Life of Brian Graffiti Scene

[@serbanandreimarin]

"If you are going to protest Roman occupation, at least do it in proper Latin!" A Roman officer, probably

[@paulzapodeanu9407]

Probably in Latin though.

[@andrewdiedrich3097]

paul zapodeanu could’ve been Greek or Hebrew.

[@serbanandreimarin]

@@andrewdiedrich3097 Highly unlikely really

[@8is]

Wasn't it just part of the empire?

[@serbanandreimarin]

@@8is That does not factor in how the Bretons felt about Roman rule

[@brinx8634]

Roman: Walks into a bar, "I'll have a martinus please". Bartender: "Do you mean martini"? Roman: "No, just one for now".

[@danielmartini3229]

what?

[@thesiege6003]

@@danielmartini3229 martini would be plural for martinus because it ends in us, just a wee joke

[@danielmartini3229]

@@thesiege6003 yeah, I was kidding myself

[@oz_jones]

In a similar vein: A Roman goes to a pub, holds two fingers and orders five beers.

[@KCJbomberFTW]

@@oz_jones hehe

[@xred_ray8009]

We watched the movie in the last Latin class before Christmas one year. My Latin teacher hadn’t seen it before, she broke down laughing at this scene, we had never even seen her smile ever. In between fits of laughter she got out „Maybe I should try this next time!“ Not a good prospect....

[@2ndEndingVintage]

Cool school to have been OK with showing the movie, I'd say.....

[@CatNostril]

@@2ndEndingVintage I thought the people who found this offensive died

[@donelion6459]

Bollocks you lot are toast

[@JamesEtc3417]

xRed _Ray did you go to school recently? My grandad was taught Latin and was reasonably fluent in it 50+ years later. I’ve always wanted to learn it but it’s hard when it’s not used anymore.

[@bacul165]

I always thought that this was a much more effective way to teach Latin than what I was doing!

[@annalieff-saxby568]

To my mind, the best joke in the whole film. The bit where the centurion whips out his sword, forcing Brian to get the case right, never fails to raise a grin.

[@mizofan]

we had worse than swords at school

[@mrbrianc]

I would have probably learned my cases and conjugations better that way

[@georgebennett3197]

@@mrbrianc worse than swords? You were lucky!!

[@rogerlie4176]

@edwardmashberg1 You had it easy. My German grammar teacher used to put splinters under my nails when I used the wrong preposition. And that was when he was in a good mood.

[@tyson31415]

I agree. Also I think that centurion and I may have had the same Latin teacher.

[@citam2023A]

"People called Romanes, they go, the house."

[@kresobilan1899]

@listen2meokidoki casa mea Romana centies

[@OpinionatedCabbage]

Is it a big house?

[@Wasserkaktus]

Latin is extremely complex but that is precisely why it is such a good language.

[@freudsigmund72]

@@Wasserkaktus By that standard Finnish is also a very good language.

[@rassenkrieg9615]

@@freudsigmund72 It is.

[@tnerbtnerb5136]

I would have been killed right around "conjugate the verb"

[@RealDapperDude]

amo, amas, amat. Probably misspelled, and the only Latin I've ever heard conjugated that left an impression, and probably the wrong one.

[@philipclayberg4928]

Roman soldier could've said, "And if you don't want to use the Latin noun, you can always decline it."

[@Wasserkaktus]

Its because conjugate is a big, scary word when in reality, all it means is align the verb with the subject.

[@zapking8209]

I only would’ve failed that because eo is such an irregular word

[@Emil.Fontanot]

Me too and i studied latin for 4 years

[@KesselRunner606]

Back when this film was first released, and I was too young to go to the cinema, there were no torrents, no DVD copies, not even pirated VHS. But what my dad could get us was the _Monty Python Life of Brian Script Book._ And me an my brother would go through it like devout acolytes reading holy scripture. So much so, that (to this day) I could recite any scene in the film, chapter and verse, before I even saw the movie.

[@suisiwara2036]

someone stop this guy. he has too much power

[@Borderose]

That must feel amazing in hindsight.

[@christopherhall5361]

Patrol: "Now don't do it again" Next patrol: *wtf*

[@nimz8521]

That's such a great line.

[@The8thblock]

damn Grammar Romans, i can see why he wants them to go home, i mean apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, fresh water system and public health, What have the Romans ever done for them?!

