It's funny when the knight waves
he should have flipped them off instead
shareLOL that is funny. :)
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He was probally thinking, "You bastards, you utter bastards!"
shareI guess it's better than keeping the grail there and letting the Joneses charge 25 cents a head for the public to see the oldest man in the world and the Holy Grail in the same go. How terrible would that have been? PT Barnum may have been jealous but that wouldn't mean much to the knight.
shareI don't get it? Why's that funny?
shareBecause the knight should not be that happy they took and lost the grail.
shareI still don’t get it.
shareThe knight is sworn to protect the grail. He was probably happy Indy made sure evil could never possess it. He probably wanted to destroy it every day he lived forever in that cave.
shareRight but why is that funny?
shareIt's funny because young people hate faith and discipline and respect and morality.
I still don’t get it but whatever you say.
One reason why I hate Last Crusade so much was it was trying way too hard to be funny. The other two didn’t have that kind of humor and they were much better movies.
Okay. That's a criticism I acknowledge. Last Crusade had jokes. Like, punchline jokes. For me, they worked. But humor is very subjective. The minute you breach the humor barrier, you are barring a certain percentage of the audience from enjoying it. This movie was broken by being a fucking soda commercial. I'll never forget the day I took my child out into a field and executed him cause Poe Dameron made a prank call in a Star Wars film.
shareThat would have been a plot hole since flipping people off wasn't done by people in the knights earlier years living in civilization
shareBack then if you stuck your index and middle finger up with the palm facing towards you that was the same as flipping someone off by today’s standards
https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/10/the-up-yours-gesture-looks-like-a-peace-sign.html
Maybe an angry shake of the fist would be more in line.
shareI would think they did him a favor. As much as guarding the grail would have been a great honor to him you have to admit that he'd probably be like "damn, this sucks" after the first 2-300 years.
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