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"Smooth Criminal"
Single by Michael Jackson
from the album Bad
B-side
"Smooth Criminal" (instrumental)
Released
October 24, 1988 (1988-10-24)[1]
Format
7"
12"
CD
cassette
Recorded
January 1987[2]
Genre
Pop
R&B
funk
Length
4:17
Label
Epic
Songwriter(s)
Michael Jackson
Producer(s)
Quincy Jones
Michael Jackson (co-producer)
Michael Jackson singles chronology
"Another Part of Me"
(1988) "Smooth Criminal"
(1988) "Leave Me Alone"
(1989)
"Another Part of Me"
(1988) "Smooth Criminal"
(1988) "Leave Me Alone"
(1989)
Music video
"Smooth Criminal" on YouTube
Audio sample
file
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"Smooth Criminal" is a song by American singer Michael Jackson from his 1987 album Bad. First broadcast on television as a video in early October 1988, it was released as the album's seventh single on October 21, 1988, and peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100.[3] It was re-released on April 10, 2006, as a part of the Visionary: The Video Singles box set. The re-released Visionary single charted at number 19 in the UK. The song is one of Jackson's signature songs, and has appeared on numerous greatest hits albums.
The song contains a fast-paced beat intertwined with Jackson's lyrics about a woman named Annie, who has been violently attacked in her apartment by a smooth assailant.
The song serves as the theme song to Jackson's 1988 film Moonwalker, and plays as the background soundtrack in a section of the video game Michael Jackson's Moonwalker.
Contents
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1 Background and composition
2 Critical response
3 Music video
3.1 Anti-gravity lean
4 Live performances
5 Film adaptation
5.1 Plot
6 Personnel
7 Chart performance
8 Track listing
9 Alien Ant Farm version
9.1 Charts
9.1.1 Weekly charts
9.1.2 Year-end charts
9.2 Certifications
10 Glee version
11 References
12 External links
Background and composition[edit]
The song was written by Jackson and produced by Quincy Jones (with Jackson as co-producer). An early version of the song was written in 1985, and the original demo was recorded the following year under the title of "Al Capone" (which was later released on Bad 25). This version did not make the album and was re-worked and re-written as "Smooth Criminal."
This song is played in the key of C major.[4] Jackson's vocal spans from G3 to E5.[4] It has a moderate tempo of 118 beats per minute.[4] The refrain of the song contains the phrase "Annie, are you OK?" This is a phrase used in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training courses, and Michael Jackson is known to have taken a CPR course.[5] Resusci Anne, otherwise known as "Annie" in English-speaking countries, is the name of a mannequin commonly used in CPR training. As part of the course, trainees are taught to say "Annie, are you OK?" to the dummy in order to check that the patient is conscious and responsive.[6] This has been further verified by Gabriel Noguera of Cheltenham, England who claims to have been present during the training. He also claims the Bee Gees referred to the same course in their hit single 'Staying Alive'.[citation needed]
Critical response[edit]
Jason Elias of AllMusic called the song one of Jackson's best: "Despite the content "Smooth Criminal" is a gorgeous and exhilarating record."[7] The New York Times' Jon Pareles wrote: "in Smooth Criminal, the singer finds a bloodstained carpet and an unconscious body, and asks, obsessively, Annie are you O.K.? when, clearly, she's not."[8] Rolling Stone's Davitt Sigerson wrote: "Smooth Criminal" may be the result of retiring too soon after a Brian de Palma picture."[9]
Music video[edit]
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Jackson originally wanted to make the music video in the western genre, but he later decided after watching 'The Godfather' with director Colin Chilvers to change it to a 1930s gangster style.[10] Film was shot between mid-February and April 1987.[2] The video premiered on MTV on October 13, 1988.
Jeffrey Daniel of the soul music group Shalamar co-choreographed the "Smooth Criminal" video with Jackson and Vincent Paterson, who was a back-up dancer in "Beat It" and "Thriller". It was directed by special effects coordinator Colin Chilvers. The dance sequence of the video in the 1930s style lounge (and Michael's white suit and fedora) pays tribute to the Fred Astaire musical comedy film The Band Wagon. Currently there are four different versions of the video for "Smooth Criminal", as well as an additional vignette created for the 2009 This Is It concert series:
Original Moonwalker version - This is the version included in the Moonwalker film. While technically the whole "Smooth Criminal" segment is about 40 minutes long, the actual "Smooth Criminal" song section is only about ten minutes. It is generally the most complete version of the video and includes the unedited middle section of interpretive dance with the dancers but does not include the last six seconds where a flapper fans herself after the door is shut behind Michael. In comparison to the original song this version has two lines in the second stanza added: "Everytime I try to find him he's leaving no clues left behind him. And they have no way of knowing of the suspect, or what to expect."
