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Kitchen area of Doune Castle, Scotland.
Fans of the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" might recognise the location as the setting for the "Castle Anthrax" scenes.
Olympus OM2n
Tokina 17mm lens
Fuji Superia 200 film
He's been repatriated to the Mighty Forests of British Columbia!
Jo Gordon sent him to me, and I am absolutely enchanted! Although I am not so much a fan of short men, I certainly like beefy, stubbly guys with engaging grins!
I think his spare hand calls out for a tiny, cold can of beer (Or some buttered scones for tea!)
Here he is at the start of his journey to Canada:
Terry Jones from Monty Python standing on the Tower steps on Signal Hill, St. John's Newfoundland 1977.
Years ago I was staying at Denis Ryan's one weekend and he and I and his kids decided to go get fish and chips. We left there and went to Signal Hill where we met members of Monty Python's cast who were in St. John's filming a Peter Gzowski spot for a new show he had on tv. It was really funny as the plot was that they had won an all expense trip to St. John's and here they were walking up the hill with golf clubs, tennis racquets etc.... This guy was very funny and very nice although I think the kids were stunned.
The next batch of keyrings I have collected in 2014 including Lego, Ghost stories, The Monty Python farewell tour and a Sparta Prague FC keyring given as a gift.
So, this one time, in band camp...actually it was a film night at college, sorry to mix movie metaphors on you like that...but, once I did attend a three day Monty Python festival. All weekend long, with college co-eds piled into the cafeteria, we gathered our sleeping bags, pillows, and pajamas, to watch nothing but Monty Python movies back to back to back. It was long, it was hard, it was funny, there were boys there. I didn't wear pajamas with feet in them, but, if I had them that night, I might have (I was that kind of girl in college-still am, actually.) I fell asleep, I woke again, I drifted back to sleep again. I can remember rolling over, somewhat groggy, asking what movie we were watching.
"Shhh," was the response I got, "he's about to meet the bunny."
'What bunny?' I should have known not to ask that. It was THE BUNNY, silly. Ah yes, that famous bunny-the great bunny, you know the one, the one with the fangs who comes out of the cave and eats you when you least expect it? Yes, that bunny.
I don't remember falling back to sleep that night, but I'm certain that I did. I woke to the smell of old beer, with drool on my pillow, stale popcorn in my hair, and presumably some strange dreams in my head. Maybe I had dreams about knights in shining armor, about soft fluffy shrubs, about bunnies with fangs, about people who run around in the forest and say, 'Ni' because, well, just because they can.
You don't say, 'Ni!' in your dreams, do you? I don't think I do either, but I might have that night.
The Royal Albert Hall in London where I went to see Monty Pyphon perform "Not the Messiah (He's a very Naughty Boy).
I had a box directly facing the stage, just wish I had a pair of binoculars.
- You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin' 'em together.
- So? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this land, through the kingdom of Mercia, through...
- Where'd you get the coconuts?
- We found them.
- Found them? In Mercia? The coconut's tropical!
- What do you mean?
- Well, this is a temperate zone
- The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
- Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
- Not at all. They could be carried.
- What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
- It could grip it by the husk!
- It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.
(Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Built for the collaborative build "PythonScape" at Brickcon, I give you "Bring Out Your Dead!" from The Holy Grail. This represents my first foray into MiniLand scale.
I made these a few years ago. It was harder than it looks but my fingers came out intact. Watch this short video from the Ministry Of Foods for an explanation. youtu.be/QkCZRnB3VFg
Doune Castle is a medieval stronghold near the village of Doune, in the Stirling district of central Scotland. The castle is sited on a wooded bend where the Ardoch Burn flows into the River Teith. It lies 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Stirling, where the Teith flows into the River Forth. Upstream, 8 miles (13 km) further north-west, the town of Callander lies at the edge of the Trossachs, on the fringe of the Scottish Highlands.
Recent research has shown that Doune Castle was originally built in the thirteenth century, then probably damaged in the Scottish Wars of Independence, before being rebuilt in its present form in the late 14th century by Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany (c. 1340–1420), the son of King Robert II of Scots, and Regent of Scotland from 1388 until his death. Duke Robert's stronghold has survived relatively unchanged and complete, and the whole castle was traditionally thought of as the result of a single period of construction at this time. The castle passed to the crown in 1425, when Albany's son was executed, and was used as a royal hunting lodge and dower house. In the later 16th century, Doune became the property of the Earls of Moray. The castle saw military action during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and Glencairn's rising in the mid-17th century, and during the Jacobite risings of the late 17th century and 18th century. By 1800 the castle was ruined, but restoration works were carried out in the 1880s, prior to its passing into state care in the 20th century. It is now maintained by Historic Environment Scotland.
