Where's my Black Knight?

[AlienGirl]

(Probably manually opening a garage gate again...)

Tucker

[everythingsxen]

1. I'm right here

Charge!

[AlienGirl]

2. Oh, I'll charge it all right...

Just hand me the card...

[everythingsxen]

3. LOL

:P

Bwahahaha

[AlienGirl]

4. Have I ever told you that you write like a bureaucrat?

I was just re-reading some stuff you wrote. :rofl:

[everythingsxen]

11. Have I ever told you, you are my hero?

You are the wind beneath my wings.

But I digress.....
Sex? :P

[AlienGirl]

14. No sex threads!

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Right here

But he's having a bit of trouble at the moment.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. It's just a flesh wound.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. I've 'ad worse

[SeattleGirl]

8. My FAVORITE Monty Python movie scene!

"Come 'ere and I'll bite ya!" :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. I think you mean

"You yellow bastard! Come back 'ere! I'll bite your legs off!"

:P

Right after "All right — we'll call it a draw."

[SeattleGirl]

10. That's it!

I knew I could count on you, OR, for the exact quote! Damn, that scene makes me laugh 'till I cry!

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. I just started laughing

just thinking about it. And I've seen it 50-something times. :7



Trivia: I used to think they used some clever camera work for the bit where the Black Knight is hopping on one leg, yelling, "Right! I'll do you for that!" but it was actually a one-legged dude.

[SeattleGirl]

13. You kidding?

I had no idea.

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. Nope

It's in the directors' notes (Gilliam and Jones) on the Executive Version of the DVD.

More trivia: All the castle scenes except the end, at Castle Aaargh, were filmed at Doune Castle in... now I forget if it's the north of England or Ireland.

Want more? I got tons. :7

[SeattleGirl]

16. I bet you do.

You are a walking Monty Python dictionary, my friend. :thumbsup:

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Nah, there's people who know way more'n me

The ones who've written the books and whatnot. They know stuff that makes me go :wow:. But that's where I get it. :D

The original script, "Monty Python's Second Film," bore little resemblance to the shooting script. It had a medieval/modern day theme, with one scene where the knights and God are trying to escape angry townspeople in a van because they found the Grail, then lost it. (God is driving and he says, "I'm used to automatics.") Bits from the original script were worked into "Flying Circus" sketches, such as "buying an ant" and "toupee hall" in Episode 41 ("Michael Ellis").

An entire scene was cut from the shooting script because it made the film run long. It involved King Brian the Wild, who had a rather nasty habit of lopping bits off members of his court if they displeased him — particularly the vocal groups he had his soldiers round up to audition for him. (When he hears the knights singing "We're knights of the Round Table," he exclaims, "Wait a minute! Five-part harmony with a counter-tenor lead!") The best bit in the scene would've been the end, when he lops off the head of his herald because he wouldn't shut up. The scene ends with the herald's head rolling away, saying, "Press freedom infringed!"

If you look at Graham Chapman's eyes when he's in close-up, you'll note they're rather puffy. That's because he was drinking quite heavily during filming. Makes his performance all the more amazing. (By the time they filmed "Life of Brian" he was sober.)

They came up with the idea of cocoanuts simply because they couldn't afford horses. The entire film was done for £229,575 ($535,639 at the time).