Photo: Wegmann, Street art silly walk (Porto, Portugal), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1Write something about this picture
Before you watch the video, look at the picture. Who is this man? What is he doing? Where is the picture? Write four or five sentences on a sheet of paper, then compare with a partner.
a silhouettea mana bowler hata suitan attaché caseto walka walk (une démarche)to kickto bend his kneeto walk backwardson one legstrange / weird / sillystreet arta wallin a row
On this wall, I can see nine black silhouettes of the same man.
He is wearing a bowler hat and a suit, and he is carrying an attaché case.
He looks like a very serious businessman… but his walk is completely silly!
In one picture, he is kicking his leg very high; in another one, he is bending his knee.
It's street art: somebody painted it on a wall in Porto, in Portugal.
I think it comes from a famous film or TV show.
2Think about it
- Why would someone paint this man on a wall… in Portugal?
- Is he serious? Is it serious?
- He comes from a very famous British TV sketch, made in 1970 by the Monty Python. Everybody in Britain knows it. Why do you think it is still so famous today?