<P> According to Palin, "the writing process was quite cumbersome . An awful lot of material didn't get used . Holy Grail had a structure, a loose one: the search for the grail . Same with Life of Brian . With this, it wasn't so clear . In the end, we just said:' Well, what the heck . We have got lots of good material, let's give it the loosest structure, which will be the meaning of life"'. </P> <P> After the film's title was chosen, Douglas Adams called Jones to tell him he had just finished a new book, to be called The Meaning of Liff; Jones was initially concerned about the similarity in titles, which led to the scene in the title sequence of a tombstone which, when hit by a flash of lightning, changes from "The Meaning of Liff" to "The Meaning of Life". </P> <P> Principal photography began on July 12, 1982 and was completed about two months later, on September 11 . A wide variety of locations were used, such as Porchester Hall in Queensway for the Mr. Creosote sketch, where hundreds of pounds of fake vomit had to be cleaned up on the last day due to a wedding being scheduled hours later . The Malham Moors were chosen for the Grim Reaper segment; the countryside near Strathblane was used for the Zulu War; and "Every Sperm Is Sacred" was shot in Colne, Lancashire with interiors done at Elstree Studios . </P> <P> The film was produced on a budget of less than US $10 million, which was still bigger than that of the earlier films . This allowed for large - scale choreography and crowd sequences, a more lavishly produced soundtrack that included new original songs, and much more time able to be spent on each sketch, especially The Crimson Permanent Assurance . Palin later said that the larger budget, and not making the film for the BBC (i.e., television), allowed the film to be more daring and dark . </P>

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