All this is like acting

Eliane 2021-10-13 13:05:41

The British are humorous, elegant and proud, with a bit of blackness. In this film, there seems to be nothing that cannot be ridiculed by the director, and it is also nonsensical and gentle. It is not as rude and uncultured like some American farce, the reason for this. It's because I just watched a so-called comedy called "The Stupid Funny Show" not long ago. I laughed, but it was really tiring.

This comedy ridiculed all the arrogances who thought they were trying to override people. From history to politics, from democracy to system, from religion to the relationship between Britain and France, even the great British hero King Arthur could not escape the teasing. This king has only An entourage, who didn't even have a horse, traveled all over the country, from the guards to the peasants who scoured him, and he didn't take him seriously. King Arthur was given the sacred mission to find the Holy Grail by a god like the old K. In the end, King Arthur led the entire army and finally launched a general offensive against the French. The Holy Grail is bound to be won. The police rushed into the camera, and a farce ended in a hurry, and these policemen were not farce. There is a scene in the film where a modern history expert in a suit and leather shoes suddenly appeared in a medieval scene, eloquently commenting on King Arthur, and being stabbed to death by a knight who suddenly rushed out. It really makes a political teacher dismissal. Pleasure.

Director Terry Gilliam is also the director of "12 Monkeys". He was surprised that the two films with different styles were produced by the same director. At the same time, he admired the artist's ease of artistic creation. Some people say that Woody Allen loosened the screws of the world gently, so among these wise men who are smiling and watching the world, there must be Terry Gilliam.

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail quotes

  • King Arthur: NI.

    Sir Bedevere: NOU.

    King Arthur: No, NI.

    Sir Bedevere: NOU.

    King Arthur: No No, NI... NI.

    Sir Bedevere: No,No,No,No... NI.

  • Woman: Oh. How do you do?

    King Arthur: How do you do, good lady? I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that?

    Woman: King of the who?

    King Arthur: King of the Britons.

    Woman: Who are the Britons?

    King Arthur: Well, we all are. We are all Britons. And I am your king.

    Woman: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.

    Dennis: You're foolin' yourself! We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working class...

    Woman: Oh, there you go bringing class into it again.

    Dennis: Well, that's what it's all about! If only people would...

    King Arthur: Please, please, good people, I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?

    Woman: No one lives there.

    King Arthur: Then who is your lord?

    Woman: We don't have a lord.

    Dennis: I told you, we're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to be a sort of executive officer for the week...

    King Arthur: Yes...

    Dennis: ...but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting...

    King Arthur: Yes I see...

    Dennis: ...by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs...

    King Arthur: Be quiet!

    Dennis: ...but by a two thirds majority in the case of...

    King Arthur: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!

    Woman: Order, eh? Who does he think he is?