First Time Watching | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Reaction
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First Time Watching, American Reacts to the British comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) featuring John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam and others who reimagine the legend of King Arthur. ENJOY!
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NI!
A SHRUBBERY!!!
Which Knight designed the round table? Sir Cumference!
26:35 there's a an extra joke in there about "eating Robin's minstrels" as well as being medieval musicians, in Britain minstrels are a kind of sweet, rather like large brown M&Ms that i find are quite enjoyable for a long journey, here are a couple of advert for them
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NU!
God has an eclectic beard
I was in a grocery store a few weeks ago and saw a craft beer with the title "Migrating Coconuts". I laughed so much a woman passing by asked if I was okay.
That's epic. I would drink that man's beer anytime! Lol.
I'm not a beer drinker but I'd buy that!
I convinced my 4 year old son that coconuts were actually bear eggs.
Monty python have their own line of beers
@@dannjp75 What have you done lol
“One day son alllll this will be yours”
“What? The curtains?”
It didn’t make the cut in this video but is such a funny line 😂
One my fave lines
the full instructions for the Holy Handgrenade never makes the cut in reactions and I loved it, on and on minutia so like the early Old Testament.
I'm old enough that I remember when the ads came out for Holy Grail in 75 that was the first line you heard
I still lose it during the exchange with the two guards; "you stay here, and make sure he doesn't leave!"
"Whats not to love?....shes got huge...tracts of land."
When they made the movie they couldn't come up with a good ending so instead they decided to end it with a literal Copout and its just pure genius. 😂😂
They wanted a vast battle, but their accountant said 'No.' They ran out of cash, sadly, but their cheapo ending is funnier.
filming was a nightmare, everything went wrong and they were all sick of it, so just ended it :)
@@cameirusisu1024 - (heard amongst all the other noises)
POLICEMAN: Is that a shield? That's an offensive weapon, that is...
My favorite line: “This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let’s not argue and bicker over who killed who!” Dark humor at its best!
Very good "pig country"
“She turned me into a newt…
I got better”
Best line ever 😂😂😂
A newt?
I saw this film at the cinema for my 16th birthday. I laughed so much I had to go outside for a bit before I could go back in. I was also a teensy bit drunk. Yes, at 16. This was England in the 70s and no one gave a rat’s arse about under age drinking. What a time to be alive! 😂
Lol
you sound like a fun date.
my teeanage years were in the states in 70s. we rejected alcohol. pot was our drug of choice. and what a time to be YOUNG and alive! i feel so sorry for today's kids. the left and right are pulling them in both directions and they can't even distinguish between lies and truth, fantasy and reality anymore. our species is doomed.
Thankfully people started to wise up to the nonsense that is superstition /religion! Would like to have been there!
I was drunk in college watching this movie, best way to watch.
Well, they accommodated a few of the young 'uns down at the pub. It's all about the Greater Good (the Greater Good).
Well, The Holy Grail was filmed in Scotland on a budget of £160,000 and they got soaked silly in the rain. Michael Palin's mum knitted the chain-mail, which is silver wool. I got married in 2001 in the "Castle Aaarg", which is really called castle Stalker, which is owned by a friend of mine.
Wow, that's really interesting about Castle Stalker. I had to go and look it up on Google Maps and RUclips to see exactly where it is and to learn more about it. I understand it was built around 1320 by the McDougalls and has changed hands between them and the Campbells and Stewarts and is now back in Stewart hands, so I assume your friend is a Stewart. The name "Stalker" comes from the Gaelic "Stalcaire", meaning "hunter" or "falconer". That's so great that you were married there.
@@hedgehog1965uk The castle is the reason I am called Stewart. if you go inside, you can see black & white photos of the days when they were filming the grail scenes there. Whats amazing is the walls are 12 feet thick, its actually not possible to 'lean' out of the window like you can see in the film, JC was actually lying on a very wide window ledge. You also cannot walk from the castle to the shore, like King Arthur does, there's a deep channel there.
@@stewartmackay Interesting. Thanks for the insight. So did the same family own the castle back then, nearly 50 years ago?
I've only been to Scotland once, nearly 30 years ago, but I did go to Edinburgh castle when I was there.
