What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?

[Virgil61]

Found this on Apple's Quicktime site. I thought some of you might appreciate it.

 

I haven't seen Life of Brian for quite some time and this is one of my favorite bits from the movie. Well this and the "how shall we f***-off oh lord?" scene.

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

Sadly I've not seen the movie in its entirity. I only got up to the stations of Jesus. Lol, " They gave us piggies."

Edited December 15, 2005 by FLavius Valerius Constantinus

[M. Porcius Cato]

Thanks Virgil. As a die-hard Mac user, I'm filled with vicarious pride.

[Pantagathus]

at the sermon on the mount scene...

 

Spectator 1: Blessed are the cheesmakers?

 

Spectator 2: I don't think it's meant to be taken literally, I think he means any manufacturer of dairy products... (said in the funniest debonair British accent)

[Pertinax]

have you noticed that these icons re-create Brian's Mum and the Centurion?

"oh hello centurion " (in a shreiky voice).

 

"myrrh ? thats a type of dangerous animal!"

 

weirdly we had the film on at work today-in a back room , and were unable to to actually function normally after watching the "Bigus Dicus " excerpt

[Ursus]

CENTURION:

What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'?

BRIAN:

It-- it says, 'Romans, go home'.

CENTURION:

No, it doesn't. What's Latin for 'Roman'? Come on!

BRIAN:

Aah!

CENTURION:

Come on!

BRIAN:

'R-- Romanus'?

CENTURION:

Goes like...?

BRIAN:

'Annus'?

CENTURION:

Vocative plural of 'annus' is...?

BRIAN:

Eh. 'Anni'?

CENTURION:

'Romani'. 'Eunt'? What is 'eunt'?

BRIAN:

'Go'. Let--

CENTURION:

Conjugate the verb 'to go'.

BRIAN:

Uh. 'Ire'. Uh, 'eo'. 'Is'. 'It'. 'Imus'. 'Itis'. 'Eunt'.

CENTURION:

So 'eunt' is...?

BRIAN:

Ah, huh, third person plural, uh, present indicative. Uh, 'they go'.

CENTURION:

But 'Romans, go home' is an order, so you must use the...?

BRIAN:

The... imperative!

CENTURION:

Which is...?

BRIAN:

Umm! Oh. Oh. Um, 'i'. 'I'!

CENTURION:

How many Romans?

BRIAN:

Ah! 'I'-- Plural. Plural. 'Ite'. 'Ite'.

CENTURION:

'Ite'.

BRIAN:

Ah. Eh.

CENTURION:

'Domus'?

BRIAN:

Eh.

CENTURION:

Nominative?

BRIAN:

Oh.

CENTURION:

'Go home'? This is motion towards. Isn't it, boy?

BRIAN:

Ah. Ah, dative, sir! Ahh! No, not dative! Not the dative, sir! No! Ah! Oh, the... accusative! Accusative! Ah! 'Domum', sir! 'Ad domum'! Ah! Oooh! Ah!

CENTURION:

Except that 'domus' takes the...?

BRIAN:

The locative, sir!

CENTURION:

Which is...?!

BRIAN:

'Domum'.

CENTURION:

'Domum'.

BRIAN:

Aaah! Ah.

CENTURION:

'Um'. Understand?

BRIAN:

Yes, sir.

CENTURION:

Now, write it out a hundred times.

BRIAN:

Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.

CENTURION:

Hail Caesar. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.

BRIAN:

Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar and everything, sir! Oh. Mmm!

 

 

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REG:

They've bled us white, the b******s. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.

LORETTA:

And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.

REG:

Yeah.

LORETTA:

And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.

REG:

Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?!

XERXES:

The aqueduct?

REG:

What?

XERXES:

The aqueduct.

REG:

Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.

COMMANDO #3:

And the sanitation.

LORETTA:

Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like?

REG:

Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done.

MATTHIAS:

And the roads.

REG:

Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads--

COMMANDO:

Irrigation.

XERXES:

Medicine.

COMMANDOS:

Huh? Heh? Huh...

COMMANDO #2:

Education.

