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It's the British Mel Brooks
dude they will not walk normal
I'd recommend..
The bed sitting room.
Co written by
Spike Milligan. 😊
Life of Brian by them next a farce on the new testament
I have every DVD of there s 15 seasons on BBC Crazy late night PBS viewing with animated naked women And hilarious and twilight zone and doctor who to follow.... Who could ask for more in 1982?
Fun fact! A hamster was an Old English slang term for a prostitute or “whore”, and cheap wine was often made from elderberries instead of grapes (which were far more expensive) so the French knight was basically saying, “your mother is a whore and your farther is a cheap drunkard”
Also, elderberries, when spoiling smell a great deal like urine, and are pretty pungent. So, it was also saying you smelled like piss.
flinging livestock over castle walls at attacking forces was a tactic as well-it made them think the castle was well supplied for a long seige
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Great insight! Didn't know this.
Paraylsis through analysis.
Monty Python was a group of comedic absurdists working with an extremely low low budget to make a movie after their TV show became an unexpected hit. They went on to become legends in British comedy. Their next movie "Life of Brian," would not have been made without the Beatle George Harrison. They were short lived overall but their influence on absurdist comedy would live on forever. I'm glad to see you give this a chance and hope to see your reactions to more from this genius comedy group. ❤
John Clease is still around and and national treasury.
@@samuel10125 John Clease is in Harry Potter as Nearly Headless Nick, Fawlty Towers was made a lot earlier and he is one of the main characters in that show....
@@feldegast He also had a recurring role in Third Rock from the Sun. And he pops up here an there when you least expect it.
John Cleese was great in Rat Race
@@boki1693 Because no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Murcia is a city in Spain but Mercia was a Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is now modern day England.
Near the Midlands, close to Birmingham
fun fact: mercia is the kingdom of nossex. essex,wessex and sussex exist, but mysteriously, nossex is called mercia
Yes and Murca is just south of Canada.
@@Archphoenix1they were a bit embarrassed by the name
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Oh. This... This should be interesting. I'm going to try to count how many times he says: "guys...".
I count 42 during the runtime, +5 after.
+/-1
@@EvHervey Good stuff i taught he gonna fold in his chair watching this.Not much logic here.
"I'm going to guess this movie is going to be a giant troll." You're the first person who ever figured this out from opening credits. Genius points!
Also, one of the very FEW reactors I've seen who caught the "Huge tracts of land" joke!
This movie was funded by rock and roll. Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Jethro Tull all invested in its making. Even with that money, it was filmed on a shoestring budget. (400k) the coconut joke was written because they couldn't afford to use real horses. The joke about Camelot being a model was that they could only afford to film at one castle.
It's not that they couldn't afford to film at more than one (though the end result was probably cheaper), it was they were denied permission to film in any of the other Scottish castles once the authorities saw the script. Doune Castle was privately owned though, and they were able to get permission for that one, so all castle scenes in the film are from there, just at different angles to make it look like they're different locations, so it happening to be quite asymetical helped.
@@keithlangmead4098 The movie made Doune Castle a more popular tourist destination than the ones they weren't allowed to film.
In an interview it was revealed that another reason for the coconuts for horses was that none of the cast members knew how to ride and they lacked the time and money for everyone to learn.
The ending of this movie is literally a "Cop Out" and i love it.
I think it's a subtle jab at how compliant British people are towards authority, the fact that three or four cops with billy clubs can stop a charging army and make them kick rocks.
The ending was a literal cop-out.🤣🤣🤣
Trying to find logic in a Monty Python film is funnier than I expected. This movie is always hilarious to see reactions to.
I will NEVER get tired of watching reactors experience Monty Python & The Holy Grail for the first time. 😂
That epic terrain was Scotland. It rained all the time, and the "armor" (braided wool that looked like armor when painted in a metallic color) became water-logged and heavy. Everyone hated the actual filming, it was so arduous.
Terry Gilliam directed the film, along with Terry Jones; both were members of the troupe. Gilliam did all the animations -- you see him briefly in ordinary street clothes when "the animator suffered a sudden heart attack" -- and he later directed several highly regarded films: "Brazil," "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen," "Twelve Monkeys," "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," as well as all Monty Python's Flying Circus's later films, including their Biblical epic, "Monty Python's The Life of Brian." *Highly* recommend the latter for a reaction video!
Gilliam did not direct "Life of Brian" or "The Meaning of Life" it was Terry Jones. On "Life of Brian", Gilliam was responsible for set design, animation, and matte paintings.