@@hedgehog1965uk Yes, the castle was in the ownership of the Clan Campbell, and the current owners father bought it and restored it, it took him about 10 years of doing it himself. At the bottom of the sea between the shore and the castle, there is an original stone fireplace lintel, about 8 feet long, which must have slipped off the boat when they were building the place back in the 1300s and it was too heavy to lift back up.
Sorry, your friend owns a *castle*?
I wrote to Terry Gilliam when I was a teenager and Python was on the telly. He replied with some doodles and funny drawings. I have still got them.
I went to see spamalot at the theater. It's a parody of this film and everyone in the audience were python fans. As they did a set change I could see the dark silhouette of a castle battlements so I knew what was coming. Sure enough, the French taunting began and my girlfriend was laughing so much she had to run to the loo. I laughed so much that by the end of it I felt like I'd spent 30 minutes having mike Tyson punch me in the guts. I was exhausted.
We got on the tube to go home and the train was full of people from the theater, and the banter was hilarious. Someone even had coconut shells and was galloping up and down the carriage. The sound of people saying "NI" was filling the air. Classic. ✌️♥️🇬🇧
I went to see it twice and laughed even harder the next time. Brilliant. Wish I could see it again.
Best Broadway show I ever saw!
If only I could have been there 😢 it sounds like my kind of train ride 😅.
I grew up in the hood in America, in the 90's. I have always had an affinity for British humor and satire, could never get enough as a kid.
Monty Python movies are timeless the more you watch as you get older the better it gets like a fine aged wine. I can't wait till my boys are old enough to sit down and enjoy their extraordinary works of art with me.
Cheers from the U.S 🇺🇲💪🏿
There's a parody.... of THIS?? 😂
My local theatre put a production of Spamalot on last week, and even though I saw it like 10 years ago up the West End, this low-budget production was still so good! There’s very little opportunity for me to wear my Monty Python “Fetchez la Vache” t-shirt these days 😅
Tim the enchanter takes the show for me. I love when he gets exasperated trying to explain how dangerous the rabbit is and he just waves his hand across the landscape saying "look at the bonessssssss".
Yes, in my top twenty moments of this film, and THAT is saying something!
I love Tim too - also Terry Gilliam’s characters are always funny: the old man from scene 24 (& gatekeeper), Patsy etc. Also the gaoler from Life of Brian
“He’ll do you a treat…”
And, anyone who played Magic: the Gathering in the 90s knows that "Prodigal Sorcerer," which one taps in order to to do one damage to any target, was nicknamed "Tim," and one would often say "...I Tim you for 1," in lieu of "I poke you for 1."
'Manky Scotch git.'
I know you said twice that they must have had so much fun, but when JOhn Cleese was interviewed about it years later, he admitted that they hated every minute of filming. One main reason was, sadly, that Graham Chapman (King Arthur) was having a horrible losing time fighting his alcoholism (you might see it in his face), and was forgetting his lines a lot. Another main feature was the weather. It was filmed here in Scotland, and as any tourist here knows, and we freely admit, in Scotland we have only 2 seasons in the year. The 15th of July and Winter. It was pretty much cold and wet the entire time of filming. Another point was the trouble they had with the Scottish Tourist Board, who stupidly said they could only film one castle which was Doune Castle. It was annoying because there were some great places to shoot very close to Doune Castle, especially Stirling Castle and the equally beautiful Wallace Monument. They had to shoot several scenes from different angles to try and make it look like different castles. Another detail (although probably a bit dull) , is that Chapman was the only one to wear actual chainmail over his head. Due to budget shortages, all the other Knight's chainmail were in fact knitted metallic wool.
p.s. Sorry if I made that too boring to read right through. If it helps, the cast DID enjoy filming Life of Brian, because obviously the weather was better, but happily Chapman was by then, in a much better place with his alcoholism battle.
@@jameswilson8642 was ok learnt something new too
Oh, the bliss of Scottish weather. Many many years ago I had a scottish girlfriend which I visited a few times of the year(we met in my home country and then she got accepted to Glasgow Uni.). It didn't matter if you were indoor or outdoor, it was always as pissy frigid, which is quite weird compared (believe it or not) to the Scandinavian countries. Her apartment had one glass windows and the landlord had once upon a time decided to repaint the windows, and to do it as easily as possible, put a wedge between the window and the sill and painted over the whole thing with a thick coat of paint. This resulted in the windows being stuck with half a centimeter open in the bottom. So there was always a continuous stream of cold air going through the apartment. A shower would not help either, since most of them are direct powered, so the pressure was as bad as a 90 year old mans bladder. I think, during the times I visited her(over the course of 3 years), I had two days where it was sunny enough to only wear a T-shirt. Scotland has a lot of beauty, but never travel there expecting nice weather.
