But Also. However, one problem the Pythons perceived with these programmes was that though the body of the sketch would be strong, the writers would often struggle to then find a punchline funny enough to end on, and this would detract from the overall quality of the sketch.
They decided that they would simply not bother to 'cap' their sketches in the traditional manner, and early episodes of the Flying Circus series make great play of this abandonment of the punchline one scene has Cleese turn to Idle, as the sketch descends into chaos, and remark that "This is the silliest sketch I've ever been in" - they all resolve not to carry on and simply walk off the set.
However, as they began assembling material for the show, the Pythons watched one of their collective heroes, Spike Milligan, recording his new series Q5 Not only was the programme more irreverent and anarchic than any previous television comedy, Milligan would often "give up" on sketches halfway through and wander off set often muttering "did I write this? It was clear that their new series would now seem somewhat less original, and Jones in particular became determined the Pythons should innovate further.
After much debate, Jones remembered an animation Gilliam had created for Do Not Adjust Your Set called "Beware of the Elephants", which had intrigued him with its stream-of-consciousness style. Jones felt it would be a good concept to apply to the series: allowing sketches to blend into one another. Palin had been equally fascinated by another of Gilliam's efforts, entitled "Christmas Cards", and agreed that it represented "a way of doing things differently.
Each day of writing started at 9am and finished at 5pm. Typically, Cleese and Chapman worked as one pair of writers isolated from the others, as did Jones and Palin, while Idle wrote alone.
After a few days of working in this configuration, they would all join together with Gilliam, critique their scripts and exchange ideas. Their approach to writing was democratic. If the majority found the idea to be humorous, it would be included in the show. The casting of roles for the sketches was a similarly unselfish process, since each member viewed himself primarily as a writer , rather than an actor desperate for screen time.
When the themes for sketches were finally chosen, Gilliam had carte blanche to decide how to bridge them with animations, armed with his camera, scissors, and airbrush. While the show was a collaborative process, different factions within Python were clearly responsible for different elements of the team's humour.
In general, the work of the Oxford-educated members was more visual, and more fanciful conceptually e. Asked about this, Cleese has confirmed that "most of the sketches with heavy abuse were Graham's and mine, anything that started with a slow pan across countryside and impressive music was Mike and Terry's, and anything that got utterly involved with words and disappeared up any personal orifice was Eric's. Several names for the show were bandied about before the title Monty Python's Flying Circus was settled upon.
The group came up with the coconut idea from an old BBC radio practice of using coconut halves as sound effects for horses. During pre-production, Gilliam and Jones had scouted and secured a series of authentic medieval shooting locations throughout Scotland.
Forced to scramble to find a place to shoot the movie, the two Terrys secured two privately owned castles to shoot all of castle interiors and most of the exteriors. Castle Aaargh is actually Castle Stalker , which is located on the west coast of Scotland.
The rest of the castles are actually Doune Castle located about 30 miles north of Glasgow shot from different angles. Funny enough, just as the character of Patsy says, Camelot is only a model. It was a foot high cutout of a castle, and Gilliam and Jones used forced perspective as a quick cheat during wide-angle shots to make it seem like an actual location. Gilliam and Jones, the two rookie directors, had a rude awakening when they showed up to work on the movie.
On the first take of the first shot during the very first day of filming in Glen Coe, Scotland for the Bridge of Death sequence over the Gorge of Eternal Peril, their camera broke. Index Newest Popular Best. New Player Log In. Newest Questions Post a Question Search All Questions Please cite any factual claims with citation links or references from authoritative sources.
Editors continuously recheck submissions and claims. Archived Questions Goto Qn. How did Monty Python get its name? Friar Tuck Answer has 16 votes. Currently voted the best answer. Apparently a "Flying Circus" was a term used by troupes of performers, so there was some precedent for the name. The term 'flying circus' was also another name for the popular entertainment of the s known as barnstorming, where multiple performers collaborated with their stunts to perform a combined set of acts.
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