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October 17

You missed a movie

In the Monty Python list of films on their page you missed listing the film, Jabberwocky (1977) Though it wasn't written by most of the Python troupe (Terry Gilliam was co-writer with Lewis Carroll and Charles Alverson), two of the Pythoners were in the movie: Michael Palin and Terry Jones. I feel it should be mentioned in the article as a peripheral piece they had a hand in. Frankly, I thought it was a terrible movie, but I still think we need to mention their failures as well as their successes. According to IMDB it still got a 6.1 even though it wasn't a box office smash. Here is the IMDB link if you want to use it as a source. Jabberwocky (1977) - IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076221/ 72.35.124.250 (talk) 23:04, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia articles exist because volunteer Wikipedia editors choose to create them, not because of any "corporate" editorial decisions on what article should exist. As you seem to be new here, I probably wouldn't recommend that you leap straight into creating that article, but hang around, learn the ropes, and may you can do so. HiLo48 (talk) 23:23, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jabberwocky is a Terry Gilliam film, not a Monty Python film. 68.187.174.155 (talk) 23:38, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That would be ... something completely different. Clarityfiend (talk) 02:09, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We do, of course, already have an article about the film: Jabberwocky (film). {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.1905} 94.6.86.81 (talk) 03:50, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If it were necessary to list every "peripheral piece they had a hand in", we would have to list every Terry Gilliam film (obviously) as well as many others like A Fish Called Wanda and Shrek. While they are known for Money Python, they are actors, writers, directors, and even some film producing. After 40 years, they've worked on a lot of movies and many of those projects involve more than one member of the group. It appears that the only two who aren't on speaking terms are Eric Idle and John Cleese. The others appear eager to work together when they can. 68.187.174.155 (talk) 13:02, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well... I presume none of them are on speaking terms with Graham Chapman anymore. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 14:16, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Terry Jones might be. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:03, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I had a similar issue when writing Les Six#Collaborations. You may or may not like my approach. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 19:59, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]