@@jameswilson8642 The irony of having no budget is it forced them to be creative - like using coconuts for the horses (they simply couldn't afford to use horses for the movie). Also, the last scene of the movie originally was supposed to be a massive battle, but they couldn't afford to pay the extras for even another day, so they came up with the bit of having the police arrest Arthur. Btw, if you ever get the chance, read the book The Pythons
Autobiography by The Pythons, which are detailed interviews on every aspect of the group.
@HaxerFlaxer Did she think about simply blocking the gap? Beautiful country. Visited a few times, and very rarely, the sun does appear.
Two members of the Monty Python team that usually get unfairly overlooked are Carol Cleveland and Connie Booth who both appeared in the TV show and the movies
So our rugby club used to have a themed tour each year, and so of course one year we did a Holy Grail tour.
So on our last night, having played all our games, we all got thoroughly fucked up in the middle of some town in Holland, all wearing full knights outfits, and all equipped with coconuts to ride through the town.
We ended up in some bar, and whilst we were there a song from the Blues Brothers came on, which had been our tour theme from the year before.
It's still the single funniest sight I have ever seen, 30 very pissed and oddly-shaped British rugby players, in some bar in this little Dutch town, fully dressed in knights gear and clapping coconuts, rushing the stage to dance to Blues Brothers.
OMG! I thought our local rugby team with bedsheet togas was funny, but this!...........
That sounds like so much fun.
"None shall pass" is even funnier when you realise the black knight is guarding a few planks of wood over a very small stream, which Arthur could have stepped over at any point. 10:25 - The final line in the Camelot song - "I have to push the pram a lot" - is one you may be singing yourself in about 8 months or so!
Is King Boomer Pregnant?
There could be a clear path, doesn’t matter when there’s a knight infront of you
And then there was Spamalot......
@@fredklein3829 The Queen is.
@@dylanmurphy9389 That's why I said "...which Arthur could have stepped over at any point", meaning any point before where the knight was! Still, Arthur did very well. 4 limbs to 0!
I'll never forget the first time I watched this. The black knight scene had me crying my eyes out and my sides aching from so much laughter. It's in my top 3 funniest ever movie scenes. Absolute classic.
What ya gonna do . . . Bleed on me 😁😁😁
All right, we'll call it a draw ^^
Intermission had a double meaning but the second meaning was to tricky people to thinking they could go for food/toilet break as many cinemas stopped the film to allow for an intermission but obviously it's a fake intermission so people get up and then realise the film is still running and have to sit back down, basically the film is trolling the audience.
The litteral "cop out" at the end was genius in budgetry restrictions.
This is the first time the person watching laughed at the right times and got all the jokes, even the subtle ones.
So great seeing a reactor who truly appreciates Monty Python's absurdist style of comedy. Hysterical laughter instead of eye-rolling.
I own the special edition dvd and on the box it says you can play along when the monks are singing by holding the dvd case firmly and hitting your head with it at the appropriate times.
i've been quoting this movie at every opportunity for the past 30 years much to the annoyance of everyone around me😂
Run away, run away!
still after all these years, if someone asks if anyone has any questions, I have to stop myself from asking "what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow"
@@moose4162 European or African?
@@scipioafricanus5871 what... um...aaaaaaaaaaaaa.
My favorite insult of all is to call someone a Pig Dog.
I still say "And there was much rejoicing: yaaaaay" At least once a day because of this movie😂
I personally can't think as to why someone would get offended at you accusing Monty Python of being stupid, it IS stupid, it's so great because it is so stupid.
"I'm averting my eyes, o Lord!" WELL STOP IT
I've always had a personal preference for Holy Grail, simply because it feels more 'Pythony' to me and I think it plays to their strengths a bit more. I mean, they're both comedy classics either way.
Arthur's 'horse' was played by Terry Gilliam, the American Python, who was responsible for all of their animation sequences from their very start!
You might like to delve into some of the films he's directed, but many might be a bit arty and hard going for some of your audience.
Brazil is one of the best films of all time, though, and is well deserving of a watch.
Gilliam eventually became so silly, he had to officially change his nationality to British.
