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The ongoing “horses or coconuts” joke has an interesting origin. This movie was made on a very small budget and they couldn’t afford horses so they used coconut shells
Which also could prove in a court that the police arrested the wrong people. None of them had a horse, only the murder knight did.
Back in the day they used coconuts to dub in the sound of galloping horses in movies. Here they did it in front of everyone.
Coconuts were the traditional horse sound effect for radio shows back in the day
really? you just stated obvious.
i hate when i read this. it litearlly isn't true. what you're saying is if they had a bigger budget they would have cut jokes out of the movie? it was all written and planned how it was made, even the cop out
"Is it like a cosplay went wrong?"
Wonderful. Best interpretation of the movie ever.
I thought it was medieval theater gone wrong.
@@Madbandit77 British Kabuki Theatre.
I never understood the ending until today. Good job, Dasha! "Cosplay gone wrong"! HA! I will never forget that one!
It's the only interpretation that makes sense! I figured it the first time I saw the film opening day but in those days it wasn't called Cosplay!
It’s up there with other great movie descriptions like “Leonardo DiCaprio wanders the wilderness looking for an Oscar”
Now you definitely have to watch "The Life of Brian", also by Monty Python.
A shrubbery is a collection of decorative outdoor plants.
and The Meaning of Life.
He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!
@@redshirt5126 that will be her "r u sirius?" moment
This might be a bold statement, but I think Life of Brian is actually funnier than Holy Grail.
That's a shrub. A shrubbery consists of many shrubs planted in a pleasing arrangement.
Hamsters are promiscuous rodents and elderberries are what poor English people made a wine-like drink from. Basically, the French soldier said that Arthur's "mama was a ho and papa a broke ass drunk", which is about as far from royalty as it gets. Goes to show how much attention went even into the casual insults.
On a more graphic sides hamsters also tend to stuff their cheeks.
In Romanian there is an insult: "Your mother made you on the peels of sunflower seeds". It actually makes sense with the context of that part of Europe. It always reminds me of a Monty Python and the Holy Grail insult though lol.
Aren’t all rodents and animals promiscuous lol? Like I guess I’m wondering what makes hamsters more so than other. Hope I don’t regret asking this
@@aazo5 AFAIK many hamsters are polygynandrous, meaning that both males and females mate with multiple partners during mating season. Dominant males mating with many females is of course very common in animal kingdom, so I guess "your father was a hamster" wouldn't have worked at all.
@@aazo5 Well, there were enough rabbit jokes, and hamster sounds more ridiculous than rats.
Monty Python routines are known for not having a proper ending, it's called a Cop Out. The ending of this movie is a literal cop out using actual police.
@@alaneskew2664 Myth and bullshit. This was the scripted ending.
All Python routines have endings, proper or otherwise. What they don't have are punch lines.
"Our first rule was: no punch lines... [some sketches] start brilliant, great acting, really funny sketch, but a punchline is just not as good as the rest of the sketch, so it kills the entire thing. That's why we eliminated them."
@@monsterlair Sorry, but the Pythons THEMSELVES have confirmed this.
@@Ambaryerno Here is a link to the final draft of the script as it was in march of 1974 before filming began.
sfy(&)ru/?script=mp_holygrail (replace (&) with a dot)
You just have to scroll down to read the ending that is almost exactly as in the finished film.
Dasha: I don’t think I understand British humor.
French Knight: I fart in your general direction!
Dasha:😂😂😂LOL😂😂😂
They didn't really know how they should end the film, so they filmed the scenes of the historian getting killed and then did the ending as a literal 'cop out' lol.
Also, it couldn't have been any of Arthur's group, because the killer had a real horse :P
Yes, and Dasha thought the whole movie was a CosPlay😵💫
OMG! I saw this at the cinema when it came out, and I have seen it many times over the years, but I've never thought about the killer having a real horse! That's a really good point!
