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Twist Ending?

posted 12 years ago by cdull
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http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/04/the-50-best-movie-twists/mo nty-python-and-the-holy-grail

According to the site above this film has one. Is it just me or are they off base on this one?

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[–] 12 years ago

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[–] ContinentalOp 12 years ago

The film doesn't really take place in a modern settings, it is far too surreal for that. The world of the film is not medieval or modern, it has no real internal continuity in that regards. It just is what it is, a wacky tale of King Arthur and his knights, on a sacred quest... who end up getting arrested by the police.

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[–] keith123300-1 12 years ago

I was just about to say the same thing. The film isn't straight forward enough for them to be escaped mental patients.

The way I saw it was one of the knights broke in to our reality, the real world, and killed the historian, and so cops from our world enter theirs to arrest them. Yes it sounds silly, but it fits perfectly with what Monty Python is like. Surrealism at its finest.

[–] arthur_pewtey 12 years ago

Sadly,

They're a very long way off-base with that explanation.

The original movie script has Harrods department store in London for the final scene. However, lack of funding and thoughts that this wasn't that good an ending prompted the troupe to re-write the ending.

For verfication of this check out both The Pythons Autobiography and the movie shooting script book.

Anyone familiar with the Monty Python TV series would be familiar with the 'arrest' as a device for ending sketches. Graham Chapman in particular would come on screen dressed as an authority-figure - intellect/soldier/doctor/policeman and demand sketches were stopped - often on the basis that they were too silly.

Having everyone arrested at the end of a movie makes no sense, and accordingly makes every sense - especially as it's such an anti-climax.