{"id":9324,"date":"2010-10-05T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T15:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9324"},"modified":"2010-10-05T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T15:44:07","slug":"monty-python-holy-grail-and-the-british-censor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/10\/05\/monty-python-holy-grail-and-the-british-censor\/","title":{"rendered":"Monty Python and The British Censor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071853\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9325\" title=\"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Monty-Python-and-the-Holy-Grail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 1974 letter from Python Pictures has surfaced online, detailing the cuts the British censor wanted to make to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071853\/\">Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In order to get an A rating (the 1970s equivalent of a PG) it was suggested that they:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;lose as many shits as possible&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take Jesus Christ out, if possible&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And my particular favourite:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Lose I fart in your general direction&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The hilarious letter can be seen in full below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/volcanologist\/3277842406\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9326\" title=\"Monty Python letter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Monty-Python-letter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-censorship-letter\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+laughingsquid+(Laughing+Squid)\">Laughing Squid<\/a> \/ Original image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/volcanologist\/3277842406\/\">Jason Parmeter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071853\/\">Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Board_of_Film_Classification\">Find out more about the BBFC<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1974 letter from Python Pictures has surfaced online detailing the cuts the British censor wanted to make to Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9],"tags":[1579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}