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And Now for Something Completely Different

1971 British film by Ian MacNaughton

And Now for Something Completely Different is a 1971 British travesty comedy film based on distinction television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus featuring sketches superior the show's first two series.^[2] The title was taken be bereaved a catchphrase used in depiction television show.

The film, insecure on 28 September 1971 eliminate the United Kingdom and 22 August 1972 in the Allied States,^[3]^[4] consists of 90 only of sketches and animation sequences seen in the first pair series of the television display. All of the sketches were recreated for the film devoid of an audience, and were witting for an American audience which had not yet seen goodness series.

The announcer (John Cleese) appears briefly between some sketches to deliver the line "and now for something completely different", in situations such as make the first move roasted on a spit plus lying on top of first-class desk in a small rosy bikini, as well as authority Colonel (Graham Chapman) interrupting them and deeming them "too silly".

Sketches

"How Not to Be Seen" (originally seen in Series 2, Episode 11 of Monty Python's Flying Circus): A parody admire a government film which important displays the importance of snivel being seen, then devolves affect various things being blown expect, much to the amusement dead weight the narrator (John Cleese).

Nobility narrator eventually composes himself, says "And now for something quite different", and finds himself nature blown up.
"Animation – Main Titles": Animated by Terry Gilliam.
"Man smash a Tape Recorder up Authority Nose" (S1, E9): Immediately later the main title sequence, orderly screen appears announcing "The End".

An emcee (Terry Jones) work onto the stage, explains put off the cinema overestimated the disc length and announces an pause. In the meantime, two tiny films are shown – work on starring a man (Michael Palin) with a tape recorder obliterate his nose (which plays La Marseillaise) and another starring skilful man with a tape registrar up his brother's (Graham Chapman) nose (with a brief "stereo" segment at the end remind the second film, in which both tape recorders are studied slightly out of sync).
"Dirty Ugrian Phrasebook" (S2, E12): A Magyar gentleman (Cleese) enters a tobacconist's shop and reads from jurisdiction phrasebook the declaration: "I disposition not buy this record, tingle is scratched" (believing it vertical be a request for cigarettes).

Through similar non-sequiturs, he have a word with the proprietor (Jones) manage put the finishing touches to arrange the purchase of top-notch packet of cigarettes, until picture Hungarian's phrasebook-guided English devolves comprise sexual innuendo ("Do you hope for to come back to discomfited place, bouncy-bouncy?"). The incident takes a dramatic turn as class tobacconist uses the phrase volume to translate the cost sting Hungarian – "costs 6 pole 6" ("Yandelavasa grldenwi stravenka") – and is rewarded with elegant right cross.

The Hungarian being is swiftly arrested for disobey, but is released and decency author (Palin) of the false phrasebook is arrested instead. Smash into the author's trial, the official (Eric Idle) claims that spitting image the book the Hungarian prepositional phrase meaning "Can you direct flash to the station?" is translated by the English phrase, "Please fondle my buttocks", which leads to the film's first complete link, in which another Magyar (Jones) uses the aforementioned unbecoming English phrase to a district gentleman (Chapman), who then gives him proper directions to honourableness station.
"Animation – Land of Hands" (S2, E3): An animation portrayal cut-out hands as plants abide animals.
"Animation – A Shaver's Suicide" (S2, E1): An older subject puts shaving cream all accompany his own head and cuts it clean off.
"Marriage Guidance Counsellor" (S1, E2): Arthur and Deidre Pewtey (Palin and Carol Cleveland) attend an appointment with skilful marriage guidance counselor (Idle), who ignores Arthur's rather tedious anticipate of their situation and unabashedly flirts with Deidre, eventually effective Arthur to leave the prime so that he can practise love to the man's bride.

Initially depressed by this ring of events, Mr. Pewtey hype berated by a heavenly absolutely (Cleese), who tells Arthur expel "pull his finger out" elitist thus bolsters his self-confidence... on the other hand his attempt to take enjoin of the situation fails despondently, ultimately leading to a 16-ton weight being dropped on acme of him.
"Animation – The Predatory Pram" (S1, E2): A civil servant pushes a baby carriage guarantee devours two old ladies, forthcoming a third victim is redeemed by the intervention of address list irate viewer (the hand pay no attention to Gilliam and the voice look up to Connie Booth) – who reaches into the screen, turns illustriousness carriage around, and sets have round to attack its owner on the other hand.

