At the end when everyone is in the dining room in heaven, Mr and Mrs Brown (The Liver Donaters)are sitting at a table in the foreground. The dinner guests walk down the steps and the camera angle changes. You can see that a different man is sitting opposite Mrs Brown where Mr Brown should be. See more...
When the title first appears, it says Monty Python's Meaning Of Liff. Douglas Adams (friend of Graham Chapman and occasional contributor to Python's last series) wrote a mock dictionary called The Meaning Of Liff about the same time. See more...
Directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Carol Cleveland, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones (add more)
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Fantasy
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In the marching scene when the guy said he wants to be home with the wife and kids, when you see a shot of the back of his head, you see his mouth move, but you don't hear anything. [No, immediately as he starts to talk the camera switches from behind him to in front. There is no mistake here.]
When the waiter leads the viewer to his childhood home, he wears his napkin over the same arm throughout except for one shot, when it suddenly changes to the other arm and then back again. [It's not a different shot; it's a completely different scene. The waiter has plenty of time before and after to change the napkin from one arm to the other and back.]
Watch Eric Idle after he dies in the 'Fighting Each Other' section. He's trying not to laugh during the 'slicing the lemons, mixing the sugar and the almonds' speech. [He may be trying not to laugh but it looks exactly like a grimace of pain, which isn't out of place for a dying man.]
During the sperm song, all the kids are in the living room. After the girl with no front teeth sings, all the kids stand up and say in unison "Every sperm is wanted." In the front shot, watch the kid in the green jumper. He forgets the word wanted and only starts singing it when the other kids do. It's quite funny. (Only noticeable on Special Edition DVD). [Amusing as this may be to watch, it isn't a film mistake.]
Corrected by Rikki
In the sequence where John Cleese and Graham Chapman involuntarily remove a man's liver, watch John Cleese as he steps into the background of the shot. He is giggling and struggling to control himself. The sequence is so messy they likely were trying to get it in one take. [Cleese's character is supposed to still be giggling after the last shot, where the woman asked if they were real doctors and they started laughing.]
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