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I resonate. I outline, write, develop, edit (all types), illustrate, format, design, and publish all of my work. Sometimes, I even craft the music, and I also do most of the V.O. But I'm absolutely invisible, so... I wouldn't worry too much about your own position, Danny! 🙂 You seem to have a throng of followers, and that's cool. Good stuff, enjoy it, and GL;HF. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

Get back to work, Danny. I'm not paying you to lolly gag and jabber jaw in the comments section.

What’s the song at the end?

You need a narrator

Dreams can happen you know

That would be the best day of my life.

I have done that on various shoots, two of them being feature films.

I visited Doune Castle last year. It was the thrill of my UK trip to see the location of so many scenes from the movie, so much was immediately recognizable.

Such a great opportunity that must have been indeed! Right time, right place. On a very different scale, it makes me think of the huge amount of New-Zealanders who ended up taking part in the making of the the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Talk about making things "local" as well!

hey?!

one of my favorites as well, it gets me every time

I always think the other guard looks like Conan O'Brien 😅

That's a reference to the neverending field in Culhwch and Olwen from the Mabinogion

​@@jsraadt💯Exactly🧠🌈#staychivalrous👑

The German title of the movie translates to "The Knights of the Coconut" because of that joke.

@@countluke2334😄So so curious as to why.... 🤔

Me too, but because of the budget issue, you end up with another iconic joke.

@@stephenbarrette610 A whole set of jokes. Without the coconuts no question where those come from. So no funny philosophical discussion about swallows. Without the swallow discussion no bridge joke.

Anyone who’s seen mp's flying circus or at least "and now for something completely different" gets it. Auntie beeb's budget restrictions sure make for some inventive comedy

"Supreme executive authority is derived from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony!"

You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

@@rogerrabt I can't remember the full "moistened bint" line. But the whole thing in fucking poetry.

@@greenman6141 If I went around, claiming I was emperor, just because some moistened bink (!?) had thrown a scimitar at me, they'd put me away! Now, where did I park that car.... oh right, in the garage.

@@ZlothZloth Bloody Peasant!

Major plot point in Successful Alcoholics (30 min film free on Vimeo. Very funny. Darn.)

So many video games have invented very resourceful tricks because they only have a very small budget (indies) or limited hardware capabilities (Nintendo). I have a lot of fondness for these. A good art direction that was invented to express something while dealing with limitations will often endure the test of time way better than an AAAAAA game going the ultra realistic route (although that is less true lately .. I would expect visually stunning games of the 2020s to still look great 10 years later, we have reached some kind of fidelity plateau).

JAWS and Star Wars are great examples.

Restrictions breed innovation

@ A decade ago, I'd have expected the visually stunning games of the 2010s to still look great today.

To me it was the repeating of the coconut/swallow joke. First movie I re-watched and saw that they were tying a coconut to a dove in the background in the Camelot scene iirc, that was amazing.

First time i watched it as a kid i was confused and thought it was starting to drag out and right as i was about to complain he hit the guard and i lost my shit

It gets me every single time hahaha.

it was all of it because the rest of culture was like jimmy saville putting his wet finger inside a child's ear eg. 13 years of "the goodies" hidden by the bbc because actually Good, not ma5onic.

I can't tell if he is actually getting firther away each time it cuts to him.

He is not paid enough for this

I always love that delivery

wait... I just realized it's a literal "running gag." I love these guys so much.

For me it’s also the bit where he attacks the wall sconce for no reason.

@@Shadowkey392 oh hell ya haha

Love the ending. It's perfect Python with surreal subversion of expectations.

@@cattysplat It's honestly the best movie ending ever.

The literal Cop Out

@@SPQSpartacus "Offences against the 'getting out of a sketch without having a proper lunch line act'. Namely, simply ending every bleeding sketch by having the fuzz come in!" (The Argument Sketch) And they had the balls to do it with an entire movie

Our copy was on VHS casette and we'd often end up with recordings of things from TV that ran out of tape or were later recorded over. For years I thought the ending of Grail was one of those problems and that there was a longer cut version somewhere.

