American Watches "Monty Python And The Holy Grail" For The First Time (Full Reaction On Patreon)
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I have used the insult "your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberry's" in a real life pub fight. Everyone burst out laughing and we all got beer and hugs 😎
Weird! I've used the phrase 'run away!!!' in several pub fights
On second thought let's not go to the Camelot Inn, it is a silly place.
HaHaaaaa…. Classic!👍✨
Nicely done You!…. Classic British humour is often lost on non-Brits, but you struggled through manfully…respect 👍🤗 You we’re missing your sidekick too so extra well done ✨
Good job they weren't medieval scholars otherwise they'd have thought you were calling their mothers sluts and the fathers drunkards! 😃
No llamas were hurt in the writing of this comment.
or swallows, either european or african....😉
Lancelot running in the same place via looping footage...a literal running gag.
I love how it turns out it's just a bunch of nuts running about the woods and get jailed at the end
I saw this in the week of its premier back in the mid-seventies. On entering the cinema, we were all given half coconuts! It was mayhem, I went back a couple of weeks later to a more local cinema so I could actually hear what was going on.
Some years back some friends of mine and I were at some kind of event (I don't remember what it was) and had sat down for a meal. The menu was brought out, and it was much more varied and creative than we were expecting from a normally generic event menu. One of the items was Cajun blackened chicken. As we were ooing and ahhing over the menu choices one of my friends commented that he wasn't expecting Cajun blackened chicken, to which I immediately replied "NOBODY expects the Cajun blackened chicken!" We were all chuckling through the rest of the meal.
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A bit of trivia about the movie: The coconuts were because they couldn't afford actual horses. One way you can tell that Arthur and his knights were innocent of the murder of the historian is the killer was on an actual horse, so it couldn't have been one of the knights. Anyway... they had some trouble getting use of a castle. Apparently there was some suspicion that they might do something offensive or inappropriate, and they were forbidden from using most castles. Thankfully there was a castle that was in private hands, and the owner agreed to let them use it. Most of the castle sequences are all the same castle shot from different angles. If you go there now, that castle is a tourist attraction. In the gift shop, if you are so inclined, you can rent a pair of coconut halves to go riding around the castle grounds.
- Before _Star Wars_ most movies' credits were at the beginning of the film.
- Cleese as the Black Knight just hid his arms inside the armor. When his leg got cut off he was doubled by Richard Burton -- but not the one you're thinking of. This Richard Burton was a local blacksmith(?) who only had one leg. When his other leg is cut off, they dug a hole in the ground for RB to put his one leg in. Pretty sure at the point where the BK gets his second leg chopped off he's just a dummy on strings.
- The monks hitting themselves in the head was a parodic version of scourging, where you beat yourself with a whip in penance for, well for being human basically.
- Catapulting livestock was a standard part of siege warfare back then. But normally it was the people outside catapulting dead animals inside, to spread disease.
- The events depicted in the film predate the English word "retreat" which was borrowed from the French, which is why Arthur never says that word.
for over 80 years movie credits appeared at the beginning films. they would end with "the end" and that would be the end of it. unions started demanding every person imaginable who worked on a film even in the most remote way possible should be given a credit. so credits were lengthened. and because of this lengthening the credits were moved to end of films. the point is, 99% of every commercial film ever released had OPENING credits. moving them to the end of the movie is a relatively recent development.
The scene with the king and the guards is recreated in my home each night as I find myself somehow once again explaining the concept of bedtime to my kids
The first scene ,pigeons carrying coconuts ... is a set up for the 'Bridge of Death' scene at the end of the movie .... Genius.
The Pythons were a smart bunch (other than Gilliam they were all Oxford or Cambridge) studying English, History, Law, Medicine. They likely would have known that the word "retreat" derived from old French and wasn't used as early as 932AD. So instead Arthur and his crew said "Run away!" as it is more historically accurate....and a bit funnier.
Back in the sixties while Monty Python was on telly, I wrote to Terry Gilliam (he's the American/animator) and he wrote back with some cartoons in the letter and a couple of funny lines. I still have that letter.
The ending was a litteral copout, they ran out of money and they needed a way to end the movie.
