마이클 페일린의 히말라야 시리즈가 드디어 요번 일요일 부터 방송된다고 합니다. 책은 출판이 되었고, 디비디는 11월에 나온답니다. 이 사람은 어떻게 나이를 먹어갈수록 힘든 곳을 골라다니는 것 같아요.



부드럽고 점잖게 생긴 이 사람의 60대 얼굴을 보고 있으면 젊었을 때 몬티 파이슨 스케치에서 여장을 포함해서 온갖 역으로 나와 능청을 떨거나 짖궂게 굴던 모습이 잘 상상이 안되죠.




60년대 말 [몬티 파이슨의 날으는 서커스(Monty Python's Flying Circus)]란 제목을 달고 당시로선 아주 새로운 티비 코메디를 내어 놓았던 이 그룹에 대해서는 제가 저번 게시판에서도 한 번 얘기를 한 적이 있죠. 영화 [홀리 그레일] 이야기는 최근에 한 번 더 했구요.

[네모를 찾아서]에서도 파이슨의 자취를 발견하고 웃었습니다. 상어 이름이 '브루스'면서 상어 모임에서 규칙 1, 규칙 2를 줄줄이 늘어놓는 건 분명히 '브루스(Bruces)' 스케치에서 따온 거였거든요...브루스 스케치는 호주 남자들에 대한 스테레오 타입 유머와 엉뚱한 비약으로 점철되어 있습니다. 그다이, 브루스(G'day Bruce)!



이 스케치에선 이름이 모두 브루스이지만 서로 의사소통을 하는데는 전혀 지장이 없는 왈라말루 대학 철학과 교수들의 점심 모임을 보여주는데, 다들 애국자에 호모포비아 마쵸에 술 좋아하는 사람들입니다. 교수 규칙 홀수번은 모두 'No poofta(게이의 비속어)'이질 않나, 규칙 4번은 학기중에 술을 늘 마실 것 등이니까요. 아는 사람은 다 아는 실제 게이였던 채프만이 'are you a poofta?'하고 물어보는 장면은 능청맞죠. 이 스케치는 위대한 철학자들을 전부 주정뱅이로 묘사한 노래를 부르면서 끝납니다.



Second Bruce: G'day Bruce!
First Bruce: Oh, Hello Bruce!
Third Bruce: How are you Bruce?
First Bruce: A bit crook Bruce.
Second Bruce: Where's Bruce?
First Bruce: He's not 'ere, Bruce.
Third Bruce: Blimy, it's hot in here Bruce.
First Bruce: Hot enough to boil a monkey's bum!
Second Bruce: That's a strange expression Bruce.
First Bruce: Well Bruce, I heard the Prime Minister use it. "It's hot enough to boil a monkey's bum in here, your Majesty." he said and she smiled quietly to herself.
Third Bruce: She's a good Sheila Bruce, and not at all stuck up.
Second Bruce: Here! Here's the boss-fellow now! - how are you Bruce?

Fourth Bruce enters, accompanied by Michael Baldwin.

Fourth Bruce: 'Ow are you Bruce?
First Bruce: G'day Bruce!
Fourth Bruce: Bruce!
Second Bruce Hello Bruce.
Fourth Bruce: Bruce.
Third Bruce: How are you Bruce?

Fourth Bruce: G'day Bruce.
Gentlemen, I'd like to introduce the man from pommyland who is joinin' us this year in the philosophy department at the university of Walamaloo.
All Bruces: G'day!
Michael: Hello,
Fourth Bruce: Michael Baldwin, Bruce. Michael Baldwin, Bruce. Michael Baldwin, Bruce.
First Bruce: Is your name not Bruce?
Michael: No, it's Michael.
Second Bruce: That's going to cause a little confusion.
Third Bruce: Mind if we call you "Bruce" to keep it clear?
Fourth Bruce: Gentlemen, I think we better start the faculty meeting. Before we start, though, I'd like to ask the padre for a prayer.
First Bruce: Oh Lord, we beseech Thee, Amen!!
All Bruces: Amen!
Fourth Bruce: Crack tubers! ( Sounds of cans opening.)
Now I call upon Bruce to officially welcome Mr Baldwin to the philosophy faculty.
Second Bruce I'd like to welcome the pommy bastard to God's own Earth, and remind him that we don't like stuck-up sticky-beaks here.
The Other Bruces: Hear, hear! Well spoken Bruce.
Fourth Bruce: Bruce here teaches classical philosophy, Bruce there teaches Haegelian philosophy, and Bruce here teaches logical positivism, and is also in charge of the sheep dip.
Third Bruce: What's new-Bruce going to teach?
Fourth Bruce: New Bruce will be teaching political science, Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett and Benet.
Second Bruce: Those are all cricketers!
Fourth Bruce: Aww, spit!
Third Bruce: Hails of derisive laughter, Bruce!
All Bruces: Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you amen.
Fourth Bruce: Another tube!
( Sound of cans being opened. )
Any questions?
Second Bruce: New Bruce, are you a poofta?
Fourth Bruce: Are you a poofta?
Michael: NO!
Fourth Bruce: No. Right, I just wanted to remind you of the faculty rules. Rule 1!
All Bruces: No pooftas!
Fourth Bruce: Rule 2: No member of the faculty is to maltreat the Abbos in any way at all .... if there's anybody watching .... Rule 3:
All Bruces: No pooftas!
Fourth Bruce: Rule 4: Now this term, I don't want to catch anybody not drinking .... Rule 5:
All Bruces: No pooftas!
Fourth Bruce: Rule 6: there is no rule six .... Rule 7:
All Bruces: No pooftas!
Fourth Bruce: Right, that concludes the readin' of the rules, Bruce.
First Bruce: This here's the wattle, the emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand.
All Bruces: Amen!
First Bruce: Right, let's get some Sheilas.
An Aboriginie enters with a tray full of enormous steaks.

Fourth Bruce: Ok!
Second Bruce: Ah, elevenses.
Third Bruce: This should tide us over 'till lunchtime.
Second Bruce: Reckon so, Bruce.
First Bruce: Sydney Nolan! What's that !
(points)
...

All four Bruces lunch into the Philosopher's song.


브루스들의 철학자 노래


노래 가사는

Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable.
Heideggar, Heideggar was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel.
And Whittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nieizsche couldn't teach 'ya 'bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.
John Stewart Mill, of his own free will, after half a pint of shanty was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day!
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
And Hobbes was fond of his Dram.
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:
"I drink, therefore I am."
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.

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페일린은 노래를 잘 못하는데도 유명한 노래들을 몇 개 남겼습니다. 전통적으로'남자다운' 나뭇꾼을  슬쩍 비틀어 하이힐과 서스펜더와 브라를 즐겨 착용하는 남자로 바꾼 럼버잭 노래가 유명하죠.





The Lumberjack Song




영화 [인생의 의미(Meaning of Life)]에서 카톨릭이라 피임을 못해서 애를 너무 너무 너무 많아 낳아 결국 의학 실험 재료로 팔아먹는 가난한 아버지 역을 하면서 모든 정자는 신성해(Every Sperm is Sacred)..하는 뮤지컬 노래도 소화했지요.


인생의 의미에서 악명높은 스펌송을 부르는 장면



Sperm Song