Due to the status of its builder, Doune reflected current ideas of what a royal castle building should be. It was planned as a courtyard with ranges of buildings on each side, although only the northern and north-western buildings were completed. These comprise a large tower house over the entrance, containing the rooms of the Lord and his family, and a separate tower containing the kitchen and guest rooms. The two are linked by the great hall. The stonework is almost all from the late 14th century, with only minor repairs carried out in the 1580s. The restoration of the 1880s replaced the timber roofs and internal floors, as well as interior fittings.
Doune Castle has featured in several literary works, including the 17th-century ballad, "The Bonny Earl of Murray", which relates the murder of The 2nd Earl of Moray, by The 6th Earl of Huntly, in 1592. In Sir Walter Scott's first novel, Waverley (1814), the protagonist Edward Waverley is brought to Doune Castle by the Jacobites. Scott's romantic novel describes the "gloomy yet picturesque structure", with its "half-ruined turrets".
The castle was used as a location in MGM's 1952 historical film Ivanhoe which featured Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor. The BBC adaptation of Ivanhoe in 1996 also featured Doune as a location. The castle was used as a set for Winterfell in the first season of the TV series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), an adaptation of the A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels by George R. R. Martin.
The castle was used as a stand-in for the fictional "Castle Leoch" in the TV adaptation of the Outlander series of novels.
The castle was also used as a location in Outlaw King. Outlaw King is a 2018 historical action drama film about Robert the Bruce, the 14th-century Scottish King who launched a guerilla war against the larger English army. The film largely takes place during the 3-year historical period from 1304, when Bruce decides to rebel against the rule of Edward I over Scotland, thus becoming an "outlaw", up to the 1307 Battle of Loudoun Hill.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The east wall of Doune Castle, where the opening scene of Monty Python and the Holy Grail takes place
The British comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail – a parody of the legends of King Arthur by the Monty Python team – was filmed on location in Scotland in 1974. The film's producers had gained permission from the National Trust for Scotland to film scenes at several of their Scottish castles, as well as the permission of Lord Moray to film at Doune Castle. However, the National Trust later withdrew their permission, leaving the producers with little time to find new locations. Instead, they decided to use different parts of Doune Castle to depict the various fictional castles in the film, relying on tight framing of shots to maintain the illusion.
Scenes featuring Doune Castle include:
At the start of the film, King Arthur (Graham Chapman) and Patsy (Terry Gilliam) approach the east wall of Doune Castle and argue with soldiers of the garrison.
The song and dance routine "Knights of the Round Table"at "Camelot" was filmed in the Great Hall.
The servery and kitchen appear as "Castle Anthrax" where Sir Galahad the Chaste (Michael Palin) is chased by seductive girls.
The wedding disrupted by Sir Lancelot (John Cleese) was filmed in the courtyard and Great Hall.
The Duchess' hall was used for filming the Swamp Castle scene where the prince is being held in a tower by very dumb guards.
The Trojan Rabbit scene was filmed in the entryway and into the courtyard.
The only other castles used for filming were Castle Stalker in Argyll, also privately owned, which appears as "Castle Aaaaarrrrrrggghh"at the end of the film, and (briefly) Kidwelly Castle in Wales and Bodiam Castle in East Sussex. The DVD version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail includes a documentary, In Search of the Holy Grail Filming Locations, in which Michael Palin and Terry Jones revisit Doune and other sites used for filming. Doune Castle has become a place of pilgrimage for fans of Monty Python and the film. It used to hold an annual Monty Python Day; but it no longer does this.
365 photo challenge
A few of my favourite films, i couldn't find the other ones i really like, so i just threw a few random ones in.
Music - Blur - Coffee And TV
King Arthur: You fight with the strength of many men, Sir Knight.
[the Black Knight doesn't respond]
King Arthur: I am Arthur, King of the Britons.
[No response]
King Arthur: I seek the bravest and the finest knights in the land who will join me in my court at Camelot.
[No response]
King Arthur: You have proved yourself worthy. Will you join me?
[No response]
King Arthur: You make me sad. So be it. Come, Patsy!
[Attempts to get around the Black Knight]
Black Knight: None shall pass.
King Arthur: What?
Black Knight: None shall pass!
King Arthur: I have no quarrel with you, good Sir Knight. But I must cross this bridge.