@@donferoce5652 Thanks!
Terry Gilliam is also Arthur's "trusted servant Patsy" and the Keeper of the Bridge of Death. And of course in the Camelot song.
@@notvalidcharactersSir Bors as well (the knight killed by the rabbit)
@@dakotahmays1437 Good catch, I should have recognized the gravelly voice.
There is a documentary of them making this. A group of guys who met at uni and realized they knew history and had insanely unique humor. Comedy gold
My best friend's HS yearbook quote was "Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?" 😂😂
My sister’s had a photo of “student not appearing in this yearbook”.
This is like the wellspring of such a vast degree of Gen X humor. If you were a teenager in the 70s/80s chances were pretty good you saw Monty Python - they started with a BBC TV series - Monty Python's Flying Circus. In the 70's/80s PBS had tons of British TV - Python, Dr. Who, Blake 7, Blackadder, Red Dwarf, etc, etc. You can be sure everyone into comics or punk or such were all into this.
Absolutely agree 💯❤️
I’d like to buy an argument…
This is one of the most influential comedies ever. The director, Terry Gilliam, also did 12 monkeys, fear and loathing in Las Vegas, time bandits, the imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and others. Gilliam also did all the animation here with paper cutouts. John Cleese replaced Desmond Llewellyn as the new Q in James Bond films. Eric Idle has a long acting rèsumé and was the Aquafina ad voice saying "drink more water". Graham Chapman died of cancer in the 70s or 80s. Terry Jones became an author. Michael Palin also has a storied career acting. They were a hit BBC sketch comedy show then they made movies. Every sketch show owes these men their careers. SNL, SCTV, WKUK, The Kids in the Hall, Broken Lizard, etc. Everything they did was gold. Siskel and Ebert rated this film four out of four stars.
Terry Jones co wrote the sscript for Labyrinth
Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones split the directing work.
Graham Chapman starred in Yellow Beard.
@@robertsonsidsuch a good film! John Cleese and Eric Idle are in it too. Not sure about the two Terrys though.
Holy crap, someone who knows what the imaginarium of doctor Parnassus is. Thank you. Hope he watches it. Heath's last film, and they did a nice job finsihing it
All 3 of my kids were introduced to the Holy Grail at age 12. My son insisted I buy a coconut afterwards so he could experiment with it. He is now almost 28. I still have those coconut shells. He took the movie and entire Monty Python series with him to college to introduce his friends. Even my Gen Z high school daughter can quote lines from the movie. Peak Gen X humor passed down to the next generations.
That's so great to hear! I raised my 3 kids (33, 39 & 42) on generous doses of Monty Python and they're wonderful & funny. Family get-togethers are a riot! Cheers from Canada
This film didn’t just break the forth wall it smashed it into a thousand pieces and then called it’s mother a hamster 🐹 😅😂😂😂😂
Mel Brooks has just entered the room, looked directly at the camera and said "what am I, chopped liver?"
It doesn't, in fact, break the fourth wall except for the scene where Zoot asks if the audience thinks the scenes in Castle Anthrax should have been deleted. That's the only part where the audience is directly addressed. That's literally what 'breaking the 4th wall' means.
@@TheAlmaward The cops also arrest the cameraman at the end.
I always find it funny that Coconuts do migrate, they float across seas to spread to all sorts of places, and (albeit rarely) occasionally do wash up on British shores - although the ones that reach that far don't tend to take root and grow.
It's also around the time of the Crusades, so Coconut might have brought with the traders and returning crusaders.
@@ellenhofrath True true!
Imagine a time where people are hurt by simple words, "the knights who say ni" is the most underrated joke
Yeah, because that never happened in the 70s, did it?
5:17 The clergyman who wrote Malleus Maleficarum, basically the witch-finder's manual, essentially just did it 'cause he had a massive problem with one woman who spoke her mind and didn't get all demure and deferential around him. He tried to prosecute her as a witch, pushed it so far his superiors transferred him and told him to knock it off, and then decided that it was clearly the fault of every outspoken woman that he'd faced consequences for his spite. So he wrote the book, and got a LOT of women killed for the crime of basically being smart. Terry Pratchett wrote some VERY good stuff on this She Must Be A Witch 'Cause Look At Her nonsense, even if it was through the medium of a fictional pastiche of society's tendencies.
Heinrich Kramer got the Malleus Malificarum to be a papal bull by tricking some papal official and then proceeded to cause harm with it.
Note that the knight who killed the historian was actually on a horse... which means the police arrested the wrong people.
