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I've been noticing so many of the reaction channels I'm subscribed to have been getting hit really bad lately. Two channels even got demonetized. Another one just had two Christmas movies in a row get taken down and then reuploaded. Many videos are having disclaimers like you just wrote; they're having delays, having troubles getting stuff uploaded. Really sorry you're having to deal with this. It's totally random, seemingly.
Couple questions- do you edit video and such? If so is there subtitles option? I seen few reactors had subtitles on not auto generated ones, I wonder if you have to manually put in subtitles or is it all automatic? If subtitles require extra work then it’s ok I wouldn’t ask of you to do that
Because auto generated subtitles isn’t 100% correct that’s why I’m asking this since I don’t know how it all works I’m deaf in case you’re wondering why I’m asking these
@@TTM9691 Yep its been a problem as of late and that's why I've been pushing people to subscribe to my second channel, I'm legit worried something might happen to this one. I'm just glad I have great folks like you supporting me in these tough times :)
@@jddole7079 Hi thanks for asking. I'm very new to editing videos and I'm still not sure how to manually write and place subtitles; I think there are apps that help creators do so and I'm planning to hire people to help with production after reaching a certain threshold of subscribers, and helping people enjoy my videos better using manual subtitles is definitely top priority. Right now its just me shooting and editing these videos so I apologize for the automated subtitles for now. I'll definitely improve as I go along :)
@@ShreeNation Oh, I'm definitely already subscribed to your second channel! 🙂
The historian's murderer could NOT have been one of Arthur's knights because, if you noticed, he was riding an actual horse.
Good point!
I actually missed that until I watched people's reactions. THEN is noticed and was thinking the whole ending could have been so different if the cops had been better!
@@davidmichaelson1092 But they weren't! Portraying the cops in a bad light is very typical Monty Python. It's something I love them for.
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
Fun Fact: The famous depiction of galloping horses by using coconut shells (a traditional radio-show sound effect) came about from the purely practical reason that the production simply could not afford real horses.
Metal Funding Fact: Funds earned by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) went towards funding this movie. The band were such fans of the show, they would halt recording sessions just to watch Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969). Led Zeppelin and Genesis contributed to this movie's budget as well.
Swallow This Fact: The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is roughly eleven meters per second, or twenty-four miles per hour, beating its wings seven to nine times per second rather than forty-three. It's true: a five-ounce bird cannot carry a one pound coconut, but furthermore, no swallow weighs five ounces. The English barn swallow weighs only twenty grams (two-thirds of an ounce).
Historical Fact: The French tactic of pelting Arthur and his knights with livestock echoes the relatively modern legend of a medieval siege of the fortified southern French town of Carcassonne. Said to have been near starvation, the townspeople used the last of their food to pelt the besieging army to convince them, suffering likewise, that the town was well stocked with food and that the siege was hopeless. The tactic was successful, and the siege was lifted.
This was a fun read! Thank you for the info 😍
Your welcome! It's my pleasure, really!
Merry Christmas! (Luke 2 : 8-14 (KJV)) 🎄 🎅
Go in Peace and Walk with God. 😎 👍
They could afford horses, they just didn't want to have to learn how to RIDE horses.
The real killer (of the historian) was riding a horse (proving that Arthur and his men could NOT have killed him).
And the irony is they afforded ONE horse...the person who killed the historian.
Insulting Fact: "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!" is not just a nonsensical insult. It actually means something. Hamsters, like other rodents and similar animals like rabbits, have a high reproductive rate. And elderberries are used to make gin and other alcoholic beverages. So he's basically saying, "Your mother was a slut, and your father was a drunk!"
Terry Jones, the director, was actually an expert on medieval history, so a lot of the jokes actually work at different levels
Terry Gilliam, the only American in the Python troupe, is the codirector of this and their animator. He went on to direct an amazing run of films in the 80s and 90s. He's a visual genius, on the level of Kubrick. "Time Bandits", "Brazil", "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and "12 Monkeys" are must watch films... and all have some degree of Python humor (and sometimes cast).
