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Monty Python And The Holy Grail Group Movie REACTION
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It’s funny when you realize that the actual guy who killed the famous historian rode on a real horse, everyone else had coconuts
Some say the real killer is still put there, still killing historians to this day...
lol I never thought of that.
@@Mike_Dark Also, the guy who played the enchanter was supposed to say a ridiculously long name. He just forgot then just said… Tim?
I've watched this movie more times than I can count and I only realised this when I read your comment lmao
I like to think that Sir Notappearing was the murderer
None of them killed the historian. He was killed by a knight on a horse, something that doesn't apply to any of Arthur's knights (nor Arthur himself).
how have i never noticed that
30 years of watching this movie, and I never realized that lol
Could have been Sir Notappearing
@@noremac7216 no, because this knight appeared, even for a split second.
@@noremac7216 But then he wouldn't have lived up to his name!
The ending was a literal example of a “cop out”
And was a result of them running out of the (already shoestring) budget they had for the movie. There are so many jokes that came about because of the budget that John, Terry, Eric, Terry, and Michael got woven into the film so well you thought it was intentional.
The coconuts for horses? Didn't have the budget for actual horses.
The black beast? They actually did run out of animation budget.
Their costumes? Only Arthur wears actual metal, everyone else wears painted wool.
The cop out at the end? No money left for the castle siege.
also the black screen & lack of credits at the end - they fired those responsible for the credits right at the start, after all
ALL movies used to have credits at the beginning. You didn’t even start seeing closing credits until sometime in the late-60s/early-70s. Most famously, George Lucas had to pay a fine for not having opening credits in Star Wars because he had a vision for the intro he really wanted to keep. Now credits are largely inverted compared to 50 years ago, though you do still see light opening credits in many movies.
Came to say this. I think Star Wars changed the standard and that was the 70s
I also came to,say this … credits always were at the start of the movies back in the day.
It always surprises me when people are surprised by opening credits! Even all the classics by Disney have them.
@@Gwydda Agreed. If you every even watched Fox and the Hound, credits were in the start and that was an 80's film. I remembered fast-forwarding through them a lot as a kid on VHS tapes.
Imagine, the more years pass, the more time in which end credits are most common will happen and more people will forget that beginning credits were ever a thing…
They didn't have the budget for horses and decided that they'd buy some coconuts and be very aware about it.
Welcome to Monty Python lol
Plus only one of them could ride a horse anyway.
A couple historical references -- the French city that threw farm animals at them is a callback to the city of Carcassonne (yup, that one) which when under siege decided to catapult the last of their food at the besiegers in the hopes that they'd conclude the city was so well-stocked that they could afford to throw it away. It worked.
Second, in the oldest Lancelot stories, he does in fact fall into fits of murderous rage and kill perfectly innocent people and then have to perform penance. Lancelot attacking the wedding is perfectly in character.
If you visit that castle today, the guy who runs the gift shop will film you galloping past him banging two coconuts together. Seriously. He even provides the coconuts.
Thank goodness for that, so you don’t have to depend on some swallows to get them.
@@0okamino 😁 🐦 🥥 🦜
All the animation in the film was done by Monty Python member Terry Gilliam. He's the actual animator you see croak in the movie.
He is also Patsy and the Keeper of the Bridge of Death, among others.
Only non-Brit also. Terry Gilliam is from Minneapolis, MN.
And a great director in his own right. 12 Monkeys, Fisher King, Brazil..
If you didn't notice it in the witch scene the scales in background were already not balanced so her sitting in the scale just brought it even with the duck automatically.
I've often though this was a comment on merchants cheating customers by messing with the scale.
The monks hitting themselves in their faces is a reference to Flagellantism. Here's the Wikipedia article that will explain it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellant One thing to keep in mind when watching any Monty Python is that they are extremely well educated on western history and western literature and western philosophy and don't mind reaching into that knowledge for their jokes. If they do something that doesn't make sense it is a toss up between it being some sort of surreal or absurdist joke that actually doesn't make sense or it being some subtle reference to some real historical fact, philosophers work, or classic literature.
