Research & Planning- Monty Python & The Holy Grail

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Release Date:  10 May 1975
Genre:  Adventure, comedy.
Director: Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones.
Awards:  2 Nominations.

Plot Summary.

The movie starts out with Arthur, King of the Britons, looking for knights to sit with him at Camelot. He finds many knights including Sir Galahad the pure, Sir Lancelot the brave, the quiet Sir Bedevere, and Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Lancelot. They do not travel on horses, but pretend they do and have their servants bang coconuts to make the sound of horse's hooves. Through satire of certain events in history (witch trials, the black plague) they find Camelot, but after literally a quick song and dance they decide that they do not want to go there. While walking away, God (who seems to be grumpy) come to them from a cloud and tells them to find the Holy Grail. They agree and begin their search. While they search for the Grail, scenes of the knight's tales appear and why they have the name they have. Throughout their search they meet interesting people and knights along the way. Most of the characters die; some through a killer rabbit (which they defeat with the holy hand grenade), others from not answering a question right from the bridge of Death, or die some other ridiculous way. In the end, King Arthur and Sir Bedevere are left and find the Castle Arrrghhh where the Holy Grail is. They are met by some French soldiers who taunted them earlier in the film, so they were not able to get into the castle.

Opening Sequence

The credits are rolled to deeply worrying music with false starts, as well as apologies for the inadequacies of each. In the end, credits that are heavily llama-based are rolled, to highly festive Latin music. There is a foggy opening while we here the sound of horses galloping. You see two characters in the distance, “King Arthur” wearing stereotypical clothes such as a tunic and a crown. The other character being “Patsy” fulfilling the role of his sidekick. You see them become faced with a castle and Patsy mimicking the sound of a galloping horse stopping. The fog clears a little as we see two guards come into the picture. While we hear Arthur announcing he is questing for knights to join him at Camelot and wants to recruit the master of the castle.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/-   Research source.