Python's Jones slams finance in 'Boom Bust Boom'

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-embargoed-film-jones-idUSKBN0M82BU20150312

Python's Jones slams finance in 'Boom Bust Boom' documentary

BY FARAH NAYERI
LONDON Thu Mar 12, 2015 2:21pm ED

(Reuters) - Terry Jones, a founding member of the Monty Python comedy team, targets the global financial system in a provocative new documentary and warns of more meltdowns if the system isn't fixed soon.

Jones, co-writer and co-director of "Boom Bust Boom," uses puppetry and animation to get the message across -- as well as interviews with economist Paul Krugman, actor John Cusack, Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane and others.

The film, which cost under 400,000 pounds ($594,320) to make, is getting its first public screening at Britain's University of Manchester on March 31. Its producers say they are in talks to release it in cinemas and on video channels.

"Boom Bust Boom" is the latest in a series of documentaries on the 2008 financial crisis, including Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" (2009) and Charles Ferguson's "Inside Job" (2010).

Jones said he had avoided seeing those films to have more creative freedom. His project came about when he heard from the Dutch economics professor and entrepreneur Theo Kocken, who is also the film's co-writer, that university students were not being educated about past financial crises.

"It bugs me that teachers or professors blindly teach economics without recognizing the crashes, the real world," Jones said in a telephone interview. "Throughout history, crashes were constantly going on."

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1. I'm losing patience with my neighbours, Mr Bush- Terry Jones Jan, 2003

I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's running out of patience. And so am I!
For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors down the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the health food shop. They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson is planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover what. I've been round to his place a few times to see what he's up to, but he's got everything well hidden. That's how devious he is.

As for Mr Patel, don't ask me how I know, I just know - from very good sources - that he is, in reality, a Mass Murderer. I have leafleted the street telling them that if we don't act first, he'll pick us off one by one.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/26/usa.iraq

Some of my neighbours say, if I've got proof, why don't I go to the police? But that's simply ridiculous. The police will say that they need evidence of a crime with which to charge my neighbours.

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2. brilliant!

I forgot about that