The Holy Grail - The "Making Of" by BBC. Part 2

Part 2 of the entire BBC production "Monty Python And The Holy Grail Location Report" (1974).

[@stevenspenneberg7407]

Wow when he said “Any pooftahs ?” Graham did a legit double take. Handled it well tho.

[@tcatl2603]

Very quick wit, even when caught off guard. His eyes after are like "really?"

[@scotsmanic7783]

The whole thing was clearly a joke, from start to finish.

[@ksztaltchmur]

Dude, it was clearly a joke on both sides... got me in stitches

[@mikebohan4476]

-That's an interviewer! ...How do you know? -He hasn't got shit all-over-im.

[@MrKafein]

"the cow is actually John Clesse's double" :-D

[@oskarkevincaceresoviedo7136]

Eric with those hairs, looks like one more member of the group, led zepellin

[@CoconutMigrationCommittee]

8:21 Michael is so adorable!!

[@spockboy]

Now THIS is how to do interviews.

[@NelsonClick]

Weird to see this "behind the scenes" film which I never knew existed till yesterday. Holy Grail was a seminal film for me. Not only introduced me to Python but to the existence of all non-American culture. I saw it at least 7 times when it came out in 1976? I was 12.

[@666gertrude]

This is brilliant. Eric at 4:30 LMAO!!!

[@taybong]

Eric not answering any of the questions is such a mood lol

[@tcatl2603]

You can tell Gilliam is a natural born director. The other guys seem like "let's get this over with" while Gilliam's like a kid in a candy store.

[@aliens4143]

That's an awful take. It's serious work, Gilliam is just a wacky guy, or was at least. He was the most animalistic of the group, in a way, cetainly in his roles, but also in his mindset. Doesn't mean it makes him in any way more "natural" or not for what they are doing, which is after all mostly written and (excellently) acted by the others and also directed by Terry Jones.

[@tcatl2603]

@@aliens4143 The most animalistic? Lol. I don't blame the other guys for being a bit miserable -the conditions were miserable.

[@paulohagan3309]

I read in one of the books that they were pretty miserable conditions, cold, wet and windy. The Pythons haven't spoken much about the movie since then the book said. So no surprise when they went to Tunisia for 'Brian' they were much more cheerful and it's reflected in the corresponding documentaries. Still as we see here, they did their best to be cheerful for this documentary.

[@DrunkenCoward1]

"You don't believe in San-aty Clause?" I can't believe Graham didn't catch that.

[@NxDoyle]

The Drunken Coward He wasn't in his best form, famously.

[@EmileJoulbert]

Perhaps it was an old, tedious joke even by 1974. The Marx Brothers did it 30-40 years earlier. From Michael Palin's diary: 'Saturday, May 11th: A rather grey day, with intermittent rain. At the gates of Doune Castle Philip Jenkinson is standing with the Film Night crew. I haven't been chatting with him for long before we have been imperceptibly shuffled into an interviewing position beside a car, and I find myself being filmed at about 11.00 in the morning, the dullness of my replies matching the dullness of the day! After that they move over to a well in the courtyard and interview Graham, who at least managed to get some silly lines in -HE DELIBERATELY MISHEARS PHIL JENKINSON'S RATHER FACETIOUS REMARK ABOUT AN 'INSANITY' CLAUSE BEING BUILT INTO THE CONTRACT[...]'

[@DifficultFlannel]

RIP Neil Innes.

[@aliens4143]

Yes, great soundtrack composer and "bard".

[@AntonDoesMusic]

7:27 basically me

[@kibbles5724]

"Director asked me to do it too." lmao!

[@planetlg]

Funny, charming and brilliant! Bring it all back.

[@radithorsnapdragon3812]

This looks like a blast to film. So many huge personalities!

[@leone.6190]

8:11 poor chapman looking absolutely gone. :(

[@ichtuesoalsobichintelligen5154]

2:48 is killing me

[@bil19631963]

All lovely as usual....❤even after 50 years...

[@inferiorfowl2423]

in the shots with the cloth headpiece, graham looks quite drunk in facial expressions and reactions. it is said (by other python members) he was drinking large amount of liquor even before breakfast.

[@amojak]

at that stage in his life he was drinking a lot regularly. kept forgetting his lines.

[@petejones879]

Will always be my favourite python film

[@VinceHagenbeek]

5:55 - 6:20 the scene that Graham Chapman describes here (which was the 2nd day of filming) is where I really started to feel bad for King Arthur, especially the whole ending scene, which Arthur didn't deserve.

[@garyturner5739]

Graham was on the piss so much he was forgetting his lines during making of it.

[@oconnell88]

2:50 😂😂😂 This is why I love old programmes, couldn’t get away with saying something like that today 😂😂😂

[@jeetenzhurlollz8387]

Thats a real castle???But patsy said it was only a model!!!

[@devinharris9284]

They got kicked out and had to use a model instead

[@EmileJoulbert]

All the interior shots were done at Doune Castle, and its exterior walls tripled as 'Swallow' castle, the castle of Guy de Lombard and Swamp Castle. Making it the exterior of Camelot as well would possibly be stretching it a little bit. Although, the original script included "It's only a model" - coming from Sir Gawain's mouth rather than Patsy's - when arriving at Camelot, meaning it was never supposed to be a 'real' castle.

[@NotanotherDopeShow]

There is no Camelot. Camelot never exist

[@noaddedsugar9010]

4:23-5;14 is just hysterical

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

6:41 _"You don't believe in Sanity Claus?"_ Lols, brilliant.