[@andmos1001]

Oh I don’t know: subjugation of the Palestine people living there before Roman time, and kill and maim the people there to quash rebels. Huh, things never change do they

[@aubreystewart3772]

@@andmos1001 r/woosh

[@TowerHunter]

@@aubreystewart3772 is it really a woosh?

[@aubreystewart3772]

@@TowerHunter yea

[@GeodesicBruh]

lazyartist Last culturisation is a silly excuse for invasions lol.

[@johnedwards1321]

Him: "...not dative! Not dative!" Me: "Accusative..." Him: "Accusative!" Me: "Jesus, will I ever get this shit out of my head, it's been over 50 fucking years!"

[@WillScarlet16]

Jesus walks by: "Sorry, did you mention my name?"

[@rovano926]

Remember watching the movie in 1979 in a small cinema (80 people). The brilliant cherry on the cake of humour was: "and now you write this 100 times" - everybody collapsed from laughter. Going from joke to joke, we didn't get time to breathe.

[@BoostedMonkey05]

that's the style of Monty Python. Do not stop even if the audience are still laughing.

[@oz_jones]

Oh man, sounds like a blast. I wish I was there, but alas I was born in 1985 and in Finland.

[@ruben1475]

Late September this year I went with my family on a nostalgia trip to Museum Orientalis, a biblical museum in Netherlands which my Catholic-raised mom used to visit with her parents when she was a child. In the reconstructed "Roman village" one of the buildings was clad with this grafitti, including the corrections and strikethroughs. Thought that was nice to share

[@davidolie8392]

Chapman and Cleese, as two students from public schools and from Cambridge, must have been laughing themselves silly while they wrote this.

[@tommiturmiola3682]

They wrote it out of experience.

[@Richard_Ashton]

@@tommiturmiola3682 It's the way my Latin master taught at my school (Hyde Grammar School - er, in Hyde).

[@Jorvard]

@@Richard_Ashton With a gladius?

[@Richard_Ashton]

Jorvard Stick Figures on the chalk board - chilling!

[@tomaseriksson7240]

@Human Resources , wasn't it inspired by the 1944 film Torment (original Swedish title "Hets"), co-directed by a young Bergman, where sadistic Latin teacher "Caligula" torments his students, much in the same way with regards to grammar? Monty Python has parodied several other Bergman scenes as well...

[@555pontifex]

This is hilarious to anyone who actually studied Latin at school... 'how many Romans?'

[@8is]

People who have studied languages in general are probably having a good laugh too. I mean, I did and I found this scene to be the funniest in the entire movie xD.

[@heatherjones6647]

It's still wrong. Like Yoda, Latin sentences end with the verb: "Romani ad domum ite"

[@8is]

@@heatherjones6647 Maybe that's the joke? I don't know.

[@hopseshopsidis]

@@heatherjones6647 ad is not necessary and may even be wrong. Its not Romans, go towards home, its go home. Anyways, its also using the locative and not the accusative

[@0GreatMerlin]

All that really need be said is: Latin is a language, Dead as Dead Can Be, First it Killed the Romans, Now It's Killing Me.

[@voyageruno8938]

My God, that Roman patrol was pretty stealth there!

[@suisiwara2036]

Mein Gott, that Roman patrol was pretty stealth there!

[@The_Algae]

Dios mio, that Roman patrol was pretty stealth there!

[@LyziShadow]

Mon Dieu, that Roman patrol was pretty stealth there!

[@Gretel1236]

Herregud, that Roman patrol was pretty stealth there!

[@Jeartozer]

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!! Oh... wait, wrong group...

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

"He is NOT the Messiah! He's a very naughty boy!" RIP Graham Chapman and Terry Jones

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

'WHO'S THAT WELSH TART!??' Jones.... no one did drag better than Jones as Brian's mum.

[@RealDapperDude]

Hail, Caesar. And Everything!!

[@ashwolf2006]

Loads fatman.

[@0MVR_0]

As said in perfect midlands accent.

[@philipclayberg4928]

Roman emperors were all vegetarians. You've heard of "Caesar's Salad", haven't you?

