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	The Crimson Permanent Assurance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Crimson Permanent Assurance is a short film that appears before the 1983 Monty Python movie The Meaning of Life.
		Originally conceived by Terry Gilliam as a 6-minute animated sequence in The Meaning of Life, The Crimson Permanent Assurance was later expanded as a live-action piece, to the point where it no longer fit into the framework of the feature film, and became a pre-movie short film in its own right.
		When one of them is "sacked," the accountants rebel against their corporate masters, commandeer their building and turn it into a pirate ship, raiding business districts in numerous big cities before falling off the edge of the world.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/t/th/the_crimson_permanent_assurance.html (182 words)

	Crimson Skies: High Road To Revenge > Review
		Much like Mech Assault before it, this game is at the forefront of the Xbox's holiday lineup this year, and Microsoft has once again demonstrated a mastery of how to create the perfect arena for gamers around the world to pit their skills against each other.
		Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge isn't perfect, and at times it's even a bit repetitive, but it's a strong entry into the Xbox lineup that anyone looking for a good action game will enjoy.
		In addition, this is one of the best Xbox Live titles to come out Not since the Crimson Permanent Assurance set sail on the seas of finance has piracy been this fun.
	dignews.com /review.php?story_id=2035 (1070 words)

	movieexperience
		In patient anticipation I sat until the lights dimmed and upon the screen appeared The Crimson Permanent Assurance.
		I had come to see Monty Python's Meaning of Life, but their philosophy would have to wait while held prisoner by the pirates aboard the Crimson Permanent Assurance.
		The Meaning of Life then commenced and was hilarious and wonderful from the first frame to the last, but I will always remember The Crimson Permanent Assurance as an important and defining moment in my life.
	www.inthebackrow.com /movieexperience.html (546 words)

	The Crimson Permanent Assurance
		In the bleak days of nineteen-eighty-three, as England languished in the doldrums of a ruinous monetarist policy, the good and loyal men of the Permanent Assurance Company-- a once-proud family firm, recently fallen in hard times-- strained under the yoke of their oppressive new corporate management.
		And so, the Crimson Permanent Assurance was launched upon the high seas of international finance.
		Hidden behind the faceless, towering canyons of glass, the world of high finance sat smug and self-satisfied as their future, in the shape of their past, slipped silently through the streets, returning to wreak a terrible revenge.
	members.tripod.com /~Halfdead/crimson.html (261 words)

	Exclaim! Canada's Music Authority
		The Terrys, Jones and Gilliam, discuss the film treatments they contemplated (and that Gilliam would clearly have preferred), including Monty Python’s World War III and one in which the troupe would be put on trial for crimes against film.
		No matter: Gilliam was hardly there, since he got a soundstage, crew and gobs of cash to make his short film, The Crimson Permanent Assurance, on his own.
		It’s oddly curious that in the commentary, Gilliam actually confuses his own career, referring to Brazil’s influence on his Crimson short, when the reverse is actually true.
	www.exclaim.ca /index.asp?layid=22&csid=774&csid1=1929 (332 words)

	Monty Python's Meaning Of Life: Crimson Permanent Assurance VideoSift
		Monty Python's Meaning Of Life: Crimson Permanent Assurance
		The legendary accounting pirates of The Crimson Permanent Assurance, directed by Terry Gilliam from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (costing £1 million, most of its budget!):
		'In the bleak days of 1983, the Crimson Permanent Assurance, an accountancy staffed by elderly workers much like a slave ship, has been taken over by efficiency-minded corporate types.
	www.videosift.com /video/Monty-Pythons-Meaning-Of-Life-Crimson-Permanent-Assurance (388 words)

	"The Meaning of Life" by Fred Glass
		In the film’sopening segment, elderly clerks slave away for "Crimson Permanent Assurance.” A long tracking shot along their rows of desks reveals the miserable clerks swaying beneath their burden, as an efficiency expert from Very Big U.S. Corporation looks at his stopwatch and shakes his head.
		The mournful rhythms on the soundtrack are underscored by a leather, mask-and-muscle-clad, galley beater swinging a pair of heavy hammers on kettle drums.
		The Crimson Permanent Assurance building is expropriated by its old workers from the Very Big U.S. Corporation in response to the sacking of one of their number.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC29folder/MeaningOfLife.html (2233 words)

	Crimson Permanent Assurance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the bleak days of 1983, as England languished in the doldrums of a ruinous monetarist policy, the good and loyal men of the Permanent Assurance Company - a once-proud family firm recently fallen in hard times - strained under the yoke of their oppressive new corporate management...
		Hidden between the faceless, towering canyons of glass, the world of high finance sat snug and self-satisfied as their future, in the shape of their past, slipped silently through the streets - returning to wreak a terrible revenge.
		And so, heartened by their initial success, the desperate and reasonably violent men of the Permanent Assurance battled on, until...
	www.pythonsite.de /5text1e.htm (285 words)