Yes, I stopped the video to let her know that Gilliam is the only American on the team. John Cleese is playing the Frenchman (and also Sir Lancelot, Tim the Enchanter, the Black Knight, and several other roles; most of the members of the group here are playing multiple roles, with the exception of Graham Chapman, who is Arthur - though I believe even he takes an extra part in the Swamp Castle scene as the hiccupping guard). All the movies that Dan Jackson mentions are very much worth catching.
The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, and 12 Monkeys are my favorites from your list with Brazil, and Time Bandits coming in close seconds, Dan. I’ve always felt Munchausen was a bit long for general audiences, but it has so many perfect moments that intersect humor, sociopolitical commentary, cinematography, stagecraft, and philosophy that I find myself revisiting it over the years more so than the other titles. 12 Monkeys feels like the perfect dystopian time travel sci-fi film that ticks of all the feels(It’s no wonder it inspired a series). Brazil remains painfully relevant for anyone engaged in corporate, and political bureaucracies with Kafkaesque humor as dark as it gets, and Time Bandits is an over the top romp that I still admire, but damn- that’s a dark ending for a film marketed to parents initially for kids!
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He also plays the part of Patsy
Baron Munchausen is MENTAL and so is Brazil!
That scene with the King giving the guards instructions flashes through my mind every night when I find myself once again explaining the concept of bedtime to my children.
Yep. It's a Trojan Rabbit. I think you missed the actual punchline here that Bedivere, Galahad and Lancelot were supposed to be in the rabbit and weren't. That's why Bedivere kind of desperately suggests they now build a large wooden badger, not that the rabbit is actually a badger.
I think she missed a lot through the film
@@chrislawley6801 - Yup... she was far more interested in making snarky comments than actually paying attention.
The picture of God was a turn of the century cricketer named W.G. Grace. Jack Black was 5 when this movie was made.
The French taunter is Monty Python member John Cleese, who is also Lancelot and Tim the Enchanter.
Cleese was also the black knight ... 'none shall pass'
Ah, so it’s the Grace of God? 😉
@@0okamino "Those are all cricketers!"
"Aaaawww, Spit!"
"Howls of Derisive Laughter, Bruce!"
🤪🤪🤪
"Tis but a scratch!"
"A scratch!? Your arms off!"
"No it isn't."
"Well what's that?"
"I've had worse."
"You liar!"
"Come on, you pansy!"
When this film was reliesed, everybody loved it, but the next film, that they made, "Life of Brian", turned out to be a true master piece in cinematic history. It was so controversial, that it got censored in many places of the world, and there were demonstrations etc. It really hit the nerve, was a succesful and ultimately funny. film The producer who had promised to give my to it, got scared about its content and drew the money away just days before the filming was supposed to start in Africa, but the menber of the band Beatles, George Harrison, gave them the money to do the film, "because he wanted to see the film". It is truly quite a great film, and in fact quite deep and even spiritual film in an autenhthic way.
"Careful now"
"Down with this sort of thing"
Love this! Can't wait to watch it soon 😍
@@ShreeNation go on, go on, go on, go on, go on☕
Most underrated line in the film: "Perhaps he was dictating." 😆
Yes!
Agreed
The ending was a joke in itself. It was a Cop Out.. 🤣🤣🤣
Love that 👏
Now with the ending you can say that you've been trolled by a movie before the internet even existed. Welcome to the club!
BTW the LARP aspect is as good of an explanation as it gets. Most of the reaction folk get stuck on the WTF reaction and never get to develop the theory that the story was a LARP session, so you did well :D
I think you lost the bet, it was not Doc Brown :D
Thank you 🥰
@Shree Nation Your left boob is MINE now. /j
But this film, being nearly 50 years old, existed before larping was an idea; I was in high school st the time and never heard of larping until much later
"They hired the sound team..."
Close! Patsy (and the old man from scene 24 and the animator) is played by co-director Terry Gilliam.
The big twist, the woman was actually a witch. At least that’s what’s inferred by her statement after the weighing.
I loved this film. Absurdistic humor has always been my favorite after reading books like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and seeing Python sketches on TV. Here in The Netherlands they were a common sight on TV growing up.
I just finished the first Hitchhiker's book and omg, what a barrel of laughs! 👏
The reason they sound like college graduates is because they are. Three of the 6 Pythons (the main cast) went to Cambridge, and two went to Oxford.
