How I thought this sentence was going to end:
…at the same time.
I hope you
Max: Had fun stormin’ the cinema!!!
Valerie: Did they enjoy the flick?
Max: It would have taken a miracle…
Did you wear a Holocaust cloak?
Did you order a MLT, where the mutton is nice and lean, and the tomato is ripe… They’re so perky. I love that.
Propel water in the nose is not a fun sensation. 
I can’t imagine the film without that line. Mandy Patinkin’s delivery was so powerful. From what I understand, his father died of cancer, and he spoke to Count Rugen as he would cancer.
I know where he’s coming from. My dad died of lung cancer when I was 16, and that line chokes me up every time I see it.
I’m so jealous!!! Loved that movie since I was a wee thing, probably watched it over 100 times by the time I was 12 and worn out some VHS tapes.
Funny thing was, when I picked up the novel, it drove me nuts. Because I HATE abridged books, and I went crazy trying to find the original S. Morganstern book. Goldman talks all through the book about the boring and nutty things he’s taken out, and I wanted to read them SO badly.
I didn’t find out the “abridgement” was a joke until a few years later…
It did. They regularly had to put up with the other actors so hungover the next day they could hardly act.
Found this on failblog:
I would die to see PB on the big screen…IIRC, my parents thought I was “too little” to go to the movies when it came out unless there was something they ABSOLUTELY had to see (which is why I got dragged to “The Empire Strikes Back”, “Gremlins” and one of the Rocky films).
Slim doesn’t care for PB…every time it’s on and I make him watch it, he asks if we HAVE to watch it.
And of course I say YES we have to! IT"S A LAW! Whenever PB is on TV (my VHS tape is worn out and my TV and my VCR are refusing to speak each other’s language), we MUST watch it. If I had to sit through eleventyfourthousand viewings of “Cars”, the Toy Story trilogy AND Ponyo then you must sit through PB every time it’s on TV.
I love the series the Arclight has going on right now. I would have loved to have seen this one, but I did go see Raiders of the Lost Ark in Pasadena on Sunday night. So much fun seeing it on the big screen in front of an enthusiastic audience!
I don’t remember seeing it in theaters. I was only eight when it came out. However, I recently discovered something from 1987 and my favorite movie was listed as “The Princess Bride.” I had good taste from an early age.
However, in the movie, Westley nitpicks the wedding, by saying that it didn’t count because Buttercup didn’t say “I do.” In the book, when Buttercup bemoans the fact that the she’s actually married to Humperdinck, Westley merely points out that “Widows happen every day” which I think is a significantly cooler line.
It is, but given that Westley leaves Humperdink alive at the end of the movie (I can’t remember how it happened in the book), that particular line would open up a plot hole.
Could you please expand on your pain? Remember, this is for posterity.
In the book, Buttercup is dumb as a box of hammers. Westley knew it, and tolerated it, smiling bemusedly at her stupidity. That was one thing I didn’t like about it.
I have to watch the movie every time it’s on though.
For those of you who have read the book and seen the movie, is there any point in going back to read the book? I’ve seen the movie a dozen times, but never really had an interest in the book.
The difference between the book and the movie is the difference between satire and parody. They’re both great, and they both have the sense of being done by people with a great fondness for fairy tales. But they also both acknowledge that fairy tales have limitations, and the way they do that is where the difference lies. The book is a satire, the movie is a parody.
Of course, smart or stupid makes no difference here; the story, book or movie, doesn’t give Buttercup very many chances to actually do anything or make any decisions; she is simply a prize to be won or a thing to be used – either way, simply tossed about by events.
Which is precisely the job of a fairy-tale princess, Sister.
One of the very first things I bought when I got my iPad last month was The Princess Bride. HD version of course.
So I can put it on my iPad and carry it around just knowing it is there and I can watch it (or even a part of it) at any time.
One of the things I was struck by on rewatching it was the scene where Inigo helps Wesley/DPR up the rope and then…gasp…not only tells him a story, but actually hands the man his sword. Even after telling him “I’m only waiting around to kill you”.
To clarify for those who haven’t read the book, the “son of a bitch” exchange from the movie is in the book, it’s just not the very last thing Inigo says to Count Rugen.
Buttercup does get one badass moment at the end of the novel, where she assists in the escape from the castle in an effective but ladylike manner.
[spoiler]A group of guards is standing outside the gate, but Buttercup orders them to go inside. When the head guard says the men will do what he says because he’s the head guard, Buttercup says the head guard will do what she says because “I AM THE QUEEEEEEN!” And she’s beautiful and regal enough that this works.
A moment later she admits to Westley that she told a lie, she’s not actually the queen since Humperdink was not yet king, but “I am the princess!” didn’t seem intimidating enough.[/spoiler]That would have been nice to have in the movie, but some things have to go in any adaptation.
I love this movie. It took me two years to convince my husband and son to watch it back in the 80’s. Now they love it too.
There were about four people at my last job who had never seen it. I was shocked! After I told them about it, my boss bought it and watched with her son and husband. She said they didn’t like it. I knew I didn’t like her.