Subj : Monty Python's "Upper Class Twit of the Year"
To : All
From : P
Date : Sat Mar 03 2007 08:51 pm
From: "P" <
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I am intrigued about something in the Upper Class Twit of the Year show sketch
as it appears in the Monty Python movie "And Now For Something Completely
Different" which aired on Australian television today.
At the end of the sketch, four pistols are sitting on a table for the
participants to shoot themselves through the head (not five, because somehow
the organisers already knew that one of the twits would run over himself before
the end of the competition - a blooper?... but I digress)...
The twits pick up the guns and begin firing indiscriminately. One shoots
another twit. They appear to be real guns, firing blanks (obviously). In the
movie, the smoke from the guns can be seen clearly (whereas from memory, the
guns in the TV version didn't actually fire). All the twits are wearing hats,
and when they hold the gun to their heads and fire, the smoke can be seen
coming out of the barrel.
As we know from the death of actor Jon Erik Hexum in the early 1980s, even a
blank fired at close range can be fatal. What I'm wondering is, has it ever
been documented how the Pythons did this? i.e., what the hats were lined with?
Or was the fact that none of them were actually killed in the filming of this
segment just good luck?
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