Movie This Weekend-Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[CateP]

This Weekend we will be showing the 1975 Monty Python comedy classic, Monty Python And The Holy Grail. The hilarious talents of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin are showcased in typical silly Monty Python fashion. The film takes us back to days of King Arthur and his noble knights and their comedic quest for the Holy Grail.

Tickets are $5.00 and are available at the door or on line at www.village-players.com

Friday, Sept 25th at 8pm
Saturday, Sept 26th at 8pm
51 Glendon St.
Wolfeboro

This is a very special feature in hopes that you will all come back and join us for our fall musical when we bring to you Monty Python's SPAMALOT with LIVE Performances NOVEMBER 13,14,15,20,21, and 22. For more details: www.village-players.com

[salty dog]

Wish I could come up to watch. Great stuff!
(The shrubbery and the knights who say "Ni!")

[rick35]

Its been years since i saw the movie but that line had stayed with me. One of the top lines of all time.

[dave603]

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

[nhcatrider]

Is it wrong that I have it on dvd?

[ushaggerb]

Originally Posted by nhcatrider

Is it wrong that I have it on dvd?

Scene 1


[wind]
[clop clop]
ARTHUR: Whoa there!
[clop clop]

GUARD #1: Halt! Who goes there?
ARTHUR: It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle
of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeator of the Saxons, sovereign
of all England!
GUARD #1: Pull the other one!
ARTHUR: I am. And this my trusty servant Patsy.
We have ridden the length and breadth of the land in search of knights
who will join me in my court of Camelot. I must speak with your lord
and master.
GUARD #1: What, ridden on a horse?
ARTHUR: Yes!
GUARD #1: You're using coconuts!
ARTHUR: What?
GUARD #1: You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin'
'em together.
ARTHUR: So? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this
land, through the kingdom of Mercea, through--
GUARD #1: Where'd you get the coconut?
ARTHUR: We found them.
GUARD #1: Found them? In Mercea? The coconut's tropical!
ARTHUR: What do you mean?
GUARD #1: Well, this is a temperate zone.
ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin
or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter yet these are not
strangers to our land.
GUARD #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
ARTHUR: Not at all, they could be carried.
GUARD #1: What -- a swallow carrying a coconut?
ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk!
GUARD #1: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple
question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound
coconut.
ARTHUR: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master
that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here.
GUARD #1: Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow
needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?
ARTHUR: Please!
GUARD #1: Am I right?
ARTHUR: I'm not interested!
GUARD #2: It could be carried by an African swallow!
GUARD #1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European
swallow, that's my point.
GUARD #2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that...
ARTHUR: Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court
at Camelot?!
GUARD #1: But then of course African swallows are not migratory.
GUARD #2: Oh, yeah...
GUARD #1: So they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway...
[clop clop]
GUARD #2: Wait a minute -- supposing two swallows carried it together?
GUARD #1: No, they'd have to have it on a line.
GUARD #2: Well, simple! They'd just use a standard creeper!
GUARD #1: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
GUARD #2: Well, why not?

[rick35]

Originally Posted by dave603

I fart in your general direction!

Forgot about that line. I hate to say it but I've used it.

This was fun. I have the Stripes and Double Secret Probation Animal House DVDs so having the Holy Grail DVD is only strange that its not on VHS.

[TheProfessor]

Fascinating history to the making of this film.
And all of the Monty Python movies.

If you get a chance to view:

Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut)
A documentary done with all of the Python members later in life.

Done after the death of Graham Chapman but includes earlier interviews.

I never got the humor when young. Only later did the humor sink in.

[Outdoorsman]

Originally Posted by rick35

Just a flesh wound!

My brothers and I use that line often, LOL. I just wish I knew of this show earlier, I would have loved to bring my father to see it.

[Merrymeeting]

Originally Posted by Outdoorsman

My brothers and I use that line often, LOL. I just wish I knew of this show earlier, I would have loved to bring my father to see it.

Funny...my brothers and I used to use this one often!

I fart in your general direction!

[rick35]

Not to derail Cate's post but there are so many memorable movie lines. Here are some of my favorite Arnold lines. Brings back some old memories, right? Can you remember the movies?

I'll be back.
Consider this a divorce.
I lied. (in response to "you told me you weren't going to kill me")
What a hot head.
Hasta la vista baby.
You're fired!
I thought I was looking in the mirror (said by his costar)

[ITD]

Or the Three Stooges:

Curly: "It's a rooster bar"

Moe: "It's a crow bar nitwit"

Curly: " Well roosters crow don't they, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk."

[GTO]

some people don't get the Monty Python humor but even kids these days are watching the Holy Grail

[Pricestavern]

Dennis the Peasant: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Arthur: Be quiet!

Dennis the Peasant: You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

Arthur: Shut up

Dennis the Peasant: I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

Arthur: [grabs Dennis] Shut up! Will you shut up?!

Dennis: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!

[Nagigator]

Originally Posted by Pricestavern

Dennis the Peasant: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Arthur: Be quiet!

Dennis the Peasant: You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

Arthur: Shut up

Dennis the Peasant: I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

Arthur: [grabs Dennis] Shut up! Will you shut up?!

Dennis: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!

Dennis: Come and see the violence inherent in the system.........

Help, help! I'm being repressed!