Monty Python's wonderful world of gravity
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| German title | Monty Python's wonderful world of gravity | ||
| Original title | Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different | ||
| Country of production | Great Britain | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 1971 | ||
| length | 85 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
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| Director | Ian MacNaughton | ||
| script |
Graham Chapman , John Cleese , Terry Gilliam , Eric Idle , Terry Jones , Michael Palin |
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| production | Patricia Casey, Victor Lownes, David Gil |
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| music | Douglas Gamley | ||
| camera | David Muir | ||
| cut | Thom Noble | ||
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The film Monty Python's Wonderful World of Gravity is an anthology of the best skits from the first two seasons of the British comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus . Seven actors play around 100 characters in total. The cost of making the film was relatively low at around £ 80,000 .
action
The 85-minute film shows over 40 skits from the famous Monty Python television series. All skits were re-recorded for the film without an audience. The film was aimed primarily at the US audience - the TV series had not yet been broadcast there at the time. As a running gag , the speaker repeatedly uses the words “ And now for something completely different” as a transition to the individual skits, whereby these take place in very strange places, such as B. on the water, play. The name of the original title is derived from this sentence. The film is a mixture of played sketches and drawn animations, which often serve as a transition.
Skits
- How is not seen ( How Not to Be Seen )
- An educational film for the military about the mistakes that can be made when not being seen.
- The man with the tape recorder in his nose ( A Man With a Tape Recorder Up His Nose )
- A performance in which a man plays the Marseillaise with pressure in his nostril , later also with his brother and finally with both at the same time - "and now in stereo"
- Fake Hungarian Phrasebook ( Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook )
- A report about a fake German-Hungarian (in the original: English-Hungarian) phrasebook, which translated sentences like “Where are you going to the train station?” With “Would you please fondly stroke my bottom?”. Other well-known, incorrect translations are: "My hovercraft is full of eels", "My nipples explode with pleasure!" And "I will not buy this record, it is scratched."
- Visit to the marriage counselor ( Marriage Guidance Counselor )
- Arthur Pewtey visits a marriage counselor with his wife Thekla. The husband turns out to be very naive and does not notice how the marriage counselor approaches his wife in front of his eyes.
- Conversation in the pub ( Nudge Nudge )
- A bar-goer is questioned about his marriage and love life by his intrusive interlocutor.
- Defense against attacks with fruit ( Self Defense Against Fresh Fruit )
- A military instructor teaches students how to defend themselves against someone armed with fresh fruit, such as a banana.
- Hell's Grannies / Attacking Road Signs ( Hell's Grannies )
- A military officer warns that the film will be too silly after the fruit sketch and demands that the director be more serious. The next sketch is about new, dangerous gangs on the streets, first about rampaging senior citizens who ambush young, strong and defenseless men, about violent babies who kidnap fathers, and finally aggressive left-turn signs. Then the officer breaks off the sketch.
- The Tunten Parade ( Military March )
- Soldiers behave stereotypically homosexually when exercising .
- The high alpine expedition ( Expedition to Mt. Kilimanjaro )
- A mountaineer wants to take part in an expedition to Kilimanjaro . He has to find out that the expedition leader is double-faced and that the rest of the team is a bunch of idiots.
- Musical Mice ( Musical Mice )
- The musician Arthur Ewing demonstrates his new instrument by hitting living mice with wooden hammers, which then squeak in different pitches. The indignant audience forms a lynch mob and chases him out of the studio.
- Interview ( Sir Edward Ross )
- An interview with a filmmaker does not come off because the interviewer is becoming more and more suggestive with his salutations and so enrages his interviewee.
- Verführte milk men ( Seduced Milkmen )
- Sketch about a woman who lures milkmen into her apartment and then “collects” and holds them in a locked room.
- The funniest joke in the world ( The Funniest Joke in the World )
- A joke inventor came up with a joke so deadly during World War II that it was used on the battlefield by British infantry.
