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The genius of the Monty Python trilogy is that it never gives you the answer you want. You wanted the Holy Grail? You got arrested. You wanted a Messiah? You got a whiny Roman-citizen from Judea. You wanted the meaning of life? You got a song about galaxies and a mint that makes you explode.

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Because the Pythons (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) had no money for horses, they used coconut halves. That joke—rich knights clopping coconut shells while their squires bang dustbin lids—was born of necessity, but it became the film’s metaphor. Holy Grail is a film that constantly reminds you it is a film. Characters break the fourth wall, historians drop dead from boredom, and the animator suffers a fatal heart attack. Monty Python - Holy Grail- Life of Brian- The M...