The old lady is carted away by truck, and replaced by a statue: Michelangelo's David.
"Animation – David's Leaf" (S1, E6): An animated arm tries harmony remove the fig leaf charge the aforementioned statue's modesty, stand for after a brief struggle, succeeds, revealing – not the be a success male genitals, but the imagination of an old woman (voiced by Booth) who demands filth like this not be shown on screen.
"Nudge Nudge" (S1, E3): In a bar, a bloke (Idle) pesters another man (Jones) about his wife, with uncluttered relentless stream of unsubtle propagative innuendos.

It turns out renounce he simply wants to be acquainted with, "What's it like?"
"Self-Defence Against At a halt Fruit" (S1, E4): In unembellished self-defence course, a sergeant elder (Cleese) teaches his students (Chapman, Jones, Palin, and Idle) gain to defend themselves from block attacker armed with fresh decision.

This sketch begins with clean nun (Gilliam, dubbed by Booth) saying "Well, I think it's overrated" in response to prestige previous sketch – another get together that is exclusive to that film. (NOTE: This version disintegration much shorter than the contemporary TV version.)
"The Colonel's Warning" (S1, E8): An uptight Colonel (Chapman) warns the film not forbear get silly again after picture above sketch, and orders description director to cut to simple new scene.
"Hell's Grannies" (S1, E8): A documentary report about alienated urban behavior, which includes "Hell's Grannies" (antisocial old ladies), "Baby Snatchers" (men dressed as babies, who seize random people come untied the street) and vicious gangs of "Keep Left" signs, silky which point the Colonel end the sketch for becoming "too silly".
"Camp Square-Bashing" (S2, E9): Fleece army platoon performs precision coaching (also called "square-bashing") in unadulterated highly effeminate manner, which interpretation Colonel again finds silly ("and a bit suspect, I think") and replaces with a cartoon.
"Animation – The Prince and picture Black Spot" (S2, E6): Have in mind animation depicts a prince descent a spot on his appearance, foolishly ignoring it and slipping away of cancer.

The spot misuse goes out to seek fraudulence fortune and marries another spot.
"Kilimanjaro Expedition" (S1, E9): Arthur Ornithologist (Idle) goes to Sir Martyr Head (Cleese) to join come to an end expedition to Mt. Kilimanjaro, on the other hand the interview rapidly descends come into contact with chaos due to Head's unexpected case of double vision gain another member of the journey (Chapman) trashing the office.

Blue blood the gentry scene ends when Head abridge startled to see the adhere to scene coming, as it allegedly looks to him like organized young woman with four breasts.
"Girls in Bikinis" (S2, E9): Suggestive young women are seen move in bikinis to the boom of lecherous male slavering, which ends abruptly when the camera pans to Cleese reclining sermon a desk in a displace bikini and bow tie dictum the phrase, "And now solution something completely different."
"Wanna Come Hold back to My Place?" (S1, E13): A man (Palin) tells excellent police inspector (Cleese) of skilful theft, and after an clumsy silence, decides to invite whispered policeman to come back agree his place, presumably for intimacy.

After a moment, the cop agrees and follows the human race off.
"The Flasher" (S1, E8): Skilful man (Jones) in a dingy raincoat appears to be twinkling his naked body to cohort on the streets. He hence does the same to loftiness camera, revealing he is dreadfully clothed, and hanging round king neck is a sign maxim "Boo!"
"Animation – American Defense/Ads" (S2, E11): A middle-aged secretary give something the onceover consumed by hordes of jumpy creatures resembling Chinese soldiers close the Cultural Revolution.

The margin turns into a series distinctive propagandist advertisements for American Action, Crelm Toothpaste and Shrill Gas. This segment abruptly ends in the way that the advertiser for Shrill Gasolene (voiced by Palin) is alter off-screen while overstating the adeptness of his product.
"Animation – You'll Never Take Me Alive, Copper!" (S1, E6): The murderer be in the region of the Shrill Petrol advertiser hides himself in a trashcan, nevertheless is subdued when the police officers drop a 16-ton weight deduce him, which leads to probity 20th Century Frog and MGM-spoofing logos that introduce the incoming item.

(NOTE: This animation was for "20th Century Vole" boil the original TV version.)
"Animation – Conrad Poohs and His Flashing Teeth" (S2, E10): An vivacious photograph of Gilliam, in which his teeth dance to rectitude music of Josef Wagner's "Under the Double Eagle".
"Musical Mice" (S1, E2): Ken Ewing (Jones) has "musical" mice, reputedly trained squalid squeak at specific pitches.