There are so many quotable moments in this movie, my favorite is: "Well, that's no ordinary rabbit. That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on."
Monty Python is always great for a laugh and its something I can watch again and again - the more you watch the more details you notice.
This movie did not invent the knights of the round table reference, history did.
Yep! The legend of King Arthur has existed for over a thousand years
I'm glad you are pausing to make longer comments instead of talking over the movie! I know that style isn't for everyone but I really prefer it
To contemporary audiences, the use of coconuts to simulate the sound of horse hooves was still a remembered feature of old-time radio show sound effects.
It was also done in this instance to save on budget, they spent next to nothing to produce this film even by 1970 standards they couldn't afford horses.
Also used in the theatre for centuries.
The hired a one-legged extra from a local town to save money on effects when the black knight was down to 1 leg. The budget was very small, hence no horses.
They were thinking about getting someone with no arms and no legs, but one of the Terry's just suggested to dig a hole to put his leg in.
"The Holy Grail" is my all time favourite comedy movie, and Monty Pythons "Life of Brian" would come in second.
The making of this movie could be a movie in itself.
You literally said "I'm still trying to figure IT out" hahahahahaha :)
I felt so sorry for you at the end when you started roaring, as I knew what the ending was. I rambler as a kid renting on video and I thought the video had broken 😂
First time I saw it I felt the same way, it was set up for a big fight and then the police show up! I can appreciate it now, it's not hilarious but it's a suitably silly way to end the film, I wonder how it would have ended if they had a bigger budget!
Regarding the Monks with boards to the forehead scene, I think it is called flagellation (punishment of one self for sins). Of course normally a small whip to the back was used. About the filmmaker's way to show limbs chopped off, I read that the actor was a a one legged man who was standing in a hole for the final part of the scene. I do not remember how the severed arms were done, I assume they were covered by the armor and clothing.
what surprises me is how little people know of history. (not refering to you.) actually its called "self-flagellation." it was punishment one inflicted on one's self for simply being "born a sinner." it was a method of purification from sin. it was also depicted in bergman's classic film "the seventh seal." but the head banging scene also implies that the christian bible is being "banged" or "driven" into the heads of the gullible believers.
John Cleese played the Black Knight
@Aussie Pom "Ha! Tis but a fact" as the Black Knight would say ;) Yes you are correct. Good bit of trivia there.
The ending is a LITERAL cop-out. So funny.
You're the 978,654th person to make that comment!
There is it. Again.
Why aren’t we allowed one single Holy Grail reaction video without somebody feeling compelled to once again regurgitate that ‘cop-out’-line. Just stop. Pleeease.
@@souldreamer9056 cry more.
@@insertgenericusernamehere2402 go and boil your bottoms, son of a silly person.
@@souldreamer9056 go away or I shall fart in your direction
The animation was a trademark from their "Monty Python Flying Circus" tv series.
'My brain hurts' is a Monty Python quote from way back. I think it was by Mr Gumby = Michael Palin
The French castle scene was filmed a Doune Castle near Edinburgh. It was also used in Outlander. I visited, and the gift shop was an even split of women looking at Sam Heughan pictures and the men picking up toy cows and catapults 🤣
I agree that ending was a "complete cop out" witch is an English phrase, meaning u avoided something you should do normally for a weak reason, like it's difficult . Also, the no credits at the at the end was because the credit writer was sacked
I believe all the castle shots were done on location at Doune Castle - I went while at was Uni - they have Coconut halves you can borrow to reanact the horse rides!
Mark Twain's novel, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, was about a 19th century mechanic's time travel back to the same era as this movie - and this character used his contemporary knowledge to become "Sir Boss," rising to the head of the round table, so to speak. (The legend of the round table was the idea of equality for all the knights there, there was no "head.")
The Camelot song was a challenge thrown to John Cleese that he couldn’t write a song rhyming the word Camelot 😂
Wasn’t it a challenge to Eric Idle?
Eric wrote all of Monty Python’s songs including “always look on the bright side of life”
@@realburglazofficial2613 it’s true that Eric wrote most of the songs including most of those in Spamalot but the Camelot song was credited to John and Graham and the lumberjack song was by Michael and Terry Jones I remember watching an interview round the time of Spamalot where John explained how the song came about
@@janicecostall5897 ah okay!
