Any Greeks about? 
How about the cheesemakers?
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Merged some posts into the existing thread.
They are blessed.
Whichever is funniest.
And is more likely to get Sir Galahad to stick around, er, to tarry yet awhile longer.
Screen Junkies just posted Honest Trailers - Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 12 hours ago on YouTube. Spoilers.
I watched the Honest Trailers last night. Funny, as usual. But they uncharacteristically got something wrong. They said that Monty Python and the Holy Grail was the troupe’s first movie.
Evidently they didn’t know about And Now for Something Completely Different, which came out four years earlier,
And Now for Something Completely Different was like a greatest hits collection, only without any of the energy of the Flying Circus.
It will scratch the itch a bit, but I would stick to the show or the albums.
ANFSCD was my first exposure to Monty Python (aside from a couple of bits I saw broadcast on American TV). PBS hadn’t started showing MPFC yet, so this was the only way to get a concentrated dose of python. I loved it.
Could be that I had been an avid watcher of the show and had several albums when I rented ANFSCD. The Parrot Sketch in particular stands out. John Cleese seemed bored and just going through the motions.
I saw its 25th anniversary re-release to theaters in 2000. I can’t believe it has been another 25 years since then.
How could I have forgotten? For Fathers’ Day several years back, my kids gave me a Blu-ray box set of MPatHG, complete with Trojan Rabbit, cows, and a little catapult to launch them with.
My 25 year old niece understood some reference I made to A Møøse once bit my sister yet she has a cool dad. I remember learning so much british-english from even the credits (My dad was Norwegian so I got the font bit and in the show “pining for the fjords”.
Even for a movie & show that regularly has appearances from God, the end credits where they say the next Python film will be “The Life and Times of Jesus Christ”
But the guys who were going to make that movie were sacked.
Was that planned before they made up Brian?
That was the plan, but they couldn’t make it work. Finally someone asked why they couldn’t tell the story of just some guy whose life paralleled Jesus’s.
I reckon it was as much a joke as the opening credits. And just to be provocative for it’s own sake.
They didn’t even have the funds to properly complete Holy Grail. No way there was going to be a producer to fund a comedy about Jesus. “Life of Brian” was clearly a funny script and funny blasphemy still makes box office. I mean, Brian has to tell his followers repeatedly he’s not the messiah, till he gives in and says he is the messiah, followed by “Now, fuck off!”
Nothing to do with anything, really, yet as I was thinking of movies about Jesus, the Mel Gibson one popped into my head, yet in the film “Donnie Darko” he goes to a double feature of “Evil Dead” and “The Last Temptation of Christ” - an extremely odd pairing. Sam Raimi was happy to allow Kelly to actually use some actual footage of the movie and I’ve no idea if Scorcese had to or did give permission to have his movie on the marquee. Though were Temptation a comedy, Bruce Campbell would have been a fine Jesus.
I believe the title they bandied about was “Jesus Christ: Lust for Glory”.
And thanks to George Harrison, they had access to Beatles money.
A second mortgage on his house, actually…which, granted, was probably bought in the first place with Beatles money.