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| Monty
Python and the Holy Grail |
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| 1974 |
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| • | Reflects
a 20th-century, postmodern attitude |
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| to notion of an
orderly universe |
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| • | Satirizes forms
of order—political, religious, |
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| military, etc. |
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| • | Influence of
Theater of the Absurd |
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| – | Life is absurd,
without fixed meaning/absolute |
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| truth |
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| – | Responds to
life’s absurdity with bizarre satiric |
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| humor |
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