Discuss How Movies Monty Python And The Holy Grail And Blazing Saddles Present Popular Culture Examples
Submitted by rockraw32 on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Discuss How Movies Monty Python And The Holy Grail And Blazing Saddles Present Popular Culture Examples
Popular Culture among the Past and Present
Many thoughts and opinions of people are affected by the assumed response from society. Some people are afraid to make decisions, only to avoid being deprecated by the popular opinion of other people. Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Blazing Saddles, depict the response that people of today's world would actually do, rather than what would be considered politically correct. Basically, the feelings of the nineteen seventies parallel with those of the modern world. Popularity has played a major role on people's choices in religion, gender, and even politics. Both movies show how popular culture is sending society into a never-ending spiral of ascendancy, by using those important issues that affect the public.
The political aspects of both movies were mirror images of how society has reacted since the establishment of government. It seems that there are hardly any agreements between anyone when it comes to political issues. Hence, the reason why there are several opposing parties in government. People have always had discrepancies in opinions, which does display society's tendency to develop conflict with one another because of different thoughts of different people. When the supposed king of the Britons approaches the peasant in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the peasant bluntly states his opinion about not agreeing with King Arthur's views and beliefs. He first says that he does not know anything about there being a king and if he was the so-called king then he did not vote for him. Then the uneducated peasant speaks openly, and ironically at the
same time has a lot of knowledge on the subject of politics. However, he still states how his words are not heard. Basically, this portrays how the rich of today tend to have more say so in today's government than the lower class, regardless of the knowledge of the indigent person. After the lower class attempts to speak up and are denied,...
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