Monty Python and the Holy Grail was produced in 1975 by directors Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. It is a comedy on the quest by Arthur and his knights to find the holy grail. While the movie isn't fully accurate the changes were made to make the movie more enjoyable for the audience. The movie says much about both the middle ages and audience's view of that period in history.
It's important to realize that Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a comedy and therefore has no obligation to be historically accurate, unlike a historical drama or a documentary. The Python team are satirists. They highlight mans behavior and hold it up for ridicule. In order for their satire to work there has to be an element of truth in the behavior. Both in this film and in other historical movies they have created (Life of Brian) they take events from history and point a magnifying glass at them to show us how ridiculous they are. This means that they often change certain details in order to make a scene more …show more content…
In the Arthurian legends Galahad is presented as pure and chaste. It's possible that this scene was meant to show him as Galahad "the chased" instead of "the chaste". Galahad is portrayed in legend as being the purest of the knights and once again we see his visit to the Castle Anthrax as being a way of the film makers ridiculing the idea of purity and chastity and the high ideal of his quest.
The idea that Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a historically accurate portrayal of the medieval period is of course ridiculous. However there are many events portrayed in the movie that are based in historical fact. During the period in question there were knights, people were tried for witchcraft, there was organized religion, there were plagues, but whether there was an Arthur, or even a round table is up for debate. The Python team took a period in history and made it funny for our
It's important to realize that Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a comedy and therefore has no obligation to be historically accurate, unlike a historical drama or a documentary. The Python team are satirists. They highlight mans behavior and hold it up for ridicule. In order for their satire to work there has to be an element of truth in the behavior. Both in this film and in other historical movies they have created (Life of Brian) they take events from history and point a magnifying glass at them to show us how ridiculous they are. This means that they often change certain details in order to make a scene more …show more content…
In the Arthurian legends Galahad is presented as pure and chaste. It's possible that this scene was meant to show him as Galahad "the chased" instead of "the chaste". Galahad is portrayed in legend as being the purest of the knights and once again we see his visit to the Castle Anthrax as being a way of the film makers ridiculing the idea of purity and chastity and the high ideal of his quest.
The idea that Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a historically accurate portrayal of the medieval period is of course ridiculous. However there are many events portrayed in the movie that are based in historical fact. During the period in question there were knights, people were tried for witchcraft, there was organized religion, there were plagues, but whether there was an Arthur, or even a round table is up for debate. The Python team took a period in history and made it funny for our