13:11 Guys like this were real. They were called flagellants, and they thought pain purified them of sin. Naturally, being religious zealots, they tended to become a problem when they decided to purify other people for their own good...
It's like no one has seen The Seventh Seal.
@@monsterlair
Question: "What's the greatest movie ever made?"
Answer: "You mean, besides The Seventh Seal"?
Everyone talks about 'the greatest'. The greatest song, the greatest actor, the best this, the finest that, etc. Normally I roll my eyes a little bit at this. But the older I get, the more films I watch, the more I learn about film making, about art in general... this is one claim I'm beginning to take seriously. The Seventh Seal might just be the greatest movie ever made. What a genius Bergman was, and what a gift he gave to us.
@@s.jackson8098 I'm still waiting for someone, anyone, to react to some Bergman movies. The Seventh Seal, while certainly an exciting masterpiece and proper adult cinematic art, is not my favourite Berman film. That honour goes to Wild Strawberries.
I love the final trolling Monty Python did to everyone with the 2 minutes of just music with no credits.
Well they did fire the subtitles team at opening credits so....
It's nice to have a bit of music when you walk out of the cinema, you know. 😄
@@radekc5325 True!
932 AD is the year of the movie.
I love the monks' chant. They are saying, "God is dead, now let him rest." Whack!
I used to live in England for years and i really love their sense of humor and the team of Monty Python nailed it. (Life of Brian is my favorite)
They says that movie was ahead of its time and very brave...
Well, humor exists because the world can be terrible, humor is the antithesis of sadness and we laugh to feel better.
Likewise, the "problems/issues" that the film addresses were also relevant back then, just not as "loud" as they are nowadays.
And it is so funny to see other people get offended by this kind of humor because they can't take a joke or irony.
Agreed!
I excitedly wait for your reaction to 'Monty Python's Life of Brian', genius satire!
Coming very soon 🥰
The best line from the Camelot song: We sing from the di-a-phram-a-lot.
Jack Black was 6 years old when this film was made 🤣🤣🤣
By the time they get to the "Trojan Rabbit" scene and they all forget to get in, that's when you say I'm turning off my brain and just going to laugh.
I love how the french are roasting them even accross the water
NOBODY expects the flying cow!
It is udderly unexpected
A couple of fun movies you may enjoy: “Repo Man,” and “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension.”
Thank you for the recommendations ❤
Entertaining video, as usual!
- my favorite comedy is a 3-way tie: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Airplane! (1980) and Team America: World Police (2004).
- Nope, it wasn’t Doc Brown/Christopher Lloyd playing the french taunter. It was John Cleese. There are only six members of the Monty Python ‘gang.’ Everyone had to play multiple roles (in this and other films). I’ve included a list of who played who, below.
- I highly recommend Rob Ager’s video analysis on this film: Monty Python and the Holy Grail - The anti-movie movie. Here: czcams.com/video/kTDALu3f4-g/video.html
- The famous historian wasn’t killed by anyone associated with King Arthur. We know that, because the historian was killed by a man on horseback (the only 2 seconds where we see a horse in the entire film). No one else had a horse. So the dead historian’s wife mistakenly ID’d the wrong people.
- The film doesn’t care what the reality of the situation is, and never explains it. We don’t know if Arthur and gang are loony cosplayers in 1970s England, or if it's actually Medieval times and some 1970s cops and civilians were somehow sent back in time, or if it’s a strange ‘pocket universe’ that a bunch of people from different earth eras were dumped into. (How did Arthur’s men use power tools, which we hear being used, to construct the Trojan Rabbit, if it’s 1,000 years before power tools were invented, for example?) Part of the film’s charm is the craziness, the contradictory aspects.
Here’s who played who:
Graham Chapman
King Arthur
Middle Head, of the 3-headed monster
Hiccuping Guard
God (voice)
John Cleese
Lancelot
Black Knight
Tim the Enchanter
Taunting Frenchman
Eric Idle
Sir Robin
Roger the Shrubber
non-hiccuping guard
bring-out-your-dead collector
Concorde (Lancelot’s squire)
Brother Maynard
Terry Gilliam
Green Knight (who is killed by the Black Knight, before Arthur’s combat)
Patsy
Bridgekeeper
The Animator (himself)
Bors (who attacks the rabbit first)
Terry Jones
Sir Bedivere
Prince Herbert
Left head (?)