Moonwalker edit - This version is included on History on Film, Volume II as well as Michael Jackson's Vision and it is basically an edited version of the ten-minute song section from the "Smooth Criminal" segment in the film Moonwalker. It is essentially the same, however it has some minor changes including: different opening music and no dialogue, the middle section with the dancers chanting has been truncated (some of the chanting has been shortened) and ends similarly to the original where Michael exits the club but with the addition of the lead flapper fanning herself.
Album version - This is the version of the video that is on Michael Jackson's official website, as well as his YouTube channel. It also appears during the end credits for Moonwalker and Number Ones and was included on the Visionary single and the bonus Target exclusive DVD of Bad 25. The video is a montage of clips from the original Moonwalker version, that have either been sped up, or slowed down, and glossed with an added blur effect, as well as some alternate angles. The video is four minutes and seventeen seconds long. Throughout the video, the regular version of the song is played.
Single version - This unreleased version is edited to be in sync with the single mix taken from the "Smooth Criminal" single released October 24, 1988. It excludes the added lyric and interlude. This video is four minutes and three seconds long. It is considered an MTV Base video.
This Is It vignette - 2009 video, shot in black and white and intended to be shown during the London O2 concert series. It runs three minutes and forty-two seconds and features Jackson in a reprisal of his Moonwalker character, digitally inserted in the 1946 film noir Gilda which includes the song "Put the Blame on Mame" along with a few shots/scenes of his film Moonwalker.
The video won Best Music Video at the 1989 Brit Awards and the Critic's Choice awarded Jackson the "Best Video" award and the People's Choice Awards for "Favorite Music Video" for that same year.
The style of clothing as well as mannerisms Jackson portrayed were reused in the numerous adaptations of the video game Michael Jackson's Moonwalker. The song itself serves as the background music for the "Club 30s" stage, the nightclub seen in the music video, that appears in the game.
Anti-gravity lean[edit]
Jackson performs an anti-gravity lean in the "Smooth Criminal" music video.
In the music video, Michael Jackson and the dancers immediately around him perform a seemingly impossible forward lean; this illusion was created using strings and wires in the music video. Without these, it would be tedious and impossible. To accomplish this manoeuvre in live shows, a hitching mechanism which Jackson co-patented was built into the floor of the stage and the performers' shoes, thereby allowing performers to lean without needing to keep their centers of mass directly over their feet.[11] The system consists of pegs that rise from the stage at the appropriate moment and special shoes with ankle supports and cutouts in the heels which can slide over the pegs and be temporarily attached to the stage.[12]
In the patent, it is stated that the illusion in the music video was achieved by means of harnesses and cables which had to be connected to and disconnected from the floor by stagehands.[12]
Live performances[edit]
The song was performed live on all of Jackson's tours.
Bad World Tour: During the second leg of Jackson's Bad World Tour (1988-1989), directed and choreographed by Jackson and Vincent Paterson. The performance featured a dance routine modeled after the scene from Moonwalker. This version of the song is available on the DVD Live at Wembley July 16, 1988. In this version, he wears the signature white suit coat with blue armband and pocket square and the white fedora over his normal outfit. The "Hotel" intro was performed, similar to the opening of This Place Hotel in the 1987 leg of the Bad Tour, containing a spoken introduction and Jackson's silhouette dancing behind a lit curtain.
Dangerous World Tour: By the time the 1992 Dangerous World Tour came around, this performance became a regular on Jackson tours. This time, the jacket and hat were put on top of the gold leotard. Also, the anti-gravity lean was introduced during this tour. During the Bad tour, the lean was a drop to the floor, but Jackson stopped himself before hitting it. The lean was pulled off using a special cut-out in the performers' shoes patented by Jackson that held them to the floor using nails while they leaned forward. This performance can be seen on the DVD Live in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour.
Part of the song was also briefly used in the middle of the live version of the song "Dangerous" since Jackson's performance at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards to the 2002 American Bandstand 50th Anniversary performance.