[@Cjnw]

Including a Teutonic Schickelgrüber ancestor😛

[@PolishGod1234]

Ave, True to Caesar

[@nonoyobeezewax9527]

Hints of the argument clinic...."it says Romans go home. No it doesn't"

[@SagaofaCrew]

This Roman Satire filmed in miniature with live insects and a lizard is simply astounding! The 'Ben Hur - like' comedy meme parody of the year, 'The Geckoator II - Ben Crick' P.S. - It's in Latin with English Subtitles incidentally!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGK0Z4mZgtigiZo

[@willow4452]

My favourite bit from the show and favourite from the movies

[@jphanson]

“Nominative? _Go home_ - this is motion towards, isn’t it boy?” “Uh- dative- AH!”

[@hpa2005]

"Not the dative! Not the dative, sir! Ah! Ah! Oh! the ACCUSATIVE, ACCUSATIVE!"

[@gergely219]

It's good to see the education methods of latin didn't change in the last 2000 years.

[@spraghoot3598]

“Now...don’t do it again” *the entire building is covered*

[@julianhermanubis6800]

This is a comedy, but I could almost see a Roman army officer doing this sort of thing. The Romans were big on proper behavior and following the rules, even to the exclusion of seeing the larger context.

[@philjamieson5572]

This clip made me laugh out loud and spill my tea. Mind you, I'm quite old, so I do both of those things anyway.

[@thatssofetch3481]

Hey, I’m 16 and do both of those things, keep on kicking Phil!

[@NYGGJELEBEITE]

I once made a joke that someone was too old to be on the internet. People got mad, so I won't do it again.

[@dovermaskot4441]

@@NYGGJELEBEITE And that was decades ago, so probably YOU are now too old to be on the internet, but its all good, i wont tell nobody :P

[@pwnmeisterage]

Dinosaurs come in all ages. Young minds come in all ages. Tea-spillers come in all ages.

[@mariellevandenborne2361]

@@pwnmeisterage and me i am a sort apart. I was in a hurry so i just microwaved the tea Forgot to put water in it.

[@theboredengineer2612]

1:58 One really undermentioned part of this clip is how quick John Cleese is with that sword. Kind of terrifying actually...

[@bretthess6376]

One of John Cleese's direct ancestors, whose name was Cheese (later generation changed that, wonder why) was one of the most feared swordsmen in Europe. No shit. Look it up.

[@mauricio460]

Right. He did it in a very convincing way, also the dusk made him look menacing.

[@dreimar1796]

..." Now, write it one hundred times!" xD

[@ddthewolf]

And then don't do it again, got it!

[@dtaylor4552]

Typical Grammar School style.

[@philipclayberg4928]

Dreimar: "It C times."

[@stevesmith9447]

"*How* many Romans?" Bloody inspired.

[@ClickBeetleTV]

My favorite line in this whole movie: "This is motion towards, isn't it, boy?" Immediate flashbacks to Catholic school

[@kingdom1682]

@@ClickBeetleTV can you plz explain the line to less educated people such as myself

[@ClickBeetleTV]

@@kingdom1682 Latin has "declensions," where a declension is a set of cases that change the ending of a noun or an adjective depending on what the word is doing in the sentence. There are five declensions of 10 primary cases (five cases with singular and plural forms each) plus some more obscure ones, like the locative case here. "Motion towards" is a rule that in this case means that the subject of the clause is literally moving towards the word and so instructs you on which ending to apply to that word. (If that seems complicated, you should see how verbs work. It's sometimes hard for me to believe people managed to speak Latin in real time.)

[@kingdom1682]

@@ClickBeetleTV wow yeah extremely complicated lol but I kinda get what you mean.. cheers

[@Nunez87]

@@ClickBeetleTV learning latin in school helped a lot with german.

[@blackittysamurai]

I think this is the funniest comedy scene ever filmed. Period. Forty-one years later, it's still great.

[@jayhershey7525]

That Latin grammar lesson counts as my favorite scene in one of my favorite movies.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

Crowd: "He's the Messiah!" Brian's Mum: "No he's NOT! He's a very naughty boy!" RIP Graham Chapman and Terry Jones

[@abuzarov]

Now THAT is how the real Empire does things

[@IGotBoergs]

Ophelia things does Empire real the how is THAT Now

[@8is]

@@IGotBoergs I brain is now broken...

[@benjamincox4211]

The conjugation part killed me

[@cholt9876]

MichaelKingsfordGray he hasn’t responded in a year, so maybe he wasn’t lying.