Michael Palin
Sir Galahad
King of Swamp Castle
Leader: Knights who say Ni!
Dennis
First Swallow-savy guard
Right Head
The film’s narrator
My take is that there is no in-movie explanation for mixing the different eras. It was just another way MP created absurd conditions, not unlike a 4th wall break. Just because, and it provided more plot branches.
Nice! Thank you 😍
As much as I love the absurdism of Holy Grail, their movie The Life of Brian has a valuable message for humankind. Brian is my favorite Python movie by a mile.
My favorite comedies of all time:
After Hours (1985, Dir: Martin Scorsese)
The Commitments (1991, Dir: Alan Parker)
A Hard Day's Night (1964, Dir Richard Lester)
Thank you for the recommendations 😍
The coconuts have major significance. They didnt have the budget for actual horses. It was a constant running gag
This movie was made in 1975, MONTY PYTHON is a comedy group, they use to do do tours, it's just the 5 of them
18:55 Haha, no, it's John Cleese. One of the Monty Python crew, and, like others, he plays multiple roles in the film, including Lancelot and Tim the Enchanter.
'Well, a new level has been unlocked in the video game.' thus explaining the preceding sound effect.
You are a proud American. No silly monarchy for you!
Half of Americans want a Dictator. The other half wont shut the fuck up about the British Royals.
I'm from India :) So yes, no silly monarchy ever again!
19:13 "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."
😆 No one delivers an insult like the _French._
The reoccuring African Swallow gag is just hilarious.
ALL members of Monty Python's Flying Circus were British, none were American. the French knight speaking was John Cleese, one of the members of Monty Python, who also played Sir Lancelot and Tim the Enchanter.
(and the year mentioned isn't 93 squared, its just 932 A.D.)
If you liked this one, then you have to watch their next film, Monty Python’s Life of Brian. I’d also recommend you check out their British tv show from the 70s, Monty Python’s Flying Circus. For a slightly more recent (80s) American silly comedy, you should see Airplane!
Can't wait! Airplane reaction is up on my channel :)
Graham Chapman - King Arthur, Middle Head of Three-Headed Knight, Hiccuping guard, God
John Cleese - Sir Launcelot, French Taunter, Black Knight, Tim the Enchanter, 2nd Coconut guard
Eric Idle - Sir Robin, Dead Collector, Roger the Shrubber, Concord, Dumb guard, Brother Maynard
Terry Jones - Sir Bedivere, Prince Herbert, Left Head of Three-Headed Knight, Dennis' mother
Michael Palin - Sir Galahad, Swamp King, Leader of the Knights who Say Ni, Right Head of Three-Headed Knight, Dennis, 1st coconut guard, narrator
Terry Gillam - Patsy, Bridgekeeper, Green Knight, Bors, weak-hearted animator
Connie Booth (John Cleese's wife at the time) - "witch"
Carol Cleveland - Zoot, Dingo
Neil Innes - Sir Robin's minstrel, Lead monk
John Young - Historian, "not dead" old man
Monty Python was an English comedy troupe in the 1970s. The logical next movie would be "The Life of Brian."
I'm not sure I can state my favorite comedy film of all time, but here are a couple of candidates:
1. The "Pink Panther" series, starting with "The Pink Panther."
They're American movies about an incompetent French police detective.
2. "Some Like it Hot"
It's about two poor musicians in the 1920s who accidentally witness a mob execution and have to hide out.
Thank you for the recommendations ❤ definitely watching Life of Brian very soon!
1. What about the moose?
2. The worst "cock block" EVER😭
3. The first time I saw this was in the back of a pickup with my siblings and a couple of friends. (It's still here btw)😎
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." 🤣 "Alright, we'll call it a draw" 🤣
6. Quick bit: "Blow it out your ass"!
7. The budget didn't allow real horses.
8. The only horse in the film is ridden by the guy that killed the historian.
9. The ending is a "Cop out". They ran out of 💲💲💲
44:55 That wasn't a rabbit, it was a 'chicken'. 😂
The ending was, quite literally, a cop out. The irony is that they were innocent. The killer rode a horse, and none of characters had horses. They used coconuts because they couldnm't afford horses.