History World Tour: During the 1996-1997 History World Tour, the costume was the coat, hat and a blue shirt and a white tie over the gold pants. The "Hotel" opening was scrapped for a similar opening with no spoken line, instead showcasing the background dancers and a keyboard interlude of "Childhood" by Brad Buxer.
This Is It: The song was rehearsed for the This Is It concerts, which were scheduled to run from July 2009 to March 2010 before Jackson's untimely death in June 2009. Rather than featuring Jackson dancing behind a lit curtain, the performance would open with a 3-D vignette of Jackson being chased by several gangsters from early 1930s films, inserting him into the film noirs Gilda, The Big Sleep, and In a Lonely Place. The vignette would end with Jackson jumping out of a window as Humphrey Bogart shoots at him and onto the stage where he picks up a tommy gun and shoots out the lights of a marquee to spell "Smooth Criminal". Throwing the tommy gun aside, Jackson would then pause for a moment before cuing the band to start the song. The performance would have also featured the return of the anti-gravity lean and the inclusion of dancers descending from the ceiling inside chandeliers that they would blow out with tommy guns.
Film adaptation[edit]
Further information: Moonwalker
The song was adapted into a short film directed by Colin Chilvers which was the centerpiece of the 1988 film Moonwalker starring Michael Jackson and Joe Pesci in the lead roles.
Plot[edit]
The film begins with three homeless children—Sean, Katie and Zeke (Sean Lennon, Kellie Parker and Brandon Quintin Adams)—sneaking through a big city to see their friend Michael walk out of his store in a black suit covered over with his white jacket. As Michael stands in front of the door, he gazes at the night sky before he is attacked by mobsters with machine guns. The film then backtracks to show Michael and the children playing in a meadow in happier times. Their dog Skipper runs away, and as Michael and Katie look for him, they uncover the lair of Mr. Big (Joe Pesci). Mr. Big—whose real name is Frankie LiDeo, which is an anagram of Frank DiLeo—is a drug-dealing mobster with a disciplined private army at his command. He wants to get the entire population of Earth addicted to drugs, starting with children. He likes to eat nuts and leaves nutshells wherever he goes. He is obsessed with spiders, as displayed by their abundance at the entrance to his lair and his operation named "bugs and drugs". Further, all his henchmen sport a spider crest on their uniforms. Katie screams when she sees a spider on her hand, and Mr. Big discovers them spying on his operation.
The story returns to the shooting in front of Michael's store. Unknown to the mobsters, Michael has a lucky star, and using it, he escaped the gunfire. Upon realizing that Michael has escaped again, Mr. Big orders his henchmen to track him down with dogs. Michael is eventually cornered in an alley, where he uses his lucky star again to turn into a sportscar (the 1970 Lancia Stratos prototype) that mows down several of Mr. Big's henchmen. Michael is pursued through the city streets until he loses the henchmen. Meanwhile, the children scout out Club 30's, where Michael had told them to meet him, and find only an abandoned and haunted nightclub. As Michael arrives, Katie sees a silhouette of him turning back from a car into himself, this time in a white and blue suit. The door of the club opens with a gust of wind, and Michael walks in to find it filled with zoot suiters and swing dancers. The children gather outside a window of the club and watch Michael dance to "Smooth Criminal."
The song used in the film is much longer than the album release, with several lyrics that clarify the story. There is also an interlude wherein Jackson joins the other dancers in a modern interpretive dance. At the climax of the song, Mr. Big lays siege to the club and kidnaps Katie. Michael follows them back to Big's lair and ends up surrounded by his henchmen. Mr. Big appears and taunts Michael by threatening to inject Katie with highly addictive narcotics. Katie breaks free for a moment, but Mr. Big grabs her again and starts kicking Michael. As Mr. Big stands over Michael and orders his henchmen to kill him and Katie, Michael looks up and sees his lucky star. He transforms into a giant robot and kills all of Mr. Big's soldiers, then turns into a spaceship. Mr. Big gets into a large hillside-mounted energy cannon, firing on the spaceship as it flies into a nearby ravine. The children are his next target, but the spaceship returns from the ravine just in time to fire a beam into the cannon with Mr. Big inside, destroying it and killing him. The children watch the ship fly into the night sky with a shower of light.
The children return to the city, believing that Michael is gone forever. As the boys talk about Michael, Katie walks away crying and clutching a paper star. As she sits in a corner wishing for him to come back, the paper star flies out of her hand and Michael walks out of the night fog. He takes them to Club 30's, where they find that the club has turned into the backstage area of a concert. Michael's stage crew return the children's missing dog and then escort Michael onto the stage where he performs "Come Together".
