle #loretta life of brian #aunt millie #rita fairbanks #the very last one is from the best of series #eric's playing a fictional version of his mom and she SENDS ME every time #ian maxtone-graham #alan smithee #grant pritchard #monty python #nearly departed #suddenly susan #burn hollywood burn #my arts

[lafakiwi-draws-archive]

I'd apologize for so much Monty Python on this blog but I must admit they are very fun to draw and so, henceforth, no apology will be issued

#monty python #art dump #graham chapman #eric idle #terry jones #(🥺💙💙) #terry gilliam #parrot at the end (from the POV of the shopkeeper) #artists on tumblr #lafakiwi draws #digital art #mandy cohen #brian cohen #loretta #monty python's life of brian #monty python's flying circus #doodles

[loretta-dont-you-oppress-me]

Oh, there are artists out there making likenesses of me ... See, @i-dream-of-sheeny, I am a muse, too.

Artwork by @lafakiwi-draws-archive

Artwork by @lacking-hydration

#eric idle Loretta #loretta #eric idle #life of brian good omens overload #life of brian #stan becomes loretta #i am what i am #muses unite! #loretta as muse #loretta is a muse

[pedroam-bang]

Life Of Brian (1979)

#1979 #gif #film #movie #Life Of Brian #Monty Python #Graham Chapman #Brian Cohen #Eric Idle #Stan #Loretta #John Cleese #Reg #Michael Palin #Francis #Sue Jones-Davies #Judith #Terry Jones #Terry Gilliam #Judea #Jerusalem #Colosseum #gladiator #gladius

[yonderghostshistories]

Imagine an interaction/conversation between these 2 (beautiful ❤️) people

[ Image 1 on the left shows Loretta, played by Eric Idle, who is a trans 🏳️‍⚧️ character and appears in the movie "Monty Python's Life of Brian" (1979) ]

[ Image 2 on the right shows Gabriella Montoya, played by Jim Howick, who is a trans 🏳️‍⚧️ character and appears in the Six Idiots' movie "Bill" (2015) ]

#the six idiots #themthere #monty python #Bill (2015) #monty python's life of brian #Life of Brian (1979) #Gabriella Montoya #Loretta #jim howick #eric idle #transgender 🏳️‍⚧️ #trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ #transgender representation

[disneybuddy]

PEOPLE DEFENDING STUNT-CASTING IN ANIMATION (AND ALSO MOVIE STUDIOS, PRESUMABLY): Celebrities lending their voices to animated movies means that the film will be successful at the box office!

NORM OF THE NORTH: (features the voices of Rob Schneider, Ken Jeong, Loretta Devine, and Gabriel Iglesias yet still winds up being a flop)

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS: (features the voices of Chris Prine, Jude Law, Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, and Isla Fisher yet still winds up being a flop)

UGLYDOLLS: (features the voices of Kelly Clarkson, Wanda Sykes, Janelle Monae, Nick Jonas, Blake Shelton, Pitbull, and Bebe Rexha [among other celebrities] yet still winds up being a flop)

TURBO: (features the voices of Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Samuel L. Jackson, Snoop Dogg, Maya Rudolph, Ben Schwartz, and Ken Jeong yet still winds up being a flop)

DELGO: (features the voices of Freddie Prince Jr., Val Kilmer, Chris Kattan, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Eric Idle, and Michael Clarke Duncan yet is one of the biggest flops in the history of cinema)

#just needed to say it

[gottagobackintime]

Monty Python’s Life of Brian  Stan Loretta+Name/Identity

#Monty python's life of brian #life of brian #monty python #eric idle #john cleese #I don't even know #I just love that they do call her Loretta #not right away but eventually #and it feels kind of natural that the people who know her uses her new name first #like brian doesn't because he didn't hear the conversation #and maybe he's only heard other people refer to loretta as stan and therefor he thinks that's her name #am I analysing monty python #yes I am #also if you haven't seen not the messiah he's a very naughty boy #you know the oratorio that eric made #there's an entire song where he sings as loretta about her wanting to be a girl #he shares it with 'judith' but still #it's great #while wear talking about eric can we take a moment to appreciate that he #made herbert and lancelot canonically gay #and that they got a happy ending #while still poking fun at the fact that it's still controversial in a 1000 years time #okay I'll stop now #I just really love eric idle #and monty python ofc #bye bye #one last thing look at that little smile in the last gif #underrated moment #okay I'm done for real now #nicole made this

