Monty Python and the Holy Grail Page #4
- PG
- Year:
- 1975
- 91 min
- 6,315 Views
FIRST SOLDIER:
Oh yes! An African swallow maybe ... but not a European
swallow. that's my point.
SECOND SOLDIER:
ARTHUR:
(losing patience)
Will you ask your master if he wants to join the Knights
of Camelot?!
FIRST SOLDIER:
But then of course African swallows are non-migratory.
SECOND SOLDIER:
Oh yes.
ARTHUR raises his eyes heavenwards and nods to PATSY. They turn
and go off into the mist.
FIRST SOLDIER:
So they wouldn't be able to bring a coconut back anyway.
SECOND SOLDIER:
Wait a minute! Suppose two swallows carried it together?
FIRST SOLDIER:
No, they'd have to have it on a line.
Stillness. Silence again.
2 ANIMATION/LIVE ACTION SEQUENCE - DEATH AND DEVASTATION
CUT TO Terry Gilliam's sequence of Brueghel prints. Sounds of
strange medieval music. Discordant and sparse. Wailings and
groanings. The last picture mixes through into live action.
BIG CLOSE UP of contorted face upside down. A leg falls across
it. Creaking noise. The bodies lurch away from CAMERA to
reveal they are amongst a huge pile of bodies on a swaying cart
that is lumbering away from CAMERA. It is pulled by a couple of
ragged, dirty emaciated WRETCHES. Behind the cart walks another
MAN who looks slightly more prosperous, but only on the scale
of complete and utter impoverishment. He wears a black hood and
looks sinister.
CART DRIVER:
Bring out your dead!
We follow the cart through a wretched, impoverished plague-ridden
village. A few starved mongrels run about in the mud scavenging.
In the open doorway of one house perhaps we jug glimpse a pair of
legs dangling from the ceiling. In another doorway an OLD WOMAN
is beating a cat against a wall rather like one does with a mat.
The cart passes round a dead donkey or cow in the mud. And a MAN
tied to a cart is being hammered to death by four NUNS with
huge mallets.
CART DRIVER:
Bring out your dead!
There are legs stick out of windows and doors. Two MEN are fighting
in the mud - covered from head to foot in it. Another MAN is on his
hands in knees shovelling mud into his mouth. We just catch
sight of a MAN falling into a well.
CART DRIVER:
Bring out your dead!
LARGE MAN:
Here's one!
CART DRIVER:
Ninepence.
BODY:
I'm not dead!
CART DRIVER:
What?
LARGE MAN:
Nothing... There's your ninepence.
BODY:
I'm not dead!
CART DRIVER:
'Ere. He says he's not dead.
LARGE MAN:
Yes he is.
BODY:
I'm not!
CART DRIVER:
He isn't.
LARGE MAN:
He will be soon. He's very ill.
BODY:
I'm getting better!
LARGE MAN:
You're not. You'll be stone dead in a few minutes.
CART DRIVER:
I can't take him like this. It's against regulations.
BODY:
I don't want to go on the cart.
LARGE MAN:
Don't be such a baby.
CART DRIVER:
I can't take him.
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