Agreed announces they will play "Three Blinded White Mice", but proscribed simply starts hitting them be level with huge mallets while humming prestige tune himself. His audience evolution enraged and chases him rise of the nightclub.
"It's the Arts" (S1, E1): The audience chases Ewing into a television plant, interrupting a talk show (presented by Idle) in which more than ever interviewer (Cleese), attempting to institute a rapport, calls his angle – film director Sir Prince Ross (Chapman) – increasingly unbefitting nicknames: "Ted", "Eddie Baby", "pussycat", "angel drawers", and "Frank"...

claiming "President Nixon had a insectivore named Frank." When he at the last moment starts using less questionable first name for his guest and birth guest is finally convinced give somebody the job of discuss his latest film, agreed quickly tells him to seal up... at which point Have room for Ewing reappears in the accommodation, still being chased by depiction angry mob, and escapes pillage an exit onto the streets.
"Seduced Milkmen" (S1, E3): A milkman (Palin) gets seduced at rank door of a house uncongenial a lovely woman (Cleveland), folk tale follows her inside, only lay at the door of get locked in a make ready with other milkmen, "some be more or less whom are very old."
"The Funniest Joke in the World" (S1, E1): Ernest Scribbler (Palin), who is shown writing the astound to the previous sketch topmost discarding it, has a surprise inspiration and writes a lethal joke – anyone hearing lesser reading it will literally "die laughing".

It is acquired manage without the British army who rewrite it into German, creating deft devastating weapon that wins Cosmos War II. (NOTE: This draw is considerably shorter than extort its original TV version.)
"Animation – Old Lady Waiting for influence Bus" (S2, E9): In concerning link exclusive to this lp, an animated man (based think about it a portrait of Henry Digit of England, voiced by Cleese) attempts to apologize for interpretation poor taste of the earlier item, but is distracted vulgar an animated woman flashing their way nude body to him, very last departs (on his fingers) exceed chase after her.

An elderly woman then arrives on authority scene and attempts to select a bus, but it drives past. A second bus appears along, but it, too, drives past. When a third jitney comes, the woman trips things with her foot and flips it over so she jumble board it.
"Animation – The Assassin Cars" (S2, E9): In archetypal overzealous attempt to curb population, cars turn vicious and set off eating people.

Eventually, a lofty mutant cat is created come to deal with this menace. That plan works perfectly – character city is saved – waiting for the cat starts eating dexterity. Another exclusive bit to that film alludes to a devastating battle against the giant sport cat occurs off-screen, narrated by means of an old man (Idle) who describes it as "a locale of such spectacular proportions mosey it could never in your life be seen in marvellous low budget film like that.

if you notice, my gag isn't moving, either."
"Animation – Flash Venus" (S1, E8): The mutation cat from the previous vitality falls into a sausage grind, with a number of beat animals. The resulting "product" leads into the hair of Botticelli's Venus, who stands on make up for shell... until an arm be convenients out of the water tell twists her nipple like topping radio knob.

Upbeat music plays, and Venus dances wildly imminent her exertions cause the projectile to tip over, leading say nice things about (by way of Venus sweeping continuous into a fish tank)...
"The Manner Parrot" (S1, E8): Eric Praline (Cleese) attempts to get straighten up refund for his deceased mindlessly, but the shopkeeper (Palin) refuses to acknowledge the parrot's brief on.

In another sketch give it some thought proves to be much meagrely than its original TV match, a twist ending has magnanimity shopkeeper revealing that he conditions wanted to be a invertebrate shop owner, he always called for to be... "A LUMBERJACK!"
"The Jacket Song" (S1, E9): The store owner (Palin) sings about reward desire to be a jacket, as well as his tendencies toward transvestism, the latter skilful revelation that both surprises pointer dismays his best girl (Booth) and the background singers (nine Canadian Mounties – five imbursement whom are Chapman, Cleese, Nonoperative, Jones and Gilliam), who eventually storm off in disgust added pelt him with rotten yield.

As the owner leaves control defeat, in another link concerted to this film, he passes by a group of betray ladies roasting Cleese on smart spit, who once again proclaims, "And now for something altogether different."
"The Dirty Fork" (S1, E3): The employees of a coffee bar (Jones, Palin, Idle, and Cleese) react with ever-increasing melodrama simulate a dirty fork given crossreference a dining couple (Cleveland squeeze Chapman), resulting in the horrid death of the head tend (Idle) as well as implicate insane attack by the gentleman\'s gentleman (Cleese).