Also, back in the 60's & 70's if a movie was over 3 hours long they had intermissions in movie theaters so people could either have bathroom breaks, stretch your legs or buy more snacks. Examples of movies having intermissions are Apocalypse Now! & It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Sound of Music too!
They should definitely bring it back
@@ShreeNation The closest to that was when Tarantino had the special 35 mm showing of The Hateful Eight in the theaters. But only that, on regular theaters there was no intermission.
And this intermission is hilarious, because it's wrong on FIVE levels at once: Wrong length -- only a few seconds. Wrong music -- the goofy carnival organ just doesn't fit the mood. Wrong place in the scene -- deflating the tension of the bridge crossing. Wrong place in the movie as a whole -- right near the end rather than the middle. And the wrong movie! (A movie this short would never have an intermission.) It's such deliberately hideous, glaringly awful film making, it's brilliant. Gorgeous. Typical Python.
@@s.jackson8098 Exactly!!!
6:40 - A cart with dead bodies is being hauled through a cesspool of plague sufferers. A man hits a bell, shouting "Bring out your dead !!"
Shree's reaction: "This makes me so thankful for good roads in my city." - Hahahaha.
The 'Bring out your dead" was factual. When the Black Plague was rampant in the UK carts used to go around and collect the bodies.
I can't remember the document, but there actually is a page, written in a monastery in the dark ages, with cat prints were a cat got ink on it's paws and walked across calligraphy.
Love that 😍🐾
Until you said "93 squared" I never noticed the 2 in 932 AD was a smaller font... but no it's not the future.
The taunting French knight is John Cleese, and he was the second knight in the fist scene who suggested "it could be carried by an African swallow". The main one there was Michael Palin.
John Cleese is also Sir Launcelot, the guy pleading with Eric Idle to take away the not-dead guy, Tim the Enchanter and the Black Knight, and Michael Palin is Galahad, the narrator, the father in the castle, the Knight of Ni, the anarchosyndicalist peasant, the monk reading the instructions for the Holy Hand Grenade, and the triple knight head on the right. Both of them are in the witch crowd. John Cleese is the one who "got better".
It's the same castle every time shot from different angles.
Zoot and her twin Dingo are played by Carol Cleveland, who worked with them throughout their TV series. Fun fact: Carol Cleveland just turned 81.
Best MPFC movie? "Life of Brian".
Thank you 🙏 Life of Brian coming soon!
22:40 It wasn't a cannon, it was a catapult or trebuchet. It was fairly standard military practice in middle ages Europe.
Favorite comedy of all time: A Fish Called Wanda (1988), starring John Cleese and Michael Palin (both from Monty Python), along with Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline (who won an Oscar for the role). Raising Arizona (1987) would be a close second. My favorite Python movie aside from this one would be Life of Brian (1979).
Eric Idle, another former member of Monty Python, adapted "Holy Grail" into a Tony Award-winning stage musical called "Spamalot" in the early 2000s, taking its name from an infamous sketch from the original Monty Python television series. It remains the only Broadway show I've ever been to.
A few notes/observations:
-the subtitles gag works even better today than it would have in 1975...
-the "bring out your dead" scene plays very differently post-COVID...
-the basis for God was cricketer W. G. Grace
-you lose your left boob; the French taunter was John Cleese, not Christopher Lloyd
-flinging a cow is one of the more accurate parts of the film (although in siege warfare, diseased and dead cows and other animals were usually flung *into* castles to make the inhabitants sick)
Haha amazing! Knowing these things makes the movie even better 😄 And definitely agree about post-COVID reference.
A movie about larping before larping was even a thing!
LARPing wasn’t really a thing back in the 70’s, so you can also see it as a series of nested films: first, as a film about Arthur and his knights. Then zoom out, and you see it’s actually an educational film about King Arthur and his knights. Then zoom out again, and you see it’s a guerilla documentary about the making of the educational film, and how the filmmaking process goes awry when the narrator of the educational film gets murdered and they have to chase down the cast and cinematographer to find out if they were involved. (Hint-they weren’t. The murderer rode an actual horse. They were dressed as a cast member to throw the suspicion on someone in the production-but if they had been watching the dailies, they would know that none of the other knights were riding an actual horse, so it couldn’t be anyone connected with the educational film. The pool of suspects narrowed quickly after that.)
