Monty Python
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hachmom-1 — 11 years ago(August 15, 2014 07:14 PM)
I think Boorman actually tries to avoid some of the conventions Monty Python so gleefully mocked, especially a more realistic depiction of combat and of living conditions.
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kincaid-5 — 10 years ago(April 30, 2015 11:00 PM)
It really hit me in the scene where Perceval (?) is crossing the wintry landscape and finds the skeleton in armor. It was probably meant to be a powerful scene, but I couldn't help thinking, "And this must be where they were forced to eat Robin's minstrels, and there was great rejoicing. (Yay hay!)"
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Coolflic — 10 years ago(October 04, 2015 04:34 PM)
I don't see how any big fans of Monty Python and the Holly Grail could take Excalibur seriously. And like the OP I had to check the release dates of both films because I had visions of the members of Monty Python seeing Excalibur and falling around laughing and then going on to make Holly Grail. But that's not what happened.
King Arthur: I am your king.
Woman: Well, I didn't vote for you.
King Arthur: You don't vote for kings.
Woman: Well how'd you become king then?
[Angelic music plays ]
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.
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jmillerdp — 9 years ago(April 25, 2016 12:29 AM)
I do like the film, but yeah, if you look at it from that perspective, it's like "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" played straight!
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Animated — 3 years ago(May 25, 2022 03:37 AM)
Didn't Michael Palin (or one of the other Pythons) comment on this an interview somewhere? He said he had trouble taking
Excalibur
seriously because it was exactly the sort of film the Pythons had parodied just a few years previously.