Cool thing about the Black Knight, he wears the boar sigil, and a boar is known for fighting to the death even after being fatally wounded
years later the Pythons turned the Camelot scene into a complete musical stage production called Spamalot. it was wildly successful, won a number of Tonys & grossed $175 million.
The stop motion animator Terry Gilliam is one of the Pyrhons (he plays the bridge tender and Patsy the 'horse'). Hes also co director of this film, and went on to become a legendary director in his own right... his movies are almost always visually stunning with a dark sense of humor. His films "Brazil", "Time Bandits", "13 Monkeys" and "Baron Munchhausen" are must sees, and many of them have other Pythons making guest appearances.
Um, actually, the name of the movie is "12 Monkeys" ;-)
@@Wishbone1977 13 is way out!
Don't forget Fisher King with Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges.
Tim the Enchanter was supposed to have some crazy long name but when they filmed the scene the actor, John Cleese, forgot the long name so he just said Tim and everyone just went along with it.
As often as this gets quoted, John Cleese's recollection was instead that he already had decided in advance that Tim was a hilariously normal name for an eccentric magic person. I sat in on an in-person Q&A he was present for at a convention a couple years ago.
I love that the art department gave "brave" Sir Robin a shield with a big chicken on it....
Still one of the funniest movies ever made. I love how they do five seconds on a coconut horse gag and then immediately five minutes deconstructing how the joke made no sense, and that's just the first scene! The Holy Hand Grenade from Worms was indeed taken directly from this movie, right down to the choir just before it explodes.
And that you can't set the timer for it, unlike other grenades. Thou shalt count to three.
Me and my close friend realized this in class when we were learning about Muckrakers and made the connection that was just so funny to us. The Two working in the mud nd pointing out the problems with the political system are Muckrakers - "A muckraker was any of a group of American writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé writing. The muckrakers provided detailed, accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business in a rapidly industrializing United States."
idk, we found it hilarious and never see anyone mention it so I thought I'd pass along the observation =)
People who are puzzled by credits being at the start of a film are people who have lived extremely deprived lives. It means they have watched none of the legendary films prior to Star Wars, which popularized the practice of putting credits at the end. Because yes, for anyone who doesn't know, putting credits at the beginning was standard procedure until comparatively recent years.
Watch Casablanca at the very least.
Credits used to always come at the start. Movies evolved off stage plays, where you were handed a playbill, with the list of actors, as you were being seated. In fact, the earliest movie credits listed "The players." So for decades, credits came at the start, then they began to add some additional ones at the end, until all of them were moved there.
Fun fact: The emblem of the Black Knight is the boar - an animal that often ignores fatal injuries to keep on fighting - just like the Kinight himself!
Fun fact#2: King Arthur is the only one who wears genuine chain-mail armour, everyone else wears painted wool that lookes like metal!
It's a shame the special effects weren't by today's standards as it broke the immersion of this otherwise historically accurate masterpiece.
You're kidding of course.
There are typically two kinds of people for this movie.
The first sees Arthur come up over the hill pretending to ride a horse and immediately laughs.
The other questions why there isn't a real horse.
That pretty much tells you who is down for the absurdity to come and who is just going to be confused for the next hour and a half.
This is the show I’m doing design work for my high school theatre group and I’m tHRILLED to see you guys watch it hAH- cheers!!
06:45 Dennis and his 'wife' are literally "Muckrakers". She's picking through Muck, whilst Dennis is doing what real "Muckrakers" do.
And remember; there are only 6 principal Players in the Troupe; Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam. They, along with Carol Cleveland "Seventh Python" play all of the principal character s in the Film.
Fun fact they can't be the killers of the historian because the killer was riding an actual horse and we know our characters don't have horses.