@@rikmoran3963 that’s ok. There a similar glaring error in The Two Towers (2002) which no commenter, and not even Peter Jackson (since it was in both the Theatrical and Extended Versions) ever seem to have caught. I saw it in the theater, and am frankly amazed that no one has yet pointed it out.
No, they DID know how to end the film. They ended it just like they wanted to. I'm starting to think all these myths about python movies are because people don't understand what surreal comedy is.
@@monsterlair Except the Pythons THEMSELVES have directly confirmed this.
There were no end credits because the ones responsible for the credits being "messed up" at the beginning of the movie were sacked; thus, no one to write the end credits. Brilliant.
Haha, I never got that until now. Love it!
Sir Bedevere: What makes you think she's a witch?
Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt!
Sir Bedevere: A newt?
Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better.
Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway
“What is your name?”
“Dasha”
“What is your quest?”
“To be the most famous UA-camr”
“What is your favorite animal?”
Dasha: “Coconuts!”
😂
Would “killer rabbits” be a correct answer?
Right, off you go...
A newt.
a duck?
@@Blue-qr7qe You got better.
"This is when you try to swear in different languages" I find it hysterical how spot-on that is, regardless on whether that was their intent or not 😂
I thought it was just a French guy being strange, a common theme in their skits.
@@mikejankowski6321 Then you missed a trick, and should rewatch all the python output to find other examples as your (enjoyable) penance.
I actually realised this on a visit to France, when my wife spoke the language better than I did.
I was describing the evil handling of a former motorcycle I'd had to our hosts as "Like a three-legged cow in a sandpit", then looked at my wife and said, "now translate THAT!".
She tried hard, but it came back the other way as "a cow on a beach with a leg missing", which falls a bit short of the humorous contempt in the original.
She totally gave up on "like a pig on roller skates".
The next time I watched a Monty Python show or film (I forget which), I got it. Many standard colloquialisms fare very badly when translated, particularly literally.
@@phillee2814 "A cow on a beach with a leg missing..." 🙈🤣
@@phillee2814 Terry Jones was a historian and the taunts thrown out by the French Soldiers were historically accurate, particularly the "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries" taunt. Medieval peasants often kept hamsters as a source of meat and being rodents they bred prolifically so comparing someone's mother to a hamster you are saying that they are promiscuous. As to the your father smelled of elderberries that was because elderberries were used to make wine before grapes were commonly grown across Europe so by saying someone smelled of elderberries you are calling them an alcoholic.
@@ronweber1402 Grapes were commonly grown across Europe from Roman times, and although elderberry wine is quite popular among enthusiasts it needs a lot of sugar to ferment enough for the alcohol content to be high enough for it to be stable - without which it is so weak it fails to kill the bacteria and yeast which make it turn bad or to vinegar. It may have been used to flavour wines made from fruit with a higher sugar content though.
In English, the animals we know as hamsters are all descended from a single brother-sister pair of Syrian hamsters born to a female and her young litter captured in 1930 near Aleppo by Israel Aharoni, a professor of zoology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, so a very long time after the middle ages. As it was first described in 1797 all attempts to breed them in captivity failed until the 1930s. There is a European hamster, but being solitary (like its Syrian cousin) it does not breed particularly easily or rapidly, being highly territorial with the females fiercely attacking males whenever they are not in season, and litters needing removal and separation from their mothers and siblings as soon as they are weaned - hardly the stuff of good foodstuff or easy breeding, given their size. France is at the extreme western fringe of their natural range though (they just about extend into Alsace), so they have not been all that common and were persecuted by farmers as pests. The name hamster appears to be germanic in origin (at least in English) and is the root of the word "hamstern", or hoarder. Rabbits would have been far more valuable as food and common in France, and indeed were brought to Britain by the Normans for that purpose, being technically invasive here.
So I suspect that the animals known by that name to French peasants could not have been what are known in English as Hamsters - which demonstrates nicely the dangers of translating into and back from another language.