[@brendorkusaviation8930]

It almost killed Brian, too

[@andreap9869]

This was the best movie out of all of them, such a great sense of humor

[@Yog--Sothoth]

@Anthrop illogicalHoly Grail is a classic. although we can't count Meaning of Life out of the equation. its a decent runner up to Grail

[@bretthess6376]

I believe you are correct. While LoB did not have quite the same level of brilliant humor as some of the scenes in Holy Grail, it also did not have the flaws- i.e., the hiccuping guards, the brutal killing of the elderly narrator, or the lousy ending. They also left out the one-legged archers of King Brian the Wild. It would have been one of the best bits in the fillum. They ran out of time, money, and inspiration. That's why they replaced it with the lousy hiccuping guards scene. Ah well.

[@sjappiyah4071]

Better than most Latin teachers 😂

[@olbradley]

Ita vero.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

The lesson reinforced with the edge of a sword.

[@andrewshages7413]

This was my Latin teacher’s inspiration. He even played it in class

[@B.Scruby]

Well he used to be a Latin teacher. Lol

[@bacul165]

Believe me - this is the style of teaching we all dream about...

[@jaroslavb.korinek7285]

Thanks to this scene I finally got my latin exam done at high school.

[@5ynthesizerpatel]

This was exactly what it was like to have a latin lesson at a British boarding school ..... everyone got tripped up on the locative case

[@SagaofaCrew]

This Roman Satire filmed in miniature with live insects and a lizard is simply astounding! The 'Ben Hur - like' comedy meme parody of the year, 'The Geckoator II - Ben Crick' P.S. - It's in Latin with English Subtitles incidentally!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGK0Z4mZgtigiZo

[@terencejay8845]

My Latin master had a knot tied in his gown and would smack you over the head with it if you got that kind of thing wrong.

[@DavidJCane]

"Caecilius est in Horto" is about all I can remember. The Latin master used to hang his head out of the window after lunch in the pub to sober up and all the illustrations in the text books had anatomically impressive additions on each character.

[@KevTheImpaler]

Brian is actually pretty good at Latin. I had three years of Latin at school and I wouldn't have got any of that. Still, Latin's a bit more exciting when someone's holding a sword to your throat.

[@rattywoof5259]

RIP Mr. Sandy Chambers, the best Latin teacher I ever had (at Clydebank High School) - he would have laughed himself silly at this - brilliant!

[@scusachannel1682]

An English student of mine sent me this and asked me: "Do you identify with the centurion?"

[@naverilllang]

Well do you?

[@scusachannel1682]

@@naverilllang Yes. He's the best character in the whole movie

[@dalriadaskillen]

“Hail Caesar and everything, Sir!”

[@AndrewJens]

My favourite scene from any Python movie.

[@nonoyobeezewax9527]

The lesson John gives Graham is beyond hilarious!!! God, that brings me back to the days when I started studying foreign languages and the way he did it in this scene is exactly like the old classroom days. Funny thing is, we never forgot it.

[@SagaofaCrew]

This Roman Satire filmed in miniature with live insects and a lizard is simply astounding! The 'Ben Hur - like' comedy meme parody of the year, 'The Geckoator II - Ben Crick' P.S. - It's in Latin with English Subtitles incidentally!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGK0Z4mZgtigiZo

[@brankoprosic5852]

The beauty of this masterpiece is in fact that it comes from the frustration of learning Latin and being an English language native. Even in Serbia, where we speak a language with same grammatical logic and similar structure, it is difficult to master. Moreover, in our High School, Classical Gymnasium, it is obligatory class subject. But, for less gifted, there is an option to learn 100 classical Latin quotes by heart to pass the grade.

[@SagaofaCrew]

This Roman Satire filmed in miniature with live insects and a lizard is simply astounding! The 'Ben Hur - like' comedy meme parody of the year, 'The Geckoator II - Ben Crick' P.S. - It's in Latin with English Subtitles incidentally!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGK0Z4mZgtigiZo ==

[@brankoprosic5852]

@@SagaofaCrew This is so sick man...lol...

[@RajSingh-lt7ls]

Best way to learn Grammer I've ever seen

[@sylviaelse5086]

Who but Monty Python could find humour in a Latin lesson?

[@michaelpielorz9283]

Wonderful.Simply wonderful. ( And my latin teacher would have tears in his eyes if he would have had the opportunity to watch this scene..Swords,for some reason,were forbidden in our school.)

