do u ever really think about the Holy Grail filming though
the primary camera which had been specially designed broke on their very first day of filming so everything was delayed as hell while they sourced a new one
they couldnāt get Scotland to let them use its National Trust castles so they ended up using the same one for every single fucking castle and/or used paper cutouts
the only reason they used the music they did was because after a whole fucking soundtrack had been written they realised their budget didnāt actually expand to an orchestra, so they used stock music and the only actual original Python song in the whole deal is Knights Of The Round Table
Graham had delirium tremens during his very first take, suddenly realised and admitted that he was an alcoholic, and was consequently hammered out of his brain for the remainder of filming so he wouldnāt go into the DTs again
as a result of this he constantly picked fights with the other Pythons, extras and random hotel staff
and constantly forgot half his lines
and ran ass naked up and down hotel corridors yelling āBetty Marsdenā until Michael asked him to stop so he could sleep (and so Michael then woke up to a note pushed under his door reading āwith love, Betty Marsdenā)
but miraculously still no one realised Grayās drinking was making him so ill and so Michaelās diaries are full of random excuses for why he was shaking his ass off every morning (āwe were up v high today I think Gray was scaredā āI didnāt think it was that cold but Graham was shiveringā āgosh tensions are running so high Gray was so mad with us he was literally shakingā)
the Terrys tried to codirect and fell out over literally everything
and consequently constantly reshot each otherās takes behind the otherās back
John kept getting upset because he doesnāt like being dirty and/or cold and they were in fucking Scotland and āthere wasnāt enough hot water for a showerā
John and Eric consequently switched hotels from the rest of the cast and crew so John could get his fucking shower
they were all wearing knitted āarmourā and I reiterate this was fucking freezing wet Scotland so they all froze half to death and had to keeping shooting anyway
and John got so pissed at Terry Gilliamās directing style (ātreating us like pieces of paperā) that he eventually essentially told him to fuck off, so filming was delayed even further so Terry G could go and be offended and cry and sulk by a wall
the highest grossing British comedy film of all time, everyone.
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