Abbott and Costello broke the 4th wall in many of their movies. But, right before Monty Python put out The Holy Grail a movie came out that took the 4th wall and twisted it into a pretzel, then beat it with a rubber hose: Blazing Saddles.
@OfficialDNJmoviehouse one of the best and funniest westerns ever made. Mel Brooks took the period of reconstruction and life in a small western town to the extreme.
This film is a tragic exposition of police profiling, false arrest, and abuse of the justice system. Arthur and his men were clearly innocent of this terrible act. The killer had a real horse.
The concept of the fourth wall is fairly recent in the history of drama. But characters technically breaking the fourth wall has existed for a very long time, even back to the ancient Greeks.
one of my favorite breaking of the 4th wall is in a marx brothers movie. chico is about to play a song on the piano,and groucho looks into the camera and says, "i have to stay here,but there's no reason you folks shouldn't go into the lobby until this blows over". interesting fact: the scene where dingo breaks the 4th wall in "holy grail" was cut from the original theatrical release. it was added back in for the dvd version.
Had King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table actually completed their quest and found the grail, Indiana Jones would have been out if a job. No mooses were harmed in the making of this documentary.
"I found some parts would hit with me, and some parts maybe not so much." That's Monty Python in a nutshell. Their humor is all over the place. A lot of it is intelligent and sophisticated ("Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony"), but they're also not afraid to go for cheap laughs like silly names ("I am Zoot's identical twin sister, Dingo") and nonsense words ("Ni!"), and some of it is completely random ("You must cut down the mightiest tree in the the forest with... a herring!"). And breaking the fourth wall ("... when suddenly, the animator suffered a fatal heart attack!") is just par for the course for them. Personally I prefer clever humor over dumb humor, and Monty Python has plenty of both. And even some of their dumb humor is hilarious. But yeah, it's kind of hit and miss. This movie is basically just an extended episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. The main difference is that Flying Circus is a sketch comedy show, so it rarely has a consistent narrative from beginning to end.
We've heard Life of Brian has a more standard feeling movie narrative and might give that one a try. I've mentioned this on other replies but during editing we seemed to enjoy the movie a bit more, so it might warrant a 2nd or 3rd viewing from us. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
There are silent films in the 20's that broke the 4th wall. Bob Hope movies in the 40's did it all the time, too. They couldn't afford a big battle scene, or horses.
This is my favourite Monty Python movie. Your 3/5 is fair, if you're not used to this type of humour. I've seen a couple of reactors barely laugh at all watching this, so at least you had a better time than them. In my experience us Europeans find Monty Python (both the movies and their TV show) funnier than North Americans do. I guess we are used to different types of comedy, and there's nothing wrong with that. In Europe a lot of people hate the laugh tracks that American comedy shows often have. For example here in Finland the dry and sarcastic British humour has always been very popular.
I wonder if this one will resonate with us more on a 2nd or 3rd view. It felt 'funnier' during editing and it might be due to us just being more used to the style now. Also it's funny you bringing up the laugh tracks, as the TV show Friends is our guilty pleasure and we have that one running all the time!
@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse Yes, if you haven't seen Monty Python before, it might take a few viewings to get used to their comedy. I think you might enjoy Life of Brian more than this, if religious humour doesn't offend you (the movie was actually banned in some places back in the day). Life of Brian isn't as absurd as The Holy Grail and is more like a "real" movie, and also had a bigger budget. And yes, shows like Friends are also very popular here, despite the laugh tracks, so they don't bother people too much if the show is good.
We were looking at Life of Brian as well, and ended up deciding on Holy Grail for this week. We might end up checking it out next month sometime. Sounds like we might jive with it a little more and religious humor doesn't bother us at all!
