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The actor John Cleese returns to the manufacturing that could not be more hazardous – according to him – from the comedy “Monty Python: Sacré Grail”.
The film Monty Python: Sacré Graal celebrates its 50th anniversary this year! This British adventure comedy parodying the universe of King Arthur, his knights and his famous quest was released in the United Kingdom on April 9, 1975, 3 weeks after its American release. In France, we had to wait until December 3 of the same year to discover it.
Carried by the comic troop of Monty Python, Sacré Grail has become one of the cult humorous works on the big screen. At the time when parody was on the rise – as the cinema of Mel Brooks proves at the same time and a few years later that of the Zaz, Sacré Grail was a classic of cinema. But this classic was born … almost in a miracle.
In order to celebrate this anniversary, John Cleese, who interpreted Lancelot and the legendary black knight of the film remembered, for THR ::
“We had no idea what we were doing. We were very lucky. Sacré Grail contained extremely funny elements and we managed to bring them together because [Terry] Jones and [Terry] Gilliam managed to co -read it. [Il y a eu] The usual chaos of the Python, one of them slipping into the mounting room and re-attesting something while the other was sleeping upstairs, that kind of thing. “
“Then the film was released and it was a real surprise. We were delighted, because it was the last thing we expected. When we started the Python, the general feeling was: 'But what are these people doing?'[AheadofdepartmentoftheBBCfellonourdirectorintheelevatorandsaidtohim:'Thisshowissupposedtobefunny?Itwastheheadofthedepartment[UnchefdedépartementdelaBBCesttombésurnotreréalisateurdansl’ascenseuretluiadit:’Cespectacleestcenséêtredrôle?Jeletrouvehorrible’C’étaitlechefdudépartementUneconstantedanspresquetoutcequej’aifaitc’estque85%desgensausommetn’ontaucuneidéedecequ’ilsfont”
Finally, Monty Python: Sacré Graal entered the Pantheon of the Comedy, perhaps, moreover, thanks to his damn side and the absurd humor who reigns as a master, who exploits perfectly, to divert them, the expectations of the chivalry film.
To review the film today, we think back not without sadness to the bitterness which now exists between the members of the surviving troop. Terry Jones, co-director of Sacré Graal, died in January 2020.