@@richardgale4827 Shame about the heart attack...
"Your arm's off" / "No it isn't" : they must have been going to the Argument Clinic
The guy who did the animations is Terry Gilliam aka Arthur's horse.... he has made some excellent films Time Bandits is worth checking out
Time Bandits, just like Grail, is really good until a stupid ending.
And the only American in the team! His bits of animation thrown in randomly helped make MP what they were, you will recall the bizarre spaceship bit in Life of Brian. Underrated member of the team.
if you havent seen it yet, also check out "the man who killed Don Quixote" its from 2019 i think, very good
I like to go around the shops pretending I’m on a horse.
I’m 44.
Found Wifey ☝️ 😆
You can’t help but laugh at these classics😂 especially that rabbit scene, unbeaten till this day😂😂
It is an utterly ridiculous film.
And that's exactly why we all love it.
Never thought about it before, but I'm pretty sure that _no_ species of swallow can beat their wings 43 times a second.
This was probably the best reaction to this movie I've seen so far. None of the jokes went over your head. Well done. 👍👍
Check out this same movie's reaction by Sebscreen - it tickled him so bad he actually said (to the movie) "stop... I'm gonna have a heart attack" :D
By far. So many people miss the best jokes and talk over everything. This guy is great.
My favorite line is the Frenchman saying "I fffart in your general direction!". Kills me every time
At Doune Castle in Scotland where some of it was filmed, you can borrow coconut halves to bang together and run around pretending to be on horseback 🤣🤣🤣
No way! I have to go visit now!
U can book tickets as one day a year they HV a monty python day ..hell's grannies walking around, fancy dress competitions, scenes from the movies enacted out during the day all around the castle...quiz everyone joins in at the end of the day...and u win... shrubbery! Fantastic day!!
My friend and I went to Dover Castle and he stood at the bottom and did the Knights lines while I played the French taunter. Gave a lot of people laughs that day 😂
That's brilliant will take note and passon to my grandson who loves visiting castles thanks
... Doune Castle has now made my bucket list
This movie is "stupid" in all manners and it's brilliant. So much of the dialogue is still used in everyday English language.
The reason for the coconuts or lack of horses was due to a tiny budget. They couldn't afford real horses 😂
Well, they could afford one.
Yes, I've heard that "it" is still in frequent use!
I've seen this film a squillion times but I still enjoyed laughing along with it with you. Be happy, embrace your Python... 😀
The next film 'The Meaning of Life" is not so much a film but a collection of long sketches that only hang together very loosely. Nevertheless it is still very well done and very funny.
meaning of life is so ridiculously funny and also revolutionary
It also has my favourite joke of monty python.
‘The third world’
‘yorkshire’
another callback to the Swallow joke was when you first see SIr Bedevere, he is throwing up birds tied to coocnuts. Also you should have shown the funniest bit of Sir Launcelot attacking the castle which was the way the guard he didn't stab said "Hey!!! Cracks me up every time.
Sir Robin's Minstrel was Neil Innes of the Bonzo Dog Band who appeared in the Beatles movie Hard Day's Night. He also founded the Rutles; (All you Need is Cash) a spoof alternative Beatles documentary well worth watching.
I second this, All You Need Is Cash is an amazing film
Growing up with Monty python, I now realise how I came to develop the sense of humour I have! Just been in tears of laughter at the word "shrubbery". 😆
Watch Monty Pythons Flying Circus.. The animator is the US genius Terry Gilliam.. He was the wackiest of all of the Pythons, a real comedy legend
The end of the movie is a literal ... Cop out. Which is a joke that flew over my head for a long time.
Contemporaries to Monty Python was a trio named The Goodies (Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie). In my humble opinion they were a hundred times funnier as they concentrated on visual gags. Lighthouse Keeping Loonies was my personal favourite, but The Beanstalk, Kitten Kong, Ecky Thump, and Bun Fight at the Okay Tea Rooms were good also. They ran for almost 12 years on British TV, and to date, they are the ONLY comedians who were officially asked to make their stuff less funny, after a person literally died laughing, after he had been laughing for 20 minutes straight. Sadly, this is a true tale of a real life person from Kings Lynn, England. They are truly superb. Best to void the bladder before watching, or you might wet yourself. If you don't watch The Goodies before you die, you will have missed out.
My personal favourite of everything the Pythons have done. Great reaction.
