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Hey Mellverse, I've been having a great time watching your reactions. You're helarious and seem like a really cool guy. I just wanted to make a short list of movies I'd like to see your reaction to, though I'm sure you have a long enough list already so I'll keep it short 😄 Jim Henson's Labyrinth (feat. David Bowie) Stanly Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (feat. Tom Cruise) And if you ever jump on the anime train try Studio Giblis stuff. Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, or Castle in the Sky are great ones. It'll drag in a bundle of views too I'm sure 😉 Boy and the Beast or Summer Wars are really cool ones too. I was also wondering what you think you may move to after you watch everything. Do you think you're inspired to write your own movie or anything?
Wow Thank You So Much Man. I Really Appreciate Your Comment And I Will Definitely Check Out Those Films Except The Anime. I'm Not Takimg The Chance With Anime. And I Don't Think I'm Capable To Write A Screenplay Lml
The bit with the French waiter taking the audience to his childhood house was originally meant to be the ending, but it was considered too much of a lull for an ending.
So, about the featurette... Terry Gilliam had convinced the others to do a short film before the film and they just left him at his own devices. After some time, they realised he was still at it and went up to check on him. Imagine their surprise when they saw the sets and how a ten minute thing had doubled in time, went completely over budget (something Gilliam still struggles with) and had better effects than the actual movie. To save the thing, they just incorporated it into the actual movie.
The Crimson Permanent Assurance is my favorite short film ever. It used to be a thing for short films to accompany a feature film, and I love that they resurrected that here. Terry Gilliam, the animator and only American of the gang, was given the job of directing this short film, and he went WAY overboard on it, but I love it. The main feature was directed by Terry Jones, who later admitted that his character should have been the main focus of the film, with each stage of life featuring his character's evolution from a baby to an old man. It would have been a better narrative, but this film was still a pretty big success. It was the runner up at the Cannes Film Festival, at a time when critics must have been seriously bored. My favorite Monty Python sketch of ALL TIME is the Protestant couple from this film. It's the most perfect sketch they ever wrote.
Yeah it's so good isn't it? My favourite part of all of their films by far, as you say it's how "overboard" he went with it. I really like the reason given for the death row guy's execution as well. :)
If you like the Monty Python guys try “A Fish Called Wanda” with John Cleese & Michael Palin from Monty Python plus Jamie Lee Curtis & Kevin Kline It’s a classic
It used to be rated 18 (18 years+ only) here in England but upon its DVD re-release it has now been downgraded to a 15 (15 years+ only). Guess the classification board got a little less stuffy in the decades since its initial release.
I don’t remember how old I was when I first saw this but my niece and nephew were 13/14 when I showed it to them...they had watched The Holy Grail and Blazing Saddles since they were LITTLE (under 5???).
same, im 17 now... yes im young tbh. i was like 2 when i first seen their films mostly cause my parents didnt really care too much about what i watched, as long as it was funny or good
"One: People aren’t wearing enough hats. Two: Matter is energy. In the universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person’s soul. However, this “soul” does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved owing to man’s unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia."
Just to let you know, when you asked "can I see you medical degree" about Graham Chapman, he actually was a Doctor for a short time at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London, but chose acting instead. A great decision. Love the reactions, keep it up.
He also was the on set doctor for Life of Brian and Holy Grail. On Life of Brian he ran a GP clinic in the mornings to treat any crew members feeling ill, also kept regular Malaria checkups on the cast and crew.
"The Crimson Permanent Assurance" was written and directed by the sole American Python, Terry Gilliam. He did the animations in the TV show and other Python films.
Gilliam is definitely a misunderstood genius. Don't forget: Jabberwocky, Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Brothers Grimm, Tideland, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Zero Theorem, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ...
@@jims.2274 I'm embarrassed as a massive Monty python fan, I never knew Time-Bandits way Gillingham... it was my favourite film as a kid. The Crimson Perminant Insurace deffinitely has notes of it though, and always reminded me of the giant with the ship on his head...just never made the connection. I must watch that film again, havent seen it in 10+ years :)
If you like the art, it's done by Python member Terry Gilliam. He's directed a bunch of very beautiful films: Brazil, Baron Munchausen, Fisher King, Fear and Loathing in Vegas, etc.... if you want to experience awesome semi-surreal artistic and well made movies.... they're all worth a watch
And Now For Something Completely Different was their first movie that was a collection of skits from their TV show. The Meaning of Life was basically a bunch of skits they couldn't even think of doing on TV.
It was also long after the TV show had ended, so putting them on TV was never an option. It was meant to be a more regular film, but the bits they had didn't really fit together as a story, so they made it more of an ages of man type affair instead.
