Holy Grail is where the team worked out how to make a FILM rather than a run of sketches, and Life of Brian is that method applied to a real subject. What carries across: a continuous narrative that the sketches hang off rather than interrupt, a low budget turned into a joke about the period itself, the same troupe playing every part of every crowd, and an ending that refuses the resolution the genre promises. Filed MEDIUM. The two share their makers, so this records a development rather than an influence between strangers, and the Python films sit together in the universe field besides.