Filmception!
This is obviously a documentary. That's clearly Arthur Pendragon, son of Uther, sovereign of all England. Cops are just so dogged they'd even travel back in time to arrest an innocent man. He was totally framed!
The funniest throwback that I actually overlooked completely until I saw a CZcams comment is there are no end credits because the people responsible for the credits were sacked at the start of the film, and the animator died of a heart attack so there's no graphics.
Monty Python always was and always will be, the Kings of the Theatre of the Absurd. Absurdity to the nth degree.
One of the jokes that people miss is that the police arrested the wrong people. The historians murderer had a horse while King Arthur and his fellow LARPer's did not.
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe and Merry Christmas 🎄
Happy holidays!
The "French Guy" is John Clese. He is one of the Members of Monty Python.
No, the supposed date of the movie is 932 AD. The funky font has the "2" too small.
The background of the story is that of King Arthur (who never existed, as far as anyone knows). He became king by pulling a magical sword out of the stone, which no one else, even the strongest in the land could do. (Merlin, the magician, had placed it there for a test for whom should become king.) Also there is something about the Lady of the Lake who extends her hand up from the lake with this sword, Excalibur, but I forget how that fits into the picture.
Arthur gathers up a bunch of warriors whom he beknights. They sit around a round table, to indicate everyone is equal. At some point, he seeks the "holy grail" which was supposed to be the actual chalice (or cup) for the wine at the Last Supper. One of the knights is Sir Lancelot who cheats on Arthur with Arthur's wife.
There is not an official "cannon" of the legends, which vary all over the place and aren't consistent. But the legend of King Arthur was used for all sorts of romantic tales of knights in shining armor who slay a dragon to rescue a fair maiden. Many, many stories, the list is endless.
What Monty Python is trying to get across (behind the comedy) is a different and more realistic view of the era of brutality and ignorance. Various plagues swept Europe during this era, and the death rate at times became so high, they did collect dead bodies like the weekly trash pickup, to dump into open pit graves.
It appears that it was the domestication of the cat back thousands of years earlier which allowed the rise of agriculture, because without cats, rodents eat (or spoil) all the stored grain. However, doing the Middle Ages, cats were considered to be agents of demons (after all, their eyes glow at night), and so people keeping them were accused to trafficking with the devil. Hence, diseases like the Black Death swept across Europe, carried by the fleas on rats. Some towns had more than 1/3 of their population wiped out.
They also persecuted anyone not confirming to the religious norms, including woman, labelling them witches with all sorts of illogical reasoning (including harboring black cats).
Thanks for the info!
35:26 "That's a good man. He gives his, uh, employees the day off if they're sick or injured or have an _arrow_ sticking through their chest."
Tunic. They had just made clear, actually, Concorde's _chest_ was _fine._ The arrow had only pierced his _tunic._ So, yes, Lancelot is a _very_ good man.
No.... Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown) was not in any Monty Python movie. All the major roles are played by the members of Monty Python. They all played more than one role by the way. The French taunter was John Cleese.
Just to clarify what I said in chat, Merlin (1998) shares the name of a series from 2008. Haven't seen the later one, but the one from the '98s stars Sam Neil, Isabella Rossellini, Miranda Richardson, and Martin Short among many other big names. If you can deal with some dated effects (it was made for television) it's a great watch and an interesting take on Arthurian lore.
(Edit) Just found out the whole thing is on a few CZcams channels. czcams.com/video/o1arzN4Dkx8/video.html
Also, The Meaning of Life is probably my favorite Monty Python movie. It's basically a bunch of sketches about life and death strung together thematically. Has even less of a plot than this one does, but I love the humor.
Ah interesting, i thought it was the recent one. Will definitely watch the show as well as more Monty Python movies :)
46:16 Tim the Sorcerer just laughing at them is hilarious Btw, limited theater screening next month in December! 🎥
45:09 I can tell you, as someone who has _owned_ rabbits, they're not to be underestimated. They can be _fierce._
45:36 Granted, they've never actually done the likes of _this._
it's funny how the same castle from different angles is made to represent several different locations.
