The idea of the rabbit in the Monty Python movie was inspired by the façade of Notre Dame de Paris, which depicts the weakness of cowardice with a knight fleeing from a rabbit.
RE: The coconut halves in Holy Grail, the gift shop at Doune Castle where many of the castle scenes were filmed sells coconut halves! They used to lend out a pair, but people kept making off with them thinking they were screen used. LOL
Scott called it on Radio. I had 9 years at a small station in California. One of the shows I produced and hosted was old time radio shows on saturday nights (Dick Tracy, The Shadow, ESCAPE!, Gunsmoke etc.) It got me fascinated with classic foley work. My last 4 years there I built a collection of classic tools like coconut hooves and thunder foil. Produced a lot of ads for local businesses and other peoples broadcasts.
Wow! Cool. I mentioned that in my comment. I remember Gunsmoke and The Lone Ranger on the radio. How did they get those horses into the studios anyway? LOL 😂🐎
16:30 you can see how much more proficient and comfortable the other actor is with the nunchucks - no blinking at all, while Bruce flutters his eyelids the whole time, afraid he might hit himself. You see it in movies with guns all the time as well; an experienced shooter won't blink when pulling the trigger because it throws your aim off, an inexperienced shooter will.
Best example is the range scene from Leathal Weapon where Riggs(Gibson) cant help blinking with every single shot despite being an ex special forces marksman.
@@nutsandgum well I've seen guys here on YT who shot millions of rounds and still blink. Some of them with a similar background to the character in the movie.
I love these longer ones. You get into the nitty gritty of who, what, where and how. A lot of them are so easy and others are so intricate. Well done guys.
Honestly my new favourite CZcams series. Would love to see a segment like "here's a scene, how do you think they did it?" Like with the ghostbusters-egg-hotplate.
Bro, that TCM story of just using a piece of metal to protect the actors leg is nuts, reminds me when I was watching a doc, and there was some film from the 20's (maybe thirty's or older don't quote me) and they needed a shot of an avalanche, so they just legit created one to get the shot.
great stuff again fellas! Working on a Star Wars film, I did manage to hold all the old lightsabers. Very grateful for that moment. The ones from the first 3 were so heavy compared to the moulded ones from the next 3 films. I really Sabered the moment.
Fun facts: In Sweden, there was a big debate in 1980 after a program on state-owned television that was appalled by the violence in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Sweden at this time only had two television channels, both owned by the state, so the program was seen by many. The distributor of the film in Sweden was threatened with a boycott, and withdrew the film. The police also raided video tape rental companies. The result? VCR sales increased, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre received a ton of free publicity! It took until 2001 before it was allowed without censorship, and in 2003 it was allowed to be seen from the age of 15.
there's an old video game called Turok 2 that used a weapon that's clearly inspired by Phantasm, it would shoot a little tracking ball that attached to an enemies head, drilled out their brains and then exploded. I always thought it was super gruesome for the 90s but now I see it's even older and gorier!
I just love how they decided upon using a real chainsaw on the actor's leg. I honestly want to see the actor's reaction when they told him, "alright so we're going to use this chainsaw, a real chainsaw, on your leg. The only layer of protection is this metal plate and some meat." I bet he didn't saw it coming.
Never seen Taxi driver, so sleeve gun I think Wild Wild West. They had some incredible props. Would love to see you do something on the spy genre of the 60's: Wild Wild West, I Spy, The Man from UNCLE, & movies like any Bond film. 😊 And maybe compare shows and films in 1 genre like for example Space Sci Fi: Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien, Lost in Space, etc. Then maybe Westerns: Gunsmoke, anything by Mr Eastwood, ... I could go on but I am sure you get me 😉 By the way, love your "dad" jokes and these longer videos 😁
Back in the 1990s, I worked with a guy who knew the banjo playing kid in Deliverance. He never said how it was filmed but said the kid could not play the banjo. Maybe the kid was under NDA also.
