Compare and contrast the search for the Holy Grail with the two movies that we watched: Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade and Monty Python and The Holy Grail. Please make sure you describe what a satire is and give examples from each film to support your statement.
The Last Crusade and Monty Python and The Holy Grail are both about the quest of finding the Holy Grail. Satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration to make fun or show stupidity. The Monty and the Holy Grail is complete satire, the whole thing is just for a laugh, it's kind of making fun of the quest for the Holy Grail. The satire in The Last Crusade is harder to find. I think it would be how the people who want the Grail so bad can't find it and they Indie's help, there for they die. It's like there death is because of their stupidity and greed.
ReplyDeleteThe main similarities in the movie is that in both movies they are looking for the holy grail, and in the end no one gets the grail. the differences in the movies is that indiana jones is more of an action movie and monty python is a comedy. satire is a type of comedy that uses stuff like poop getting dropped on people, or saying "i soiled my armor!"
ReplyDelete"The Monty python" and "the Last crusade" are two very different movies. For example the Monty python is a satire movie, which means they make fun of the search for the holy grail and they make it into a comedy. As for The last crusade they make it a more serious movie where theres more action and plot to the story that makes sense. There is also satire in the "the last crusade" where the bad guys wanted it so bad that they got themselves killed because of there stupidity.They both compare because they both search for the holy grail and they get there selves in dangerous situations.
ReplyDeleteSatire is synonymous with mockery and often goes hand-in-hand with humor. While The Last Crusade does involve a tasteful amount of this, the mood is more often suspense and excitement. Monty Python, however is built on satire. The movie is much less intense than Indiana Jones because it makes the audience laugh more.
ReplyDeleteThese two movies are both in search for the Holy Grail, but they are almost completely different. The time settings was different between the two. The use of satire in these movies is used, definitely in Monty Python more so then Indiana Jones. There were ironic jokes throughout Monty Python about the British and their history. From riding imiginary horses to arguing about the weight of a coconut that a bird can carry. There was a noticeably less amount of satire in the Indiana Jones movie. For example when the Nazis burned all the books or when Indiana argued with Salla about camels. Also Indiana Jones ended with them finding the Holy Grail but then having to let it go, while in Monty Python the king was arrested by modern police. Although these movies are both about the quest for the Holy Grail, they are nearly completely different with the use if satire.
ReplyDeleteThe search for the holy grail between the two films is very different but then a little similar, both films are on the search for the holy grail.In Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade they searched for the holy grail by finding clues and traveling to many places and took it very seriously. In Monty Python and the holy grail was different because it was like a comedy search for the holy grail their making fun of it. When comparing both films they both fight to find the holy grail for example Indiana Jones and the Nazis, then Monty Python with the knights in the castle and the rabbit. A satire is the use of humor or ridicule to expose and criticize peoples stupidity or vices, The Monty Python was a complete satire.
ReplyDeleteThe quest for the Holy Grail can be seen in two different ways. Such as with Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, and with Monty Python and The Holy Grail. Both of these are very different. With Indiana Jones being more serious about it, and putting it in a life death situation. With Indy wanting to save his father, and friend. Also it has the whole historical meaning to it. While with Monty Python it was very satire. Which basically means they mocked, and exaggerated the whole quest, and even old British culture. In Monty Python they had to find a shrubbery for the Knights of Ni, and had to pass the French knights who insulted the British. They also mocked their culture with them not really riding horses, and having the coconut guys to make the sound effect. I think biggest use of satire was at the ending when the historian, they killed, wife got the police to investigate the murder, and at the end arrested all the knights looking for the Holy Grail.
ReplyDeleteThere are many similarities and difference in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” and “Indiana Jones the Last Crusade.” For example both the movies the go on a daunting search for the grail, they endure grueling task along their search.” However in Monty Python and the Holy Grail” they never actually reach the grail. In “ The Last Crusade” he finds the grail but instead of keeping it he leaves the grail in it rightful place.
ReplyDeleteThere are many instants of satire in both movies.
In “Monty Python” the use satire to ridicule the then British society and to the ridicule the search for the grail. In “ The Last Crusade” the satire is used more in the form of irony, it shows that the people who really want the grail for the power end up dead. It shows you not to let the thought of power influence you.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade are very different films. The main difference between these films is the Monty Python is a satire, which means it uses exaggeration, irony, and ridicule to make fun of something. In Monty Python, it makes fun of the whole Medieval Era, many types of movies (especially Holy Grail films), and, in the front credits, the Swedish. The Last Crusade is an actual film, with an actual plot, and instead of a satire, it is and adventure film. However, the films do have some similarities. Mainly, this is the search for the Holy Grail. Both of their methods of looking for clues are the same, although Monty Python makes fun of it, which are searching for clues in things such as caves, battling animals to get there (In Last Crusade, rats, and in Monty Python, the killer rabbit) and asking knowledgeable people about clues, such as Marcus Brody, and Tim the Enchanter. These are how Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Indiana Jones and the last crusade compare and contrast withe each other.
ReplyDeleteThe Last Crusade and Monty Python and the Holy Grail are in some ways very similar. They worth searching for the Holy Grail, Indiana was searching strictly to prove that it existed, and in Monty Python and the Holy Grail god requested that they search for the grail. In both stories the begin a long quest for the grail but after a strenuous adventure the wear extremely close but fail to obtain the Grail and take it home. However the settings were quite different, Monty Python took place in europe during the 13th century, and Indiana Jones took place in the middle east/europe in the 1940's. Also Indiana Jones is a actioned packed movie with thrill and suspense, while Monty Python was an extremely outrageous comedic movie, with satire that sometimes didn't make sense, and took quite an almost inappropriate humor to understand.
ReplyDeleteBoth films consider the Holy Grail to be an item worth dying for.Both films have an equal amount of humor and satire. What differentiates the two are the morals and these of the films. Quest For The Holy Grail is considered to be a comedic movie. Even when things revolve around death or honor the satire settles in by masking a rabbit as an evil beast or the black knight who never quits. While The Last Crusade has it's funny moments it revolves around a sinister plot of people after the grail in order to accomplish evil desires. Though Jone's is constantly being pursued by nazi's the satire of the film allows him to dispose of them in humorous ways. He throws one out of a zeppelin stating he had no ticket, or narrowly escaping horrible torture/death by recieving an autograph from Hitler.
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