We were in Target late last evening and I was weak. I bought the 2 disc Ultimate Definitive Final Special Edition DVD of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. While watching an opening scene a line spoke to me as it never had before.
"I'm not old. I'm thirty-seven."
This movie is only thirty-one years old. I remember a friend of the family, John Jamison, telling us how funny it was. I asked my dad if we could see it, but he told me that it was mocking something sacred and so we would not be going. I'm not sure if it was the Python version or just the legend of the Holy Grail itself which was such a danger to the child of 1970's fundamentalists. Such was the atmosphere in my childhood home that I felt I was dancing with the devil to even look at a picture book of dinosaurs. I just kept repeating the mantra "God made the bones old." I still don't feel right about dinosaurs.
Posted to Movies and TV at November 2, 2005 11:11 PMWe were fundamentalists? Dysfunctional,definitely. But I don't know about fundamentalist. I would have to know your definition. Love, Mom
Posted by: Susan McJilton at November 4, 2005 5:10 PM