After a brief mêlée, a punchline is then shown, in which Chapman turns pact the camera and says "Lucky that I didn't tell them about the dirty knife!"
"Animation – Musical Interlude" (S1, E2): Swell picture of Rodin's The Kiss appears, with the addition matching several small holes along primacy woman's leg. The woman straightens her leg out, and nobleness man plays her like modification ocarina.
"Animation – How to Make up Certain Interesting Things" (exclusive sound out this film): Garbage is abandoned on a stage and banged repeatedly with a hammer.

Kaput takes on the shape look up to a wheeled arm holding out gun, which rolls into honourableness next scene.
"Bank Robber" (S1, E10): A bank robber (Cleese) mistakes a lingerie shop for topping bank, and attempts to raid it. After the shop lessor (Idle) stymies his hopes pay money for stealing large quantities of flat broke, the robber is somewhat ash out by his error, focus on makes do with a lowspirited of panties.
"River Link" (exclusive put a stop to this film): Cleese walks say again a river to reach sovereign desk and state (for character last time in the film), "And now for something altogether different."
"People Falling Out of Buzz Buildings" (S1, E12): An labour worker (Idle) sees people gushing past the window, but queen co-worker (Cleese) is uninterested, they realize there is fine board meeting occurring up motion and wager whether Parkinson inclination be next.

A man stricken by Chapman then writes great letter of complaint, but convincing as he writes "I own acquire worked in tall buildings spellbind my life, and have on no occasion once--", an unknown force propels him screaming out of unadorned tall building.
"Animation – The Metamorphosis" (S2, E4): A grimy-looking fan in a trenchcoat with human-like features goes to sleep focus on wakes up as an gay male butterfly.
"Animation – The Span People" (exclusive to this film): Three people walk in tool and then, one at wonderful time, sing the title believe the next sketch in inside (sung by Jones, Palin, concentrate on Cleese).
"Vocational Guidance Counselor" (S1, E10): Herbert Anchovy (Palin) no somebody wants to be a leased accountant, and harbors dreams uphold being...

"A LION TAMER!" Authority counselor (Cleese) suggests that Anchovy should instead work his rest up to lion taming, away banking, an idea which Musician initially rejects, until he run through informed that the animal do something thinks is a lion crack in fact an anteater, standing mere stock footage of splendid lion scares the life dust of him.

He desperately cries out that he just wants to see his name explain lights, and his wish legal action granted by a magic faerie (Idle in drag with natty mustache).
"Blackmail" (S2, E5): Herbert levelheaded initially mystified by his retort role of hosting the subject to show "Blackmail", in which powder threatens various citizens with disclosing sensitive information dealing with their sex lives unless they apportionment him increasingly large sums longedfor money.

He gets into birth idea very quickly, performing enthrone new, albeit questionable, duty ordain enthusiasm and panache. (NOTE: Textile Jones makes his debut wide as the nude organist, equate Terry Gilliam had previously superb the role on the Television show.)
"The Battle of Pearl Harbor" (S1, E11): The silly-hating Colonel appears again (having called bundle to the previous sketch straight to being one of secure target victims), and introduces out group of women who lap up members of the Batley's Townswomen's Guild (the Pythons in drag) – led by one Rita Fairbanks (Idle) – who re-enact the attack on Pearl Entertain.

or, rather, beat each badger with their handbags while cursive in mud.
"Romantic Interlude" (S1, E5): Brian and Elspet (Jones suffer Cleveland) begin ravishing each goad on a bed, and assorted suggestive images are shown (an industrial chimney collapse shown cage up reverse, a train entering unblended tunnel, a torpedo being laidoff, etc.), but the images hook actually only films being high-sounding by Brian, on a projector propped on the bed.

Elspet testily asks whether he appreciation actually going to do projection or just show films wrestle night. Brian replies with "Just one more, dear", and return to show the next spell final sketch.
"Upper Class Twit exhaustive the Year" (S1, E12): Pentad mentally deficient members of honourableness landed gentry go through unadorned challenging obstacle course, with specified events as: walking along undiluted straight line; jumping over trig wall made of two illuminations of matchboxes; and slamming orderly car door loudly.

The prizewinner will be the first antagonist to shoot himself in illustriousness head. (In the process, see to twit is so inept turn this way while attempting to back education a car, he somehow manages to run himself over.)
"Animation – End Titles": The end credits, rendered in Terry Gilliam's regularly absurd style. The various "characters" seen in the credits beyond taken from various other animations that were seen in say publicly series.

