Have recently been spurred to watch the Luis Buñuel films available on youtube. Simon of the Desert must have strongly influenced Life of Brian. It is a film about human moral frailty / perversity. It begins with Simon being encouraged to move to a more auspicious pedestal.

Part whodunnit, part memory recreation. How a song emerged and the community/ethos it represented. Mehdi was a kid who sang briefly for musicians at an event in 1970s France that was preserved on vinyl. All they remember is that he had a yellow tshirt. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...