Personnel[edit]
Written, composed, clap, solo and background vocals by Michael Jackson
Produced by Quincy Jones
Co-produced by Michael Jackson, Bill Bottrell
John Robinson: Drums
Bruce Swedien: Recording Engineer
David Williams: Guitar, Bass guitar
Kim Hutchcroft, Larry Williams: Saxophones
Gary Grant, Jerry Hey: Trumpets
Kevin Maloney: Muted Steinway piano
Christopher Currell: Synclavier
Certain synclavier effects by Denny Jaeger and Michael Rubini
John Barnes, Michael Boddicker: Synthesizers
Chief of police announcement by Bruce Swedien
Michael Jackson's heartbeat recording by Dr. Eric Chevlen; digitally processed in the Synclavier
Rhythm arrangement by Michael Jackson and John Barnes
Vocal arrangement by Michael Jackson
Horn arrangement by Jerry Hey
Video directed by Colin Chilvers
Chart performance[edit]
Chart (1988–1989)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[13] 29
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[14] 17
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[15] 1
France (SNEP)[16] 4
Germany (Official German Charts)[17] 9
Ireland (IRMA)[18] 4
Italy (FIMI)[19] 7
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[20] 1
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[21] 1
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[22] 29
Spain (AFYVE)[23] 1
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[24] 5
UK (Official Charts Company)[25] 8
US Billboard Hot 100[3] 7
US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[3] 10
US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales[3] 13
US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles[3] 2
Chart (2006)
Peak
position
France (SNEP)[16] 61
Ireland (IRMA)[18] 14
Italy (FIMI)[19] 6
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[21] 20
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[26] 1
UK (The Official Charts Company)[25] 19
Chart (2009)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[13] 16
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[14] 30
Canada (Hot Canadian Digital Singles)[3] 22
Denmark (Tracklisten)[27] 28
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100 Singles)[28] 20
France (SNEP) Download Chart[29] 10
Italy (FIMI)[19] 17
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[21] 22
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[22] 37
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[26] 33
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[30] 12
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[24] 12
UK (Official Charts Company)[25] 13
UK Download (Official Charts Company)[31] 13
US Billboard Hot Digital Songs[3] 12
Chart (2013)
Peak
position
France (SNEP)[16] 172
Chart (2016)
Peak
position
Poland (Polish Airplay Top 100) [32] 76
Track listing[edit]
7" single:[33]
"Smooth Criminal" (single mix) – 4:10
"Smooth Criminal" (instrumental) – 4:10
12" maxi and CD-maxi:[33]
"Smooth Criminal" (extended dance mix) – 7:46
"Smooth Criminal" (extended dance mix radio edit) – 5:20
"Smooth Criminal" ("Annie" mix) – 5:35
"Smooth Criminal" (dance mix – dub version) – 4:45
"Smooth Criminal" (a cappella) – 4:12
Cassette Single //2 Tracks//[33]
Smooth Criminal
Smooth Criminal (Instrumental)
Visionary single:[33]
CD side:
"Smooth Criminal" – 4:10
"Smooth Criminal" (extended dance mix) – 7:45
DVD side:
"Smooth Criminal" (music video (short version)) — 4:11
"Smooth Criminal" (music video) — 9:27
3" CD single:[33]
"Smooth Criminal" (extended dance mix) – 7:46
"Smooth Criminal" ("Annie" mix) – 5:35
"Smooth Criminal" (dance mix – dub version) – 4:45
CD promo:[33]
"Smooth Criminal" (single mix) – 4:12
"Smooth Criminal" (extended dance mix) (different from other releases)– 7:46
"Smooth Criminal" (extended dance mix radio edit) (different from other releases)– 5:20
"Smooth Criminal" ("Annie" mix) (different from other releases) – 5:35
"Smooth Criminal" (dance mix – dub version) – 4:45
"Smooth Criminal" (a cappella) – 4:12
3" CD Japanese Single //2 Tracks//[33]
Smooth Criminal
Smooth Criminal (Instrumental)
Alien Ant Farm version[edit]
"Smooth Criminal"
Single by Alien Ant Farm
from the album Anthology
Released
July 24, 2001
Format
CD
Recorded
2000
Genre
Nu metal[34]
funk metal[35]
Length
3:29
Label
DreamWorks
Songwriter(s)
Michael Jackson
Producer(s)
Jay Baumgardner
Alien Ant Farm singles chronology
"Movies"
(2001) "Smooth Criminal"
(2001) "Movies (re-release)"
(2001)
"Movies"
(2001) "Smooth Criminal"
(2001) "Movies (re-release)"
(2001)
In 2001, Alien Ant Farm released a cover of "Smooth Criminal" as their debut single from their album Anthology. According to the band members, they would play a few riffs of the Jackson song while warming up before gigs and audience members would request them to play the entire song. This positive feedback encouraged them to record their own rendition of "Smooth Criminal" and include it on Anthology. It became a number one hit on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart and was also a number one in Australia. The music video was directed by Marc Klasfeld, and features multiple references to Michael Jackson music videos, including the "Smooth Criminal" video itself. The song was featured in the 2001 film American Pie 2 and the TV spot for Horrible Bosses 2. This version was featured in several video games including Karaoke Revolution, Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades and as downloadable content for the Rock Band series.
