Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 film starring comic . The film is written, performed and directed by Monty Python, an English/US comedy group, between the third and final series of the popular BBC television series Monty Python's Flying Circus. The Group's first film, And Now For Something Completely Different, was a compilation of sketches from the TV series; However, Holy Grail is completely original material. The film is a loose parody on the legend of King Arthur's quest for the Holy Grail and is still a very popular cult film.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The Holy Grail has a storyline consisting of episodes, in a style based on the sketches of the Monty Python television series. A large part of the story is told in separate parts, only connected by the ongoing story of the quest for the Holy Grail and Terry Gilliam's animations. Also a recurrent theme is the question of whether swallows are able to carry coconuts . This is because the Knights in the film not on horses against each other and drive but coconuts so imitating the horses horses. How those coconuts in medieval England have ended up no one knows, hence the question.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Overview
 * 3.2 Status
 * 3.3 Video versions
 * 3.4 references in computer games
 * 3.5 References in television series and other matters
 * 4 awards and nominations
 * 5 external links

The opening scene of Monty Python and the Holy Grail is set on the Eastern wall of Doune Castle in the Scottish village of Doune.The film begins with King Arthur, who along with his helper the country looking for knights who are willing to follow him. However, it encounters resistance from anarcho-syndicalist peasants who accept him as King. Also they come in conflict with a black knight who guarded a little bridge without any known reason and no one wants to let pass. The King chops one after another limb of the Black Knight, but this refuses to give won. (Arthur: "look, stupid idiot, you've got no arms left!" Black Knight: "' Tis but a flesh wound...") Arthur decides to throw on a tie and then runs through, while the Black Knight, without arms or legs, the King for a coward is a member.

Eventually they come in a city, where a crowd just a witch has found (at least, that they claim). God's judgment is carried out, the woman comes on a heksenwaag and laid down a duck weighted. The crowd is, in fact, come to the conclusion that wood and ducks stay afloat on water. Here are Arthur his knights: Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Galahad called both the Chaste and the Pure, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir Lancelot, Sir Bedevere the Wise and finally Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film (which, as its name indicates, in the rest of the movie not playing). Soon, the Group of (a comic) God to find the Holy Grail.

Their search leads them to a castle, that turns out to be inhabited by a group of brutal French. (Arthur: "what are you guys doing here?" Frenchman: mind your own business!). This mock the British with all kinds of profanities ("your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries!") and because the Knights don't go away, they are pelted with animals. The attempt of Arthur and his knights to the castle in via a "Trojan Rabbit" (something different than a horse) failed because they forgot to take place in it and in their escape attempt kills one of the Knights a famous historian from the 70 's.

After this defeat splits the group. Sir Robin, accompanied by a few minstrels, meets a three-headed giant and flight from fear away. Something where his minstrels then keep on singing. Galahad ends up in Castle anthrax, inhabited by beautiful women. For a normal Knight a paradise, but for the chaste Galahad a torment. Just as he wants to give his chastityon, he is "rescued" by Sir Lancelot. Arthur and Bedevere walk in a forest the dreaded knights who say "Ni" to bump. The Knights, whose "Ni" cries everyone want to let pass by scares the duo if they bring them a flower bed. Arthur and Bedevere going into this strange request in, but then change the Knights their name in the Knights that "Eky-eky-eky-eky-p'Kang! Zoop-boing gonzourrrwringmm "say and demands even more. Happy diving Sir Robin and his minstrels on, and chase the Knights way by using the only Word where the Knights can not against itself: "it" (it). Sir Lancelot finally receives a letter written by someone who "stuck is held in Swamp Castle and forced to marry". Assuming that it's a damsel in distress is concerned, he assails Swamp Castle, disrupts the wedding, kills a number of guests, and calls the tower inside. There he discovers that the writer of the letter simply "Prince Herbert", the musical is son of the King of Swamp Castle. The King himself is obviously furious about at this attack, but when he learns that Lancelot a Knight of the round table, everything is good again. ("Let's not bicker about who killed who go")

The Group eventually comes back together. During their journey they are forced to eat Robins minstrels (to everyone's pleasure). Eventually, they meet a sorcerer called Tim. He leads them to a cave where they should.However, the cave is guarded by a white Bunny, that turns out to be a blood thirsty monster and kills a few Knights. They eventually defeat him with the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. In the cave itself, however, they meet a worse monster: the drawn "Black beast of Arrghhh". The Knights are saved when the artist, Terry Gilliam, dies of a heart attack and the monster so should stop.

On the other side of the cave is the bridge of death, guarded by the old Man from Scene 24. He shall each of the Knights three questions, and at a wrong answer is the Knight in question thrown in the ravine . Lancelot takes out the other side. The other Knights, however, are thrown into the ravine. When he gets the Arthurs turn, once again the well-known question What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?. Arthurs also answer is a question: What do you mean, an African or a European swallow?. As the old man doesn't know, he is thrown into the ravine, and Arthur and Sir Bedevere can go across.

