Economics is often put in the back of peoples mind. However, it is always clearly visible if people pay attention. In movies economics is even more commonly put aside from public view. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a great example of how by observing settings and conversations one can easily find the economic state of a nation, fictional or nonfictional. Monty Python and the Holy Grail Begins with King Arthur riding through the land looking for knights to join his court in Camelot. After cutting the limbs of the Black Knight he finds Bedevere in a town with a witch. After much deliberation with peasants it is then deduced that witches way the same as ducks allowing the townspeople to burn her if she does. Bedevere swears his loyalty to
Arthur for showing of his superior knowledge. They are then latter joined by Sir Robin, Lancelot, and Galahad. The group has an encounter with god and he demands for the court to prove its worth they must find the Holy Grail. In order to find it faster they all separate. Arthur and Bedevere deal with the Knights Who say Ni. Galahad is tempted by the maidens of Castle Anthrax. Lancelot attempts then to save a young noble trap in a tall tower by their father. In the movie economics are primarily brought up in two scenes. The first is when Arthur finds a castle surrounded by working peasants. Arthur accidently calls one a women and then proceeds to ask about the castles lord. The peasant say they have no lord and denies Arthur’s claim to be king. The peasant begins talking about how peasants are exploited with the nobles taking control of what their labor is used for claiming the government is a dictatorship. This describes a command market where the government makes economic decisions for the nation, often disregarding how their choices affect those in the lower classes. As the peasent continues to tell others how they should rise up against the oppressive system. This is an idea Karl Marx had with factory workers and owners. Marx claimed that eventually factory workers would rise up after having been abused for so long. They would get rid of factory owners and potential the government so the workers could create a classless society. The other scene with economic ideas is the one where Arthur and Bedever encounter the Knights who say Ni. The Knights want a shrubbery, presumably to liven up the dead forest they live in. This shows the demand factor of consumer tastes. However, when Arthur and Bedever head into town they find a passing shrubbier. He tells how the economic hardships of this land allow the Heroes to harass old women. He implies that there is a shortage of his shrubberies. This is due to supply and demand not being equal. This is likely due to failures in the supply side of equilibrium where the labor productivity is low. This decreased productivity is implied from the plague and how poor people are both monetary and in their health. With less healthy people less shrubberies are produced. However, Arthur and Bedever still are able to provide a shrubbery for the Knights. While this movie has subtle hints to economics it still provides acquit information to discover economic ideas, provided one is observant. Even the little insignificant ramblings of a peasant or how the movie occurs during a plague show economic ideas. This proves how through observation economics of a movie can be discovered.
The movie Monty Python and The Holy Grail is based on stories such as Beowulf and Sir Gawain and Green Knight. The movie tells the basis of the stories by revolving around a technique called satire. Satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to tell something in a funny tone or in a way that creates laughter. Satire was used in the film Monty Python and The Holy Grail to turn common medieval themes such as Chivalric code and Knightly behavior, characteristics of a noble quest and role of religion into a corny, yet laughable manner. Monty Python exemplifies many similar themes when comparing the movie to readings such as Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
After watching March of the Penguins I was browsing the internet while I was trying to figure out which direction to take the essay in, because there were too many possibilities for the topic. Soon I found myself watching Monty Python, when the perfect sketch to start this paper on comes on. A newspaper reporter comes on saying "Penguins, yes penguins what relevance do penguins have with the furtherance of medical science? Well strangely enough quite a lot" He moves into a joke about research not being accidental. Then he picks up of the penguins "Nevertheless scientists believe that these penguins, these comic flightless web-footed little b@$#ards are un-wittingly helping man to fathom the uncharted depths of the human mind." The news cast flips to the scientist who introduces himself then states "...having been working on the theory postulated by the late Dr. Kramer that the penguin in intrinsically more intelligent than the human being." From there a multitude of science spoofs lead to the confirmation of this theory of penguins being smarter, even though it is clearly pointed out that the penguin's brain is smaller than of a human being. This causes the penguins to rise up and take over the roles of humans. After careful consideration I decided to discuss this clip as there really is no better way to introduce how animals are used in film as entertainment. Whether it is a crazy Monty Python sketch or the heartwarming love story that is March of the Penguins both were created for many reasons, but the most influential was the desire to earn money. For now just keep Monty Python on the back burner it will have significance later, lets shift to dealing with the questions being posed about March of the Penguins. How did March o...
Between the book and the movie I prefer the movie. My reasoning for this is that the movie seemed much more interesting to me. It made much more sense. I also love who they chose to play the characters in the movie. Seemed much more interesting than the ones that were in the book. I must admit that the book was pretty good, though some of it I found rather boring. One thing I did not like about the movie is that they changed or added some details into the movie that the book did not have. The ending of the movie was much better then the ending in the book.
