Just watched this again on an ancient vhs recording about to lose its soundtrack - and between the tatty show-biz characters, the dumpy middle-class denizens, the choreographing bobbies, and the military guy barking gibberish, I realized this movie was laying the groundwork for Monty Python some two years beforehand! Am I right?
shareA lot of the Monty Python-style comedy was already in full swing, but quite a bit of this movie was very Pythonesque.
shareOh totally they did alot of thing monty python has done.But as the previous post said that there was already alot of stuff even with the beatles in it Help,How I won the war
shareI said before and I'll say it again : The Beatles and the Pythons are a nice package deal!
| ''But where's the ambiguity?... It's over there, in a box!'' |
was it the concert for george thing i taped off tv and someone (here i'm hoping it was a python and NOT tom hanks, though i know he sang both their praises to high heaven) talking about how the python boys started the year the beatles ended and how the spirit of the beatles became part of python. nice though, eh?
shareJoshua Greene, in his book on George Harrison, "Here Comes the Sun", quotes Terry Gilliam saying that George thought that "whatever that spirit was that animated the Beatles just drifted across to Python." So the connection wasn't lost on the main characters themselves, and the similarity between the two groups goes much further than the Beatles' movies.
shareMonty Python could be considered a continuation of The Goons, and Richard Lester's films. Add in a good dose of Bonzo Dog Band, Arthur Askey, and The Beatles, and we're off!
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