When the monks hit themselves and you asked "How accurate is it". Answer: Very. It was called self-flagellation and during that time in history it was a way for asking forgiveness for your sins. This was pretty tame compared to some of the things they actually did.
Hair shirts were another way they liked to suffer.
The not-so-funny version: ua-cam.com/video/d7pioagkX5k/v-deo.html
"The Da Vinci Code" showed how far they were willing to go, I was shocked
It wards off the plague, since the plague was sent by God so if they go town to town apologizing in public and punishing themselves, god will stop punishing them because they're doing it themselves. It makes sense if you hit yourself in the head enough. (It was whipping themselves in real life. Hitting themselves in the head in the movie was a joke about how dumb this idea was)
@@Bfdidc Prince Henry the Navigator I believe wore porcupine quills pointed inward. Odd man.
"Well this is a very interesting conversation" Boom, nailed it. You now get British humor.
This movie never gets old. So many great lines!
In every fencing/swordfighting group I've been in there's always been a moratorium on quoting from this movie (and Princess Bride). Because once ONE person starts, EVERYONE is going to do it.
@@Ambaryerno Inconceivable!!
Whoever came up with the French knight, was a comedic genius
John cleese.
"I will fart in your general direction!"
took me years before i realised 'kernigget' was a purposely mispronounced 'knight'. :)
@@carn9507
Ser Davos, trying to read.
Way off subject 😏
Well I'm guessing it was the bloody French 😉
I think you understood the British humor just fine! "Huge... tracts of land" is one of my favorite lines ever, the whole Tale of Sir Lancelot is comedy gold.
It's also VERY accurate to Arthurian legend. Lancelot was every bit the berserker the film presents him as, and would kill indiscriminately once overwhelmed by lust for battle. In fact his unintended killings of Gawain's kinsmen (I think it depends on the version whether it was Gawain's cousins, nephews, or sons) while rescuing Guenevere during her trial for adultery is what sparked the conflict that ultimately led to Mordred's revolt at Camlaan, Arthur's own death, and the fall of Camelot.
"When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands."
"One day son all this will be yours!" ... "What the curtains?" always makes me giggle.
@@Ambaryerno :) the "Legend" as a story written by a Norman knight some 400 to 500 years after the "King Arthur" is supposed to have lived - The Myths that his book was based on from Cornwall and Wales also have a very different storyline 😀
Yeah, that line always gets me too, but a LOT of people I've seen this film with, and a LOT of reactors don't seem to catch that one, but Tanya did and that even made the line that better and much more special 😊👍😎
After hearing Dasha say “Moose”, I want to hear her finish with “and squirrel”! Lol
She couls be a great Natasha in a Rocky & Bullwinkle reboot!
@@jamesalexander5623 And get UA-camr Life of Boris to play ... Boris!
Monty Python's Flying Circus was a very popular comedy sketch TV show, Dasha....it starred the 6 men you see doing most of the acting (and as different characters...i think John Cleese plays at least 4 different characters, in this film). You should check out the show, as it's very funny and silly, just like this film.
John Cleese plays 6 characters in this movie; Michael Palin plays the most with 9
A good overview of how their show was is watching their first movie And Now For Something Completely Different. It is just a sketch comedy show without an overlying narrative like Holy Grail, Life of Brian or Meaning of Life.
I think you get the humor more than a lot of other reactors I've seen
Just a flesh wound.
Monty Python has always been the epitome of ridiculous, absurdist humor. This is probably the most well known of their movies, and the most quoted by fans. Two more that I would recommend are The Meaning of Life which is more like a their (sketch comedy) television show, being a series of sketches surrounding a central theme rather than a contiguous narrative, and secondly The Life of Brian which has the most cohesive narrative plot-line while still retaining its absurdist humor and ridiculous parody elements.
It's the most popular in the US, but not necessarily everywhere else.