And the ending was literally a "cop-out."
Monty Python was renowned for poking fun at absolutely everything, especially "the establishment" --- this was the 70's after all. And their skits often didn't have an ending. They would either cut straight into the next skit, have the new skit crash into the current one, or turn it into a running gag that would get referenced throughout the rest of the episode. So, the Pythons just did the same thing in this movie, knowing their audience expected it from them.
One of the more subtle things I eventually noticed in this movie is the castle at the end is the same one as the one where they were taunted. This means when the soldier said "We already got one!" he wasn't lying.
Well, in real life it's the same castle, sure, but it's not ment to be in the movie.
This is one of the greatest movies ever made. I adore silliness for no reason, and this is the King of Silly movies.
You would be surprised by how educational and historically accurate this movie is. Especially in terms of the absurdities. If you ever read any Medieval adventure stories - I mean ones written in the Middle Ages - this movie will seem a lot less weird all of a sudden. All the dirty jokes, random knights who say magical words, random knights who just fight anyone who tries to cross a bridge because reasons, monsters, enchanters, God appearing without warning, castles full of lonely ladies, it's all appropriate to the literature of the period. Even killer rabbits were a thing in the Middle Ages. And as for real life, not literary life, yeah, that's pretty accurate, too - plague villages, doing "favors" for people whose elderly relatives just won't die, nobody knowing who the king is, nobody even knowing that they lived in a country that had a name, the French randomly taking over castles in England, processions of monks hitting themselves in the head, the internet-style logic of how to tell if someone is a witch, people being surprisingly well educated, unprovoked massacres, marriages for money - yep, all true, all real. The Python troupe were all big intellectuals and many were academics. In particular, Terry Jones (Sir Bedevere, Dennis's Mom, Prince Herbert of Swamp Castle, among other roles, and one of the head writers of this movie) was an historian as well as a comedian. He did the research.
That's how 5 men troll the entire world for an hour n half my favorite part of reactions to this is see how long the reactor sits through the black screen with music playing
You just sent me back to high school. Monty Grail and the Holy Python, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Princess Bride, and Pink Floyd's The Wall was our language. We were the nerdy band/theater/choir kids that would see each other in the hall and yell NEE between classes. We read stacks of sci-fi and fantasy and played D and D. Basically, we were Stranger Things.
In 2014 Monty Python did a reunion show at New Years. The 6 shows sold out in minutes. More were added and gone just as fast. I was too young to see them originally, and I was sick knowing that was the last chance to see them together and had no way to get there.
Rather amazingly, this has been called -- by people who know what they're talking about -- one of the more faithful depictions of Arthurian legend ever put to film. And apart from some of the obvious absurdities, it's actually a fairly historically accurate depiction of life at the time.
THe funny thing is the logic is technically accurate. Had a logic class in college and the teacher did a whole lesson on how they proved she was a witch through logic so well even the witch agreed in the end. He took the whole thing and wrote out the logic sentences to show it and everything. So even though the logic is using faulty info the logic structure is sound.
John Cleese the tall Lancelot and other characters has a Law Degree from Cambridge and Honorary Doctorates in Clinical Psychology, Letters and University and some of the conversations you enjoyed were driven by him. He doesn't talk much about them but instead he says he is a student of people and society. Some of his best work was in Life of Brian and my favourite Fawlty Towers.
Absolutely loved Fawlty Towers!!
Graham Chapman was a medical doctor
A film of culture, I'm so glad this is your introduction to Monty Python
Actually a surprising number of 'witches' were women brewers, who's competition used the accusation and imagery to reduce the number of competitors in the beer industry...
Most female and male witches were killed as they had knowledge (herbs and medicine) or a kind of powers (criticism to church or authority) and we're seen as thread to the status quo.
There's a whole theory about the Salem Witch Trials, and the first women who were being accused being mostly well off and fairly independent and influential.
Best advice for watching this is, don't question it, just watch it.
this movie is ICONIC! the Monty Python comedy group (who made this film) made other feature length films, The Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life, there are also a number of sketches and other content, The Dead Parrot sketch which follows directly onto The Lumberjack Song is amazing, as is the Ministary of Silly Walks and there are many others, they are and were THE BEST 😍
This film actually contains many significant references, cinematic (e.g. Bergman, Russell) & historical (e.g. Chaucer, the Arthurian legends) plus the general philosophical & religious outlook of that era which all contribute to the fun. You have to remember these guys are all incredibly bright & well educated & that Terry Jones, the co-director, was a genuine mediaeval scholar.
