Monty Python and The Holy Grail is one of my favorite comedies of all time and thanks to some recently found Monty Python scripts and comedy sketches, we are learning a few new details about what else we might have seen in the film!
A collection of lost Monty Python scripts were discovered in former member Michael Palin‘s archives after donating his private collection to the British Library in London. The scripts, which were original sketches for the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, will go on display later this month.
According to The Times of London, there were 50 notebooks filled with rough drafts and ideas for the film which includes an "amorous" Pink Knight telling King Arthur that the only way he would let him cross the bridge would be a kiss. Palin told the site:
"When we were writing Python in 1973, there was much more homophobia — or rather not homophobia exactly,...
A collection of lost Monty Python scripts were discovered in former member Michael Palin‘s archives after donating his private collection to the British Library in London. The scripts, which were original sketches for the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, will go on display later this month.
According to The Times of London, there were 50 notebooks filled with rough drafts and ideas for the film which includes an "amorous" Pink Knight telling King Arthur that the only way he would let him cross the bridge would be a kiss. Palin told the site:
"When we were writing Python in 1973, there was much more homophobia — or rather not homophobia exactly,...
- 8/6/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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