Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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:10:01
-Who are the Britons?
-We are all Britons, and I am your king.

:10:06
I didn't know we had a king. I thought
we were an autonomous collective.

:10:10
You're tooling yourself.
We're living in a dictatorship.

:10:13
A self-perpetuating autocracy
in which the working classes--

:10:16
There you go bringing class
into it again.

:10:19
That's what it's all about.
:10:21
Please, good people. I am in haste.
Who lives in that castle?

:10:25
No one lives there.
:10:27
- Then who is your lord?
- We don't have a lord.

:10:30
What?
:10:31
We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune.
:10:34
We take turns to act as sort of
an executive officer for the week.

:10:38
But alI the decisions
of that officer have to be ratified...

:10:41
at a special biweekly meeting...
:10:43
by a simple majority
in the case of internal atfairs.

:10:46
- But by 2/3rd's majority--
- Be quiet!

:10:49
- I order you to be quiet!
- Order? Who does he think he is?

:10:53
- I am your king.
- I didn't vote for you.

:10:56
- You don't vote for kings.
- How'd you become king, then?

:11:00
The Lady of the Lake...
:11:02
her arm clad in the purest
shimmering samite...

:11:05
held alott Excalibur
from the bosom of the water...

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signifying by Divine Providence...
:11:11
that I, Arthur,
was to carry Excalibur.

:11:14
That is why I am your king.
:11:16
Strange women lying in ponds,
distributing swords...

:11:20
is no basis for government.
:11:22
Supreme executive power derives
from a mandate from the masses...

:11:26
not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
:11:28
Quiet!
:11:29
You can't expect to wield
supreme executive power...

:11:33
because some watery tart
threw a sword at you.

:11:35
Shut up!
:11:36
If I went around saying
I was an emperor...

:11:39
just because some moistened bint lobbed
a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.

:11:43
Shut up!
Will you shut up?

:11:45
Now we see the violence
inherent in the system.

:11:47
Shut up!
:11:49
Come see the violence inherent in
the system. Help! I'm being repressed!

:11:53
- Bloody peasant!
- What a giveaway! Did you hear that?

:11:57
That's what I'm on about.
Did you see him repressing me?


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