Monty Python - "French Subtitled Film" sketch

[AMOR4VELOCIDAD]

hilarious... :D)

[Gemred456]

Il fume pas, il a juste un cigarette dans son main.

[JohanStarDragon]

This pretty much sums up the film world as well as the literary book world. That to really get the critics going you'd have to have ordinary people doing meaningless things and saying very little to each other and suddenly they start drawing up existential notions of existence based on it.

[Poodleinacan]

4:34 That indian is a spy!

[Poodleinacan]

@Jakovian12345 Well, The Transorter is an exception to this...

[Jakovian12345]

It's almost 2012 and this still holds true, only now french added 3D to their films.

[tommykl]

40 years on and it hasn't changed a bit.

[scaryorangemug]

LONG hair



[WatchUProductions]

OH HO HO. Ze exploding lettuce, ze oldest trick een ze book, no? Oh ho ho!

[87boombox]

what a great sketch for those Artsy Fartsy folks.. LOL

[FlyingFocs]

I love how this (at least to me) makes fun of how movie critics give unbearably artsy movies great reviewes because it's "filmmaking at it's bare essence" or some pretenious crap like that.

[oxXPrometeoXxo]

- je t'aime

- je t'aime

...

WTF! *BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM­*

[gietek]

3:20, 3:25, 3:35, 3:55, 4:25 - 4:35 LOL

[Leold1]

aw, I wanted to see John Wayne's "Buckets of Blood Pouring Out of People's Heads".

[nellgwenn]

@Leold1 Sam Peckinpah and John Wayne team up.

[TheDominionOfElites]

The cigarette wasn't lit, lol.

[SUpersaiyajinjerkbag]

this was hilarious and I will never respect montage again

[rickardroll]

gotta love the face cleese does after he hits the dude with a flail xD



[macthebaker]

Hey it's the 10th doctor at 2:10

[ROBOLOCHON]

Le fromage gronde...

[aktendulli]

reminds me a bit of zabriskie point (especially the explosion scene)

[forgetmenautical]

ha ha: 20th century vole.

[chuckiejay]

Ahhhhh........perfectly timed silliness, black comedy, and just the right touch of sarcasm..........you just can't beat the Pythons!!!!!

[HERMIONExCANTxDRAW]

This is like 2001: A space odyssey.

[rancper]

Looks like France, :P

[jamiesbond007]

Well, it sure is a good day ...

[EPICo0L]

3:20 the look on John Cleeses face : D

[FuckWorkdays]

Looks like your average Godard film

[Jemma1999]

I found the source of the mysterious ticking noise! It's a cabbage bomb!

[gorthorki]

awkward moment is always awkward.

[Nightmare7878]

Ouais c'est de l'humour anglais quoi.

[NikNovi]

this line is better:

buckets of blood pouring out of peoples' heads.

[shaalis]

Oui...

[GHeroandRScape]

Wtf did i just watch

[AgimA74]

@GHeroandRScape A british art critic about a french film

[maxlefoulevrai]

6 people are french :p

[AnonymousComrade]

la guerre a été terrible et je ne suis qu'un homme

[JimmyLeeVanDePutte]

Drôle de façon! Bombardement de Dresde a été au-dessus si!

[jerryhello100]

That was brilliant. Not laughing the whole time funny, but it reminded me of dudes trying to pick girls up in seedy bars; she ignores him, but then laughs. I think pretty accurate.

And then at the end: Twentieth Century Vole.

[Lucifer986]

@jerryhello100 you missed the point. It was making fun of people like you who bullshit impose meaning onto post-modernist nonsense.

[jerryhello100]

@Lucifer986 No no, I get that. Kind of corny, searching existentialism. There is only so much space to express your thoughts though. But aren't you too imposing meaning onto this sketch, so don't be so condescending.

[Lucifer986]

@jerryhello100 sorry was a bit harsh :) I am not imposing meaning on it at all or perhaps i am. Funny beings human beings lol

[jerryhello100]

@Lucifer986 Oh, I'm not razzed at all. And my original post, I think I was drunk or really brain-dead-tired when I wrote it, it seems worthy of derision. Funny being human being, dude, indeed.