The guys hitting themselves in the head was a reference to the cult of self-flagelists that spread through Europe during the middle ages. That short sequence actually had a historical basis.
"Tim" _is_ a very good name for an enchanter, but I imagine he would probably _not_ seek employment at the EPA.
The historian also played Mathias from Life of Brian, the character who was being stoned for saying Jehovah.
I love British comedy, Monty python's life of Brian is my favorite comedy, holy grail is very close.
The year 932 A.D. is during the Middle Ages in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. A.D. means Anno Domini after the birth and death of Jesus Christ. B.C. means Before Christ. The Death of Christ was between 30 and 36 A.D. according to scholars.
Monty Python was a British Comedy Troupe (with one American with the Troupe, Terry Gilliam who played many characters and did the animation) on British TV and it was called "Monty Python's Flying Circus which they did comedy skits from 1969 to 1974 or 1975. I use to watch "Monty Python's Flying Circus on PBS (Public Broadcasting System) on TV back around 1973 to about 1975/1976 when I was in my late teens and when I turned 20. The so called Swedish subtitles under the credits are sarcastic humor and some of the other credits as well. I caught that humor right away when I first saw this film in 1975 at the theater and the entire film. As an American, I always understood their humor from the get go from the first time I watched their TV comedy show.
The movie's era, 932 AD, is long before Christopher Columbus and the discovery by Europeans of the Western hemisphere, including tropical islands where coconuts grow. (At the time, Europeans had never encountered many fruits we take for granted today, like potatoes, tomatoes, pineapples, bananas, or corn.)
Actually, coconuts were commonly traded between India and Rome during late antiquity.
@@polytropos1.1 Did not know that. Thanks.
@@johnnehrich9601 and swallows were much bigger back then
Fun fact John cleese The guy playing Sir Lancelot is the guy who voiced King Harold on Shrek 2
30:33 You’re the first reactor I’ve seen to laugh at the “bloody weather” punchline. 👏
Great reaction, Shree!!! My favorite funny full movie is What's Up, Doc? (1972). The film that makes me laugh so hard that my side hurts every time I watch it is Chickens Come Home (1931), which is a Laurel and Hardy pre-code short film.
Thank you for the recommendations ❤
@@ShreeNation Not me this time, but while I'm here, I second the recommendation!!!
30:08 Also there are absolutely ancient manuscripts with inky cat pawprints on them. They really exist, it's good to know cats have been little bastards for centuries.
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The french shoot the cow and the rabbit with a trebuchet.
A trebuchet can launch a 90kg projectile over 300m. ;)
The pedantic instructions for the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch were meant to be plodding, as it was spoofing the flowery language often found in Old and Middle English texts from the Dark Ages, Middle Ages, and Renaissance, including biblical passages and literary works (likely because monks and other scribes from these centuries had a lot of spare time to write elaborately, as they weren’t distracted by the web, streaming series, TV, and other diversions like we have today).
The collective known as "Monty Python" were absurdists. They made their name with the totally incomprehensible series "Monty Pythons flying Circus" that ran for a few seasons in Britain in the early seventies. I am sure you already know this and the background.
Their impact on both British and American humor can not be overstated. The singularly most famous individual was John Cleese closely followed by Eric Idle and Michael Palin. Terry Gilliam was the american polymath that added the hilarious cartoon elements in the tv series as well as the numerous movies they made.
The collective ended when Graham Chapman died from aids. He's the one that played King Arthur here as well as "Brian" in "The life of Brian" .. their perhaps best movie. Their original series "Monty Pythons flying Circus" is the greatest collection of absurdist humor ever created and just as funny today as it was when it was released in the early seventies.
The sole reason for this is the sheer amount of talent that united to create it: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam. All of them legends.
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Loved watching you react to this. I first saw it when I was 7 and it flipped my brain.
Thank you ❤
Now that you've watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail, you're going to be getting a lot of people suggesting you watch Blazing Saddles. Back in the 70s and 80s, they were often shown as a double featue.
Blazing Saddles coming up next :)
There's almost too much to unpack here for you to get a fuller context for many of the jokes you may have missed. But here goes:
- The coconuts for horses: This is an old foley technique for creating the sound of horse hooves. The one person who supplied horses for film productions was so expensive (nay, usurious) that they decided to take the piss instead.