The album Greatest Hits (1999) includes a hidden track named "Slick Thief", which is an early version of "Smooth Criminal".[citation needed]
Charts[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (2001)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[36] 1
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[37] 6
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[38] 3
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[39] 4
Denmark (Tracklisten)[40] 3
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[41] 2
France (SNEP)[42] 27
Germany (Official German Charts)[43] 5
Ireland (IRMA)[18] 2
Italy (FIMI)[44] 11
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[45] 4
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[46] 4
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[47] 4
Norway (VG-lista)[48] 7
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[49] 3
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[50] 5
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[51] 4
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[52] 3
UK Rock and Metal (Official Charts Company)[53] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[54] 23
US Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks (Billboard)[54] 18
US Modern Rock Tracks(Billboard)[54] 1
US Top 40 Mainstream(Billboard)[54] 12
US Top 40 Tracks(Billboard)[54] 24
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (2001)
Position
Australia (ARIA)[55] 8
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[56] 61
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders)[57] 24
Belgium (Ultratop Wallonia)[58] 55
Germany (Official German Charts)[59] 43
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[60] 42
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[61] 48
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[62] 39
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[63] 32
Certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[64]
2× Platinum 140,000^
Germany (BVMI)[65]
Gold 250,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[66]
Gold 400,000
^shipments figures based on certification alone
sales+streaming figures based on certification alone
Glee version[edit]
In January 2012, Naya Rivera (as her character Santana Lopez) and Grant Gustin (as Sebastian Smythe) performed "Smooth Criminal" as a duet in the season three episode "Michael" of the American musical television show Glee, backed by musical duo 2Cellos. The song was filmed in a similar environment as the 2Cellos music video, in a room surrounded by empty chairs as the two musicians play. This cover debuted and peaked at number 26 at Billboard Hot 100, number 10 at Billboard Digital Songs, and number 28 at Billboard Canadian Hot 100 chart at the week of February 18, 2012.[67]
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External links[edit]
Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal on YouTube
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal on YouTube
Method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
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This article is about the film. For the soundtrack of the same name, see Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (album). For the book, see Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (book). For the video game, see Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (video game).
Monty Python's
The Meaning of Life
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Directed by
Terry Jones
Produced by
John Goldstone
Written by
Monty Python
Starring
Graham Chapman
John Cleese
Terry Gilliam
Eric Idle
Terry Jones
Michael Palin
Music by
John Du Prez
Cinematography
Peter Hannan
Roger Pratt
Edited by
Julian Doyle
Production
companies
Celandine Films
The Monty Python Membership
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Release date
31 March 1983 (1983-03-31) (United States)
23 June 1983 (1983-06-23) (United Kingdom)
Running time
90 minutes[1]
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
$9 million[2]
Box office
$14.9 million[3]
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, also known as The Meaning of Life, is a 1983 British musical sketch comedy film written and performed by the Monty Python troupe, directed by Terry Jones. It was the last film to feature all six Python members before Graham Chapman's death in 1989.
Unlike Holy Grail and Life of Brian, the film's two predecessors, which each told a single, more-or-less coherent story,[2] The Meaning of Life returned to the sketch format of the troupe's original television series and their first film from twelve years earlier, And Now for Something Completely Different, loosely structured as a series of comic sketches about the various stages of life. It was accompanied by the short film The Crimson Permanent Assurance.