The original theatrical cut of Star Wars had moments during the Vader/Obi Wan fight where the rotoscoped blade on Obi Wan's lightsaber was missing, and you could also see the cord that operated the spinning part of the Saber coming out of Alec Guinness' sleeve. Lucas later fixed those with VFX.
I have that same 1970's era Dremel moto tool used in that movie ( haven't watched it ) , and another reason why they may have wanted to change the cord on it aside from the color is the fact that it's quite a thick stiff power cord and after being coiled up in the case that cord can retain lots of memory. I'd imagine the original cord would be a nightmare to deal with even if it were already white.
The roto for the lightsabers was only for the many rereleases. The final shot in the original theatrical release was only using the reflective materials
That was great ! Indeed 70ies and 80ies were the best decades for movies and the industry in general. I wish you can make the next video about the 80ies 😊
Another great video, practical effects will always be my favorite style of effects. You just can't beat the "real thing" to make the whole scene come together and make things feel so real!!
I got to see the forest dome, from Silent Running. That movie came out the year I was born, and I grew up seeing it on VHS and cable. Seeing it at the sci fi museum here in Seattle, I got kinda emotional. I saw it in Battlestar Galactica, seeing it for real, that was so amazing, still kinda gets me. It's so beautiful.
This was brilliant! These props are so iconic, when Mark said "most of you guys weren't alive probably", after the intro showing a bunch of clips, I instinctively thought "I was", because all of those clips were so recognisable to me, even the ones from movies I haven't actually seen, like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It took me a second or two to realise that "hang on, no I wasn't, I was born in 1982!" 😂 Thank you for this series! ❤
These videos are so much fun. You guys really know your stuff, and listening to you talk about these legendary movie items is so much fun. Thanks for the video! Also, "he knows the drill" 🤣
That Carrie story is so awesome. Give you guys props! But I will say I think I would love to hear about movies from the 80s... *the thing theme starts*
6:03 You say that, but it's a convention lifted from radio plays. Even though horses were riding in the woods, those don't make a specific sound, so they used the horse on pavement-sound for everything to denote "riding on a horse." then movies came, and although it was more obvious that the sound was out of place, it had become a convention so people expected to hear that sound when people were galloping edit: yeah, Scott approximated what I said right after 😅
I truly hope you guys do this for every decade of cinema. Or even have a series of famous props and you remake them using either the same or newer techniques
In Jaws, for the Indianapolis monologue, Robert Shaw originally did do the scene drunk, arguing that it would be more realistic. However, the result was unusable. Spielberg considered dropping the scene, but Shaw pleaded with him to keep it. He did it sober the next day in one take.
Nice video. I really enjoyed the last picture showing the director with a bullhorn 3’ from the actor. I guess he wanted to make sure that everyone got his commands.
They didn't call them blockbusters because the queued round the block. The term blockbuster came from WW2. They were literally bombs that were so big they would destroy a city block. The public picked up on the phrase and started using it to describe anything that had a massive or spectacular effect. There are examples of it being used as early as the 1950's.
Bruce Lee first used nunchaku onscreen in Fist of Fury, in 1971, and continued to use them in every film he made subsequently. The yellow Game of Death nunchaku are certainly iconic, and it's a shame he didn't live to see the movie completed as written. What was cobbled together after his death is a mess, at turns unintentionally hilarious and offensively insulting. It's almost unbelievable that the director of Enter the Dragon couldn't come up with a better way to incorporate Lee's Game of Death fight footage into a film.
Can u imagine watching the hindenburg crash then going to another theatre just to see Carrie setting everything on fire?! I know he didn't see that bit but can u imagine? Lol
Great to see you leveraging your shorts popularity to make something longer form. Very easy to watch and I’m sure you could do every decade over and over and still have plenty of great stories to tell. Apart from decades of film you could also do themed episodes either by the type of object (eg. Organic matter, weapons, food) or by prop-making categories related to how they are made, a specific use (like the Taxi driver gun device being made on camera), complicated props that needed to be made in large numbers, props that failed, props that injured actors or crew (you could do a whole episode on people being shot if you had enough info that hadn't already been covered). If the videos are categorised well they could work as an online resource for filmmakers and be referenced by anyone talking about the relevant films.