"Camelot? Very nice castle, Camelot... Very good pig country..." It's throwaway comedy gold lines like this that you scarcely notice until you watch Holy Grail a few times.
They used coconuts because they didn't have the budget for horses!
Except for the horse used to kill the historian!
Honestly I can't pick between this and Life of Brian, both too hilarious in their own ways - this has more memorable stuff (almost every scene can be watched without context and you know what's happening immediately if you've seen it before) and is more quotable, but Life of Brian works more smoothly as a full film and is equally entertaining.
Lancelot whacking the flower on the wall doesn't get old.
During the 80s, 90s, and 00s, some D&D groups operated a Python Jar (like a Swear Jar) for people quoting this movie anytime someone had 'a flesh wound', or any conversation over a castle wall, or any mention of a minstrel, or a witch, or an enchanter, or...
Jabberwocky has my favorite fight scene..... Jabberwocky is a 1977 British fantasy comedy film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam. Jabberwocky stars Michael Palin as Dennis, a cooper's apprentice, who is forced through clumsy, often slapstick misfortunes to hunt a terrible dragon after the death of his father. The film's title is taken from the nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.
Oh yeah! Jabberwocky is definitely worth doing as a reaction video 😂
I still lose it during the exchange with the two guards; "you stay here, and make sure he doesn't leave!"
Thank you for posting this. I thought Life Of Brian was a better put together film but Holy Grail kept the daftness that was the hallmark of the original TV series.
If you ask Alexa "what is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow" it should come back with a Python reference. It's my first question for all new technology and usually works 😁
it's such a great execution, monthy python humor is something else and cemented a lot of modern comedy
the spanish inquisition is another gem, you never expect it
Several Pythons have said that the scene where John Cleese said that his name was, “Tim”, was actually not part of the script. Apparently, John Cleese had a difficult time remembering the much longer, original name from the script, and blurted out the name, “Tim”. Everyone liked it so much, so they kept it in the final version of the movie.
Ah yes, The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, which went on to become my favorite video game easter egg when it appeared in Worms in 1997...
I love that on repeated watches you can pick out little details. Like after the discussion of coconuts and swallows, later they are walking through a town and in the background someone is tying coconuts to swallow and throwing them in the air
I wouldn't worry too much about the '"stupid' comment. I think most of us understood.
What was awesome for me about this film was that it also came about at the same time as my discovery of the devil's lettuce.
Gods cabbage
Do you mean marijuana😅
Fun fact: Arthur and his knights were wrongly arrested in this film. How do we know this? Well, the knight that killed the famous historian was riding on an actual horse, not being followed by men with coconuts like Arthur and his knights.
Terry Gilliam was solely responsible for the animation, (he suffers the heart attack!). He plays the bridge guardian/quizmaster toward the end, and the jailer in Life of Brian.
I think the anti-singing landowner was a gag on a very successful stage play at the time called Camelot.
They only used one real castle in the film for each of the different castles, just filmed from different angles.
I prefer LoB as it was more polished and felt like it was scripted better, but his was a lot fun.
I've seen a few Americans reactions to The Pythons, and they all seem to like them. But you laughed in the places not all of them did! Good onya. Some don't even get the whole horse/coconuts thing. So yours was great reaction ! Enjoyed sharing it with you (Did you know that the Pythons began when they were students at Cambridge? That's why they can pool their specialist knowledge of history and take the piss out of it so hilariously!)
And yeah, I know we pronounce things differently - but they are British (and Commonwealth), so they're Monty "PYE-th'n" not "pye-THON".😊😊
The film was partly financed by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.
Filming was very difficult, so not much fun was had...contrary to appearances.
I think the only one who was "loaded" was Graeme Chapman, who was in the throes of severe alcoholism at the time.
This and Life of Brian are sheer genius masterpieces...the likes of which will never be made again. Glad you got the humour.
Actually they were miserable on the set. It was cold and raining most of the time and the hotel they were staying at only had enough hot water for about half of the cast and crew to shower at the end of the day. Also neither Jones nor Gilliam had ever directed a film before so there was some bickering over how things were to be shot. Plus Graham Chapman was hitting rock bottom with his alcoholism when this was being shot.
I read Michaels Palins autobiography a few years ago, he said the same as you pointed out. They had lots of layers on including womens tights... It was worth it though!