I saw this in the theaters in 83 when I was a freshman in highschool. My best friend, my younger sister and her friend went together to see it. I don't remember how we got tickets for an "R" rated movie as my mom dropped us off at the theater. Guessing she bought the tickets and left. We all loved it then as we watched all the Python movies and TV shows up to that time. Me and my best friend had a tape recording of the Holy Grail from which I had typed up the entire script up from so we could memorize it and then recite as we walked the halls at school. We weren't popular. LOL
The opening bit is a short film by Terry Gilliam. The only American Python.. and a visual genius director (ob the level of Kubrick).. he co directed Holy Grail, and went on to have a brilliant directing career, making classics like "Brazil", "12 Monkeys", "Time Bandits", and "The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen". If you like Python you'll love his movies.
Brazil is one of my favorite movies but it's not for everyone. 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Fisher King are good starting points for getting into Gilliam's films.
there's another Python'esk little known movie called ''Yellowbeard'' most of the python crew are in it plus cheech and chong, david bowie ( if you spot him you win a prize) and also dudley moore and peter cook amongst others, track it down and watch it.
The thing about the opening hospital skit is that it's actually pretty accurate to 70's-80's hospitals. They really were a lot like that, including in the US.
The Middle of the Film aka Find the Fish was intended to be a sort of quasi representation of dreams, where weird stuff happens and you just go with it.
Now that you've seen the Monty Python films, you need to check out Terry Gilliam's films. He's the American Monty Python member. He was the guy with the coconuts in the Holy Grail and the American at the dinner that pissed off Death in The Meaning of Life. He is also the group's animator. (All the cartoons you've seen in these movies? That's him.) He is also a well known indie director with Brazil, Time Bandits and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen being his most popular movies. All three of those movies are super creative. Though I think you would like Time Bandits the most followed by The Adventures of Baron Munchausen next and finally Brazil.
And Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (with Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro) and The Fisher King (with Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges). Personally I think 12 Monkeys (with Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt) is likely his best and most popular, certainly his most successful. Though I like pretty much all of them.
@@stanmann356 Oh, you are right! 12 Monkeys is fantastic. It was the movie that made me notice Brad Pitt as more than just a pretty boy actor. He stole every scene he was in.
This is kind of Python's Abbey Road; each piece put together by different teams and not really a group effort until the performance - and at times it shows. The Galaxy Song is the stand out for me because the science is pretty accurate and it's a great song. The Sergeant Major marching up and down sketch is doubly funny for us here, because Michael Palin is widely considered the nicest man in Britain, which is probably why everyone else gets to leave. Apparently while they were filming the death sketch John Cleese visited a local pub in the full costume, but the number of heart failures this caused is unknown.
Don't bother watching 'And Now For Something Completely Different', because it's just re-done sketches from the show (but done worse), I (as a life-long fan of the Pythons) would suggest just watching the show 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' (1969 - 1974) for all of their best sketches.
For someone who hasn't seen the original TV episodes, I think "And Now For Something Completely Different" is a great collection of the best sketches from it. I've always enjoyed it.
the whole show is a but much. But we could start recommending individual episodes (like s1E3 and s2E2), or individual sketches (like 'Spam' and 'Ministry of Silly Walks')
Partly filmed in my city *Bradford,* just like a lot of *Monty Python's Flying Circus.* *Every Sperm Is Sacred* is partly filmed at *East Riddlesden Hall* in *Keighley, Bradford* in the bit with the nuns, and is partly filmed at *Cartwright Hall, Lister Park* in *Manningham, Bradford* in the bit with the nurses and priests. I used to walk through *Lister Park* and past *Cartwright Hall* every day when I was in 6th form at school. *Cartwright Hall* has also been used in productions like *Look Up and Laugh* (1935), *Room at the Top* (1958), *Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen* (2009), *DCI Banks* (2010-2016), *Utopia* (2013-2014), *Residue* (2015), *Lies We Tell* (2017), *Gold* (2018) and *The Duke* (2020). *East Riddlesden Hall* has also been used a few times too, in productions like *Wuthering Heights* (1992), *Sharpe's Justice* (1997), *Lost in Austen* (2008), *Wuthering Heights* (2009), *Gunpowder* (2017), and *Anne Boleyn* (2021-present).
Watching a young person enjoying a movie like this gives me some hope in humanity. One more subscribe from the basque country for you. Keep watching good stuff!