Holy Crap that was awesome! I would like to see one about props/effects from the 1930s if possible. I realize many of those were not effects as we know them but I would like to know how they managed them without killing the actors (too often).
That’s going deep, but we are always up for a challenge. The super early days of cinema are a very interesting period. No rules, no saftey, crazy days!
This series will blow up, just wait! Props to you guys!
I just showed a few of my film club friends these videos. They quite enjoyed it.
You really gotta give them props!
No, really, you gotta give them the props back at the end of a shoot, you’re not supposed to take them home!
AH, AH, HE SAID IT
The idea of the rabbit in the Monty Python movie was inspired by the façade of Notre Dame de Paris, which depicts the weakness of cowardice with a knight fleeing from a rabbit.
Monty Python are so cultured. It's cool that they reference something so sophisticated to make such a silly joke
"One is none" is an important lesson that's since migrated into IT. One backup is none backup!
Camera collectors hate lightsabers, because that part is so hard to find now.
RE: The coconut halves in Holy Grail, the gift shop at Doune Castle where many of the castle scenes were filmed sells coconut halves! They used to lend out a pair, but people kept making off with them thinking they were screen used. LOL
I have my "Monty Python movie horse" collectors set yup..its an official thing 😅
Scott called it on Radio. I had 9 years at a small station in California. One of the shows I produced and hosted was old time radio shows on saturday nights (Dick Tracy, The Shadow, ESCAPE!, Gunsmoke etc.) It got me fascinated with classic foley work. My last 4 years there I built a collection of classic tools like coconut hooves and thunder foil. Produced a lot of ads for local businesses and other peoples broadcasts.
Wow! Cool. I mentioned that in my comment. I remember Gunsmoke and The
Lone Ranger on the radio. How did they get those horses into the studios anyway? LOL 😂🐎
16:30 you can see how much more proficient and comfortable the other actor is with the nunchucks - no blinking at all, while Bruce flutters his eyelids the whole time, afraid he might hit himself. You see it in movies with guns all the time as well; an experienced shooter won't blink when pulling the trigger because it throws your aim off, an inexperienced shooter will.
Best example is the range scene from Leathal Weapon where Riggs(Gibson) cant help blinking with every single shot despite being an ex special forces marksman.
@@nutsandgum well I've seen guys here on YT who shot millions of rounds and still blink. Some of them with a similar background to the character in the movie.
I love these longer ones. You get into the nitty gritty of who, what, where and how.
A lot of them are so easy and others are so intricate.
Well done guys.
Honestly my new favourite CZcams series. Would love to see a segment like "here's a scene, how do you think they did it?" Like with the ghostbusters-egg-hotplate.
We do plan to do more how do you think they did it videos.
The 80’s! This is awesome
Re: The bullhorn..
Tobe Hooper needed the bullhorn so he could be heard over the (very loud) noise of the chainsaw.
A very sound decision!
These keep getting better and better.
You could really say they played us all in that scene with the dueling banjos in deliverance
Bro, that TCM story of just using a piece of metal to protect the actors leg is nuts, reminds me when I was watching a doc, and there was some film from the 20's (maybe thirty's or older don't quote me) and they needed a shot of an avalanche, so they just legit created one to get the shot.
Its so crazy to be a background actor and see Scott and Poppi and Mark running around set. It's hard not to run up and ask for a photo..😂
Well, say Hi next time!
great stuff again fellas!
Working on a Star Wars film, I did manage to hold all the old lightsabers. Very grateful for that moment. The ones from the first 3 were so heavy compared to the moulded ones from the next 3 films. I really Sabered the moment.
😂 Very neat!
That’s very cool indeed! What were you doing on the film? and which one was it?
While the rabbit was memorable as a character, I think the Holy Hand Grenade was more memorable as a prop. Still, loved the video.
Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. Remember to count to three. Not 2 or 4.
