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Given the usual vainglorious soup of mythical names, claims, swains and dames, I think the one film to recommend remains... Monty Python and the Holy Grail. “I
by heresie-dabord 2y ago
Given the usual vainglorious soup of mythical names, claims, swains and dames, I think the one film to recommend remains... Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
“I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grai...
- mistrial9 2y agoit is painful to see Monty Python anti-story of comic relief drawn up to stand alone without understanding.. the psychological and historical themes in Aurthur speak to worlds that are gone today. Comic relief specifically mocks and deflates many important aspects of the myth. By saying "oh that is the ONE for me" it basically flushes a lot of content into ludicrous, and yes funny, cheap theater.
- heresie-dabord 2y ago> many important aspects of the myth I am of course open to hear what these aspects are. But let's be clear that lucid understanding and humour are the best parts of civilisation.