oldshrewsburyian:quousque:petermorwood:txf-tarras:idlesuperstar: - Very good. This is the type of fi
oldshrewsburyian:quousque:petermorwood:txf-tarras:idlesuperstar: - Very good. This is the type of film that the phrase “glorious technicolor” was invented for - look at the richness of the colours!To say nothing of a phrase that gets used in this house a bit too often…ok so this is The Court Jester with Danny Kaye and it is the best fucking movie i swear. It’s a comedy musical robin hood parody thing about an incompetent moron and his extremely competent ass-kicking girlfriend taking down a tyrannical king and restoring the throne to the rightful heir-the rightful heir is a baby and they can tell it’s the right baby because of a giant birthmark on his asscheek-the main character’s only talent is singing and the rest of the pseudo robin-hood group just kinda tolerate him because he repeatedly fucks up-he gets hypnotized into believing he is this amazing swashbuckling sword fighting hero along the lines of Wesley from the Princess Bride and ends up fighting the villain while snapping in and out of hypnosis-the vessel with the pestle has the pellet with the poison, the chalice with the palace has the brew that is true “what”-he stumbles his way through the entire plot and never knows what the hell is going on-Danny Kaye is the funniest motherfucker you’ve never heard of-seriously go watch it you wan’t regret it#yea verily yea ( @lessthansix)Okay, I love this movie because I love Danny Kaye and Basil Rathbone. Guys, you have to understand. Basil Rathbone had an incredible career. One of his most successful roles he’s remembered for is Sherlock Holmes, but he was also a famous fencer and career Hollywood villain. He was one of the actors who pioneered the sneering British (occasionally French) aristocrat foil for the everyman action hero. If you’ve ever cried out, “but why did he have to be British?” about an evil fencer or general villain’s right hand man, you can thank Basil Rathbone.One of the best parts about The Court Jester is that it’s basically like if Robin Hood: Men in Tights had Alan Rickman sporking himself by playing the Sherriff of Rottingham/Nottingham. Basil Rathbone did that in this movie. Basil Rathbone was partnered with Errol Flynn on numerous swashbuckling movies, his arguably most famous being his role as the villainous Sir Guy of Gisborne in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). (You know, the Robin Hood movie where they paid stunt men an additional $250 to get shot by master archer Howard Hill.) -- source link
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