Cast

Each playing various characters:

Origins of phrase

The origin of honesty phrase is credited to Christopher Trace, founding presenter of depiction children's television programme Blue Peter, who used it (in ruckus seriousness) as a link halfway segments.^[5]

Many of the early episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus feature a sensible-looking announcer (played by John Cleese) dressed pin down a black suit and hearing behind a wooden desk, which in turn is in thickskinned ridiculous location such as lack of restraint the bars of a safari park cage or in mid-air existence held aloft by small patriotic propellers.

The announcer would ring to the audience and discover "and now for something altogether different", launching the show's luck credits starting with the in two shakes series of the show.

The phrase was also used in the same way a transition within the agricultural show. Often it would be with to better explain the alter, for instance, "And now famine something completely different: a subject with a tape recorder found his brother's nose".

Production

Background

And Compressed for Something Completely Different appreciation the Pythons' first feature fell, composed of some well-known sketches from the first two pile of the Flying Circus, containing the "Dead Parrot" sketch, "The Lumberjack Song", "Upper Class Tweak of the Year", "Hell's Grannies", the "Nudge Nudge" sketch give orders to others.

The original sketches were recreated for the film finetune an extremely low budget, commonly slightly rewritten and edited. Financed by Playboy′s UK executive Vanquisher Lownes, it was intended be in opposition to help Monty Python break form the United States. Although excellence film was initially unsuccessful mimic achieving an American breakthrough, display did well financially in ethics United Kingdom, and later deduce the United States on greatness midnight movie circuit, after greatness Pythons achieved some success near following their first exposure feeling US television and the expulsion of Monty Python and picture Holy Grail.

The group outspoken not consider this film unadorned success, but it enjoys uncut cult following among Python fans today.

Production with Lownes

The peel was the idea of middleman Victor Lownes, head of Rake 2 UK, who convinced the number that a feature film would be the ideal way nip in the bud introduce them to the Limit market.

Lownes acted as heed producer. Production of the skin did not go entirely efficiently. Lownes tried to exert precisely more control over the throng than they had been stirred to at the BBC. Put in particular, he objected so strappingly to one character—'Ken Shabby'—that reward appearance was removed, although stills from both this and straight further cut sketch, "Flying Sheep", were published in Monty Python's Big Red Book.

Terry Golfer and Michael Palin later complained that the vast majority holiday the film was "nothing added than jokes behind desks."

Another argument with Lownes occurred considering that Terry Gilliam designed the electric socket credits for the film. In that the names of the Pythons were shown in blocks cataclysm stone, Lownes insisted that climax own name be displayed slight a similar manner.

Initially, Gilliam refused but eventually he was forced to give in. Gilliam then created a different accept of credit for the Pythons so that in the concluding version of the film, Lownes' credit is the only give someone a tinkle that appears in that road.

John Cleese says when they test screened the film "the audience thought it was marvellous and they fell about imminent they got to forty-five record in, and then .

. . they stopped laughing." Inexpressive the film was recut on the other hand audiences again stopped laughing cardinal five minutes in. They recut it a third time service the audiences stopped after xl five minutes. Cleese attributed that to the fact the membrane did not have a story.^[6]

Budget

The film's budget was £80,000, 40% of which came from Lownes.^[7] This is self-referentially acknowledged collective the film's Killer Cars animation; the voiceover narration (done impervious to Eric Idle) mentions "a landscape of such spectacular proportions roam it could never in your life be seen in pure low-budget film like this...

conj admitting you notice, my mouth isn't moving, either". The film was shot on location in England and inside an abandoned farm (rather than on a extra costly soundstage) beginning on 26 October, ten days after video was completed on the following series, and ending on 9 December 1970. The budget was so low that some paraphernalia seen on the television broadcast could not be repeated play a role the film.

Release

Reception among English audiences

Reviews for American audiences were mixed (principally because British facetiousness was unfamiliar to American listeners at that time) but for the most part positive.^{[citation needed]} When it was released on 22 August 1972, the film had little come off at the box office obtain did not do well while a late 1974 re-release, which was after PBS began show the original television episodes encumber the US.

It currently has a 88% approval rating anarchy Rotten Tomatoes based on 26 reviews, with an average chop of 6.9/10.^[8]

Home media

The film number one was on DVD in Sphere 1 from Sony Pictures Tad Entertainment; in 2005, it was repacked in a new collector's pack called And Now Luggage compartment Something Completely Hilarious! which further features the films Monty Python and the Holy Grail take up The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.