{"id":19,"date":"2017-10-11T06:17:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T06:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/?p=19"},"modified":"2017-10-11T06:17:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T06:17:03","slug":"i-didnt-vote-for-you-the-analysis-of-king-arthurs-journey-in-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/2017\/10\/11\/i-didnt-vote-for-you-the-analysis-of-king-arthurs-journey-in-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail\/","title":{"rendered":"“I Didn’t Vote For You”-The Analysis of King Arthur’s Journey in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”"},"content":{"rendered":"

King Arthur, perhaps the most renowned knight in history. The noble king who ruled over all the Britains and feared nothing, except flying killer bunnies. The 1975 classic “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” retells the story of King Arthur and his legendary Knights of the Round Table but with a comedic twist. Arthur starts out alone as the only knight, only accompanied by his trusty sidekick (and horse galloping noise maker guy) Patsy to search for worthy knights to join him on his quest for the Holy Grail. He represents his community because he is Arthur, King of the Britains, even if the citizens don’t know who a Britain is or if they didn’t vote for Arthur to be king.<\/p>\n

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A learning process for Arthur along his journey comes when he encounters a castle of Frenchmen. As the French taunt and bully the knights, Arthur must thinkof a way to out smart them and gain access to the castle. They construct a giant wooden rabbit and deliver it to the French as a gift (like Troy), but once inside the castle the knights will spring out of the rabbit and defeat them. Even though the plan doesn’t work, Arthur gains some valuable knowledge from his defeat.<\/p>\n

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The best example of Arthur being able to rely on his own physical and moral courage is when he realizes he can only defeat his greatest enemy, a flying killer bunny, with the help of the Holy Spirit. Instead of being enlightened through prayer, Arthur is blessed with something even greater, the Holy Hand Grenade. He pullethed the pin and counted to three before heaving the grenade towards the bunny and dispatching his foe.<\/p>\n

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Although quirky, this movie is able to follow a knight’s journey perfectly while also breathing new life into the Legend of King Arthur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

King Arthur, perhaps the most renowned knight in history. The noble king who ruled over all the Britains and feared nothing, except flying killer bunnies. The 1975 classic “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” retells the story of King Arthur and his legendary Knights of the Round Table but with a comedic twist. Arthur starts … Continue reading “I Didn’t Vote For You”-The Analysis of King Arthur’s Journey in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"mrwahl","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/author\/mrwahl\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"King Arthur, perhaps the most renowned knight in history. The noble king who ruled over all the Britains and feared nothing, except flying killer bunnies. The 1975 classic “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” retells the story of King Arthur and his legendary Knights of the Round Table but with a comedic twist. Arthur starts…","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}