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This year, YouTube celebrated its twentieth anniversary, which prompted young users to wonder what could have been life. The fiftieth anniversary of Monty Python and the Holy Grailwhich was created in April 1975, inspired a similar reflection among comedy lovers. It can be difficult, at this stage, to imagine itself in a culture which is not yet disturbed by the rigorously absurd logic of Monty Python, the dispersed satire and the deliberate rupture of the narration and the social convention – a culture, in fact, where this kind of thing could be too dangerous for television and the film.
It was their BBC Sketch series Monty Python flying circus This first introduced this comic sensitivity in Great Britain, then in the world. Between the third and fourth seasons of this show, the Pythons – Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam – took the project to create their own cinematographic reinterpretation of the Arthurian legend.
With a modest budget provided by Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Ian Anderson by Jethro TullAnd other investors linked to the world of music, they immersed themselves in a crushing and little glamorous vision of the Middle Ages, punctuated by an inexplicable anachronism and saturated with iconoclastic contempt for the wisdom received and the glory interrupted.
There, the pythons have told a story which, while lacking narrative structure – say nothing about historical realism – more than compensates in a pure comic momentum. According to all the accounts, he holds half a century, even for viewers who have already seen him many times to the point of having involuntarily engaged all the jokes in memory. To celebrate his birthday, the film has become available to broadcast for free (Although not in all regions of the world) on the official YouTube films and television channel, where the latest generations of Monty Python fans first discovered their work. Even if lines like “I fart in your general management” no longer raise transgressive thrillThere is still little on the content of content of this platform to correspond Monty Python and the Holy GrailThe multilayer stupidity, whose place in the annals of the legend of comedy has long been ensured.
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