Love how the last line of the video is “the French won” 😂
I loved your reaction. You guys were so attentive to and in tune with the film and the sketches. I don't think I've seen any reactor respond so positively to this film on the first viewing. Thank you for sharing!
You guys should definitely follow this up with Monty Python's "Life of Brian" next when you have some extra time. This was a pleasant surprise.
This is the best Holy Grail reaction I've seen - awesome that you guys had so much fun watching it.
All of the scenes within a castle except the last one in the middle of a lake were of one privately owned castle in Scotland. At the last minute, the Heritage Trust informed the Pythons that making the movie would not be in the character of the buildings. So they just shot one scene facing one wall, then turned around to the other side of the room and put some different furniture and now you’re in a different “castle”. In the original script draft, Arthur finds the grail at Harrod’s Department Store, because you can find anything at Harrod’s. But they decided to change the ending to a literal ‘cop-out’.
They didn't get the Holy Grail?
Yeah. The real Arthur Legends are like that too. I think there's only a handful of stories where the Knights get the Grail. The quest usually ends in tragedy.
The animator is actually part of the main group of Monty python, the animations were the from ep 1 of there tv show
He plays Patsy, the Old Man in Scene 24 and the Bridgekeeper for starters!
Tim the Enchanter was do frightened of the "Harmless wee bunny" even though he could of blown it up himself without them having to use the "Holy Handgrenade of Antioch"
Great that you two enjoyed the silliness of it all.
Arthur - Saber/Rider
Black Knight - Berserker
Tim the Enchanter OR The Bridgekeeper (Old Man from Scene24) - Caster
The Bridgekeeper (Old Man from Scene24) OR The French K-Nights - Assassin
Maybe Tim the Enchanter if you can classify his staff? - Lancer
Prince Herbert - Archer
If you haven't watched to many movies post Star Wars; all movies had their credits at the beginning of the movie, not the end. Studios wanted audiences to sit through the credits, but Lucas didn't want that, he wanted it at the end. This would change how movie credits would be used after.
Fun fact, the animation bits came over from the Monty Python TV series. The animator (The same Python Animator who fell over on screen) used cut outs from news papers, and often colored them himself, more or less stop motioned the flat drawings, and then did all the sounds himself in a microphone under a sheet, under a table at his home, and came in the next day with the sounds done. The idea for the movie came up when they saw they could never get enough budget for the idea as a show, but were able to do the other skit ideas they had worked up. So the side season long plot of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table seeking the Grail got chunked together, and put into a movie, a movie that they couldn't budget horses for except for one moment when they fake killed the historian. BTW the movie only had 2 different castles shot from different angles to hide that they were mostly the same ones.
As a matter of fact, there's a TV show where he explained his entire process:
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This is one of the silliest movies ever, I’ve loved it since I saw it 40 odd years ago when I was a kid.😂
"still kinda weird to have the credits at the start of the movie"
little bro has never watched a movie older than 30 years
Yes the holy handgrenade in worms is a reference to this movie and I love it.
As a Scotsman I can confirm we do have beautiful sights.......and alot of Cloudy/rainy weather. we dont even know what the sun looks like lol XD
aah, but when the sun does finally shine, Scotland's vistas are beyond compare.
What's great about that opening discord about coconuts is that its a progenitor for the many uses by films to wink at the audience when the writer has written themselves into a corner so writes in the characters acknowledging how poor the writing is as though it were a cover. However, these modern uses of this joke forget to also make the writing funny. And it just draws attention to the problem and makes us think the writer is not committed to their own material.
Thats the Monty Python difference. Its a holdover from the show "Flying Circus" where they do a sketch until it gets too silly, have someone come in and force them to start all over again because they went too silly. So here, they use the joke once, getting ahead of the audience by acknowledging the coconuts, letting the audience take their minds off the issue and focus on the rest of the film.