On the other side show Lancelot to have disappeared (arrested by police from the 70 's). Arthur eventually ends up at the Castle where the Grail would be (see Castle Stalker), but the French from the beginning of the movie are been for him. Furious calls Arthur a whole army (comes out of nowhere that suddenly turn on) to help for an attack on the Castle. However, just then comes the British police intervened to arrest for the murder of Arthur to the historian. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Background<span class="mw-editsection" len="349" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Overview<span class="mw-editsection" len="347" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Monty Python was famous for the parody of television and film formats, often with nepcontinuïteit announcements, or with the openingstiteling as part of the humor. As a continuation of this were on the openingstiteling of Holy Grail some fictional directors, such as "40 specially trained Ecuadorian mountainllamas6 Venezuelan red llamas, 148, Mexican crying llamas, 14 North Chilean Guanacos's (close family of the lama), Reg lama ofBrixton, and 76,000 battery llamas from" Llama Fresh Farms Ltd "near Paraguay". This took almost ten minutes, and according to the commentary on the dvd, this was included in order to limit the cost of the film. The opening titles of Holy Grail have (spurious) Norwegian subtitles and many references to Moose. The film has no end credits, a black screen with only three minutes long organ music.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was directed by Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam. Gilliam was also responsible for the animation. Jones and Gilliam also acting in the film alongside the other Python actors John Cleese, Eric Idle , Michael Palinand Graham Chapman and are in different roles to admire. Also songwriter Neil Innes, John Cleese ' then-wife Connie Booth, and Carol Cleveland, which also had played several times in the television series have cameos.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was partly funded with donations from the rock bands Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. The budget amounted to only £ 4,200,000. ===Status<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is the world's most famous and most popular Monty Python movie. Compared to the tv series and the other Python movies is "Holy Grail" more accessible and less controversial. ===Video Versions<span class="mw-editsection" len="350" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="1153" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Among the many video versions of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is the "Special Edition" dvd the most recommended because of the long list of extras, including two documentaries about the film links, comments, the "Camelotlied" sung by LEGO-men and "the movie Subtitles for people who don't like it", consisting of lines from Shakespeare's Henry IV, specially selected to fit the dialogue of the film.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Special Edition includes "The Quest for The Holy Grail Locations" which shows places in Scotland that were used in the film. Many scenes were filmed in or around Doune castle, "Scene 24" and the "Cave of Caerbannog" were close to Loch Tay, near Killin, and the "bridge of death" was in Glen Coe. In the combat scene are the images in the direction of "Castle Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh" filmed at Castle Stalkerbut the images the other way, towards the huge army, his later filmed at Stirling when she had enough people together. ===References in computer games<span class="mw-editsection" len="372" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="224" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A number of computer games bring homages to the film:

===References in television series and other matters<span class="mw-editsection" len="385" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="359" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * In Conquests of Camelot is a so-called easter egg. If the user is in the Treasury "ask about ham and jam and spam a lot" type on the screen appear three knights who dance on the "Spamalot"-theme. A text window that reports that this easter egg is dedicated to Graham Chapman.
 * In Quest for Glory I proposes a Gargoyle prompt the user, inspired by the bridge of death-scene. In part IV of the series appears the "killer rabbit" as a sample.
 * The computer game Heroes of Might and Magic III of New World Computing has some codes that all references are to this movie. All codes start with "nwc", the initials of the maker, followed by the reference. For example "nwcshrubbery" (a reference to Arthur's meeting with the knights who say Ni) gives the user 100,000 Gold and 100 of all raw materials. The code nwcalreadygotone gives the player a full Grail card, you lose the game immediately with nwcsirrobin and nwccoconuts give you infinite movement. There are many other codes in the game and they all refer to this comic classic.
 * In Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos by Blizzard Entertainment are many "irritate posts" (which are spoken as you click multiple times on a human) of the human race Monty Python references. Some farmers say for example "we found a witch, may we burn her?" (we have found a witch, may we burn her?) or "help, help, I'm being repressed!" (help, help, I'm being repressed!) Some Knights say "I'm a knight, and I never say Ni!"(I'm a Knight, and I never say Ni!)
 * Games In the WormsArmageddon and World Party is the Holy Hand Grenade is one of the most powerful weapons, which gives a huge explosion after hearing Handel 's "Hallelujah".
 * In Fallout 2 is a parody of the Bridge of death, which serves approximately as shown in the film (the player gets thousands of points damage instead of the ravine in to fly). Although he is encouraged by the player simply can run to answer a question wrong. The dress that the bridge holder carries is stronger than most armoured vehicles in the game.
 * In Fallout 2, there is another parody, but this has no function. The Player discovers a large group of knights who carry a Power Armor and the player questions whether he has found the Holy Hand grenade.However, it is not possible to find it.
 * In Guild Wars, there are also a number of references to the film.
 * The scene with the rabbit can be found in Eye of the North.
 * An Allied friend (V.k.) says his favorite color.
 * the "Monster of Arrgggh" can be found in the Domain or Anguish.
 * There is also a "force" to the sentence named where the Black Knight with King Arthur moisture; "It's just a Flesh Wound" and "None Shall Pass".
 * There is also a quest that refers to Monty Python: here the player must help a salesperson that a banana-scyth has stolen a landlord. However, behind this seller that the buyer the landlord himself. Beside that pulls the banana-sycth all dragons in the neighborhood to which it only makes more difficult. The sentence: "But, a pointed stick ... now that's a weapon" is a reference to the Python sketch "Self Defense Against Fresh Fruit."
 * In the South Parkepisode Red Hot Catholic Love is a tribute to the Bridge of death. Also other Monty Python sketches and movies be arranged parodied in South Park.
 * In The Simpsonsepisode Homer Goes to College classmates tell Homers him the "worst Monty Python joke" and quote this short "The Knights Who Say" Ni ".
 * Monty Python and the Holy Grail is parodied as a LEGO movie.
 * In 1999, a Monty Python-beer marketed: Monty Python's Holy Grail, with the letters ' Gr ' crossed out. (' Ale ' is English for beer)
 * On 17 March 2005, the musical Spamalot its premiere in Connecticut on Broadway in New York City. This musical, with stars like David Hyde Pierce and Tim Curry in the leading roles, was created by Mike Nichols in collaboration with the surviving Monty Python members and is primarily based on the story of the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
 * In 1976 Monty Python and the Holy Grail was nominated for a Hugo Award for "Best Dramatic Presentation"
 * In 2001, the film was nominated for a Video Premiere Award for "Best Audio Commentary".