The film Monty Python and the Holy Grail was a satire of the King Arthur time period. There were a few themes in medieval literature that had been mocked in the movie compared to the real stories. For one theme, the English were made to look like buffoons or horrible people. Serious situations were turned into jokes in the movie as well. Ideals such as beauty and bravery were tested in the movie compared to the book. Monty Python and the Holy Grail was made to completely make fun of the real issues that had occurred way earlier.
One theme that had been played with was how the English were made to look like buffoons or evil people. In the beginning of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the knights and King Arthur rode in on imaginary horses. They had clapped two coconuts together to make the sound of horses clattering by. Arthur was …show more content…
In the film, Sir Lancelot expects to rescue a fair maiden only to be disappointed and met with the king’s son. Not to mention that this son is also supposedly marrying a chubbier women with reddish hair. In our stories such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain stays in a castle and is flirtatious with the queen there. Women in these stories are always seen as beautiful, skinny and always need rescuing. This satirizes an ideal of beauty during King Arthur’s time period. The film that we had watched also made fun of the quests that were taken. For example, when Arthur and his men had to cross the bridge guarded by a troll, none of the knights stepped forward so Arthur had. When he had, the questions were simple such as “What is your name?” “What is your quest?” and “What is your favorite color?” There were only a couple hard questions and when Arthur stepped up, so had his knights. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Arthur stepped up to fight the green knight because no one else would, However, Gawain soon had taken his place and proved his
One theme that had been played with was how the English were made to look like buffoons or evil people. In the beginning of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the knights and King Arthur rode in on imaginary horses. They had clapped two coconuts together to make the sound of horses clattering by. Arthur was …show more content…
In the film, Sir Lancelot expects to rescue a fair maiden only to be disappointed and met with the king’s son. Not to mention that this son is also supposedly marrying a chubbier women with reddish hair. In our stories such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain stays in a castle and is flirtatious with the queen there. Women in these stories are always seen as beautiful, skinny and always need rescuing. This satirizes an ideal of beauty during King Arthur’s time period. The film that we had watched also made fun of the quests that were taken. For example, when Arthur and his men had to cross the bridge guarded by a troll, none of the knights stepped forward so Arthur had. When he had, the questions were simple such as “What is your name?” “What is your quest?” and “What is your favorite color?” There were only a couple hard questions and when Arthur stepped up, so had his knights. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Arthur stepped up to fight the green knight because no one else would, However, Gawain soon had taken his place and proved his