Life of Brian was funded almost solely by Beatle George Harrison as he "wanted to see the movie"

@@stewartoutandabout He is the best Beatle, imo. Him being part of The Traveling Wilburys cements it.

Thank You for helping bring this Master Piece to the World!

Legendary - thanks for your diligent work and for bringing us one of the greatest films of all time!

THANK YOU!!!!! Its still as funny and fresh and crazy as it ever was. And in a hundred years time people will still be talking about it and new generations of fans will discover it, and be laughing till tears roll down their faces....

You were part of a masterpiece that generations will enjoy. Thank you for your gift to the rest of us!

So many cultural iconic products of their era are great, but don't hold up so well over the test of time. I was born in '75, so I can't comment about seeing at release. But the movie held up in 1990 when I first saw it. '00, 2010, and today. Congratulations for being part of something so great!

Right! I was twelve when this came out. What did I care about budgets? It was funny and that's all that mattered.

I thought the same. One of my all time favourite movies

@@LQOTW My family was sort of poor at that time so we couldn't afford to go the movie ourselves. But weeks later on the school bus, all the other kids who did see it were repeating the lines and telling the jokes. Years later when I finally seen the movie it was like, 'I know this part, I know this part too and this part is familure...'. It is still my favorite comedy bar none.

@@user-tf1rq9vg1j Similar to my experience. My friends quoted the movie so much that by the time I actually saw the movie myself years later, I knew nearly all of it by heart already! 🤣

Good diversion! 😂

I think thats the problem with the modern stuff. It's just massive CGi, loads of SFX and they miss the whole point.

@@fuzzblightyear145 I would take it a step further and say the real problem is using huge budgets as a crutch to try to make up for creativity. And that unfortunately has been true since the dawn of film making. The late fifties and most of the sixties were infamous for being the time period of high budget "factory films" that all felt exactly the same. They had big sets and big stars, but they were all about as creative as mud on a stick. It took nearly a decade and a half of audiences being tired of the same samey shit coupled with a rising generation of film makers with a desire to not make the same samey shit for that to change. But in a way that's the same issue we face now, only instead of the big studio money being poured into sets its now being poured into CGI. The problem sadly isn't new, it's just the focus of the money has changed

I think of the young James Cameron's many low budget effects such as the Galaxy of Terror scene where he electrocuted some maggots in a severed arm to get them to riggle.

In university I ran a cosplay/sewing group. Every semester we ran an event called "Dollar store cosplay" where we'd gather about $25 worth of whatever from a dollar store, $25 of broadcloth, and whatever workshop leftovers we had lying around. Teams would have to share these limited resources (with no way of knowing what would be available in advance) and each make a costume in under 2 hours. They had access to sewing machines, tape, hot glue, and markers. Winning team gets a prize. It was fantastic! It was fun, low-stakes, super approachable for new people, and incredible to see what people made up. We saw a car from Mario Kart made from a cardboard box, whimsical antlers made from a plastic archery bow broken in half and covered with twine + fake leaves, a belt pouch made from a neck pillow, a white wig made from halloween webs, and more.

I do think this is misunderstanding the orientation of things. It's mostly not that a lack of resources leads to creativity, although that's somewhat true... but that if something has little resources behind it, and still got made, it probably got made because the people making it were really passionate about it.

…Hey!

the jumpiest of all jump cuts! 😂😂

Why the hell did this make me cry?

@@CharlieQuartz maybe because it restores a bit of one's trust in humanity when teenagers immediately love Monty Python without even knowing they existed, before? ;)

"I could stay a bit longer."

The cherry on top of that scene is the meek “hey” from the guard!

I am sorry for your loss. My dad got me into this movie, too, and I've been a huge fan of it ever since. I think it's one of the rites of passage for nerds to watch it, and could be why one of my main questions to ask new people I meet is "what is the windspeed velocity of an unladen swallow."

African or European? ​@@samiam9202

Sorry for the loss of your awesome Dad !!

I'm sorry for your loss and happy for your fond memories of your father.