- The village death scene: Set during the black death period, in which there would be corpse collectors going round to do just as you saw.
- The dirt farmers going on about autonomous collectives: I believe this is how some modern unions organize their leadership, in theory at least.
- Witch scene: OK now... Back in those times, in many villages, if a woman lived alone, say if she was widowed, the villagers would get suspicious of what she might be doing in her house, all alone. They would imagine that she was conjuring all manner of evil spirits and the like (I'm not kidding, this really happened). One of the tests for this was the ducking stool, a seat in which the suspected witch was placed and lowered into the water. If she sank I believe that meant she was innocent, or something like that. The same implement was used to punish women who gossiped or did other things that annoyed their men.
- Frogs, erm Frenchmen in the castle: Britain may not be at war with France these days, but it remains an ancient rivalry, stretching back many centuries. So, the British will take any opportunity to take the mickey out of them, as you see here. As for the animals launched in the general direction of the knights, this was also very much a thing, as the rotting carcasses would act as sort of bio-weapons, spreading disease, etc.
Thanks for the info!
@@ShreeNation Whew, you're very welcome! I hope it didn't come across as mansplaining, it was more oldfartsplaining lol. I grew up in the 70s.
There is at least one medieval book that has cat footprints in ink on a page.
Probably my favourite comedy movie is the follow up to this one: "Monty Python's Life of Brian" :)
The ending is *literally* a "cop-out..."
At some point, you should watch the "Monty Python's Flying Circus" series (from 1969-72) which is where they started as a group.
Will do :)
"chickens are a-holes" such a great comment, love... thanks for the great reaction.. yeah, i think this movie hit the right spots for you.. thx
Thanks for watching ❤
There are for sure illuminated manuscripts with little cat paw prints across them, so your observation as the tale of Sir Lancelot was starting was on the money. Also God in this movie is actually an animated picture of a cricket player named W.G. Grace.
Love that! 🐾
13:10 Ah, you've never heard of the flagellants have you? They were a movement during the black death that thought the plague was a punishment from God, and that they could end it by punishing themselves in ways reminiscent of the tortures Jesus underwent while en route to his crucifixion. It should be noted that the clergy very much disapproved of the movement, but weren't really in a position to stop it.
Shree, in the Ancient Aliens and the Holy Grail episode, they show what happened to it, but in the movie the Davinci Code, they say it went somewhere in France
They used to use catapults back then. It's like a slingshot but much much bigger. The French must have used a very big one.
56:20 At the time the movie came out I was 14 yrs old. and the year before this release, Dungeons and Dragons, The dice game was released. It took a few years But the seeds for LARP were planted.
My favorite credit: 142 Mexican whooping llamas.
“Chickens are a**h***s . That’s what I eat them.” LOL
The plot is sort of correct....uh...based on parts of the original Le Morte D'Arthur (Sir Thomas Mallory, 1470 AD). Some liberties were taken during production based on the tiny budget. It only became a re-enactment after the sudden demise of the historian---otherwise it would have been a docudrama.
The image they used for "The Lord" was of a British Comedian from the late 1800's - or so I've been told. Not Karl Marx or Jack Black.
"What is the capital of Assyria?"
My answer: what, do you mean Assur or Nineveh?
I think that would have defeated him.
but Ashur and Niveneh were prone to attacks so the capital was moved south to Babylon and Uruk
The killer of the historian was NOT one of Arthur's knights; that person rode a real horse!
Good point!
The gorge of eternal peril presumably leads back to castle anthrax. Conservation of peril.
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail": A ROTFLMAO trip on a Coconut horse through King Arthur's 10th century Britain. Swallows abound, dropping Coconuts across Mercia. Beware the master of insults, the French Knight!;) 18:25 Nope, hiring Christopher Lloyd would have blown the minuscule production budget. 20:26 Cannons!? This is the Tenth century, Gunpowder is still in China. The French were using a Catapult, maybe even a Trebuchet. 20:49 Two floppy ears and buck teeth = Rabbit. "Trojan Chicken"!?
Christopher Lloyd still hadn't been in a movie; this came out in 1974, but Lloyd's debut was in 1975's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He wouldn't have blown the budget, they could have got him cheap.