It´s like meeting new friends with the same interest and humour!
Fun facts: In Sweden, there was a big debate in 1980 after a program on state-owned television that was appalled by the violence in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Sweden at this time only had two television channels, both owned by the state, so the program was seen by many. The distributor of the film in Sweden was threatened with a boycott, and withdrew the film. The police also raided video tape rental companies.
The result? VCR sales increased, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre received a ton of free publicity!
It took until 2001 before it was allowed without censorship, and in 2003 it was allowed to be seen from the age of 15.
there's an old video game called Turok 2 that used a weapon that's clearly inspired by Phantasm, it would shoot a little tracking ball that attached to an enemies head, drilled out their brains and then exploded. I always thought it was super gruesome for the 90s but now I see it's even older and gorier!
Wow miss Turok.
Always ready for some Scott Prop and Roll puns!
I’d watch the three of you even if the episodes were an hour or longer. Excellent episode gentlemen. Keep them coming.
Well, thank you so much @bpalm74, we aim to please! Lots of fun and cool stuff coming this spring and summer! Keep watching!
I just love how they decided upon using a real chainsaw on the actor's leg. I honestly want to see the actor's reaction when they told him, "alright so we're going to use this chainsaw, a real chainsaw, on your leg. The only layer of protection is this metal plate and some meat." I bet he didn't saw it coming.
Never seen Taxi driver, so sleeve gun I think Wild Wild West. They had some incredible props. Would love to see you do something on the spy genre of the 60's: Wild Wild West, I Spy, The Man from UNCLE, & movies like any Bond film. 😊 And maybe compare shows and films in 1 genre like for example Space Sci Fi: Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien, Lost in Space, etc. Then maybe Westerns: Gunsmoke, anything by Mr Eastwood, ... I could go on but I am sure you get me 😉 By the way, love your "dad" jokes and these longer videos 😁
Great ideas! We do have bigger and better things on the horizon, so keep checking in and help us grow!
@@MarkStarboySpacek can't wait yay! 😁
I saw marathon man in the evening, after having my impacted wisdom teeth removed. I could SMELL it! I stayed... barely.
Back in the 1990s, I worked with a guy who knew the banjo playing kid in Deliverance. He never said how it was filmed but said the kid could not play the banjo. Maybe the kid was under NDA also.
Extremely interesting, I'm always amazed by how small the world is. From family to friends, how we are all connected, very cool.
So cool!
You guys always do your job PROPerly.
I always think of Wild Wild West when it comes to the forearm gun. I loved that show as a kid.
Chef’s kiss for the editing work with the transition and the jokes
(I’ve already said many times the rest was fantastic too)
Thank you gentlemen for sharing your knowledge, time and humor with us all. 👏
Our pleasure!
Well, thank you for watching!
The original theatrical cut of Star Wars had moments during the Vader/Obi Wan fight where the rotoscoped blade on Obi Wan's lightsaber was missing, and you could also see the cord that operated the spinning part of the Saber coming out of Alec Guinness' sleeve. Lucas later fixed those with VFX.
I have that same 1970's era Dremel moto tool used in that movie ( haven't watched it ) , and another reason why they may have wanted to change the cord on it aside from the color is the fact that it's quite a thick stiff power cord and after being coiled up in the case that cord can retain lots of memory.
I'd imagine the original cord would be a nightmare to deal with even if it were already white.
You guys are great making these videos showing the inside workings of the movie industry, thank you!
Thanks for watching!
The Matt in the back cameo always cracks me up
"in space, no one can hear you scream"
on CZcams, no one can hear the correct music due to copyright lol
That is the way of the world. Hopefully you approved of the replacement score.
@@MarkStarboySpacek oh, yeah, it wasn't anything against the choice of music, just a "I wish youtube wasn't so strict" type of thing lol
"Camelot"
"Camelot"
"Camelot!"
"It's only a model"
"Shhh!!"
She turned me into a newt! (silence) I got better.
“Matt in the back” is underrated.