Fun fact: in 932 AD, the climate of England was subtropical, with the southern coast having a climate similar to southern France today-England was famous for its winemaking, which was an important export commodity. Climate change unrelated to human industrial activity plunged the island into a subarctic climate from about 1200 to about 1600, and began recovering about 1850, coincidentally one hundred years into the Industrial Revolution.
Monty Python is one of the greatest comedy troups ever.
the "holy hand grenade" has been a staple video game reference ever since the movie, appearing in dozens or games but most notable is the worms games
Loved the reaction my father is a big comedy fan so grew up with monty python tv show, faulty towers, ect. and stand up. As a kid i didnt appreciate this movie because it was making phone or Arthurian legends which i loved as a kid, 100s of king arthur books of different types. As a teenager I then understood the significance of the trolling 😊
I would highly HOGHLY recommend Monty Python's Life of Brian, and I can guarantee you mat cease to function due to laughter.
The life of Brian is my favorite. The meaning of life is a movie of sketches and honesty they said they didn't want to make a third and then did it for the cash 😂
It ends in a literal Cop out LOL
I belly laughed when you said, "With a herring!?!?!???" with all the incredulity you could muster😂😂
I would definitely watch a Life of Brian reaction
This is one of my all time favorite movies! Monty Python made some of the best comedies of all time.
Another fun fact: The computer language, Python, was created and named by Monty Python fans. Its editor/interpreter, Idle, was named after Monty Python member Eric Idle. Python textbooks and tutorials are often filled with in-jokes.
“In the dead of winter, they were forced to eat Sir Robin’s minstrels, and there was much rejoicing.” (Hurray)😂😂😂
I love to see the reactions of people who have no idea who Monty Python is…
I grew up on Monty Pythons Flying Circus and feel I’m a better person because of it. 😉😂
This isn't a thinking movie. It's a sit back and receive the fun. It's definitely one you can to watch a billion times and find something new
The director - Terry Gilliam. Monty Python is 5 British guys and 1 American, Gilliam. He did all the animations but was rarely on camera (he does play Patsy and the bridge guardian here though). The other 5 all stayed actors and presenters, but Gilliam stayed a director. Over the next 40 years he produced about a dozen other interesting movies that tend towards the bizarre, unusual, and anti-authoritarian. He's been a UK citizen since 1968 and renounced his us citizenship in 2006.
Also gotta love that the Pythons are taking a shot at the incompetence of the police. Nobody in Arthur's army had a horse. Who ever killed the historian did.
Leave your brain at the front door...LOL! We used to watch this after partying in the late 70's and early 80's. They also had a weekly show we watch called Monty Python's Flying Circus. It was hilarious. Of course, we were either drunk or stoned at the time, but what fun!
Terry Gilliam is the director of the movie. Its worth looking up his filmography, there's lots of amazing films worth reacting to!
And Terry Jones. One of the rules the Pythons had was your name has to be Terry to direct the films. Gilliam and Jones were outnumbered 4-2. Idle and Cleese weren't interested in directing, Palin was more of a writer and Chapman was the star.
Terry Gilliam never learned what a movie climax was. 🤣
The three part sparrow joke is funny every time
It's filmed in Scotland.
You have to understand going in, Monty Python's Flying Circus is a comedy troupe that breaks ALL the rules. Continuity? Out the window. Anachronisms? Deal with 'em. And they do not break the Fourth Wall they pulverize it into a powder and scatter it to the winds. Self-awareness is very much part of the schtick.
MPFC had a comedy sketch show for several years before this film where they honed these attitudes. Take literally nothing for granted. When you expect a scene is over... it's not. And when you think it's not... Boom. In three words "expect the unexpected". All for the pursuit of the Absurd.
This was their first film, 1974. The next one Life of Brian 1979 is their tour de force.
Not many reactors catch the lazy "Hey" at the swamp castle.
Monty Python is a troupe, each cast member plays multiple characters.
Graham Chapman was the only member to wear chainmail armour.
If you like skits then other Monty Python movies would suit you fine like 'Monty Python's The Meaning of Life' and 'And Now For Something Completely Different'.
This movie, along with a couple of others, came about from the very popular, at the time, British comedy television show Monty Python's Flying Circus. It was basically the Saturday night live of British television, although without the celebrity guest stars or the bands. But it was their irreverent sketches that ultimately made them an iconic British television show that was eventually brought to the United States during the seventies through public television.