The pain of loss never fully leaves us, but it fades with time… that is a bonito/Beautiful memory of your late father. 😔Abrigado/Thank you for sharing!! 🙏

A good friend of ours (sadly deceased) was also in the battle scene. He never spotted himself in the final film. I didn't know Iain Banks was in it too but that makes sense because he mentioned they were at Stirling at the same time.

Iain banks is the goat

You could say he had Use of Weapons.

And now for something completely different-For a tutorial on interstellar travel Google search Pleadian contactee Billy Meiers material with a narrative by Randolf Winters...hit the video icon.You will see crystal clear photos & 8mm film footage of their different types of spacecraft with different approaches to interstellar travel. All done on 0$ budget.Thats a joke.

This is amazing! Love his Sci Fi!

I always knew that they had originally intended to use horses, but couldn't afford them, so they switched to coconuts. Made the film better anyway IMO :D

But it still feels like a solid movie when that kind of movie can sometimes not

Yaaaay.

Yaaaay.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay

yup

Kept trying to sing this to the tune of 12 days of Christmas

My brother & me too!!

Evidently the story of the building of Swamp Castle is based in fact.

"Huge... tracts of land" is another favorite quote from that scene.

It's pretty clear that he could only blow things up that didn't move. Otherwise he wouldn't have been scared of the rabbit.

:vigorous nodding: Inexplicably hilarious, even after 40+ years and ~30 viewings.

Fun fact: the character was actually named something more archiaic sounding but John Cleese forgot it and just ad-libbed a confused sounding "Tim?" Of course the Python lads know a good line when they hear it (even if it's not in the script) so Tim he became.

I always laugh that he forgot his line and they just didn't refilm it because they couldn't really afford to both time wise and money wise and it just stuck at a Monty Python gag that fit their whole persona, much like the entire film.

It also shows up in the _Worms_ video game series.

@@GoranXII wasnt it also in ready player one or do mix up something?

@@creaturion_cosplay Never watched _Ready Player One_ so I wouldn't know. It's possible though.

The influence of that movie cannot be overstated...it was even the inspiration for one of the first ever computer chess games "Battle Chess"...when a knight took another knight, well...I think we can all guess how that dance went (even if you never played the game).

Heh. Yeah :) But ya never know. The number of people I’ve brought the movie up to in the last few weeks who have given me blank looks was a bit… surprising, to say the least.

New people born every year.

This. Also, Grail earned something like 28x its budget back at the box office. So.. definitely both in this case.

JAWS. Bruce was completely being uncooperative.

I was going to metion Star Wars, the one and only, too. All these painters, carpenters, model builders all the creative people building this movie, have a big part in its succses..

why is there a moral? the ma5ons will just 5hit on it anyway. there ar eno morals anymore jus tlike there's no society.

Star Wars wasn’t a low-budget production, though. It cost $11 million to make which was about twice the budget of standard theatrical releases at that time

I find it hard to believe an ex Beatle was scraping together money.

@@TC2290-wh5cb In his book, I Me Mine, there's a photo of a check for £1,000,000 from Harrison to the Inland Revenue. He had good reason to write the song "Taxman".

indeed

Does what? 🤣

@@MultiEman21 Endings are hard.

They do indeed.

@@MultiEman21 Idk, maybe CinemaStix does know it's a great day.

Some of the cavalry were wearing it at the Battle of Hastings re-enactment on the original site in 2000. I was there as a Norman archer, and when they rode past it was obvious to me as I'd previously made my own (chain)mail shirt. Of course, I had a close up view, whereas the crowd were at some distance, so hopefully they didn't notice. I expect the cavalry were mostly English Civil War re-enactors and the outfits had been hired for them.

Even in Flying Circus, they would occasionally declare a skit too silly and simply walk off stage halfway through. I was very disappointed at not seeing the imminent battle scene but over time I've come to appreciate its complete Monty Pythonness. These guys are not just comedy geniuses, most of them have actual genius level IQs as well.

"WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITH!"

it can't be done!

OK maybe if you had a salmon, but really a herring is just silly.

@@KarlRoyale Personally, I'd use a swordfish. Preferably one named Wanda.

@@tetsujin_144Argh! You said the word! The word the knights of Ni cannot hear!

If I had to limit it to 3, it would be Grail, This is Spinal Tap and....(a lesser known but brilliant piece) What We Do In The Shadows.

I feel that!

I was also a little kid when I first watched it. My little sister cried and said it wasn't fair, the ending. I was just confused, I knew it was all a joke but it really took me a while for that to sink in.

Elderberry was used for spirits, and hamsters are known to be promiscuous. So "your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries" suggests perhaps maybe at some level, your father is a drunkard and your mother was easy to get. One of the oldest medieval "yo momma" jokes.

You have to go back & do the quote right.

Did the same thing a couple of years ago while I studied in Scotland 😂 Good times...

@@captainpoppleton "Go away or I shall taunt you a second time-a"

Careful!!!! Doing that in public in 2024 will get you arrested for being funny! You might upset a minority or a woke warrior....Comedy today is a total loss, and Python is still streets ahead of any comedy today. It was truly unique..

Lets not forget Ralph the Wonder Llama!

Idk how Lotr relates to this because it is completely different

Nice phrasing as a non-spoiler. My hat tips to you.

I'm incredibly stupid for not getting that, that was the joke

Also, despite watching this movie repeatedly over the last 40 years, I was just clued in last week that the end is a callback to the beginning. There's no end titles - not even a The End card - because the team for that had all been sacked.

@@rgallitanWell, sort of. Back then end titles were still rare in movies. Star Wars was the movie that began changing that. Also as you’ll remember, they did complete the credits in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.

hooray.

yaaaaaaaaay

The witch scene is my absolute favourite :D and of course 'I thought we were an autonomous collective'

WE NEED AT LEAST ONE PYTHON VID PER MONTH UNTIL 2034. THANKS!

there are no such links in the description that i can find.

Hehe. A Python residency.

Hm. I’m not sure why. At least in the mobile app, they appear for me in a special box at the top of the description. Are you on the phone or the computer? In any case, it unfortunately looks like the listing is out of stock anyway. Will update when that changes (this is the issue-physical media being a dying breed).

@@CinemaStix I'm on a laptop. I tried providing a screenshot of the description box but I believe the link caused KZfaq to remove my original comment.

My favorite line immediately follows that: yaaaaaaaaay

There are so many great lines enough for everyone. "She turned me into a Newt, I got better."

Life of Brian was financed by George Harrison.

@@baxtronx5972 Which Harrison explained by saying, "I just wanted to see the film." Perfect.

Mia, I recommend reading Eric Idle's autobiography. It's not only a entertaining read, but also explains how the Pythons (and especially Eric) hung out with these bands, including the Rolling Stones. Well worth reading! Adam, UK.

I'm so glad I'm the age that I am...growing up in the 70's....Monty Python, Dark Side of the Moon...bike helmets not even a thing...god-DAMN those days gave us all the resilience we needed! As opposed to....yikes...."OMG I was mis-gendered!" (which is to say...gendered).

@@YourDoomIsSealed Agree with everything apart from the bike helmets. I was with a friend when we were children in the 80s and he came off his bike. He wasn't going fast and only fell sideways. But he hit his head on the road and from that moment ended up with lifelong brain damage and an altered personality. It happened so fast that there was no way he could have brought his arms up to protect his head. I wouldn't dare cycle without a helmet on.

Yeah he gets mentioned later as “an extra”. No extra he. He was the minstrel for sir Robin, one of my favourite bits.

Yeah, he was their friend and unofficial Python member.

Big fan of the Rutles here.

'Bold, brave Sir Robin' - Neil Innes' utter classic song!

How about 4 ?

@@platonkarataev550no greater than 3

2 is right out.

@@markyoung3384 Four shalt thou not count neither shalt thou count two unless thou proceed unto three. FIVE is right out.

Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three...five is RIGHT OUT.

My dad’s text notification for the longest time was the arrow hitting him, until everyone decided to keep their phones on silent. Pretty sure if I asked him, it still is, though.

@@SuzieNerds No, you must change it. "There can be, only One!" 🙂