Monty Python The Quest For The Holy Grail

Monty Python the Quest for the Holy Grail mocks many epic stories, like Beowulf, sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The movie mocks how a knight should act and makes a joke of the legionary quest for the Holy Grail. Monty Python takes everything from the stories that is supposed to be serious and makes it not serious. It takes all the themes and makes a comical twist to them. The movie made fun of the knights having the ability to fight while riding their horses, and so the movie showed people following the knights carrying all their stuff and using coconut shells to mimic the sound of a horse running which was pretty funny. One theme they messed with was when the green knight was fighting the black knight and in the story the green knight won but in the movie the black night won and king Arthur came they fought and when king Arthur cut the black knights arm off he didn’t surrender and king Arthur cut aff the rest of his limbs so he couldn’t fight, the black knight …show more content…
Back in the times of the stories many people were accused of being a witch and many of the reasons made no sense, in the movie they displayed that by showing a lady being accused of witch craft and one man asked dumb questions to all the villagers and the villagers only focused on the lady being a witch. The final test for the lady was weighing her to a duck on a scale and she was heavier so they assumed she was a witch. This makes fun of serious reasons that people were accused of being a witch back then. In the movie the castle of Camelot was where the round table was and in the stories the round table was supposed to be and peaceful place, a place to respect, but in the movie the knights were dancing on the table and having a party like