Released on 23 June 1983 in the United Kingdom,[4] The Meaning of Life, although not as acclaimed as its predecessors, was still well received critically and was a minor box office success, grossing almost $15 million on a $9 million budget. It also screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix. The film appears in a 2010 list of the top 20 cult films published by The Boston Globe.[5]
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 The Crimson Permanent Assurance
4 Release
5 Reception
5.1 Box office
5.2 Critical reception
5.3 Accolades
6 Home media
7 References
8 External links
Plot[edit]
A group of fish in a posh restaurant's tank swim together casually, until they look at the customers outside of the tank and see their friend Howard being eaten. This leads them to question the meaning of life. The question is explored in the first sketch, "The Miracle of Birth", which features a woman in labour being ignored by the doctors in favour of impressing the hospital's administrator. In Yorkshire, a Roman Catholic man loses his job and returns home to tell his numerous children that he will have to sell them off for scientific experiments due to the Catholic church's opposition to contraception; this leads to the musical number "Every Sperm is Sacred". Meanwhile, a Protestant man and his wife discuss having non-reproductive sex.
In "Growth and Learning", a class of boys are taught school etiquette and then watch their teacher have sex with his wife as part of their sex education. One boy laughs, and is forced into a violent rugby match against the higher grades as punishment. "Fighting Each Other" first focuses on a World War I officer trying to rally his men to find cover during an attack, but they insist on celebrating his birthday; then, an army RSM attempts to drill his platoon but ends up excusing them all to pursue leisure activities. In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, a soldier finds his leg has been bitten off. Suspecting a tiger, despite being in Africa, the soldiers hunt for it and find two men suspiciously wearing two halves of a tiger costume.
"The Middle of the Film" briefly introduces a segment called "Find the Fish", a surreal scene where bizarre characters ask the audience to find a fish hidden in the sequence. "Middle Age" involves a middle-aged American couple visiting a dungeon-themed Hawaiian restaurant, where, to the interest of the fish, the waiter offers a conversation about philosophy and the meaning of life. The customers are unable to make sense of it and move on to a discussion of "live organ transplants". "Live Organ Transplants" involves two paramedics visiting Mr. Brown, a card-carrying organ donor, forcefully removing his liver whilst he is still alive. Brown's wife speaks with a musician who performs "Galaxy Song" while discussing man's insignificance in the universe. The Crimson Permanent Assurance pirates invade a corporate boardroom where executives are discussing the meaning of life, but a tumbling skyscraper ends their assault.
In "The Autumn Years", the horribly obese Mr. Creosote visits the restaurant, to the horror of the fish tank. He vomits continuously and devours an enormous meal. When the maître d' gives him a wafer-thin mint, Creosote's stomach explodes, the maître d' then giving him the bill. Two staff members clean up Creosote's remains while discussing the meaning of life. One leads the audience to his house, spouts some philosophy, and then angrily dismisses them.
"Death" features a condemned man choosing the manner of his own execution: being chased off a cliff by topless women and falling into his own grave below. The Grim Reaper thereupon enters an isolated country house and invites himself to dinner. The guests try to guess who he is until the Reaper tells them they all died from food poisoning. They accompany the Grim Reaper to Heaven, depicted as a Las Vegas-style hotel in perpetual Christmas, where a Tony Bennett-lookalike performs "Christmas in Heaven" to the cast.
"The End of the Film" epilogue features the host of "The Middle of the Film" being handed an envelope containing the meaning of life. She reads it out: "Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations".