It;s also way ahead of its time. The fact that a pothole exists forces critics to go on long tangents that twist them into a gordian knot of discourse and forget about the whole plot. Much like how video essays and blogs going on for far too long about plot holes or inconsistencies. This actually predicted drawn-out online reactions to plotholes decades before the internet.
Onw historical detail that I still love about this movie is Arthur shouting "Run away!" at 14:45. Retreat is a French word that wouldn't be coined for another hundred years or so. So instead of calling a retreat, the English/Breton king calls for his men to run away. Hilariously historical.
Side note, the fact that "retreat" is French is why the joke "The French have X (number of) words that mean 'retreat'" is so stupidly funny. It's like saying "English has 34 words that mean 'book!'"
Gravel is a new commodity, it didn't become cheap to produce until steam power.
When the rest of you guys are here, y'all should watch Life of Brian. I'd hesitate to call one better than the other, but they had more experience and way more budget by then.
I think the reason they couldn't have horses is because they spent all their money on Tim the Enchanter's pyrotechnics.
You've made the bold choice of reacting to something the viewers can neither see nor hear.
They didnt have the budget too finish the movie (or horses) so they decided to make it a literal "cop out" ending, literally that whole movie just for it to end on a pun
older movies had the credits at the beggining, to make sure everyone was given credit and people saw who worked on them. During the plague a group of religious zelots would go around whipping their backs b/c they felt God had cursed society w/the plague. They were called the Flaggelants.
Fantastic reaction, dudes!!!!! You guys are DEFINITELY A-list Python reactors! Ok, now you MUST do the NEXT one, their BEST one: "Monty Python's Life Of Brian". A much more cohesive film with a beginning, middle and end. ("Holy Grail" is more like their classic TV series, which also would be fun to watch you react to! Classic stuff!). But definitely do "Life Of Brian" because this one was so much fun, and if you laughed this hard at "Holy Grail", wait till you see "Life Of Brian"!
At the beginning I was very confused by the sky background, thinking "is this some weird other version of the movie?".
When this first came out I was 18 and I thought it would be a great idea to take my parents to this movie as a 25th anniversary present. They laughed harder than me!!
25:15 a play on the old saying "not enough room to swing a cat"...
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
Such a classic film. Shame everyone had such a miserable time making it,
Apart from Castle Aargh all the other castle scenes in the movie were filmed at one castle.
Someone totally had a seizure during the opening credits
That Lancelot scene was the original Red Wedding
That poor soul who worked so long to do the animation is the co-director, Terry Gilliam, the American member of the Python team who did all their animations in the tv show and movies, and who went on to have a solo career as an award-winning director. He also played Arthur's trusty servant, Patsy.
Imagine thinking the "intermission" 5 min from the end is real, going to the theater bathroom, and the film is over when you come back
Monty Python’s Life Of Brian next. 🤭😂
So much of the "Burn the Witch" scene was used as jokes in The Owl House fandom... Especially with Hunter.
The ending of the movie is, quite literally, a cop out.
I do remember being confused when I was younger watching this cos I only knew Michael Palin from his travel shows and thought he was a weird cameo.
I couldn't wait until you seen the coconut/swallow scene. Lol. Bedevere, actually trying to have a bird carry a coconut. Great reaction from you two.
All the animation (none of which is CGI), including credit sequences and including all the animation in their tv series, is done by one of the Monty Python troupe: Terry Gilliam (the only American) who co-directed this feature and has gone on to direct many films including The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Brazil. His production style has a distinctive visual look.
Was not expecting this one
At first movies were silent, for two decades. In the late 1920's, technology allowed "talkies" and this allowed them to make more indepth stories with what came to be seen as scandalous subjects. In the early '30's, the Hays Code was introduced, which greatly restricted just about everything - amount of blood and gore that could be seen, all evil-doers had to be seen as being punished at the end, even words like "damn" were controversial, no interracial or same-sex relationships allowed, even married couples could not be seen sleeping in a double bed, and so on.