"They had explosives at that time"? 😂😂😂 since the the 9th century mate.
funny trivia, the dye they used on the rabbit for blood didn't wash out. They had to give it back to the little girl they borrowed it from with bloody jaws.
They didn't have a big budget for this film so couldn't afford horses so used coconuts instead. Life of Brian had a decent budget as it was backed by Beatle George Harrison who briefly has a snapshot appearance in it.
this and the life of brian are the two monty python classics
I heard a Medievalist History prof once say that life as depicted in this film for the peasants was one of the most accurate in any film she had seen. Brave Brave Sir Robin had a big chicken on his shield.
Credits used to be at the start of every movie (opening credits). First end credits or closing credits was in 1956's Around the World in 80 days.
Best Monty Python film is "The life of Brian". You should watch that. So, well written and acted.
the black knight was easy to do. it was just a hole in the ground a man in the hole with a stick controlling the dummy on the top. love you guys keep up the good work.
The Forest shown is Epping Forest, 12 miles of deciduous woods between West Essex and East London. I grew up playing in it, unsupervised. Where East London buries it's secrets and the Police know exactly where to look.
I saw this film for the first time on tv one NYE after a number of beers. The opening scene where you first see coconut man made me wet myself laughing.........
It's a sad, sad day when you have to censor Monty Python for CZcams!
monty python , the meaning of life
Such a great film never gets old
Actually that is the second best song ever....
Let's start a debate here....
The top spot goes too......
The Galaxy Song...
I will just leave this here...
8:45 that was poking fun at Flagellants who harm themselves to prove their faith. It was a thing every once in a while during bad times e.g. plagues. However, even today you have some fanatic sects in various religions that still practice this in one form or the other.
The Witch is played by Polly, from Fawlty Towers.
The word they hate to hear is IT 😂
You can time travel back to 932AD and try and be a Knight of the Roundtable if you want but you will be nearly have a millennia too late if you do, lol
One thing is certain: none of Arthur's retinue killed the historian.
Why? They have no horses while the culprit was riding one.
I'm going to try and change your mind - you wouldn't be able to travel back in a time machine and blag your way into becoming a knight of the round table, because it's a folk story and not something that happened...
1 of the biggest troll moves at the end of a movie
Trojanrabbit is my main gamer tag. This movie had a huge impact on my life
Breaking the 4th wall, have you seen Spaceballs? lol
The background of this story, I think, was to counter the popular - and completely sanitized - impression of "knights in shining armor in days of yore, rescuing fair maidens and slaying mighty dragons. It was a dirty, brutal period, and logic was one victim. During times of plagues like the Black Death, entire towns and villages were impacted, all at once. The "bring out your death" cart was one way to remove corpses before they began to rot, because so many were dying at once. (In a few cases, I believe entire neighborhoods were killed.)
Yes, there were many ghost villages all over Europe left empty after everyone died. If there were any survivors they left to find somewhere else to live rather than be alone.
I can't even begin to imagine how it must have been like to have lived through it. I think the worse thing would be not knowing what caused it or how to treat it. They had no idea about germ theory, bacteria, infection, & illness was a punishment from god. It must have seemed that god had abandoned them which would have been catastrophic because religion & the church were central to everyone's lives.
There was a rise of religious fanaticism as a result, but at the same time also a movement away from the church as prayer & priests had not helped. In fact some of the religious orders devoted to helping people, such as the Dominicans who worked among the poor & the sick, died en masse. Entire monasteries were left with all the monks (friars in the case of the Dominicans) dead. The only religious people who survived were the contemplative orders who lived apart from the world, locked away. Satanism saw as surge in popularity during the later years of the Black Death & immediately afterwards, although there were severe punishments if you were caught. It's a fascinating time period.
@@angelaburrow8114 Some people speculate that during this time, cats were considered agents of witches and Satan, and were hunted down and burned in the fires that were burning witches. Cats often can't capture full-grown rats but probably would be able to have kept the baby rats were reaching adulthood.
Part of this theory is that all throughout Europe at this time, there arose legends of "little people," goblins, elves, fairies, leprechauns, gnomes - and if you left a saucer of milk outside at night, you got good luck.
1. What about the moose?
2. Paying attention to the opening credits makes it better for everyone, including you.
3. The first time I saw this was in the back of a pickup at a drive-in (it's still here) with my siblings and a couple of friends.
4. Perfect Monty Python where you can just get sucked into something where you don't have to think about anything and just let yourself go.
5. "What ya gonna do? Bleed on me." 🤣"we'll call it a draw" 🤣
6. Quick bit: "Blow it out your ass"!
7. The ultimate cock block 😭
8. Robin's shield is a chicken.
9.The only horse in the film is ridden by the guy that killed the historian.
10.The ending sucked. It was a cop out. They ran out of 🤑🤑
Don’t tell Daniel… but you’re my favourite 😂
Did I detect a HotFuzz reference? If so, well done
The ending was a literal cop-out.
Gotta do Life of Brian. FAR SUPERIOR
8:33 flagellants were and still are a real thing. They whip themselves mostly. Self-flagellation got real popular during the Black Plague.
you must watch the lumberjack song by monty python
Perhaps people don't know that the "holy grail" was supposed to be the actual chalice or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper. ("Grail" and "chalice" are both descended from Latin for cup (!)) What it would have been doing in England, and why it would be expected to be so elaborate, was not argued by the people of the time. It also was believe to have many magic powers.
The Di Vinci Code was also about a modern day for the search for the holy grail.
The Dark Ages were an era of all sorts of holy relics, like the 7 claimed foreskins of baby Jesus preserved at various holy sites. Or the total number of wood splints supposed from the actual cross, which would have added up enough to build Noah's ark.
Think the Grail in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"!
24mph is the average speed of an unladen swallow
I remember in the 90s most movies had the credits in the beginning. It was to have people actually see everyone's name.
You have it wrong. It's credits at the end which are weird. No openings credits is a relatively recent thing.
Some Python sketches ended with the police arriving to close it down for being too silly so the end of the film is a version of that. Not sure if the idea is that they really killed the historian guy while making the film and the film is being shut down at the end. It's very meta.
Benny Hill considered than Monty Python by two TV stations--WOR and WLVI.
Saw this at the age of 10 in the cinema when the film first came out. Priceless. Say Film NOT Movie
you are in for a treat' u need to read all the opening credits
Video needs to be bigger.
Now you've seen this you've got to follow up with "The Life of Brian"
He has watched it. Its on patreon
of course they didnt have that technology back then, thats why they had to really cut his arms and legs off.
Sir Lancelot did realise that Sir Galahad was going to get laid, that's why he rescued him, to save him from temptation.
The main difference between a Brit and a Yank watching this film is that the american will keep asking "what?...why are they doing that?....why have they got a man banging coconut shells instead of a horse?,,,,what the fuck is going on" whereas a Brit will just go with it and not be puzzled by anything on the screen.
FYI you wouldn't have been able to blag your way into being one of the knights of the round table mainly because they wouldn't have spoken English, unless you plan on brushing up on your Brythonic (very similar to Welsh).
They never showed enough of a particular scene to get the joke.
It's like you didn't even take the time to read that little bit on the screen, just plain lazy of you...
I have not yet watched your reaction. Just want to say that my two favorite movies of all time is "Life of Brian" and "Monty Python and the holy Grail". Now, lets watch you watch it!
(I´m from Sweden if you see a lot of grammar faults.)
I really enjoyed it !
WOW!! Daniel gave you 'his permission' in THE LAND OF THE FREE' 😂😂🤣🤣 Way to go!!
Because it's not necessary is the reason why it IS necessary
We are the knights who say Ni and we demand a shrubbery !! 😂😂
The reason coconuts were used was because they never had the budget for horses ....
Having the credits before the movie started was the norm back then. George Lucas got fined for butting them after the first star wars movie. So it isn't really weird just of its time tbh
Hiring real horses for the film was too expensive
They are all from the same time period, it's a film about making a film.
Yeah one of the Best Movies !!!!