The roto for the lightsabers was only for the many rereleases. The final shot in the original theatrical release was only using the reflective materials
6:02
Honestly...nowadays a foley artist probably just downloads the sound-file "horse on..." and picks the version with the ground he needs.
I’ll never look at a pan of brownies the same again!!!😱 I love this channel!!!!!🧡🖤🧡
Always excited for a video with Scott and the Boys.
That was great ! Indeed 70ies and 80ies were the best decades for movies and the industry in general. I wish you can make the next video about the 80ies 😊
Another great video, practical effects will always be my favorite style of effects. You just can't beat the "real thing" to make the whole scene come together and make things feel so real!!
Love the series. Ive been watching since day one
I love y'all's videos. Can't wait for the next. 80s of course.
I saw all of these as a kid in the 70s - many of them at the theater. Love hearing the history. Please do the 80s (Cmon Blade Runner!)
Ohhhhhh a 25 minute video!? Must be my lucky day!
these are the videos I most look forward to right now, they are so interesting.
I got to see the forest dome, from Silent Running. That movie came out the year I was born, and I grew up seeing it on VHS and cable. Seeing it at the sci fi museum here in Seattle, I got kinda emotional. I saw it in Battlestar Galactica, seeing it for real, that was so amazing, still kinda gets me. It's so beautiful.
This was brilliant!
These props are so iconic, when Mark said "most of you guys weren't alive probably", after the intro showing a bunch of clips, I instinctively thought "I was", because all of those clips were so recognisable to me, even the ones from movies I haven't actually seen, like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It took me a second or two to realise that "hang on, no I wasn't, I was born in 1982!" 😂
Thank you for this series! ❤
These videos are so much fun. You guys really know your stuff, and listening to you talk about these legendary movie items is so much fun. Thanks for the video!
Also, "he knows the drill" 🤣
I love these longer videos. Also Neil McDonough character on Justified had a retractable sleeve gun.
That Carrie story is so awesome. Give you guys props! But I will say I think I would love to hear about movies from the 80s... *the thing theme starts*
Prop guys lore, can't believe Sissy Spacek is his aunt
Best video so far. Loved the length and time devoted to the background info. Keep them coming!
Thanks for watching! We’ve got lots of things brewing on the horizon so stay tuned!
@@MarkStarboySpacek Awesome will do!!
My new favorite series! Thank y’all for sharing the collective knowledge and “props” to Mark for being such a cool dude!
I know you!! Thanks for the comment my man!! And thanks for the cut!!
I remember trying to crush early cans before they became aluminum. It was hard to do!
Awesome guys! I'd love to see props from films you all did with the "love these/hated these" props!
Now this is an awesome idea. Love iconic trivia about movies from any decade if they are genuinely interesting. Yes more of this.
Stay tuned, we got more coming!
I'd like to see one with crossovers. Movies that give a nod to another movie, either with a prop, or a reference.
6:03 You say that, but it's a convention lifted from radio plays. Even though horses were riding in the woods, those don't make a specific sound, so they used the horse on pavement-sound for everything to denote "riding on a horse." then movies came, and although it was more obvious that the sound was out of place, it had become a convention so people expected to hear that sound when people were galloping
edit: yeah, Scott approximated what I said right after 😅
Love these extended videos! It would be awesome if you guys did something with Corridor Crew about how props and CG work together!
I love these longer, in-depth videos
That pun should have gotten canned laughter haha
Bruce Lee used nunchucks alot in The Way of the Dragon and Enter the Dragon, but both where filmed with in months of Game of Death's filming.
You can go in order of decades. I want to hear about them all.
This is awesome! 80’s and 90’s for sure. Any Back to the Future prop stories?! Keep up the great work boys.
I truly hope you guys do this for every decade of cinema. Or even have a series of famous props and you remake them using either the same or newer techniques
We plan to!
a nice long video. thanks dudes
"Cut cut cut!! Camera 'B' is in the shot!"
Not sure if he's the sensitive type, but I bet that dental tool scene really hurt Dustin Hoffman's fillings...
