 According to Terry Gilliam (qv), before the Pythons decided to  make a sketch movie about the meaning of life, two ideas were  considered for the movie. The first one was "Monty Pythons World  War III", where they would all be soldiers wearing military uniforms  full of advertisements, and the Armies would be sponsored. Another  idea that was under consideration was a trial movie, where the  Pythons are judged to be making not a movie, but a tax dodge. They  spend the entire movie trying to prove theyre making a proper  movie, trying to make an adaptation of "Hamlet" in the Caribbean. At  the end, theyre found guilty and sentenced to execution, and each  one of them gets to decide how theyre going to die. This idea was  used in "The Meaning of Life" in the death sketch, where Arthur  Jarrett (Graham Chapman (qv)) has chosen to die while pursued by  naked girls.