Saturday, February 3, 2007

Bleedin' Anglophiliac Back Again: Monty Python's Finest Hour (and a half)


King Arthur: "This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheeps' bladders can be used to predict earthquakes. "

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Castle guard: "Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?"

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Knight of Ni: "You must chop down the largest tree in the forest...with a herring."

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'Bloody' Peasant: "Look, mate, watery tarts passing out swords is not a system of government."

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a dismembered Black Knight--"I'm the Black Knight!!!" King Arthur--"You're a loony."

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King Arthur: "No more frontal assaults. That rabbit's dynamite."

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Narrator: "Winter set in. They were forced to eat Robin's minstrels...and there was much rejoicing."

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King Arthur:"Runaaawwway!! Runawwway!!"

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Arthur again: "The Castle Arrrgh. Our quest is at an end!"

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French soldier on battlements: "I'm French; why do you think I have this out-RAGEOUS- accent?"

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Princess Zoot: "Welcome, good knight, to the Castle Anthrax."

There can't be such a thing as the funniest movie ever made. But the best example to my mind of what can't be is a small-budget classic released in 1975, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". Well you can't say it isn't the funniest film set in the England of the Dark Ages made with two directors and no horses, just guys behind the knights banging coconuts together. With those caveats, this is the funniest film of the lot.

(more on this and other matters Pythonesque coming soon)

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