The German release of Monty Pythons Holy Grail is literally called "Knights of the Coconut" or "Ritter der Kokosnuss"
In Jaws, for the Indianapolis monologue, Robert Shaw originally did do the scene drunk, arguing that it would be more realistic. However, the result was unusable. Spielberg considered dropping the scene, but Shaw pleaded with him to keep it. He did it sober the next day in one take.
Love the lore of Jaws. Top five film for me!
This was awesome- I like coming across Star Wars history.
You have never met my rabbit! That scene is every time I go to feed her!
I was alive, and it was a great era!!
Nice video. I really enjoyed the last picture showing the director with a bullhorn 3’ from the actor. I guess he wanted to make sure that everyone got his commands.
They didn't call them blockbusters because the queued round the block. The term blockbuster came from WW2. They were literally bombs that were so big they would destroy a city block. The public picked up on the phrase and started using it to describe anything that had a massive or spectacular effect. There are examples of it being used as early as the 1950's.
Bruce Lee first used nunchaku onscreen in Fist of Fury, in 1971, and continued to use them in every film he made subsequently.
The yellow Game of Death nunchaku are certainly iconic, and it's a shame he didn't live to see the movie completed as written. What was cobbled together after his death is a mess, at turns unintentionally hilarious and offensively insulting. It's almost unbelievable that the director of Enter the Dragon couldn't come up with a better way to incorporate Lee's Game of Death fight footage into a film.
You sound like a Brue Lee expert! We should have had you on!
Can u imagine watching the hindenburg crash then going to another theatre just to see Carrie setting everything on fire?! I know he didn't see that bit but can u imagine? Lol
Love these videos thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule to create content.
I'm going to watch this later this afternoon.
Great! I hope you enjoy it!
@@ScottPropandRoll Everything you do is great! I really enjoyed this.
I love the subtitle bits (about the møøse!) in Holy Grail...first time I watched it I was legitimately wondering wtf was going on 🤣
It’s so much fun watching you guys and you keep getting better… keep it up - yes you CAN 😅
Thank you so much! We are working to increase out output and we have lots of things on the horizon.
Great video!! For suggestion I am thinkin the Krull and or the Disc from Tron 82 maybe
I loved this! The 80s next please!
6:50 - There are those who call me.....TIM!
Great to see you leveraging your shorts popularity to make something longer form. Very easy to watch and I’m sure you could do every decade over and over and still have plenty of great stories to tell. Apart from decades of film you could also do themed episodes either by the type of object (eg. Organic matter, weapons, food) or by prop-making categories related to how they are made, a specific use (like the Taxi driver gun device being made on camera), complicated props that needed to be made in large numbers, props that failed, props that injured actors or crew (you could do a whole episode on people being shot if you had enough info that hadn't already been covered). If the videos are categorised well they could work as an online resource for filmmakers and be referenced by anyone talking about the relevant films.
Holy Crap that was awesome!
I would like to see one about props/effects from the 1930s if possible. I realize many of those were not effects as we know them but I would like to know how they managed them without killing the actors (too often).
That’s going deep, but we are always up for a challenge. The super early days of cinema are a very interesting period. No rules, no saftey, crazy days!
The problem with the show is that I hate waiting for the next upload…. I want more !
Funfact: The German title for Monty Python and the Holy Grail is Ritter der Kokosnuss, which literally means Knights of the Coconut
Tobe has a bullhorn in that scene because he has to be able to be heard over the sound of a live chainsaw.
Now that a few people have mentioned it, it seems perfectly obvious. We couldn’t see the forest for the trees!
Game of Death was such a mess after his sudden death, that there's a scene where someone is wearing a paper Bruce Lee Mask
Awesome! Go for the 80’s next!
Taxi driver is so good
Great episode guys. I love the info about Carrie and TCM.
I so love your puns, you are so amazing
The German title of the holy grail is Die Ritter der Kokosnuss, which translates to knights of the coconut
It’s so ingrained
When you guys do an episode on the 60s you've got to include Mother Bates.