These restrictions pinched even more as such things as the civil rights, women's liberation, and the sexual revolution began to take hold. The Hays Code was finally abolished and replaced by the current letter code of movie rating in 1969.
So immediately after that, movies could go full force, but this suddenness could be made shocking and thus hilarious. So there was a sudden plethora of this type of comedy movie - Holy Grail, Airplane, Rocky Horror, Blazing Saddles, the Naked Gun series, Pink Panther. To their contemporary audiences, these were fall-out-of-your-seat funny - although they still hold up pretty well today.
I don't know how people cannot clearly see that it's a trojan rabbit. Like how in any way does that look like a chicken?😂
Monty Python is one of the best known troupes of absurdist comedians. While they mostly did radio theater, check out what you can find of The Goon Show, featuring Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan (and another whose name escapes me atm...
Harry Seacombe?
@@cerisambrook7692 Correct! Somehow I always forget his name... bad me
"It's a chicken"
Of course the swallow joke came back towards the end. Swallows are migratory - they come back every year.
Remember, its a cop-out
Tis but a scratch
The French won for once
your the first reaction channel that mentioned worms lol
For old movies, playing credits in the beginning was standard. At this time, it wouldn’t have seemed out of place.
Oh hi Eric, nice to see a familiar face. Knew you back in the Mixer days. Anyways, this movie is so great, you can watch is dozens of times and still pick up new stuff. Such as there are no end credits because the credits team were sacked at the start, and the animator had a heart attack. I've seen it so many times I can almost quote it line for line and I still didn't pick up on that until a commenter of a reaction video pointed it out.
Actually only until recent times that movie credits always appeared before the movie.
"Early religion, y'know?"
"This was mob mentality back in the day."
Guys, guys! You act like anything's changed since then.
Well, it has changed some. The scales and ducks are more advanced now.
Yep movie ends with a COP OUT. Also they did not kill the historian, that murderer was riding a real horse so it couldn't have been them.
Since you mentioned the fate series, in fate/strange fake one of the main characters get asked if he knows king arthur by a knight to which he pretty much says: oh the one from monty python. though in his defence he is a child soldier who likes comedy and convinced ppl that his servant was Charlie chaplin
Life of Brian is arguably even better.
Will that be a five minute argument, or the full half hour?
No It Isn't!
The ending is a literal cop out
So many horses 🤩😆
1:32 Credits at the beginning used to be the norm.
Great stuff!
I like this but I liked Life of Brian but the song at the end of this movie I like "Look on the bright side of Life". I Grew up watching all these uk shows as a kid in Australia. Are you being Served, On the Bus, Carry On Movies, confessions movies, HELLO HELLO, Dad's Army that on a few of them. While growing I also listen to Kevin Bloody Wilson Which if your Aussie like me I love saying DILLIGAF
Also the actor playing the magic horn name forgot his line so he just said his name was tim lol
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 🤑🤑
Such a good movie
I'd love to see you guys do Monty Python's Life of Brian.
Honestly you should react to the old Pink Panther movies staring Peter Sellers, great comedy and acting.
such a great movie lol
Watching these guys call plain old cartoon animation "CGI" and "stop motion" was uniquely painful.
Think Arthur is getting the a zerker
So I heard that it ended that way cause they ran outta money lol
Just a word to the Y's CGI did not exist in the 70's you only had animation and practical effects.
I think you guys would enjoy Monty Python's Life of Brian. It is as crazy as this one, a little blasphemous, but hilarious!
Oh I didnt see this on Patreon. Am I too low tier for movies and didnt realize? Lol
Edit: Nvm, this is just a full month old. Sweet, back to the patreon side I go.
Awesome reaction, guys. As good a reaction to Python that I've seen.
And Python member Terry Gilliam was the man responsible for the brilliant animation. If you want to see his best work check out their TV series MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS.