Three questions from Monty Python and The Holy Grail, with Terry Gilliam as The Bridge Keeper.
From Brazil, The Ministry of Information, a wonderfully comic yet accurate vision of bureaucracy in inaction.
From The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, with two Canadian actors on board, John Neville in the title role and a very young Sarah Polley.
The Grand Central Station dance scene from The Fisher King, with Robin Williams following Amanda Plummer through the crowd.
The trailer from Lost In La Mancha, the documentary by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe on Gilliam’s failed effort to make a film adaptation of Don Quixote.
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Y’know, I really like Monty Python. The movies and the TV shows. But man, I really have a hate on for people that get off on repeating the skits word for word. Do people still do that in university or has that passed? I guess this should be a LTWWB.
I think it all has to do with the fact that people who really dig Monty Python are generally like-minded folks. It takes a very specific type of person to get endless joy from something so silly, and when one of those folks finds another of one their kind, they latch on and puke out all of their collective nerdiness.
Tim & Eric are the Monty Python of the 21st Century. Where’s my Chippy?
Yeah, I get that. Like I said, I like the stuff, its funny. I guess its like a secret handshake of the uber-nerd/