Movie yeah. But alltogethe spanish inquidition is probably better known
@@Dealric17 Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our Chief Weapon is Surprise,that's All Just Surprise!
Holy Grail has some really funny moments but overall, I think Life Of Brian is a more polished film and is funnier too. Here in Australia, I get the impression that Life Of Brian has more of a following than The Holy Grail.
@@jamesalexander5623 Bring in....the comfy chair!.
By the way, LEGO made an entire recreation of the “Camelot” singing and dancing scene using LEGOs. It’s perfect and definitely worth watching!
This movie was HUGE in geek culture in the 80s. So many quotes, it was like having our own language ;)
Ni !!!
@@jamesalexander5623 Aghhhh!
The Quest for Glory games by Sierra especially referenced it (and Monty Python in general, honestly. The Dead Parrot sketch gets several nods) quite liberally. Also, Conquest of Camelot (same company) has an area in the game where you can trigger the dancing knights.
Hell, it's STILL incredibly influential, and frequently referenced in fantasy RPGs especially.
Referencing Python, Hitchhikers Guide, or Dr Who was an identifier as to the nature and depth of your geekdom.
A great moment in college was when a professor mentioned that some event was becoming a veritable Spanish Inquisition. One of the students shouted out "The Spanish Inquisition! Here, now?" I responded with "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!" and we tore off into the routine. Most of the class looked at us like we had lost our minds until the teacher, in an overblown English accent told us to stop it because it was all too silly. Then switched to the next subject with "And now for something completely different."
Later that week he'd decorated the area behind his desk with pictures of Spam. We knew he was one of our own.
@@jamesalexander5623 Google translates this as "It is!" Ha ha.
Try Monty Python’s Life Of Brian. You’ll love it.
Monty Python is a classic of the absurd comedy genre. And they were very good at it. Their predecessors were the Goons, which included Peter Sellers, who made a classic comedy called Dr Strangelove.
Peter Sellers also starred in another very good movie called The Party
Let's not forget The Pink Panther series.
More predecessors to Monty Python are those guys in Beyond The Fringe (Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore), which led to so much from all four members. And their original sketches can be found on UA-cam.
While much of this style of British comedy may be dismissed as silly or absurd, there is also astute social observation and satire in the mix, and some jokes based on a sophisticated knowledge of their source materials. For example in MP and the Holy Grail, you can see and hear jokes based on oddities found in medieval illuminated manuscripts, rules of chivalry, the Black Plague, the flagellants, fear of witchcraft, winks to other epic stories, let alone showing God in an impatient mood. And plenty of fourth wall breaking!
Let's not forget "The Meaning Of Life" movie.
@@Deathbird_Mitch Unfortunately everyone does.
The look on your face, when the scales proved that she was a witch -- that was classic!
.... And her very British admission "It's a Fair Cop"! Meaning she really is a Witch!
That thumbnail. 😂
"What is your favorite color?"
Blue... no Ahhhhh
When I was 13 my older brother bought me a CD player. He also gave me a Monty Python CD that had some of their famous skits on it including parts of this movie. I had memorized them before I even saw the movie.
Some people poo poo fine Italian table wines.
@@Adamas97 it has a bouquet like an aborigines armpit.
@@Adamas97 I love that one.
For whatever it's worth, since you've been in Canada for awhile, Canadian humour is (like many things) a mix of British and American humour. There's a well known Canadian sketch comedy troupe called 'Kids in the Hall'. They were very popular in the late 80s/early 90s, and recently made a comeback, but they were heavily inspired by the Monty Python group.
The movie Strange Brew is also a good Canadian equivalent to this type of humor.
Brain Candy might be the most Python-esque production the Kids managed.
No Francois, let that one go, he has spirit;
You have to be one of my top reactors, very genuine, down to earth and with a great sense of humor! Thanks for an awesome reaction. I hope your channel grows!