[@bretthess6376]

What a shame. I believe the educational system would be quite improved by dedicated, professional, heavily armed men and women willing to shed a little blood to get the job done. I'm sure many parents would be quite happy to receive a note from school reading, "(Insert Name Here, preferably not something made-up from crude gibberish) will not be returning to your rent-controlled apartment today, as he was ventilated by a teacher for being a worthless rat's-arse in Third Period Math." Oh the sighs of relief.

[@gkprivate433]

Cleese really was a college scholar and studied Latin. Makes it all the more perfect

[@q.e.d.9112]

In the days when the Pythons were at school (Michael Palin was a year ahead of me at Birkdale Prep school), Latin O-level was a prerequisite for entry to either Oxford or Cambridge. We started (amo, amas, amat...) at age eight, IIRC.

[@Matt-cz6ti]

I imagine this was inspired by more than one English public school Latin master

[@toinejanssen6846]

Best grammar lesson in a movie ever.

[@SagaofaCrew]

This Roman Satire filmed in miniature with live insects and a lizard is simply astounding! The 'Ben Hur - like' comedy meme parody of the year, 'The Geckoator II - Ben Crick' P.S. - It's in Latin with English Subtitles incidentally!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGK0Z4mZgtigiZo ==

[@GuukanKitsune]

Considering that Ancient Romans used wall graffiti in the same way modern folks use flyer posters, it makes plenty of sense that they'd be less angry about the graffiti and more angry about the conjugation. The second batch of Romans were likely less angry about the graffiti and more angry about the defiant message XD.

[@airstrike9002]

I feel like my latin would be a lot better right now if I had to learn it with a gladius close to my throat.

[@monikaszymanowska5142]

My grandma had witnessed the Warsaw Uprising and was very religious but laughed to tears when I introduced her to Brian in the nineties. This scene is hilariously refering to resistance and small sabotage of painting offensive words on walls by night under Nazis' occupation in Europe during WW2:-)

[@skyj5529]

That is a surprising and very moving little story from your life! Wow.

[@monikaszymanowska5142]

@@skyj5529 My grandma's sense of humor surely deserves appreciation lol.

[@GraupeLie]

Haha, as someone who's studied Latin, I've always found this scene particularly amusing! It's simply brilliant!

[@Coastcrawler]

The video quality reminds me of the time when I watched the film on a ripped VHS. Your skills in preservation are astonishing.

[@robertlehnert4148]

I had a coworker who was taking a Latin class at the time, and the teacher showed the segment and said "It's STILL wrong!" and asked the class to give the correct version ( which I do not know, being hopeless at foreign languages)

[@oliviasvahn4090]

Students of Latin often note that domi is the locative of domus in literary classical Latin. The case construction used in the final formulation is accusative of motion towards. It’s just nitpicking, the translation is still correct!

[@SirSicCrusader]

"Conjugate the verb to go" is one of those phrases that is permanently etched in my brain forever, that just turns up randomly, no matter what I might be doing or thinking about...

[@ant7936]

Absolutely my favourite scene!

[@WinChun78]

Anyone who did Latin at school will find this particularly pertinent and amusing indeed! ;-0

[@skovner]

5 years of Latin from 7-11th grades and every Latin teacher was like the Centurion. Sort of. One was anachronistic and wished he could take a gun to class.

[@PacoOtis]

From here in the States we say BRAVO! Excellent!

[@aidanner]

I live in rome and this reminds me of my latin lessons in high school

[@bretthess6376]

Out of all my years in University, my two favorite classes were Crystallography and Latin. And the two final exams I totally flopped on the stinking worst? Crystallography and Latin. Sine Excrementum. The sense of irony and utter humiliation is still with me to this day. Oh wait... That's most of my life. Never mind.

[@isaywhateveriwantandyougot7421]

You may have a good course book but your teachers might be terrible at making tests

[@bretthess6376]

@@isaywhateveriwantandyougot7421 Actually, they were very good instructors. I just bombed the tests. LoL

[@brudereinherjer1593]

2:54 and he only needed ONE bucket of paint for that.

[@kevg3320]

'Caecilius est pater, Matella est mater, Cerberus est canum'. Two years of Grammar school Latin and that's all I remember. Fortunately, not had to use it recently!

[@alfonsovalori8093]

...Metella est mater, Cerberus est canis... well done, anyway

[@anonUK]

"Canis mortuus est".