	ISP 201-2: INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD SYSTEM, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		--- Crimson Permanent Assurance, Monty Python (1983)
		This course is the second in a series of three courses devoted to the study of the origins and evolution of the modern world system.
		Crimson Permanent Assurance Company as it charts its course behind the faceless, towering canyons of glass, as the world of high finance sat smug and self-satisfied as their future, in the shape of their past, slipped silently through the streets, returning to wreak a terrible revenge.
	pubweb.northwestern.edu /~wsr737/isp-syl-05.htm (2118 words)

	What's Sex Slavery Got To Do With It? by The Plaid Adder - Democratic Underground
		They attack and board one of the skyscrapers, which leads into a hand-to-hand battle between the grizzled pirates and a gang of thirtysomething executives, in which the ordinary furniture of a corporate conference room is weaponized in hilarious yet somehow approrpiate ways.
		The WTC echoes, alas, come in when the defeated "captain" of the "boarded" corporation leaps out of a window to his death, and the film dissolves to a shot of a ruined city with burnt-out shells of "once-proud" skyscrapers to show that the Crimson Permanent Assurance has carried the day.
		About the time I was watching The Crimson Permanent Assurance for the first time in college, Caryl Churchill was taking on the same battle in her satirical musical Serious Money, a play I would donate organs to be able to see performed.
	www.democraticunderground.com /articles/03/09/25_slavery.html (1638 words)

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		The Crimson Permanent Assurance is in your extended network
		also the crew of the Crimson Permanent Assurance the way they through off the shackles of there oppressive corporate management gives me hope.
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	Scifilm -- Reviews, MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE (1983)
		Like most of their work, MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE is presented as a series of skits, only loosely tied together by the overarching theme of the "meaning of life," though much of what is presented has very little to do with any "meaning" at all.
		The movie opens with a short feature film THE CRIMSON PERMANENT ASSURANCE, about a group of elderly office workers that cast off the shackles of corporate tyranny and become pirates on the high seas of finance.
		The scene when the office building housing the Crimson Permanent Assurance detaches from the pavement and sails off through the city is particularly memorable.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews/meaninglife.html (907 words)

	Terry Gilliam: The Man, The Myth... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Called "a marvelous, crazy idea" of "grandiose and nonsensical absurdity" by George Perry (84), it is a fantastic achievement in filmmaking and provided an interesting counterpoint to the rest of the film, which wasn't quite as visually interesting.
		The Crimson Permanent Assurance is quite stunning, and its depiction of an insurance building setting sail and attacking other companies (corporate piracy in its most literal sense) is a bizarre conceit which only Gilliam would have seriously attempted on film.
		Interestingly enough, it was originally intended to be a three-minute segment in the middle of the film, but "it grew to occupy over fifteen minutes of screen time, and as much time to shoot as the rest of the film put together" (Johnson, First 200 Years 216).
	home.earthlink.net /~cjclark/gilliam.htm (2698 words)

	Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life Movie -The 80s Rewind «
		Before we can get to the subject matter at hand, we are first treated to the tale of "The Crimson Permanent Assurance"...
		While writing this film, the Python troupe decided to take a break and put on some shows at the famous Hollywood Bowl, which were filmed and released as Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982).
		"The Crimson Permanent Assurance" segment was filmed as if it were a completely separate project.
	www.fast-rewind.com /meaningoflife.htm (2090 words)

	Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life: 2 Disc Special Edition (1983)
		It was always intended that The Crimson Permanent Assurance form part of what is really a double feature.
		Terry Gilliam makes the sole contribution for The Crimson Permanent Assurance and that is perhaps the best portion of the commentary.
		Terry Jones adds his contributions to the main feature, but the commentary really is characterised by the lack of contribution by both men.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=3683 (4074 words)

	The Crimson Pirate: Swashbucklers of the Silver Screen. - Review - sound recording review Popular Music and Society - ...
		The Crimson Pirate kicks off with the main title of Captain Blood, the Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland 1935 classic that made Flynn a star.
		The brassy royal fanfares, the swirling Viennese love themes, and the thrusts and parries of his action music are echoed and imitated down through the golden years of these types of films.
		This current collection also contains first-time records from Burt Lancaster's 1952 The Crimson Pirate, composed by British classicist William Alwyn, and "The Crimson Permanent Assurance," from Monty Python's 1983 The Meaning of Life, composed by John Da Prez--a tongue-in-cheek musical look backward at this great genre.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2822/is_2_23/ai_61837444 (356 words)