Fun fact I learned recently!! The Salem Witch Trials only caused 19 deaths
No budget is why the movie looks like it does. Also explains the no horses and no battle scene at the end. The next movie had a bigger budget.
Terry Gilliam, one of Python's directors and actors and their primary cartoonist, went on to direct some movies that will churn your brain in good ways. One of my all-time favorites is directed by him, *The Fisher King* (1991), Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, and Mercedes Ruhl who won the Best Supporting Oscar.
Its ime to tell the story of the killer rabbit again : they were broke, so they had to rent a white rabbit, but the owner didnt want them to put red on him. so they distracted the owner, gave the rabbit strawberrys and filmed the scene anyway.
Holy Grail was co-directed by Pythons Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam. Terry G went on to direct such films as Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Zero Theorem, and a bunch of others. He's one of my favorite directors. Several of his films are included in The Criterion Collection.
Game of Thrones
In “Breaker of Chains”, Peterson translated Monty Python quotes into Low Valyrian. Specifically, he took the insults hurled by a French soldier in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, such as “Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries,” and embedded it into the Low Valyrian translation of one particular scene. In the GOT production blog, Peterson explained further, “There’s a scene where the Meereenese rider is challenging Daenerys’ champion. He’s shouting and Nathalie Emmanuel [Missandei] is translating - but she’s not translating what he’s saying. He’s actually saying a Low Valyrian translation of the French guy’s insults in Monty Python And The Holy Grail.”
I guess the Pythons would love the absurdity of 'logical' MR reviewing one of their films.
Even funnier: there were multiple capitals of Assyria. Assur ( c. 2025-1233 BC) Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta ( c. 1233-1207 BC) Assur ( c. 1207-879 BC) Nimrud (879-706 BC) Dur-Sharrukin (706-705 BC) Nineveh (705-612 BC) and Harran (612-609 BC). Seems to be a trick question.
"Which capital do you mean?"
"Why, I don't know that... AAAGH!"
This very low budget film was largely funded by rock and roll. Such artists as George Harrison, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Genesis all kicked in some cash to see this comedic masterpiece come to fruition. 🐍♥️
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1:40 - "I mean, I guess we can kinda now understand what we're going to be expecting..."
Oh, my sweet summer child...
I love this movie so much! You either love it or hate it. I give you props for watching and laughing and sticking it out. It's stupid and silly but so funny! It's FULL of one liners!
I still have the "brave sir robin ran away" song pop into my head from time to time
Mercia was was one of the three main Anglic kingdoms founded after Sub-Roman Britain was settled by Anglo-Saxons in an era called the Heptarchy. It was centred on the River Trent and its tributaries, in a region now known as the Midlands of England.
Terry Gilliam is one of my favorite directors. You should watch Time Bandits.
My favorite: "She turned me into a newt!.... I got better"
Two of the members of Monty Python directed it themselves. There are six of them, and as you noticed they all play multiple parts in their movies.
The accused witch in this movie actually was a witch, as proved by a) she turned him into a newt, b) she weighs the same as a duck, and c) she has got a wart.
Loved that you laughed at parts the entire way through.
The main reason they used coconuts was that they had a very small budget and couldn’t afford to hire more than the one horse used in the killing the historian scene.
The comedy troupe "Monty Python" started on TV in the late 60's. "Monty Python's Flying Circus" is the name of the sketch comedy series. It has some of the funniest ish I've ever seen. Their film "Life of Brian", I think you'd really appreciate.
I was born around the time this came out so thanks for the "almost 50 years." Very helpful.
I love that the ending of this movie is literally a "Cop Out".
1:00 “this movie is probably gonna be a gigantic troll”
Ah! Accurately predicting the ending I see
So much of this movie is about making movies. Terry Gilliam, the director, also plays Patsy (doing the horse foley on-screen and commenting on the Camelot model), the "Old Man from Scene 24," and himself as the animator.
Also, like Blazing Saddles from the year before, it's using meta-textual humor to parody, critique, and deconstruct a genre that is inextricably bound to a founding national mythology.
I swear it felt like it was a rite of passage in high school..... i think ALL of my graduating class could recite this entire movie.... i graduated in 1998....
There's a recent movie about the green knight, the one who got a sword through the helmet by the black knight. Sir Bors features in that. The choice to have Cleese be both Lancelot and the Black Knight was intentional. The thing with Lancelot being a berserk slayer all the time refers to a film called The Sword of Lancelot. This film requires many multiple viewings to pick up all the references. It's actually very steeped in Arthurian legend. If you gestalt the various myths and stories, you get roughly what they made here.