As to your comment about going back to 932 AD and BS'ing your way into being a Knight of the Round Table... No, you probably couldn't. They didn't speak "English" back then - at least not a form we would understand today. The language they spoke was closer to a version of German, with some Celtic "loan words" thrown in as well, it is known today as "Old English" an Anglo-Saxon tongue.
The animation was done by American Terry Gillam!!! Watch his crazy movies!!!
oh it's not the same.....haha j/k great reaction to an awesome film :)
And now you need to do The Life Of Brian 😄
The Long Good Friday - definitely not a comedy, but well worth watching, a British gangster movie from the 1970s with Bob Hoskins, regarded by many as the best British film ever made (including me!)
I really wish you did the Rutles (the first one All you Need is Cash), even when it's not your first reaction. That doesn't have ANY reactions on here.
Even if they had the technology for the Black Knight scene there is no way they'd have used it as they didn't have the budget, the entire budget for this movie was just a little more than £175k.
The scene was performed by John Cleese and he just put his arms behind his back, then his leg behind his back and for the last bit they dug a hole and stuck him in it.
15:03 and he’s the only one with a horse. 🧐
The greater good!
9:10
How history can be altered 😆
No wench burning occurred in this film!
Having a film about King Arthur set in England and in 932 AD, am not sure they cared about any kind of historical accuracy, lol
@@Penddraig7If there was a real Arthur on which the early Celtic legends are based then he would probably date to around the 5th or 6th century AD.
However the tales we are most familiar with date from much later (the most famous being Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur from 1485) and though generally less than specific about the period they are set in include much more modern features such as stone Norman or later style castles and Knights who adhere to a code of chivalry (which didn't develop until the end of the 12th century), Knights in plate armour etc.
Monty Python obviously opted for a compromise date and didn't worry any more than the Arthurian legends did about having a few anachronisms. The plague didn't reach England until 1348 AD and the witch trial craze didn't start until the 15th century.
@@davidwebb4451 not Celtic and as for the legends, they state that he fought the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons, so easily dates him prior to the 11th century so anything after that is 100% incorrect, it’s also at the start of the Anglo Saxon invasion not the end of the Anglo-Saxon era, that’s just unarguable with need for little to no research into it.
I have studied the subject in great detail and the legends are an amalgamation of 2 different Arthurs 6 generations apart. Arthur 1 fought the Romans and Arthur 2 the Saxons. He could not have been 1 Arthur because that would have made him over 200 years old, so you have to look for 2 Arthurs.
It’s a common occurrence for people with the same name to be conflated with each other due to the way in which stories were told using oral tradition.
The second Arthur of which most of the legends are based on is from the 6th century and is Arthrwys ap Meurig
First time viewer here, but it was still not the same without Daniel here...
One of the greatest movies of all time made on a shoestring budget, hence they could not afford horses
It's not the same without him...
They ran out of money so the ending is a literal cop out.
Always remember the cop out. Folks waiting for 10 mins for the film to continue 🤦♂️👍
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Her debut album The Lion & The Cobra was another Grammy-nominated album which is also incredible. A lot of great songs and albums and collaborations. Important artist worth diving into.
I love to watch Americans react to British humour. We seem to get away with so much more. Have you watched Life of Brian? I also love seeing Americans on British chat shows when they realise they're allowed to swear.
Just for the Algorithm to sing along.
Lyrics
Bravely bold Sir Robin
Rode forth from Camelot.
He was not afraid to die,
Oh brave Sir Robin.
He was not at all afraid
To be killed in nasty ways.
Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin.
He was not in the least bit scared
To be mashed into a pulp.
Or to have his eyes gouged out,
And his elbows broken.
To have his kneecaps split
And his body burned away,
And his limbs all hacked and mangled
Brave Sir Robin.
His head smashed in
And his heart cut out
And his liver removed
And his bowls unplugged
And his nostrils raped
And his bottom burnt off
And his penis
"That's, that's enough music for now lads, there's dirty work afoot."
Brave Sir Robin ran away.
("No!")
Bravely ran away away.
("I didn't!")
When danger reared it's ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
("I never!")
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
("You're lying!")
Swiftly taking to his feet,
He beat a very brave retreat.
Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin!
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