[rockandspud]

Total Drama (USA Release Cast)

anonymous:

What if “Total Drama” series was in (USA release) in potential alternate universe cast? CAST: ----------------------------- Total Drama Series -----------------------------     •    Chris McLean: Ben Stiller     •    Chef Hatchet: Idris Elba Total Drama Island/Action/World Tour     •    Alejandro: Antonio Banderas     •    Beth: Mila Kunis     •    Blaineley: Ellen DeGeneres     •    Bridgette: Moira Kelly     •    Cody: Nathan Lane     •    Courtney: Mae Whitman     •    DJ: Tracy Morgan     •    Duncan: Ben Schwartz     •    Eva: Jane Lynch     •    Ezekiel: Bill Farmer     •    Geoff: Cam Clarke     •    Gwen: Carla Gugino     •    Harold: Nicolas Cage     •    Heather: Reese Witherspoon     •    Izzy: Emma Stone     •    Justin: George Lopez     •    Katie: Mindy Kaling     •    LeShawna: Jada Pinkett Smith     •    Lindsay: Anna Kendrick     •    Noah: Jason Bateman     •    Owen: Zach Galifianakis     •    Sadie: Lisa Kudrow     •    Sierra: Amy Poehler     •    Trent: Elijah Wood     •    Tyler: Michael J. Fox Total Drama Revenge of the Island     •    Anne Maria: Loretta Devine     •    Brick: Simon Pegg     •    Cameron: Kevin Hart     •    Dakota: Jenny Slate     •    Dawn: Andrea Libman     •    Jo: Bonnie Hunt     •    Lightning: Chris Rock     •    Mike: John Leguizamo     •    Sam: Bill Fagerbakke     •    Scott: Alan Tudyk     •    Staci: Greta Gerwig     •    Zoey: Kristen Bell Total Drama Pahkitew Island     •    Amy/Samey: Ginnifer Goodwin     •    Beardo (speaking): David Oyelowo     •    Dave: Woody Allen     •    Ella: Rachel MacFarlane     •    Jasmine: Lupita Nyong'o     •    Leonard: Shawn Michael Howard     •    Max: Steve Buscemi     •    Rodney: Brad Garrett     •    Scarlett: Drew Barrymore     •    Shawn: Channing Tatum     •    Sky: Leslie Mann     •    Sugar: Roseanne Barr     •    Topher: Nick Jonas ----------------------------- Total Drama Ridonculous Race ----------------------------- CAST:     •    Don: Louis C.K.          •    Brody: Gregg Berger     •    Carrie: Kristen Wiig     •    Chet: Josh Peck     •    Crimson: Scarlett Johansson     •    Devin: Matthew Broderick     •    Dwayne: Wallace Shawn     •    Ellody: Zendaya     •    Emma: Chloe Bennet     •    Ennui: Liam Neeson     •    Gerry: Jim Cummings     •    Jacques: Jim Parsons     •    Jay: Tom Holland     •    Jen: Anne Hathaway     •    Junior: Debi Derryberry     •    Josee: Allison Janney     •    Kelly: Jessie J     •    Kitty: Kimiko Glenn     •    Laurie: Alyssa Milano     •    Lorenzo: Drake Bell     •    MacArthur: Lake Bell     •    Mary: Maia Mitchell     •    Miles: Cheryl Hines     •    Mickey: Jesse Eisenberg     •    Pete: Tim Curry     •    Rock: Eric Idle     •    Ryan: Luis Guzmán     •    Sanders: Wanda Sykes     •    Stephanie: Zoë Kravitz     •    Spud: Barry Bostwick     •    Tammy: Katherine Heigl     •    Taylor: Sarah Silverman     •    Tom: Raymond Perri Any ask for comments and questions, just let me know about Voice Actors from “Total Drama Trilogy”. Feel free to do your own version.

#this was submitted to me like 3 times #a lot of interesting choices but i am absolutely quaking at the thougjt of ellen degenerous playing blainley #submission