@@traceyreid4585 They talk about it a lot on the cast commentary on the DVD.
Father Jack is turning the pages.
Terry Gilliam played Patsy the horse, as well as being the animator in charge of everything 🙂 It's always funny waiting for your reaction when the gag hits you in the face - it's great seeing you discover gems of British comedy - keep up the good work your Kingliness !!
I'm amazed there are people discovering the pythons for the first time, but I suppose I grew up watching Monty Pythons Flying Circus on TV, then everyone would quote lines from in at school they next day
Some other Terry Gilliam movies well worth watching are Brazil ( a dark 1984-like dystopian fantasy) and Time Bandits - these are two of my favourites. He also directed lots of more mainstream movies - Twelve Monkeys is one his best serious films in my opinion
As a french I'm freaking love how the French soldier says "Guy de Loimbard" ! 🤣
It's the meaning of life for me.
My father made the mistake of thinking I wasn't listening to what he was watching when I was 6. Then at Xmas my nan encouraged us kids to get up at the family party and sing. You can probably guess what happened next.
I only remembered a few lines with every sperm is sacred being one of them.
The movie ending is a liberal "Cop Out" because they didn't have the budget for a big fight scene, that was also the original reason for the coconuts, they couldn't afford horses or the lessons needed to learn to ride them. Also the historian was killed by a man on horseback, a real horse, which none of the Grail Knights had, they were framed! (I think it was the French that did it!)
So they *could* afford at least one horse then...
If anything, I would have described the ending as an authoritarian cop out, rather than a liberal one.
People talk about breaking the fourth wall … this film breaks every other wall and we didn’t even know they existed.What mad, mad genius.
Your doggy behind you is being so cute x
If you remember the computer game Worms, the ultimate weapon was the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioque, directly taken from this film (sound and everything).
Wow! Something I never realised and actually played so can relate. Thanks. :)
there's several castle scenes, all at different castles. except there weren't several castles available, just the one, Castle Doune. so they reused different parts of it to play the parts of several castles. the outside facing part of one wall would be the French castle, the interior courtyard would host the wedding & so on.
“It’s a fair cop”
British slang for “you got me”
The “witch” was admitting she was actually a witch.
Yes finally. My favourite Monty Python film
Interesting fact, when the history presenter got killed, it was the only part of the film where they could actually afford to hire a horse! And they didn't have a great time recording it, they hated it!
Saw this during its first week of general release in the UK in '75. We were all given coconut halves at the Cinema, It was pandemonium as people couldn't control themselves during the showing! We had to go back the following week to be able to hear the soundtrack?
You should have watched the intermission bit. They actually hated filming this mainly because of the Scottish weather but also because they struggled to find a direction because Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam jointly directed the film. That caused a lot of tension between the cast and led to the decision to only have Terry Jones as the director of Life of Brian.
The name of the other movie is Monty Python's Meaning of Life. Personally I think that it's a better movie than The Holy Grail, with a journey that takes you from birth to beyond the grave. There is also a little sub plot of the support movie, you'll understand when you watch it lol 😂😂
Thing I love about this film is that it's actually well-versed in the lore of Arthur.
The grail is a Christian stealing of an older Celtic concept, usually a cauldron or well 'from which none leaves unsatisfied', and it represents the 'female principle' of birth and re-birth (look up Disney's 'The Black Cauldron' and you'll see anther false representation, as the cauldron was supposed to heal the sick hungry and injured, not raise an undead army).
The Christian version ignores woman entirely, except as an evil witch and a good wife (Gwyn Hwyfar = Guinevere's name is literally that), and re-purposes the grail as the cup of Christ, which legitimises the King's rule.
So yes, the castle of the grail containing the 'ho**iest women in all the realm' makes perfect sense.
Also, the whole hijacking of the Arthur tradition by the French writer Chretien de Troyes, and the way it all stops when it confronts the dead historians taking all the wonder out of it all.
It's worth watching the film 'Excalibur' from the 1980s, as it does almost exactly the same story as MPATHG, beginning with the knights riding out of the mist and darkness, confronting the Christian changes, the French and even the Wagner operas of the German tradition.
It also trolls Sir Galahad "the pure" by placing him in the castle with the er ummmm.... "Frustrated women". In the legend of course he is the one who recovers the grail. He is technically the only one who has a vision of the grail here. But of course he meets "wicked naughty Zoot".