Black Knight: Then you shall die.
King Arthur: I command you, as King of the Britons, to stand aside!
Black Knight: I move for no man.
King Arthur: So be it!
[They fight until Arthur cuts off Black Knight's left arm]
King Arthur: Now, stand aside, worthy adversary!
Black Knight: 'Tis but a scratch!
King Arthur: A scratch? Your arm's off!
Black Knight: No, it isn't!
King Arthur: Well, what's that then?
King Arthur: I've had worse.
King Arthur: You liar!
Black Knight: Come on, you pansy!
[They fight again. Arthur cuts off the Knight's right arm]
King Arthur: Victory is mine!
[Kneels to pray]
King Arthur: We thank thee, Lord, that in thy mercy -
[Cut off by the Knight kicking him]
Black Knight: Come on, then.
King Arthur: What?
Black Knight: Have at you!
King Arthur: You are indeed brave, Sir Knight, but the fight is mine!
Black Knight: Oh, had enough, eh?
King Arthur: Look, you stupid bastard. You've got no arms left!
Black Knight: Right, I'll do you for that!
King Arthur: You'll what?
Black Knight: Come here!
King Arthur: What are you gonna do, bleed on me?
Black Knight: I'm invincible!
King Arthur: ...You're a loony.
L-R: John Cleese, Terry Jones, Carol Cleveland, Terry Gillian, Eric Idle, Michael Palin attends the Monty Python 40th Anniversary with BAFTA and IFC special award presentation and premiere of the IFC Documentary Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyers Cut) held at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City, Thursday, October 15, 2009.
Photo by Jennifer Graylock-Graylock.com
Watch the event here if you missed it live: www.ifc.com/python-live/
....the Spanish Inquisition! Every Halloween my High School bud C.R. would have a costume party at his house in First Colony subdivision. I think this is either from my junior year or senior year. I decided to come as "The Spanish Inquisition", from the Monty Python sketch of the same name. We were all massively Monty Python geeks in High School, watching it religiously on PBS every weekend, and The Benny Hill Show on the WB, Channel 39. Only place on network/public television you could catch brief frontal female nudity without paying for cable. Partial answer to a High School boy's dream...(we were all horny little bastards and mostly still are, just less dorky).
This orange scarf-beclad brontosaurus stands outside the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. Devotees of Monty Python may remember Anne Elk’s Theory of Brontosauruses. A. Elk, brackets Miss brackets, was a most fearsome John Cleese in drag. She/he postulated that all brontosauruses are thin at one end, much thicker in the middle and then thin again at the far end. The evidence here supports that theory, which was hers.
For the Flickr League of Monty Python Quoters group.
Tourist shop, Stoupa, Peloponnesos. An English speaker was trying to engage this caged parrot in conversation - without much success. It immediately made me think about the Monthy Python: Dead parrot sketch ;-)
Of course this grooming parrot isn’t dead but then again it doesn’t have much of a life, residing in a cage.
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Oslo International Film Festival is celebrating the 40-year anniversary of Monty Python and the 30-year anniversary of the premiere of Life of Brian, with a special screening in cooperation with Cinemateket and Lille Måne Forlag. Terry Jones is visiting Oslo to promote the Norwegian edition of his latest book The Barbarians, and he will also be attending the screening of Life of Brian at Filmens Hus on the 24th of November. Life of Brian is the now well-known story of Brian Cohen, the man mistaken for the Messias. Life of Brian was banned in Norway in 1980, and was not released in its original form until 2004.
DIRECTOR
Terry Jones (b. 1942, Wales) is most famous for his work with Monty Python, but he has also worked as TV-host, director, political commentator and as a writer of both children’s books and history books. In addition, he directed Monthy Python and the Holy Grail (1975, with Terry Gilliam), The Meaning of Life (1983), Erik the Viking (1989), and The Wind in the Willows (1996).
A Monty Python character. (Gumby). Haven't drawn anything in years, and it probably shows(!), but this is to mark the current reunion of the remaining members of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy.'
And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and large chu--
[...]
And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'
-- Book of Armaments 2:9-21
I'm going straight to Hell.
So what do you do when you're walking through a Denver bookstore and you see one of your creative idols? You take his picture, of course.
Me: Mr. Cleese, it's a great pleasure to meet you ...
John: Oh, please. I've been such a mean person for 71 years ...
Me. Well, then you're the most magnificent mean bastard there has ever been.
John: Well, yes. I like that!
You can find out more about the project and see great street portraits by other photographers here, at the 100 Strangers group page.