“Monty Python and the Holy Grail” is a satiric comedy about the quest of King Arthur. The movie starts out with Arthur, King of the Britons, looking for knights to sit with him at Camelot. He finds many knights including Sir Galahad the pure, Sir Lancelot the brave, the quiet Sir Bedevere, and Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Lancelot. Through satire and parody of certain events in history (witch trials, the black plague) they find Camelot, but after literally a quick song and dance they decide that they do not want to go there. While walking away, God (who seems to be grumpy) come to them from a cloud and tells them to find the Holy Grail. They agree and begin their search. While they search for the Grail, scenes of the knight's tales appear and the reasons behind their names. Throughout their search, they meet interesting people and knights along the way. Most of the characters die; some through a killer rabbit (which they defeat with the holy hand grenade), others from not answering a question right from the bridge of Death, or die some other ridiculous way. In the end, King Arthur and Sir Bedevere are left and find the Castle Arrrghhh where the Holy Grail is. They are met by some French soldiers who taunted them earlier in the film and were not able to get into the castle. The movie ends with both King Arthur and Sir Bedevere being arrested for killing a real-life man who was a historian.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the movie The Hound of the Baskervilles directed by Jeremy Bret are two works of art that are mainly telling the same story. There are, however, many differences about the book and the movie. Those differences don’t affect the outcome of the story, but they give less impact to the story. Along with the differences there are many similarities, and those similarities give you confidence that it is the same story.
Professor’s comment: This student uses a feminist approach to shift our value judgment of two works in a surprisingly thought-provoking way. After showing how female seduction in Malory’s story of King Arthur is crucial to the story as a whole, the student follows with an equally serious analysis of Monty Python’s parody of the female seduction motif in what may be the most memorable and hilarious episode of the film.
It is well known that Shakespeare’s comedies contain many marriages, some arranged, some spontaneous. During Queen Elizabeth's time, it was considered foolish to marry for love. However, in Shakespeare’s plays, people often marry for love. With a closer look into two of his most famous plays As You Like It and Twelfth Night or What You Will, I found that while marriages are defined and approached differently in these two plays, Shakespeare’s attitudes toward love in both plays share similarities. The marriages in As You Like It’s conform to social expectation, while the marriages are more rebellious in Twelfth Night. Love, in both plays, was defined as
The story begins with King Arthur hunting in the forest of Ingleswood. He strays away from all of his knights and is in the middle section of the forest by himself. There he sees a deer and begins to run after it. After a few attempts, King Arthur finally kills the deer: "He took his arrows and bow and stooped low like a woodsman to stalk the deer. But every time he came near the animal, it leapt away into the forest. So King Arthur went a while after the deer, and no knight went with him, until at last he let fly an arrow and killed the deer." (Hearne, 2)
Bicycle Thief is an example of the integration of economics in film but also relates to the development ...
At the very beginning of the Divine Comedy, Dante was lost in the wood and subsequently fell into a dream where he met Beatrice,whom Dante regarded as a marvelous companion on the pilgrimage. That is to say that Beatrice, as Christ for Dante, encouraged him to get out the entanglement of the forest when he was dying. Accordingly, “under the powerful compulsion of this love for Beatrice, Dante entered into a new apprenticeship, an apprenticeship in the art of poetry as the path to reach the truth about their love.” Their journey was to feel love, to serve God. However, in view of the fact that pilgrims are entitled to experience God without an interpreter, only if they had been forgiven of their sins. As a consequence, only through the experience of tribulation and suffering could the soul be enhanced, so that Dante finally saw God with the timeless creed that was received from Beatrice. During the trial and pilgrimage, Dante became aware of the nature of original sin, God-given salvation, and the significance of the pilgrimage. Also, Dante became aware of the care and love of God during the pilgrimage. Similarly, The Journey to the West, as a well-known work of fiction in the East, also depicts a legendary pilgrimage of the Tang Dynasty. This pilgrimage that started with the story that Buddha asked a Buddhist monk, Xuanzang, to obtain sacred texts in India and provided four disciples who could atone for their sins by helping the monk. As a monkey was one of the most famous disciples of the monk in the journey to the west, the novel has another name after The Monkey. With the helps of disciples, the monk reached the “Western Region” and obtained the sacred texts after eighty-one adventurous experiences. It is worth mentionin...
The movie is set in 932 A.D. in England. The film was made to make fun of the typical medieval tales and noble nights. As the plot goes along, during the film a book pops up showing which tale is coming up next. Monty Python and the Holy Grail takes many different Middle Age tales and turns them into entertainment. The tales are "The Tale of Sir Robin," "The Tale of Sir Galahad," “The Life of Python,” and “Sir Lancelot.” Every story that they use is combined to make one long story. Jessie Weston says “connection with the court and Table of King Arthur is that of Lancelot du Lac” (Weston; Larsen). They use stories with King Author and Sir Lancelot
The Quest for the Holy Grail is the most well-known of the Arthurian Legends. It describes King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and their journey to find the holy cup, from which Jesus drank and caught his spilled blood on the cross. This Grail supposedly had the ability to heal wounds, and provide means of life for those who drank from it. This quest is riddled with stories about the the legendary knights of the Round Table, and describes their exciting search across the country for the Holy Grail.
Economics is the study of how best to allocate scarce resources throughout an entire market. Economics affect our lives on a daily basis, whether it is on a business level or a personal level.
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