I love your reaction to this. I had no idea how you would take this one. Lol. Cuz all logic just goes out the window from the first frame.
It used to be standard for the credits to come before the movie, like pre-1975. I also have a friend who always insists on sitting through every end credits as appreciation to everyone who worked on any movie, even bad ones.
All of them are playing multiple parts: even Graham Chapman, who has the main part of Arthur. Here's a general list courtesy of the Wikipedia page on the movie:
Cast
Graham Chapman as Arthur, King of the Britons, the hiccuping guard, and the middle head of the Three-Headed Giant, as well as the voice of God
John Cleese as Sir Lancelot the Brave, the Black Knight, French Taunter, and Tim the Enchanter, among other roles
Terry Gilliam as Patsy (Arthur's servant), the Soothsaying Bridgekeeper, the Green Knight, Sir Bors, and himself as the Weak-Hearted Animator, among other roles
Eric Idle as Sir Robin the-not-quite-so-brave-as-Sir-Lancelot, Lancelot's squire Concorde, the collector of the dead, Roger the Shrubber, and Brother Maynard, among other roles
Terry Jones as Sir Bedevere the Wise, Prince Herbert, Dennis' mother, and the left head of the Three-Headed Giant, among other roles
Michael Palin as Sir Galahad the Pure, Leader of the Knights Who Say Ni, Lord of Swamp Castle, Dennis, and the right head of the Three-Headed Giant, among other roles, and the film's narrator
Connie Booth as Miss Islington, the Witch
Carol Cleveland as Zoot and Dingo, identical twin sisters
Neil Innes as the Leader of Robin's Minstrels, Head Monk, Knight of Camelot, Servant Crushed by Rabbit.
Bee Duffell as the Old Crone
John Young as Frank the Historian and the Old Man
Rita Davies as Frank's Wife
Avril Stewart as Dr. Piglet
Sally Kinghorn as Dr. Winston
Sandy Johnson as a Knight Who Says Ni, Villager at Witch Burning, Musician at Wedding, Monk, and Knight in Battle
Julian Doyle as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Charles Knode as Camp Guard and Robin's Minstrel (uncredited)
Roy Forge Smith as Inspector at End of Film (uncredited)
Maggie Weston as Page Turner (uncredited)
This was a spoof of the movie Excalibur hence the intermission gag due to there being a 15 minute intermission in Excalibur. They even included it on the HBO release of the movie in the 80's. You actually had to watch a screen that said "intermission" for 15 minutes.
Credits used to come at the START of movies. It's not a troll, it's just the way it was at the time. And there are jokes all through the "Credits" as well.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus was an hilarious, legendary comedy skit show in Britain. This comedy troupe is actually referred to as the Beatles of comedy.
This is my favorite movie of all time. I quoted the holy hand grenade monolog for theater class
Python wrote a sketch called 'The funniest joke", then...they wrote this film...genius
The best joke to come out of this movie happened just a few years ago when the protests in Seattle turned into a group creating the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. You may remember that Fox News covered it 24-7 as if these guys would be showing up at middle-America’s front door any second. Then a supposed protester complained about the leadership of the group on Reddit by quoting the peasant argument from Holy Grail. They said, “I thought we had an autonomous collective, an anarcho-syndicalist commune at the least. We should take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.” (Go back and rewatch the scene). Apparently no one at Fox News ever saw the film. They literally took a screen shot and read it on the news to show that there was dissension in the ranks!
Half of my generation can still practically quote all of Holy Grail. That scene was always my favorite in the movie (though it’s hard to pick favorites!). But after the Fox News thing, it kills me to watch it every time!!!
Ive used that line in my best imitation so many times. Hungover as a MF and someone trying to get me up for work.
"I dont want to go on the cart"
Sweden's Telephone system was world renowned when this came out. Other countries studied their system. There are documentaries on it.
At the original screenings the audience just sat there waiting for the film to continue again. Like you they couldn't quite believe they'd been 'trolled'!
One of my favorite movies. You can watch it multiple times and pick up something new every time.
My 70s Saturday nights were great, first Monty Python's Flying Circus on PBS, then Saturday Night Live. Reasons to stay home!
Hah! I knew those two farmers in beginning and their modern view on society would be right up your alley!
“I memorized the Holy Grail really well
I can recite it right now have you ROTFLOL”- Weird Al
People remember the horses being imaginary in this movie, but the knight who killed the famous historian was on a real horse. And was apparently, according to the witness at the end, King Arthur.