Monty Python humour is definitely different. Not every joke works for everyone, that was true of their tv series as well, but the ones that do land are very funny. The members of Monty Python are all really well educated, and there are definite depths to their humour if you're in the know. The battle of the black knight vs the green knight, the story of the Lady in the Lake, even down to the way they always say "run away" rather than "retreat" because the word "retreat" is of French origin and wouldn't have been available in English until after William the Conqueror - there's always more to know and learn... but then, a lot of it is just fun for fun's sake too :)
Oh interesting about the retreat bit, we had no idea! There were parts that were really funny for us, but some of the jokes ran for long time and so if it didn't land it wasn't landing for the entire time.
I have a video of me and my friends quoting this movie back in the 80’s! I love the channel, don’t give up! It takes time to build then out of nowhere it’ll boom. I Love both of you. Richard, you’re a handsome guy but Jane has got to be THE most beautiful woman on TH-cam! I know it’s not about looks, but I’m just a weirdo on TH-cam and wanted to throw out a compliment to Jane. Everyone likes a little ego boost! Thanks for the reactions you two!
when i first saw this, i mustv been in the right mode to enjoy it, because i really did, but then it actually started giving me a bad vibe later on, so its weird in that way, and i dont blame any reactors that arent feeling it, but i still enjoy when a reactor is feeling it
Unfortunately, they only had a limit amount of funding to make this movie. So that is why they had to use the coconuts. The end of the movie is where they ran out of money and had to end abruptly.
1. What about the moose? 2. Paying attention to the opening credits (If you can) makes it better for everyone, including you. 3. The first time I saw this was in the back of a pickup at a drive-in (it's still here) with my siblings and a couple of friends. 4. Perfect Monty Python where you can just get sucked into something where you don't have to think about anything and just let yourself go. 5. "What ya gonna do? Bleed on me."🤣 "We'll call it a draw" 🤣 6. Quick bit: "Blow it out your ass"! 7. The ultimate cock block 😭 8. Robin's shield is a chicken. 9.The only horse in the film is ridden by the guy that killed the historian. 10.The ending sucked. It was a cop out. Literally They ran out of 🤑🤑
Merlin?! They couldn’t even afford horses (I mean, that one horse wasn’t even theirs, and it just so happened that a mounted knight with a vendetta against famous historians was in the area during that scene), and you think they’d really have the wizard budget for Merlin? Now _that_ is just silly. Well, I shall forgive you this time, for your bravery in this perilous reaction, and shall, therefore, not say Ni to you again.
Thank you, I won't do it again! They really killed it with the limited budget! That scene with the mounted knight with a vendetta was a crazy one, wasn't it? It is time for me to leave this conversation, but thank you for commenting (on it).
Life of Brian, the Holy Grail, and the Meaning of Life... five of my favorite films.
I see what you did there. Nice
Abbott and Costello broke the 4th wall in many of their movies. But, right before Monty Python put out The Holy Grail a movie came out that took the 4th wall and twisted it into a pretzel, then beat it with a rubber hose: Blazing Saddles.
Is Blazing Saddles good? Would you recommend it for a reaction? We haven't heard of this movie until very recently.
@OfficialDNJmoviehouse one of the best and funniest westerns ever made. Mel Brooks took the period of reconstruction and life in a small western town to the extreme.
@ Nice, we’ll have to add it to the list!
@@tenjed4224 yeah his movies are good, too bad he went and endorsed a racist for president
A lot of people comment "oh hey, they travelled to the future". I like to think they were just LARPing all along.
This film is a tragic exposition of police profiling, false arrest, and abuse of the justice system. Arthur and his men were clearly innocent of this terrible act. The killer had a real horse.
@@Mr.Ekshin The police reached out to the Black Knight for questioning, but he was unable to answer the door.
The concept of the fourth wall is fairly recent in the history of drama. But characters technically breaking the fourth wall has existed for a very long time, even back to the ancient Greeks.