[@icide7783]

Funny every time, monty python never get's old. lol

[@notroll1279]

I watched this first in 1982, just months after finishing my Latin classes. Utter hyperventilating laughter ...

[@notroll1279]

@MichaelKingsfordGray 'cause I like meeting friendly types like you! Didn't know that enjoying Life of Brian was such a controversial topic...

[@hojosconsal9913]

@MichaelKingsfordGray why are you being so salty? Not much to do with life?

[@beardedgeek973]

@@hojosconsal9913 Frankly I am more suspicious of people NOT wanting to be anonymous on the internet.

[@beardedgeek973]

(And yes, I am aware of the irony).

[@qualifiedidiots2165]

As a kid, Holy Grail was funnier. As an adult, I love the nuances of this film. HG had the peasants talking about authority, which was good. But most of the humour came from slapstick or general silliness. LoB has a slow burn on its laughs, the more you think the more you find it funny.

[@takashiari1598]

I always thought Holy Grails jokes work because of their general silliness, but certain jokes can drag a bit, where as Life of Brian was funnier when it comes to moment to moment humor

[@robertschmidt7879]

That soldier and I obviously both had Brother Timothy from St Ed's for Latin LOL

[@TucoBenedicto]

"It says Romans Go Home" "No, it doesn't". There's something in the deadpan way he answers that makes me lose it every single time.

[@johnedwards1321]

No, it doesn't.

[@TucoBenedicto]

@@johnedwards1321 Yes, it does.

[@YouBazinga]

One of the best movie scenes in my book :)

[@richardthompson5436]

It was these teaching methods that allowed Rome, and later Great Britain, to rule the world. Thank you Monty Python, your comedy will be sadly missed in the dismal future that we heading into.

[@RelativelyBest]

I have no idea why KZbin suddenly wanted me to watch this, but... okay. I guess a bit more Monty Python in my recommendations couldn't hurt.

[@BrunoDeMarques]

This is MP’s best scene ever. I retold this to the point of nausea to my friends. I don’t think I was ever successful on passing on how funny this is but I would see it my mind and it was worth it :-)

[@billmarsh1971]

Michael Palin? I'm afraid the gentlemen in this scene are Graham Chapman (rip) and John Cleese.

[@anotherwolff3650]

for sure: The BEST movie ever made

[@aciderektion]

Najbolji!

[@countblue]

The german syncro of this scetch is not bad either. We have teachers here that fit perfectly into that evocation John Cleese is giving here.

[@antonquintus578]

I didn't realize till much later in life that that roman officer might have had his own reasons. Here he is, in the prime of his life, doing night patrol duty in some backwater at the far end of the empire. I'm sure he would have liked nothing more to get a transfer back to the center of imperial power instead of watching his career stagnate

[@bara922]

The funniest part to me is John Cleese really was a teacher at one point during his life

[@frglee]

Not a million miles from the mix of withering sarcasm and violence that I experienced at school learning Latin 50 years back.

[@q.e.d.9112]

Yep, more like 65 years ago, in my case.

[@jackmorgan1710]

John Cleese's logic behind this scene: I'm gonna show off how much I know about Latin, and it is going to be awesome!

[@tereziamarkova2822]

Silly Brian, conjugating Romanus like it's a third conjugation!

[@alfonsovalori8093]

declination

[@dradamov]

I salute my fellow latin learners. I had an oldschool latin teacher. So oldschool in fact, that when the roman soldier brandished the blade at 1:58 I wasnt even surprised. Yes, latin teachers do take their work seriously, and yes, seems I was conditioned.

[@forbeshutton5487]

The Romans seem to have been well ahead of their time, having grammar nazis before the nazis did.

[@enqrbit]

Grammar Caesars

[@saxoncodex9736]

Robert Graves who wrote 'I Claudius' and was a Classics scholar, says similar in 'Goodbye to all that' it was written in 1929, about his life in WW1. He didn't use the word Fascist, but did say that of the three teachers he had, they all maintained their different pronunciation was the 'only' correct one :-))

[@RigobertosTacoShop]

this scene is pure gold. but so is this movie

[@Thepourdeuxchanson]

Just the sort of pedagogue as the late Mr. Mackie of blessed memory, who taught my class.

[@NxDoyle]

Everyone was very envious of John and Graham for coming up with this bit of the script.

