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unusual facts about The Meaning of Life



Royal Masonic School for Boys

Both schools were commonly used for films (such as Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Lucky Jim (twice), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and numerous TV shows) from the 1950s until recently.

Sonicaid

(the "machine that goes ping" in The Meaning of Life is identifiable as this model).

The Animation Show

The second Animation Show toured throughout 2005, featuring Bill Plympton's "Guard Dog", The National Film Board of Canada's classic "When the Day Breaks", Don Hertzfeldt's The Meaning of Life and new films by animators Peter Cornwell, Georges Schwizgebel and PES.


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Don Hertzfeldt

A second Animation Show edition toured throughout 2005, featuring Hertzfeldt's short film The Meaning of Life and new films by animators like Peter Cornwell and Georges Schwizgebel.

Every Sperm Is Sacred

The production in The Meaning of Life is quite visually elaborate, filmed in Halifax, West Yorkshire and choreographed by Arlene Phillips to a storyboard by director Terry Jones.

Hiroki Hasegawa

He is a versatile actor, who can play a romantic heartthrob (Second Virgin), a disillusioned young man full of ennui who awakens to the meaning of life through his medical practices in a depopulated island (Kumo no Kaidan), and a tragic samurai whose integrity and sincerity work against him (Yae no Sakura).

Joachim Witt

In 2000, Journey of Life, released by X-Perience, featured a duet with Witt called "The Meaning Of Life."

Tango on intohimoni

"Many people ask what the meaning of life is. I know: it's tango." So says Virtanen, the hero of Tango on intohimoni, or Tango is my Passion, the definitive Finnish tango novel.

X-Perience

Journey of Life, released by Polydor/Universal, featured a song called The Meaning Of Life, a duet with Neue Deutsche Welle and Gothic icon Joachim Witt.