I was thinking Shakespeare but totally forgot about the greeks haha.
one of my favorite breaking of the 4th wall is in a marx brothers movie. chico is about to play a song on the piano,and groucho looks into the camera and says, "i have to stay here,but there's no reason you folks shouldn't go into the lobby until this blows over". interesting fact: the scene where dingo breaks the 4th wall in "holy grail" was cut from the original theatrical release. it was added back in for the dvd version.
Ohh thanks for the tidbit that's pretty neat!
the animation was done by Terry Gilliam who went on to produce the likes of Brazil and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Oh the director did the animation as well? Interesting! I'm assuming that's literally him who falls down in his chair?
@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse yes thats him. Patsy. they were a regular feature in Monty Pythons Flying Circus
Had King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table actually completed their quest and found the grail, Indiana Jones would have been out if a job. No mooses were harmed in the making of this documentary.
1 rabbit snuffed it during the making of this documentary.
"there's some funny parts".... followed by a long list of those things that landed.... 😂
Haha tbf during editing we noticed we enjoyed it a bit more so maybe this movie will get a 2nd or 3rd view from us.
"I found some parts would hit with me, and some parts maybe not so much."
That's Monty Python in a nutshell. Their humor is all over the place. A lot of it is intelligent and sophisticated ("Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony"), but they're also not afraid to go for cheap laughs like silly names ("I am Zoot's identical twin sister, Dingo") and nonsense words ("Ni!"), and some of it is completely random ("You must cut down the mightiest tree in the the forest with... a herring!"). And breaking the fourth wall ("... when suddenly, the animator suffered a fatal heart attack!") is just par for the course for them.
Personally I prefer clever humor over dumb humor, and Monty Python has plenty of both. And even some of their dumb humor is hilarious. But yeah, it's kind of hit and miss.
This movie is basically just an extended episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. The main difference is that Flying Circus is a sketch comedy show, so it rarely has a consistent narrative from beginning to end.
We've heard Life of Brian has a more standard feeling movie narrative and might give that one a try.
I've mentioned this on other replies but during editing we seemed to enjoy the movie a bit more, so it might warrant a 2nd or 3rd viewing from us.
Thanks for taking the time to comment!
There are silent films in the 20's that broke the 4th wall. Bob Hope movies in the 40's did it all the time, too.
They couldn't afford a big battle scene, or horses.
My mind also went to live theater when the narrator would speak to the audience in between scenes.
This is my favourite Monty Python movie. Your 3/5 is fair, if you're not used to this type of humour. I've seen a couple of reactors barely laugh at all watching this, so at least you had a better time than them. In my experience us Europeans find Monty Python (both the movies and their TV show) funnier than North Americans do. I guess we are used to different types of comedy, and there's nothing wrong with that. In Europe a lot of people hate the laugh tracks that American comedy shows often have. For example here in Finland the dry and sarcastic British humour has always been very popular.
I wonder if this one will resonate with us more on a 2nd or 3rd view. It felt 'funnier' during editing and it might be due to us just being more used to the style now.
Also it's funny you bringing up the laugh tracks, as the TV show Friends is our guilty pleasure and we have that one running all the time!
@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse Yes, if you haven't seen Monty Python before, it might take a few viewings to get used to their comedy. I think you might enjoy Life of Brian more than this, if religious humour doesn't offend you (the movie was actually banned in some places back in the day). Life of Brian isn't as absurd as The Holy Grail and is more like a "real" movie, and also had a bigger budget. And yes, shows like Friends are also very popular here, despite the laugh tracks, so they don't bother people too much if the show is good.
We were looking at Life of Brian as well, and ended up deciding on Holy Grail for this week. We might end up checking it out next month sometime. Sounds like we might jive with it a little more and religious humor doesn't bother us at all!