[F8ckOffThisIsMYname]

Eric at 2:15 reminds me of some of my film professors. Unfortunately, I can't demand my tuition back.

[FlyingFocs]

So, is this meant to poke fun at the arthouse films that are always raved when in reality they make no sense and aren't that good? 'Cause that's what I got.

[sheametsfan6]

I wish there were shows like this in America :(

[mandowarrior123]

This is every French film that ever has and will be made.

[36Pan]

@mandowarrior123 You haven't seen a lot of French films, apparently. Try "Seul contre tous" of Gaspar Noé, "La Règle du jeu" of Jean Renoir or "Hiroshima mon amour" of Alain Resnais.

[Alsemenor]

@36Pan I think he is joking, mate. Dont take everything seriously.

[36Pan]

@Alsemenor I think it's pretty hard to tell if it's a joke or if it's serious. It surely could be serious. I give you that irony is not easily perceivable in writing and that I may be wrong.

But… even if it's a joke, it's absolutely false. Is this a good joke then, in this precise case? When I see 24 people who like that (again, maybe they all saw his irony, which would be surprising), I tend to think it's not!

[FMJIRISH]

That is some LONG hair.

[GALLERIEVONDADA]

THE BEST SURREALISTE MOVIE EVER

VIVA LA DADA

[AutoStigmata]

"20th Century Vole"

[Mokinono45]

A french professor told my friend that in France if you are a woman and go alone in a park that men can and will approach you...

[guildwarsSNOW]

@Mokinono45 lol? I guess women and possibly dogs will approach you to. I am sure if you went with company, men would approach you still. Of course, you probably would have less people approaching you if you walked in the same direction as they do... but I suppose if you are a slow walker and someone behind you is a fast walker then the person behind you would approach you to.

[HawgRyder1]

Those people are not friggin' right!! XD

[WillHurricane]

Hilarious. Python is the Alpha & Omega.

Simply the best, never to be equalled.

Thanks Graham, Eric, John, Michael, Terry & Terry!

[dharmaseed]

3:19, LMFAO!!!!

[vef444]

That was awesome!

[thedorkinabubble]

The funny thing is...if this were a real art film, I'd totally take it seriously. The way he's interspersing all the violence with the references to what a lovely day it is actually, in my mind at least, have meaning.

[lOo0la]

@thedorkinabubble I know, I was like 'hey, actually, it could be good'

[MarkVll]

@thedorkinabubble Come on, it takes place in a dump haha



[simasa2]

my favourite line is:

go on, protest, do something about it, assault the manager, demand your money back :D

[HisEmptyHouse]

@simasa2 Sometimes the laugh track in Python fails to laugh at things that are hysterical and that line is one of them.

[heliumtrophy]

Ah oui Godard..........certainly manages to capture how rubbish some of his Maoist films were beautifully. Also love how Eric basically TALKS like a pretentious film critic.

[TheRedMidget]

é-nor-me !

[EvilTruthSayer]

insurgent lettuce

[rouzbehazshab]

now that is what i call life palpatating through ones penis and beyond.

[yannikpetri]

am i the only one who want to see john wayne's buckets of blood pouring out of people's head?

[Galvanidze]

I love how they were making a parody on message-heavy films and actually delivered a message

[soepil]

@Galvanidze : You're right, that's what is great about Monty Python ...

[joshaf26]

Eric Idle's voice is just so funny, for some reason!

[mdincaa3]

OMG 3:56....I THINK THAT WAS MY GMA!!! 

[rjakobi]

Never trust that fucking lettuce.

[gothichyppie]

I love the name : Jean Kenneth LONGUEUR. lol

The style is very authentic and then it gradually goes into complete silliness, I love that sketch! Plus their French is very good. This is one of my favorite bits of Terry Jones'.

[karlvorderman]

If you didn't know any better, you would say that this sketch is daft and pretentious, but hey, that's the whole point.

[Lunatille]

Énorme xD

"Il fait beau encore." 'oui" x)

[PeppoMusic]

Even though intentionally made to look like pretentious art-film, I really love how the bit after 4:24 changes from funny violonce to unfunny violence in such a way that people are still laughing at the previous bit, during an unfunny bit (because it's real footage). Makes you question the nature of humour more as a simulation of tragedy, so that people feel safe to laugh.