	Daily Llama - NEWS 1996_05_10 - 'And the Winner is... Terry Gilliam for...'
		Four of his film projects have received Oscar recognition in the past 10 years.
		That also means that every project Terry has directed since "The Meaning of Life's 'The Crimson Permanent Assurance'" (1983) has received Oscar recognition!
		And here's another bizarre coincidence, according to the recent April 10 issue of "TimeOut," London's weekly entertainment guide, Terry Gilliam was originally approached by Mel Gibson to direct "Braveheart." In case you missed the recent Oscars, Mel Gibson recently won the Academy Award for Best Director (and "Braveheart" also won for Best Picture).
	www.dailyllama.com /news/1996/llama038.html (423 words)

	PistolWimp - Monty Python: Crimson Permanent Assurance
		The short feature presentation from the beginning of the 1983 film, The Meaning of Life.
		A group of elderly office clerks who work for the Permanent Assurance Company, a staid British insurance accountancy firm which has been taken over by The Very Big Corporation of America, rebel against their corporate masters when one of them is sacked.
		With ropes, they then swing into a board room and engage their bosses in hand-to-hand combat, vanquishing them.
	www.pistolwimp.com /media/56360 (96 words)

	Monty Python's The Meaning of Life DVD Review at The Z Review UK DVD reviews
		The Monty Python team may not have been on their best form with this movie but the sheer genius of the writing and comedic performances mean that even on a bad day there is more inventiveness and pure hilarity here than in anything to grace the silver screen since.
		From Terry Gilliam’s short film “The Crimson Permanent Assurance” to the final “Christmas in Heaven” sketch, there is so much to enjoy for both comedy and Python fans alike.
		Terry Gilliam takes us through his ideas and reasons behind him turning The Crimson Permanent Assurance from an animation into a live action short feature.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /dvdreviews/m/montypythonsthemeaningoflife.htm (1410 words)

	One Salient Oversight: About that Terry Gilliam Poll...
		If you have seen the Monty Python film "The Meaning of Life", you may remember a 15 minute "prelude" to the film, about a group of aged accountants who throw off the shackles of their corporate oppressors and start sailing their building around and attacking other corporate headquarters like Pirates.
		Well, that short "prelude" is called "The Crimson Permanent Assurance".
		So if you've seen Meaning of Life, you've seen this short film too.
	one-salient-oversight.blogspot.com /2005/09/about-that-terry-gilliam-poll.html (152 words)

	Snooze Button Dreams: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
		The new boss is an order of magnitude larger and doesn't need to get rid of Quality Assurance in order to hire another programmer.
		Now this is no guarantee that my job will remain the same after the acquisition...
		Now this is no guarantee that my job will remain the same after the acquisition operation plan is cemented.
	snoozebuttondreams.com /archives/040798.html (662 words)

	This Town is Full of Monsters - by Nick
		That mystical time when people everywhere put all their unused (and often unusable) shit on their driveway, decorated with fluorescent-orange circles crying out "Ten for twenty-five cents!!", waiting for some hapless garage saler to come by and...well...buy.
		Me, I just like to think of them as crewmen aboard the most unusual ship since the Crimson Permanent Assurance.
		I am to blogging what Tool is to music...except without, you know, the popularity.
	my.opera.com /mrefficiency (1297 words)

	The Sailboat Market's sailing stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gratefully, but not without some regret, I remember that this year the boat is safely "on the hard" and I can look forward a warm, dry, safe unexciting Fall.
		The following is the edited ships log of the sailing yacht Crimson Permanent Assurance (CPA) during a passage from Saint John, N.B., Canada to St. George's, Bermuda.
		The CPA is a Beneteau First 345, production sloop.
	www.sailmarket.com /stories/bermuda.html (2466 words)

	Throw away your TV - Crimson Permanent Assurance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Throw away your TV - Crimson Permanent Assurance
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		Thinking they are gods, they scoff everything in their path, untill physics bitch slaps them.
	throwawayyourtv.com /2007/01/crimson-permanent-assurance.html (91 words)

	YouTube - Panoramica Amantea
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		The Crimson Permanent Assurance (2006 Dec 24) [2nd Part]
		The Crimson Permanent Assurance (2006 Dec 24) [1st Part]
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=LBIDjEcb5Q8 (84 words)

	AR15.COM :: Forums :: And now, for our feature film: Monty Python's The Crimson Permanent Assurance building
		I dislike the rest of that movie (except where the CPA re-apear), but that is the single best MP skit ever.
		We were burning top secret papers (UFO, bigfoot, nessie type stuff) and after we were done, it so happened that "Meaning of Life" was just coming on the tube.....the VERY moment I saw ""and now for a short feature" I realized that the CPA absolutely needed to be in that thread!!!!
		Yes, the Crimson Permanent Assurance Corporation - toiling under the new management!
	www.ar15.com /forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=510963 (405 words)

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