@@brianlogsdon4824 of course, but the video had only been up for like 5 seconds when I opened youtube, and I was looking forward to him reacting to this movie so... just in time 😀
Someone may have already said this, but the other Pythons were upset to discover that director Terry Jones had spend most of the film's budget on the "Every Sperm is Sacred" number.
Meaning of Life has always been one of my favourites. What makes this movie different from Holy Grail and Life of Brian (which both had a single, coherent storyline) is that it's done in a sketch comedy format much like the Monty Python's Flying Circus tv show. FUN FACT: The actress who played the teacher's wife during the sex education class segment is Patricia Quinn who played Magenta in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Another FUN FACT: The restaurant segment in The Autumn Years was actually filmed in a warehouse with no air-conditioning. The smell from the fake vomit was so bad as it was dairy-based that went bad after a few days along with what happens in the segment actually caused some of the extras to vomit which can be seen in the movie
After Mr Creosote explodes, there are extras in the background that can be seen throwing up. They were throwing up for real, because the fake vomit they used smelled so bad.
7:43 When my wife and I were doing the pre-cana course in the lead-up to our Catholic wedding, one of sections was on natural family planning. I immediately started singing this song out loud. Also, fun fact: Terry Jones blew almost the entire budget on that one song and dance number.
I like to think the meaning of life is actually very weird because there's no real meaning of life. Everything depend of your culture and beliefs. You get born and dies and whatever happen between just happen
Michael Palin will forever be my favorite of the Monty Python cast....from the Knights Who Say "Ni!" to Sir Galahad the Pure to Caesar and beyond, he's the greatest lol.
The guy who does all of Monty Python's art / animation is Terry Gilliam, the one american Python. He later became an amazing film director (Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas / 12 Monkeys / Brazil / Time Bandits)
Terry Jones (actor and director) and John Cleese are in another movie called Erik the Viking. It's not a Monty Python movie but it has a similar style of humor.
Ive been a Python fan since their inception. I remember seeing this in the movie theater(More than once) when it came out. I recall a lot of people walking out on this movie. Obviously people who had never seen Monty Python before. LOL!
This movie is more like an extended version of one of their TV shows. The show's format was always a bunch of short sketches, mostly unrelated. In fact one of the most used transition gags was for Cleese in the guise of a TV announcer to pop up at the end of a skit and say, "...And now for something completely different..." before they transitioned to something totally unrelated and crazy different. This was kind of the same, but with a loose theme tying the skits together. You show check out some of their TV episodes to get an idea of their origins.
Terry Gilliam who went on to make some critically acclaimed and pretty crazy films did a lot of the direction and art ( was the artist who died in holy grail with the beast of aahhhhhrrrghh)
It's so good and freeing for the mind to watch abstract and absurd movies from time to time. Just let the ideas and creativity flow. Love the content man!
The reason for the short at the beginning was that Terry Gilliam wanted to direct a bit himself, so that was just going to be a sketch within the main film, but being Terry Gilliam, it got a bit out of hand, became this sprawling big thing. So they decided to make it the supporting feature, as the days of there being shorts before the main film were dying out about then. It works quite well I think, as it's like the main film's warm-up act, it gets you in the right mood for the main event.
As soon as I get a notification about any comedy movie I’ve seen that he’s about to see for the first time. I end up with the biggest and stupidest grin on my face. I do that especially when he’s about to see something especially hilarious 😁
"And Now For Something Completely Different" is a compilatiin film of sketches from their original TV series so you can expect it to have a cheaper look in terms of production quality. But yeah, it would be cool for you to see the classics if you've only watched the later stuff so far.
The sketches were recreated for film (with some alternate bits) it wasn't "just" a compilation. Though yes all the sketches were originally written for the show.
If you liked the creativity and visuals of "The Crimson Permanent Assurance," You should look at another masterpiece from Terry Gilliam, "The Adventures of Baron Munchaussen."
YES!!! I worked at a theater showing it back in the day. Even went to the San Francisco Film Festival for its premier, with Robin Williams in the audience. ❤️🌹🙏
Don't know if this is true, but I heard the extra soldiers in the square were actual soldiers. You can see one or two of them trying not to laugh at the hilarious impression of a typical drill sergeant.
This is my favorite of the Monty Python movies. It's very subversive high concept humor. Social commentary baked into each skit. Example is the liver transplant... The joke is that the man and his wife are poor, and the bureaucrats come to take his liver for the benefit of some well to do person. Basically the rich gain at the expense of the poor.
