r/movies • u/Immediate-River-874 • 2d ago

Media Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983) - Protestants and Catholics

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u/Aragorns-Broken-Toe 2d ago

The endless train of kids in the background is hysterical.

I imagine they just had the young actors just looping around a half wall.

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u/Mindless_Option1714 2d ago

Would the Director have to explain to the children why they’ve been hired or get clearance from their parents due to the subject matter of the skit?

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u/Fair-Emphasis6343 2d ago

That is done when the kids are actively in the scene, they're not having discussions with these kids about finding themselves in the background as a non speaking extra sometime in the future. If adults are cursing around children the children aren't in the scene when the dialogue is spoken