[@foljs5858]

It's a Marx Brothers joke

[@billybronco4223]

The producer Mark Forstater interviewed here is the one who sued the Monty Python members for £1m in royalties and merchandising for SPAMALOT. That's why they did those final live shows at the O2 to pay off the debt.

[@angephilp1274]

Geez, that's awful

[@Useaname]

Yep. Typical jay

[@radithorsnapdragon3812]

This looks like it was an absolute blast to film!

[@Krushtykon]

It takes place in present day.

[@wgb01001]

Neil Innes is a dead ringer for Jeff Buckley. Two amazing musicians.

[@MammaApa]

That's why Innes ran over Buckley with that boat. Eliminate the competition.

[@ArnoGoldfinger]

2:01 looks like Stanley Kubrick sat on the ground - obviously getting directing tips from the two Terrys.

[@michaelahilzensauer4994]

So funny! I

[@hmtrimworks7148]

A couple of my favorite lines in the movie… Galahad: Is there someone else up there we can talk to? Galahad: Perhaps he was dictating Robin: Perhaps if we run away more

[@Claymor621]

The interviewer is not Tony Wilson as some nugget said below, it's Tony Bilbow

[@EmileJoulbert]

And the late Philip Jenkinson.

[@isammolina4842]

Dejen en paz a Graham Chapman 💙

[@schmidt969]

The best movie with the Middle Ages in the background if you ask me :)

[@lumpyfishgravy]

The cow needs to go much higher to clear the frame

[@dim1309]

Indeed.

[@xnihilo64]

Make no mistake. This movie was the catalyst that ushered me into the appreciation of classic literature and theology even some 50 years later. God works in mysterious ways.

[@PridelovalecSipka]

Yahweh ia not your God tho

[@angephilp1274]

After enjoying monty python for decades, and recently getting interested in medieval religion and royalty, i understand so much more

[@kayper54]

So, who is the guy talking about some of the production details in the first 2 minutes of this part? He's never named.

[@EmileJoulbert]

About ten years ago he sued Python over the rights to Spamalot. His name is Mark Forstater. He indirectly brought the Pythons together in 2014 to do the live shows. When interviewed by Alan Yentob in 2013, Eric Idle referred to him as "this idiot". Apparently he thought of himself as the 7th Python.

[@bouncehoper]

@@EmileJoulbert what an idiot he is then - everyone knows Carol Cleveland is the 7th Python.

[@MegaBlackhawk12]

7:28

[@outtathyme5679]

They used real actual dead animals lol

[@isammolina4842]

Que atorrante maravilloso era Eric .parece argentino. 😁

[@diananaomi9452]

IsaM Molina jajajaja somos argentinas?

[@MoveOverCasanova]

terrible when a presenter tries to be funnier than the comedians

[@user-xs3og8us3d]

It is all about having the right sort of nose.

[@lisambofoh]

What does the interviewer ask at 2:51?

[@joerasmussen4029]

Hollywood is safe, sadly!

[@kancheong]

✨Troll fest✨

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

Back when trolling was usually done in fun. Not like today where most trolling is nothing more than antagonism at best.

[@aliens4143]

It's not "trolling", it's fooling around and telling jokes. "Trolling" is pathetic modern garbage, mostly a narcissistic personality disorder.

[@schmidt969]

Ahh really? And what do the doctor say?

[@Kavetrol]

They were doing no such thing. Watch it again and pay attention.

[@scottmckague7526]

Neel Neel and Neel Neel and by the way neek

[@scottmckague7526]

and neek

[@Krushtykon]

Wut?

[@isammolina4842]

La actuación de Graham es perfecta. Y eso es lo importante. Ya esta muerto. No puede defenderse.Ya lo han usado bastante para justificar todo tipo de cosas.Y por no hablar del hecho de que resulta kiza poco claro haber realizado cosas con el nombre de MONTY PYTHON una vez muerto Chapman. Es como si Los Beatles hubieran hecho recitales ,con ese nombre, una vez muerto Lennon...En fin.no se.digo nomas.

[@flimpkin5]

I don't think the Humane Society over here in North America would have allowed actors to toss chickens and ducks off a 50' high castle wall. Kind of unfortunate to see it.

[@MrSpenben]

They were already dead.

[@EmileJoulbert]

They only threw live birds over a barely 10' high fake wall, built just behind Doune Castle. For the wide shots, they only used fake/stuffed animals. The cow wasn't real, by the way. (Except for the real one..)

[@leosurname6993]

And that's why no one asks North Americans for their opinion. :)

[@bobforapples8665]

Benny Hill considered funnier than Monty Python!

[@joj3734]

why the fuck do you comment this on every monty python video you geriatric swine?

[@bobforapples8665]

I am human not a swine. And I under 60 years old. Hill is much funnier!

[@joj3734]

hill was all raunchy sex jokes and sped up montages of him chasing scantily clad women. there was some funny bits but monty python literally revolutionised comedy. they were and still are the beatles of comedy. no need to shove your opinion in the faces of people who are clearly python fans. why dont you comment on benny hill videos then?

[@timocrompinen4529]

Funnier if you are a cretin.

[@user-xs3og8us3d]

@@timocrompinen4529 ok joke.

[@Stubby1085]

Still a bunch of nancies complaining about minor inconvienances. Funny yes. Worth feeling sympathy for not exactly.