COMMANDOS:

Ohh...

REG:

Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.

COMMANDO #1:

And the wine.

COMMANDOS:

Oh, yes. Yeah...

FRANCIS:

Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left. Huh.

COMMANDO:

Public baths.

LORETTA:

And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.

FRANCIS:

Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it. They're the only ones who could in a place like this.

COMMANDOS:

Hehh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.

REG:

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

XERXES:

Brought peace.

REG:

Oh. Peace? Shut up! ...

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

CENTURION:

What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'?

BRIAN:

It-- it says, 'Romans, go home'.

CENTURION:

No, it doesn't. What's Latin for 'Roman'? Come on!

BRIAN:

Aah!

CENTURION:

Come on!

BRIAN:

'R-- Romanus'?

CENTURION:

Goes like...?

BRIAN:

'Annus'?

CENTURION:

Vocative plural of 'annus' is...?

BRIAN:

Eh. 'Anni'?

CENTURION:

'Romani'. 'Eunt'? What is 'eunt'?

BRIAN:

'Go'. Let--

CENTURION:

Conjugate the verb 'to go'.

BRIAN:

Uh. 'Ire'. Uh, 'eo'. 'Is'. 'It'. 'Imus'. 'Itis'. 'Eunt'.

CENTURION:

So 'eunt' is...?

BRIAN:

Ah, huh, third person plural, uh, present indicative. Uh, 'they go'.

CENTURION:

But 'Romans, go home' is an order, so you must use the...?

BRIAN:

The... imperative!

CENTURION:

Which is...?

BRIAN:

Umm! Oh. Oh. Um, 'i'. 'I'!

CENTURION:

How many Romans?

BRIAN:

Ah! 'I'-- Plural. Plural. 'Ite'. 'Ite'.

CENTURION:

'Ite'.

BRIAN:

Ah. Eh.

CENTURION:

'Domus'?

BRIAN:

Eh.

CENTURION:

Nominative?

BRIAN:

Oh.

CENTURION:

'Go home'? This is motion towards. Isn't it, boy?

BRIAN:

Ah. Ah, dative, sir! Ahh! No, not dative! Not the dative, sir! No! Ah! Oh, the... accusative! Accusative! Ah! 'Domum', sir! 'Ad domum'! Ah! Oooh! Ah!

CENTURION:

Except that 'domus' takes the...?

BRIAN:

The locative, sir!

CENTURION:

Which is...?!

BRIAN:

'Domum'.

CENTURION:

'Domum'.

BRIAN:

Aaah! Ah.

CENTURION:

'Um'. Understand?

BRIAN:

Yes, sir.

CENTURION:

Now, write it out a hundred times.

BRIAN:

Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.

CENTURION:

Hail Caesar. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.

BRIAN:

Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar and everything, sir! Oh. Mmm!

 

Lol, if you took latin, this would come by really easy and you can actually use this part of the movie to actually learn latin. Its so funny that the centurion corrected him all night, then he leaves, next you know is two more Roman soldiers come and they chase Brian, then somehow he ended in an alien spacecraft( I really wonder how they did that special effect) Lol...

[Pantagathus]

Vendor: "Rocks for the stoning sir?"

Brian's Mum: "Nooooo, the 'ave 'em up their lyin around on the ground..."

Vendor: "Not like these sir!"

Brian's Mum: "Alright, I'll take a big round one, 2 flat ones and a packet of gravel..."

 

Brian at the coloseum: "Badgar's noses! Otter Spleens! WOLF'S NIPPLE CHIPS!!" (and of course all the hilarity that follows...)

 

Life of Brian is one of the best movies ever...

 

And to give the lead in for Pertinax's (cause it's one of my favorite scenes too...)

Brian's Mum: "what exactle is Myrrh anyway?"

Wise Man: "It's a valuable balm"

Brian's Mum: "A balm?! Whatchyou givin' 'im a balm for?!?! It might bite him!

'ats a dangerous animal!... Throw it out!"

[Pertinax]

"is it a dangerous animal ? or did I just dream it?"