- The parrot is dead ( Dead Parrot )
- One pet shop owner vehemently denies that the parrot he sold to the customer is dead.
- Lumberjack Song ( The Lumberjack Song )
- The aforementioned pet shop owner announces that he would actually have preferred to become a lumberjack and, to the horror of the accompanying Mountie -Chor and his girlfriend, reveals his transsexual fantasies in a song .
- The Dirty Fork ( The Restaurant Sketch )
- A guest complains about a dirty fork in a fine restaurant; then the situation escalates from an apology to a threat to the guest.
- Robbery ( bank robber )
- A bank robber accidentally ends up in a corsetry store.
- Everyday office life ( People Falling Out of High Buildings )
- The participants in a board meeting fall into the depths past the office window. Two employees sitting at the window notice this and finally bet who will fall next.
- Guidance ( Vocational Guidance counselor )
- The "extremely boring" accountant Herbert Anchovy wants to be a lion tamer, but confuses lions with anteaters.
- Blackmail ( Blackmail! )
- Blackmail becomes the concept of a new show, the presenter is the accountant who appeared in the previous sketch.
- Pearl Harbor ( The Battle of Pearl Harbor )
- A women's guild recreates the naval battle of Pearl Harbor , which consists of women beating each other with handbags on a swampy meadow.
- A romantic interlude ( A Romantic interlude )
- Black and white film sequences of non-sexual processes suggest or replace the sexual act of a couple in love.
- The World Cup of the upper class twit ( Upper Class Twit of the Year )
- At a public event, the “upper-class twit of the year” is to be determined. The disciplines of the competition include “walking in a straight line”, “waking up the neighbor”, “driving around the old woman” and finally “shooting at yourself”.
The various skits merge into one another, are announced by John Cleese as the announcer with the words "Let's get to something completely different." (English: "And now for something completely different.") Or through animation sequences by Terry Gilliam partly absurdly linked.
synchronization
The German version of the film was made in 1983. The speakers in detail:
- John Cleese: Thomas Danneberg
- Eric Idle: Arne Elsholtz
- Michael Palin: Michael Nowka
- Graham Chapman: Uwe Paulsen
- Terry Jones: Joachim Pukass
- Terry Gilliam: Andreas Mannkopff
This distribution of roles is only consistently maintained in the synchro as long as the respective actor also acts in the picture; if this is not the case (for example in the animations by Terry Gilliam that connect the individual skits), the roles are somewhat looser, for example Elsholtz does the voiceover on the animation about the killer cars and the giant cat , although the text at this point in the original is not of Idle but is spoken of by Cleese.
A few more voiceovers are spoken by Andreas Mannkopff , including in the sketch competition for the title of upper class idiot of the year .
Reviews
“An overall not well-baked mixture of intelligent joke and dumb faxing, biting humor and primitive stupidities, subtle satiricals and rude jokes. A red rag for taste judges, a treasure trove for lovers of 'black humor', an important document for satirical historians. "
In addition to the fact that it wasn't about any new skits, but rather extracts from Flying Circus, the film was mainly accused of the fact that the humor was very British and therefore not accessible to everyone.
“Some of these things strike some people as funny; others do not. And so the audience is curiously frustrated. It's strange to find yourself laughing when everyone else is silent, and strange when everyone laughs and you don't get the joke. "
“Some people find some of it funny, some don't. And so the audience is strangely frustrated. It's strange when you laugh yourself while everyone else is quiet, and it's strange when all other people laugh while you don't understand the joke yourself. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Approval for Monty Python's Wonderful World of Gravity . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Monty Python's wonderful world of gravity. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on March 26, 2015 .
- ↑ Monty Python's wonderful world of gravity. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 14, 2017 .
- ^ Roger Ebert: And Now for Something Completely Different. In: RogerEbert.com. November 21, 1972, accessed January 14, 2017 .