Friday, February 23, 2007


Monty Python and the Holy Grial


Yippee!!The minors have ended at last. I don't know why but this time it seems that I have done a nice job. Sometimes you have the feelinig that the exams have ended in just the right manner as you wanted them to be. Nither badly, leaving you depressed and frustrated nor very well, giving you airs of self-achievement. For me this feeling is pretty good. But putting it straight it is only seldom that I get to fell this kind of feeling.

Coming straight to the point, I saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail after the minors. Well!! What a movie it was... The screenplay was developed to keep the temperament of the story going. The funniest act was the virtual horse one. My friend, who was watching the movie with me and I have enacted that scene several times, much to the disappointment and amusement of the onlookers. A person who is shown to be narrating the movie is killed by one of King Arthur's knight. The police is later called to investigate the crime.

The movie is a spoof on King Arthur's quest for Holy Grail. Terry Gilliam seems to have done a briiliant job. The end was rather interesting. The King and his army were interuppted by 70's police as they were heading to attack the French. The police arrests King Arthur and then the movie comes to an abrupt end. I was rather amazed by the sequence of events. Anything was possible in the movie. Once, the animator who had created the dragon had an heart-attack and died. The dragon also died simultaneously and thus King Arthur and his valiant men moved ahead in the quest of the grail.

Whenever I think of the movie, these scenes don't fail to amuse me. It was one of it's kinds. Looking ahead to watch a similar movie..........