Monty Python humour is definitely different. Not every joke works for everyone, that was true of their tv series as well, but the ones that do land are very funny. The members of Monty Python are all really well educated, and there are definite depths to their humour if you're in the know. The battle of the black knight vs the green knight, the story of the Lady in the Lake, even down to the way they always say "run away" rather than "retreat" because the word "retreat" is of French origin and wouldn't have been available in English until after William the Conqueror - there's always more to know and learn... but then, a lot of it is just fun for fun's sake too :)
Oh interesting about the retreat bit, we had no idea! There were parts that were really funny for us, but some of the jokes ran for long time and so if it didn't land it wasn't landing for the entire time.
Even the rabbit has some historical accuracy. Look it up. There are genuine medieval illustrations which depict some rather murderous bunnies.
@@0okamino lol I just looked it up and that's wild. They even gave it a sword and shield🤣
I have a video of me and my friends quoting this movie back in the 80’s! I love the channel, don’t give up! It takes time to build then out of nowhere it’ll boom. I Love both of you. Richard, you’re a handsome guy but Jane has got to be THE most beautiful woman on TH-cam! I know it’s not about looks, but I’m just a weirdo on TH-cam and wanted to throw out a compliment to Jane. Everyone likes a little ego boost! Thanks for the reactions you two!
Thanks for the compliments! We enjoy the entire process from watching/reacting to editing and will continue to put videos out!
when i first saw this, i mustv been in the right mode to enjoy it, because i really did, but then it actually started giving me a bad vibe later on, so its weird in that way, and i dont blame any reactors that arent feeling it, but i still enjoy when a reactor is feeling it
Not going to lie while going through the edit process the movie felt a bit better.
If you want a strong non comedic version of the King Arthur story, try out the very violent Excalibur (1981).
Thanks for the recommendation, we'll add it to the list!
Unfortunately, they only had a limit amount of funding to make this movie. So that is why they had to use the coconuts. The end of the movie is where they ran out of money and had to end abruptly.
No money to pay for Lancelot's and Arthur's lawyer?
The horses got cut from the budget
They had enough for just one at least!
To allow for all the moose and llamas.
1. What about the moose?
2. Paying attention to the opening credits (If you can) makes it better for everyone, including you.
3. The first time I saw this was in the back of a pickup at a drive-in (it's still here) with my siblings and a couple of friends.
4. Perfect Monty Python where you can just get sucked into something where you don't have to think about anything and just let yourself go.
5. "What ya gonna do? Bleed on me."🤣 "We'll call it a draw" 🤣
6. Quick bit: "Blow it out your ass"!
7. The ultimate cock block 😭
8. Robin's shield is a chicken.
9.The only horse in the film is ridden by the guy that killed the historian.
10.The ending sucked. It was a cop out. Literally
They ran out of 🤑🤑
No moose were harmed!
We've never been to a drive in theater - One day!
The ending as a cop out now makes sense LOL
@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse If you ever get the chance, go. You can bring your own food, drinks etc
Merlin?! They couldn’t even afford horses (I mean, that one horse wasn’t even theirs, and it just so happened that a mounted knight with a vendetta against famous historians was in the area during that scene), and you think they’d really have the wizard budget for Merlin? Now _that_ is just silly. Well, I shall forgive you this time, for your bravery in this perilous reaction, and shall, therefore, not say Ni to you again.
Thank you, I won't do it again! They really killed it with the limited budget! That scene with the mounted knight with a vendetta was a crazy one, wasn't it? It is time for me to leave this conversation, but thank you for commenting (on it).
Your lukewarm reaction to this comedy masterpiece baffles me. What a shame.
Sorry, the frenchman farting in our general direction got to us.
@@OfficialDNJmoviehouse It's silly in a very intelligent way. Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time! 🙂
Im not smart enough for this movie i didnt get it 😭
LOL it was hit or miss for us but the ones that landed were really funny IMO
Lol. It's supposed to be nonsensical. Just take the jokes at face value.
Just a flesh wound!
We'll call it a draw then 🤣
Ni !!!
Google offered to translate Ni and it comes out as "It is". So there it is!