Cast[edit]
Graham Chapman as Chairman / Fish No. 1 / Doctor / Harry Blackitt / Wymer / Hordern / General / Coles / Narrator No. 2 / Dr Livingstone / Transvestite / Eric / Guest No. 1 / Arthur Jarrett / Geoffrey / Tony Bennett
John Cleese as Fish No. 2 / Dr Spencer / Humphrey Williams / Sturridge / Ainsworth / Waiter / Eric's assistant / Maître D' / Grim Reaper
Terry Gilliam as Window Washer / Fish No. 4 / Walters / Middle of the Film announcer / M'Lady Joeline / Mr Brown / Howard Katzenberg
Eric Idle as Gunther / Fish No. 3 / 'Meaning of Life' singer / Mr Moore / Mrs Blackitt / Watson / Blackitt / Atkinson / Perkins / Victim #3 / Man in Front / Mrs Hendy / Man in Pink / Noël Coward / Gaston / Angela
Terry Jones as Bert / Fish No. 6 / Mum / Priest / Biggs / Sergeant / Man with Bendy Arms / Mrs. Brown / Mr Creosote / Maria / Leaf Father / Fiona Portland-Smythe
Michael Palin as Window Washer / Harry / Fish No. 5 / Mr Pycroft / Dad / Narrator No. 1 / Chaplain / Carter / Spadger / Regimental Seargeant Major / Pakenham-Walsh / Man in Rear End / Female TV Presenter / Mr Marvin Hendy / Governor / Leaf Son / Debbie Katzenberg
Carol Cleveland as Beefeater waitress / Wife of Guest No. 1 / Leaf Mother / Leaf Daughter / Heaven Receptionist
Simon Jones as Chadwick / Jeremy Portland-Smyth
Patricia Quinn as Mrs Williams
Judy Loe as Nurse
Production[edit]
According to Palin, "the writing process was quite cumbersome. An awful lot of material didn't get used. Holy Grail had a structure, a loose one: the search for the grail. Same with Life of Brian. With this, it wasn't so clear. In the end, we just said: 'Well, what the heck. We have got lots of good material, let's give it the loosest structure, which will be the meaning of life'".[2]
After the film's title was chosen, Douglas Adams called Jones to tell him he had just finished a new book, to be called The Meaning of Liff; Jones was initially concerned about the similarity in titles, which led to the scene in the title sequence of a tombstone which, when hit by a flash of lightning, changes from "The Meaning of Liff" to "The Meaning of Life".[2]
Principal photography began on July 12, 1982 and was completed about two months later, on September 11. A wide variety of locations were used, such as Porchester Hall in Queensway for the Mr. Creosote sketch, where hundreds of pounds of fake vomit had to be cleaned up on the last day due to a wedding being scheduled hours later. The Malham Moors were chosen for the Grim Reaper segment; the countryside near Strathblane was used for the Zulu War; and "Every Sperm Is Sacred" was shot in Colne, Lancashire with interiors done at Elstree Studios.
The film was produced on a budget of less than US$10 million, which was still bigger than that of the earlier films. This allowed for large-scale choreography and crowd sequences, a more lavishly produced soundtrack that included new original songs, and much more time able to be spent on each sketch, especially The Crimson Permanent Assurance. Palin later said that the larger budget, and not making the film for the BBC (i.e., television), allowed the film to be more daring and dark.[2]
The idea for the hospital sketch came from Chapman, himself a physician,[6] who had noticed that hospitals were changing, with "lots and lots of machinery".[2] According to Palin, the organ transplant scene harked back to Python's love of bureaucracy, and sketches with lots of people coming round from the council with different bits of paper.[2]
During the filming of the scene where Palin's character explains Catholicism to his children, his line was "that rubber thing at the end of my sock", which was later overdubbed with cock.[2]
The Crimson Permanent Assurance[edit]
Main article: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
The short film The Crimson Permanent Assurance introduces the feature. It is about a group of elderly office clerks working in a small accounting firm. They rebel against yuppie corporate masters, transform their office into a pirate ship, and raid a large financial district.
The short was intended as an animated sequence in the feature,[7] for placement at the end of Part V.[8] Gilliam convinced the other members of Monty Python to allow him to produce and direct it as a live action piece instead.
