Subj : Re: Monty Python's "Upper Class Twit of the Year"
To : All
From : Aaron
Date : Sun Mar 04 2007 05:18 am
From: "Aaron" <
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On 3 Mar, 09:51, "P" <
[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?
I don't recall the precise sketch, but it sounds pretty obvious that they had
the guns rigged in some way as to just emit smoke, or something of a similar
nature. Either way, no blanks.
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