“In a kingdom of despair, a new hope will rise again.” That sounds like a tagline some Hollywood marketing genius would come up for a blockbuster made today, but it’s actually a line used in an ingenious new trailer for Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
As one of the most acclaimed comedies ever made, the new trailer puts a different spin on the British comedy team’s 1975 feature film that inspired the Broadway hit Spamalot. YouTube user Stéphane Bouley put together the “Modern Trailer” for the film and posted it on Tuesday. To prove just how much people love The Holy Grail, the video has accumulated over 1.27 million views in under a week.
He also posted an alternate version with the Trajan font on Thursday that already has 3,400 views.
Bouley’s trailer imagines how a Hollywood marketing genius would try to make The Holy Grail sound like your standard summer blockbuster. Suddenly, Graham Chapman’s King Arthur becomes the real heroic savior he thinks he is and the fight with the Black Knight (“It’s just a flesh wound!”) is an epic battle to pass a road.
Check out the trailer below. We can only hope that Bouley makes a modern trailer for Monty Python’s The Life of Brian that turns it into a Bible-like epic.
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