The Crimson Permanent Assurance
The Crimson Permanent Assurance is a short film that plays as the beginning of the featurelength motion picture Monty Pythons The Meaning of Life. Although it can be presented as a separate film and sometimes shown without the feature,citation needed it can also be considered a prologue to The Meaning of Life, which is almost never shown without The Crimson Permanent Assurance preceding it.
The elderly British employees of the Permanent Assurance Company, a staid London firm which has recently been taken over by the Very Big Corporation of America, rebel against their corporate masters when one of them is sacked. Having locked the surviving supervisors in the safe, and forced their boss to walk a makeshift plank out a window, they commandeer their Edwardian office building, which suddenly weighs anchor, uses its scaffolding and tarpaulins as sails, and is turned into a pirate ship. The stone office building starts to move as if it were a ship. Sailing through the City of London, they then proceed to attack The Very Big Corporation of Americas skyscraper, using, among other things, wooden filing cabinets which have been transformed into carronades and swords fashioned from the blades of a ceiling fan. On ropes, they swing into the board room and engage the executives of VBCA in handtohand combat, vanquishing them.After their hardearned victory, the clerks continue to sail the wide accountansea as they sing in their heroic sea shanty, until unceremoniously meeting their end by falling off the edge of the world, due to their belief about the shape of the world being disastrously wrong. ........
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