[@SagaofaCrew]

This Roman Satire filmed in miniature with live insects and a lizard is simply astounding! The 'Ben Hur - like' comedy meme parody of the year, 'The Geckoator II - Ben Crick' P.S. - It's in Latin with English Subtitles incidentally!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGK0Z4mZgtigiZo

[@philipclayberg4928]

Be it ever so crumble There's no place like Rome Nero was the emperor And the palace was his throne

[@jwbullardxxiii]

What's a wabbit doing in my house..

[@lonestar6709]

_"Conjugate the verb to 'Go'..._ I'm surprised he didn't say _"Get on with it!"_

[@Somewhat-Evil]

Know o Prince, long before the rise of the jack booted Grammar Nazi there was an age undreamed of. Hither came the Grammar Centurion destined to crush poorly written graffiti beneath his hob nailed caligae.

[@jeremy1860]

I heard a long time ago that Cleese worked as a Latin teacher before becoming an actor. No idea if that's true or not, but if it is then I like to imagine this is how he behaved around all his old students😅

[@LarsPallesen]

It's true. It's in Cleese's book.

[@emilyrobbins3238]

I always feel like that when choosing whether to use the Dative Case.

[@andysedgley]

When discussing objects designed to hold documents, should one use the attaché case?

[@GalapagosPete]

Good thing he had enough paint!

[@rorybone100]

Love Cleese' Latin teacher/big bastard copper/drill sergeant hybrid character here.

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

You needed to have been taught Latin at school in the 1960s to get this properly.. the 'side hair tweak' was a popular chastisement by sadistic teachers when I were a lad.

[@thedolphin5428]

John Cleese was my private school Latin teacher, I'm sure. Word for word, he was.

[@thedolphin5428]

@MichaelKingsfordGray Lol, you poor little deluded insect. I WAS JOKING you fool. I was making the point that the character John Cleese plays in the video above was word for word the same as my own Latin teacher 50 years ago. You take yourself and your own sense of mental importance way too seriously mate. But because you are a midget moron of tiny brain power, and a pedant literalist to boot, you completely missed the humour, sarcasm, irony, parody of this thread. You're not American are you by chance? Laughing at you, fuckwit. 😄

[@notroll1279]

@@thedolphin5428 Never mind MKG. He has taken to insulting anyone in this thread who dares not to use a nickname he considers a "real name" - that's all he is about, the poor soul...

[@gretebremseth1622]

MichaelKingsfordGray What's your favorite colour? ;) Hope you get better soon sweetie! ♥

[@WillScarlet16]

The motto of all British authority figures: "WHAT'S THIS THEN?"

[@nixbronowski5822]

INTELLIGENT HUMOUR! God bless England!

[@darthplagueis13]

I learned latin for 6 years and I think every single one of my teachers knew and loved this scene.

[@SagaofaCrew]

This Roman Satire filmed in miniature with live insects and a lizard is simply astounding! The 'Ben Hur - like' comedy meme parody of the year, 'The Geckoator II - Ben Crick' P.S. - It's in Latin with English Subtitles incidentally!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGK0Z4mZgtigiZo

[@cnseref1328]

The funniest thing is they leave him be after correcting him

[@teamcybr8375]

That is one of several jokes in the scene, yes.

[@CanalTremocos]

Learning Latin is punishment enough :p

[@camelspiderattack4161]

my favorite part is when he whips the sword out at the dative/accusative mistake, reminds me of my old latin teacher!

[@DieFlabbergast]

Your teacher used to whip out a sword!

[@Forscythe80]

I remember Cleese saying they did this scene based on how his own latin teacher would be like in his old class rooms. Sans weaponry of course, but the teachers had the same kind of attitude.

[@pwnmeisterage]

The sword would really help some students focus on the material.

[@zarmindrow5831]

Cleese studied latin in college, among other things of course. It's nice to see it was useful.

[@isaywhateveriwantandyougot7421]

The most pointless of things can be usefull at the strangest of moments

[@glanni]

One thing Latin is really good is understanding your own language's grammar better. At least for German it worked wonders, and I didn't even believe my teacher when she told us that through Latin we'll learn more grammar than in German class. But she was right.

[@zapking8209]

Why’s everyone complaining about their Latin teachers? My Latin teacher is my most laid back teacher I have this year

[@fahdchoudry7763]

Hello. Is this film based on a true story please?

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

It's a parody of the Christian gospel.