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re: Monty Python’s holy grail
Posted on 11/26/21 at 8:34 am to cable
Posted on 11/26/21 at 8:34 am to cable
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I love the movie, but the ending has always felt a little off to me.
They wanted to do a war scene but ran out of money.
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In a 2017 interview at Indiana University in Bloomington, John Cleese expressed disappointment with the film's conclusion. "'The ending annoys me the most'", he said after a screening of the film on the Indiana campus, adding that "'It ends the way it does because we couldn't think of any other way'".[52] However, scripts for the film and notebooks that are among Michael Palin's private archive, which he donated to the British Library in 2017, do document at least one alternate ending that the troupe considered: "a battle between the knights of Camelot, the French, and the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog".[53][54] Due to the film's small production budget, that idea or a "much pricier option" was discarded by the Pythons in favour of the ending with "King Arthur getting arrested", which Palin deemed "'cheaper'" and "'funnier'".[53]
Posted on 11/26/21 at 9:14 am to musick
There is one down voter who needs to have castanets made out of their testicles.
My favorite comedy of all time and I have probably quoted every line from the movie in some situation or another in my life.
A couple of tidbits, in the first draft (which, like the people in charge of the opening credits ended being sacked) they actually found the Holy Grail. They found it in the Holy Grail department at Herrod's. In the witch burning scene if you look closely you can spot Eric Idle biting his sword to keep from cracking up and breaking character before John Cleese says his "because they're made out of wood" line. Cleese paused for different amounts of time before delivering that line from take to take and the take they ended up using was the one where he paused the longest. Also the part where Cleese as Lancelot running toward Swamp Castle was actually shot in England after the rest of the movie had been filmed. Jones and Gilliam decided that the way he originally ran towards the castle looked too silly so they reshot it later. Also if you look really closely there is a modern day boat complete with an outboard motor in the background of one of the shots around the Castle Arrgh towards the very end of the movie.
My favorite comedy of all time and I have probably quoted every line from the movie in some situation or another in my life.
A couple of tidbits, in the first draft (which, like the people in charge of the opening credits ended being sacked) they actually found the Holy Grail. They found it in the Holy Grail department at Herrod's. In the witch burning scene if you look closely you can spot Eric Idle biting his sword to keep from cracking up and breaking character before John Cleese says his "because they're made out of wood" line. Cleese paused for different amounts of time before delivering that line from take to take and the take they ended up using was the one where he paused the longest. Also the part where Cleese as Lancelot running toward Swamp Castle was actually shot in England after the rest of the movie had been filmed. Jones and Gilliam decided that the way he originally ran towards the castle looked too silly so they reshot it later. Also if you look really closely there is a modern day boat complete with an outboard motor in the background of one of the shots around the Castle Arrgh towards the very end of the movie.
This post was edited on 11/26/21 at 9:17 am
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