I think its also the fact that nobody seems that concerned that somebody is being violently disembowelled on a table and are just seeing it as an everyday thing. I find it more disturbing than funny however. In the other gory stuff the Pythons did (Black Knight, Sam Peckinpah's Salad Days etc) the joke was that there was no real pain involved or that the violence was so extreme as to be silly (tennis ball hitting head leading to a massive blood spray et al), here the violence is taken literally and the pain is shown to be very real. It would have been the same if the final pullback on Creosote post explosion had shown him screaming rather than puzzled. I can see the point that is being made I just think its just too literal. If had been done offscreen with multiple silly sound effects (as with "death of Mary Queen of Scots")and buckets of blood being chucked around it would have been a lot sillier.
@@egapnala65 Not everyone likes darker humor... And sometimes it can even push the bounds of those that enjoy that type of humor. But it wasn't meant to be funny in a traditional sense, or even in a typical dark humor kind of way. It lies in the juxtaposition of the horrific nature of the scene with the nonchalant mannerism of the characters. As you pointed out. It's uncomfortably humorous. There is something off about the whole thing, half of you wants to giggle at the absurdity, the other half is mortified at the disturbing nature of it. Most of the humor in this one isn't about being openly humorous to get laughs. It's a lot of bemused WTF type of humor. For me, not much that is fake will push the bounds... So long as it remains fake and doesn't cause harm. Fully scripted is usually fine, dark pranks could push the bounds much quicker, as not everyone is in on the joke. Is there something that could push the limits that I find acceptable, of course, and that typically lies where things are intended to be hurtful, or come from a place of malicious intent. And I am sure that it is possible for something done in good faith to be so poorly executed as to push the bounds as well. You know it when you see it, kind of a thing. That goes for everyone, they know their limit when they see it.
@@marine6680 I have no problems with dark humour. I think Chris Morris' "Jam" is his masterpiece for example. I remember Cleese talking about forcing people to laugh at things that might be uncomfortable and I get that as well. Its just that in foregrounding the horror rather than the silliness/nonchalence of the other characters (and remember this would also be on a big screen) subverts the entire thing in my eyes. Suggestion is often funnier than being explicit as Python demonstrated in the past (would showing the marraige guidance counsellour actually banging the man's wife have been funny for example?) and I just think its a funny idea that loses itself by the way it was shot.
@@egapnala65 Ah, so you didn't like the direction they went with. That's understandable. Like I said, I don't think it is "funny" in any traditional sense, but I appreciate what they were going for.
Monty Python is a sketch comedy show. Different skits and such each show, the movies are an anomaly, but they have their roots in differing sketches, you'll absolutely love 'And Now For Something Completely Different', because that's their bread and butter.
The art work, animation and directing is done by Terry Gilliam (one of the Pythons, the american one). After Monty Python he became movie Director in Hollywood. He has Directed some great movies since then: "12 Monkeys", "Brazil", "The Fisher King", "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", are some of them. Top movies, all his work is very good.
I have always said about this film that I would have been grossly offended if I hadn't been laughing so hard. They deliberately break every social taboo imaginable. My favorite of their movies? Same as yours. The Holy Grail !
Alright! I've got a challenge for you. Terry Gilliam is the one who does the art work and is the American at the dinner table in the death scene and is also an excellent director. Here's a few of his films for you to check out. TIME BANDITS. BRAZIL. THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS. THE FISHER KING. THE BROTHERS GRIMM. 12 MONKEYS. And Heath Ledgers last film THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS. He is one of the most stylish directors working. His movies are dreamlike and so precisely done. CHALLENGE ON!
Terry Gilliam who is the only American in Monty Python also did all of the animation, he went on to direct some incredible movies including 12 Monkeys, The Fisher King and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to name just a few.😎
As a kid this was the one Monty Python movie I wasn't allowed to watch. When my father showed it to me at age 13 it was a deeply uncomfortable viewing experience (what with all the naughty bits) but I laughed my head off. While.it's probably not the best in the series, I think it has the biggest laughs, and easily the best musical numbers.
I know it isn’t technically a movie, but it would be cool, after ‘And Now For Something Completely Different’, to see you react to ‘Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl’, which is a filming of their stage show at the Hollywood Bowl in 1980.
Live at Hollywood Bowl is so absolutely wonderful! The excitement from the audience definitely adds energy to all of the performances. "Albatross! Albatross! You aren't supposed to smoke that here..." 😂
I grew up on Monte Python's Flying Circus (British TV Series) so I went to see all the movies; including this one, the day it was released. We still watch these films whenever we need a laugh and all the kids have been required to sit through them.
6:30 "Is it a boy or a girl" Surgeon: "I think it's a bit early to start imposing roles on it don't you?" Just like the craziness we have today. These guys were ahead of their time.