Oddly enough, the scene that Dingo was afraid that they'd have to cut was actually cut in the American release. We Americans didn't see it until the movie was released on home video. Also, the reason for the intermission in the middle of the crossing of the bridge of death was because Chapman froze while crossing it.
A newt is a little lizard like a gecko
I remember watching this when it was UNBANNED and it was being aired on Channel 4 in the UK, when I was about 16 back in the early 90's... and I watched this in my room, on my 12inch colour TV... and the rabbit... it was the funniest thing I had ever seen ever... I was almost on the floor laughing, I could hardly breath, as it was the 1st time I had really seen something that smacked my sense of dark humour so well XD
So it will always hold a place in my heart over Life of Brian... which took a little longer to get unbanned on TV (I don't even think you could get it on VHS back then? it was telly or nothing.)
In the original draft of the script, Arthur finds the grail at Harrod's Department Store, because, of course, you can find anything at Harrod's. But they decided to go with a literal cop-out. I think this movie has more quotable lines, but Life of Brian holds together better as a film. Both films are a series of sketches on a theme, but they did a better job at stitching the scenes together into a whole film for Brian.
Holy Grail and Life Of Brian are 2 of my fav 5 comedy films (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein and Airplane are the others) All worth checking out.
Perfect 5 right there 👍
surely you can't be serious
Life of Brian is my favourite and Airplane is my second favourite. Looks like Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein are next on my watch-list!
Certainly a classic film! The joke regarding the coconut shells being used to simulate the sound of a horse, as they gallop around pretending to ride a horse, all came about as the film budget didn’t allow for the cost of real horses!
The American actress who played the witch, also was Polly in the series Fawlty Towers. She was John Cleese’s wife at the time.
Too many great moments in this. Love when they save him from the beautiful women and when they start applauding when Tim blows up the tree. I prefer this to Life of Brian but both movies were huge parts of my childhood.
The cast and crew actually hated shooting this movie. Most of the time, they were cold and miserable, which meant that everyone bickered a lot. On top of that, they made this movie on a shoestring budget, mostly provided to them by Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, so they couldn't afford real horses, let alone riding lessons. Hence the coconut gag.
One of my favourite movies brought to my by one of my favourite reactors! Made my Friday morning. Cheers KB!
The Black Knight, Killer Bunny, and Knights who say "Ni!" are amongst my favourite Monty Python moments
Fact: the holy hand grenade was featured as a throwable grenade in the Artillery video game series called Worms !
I'm glad you chose not to use the adjective "Fun" to describe your fact, as so many people do, when they are anything but.
The ending of the movie was, quite literally, a cop out. It really wasn't fair, though, they were innocnet. The killer rode a hourse, and none of Authur's knights had horses.
This film had a ridiculously tiny budget.that's why they used Coconuts. It got funded by lez zeppelin and pink Floyd
Life of Brian was funded by George Harrison.
@@pda3095 he was given an early script & said he'd pay for it because he really wanted to see it in a theater.
Watching people react to this, I'm always amazed how so many people dont know what a newt is. A type of salamander. I believe the main distinction is that they are better suited at living in water. Webbed feet, paddle tails and things like that.
Just one of those situations where you learn something early on and grow up expecting everyone else to know it too.
The ending to this is literally a "cop out"
Fun fact: The witch character is played by Connie Booth, John Cleese's wife at the time, who would later go on to cowrite the hilarious BBC comedy series Fawlty Towers with him, where she played the role of the hotel receptionist and chambermaid Polly Sherman, and he played the incompetent and rude hotel owner Basil Fawlty.
Both movies are extremely funny, but to me Life of Brian is actually getting across a message on life (about not following religions on blind faith alone and thinking for yourself) whereas the Holy Grail is much more of comedy for the sake of comedy.
There's definitely a theme of anti-authoritarianism running throughout THG; those in authority are constantly being second guessed and undermined by their "lessers", or are revealed to be completely inept.
But the themes you mentioned in LoB are definitely more tangible.
@@richieclean oh yes I agree.
The witch scene was golden "she turned me into a newt..... I got better." A newt is a small four legged salamander. The witch played by Connie Booth, was married to John Cleese and stared with Clease in the short run but cult TV sitcom "Faulty Towers."
I remember people in the Cinema getting up when the intermission came on. Only to have to sit down again a few moments later.