Agree in all respects
In Germany the movie is called Knights of the Coconut! 😂
Haha, not bad
The ending is a literal 'cop-out' lol
This is the essence of British humour. Very diffirent to Russian humour. British humour is very silly, sarcastic, cynic.
Yes, Russian Humour is essentially Tragedy with a few Laughs at the end!
Great reactions to this funny comedy film, Dasha!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽You did a fine job with the British comedy! A shrubbery is just a collection of plants called shrubs. The French knight and his insults and the black knight having his limbs cut off are my favorites. Great comedy selection for the start of the weekend, Dasha!🏆
now you're talking, this is one of my all time favourites. Monty Python were a comedy troop famous for their Flying Circus TV sketch show. they would treat their films as extended episodes where each scene was a self contained sketch that would connect to the others through a narrative but still worked as stand alone skits
You did great! More Monty Python please. I think your concerns about not understanding it are misplaced, Monty Python is simple insanity and just requires paying attention. Monty Python material some time needs more than one watching. Wonderful, you laugh is precious.
Fun fact - Arthur's manservant Patsy (and the old man from scene 24) is played by co-director and animator Terry Gilliam.
You would very much enjoy Terry's other movies like Time Bandits. He is a brilliant and very artistic director once he has a budget 😅
He was also the green shis-ka-bob, err knight, in the battle at the bridge
The reason the Enchanter says his name is Tim in a somewhat asking manner is because John Cleese, who played him forgot his line and made the name up on the spot. The rest of the team like this mess-up so much they left it in the movie and thus the Enchanter's name was henceforth Tim!
This raises the question, "what was the name originally to be?" Was he correct in his guess that it was Tim?
That was debunked by John Cleese.
I don't know how that rumor got started, but John Cleese said it's not true and that it was always Tim.
Cleese actually forgot the enchanter's name, so he improvised Tim xD
I think the best introduction to the Pythons particular brand of absurdist/surreal humor is their first film, _And Now for Something Completely Different_ (1971). It is a compilation of some of the best sketches from the first two seasons of their TV series, _Monty Python's Flying Circus._
It was made specifically to introduce American audiences to _... Flying Circus,_ which had not yet been seen in the US. As a result of the film's playing in America, PBS (the Public Broadcasting Service) began to show _Monty Python's Flying Circus,_ creating an entire generation of US Monty Python fans.
No one takes him seriously as a king,because he keeps introduces himself as the King of The Britains,something that doesn't exists until hundreds of years later
Monty Python was a British comedy group. John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and American animator and director (and Patsy) Terry Gilliam. They each play multiple characters and both Terrys co-direct the film. All animations by Gilliam.
The Famous Histotian was not killed by any of the cast as the killer actually has a horse.
Sir Bedevere (Terry Jones) keeps lifting his helmet as the grill bars go directly over his eyes.
The end of the film is a literal cop out.
This was written as a series of skits.
This movie is a classic! I'm so glad you got to watch it and that you shared your reaction to it with us! Trust me, it gets WAY funnier when you watch it late at night, when you're super tired, or when you're tipsy.
The last joke gets everyone. "Is that it?"
The Big Lebowski and now this one! You're comedy selections lately have been 🔥. Two of my all time favorites, so glad you enjoyed them Dasha ❤️
A "shrubbery" is a British term meaning essentially just a grouping of shrubs (that is, of bushes). Those are short plants that grow to the sides in addition to up -- unlike trees, which grow mostly up.
It's not so much that the whole movie takes place in modern times, Monty Python just never cared about things like rules of narrative, which is why they never shied away from doing things like breaking the fourth wall, killing the animator, or having past and present collide. Sometimes, on their sketch comedy TV series, they would end sketches with the characters agreeing that the sketch is going nowhere, and saying they should just cut to the next one, or an authority figure would burst in to declare that the sketch had become too silly. Their objective was anarchic comedy that had no rigid shape. If they decided the funniest way to end a particular joke was to abandon it, on television, in front of a studio audience, that's what they'd do. If they wanted to break the reality for a laugh, they would. It didn't always have to make sense, it just had to be funny.