[jonasulrich]

my favorite Nouvelle Vague film :)

[magalyzy]

auch !!!!

[afsdhfilsahr48742wyf]

I see youve got a Webbs Wonder today

[NeoMegaMan999]

3:26 and 3:56 were the best parts of this excellent sketch. When I first saw Graham Chapman's face after his hands get slammed by the piano, I couldn't stop laughing XD

[TheCyberBuccaneer]

An amazing bit of film work! A Cannes award winner for sure! Trust the English to release a better French film than the French.

[forever88]

C'est vrai! Et tres bien fait.

[ausendundeinenacht]

t'as jamais vue BEATRICE DALLE?

comme elle est symbolique pour le vacousness of french films

The ONLY good one EVEr were Louis de Funes and the ANTOINE DOINEL triology by TRUFFAUt don t you think so?

you are entitled to differ in your opinion from MINE btw

NO FRENCH PPL WERE HURT by my commentary!

( I hope)

Enfin On s'en fout quoi mais quand meme....: )

[docsharp00]

du pur Lelouche x)

[daughtersprince]

J aime bien cettte connerie!

[Stf0u]

I'm french, but I must admit :

So true =)

[ausendundeinenacht]

Stfu I appreciate you comment its taking the mickey out of the portentious PRESENTER too though Mind you None of that compares to the Talking Heads on French TV YUK! Ps what cultural symbolism is behind the LETTUCE one wonders...

french agricultural HERITAGe ?

Ummm

france c'st une nation des petit bourgeois et GRANDES Ecoles quand meme!

[HisEmptyHouse]

@Stf0u The amusing part of all this to me is, the pythons are all fans of avant-garde, otherwise they wouldn't be so surreal. This satire also wouldn't be so spot-on about French new wave & experimental cinema if they weren't so into weird stuff.

[tampix77]

@Stf0u so true indeed

[masticina]

*blows bubbles from a pipe*

Yes cultural Yes indeed I get this movie. It makes sense

*blows more bubbles from a pipe*

[MistressMocha]

So young! So french! Such a senseless waste of human life!

(Thumbs up if you caught the reference ^^)

[unthinkable428]

Cheese Sketch ;)

[edchuckndoug]

familiar although I cannot remember which movie or bit

[ausendundeinenacht]

You sound witty

STILL I don t know ther reference

WHAT is it?

[MistressMocha]

The Cheese Shop Sketch, with John Cleese. One of my favorites by the python bunch. :)

[FalseNomen]

It's every french movie I've ever seen!

[SpaceAndrew]

What a perfect summary of French film. XD

[egapnala65]

And quite a bit of Fassbinder too!!

[John27346]

It's also a good parody of pretentious arts programs on TV.

[MemphisBlueAgain]

Gotta love Terry Jones' neurotic laugh...

[Kervanat0r]

3:36 what a naughty girl^^

[katiedominates]

HA, Cleese at 3:21

[DictionRedaction]

Eric Idle is terrific in these kinds of roles

[DarkUltros]

Amen!!!

[Keinneuername]

'touch pas a la femme blanche' and ending of 'pierrot le fou'

You've seen this scetch and you know all nouvelle vague flics

[murielsartre]

It's supposed to look like a hack student film, parce qu'il y avait beaucoup de films européens prétentieux pendant les années 60. :/

[cagy701]

LMAO @ 3:26 and 3:56. The whole thing is hilarious but those were a couple of my faves out of it. I didn't realize that this was in the Flying Circus Boxed Set I recently got and this one snuck up on me and had me rolling til my sides hurt.

[shawnmcghee1]

Notice the boom mic at 3:00. :-)

[Mumusthereal]

Inspirational!

So all of them seem to speak French

[sm21454]

Well, I think we learn an important message from this: never buy a ticking cabbage.

It's a ticking cabbage! Run away!

[JAVAGOIL]

It looks an awful lot like a hack student film.

[billyysands]

there will never be another python