Release[edit]
The original tagline read "It took God six days to create the Heavens and the Earth, and Monty Python just 90 minutes to screw it up"[9] (the length of The Meaning of Life proper is 90 minutes, but becomes 107 minutes as released with the "Short Subject Presentation", The Crimson Permanent Assurance). In an April 2012 re-release held by the American Film Institute, the tagline is altered to read "It took God six days to create the Heavens and the Earth, and Monty Python just 1 hour and 48 minutes to screw it up".[10]
Ireland banned the film on its original release as it had previously done with Monty Python's Life of Brian, but later rated it 15 when it was released on video. In the United Kingdom the film was rated 18 when released in the cinema[1] and on its first release on video, but was re-rated 15 in 2000. In the United States the film is rated R.[11]
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
The film opened in North America on 31 March 1983. At 257 theatres, it ranked number six in the domestic box office, grossing US$1,987,853 ($7,734 per screen) in its opening weekend. It played at 554 theatres at its widest point, and its total North American gross was $14,929,552.[3]
Critical reception[edit]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2 and a half stars out of four, calling it a "a barbed, uncompromising attack on generally observed community standards".[12] In The New York Times, Vincent Canby declared it "the Ben Hur of sketch films, which is to say that it's a tiny bit out of proportion", concluding it was amusing, but he wished it were consistently amusing.[11] Variety staff assessed it as disgusting, ridiculous, tactless, but above all, amusing.[13]
In 2007, Empire's Ian Nathan rated it three of five stars, describing it as "too piecemeal and unfocused, but it possesses some of their most iconic musings and inspired madness".[14] In 2014, The Daily Telegraph gave the film four stars out of five.[15] In his 2015 Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin awarded it three stars, calling it "A barrel of bellylaughs", identifying the Mr. Creosote and "Every Sperm is Sacred" sketches as the most memorable.[16] The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 88%, based on 32 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10.[17]
Accolades[edit]
The Meaning of Life was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.[18] While the Cannes jury, led by William Styron, were fiercely split on their opinions on several films in competition, The Meaning of Life had general support, securing it the second-highest honour after the Palme d'Or for The Ballad of Narayama.[19]
At the 37th British Academy Film Awards, Andre Jacquemin, Dave Howman, Michael Palin and Terry Jones were also nominated for Original Song for "Every Sperm is Sacred." The award went to "Up Where We Belong" in An Officer and a Gentleman.[20]
Home media[edit]
A two-disc DVD release in 2003 features a documentary on production and a director's cut,[21] which adds deleted scenes into the film, making it 116 minutes. The first is The Adventures of Martin Luther,[22] inserted after the scene with the Protestant couple talking about condoms. The second is a promotional video about the British army, which comes between the marching around the square scene and the Zulu army scene. The third and last is an extension of the American characters performed by Idle and Palin; they are shown their room and talk about tampons. In Region 1, it was released on Blu-ray to mark its 30th anniversary.[23]
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE (18)". United International Pictures. British Board of Film Classification. 26 April 1983. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Michael, Chris (30 September 2013). "How we made Monty Python's The Meaning of Life". The Guardian. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
^ Jump up to: a b "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
Jump up ^ McCall, Douglas (2013-11-12). Monty Python: A Chronology, 1969-2012, 2d ed. p97. McFarland. ISBN 9780786478118.
Jump up ^ Boston.com Staff (27 December 2010). "Top 20 cult films, according to our readers". boston.com. The Boston Globe. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
Jump up ^ Ess, Ramsey (September 20, 2013). "Dick Cavett's Semi-Serious Talk with Graham Chapman". Splitsider. The Awl. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
Jump up ^ Hunter, I. Q.; Porter, Laraine (2012). British Comedy Cinema. Routledge. p. 181. ISBN 0-415-66667-8.
Jump up ^ McCabe, Bob (1999). Dark Knights and Holy Fools: The Art and Films of Terry Gilliam: From Before Python to Beyond Fear and Loathing. Universe. p. 106. ISBN 0-7893-0265-9.
Jump up ^ Birkinshaw, Julian; Ridderstråle, Jonas (2017). "Linking Strategy Back to Purpose". Fast/Forward: Make Your Company Fit for the Future. Stanford University Press. ISBN 1503602311.
Jump up ^ "Monty Python at the Movies". American Film Institute. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b Canby, Vincent (31 March 1983). "MONTY PYTHON, 'THE MEANING OF LIFE'". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger (1 April 1983). "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life Movie Review (1983),". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
Jump up ^ Staff (31 December 1982). "Review: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life". Variety. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
Jump up ^ Nathan, Ian (1 March 2007). "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life Review". Empire. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
Jump up ^ Chilton, Martin (20 April 2014). "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, review". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
Jump up ^ Maltin, Leonard (2014). Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide. Penguin. ISBN 0698183614.
Jump up ^ "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "Festival de Cannes: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 12 January 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
Jump up ^ Dionne, E.J., Jr. (20 May 1983). "JAPANESE FILM AWARDED TOP PRIZE AT CANNES". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
Jump up ^ "Original Song Written for a Film in 1984". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
Jump up ^ Murray, Noel (22 September 2003). "Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life (Special Edition DVD)". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
Jump up ^ "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life: 2-Disc Collector's Edition". DVD Talk. 2 September 2003. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
Jump up ^ Heilbron, Alexandra (8 October 2013). "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 30th Anniversary Blu-ray". Tribute. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
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