I just HAD to see your reaction to this movie. It is considered one of the funniest movies ever made!
Dasha, I have been thru the 225 comments ahead of mine, liked a bunch, gave some comments, now to my contributions:
First, I love how you questioned your subtitle selection during the credits. Some folks notice it and some don't, but it clued you in early for the silliness you were about to see. You also noticed the ongoing cocoanut joke in the witch scene. Indeed, you pretty much picked up on everything - well done!
I had a tee shirt with the French taunter at the wall, with the fart insult across the bottom. My ex was so embarrassed by it that it mysteriously disappeared.
Great reaction, fun time. Looking forward to the next.
I am writing this to help out Dasha and this video and this channel with the algorithm ✌️❤️😚☺️
God she's so beautiful I love it when she smiles and laughs. It's the best
This is probably the best movie ever made in the history of the world. Its also very educational.. as to the air speed velocity of a laden swallow..etc.
I've been a fan of this channel for a year now. And I just fell in love with you all over again with this reaction. Thanks Dasha.
British Humour is basically sillyness mixed with sarcasm mixed with irony.
Shrubbery are just small bushes that are used around property for landscaping.
"Monty Python and The Holy Grail": A chaotic romp through 10th century King Arthur's Britain. Also, a ROTFLMAO movie, to boot, with "Coconut horses," Swallows, and a French Knight/Master of Insults!;) From a certain point of view, Coconuts do migrate. Trees growing near the shore drop ripe nuts into the outgoing tide, which spread across the Pacific. "Mercia"?
"Let's not argue and bicker about who killed who" is a surprisingly generally applicable sarcastic response...
Hey Dasha, don't sell yourself short - you got the humor of this movie just fine. I think if you sought out the other Python moves - "Life of Brian", "Meaning of Life" and "Live at the Hollywood Bowl".
And don't forget And Now For Something Completely Different :-)
This has been in my top 5 movies since I was a teenager, and IMO the greatest comedy of all time… for context I’m American with an appreciation for dry humor, which much British comedy is.
I’ve been married to two non-native-English speakers (one from east Asia, one from east Africa)… neither got this movie I had hyped up.
Even in the beginning credits you’re getting that there is humor 😝 That’s a step up from me laughing alone, explaining that something was a joke, which of course ruins it. I have hopes!
I enjoyed your reaction. Monty Pythons humour is famous for being a bit wierd so don't worry about not understanding every last bit. I've seen plenty of reactors who did not "get" this movie as much as you did.
In addition to the old letters, Medieval texts also included marginalia, which were drawings made by the scribes (usually monks) in the margins of the books. These drawings were often surreal or sexually suggestive in nature, which is probably what the "horns in the butts with legs" thing at around 7:08 were referring to.
6:38 A vacation house in Russia is called a “dacha” (ch like church), which in English is very close in pronunciation to “Dasha,” the name of our lovely hostess 😎
Monty Python was a comedy skit group that had a comedy show with random silly skits. So when they made this movie it themed around King Arthur with references to the legends, but full of random silly skits.
That movie is so different from all the other movies I watched..... Welcome to Python
Monty Python was a British comedy troupe on television. Kind of like an early Saturday Night Live with absurdist comedy skits. John Cleese, the tall actor (Tim the Enchanter and Sir Lancelot), was really funny in the short lived show "Fawlty Towers." It has hilarious physical humor. You should also watch "A Fish Called Wanda." It stars some of the Monty Python actors.
1:34 "Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?"
😆 Who would've guessed the Celts could be so scientific?
Monty Python was a British Comedy group from the 70s. The next movie is Monty Python's Life of Brian. You should also check out their TV show, Monty Python's Flying Circus. I loved you reaction to the taunts of the French soldiers.
the ending was literally a copout, I love it.
