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...in spite of a British star and a screenplay based on a Polish novel.
I'm probably speaking like the Anglophile that I've always been, but British movies have a different feel to them, a more wry, self-mocking sensibility than American productions. The screenplays look backward rather than to the future - likely the result of a once-glorious history now gone drab.
And as in the case of "Grail," British humor is skewed, presenting the utterly outrageous in a very offhand way. "Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms!" "It's just a flesh wound. I've had worse." I don't know why American writers still can't do that - they always have to punch up the joke, as though the audience is too stupid to get it without being grabbed by the collar and told, "Laugh! This is funny!"
Well, Net break over - back to work.
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