22 Monty Python And The Holy Grail Fun Facts

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Aug 3, 2019 11:00 PM EDT

Monty Python and The Holy Grail must be the most quotable movie ever. There are far too many chances to break out a one-liner from the movie in the middle of a conversation, or otherwise when it's totally uncalled for...just cause it was that great and deserves having homage paid to as much as possible. 

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    monty python - Poster - MICHAE TERRY GRAHAM JOHN CLEESE ERIC TERRY СНАРМAN GILLIAM IDLE JONES PALIN MONTY PYTHON and the Holy Grails
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    monty python - Photo caption - @poppingremlins During the witch hunt, Eric Idle bares his teeth and bites down on the blade of the scythe he is holding. This was not scripted; Idle was actually about to burst out laughing and bit his scythe to stifle himself so as not to spoil the take. (If you look closely, you can see him shaking slightly, trying to keep his laughing under control.)
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    monty python - Helmet - @poppingremlins Graham Chapman's alcoholism (which he tried to suppress with Antabuse) caused problems during filming, and not just through his repeatedly forgetting his lines. The first day of shooting required Chapman to cross the Bridge of Death. When working on Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
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    monty python - Adaptation - poppingremlins Both John Cleese and Terry Gilliam performed all their stunts during the duel between Black and Green Knight. They both had to learn to manage big and heavy swords and to do some acrobatics, though never being recognizable, wearing both heavy armors and fullhelmets. They both avoided use of stunt-men becauseas they said in commentaries they had a lot of fun in enacting the duel.
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    monty python - Text - @poppingremlins John Cleese as Tim the Enchanter actually stood on the pinnacle seen at the beginning of his scene. On one side was a drop heisaid could have killed him, and on the other was a drop he said could have maimed him To make matters worse, the wind kept threatening to push him over either side
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    monty python - People - @poppingremlis Graham Chapman (as King Arthur) was the only member of the cast to wear real chain mail armor It weighed about 25 pounds. The rest of the cast wore knitted wool, painted to look like metal.
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    monty python - Text - @poppingremlins Funds earned by Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon" went towards funding Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). The band were such fans of the show they would halt recording sessions just to watch Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
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    monty python - Text - ogether they formeda band bose names and Accimerr to be The gorilla hand turning the pages was director Terry Gilliam's. The hand turning pages before that is that of Gilliam's wife. @poppingremlins
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    monty python - Adaptation - @poppingremlins The famous depiction of galloping horses by using cCOconut shells (a traditional radio-show sound effect) can about from the purely practical reason that the production simply could not afford real horses.
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    monty python - People - @poppingremlins Many of the extras in the film are actually technicians and stagehands, including the designer and the editor playing policemen, the film's musician playing the bearer killed by the Trojan Rabbit, the costume designer playing one of the minstrels and the wife of the producer of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969) playing the historian's wife.
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    monty python - Font - poppingremlins Since the armour the Knights wore was really made of wool and the weather conditions in Scotland and England being what they normally are, the actors spent mostof the shooting days being very cold and wet To make matters worse, the hotel
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    monty python - Guru - @poppingremlins "God is in fact a photograph of the famous 19th-century English cricketer W.G. Grace.
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    monty python - Text - In the Killer Rabbit scene, a real white rabbit was used. He was dyed with what was assumed to be a washable red coloring liquid in the shots after the battle. When filming wrapped the rabbit's owner was dismayed to learn the dye could not be rinsed off. Terry Gilliam described in an audio commentary that the owner of the rabbit was present and shooting was abruptly halted while the cast
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    monty python - History - @poppingremlins The French tactic of pelting Arthur and his knights with livestock echoes the relatively modern legend of a medieval siege of the fortified southern French town of Carcassonne. Said to have been near starvation, the townspeople used the last of their food to pelt the besieging army to convince them, suffering likewise, that the town was well stocked with food and that the siege was hopeless. The tactic was successful, and the siege was lifted.
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    monty python - Facial hair - @poppingremlins The Enchanter's name is Tim because John Cleese forgot the character's original name. He ad-libbed the line, "There are some who call me...Tim.
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    monty python - People - The theatrical release contains 527 jokes, including 42 in the opening credits, for an average of one joke every 10.5 seconds @poppingremlins 10
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    monty python - Tree - epoppiagamins The Black Knight was first playedby John Cleese, but when Arthur cuts offithe first leg a real one-legged actor (a local silversmith) was used On the DVD Terry Gilliam reveals that a marionette wastused to film the shot of the second leg being cut off,he also jokes that using the one-legged silversmith forthe shot of the knight with no legs saved work, since theyonly had to dig.a hole forone leg (Cleese has said that it washimself standing in the hole).
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    monty python - Adaptation - @poppingrem ins The film's abrupt ending came about because it didn't have the budget for a large-scale battle sequence.
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    monty python - Font - According to Michael Palin, "casting was largely determined mainly by who'd written what. Castle Anthrax was a Galahad thing and I'd written that with Terry, so I was cast as Galahad; Terry had written Bedevere; Lancelot was a mixture of stuff we'd written
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    monty python - Natural environment - @poppingremlins John Cleese's young daughter was on the set during the filming of the Black Knight scene, and after seeing the "fighting", remarked to Connie Booth, "Daddy doesn't like that man, does he?"
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    monty python - Stone carving - @ropoingronmins As part of their stained glass and interior decoration, several medieval cathedrals included illustrations of virtues and vices. The vice of cowardice was depicted as a knight running away from a rabbit, Notre Dame in Paris has no fewer than three such medallions of the "Killer Rabbit"
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    monty python - Human - @poppingremlins Though he was renowned as the most restrained and unflappable of the Pythons, when Michael Palin was asked to do a seventh take of the scene where he crawls through mud, he had, in his own words, "Ajolly good blow-up John Cleese and Graham Chapman were so astonished that they gave him a round of applause.
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