Monty Python is known for its random and absurd humor, but some of them are pretty clever and they're all very funny! XD They started with their TV-show sketch "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and this was their first motion picture. Not cosplay, this is actually the story of King Arthur and The Holy Grail, but mixed with some of modern day event. You really have to see their other two movies, Life of Brian and Meaning of Life =) The members of Monty Python are Graham Chapman (who died in 1989), John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones (who died in 2020) and Terry Gilliam (who was the only american member in the group and he was the one who made all those funny animation cartoons they are known for. He also became a director making movies such as Brazil and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
3:00 "Strange _women,_ lyin' in _ponds,_ distributin' _swords_ is no basis for a system of _government."_
🤔 What a curiously modern sentiment.
Even English language people were baffled but laughing when we first saw this in the 1970s!
Another good movie with John Cleese (the insulting Frenchman) is "Fierce Creatures".
It's a comedy about John's character being placed in charge of a zoo, which he has to increase revenue to prevent it closing.
His idea was to have only dangerous (fierce) animals at the zoo.
The keepers tried making harmless animals appear fierce to keep them!
It also has Michael Palin(Sir Galahad, Denise, King of the Swamp), Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda) and Jaime Lee Curtis (Arnold schwarzenegger's wife in True Lies and also in "A Fish Called Wanda")
Way back in the mid-70's, I remember putting aluminum foil on the antennas of my TV so that I could pull in an obscure UHF channel. My friends told me that the channel carried a strange British show called Monty Python's Flying Circus, which featured stuff being blown up pretty regularly, funny animations and boobs. Good times.
" And now it's time for the penguin on top of your televison set to explode! " .... Kaboom!
The art of replacing sounds in film is called Foley. And, surprisingly, it involves ALOT of fruits and vegetables. When you hear a slap, a splat or a punch - that’s usually somebody in a sound booth hitting a tomato or something.
The Python's were a groundbreaking group of comedians from the 70s who all met at Cambridge University best known for their sketch show 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'. Their humour tends to be very witty with lots of word play, a bit surreal and very, very silly!
The film had a very small budget and was largely funded by Ringo Star (The Beetles drummer) who remortgaged his home to do so. Even so they ran out of money and couldn't afford a proper ending so literally 'coped out' of making one.
Did you notice that the knight who murdered the historian was the only character with a real horse? Therefore it couldn't have been a cast member.
Two of the cast, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam co-directed the film and Gilliam alsodid the animations. Nearly all the roles were played by just the 7 members of the group. The Witch, Connie Booth was John Cleese's wife (Sir Lancelot).
Coconut shells: It's traditional in every British infant school to perform a nativity play at Christmas about the birth of Jesus. Someone has to make the sound of Mary and Joseph's donkey clip-clopping with two halves of a coconut shell. It's probably the most popular role that everyone wants to do😄, so using coconut shells in this way is well known here in Britain.
P.S. Another brilliant Monty Python film which is definitely NOT about Jesus, honest, no really, is 'The Life of Brian' which is a must see. They had a bigger budget for that one and is slightly less surreal. Making a comedy that WASN'T about Jesus was very controversial at the time. In Sweden it was advertised as 'So funny they banned it in Norway!' and coach loads of Norweigans crossed the border to watch it in Sweden.
'The meaning of Life' is another Python film and is basically a series of sketches much like their TV show. Terry Gilliam went on to direct a number of other films. My favourite is another comedy 'Time bandits' which has Sean Connery in it.
"You tiny-brained wiper of other people's bottoms". "I fart in your general direction." Most excellent taunting. I didn't know how you would respond but no worries. Monty Python was SNL years ahead of SNL. Those people at NBC tried to get the Pythons to appear but only succeeded in a few hosting jobs. This movie is so much like their TV series. It was great. Even having to read the opening credits and the surprise ending. "NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT" This is so British and you handled it well. Some people get so confused they give up while others are so intrigued they go headlong into more. Monty Python's flying circus is the base. British sitcoms, talkshows and gameshows give you the mindset.
