11/1/10

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Though officially set in the 10th century, Monty Python and the Holy Grail is parodying, more generally, the Middle Ages. In the below clip, a peasant's complaints against the rigidity of three estates is being compared to modern political discourse from the left. The obnoxious peasant is being likened to an obnoxious protestor. Thus we hear the peasant making charming anachronisms like, "We are an anarcho-syndicalist commune!"



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