I love the watery tart discussion SO MUCH.
I had never seen Holy Grail when I went to college, just some Python repeats on the local PBS channel. So that first semester, we went to see it, because (of course) it was shown as part of the Cornell film series. (Cornell had an awesome film series--everything from Death Race 2000 to Astaire/Rogers flicks. You could see a different movie every night of the week, for $2. ::sigh::)
And the guy in the row in front of me said every line of dialog just before the actors did.
ARGH.
Death Race 2000
was oddly compelling.
And the guy in the row in front of me said every line of dialog just before the actors did.
I thought that was par for the course whenever anyone, anywhere, is watching a Monty Python film. Even if you're watching alone in a cave in the remote desert, That Guy will show up and recite each line before the actors do. I seriously don't think I've ever watched a Monty Python film where it wasn't a competition among the viewers to see who could quote the most lines, the fastest, with the most accuracy.
(I also have a friend who does this with Caddyshack. I just don't watch movies with him anymore. It saved the friendship.)
And the guy in the row in front of me said every line of dialog just before the actors did.
I thought that was par for the course whenever anyone, anywhere, is watching a Monty Python film.
Also when watching Spamalot on B'way. I had That Guy right. in front. of me.
Also when watching Spamalot on B'way. I had That Guy right. in front. of me.
OK, doing it at a film screening is bad enough, but if this happened to me at a Broadway show I'd inform Sir Quotes-A-Lot that either he could be quiet or his strangled corpse would.
We primarily quote the Latin grammar scene, but that may just be a factor of something like 7 years of training in 5 or 6 languages.
I HATED Holy Grail the first time I saw it, because how dare you make fun of the sacrosanct myth of Arthur. Oddly I did not have that reaction to Life of Brian.
I can't really vote for one over the other without ratified definitions of "better."
Last night I was re-reading Mockingjay, reached the description of Coin, and the image now (and for evermore) in my brain of her is Calista Gingrich.
Last night I was re-reading Mockingjay, reached the description of Coin, and the image now (and for evermore) in my brain of her is Calista Gingrich.
Well, I can't read about her without hearing a duck quack (coin-coin being the French quacking sound), so you've still got one up on me.