Great movie. They didn't have allot of budget for this movie that is why they use coconuts instead of horses. If you want more another great Monty Python I suggest Monty Python Life of Brian.
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Great reaction and thanks for making this even funnier! If you love 4th wall breaks.....look no further! My first time watching this, that "Knights of the Round Table" song still had me laughing about 5 minutes after it was over. You should also check out, "And now for something Completely Different." :)
12:19 “Do you think this scene should’ve been cut?” This scene WAS cut, in the vhs and dvd versions everyone grew up with. It spoils the last scene of the movie, and wasn’t restored until 1996 in England, and 2001 in America.
A "shrub" is like a bush. The word "Shrubery" usually refers to several shrubs planted for decorative purposes.
A shrubbery is a part of a garden where shrubs, mostly flowering species, are thickly planted.
You could think of this as an ani-movie. It does everything to go against the typical movie format and tropes.
Dasha you always impress me with how smart you are. Most people miss a lot of jokes their first time watching this. Like the trumpets being blown in the cartoon. For someone who is Russian/American, it can be confusing to follow British humor and history. The English and French hated each other for 400 years.
Anyways, because you are smart I think you would enjoy my favorite movie, "The Count of Monte Cristo" (the 1992 version with Jim Caviezel and Guy Pearce) Thank you for considering this and reading my post! I love your channel and uploads.
I'm not quite sure if I can suggest this here, but there's a beautiful and rather popular 1978 British animated film I'd love you to react to (maybe as a collaboration with Trixy Blue), it's called "Watership Down", though there are some dark scenes in this, it's about a group of wild rabbits and I'd suggest having tissues ready if you do react to it, (it's certainly not a Disney film).
We were taken to see this as a school excursion when I was about 7 or 8 back in the 70's. I think the teachers thought it was going to be a cute rabbit film. It gave me nightmares for years!!!
Books great, that movie is crap.
"...some dark scenes"
Your genuine uncontrollable laughter at "I fart in your general direction" was absolutely delightful!😂
“What is a shrubbery?”
A shrubbery is a small bush you plant in your garden.
Such a classic. This movie is an example of making cinematic gold on a shoestring budget of £200,000. All of which came from donations from several ‘70’s rock bands like Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and more.
You got the humor better than like 90% of American reactors. Plus you're friggin' adorable while you do it. Great reaction.
Loved your reaction and your laugh, Dasha. This is one of my favorite movies. All of Monty Python's films are a fun watch. This is the craziest one, though. The next one is "Life of Brian".
Nah, Meaning of Life is by far the craziest.
The horses constantly being startled still amazes me
It was fun to see your reaction to this one. You're right: it's a very weird and unique film - absurdist humour written by very intelligent people. Eminently quotable too.
Monty Python isn't easy for everyone to get but you did an admiral job. Your hair looks great by the way.
this is one of my favorite movies of all time, ever since i first saw it when i was maybe 12. i didnt understand all the jokes but man it gets funnier over time
A shrub is just a small bush that people use to decorate their front yard with.
19:25 You can't actually "make the sound of horses with a coconut." It was early radio and film SFX artists who used coconuts to simulate horses' hooves, and now we have been trained by pop culture to think that that is what horse's hooves sound like. They don't.
Her reaction to the French at the first castle made watching the whole video worth it.
Next for you is Life of Brian. It is just as hilarious but in a different way. Bigger budget helped too.
Thank Krishna for George Harrison.
@ 5:00 you commented on him tying a coconut to a bird. That's one of my favorite bits of the movie that people usually either miss or didn't find funny, so I'm glad you noticed and pointed it out. xD
6:03 Sir Not Appearing In This Film was played by Michael Palin's son William.
a shrubbery is a COLLECTION of outdoor plants, a little garden