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The Princess Bride: Unraveling Behind-the-Scenes Stories and Iconic Moments
Ever found yourself tangled in the whimsical world of "The Princess Bride"? Let's not forget the hilarity of encountering the Blood of Lathander puzzle in Baldur's Gate, where characters found themselves unexpectedly airborne. It's a rollercoaster of laughs, nostalgia, and a pinch of geeky chaos that you won't want to miss!
Journey with us behind the scenes of "The Princess Bride," where casting rumors run wild, and the magic of Andre the Giant and Billy Crystal brings the laughter alive. We chat about the film's creation, exploring the delightful chaos and serendipity that led to its timeless charm. With stories of Robin Wright's angelic casting and the film’s unique musical journey, you'll uncover the fascinating layers that have kept audiences enchanted for generations.
Our discussion wraps up with a lively debate on the film's most iconic moments and unforgettable quotes. From the epic sword fight between Inigo Montoya and the Man in Black to the cleverly staged battle of wits, we celebrate the humor and heart that define this classic. Relive the amusing antics, the thrilling rescues, and the love-struck heroics of Wesley and Buttercup. It's a joyous ride through the enchanting world of a film that never fails to bring a smile, with a grateful nod to our listeners for joining us on this geeky adventure.
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Speaker 2:I just like when Inigo's like I don't keep listening to that word.
Speaker 1:What it?
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Speaker 3:Baldur's Gate. It's the blood of Lathander little puzzle If we have the three nerds out there that listen that understand.
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Speaker 1:All right, all right. Well, we're doing another deep dive. Focus into a film, a classic film, a film close to everyone's hearts, and if it's not, you're wrong. The A film close to everyone's hearts, and if it's not, you're wrong, the Princess Bride. A 1987 Rob Reiner-directed classic.
Speaker 3:Do you know who named the Princess Bride?
Speaker 2:William Goldman, he technically named it.
Speaker 3:But who gave him the name? I have no idea His daughters, Because he said he had written a lot of different books.
Speaker 1:Actually.
Speaker 3:I have an article over here. All right, this is from a screen read he's like flips out of his flip phone Yep.
Speaker 3:Top 10 behind-the-scenes facts about the Princess Bride. Number one writer William Goldman's daughters came up with the title. All right, William Goldman primarily wrote the Princess Bride for his daughters. A couple of little girls aren't going to be interested in a movie like All the President's Men or Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kids, so writing a fairy tale was a chance for Goldman to share his craft with his kids. It even came up with a title. The author asked his daughters to help him come up with an idea for his next book. One of them suggested that he write a story about a princess, while others suggested a story about a bride.
Speaker 1:Goldman put these concepts together and came up with the title the princess bride. Oh, he said it. He just got by the name. They said it. He's a genius. They've been trying to make this movie since, like the early 70s. Yeah, they said the 70s and robert redford tried to get onto it so he could direct they had a.
Speaker 3:They had a bunch of weird directors. They had some famous french director that did a lot of french uh I can't remember what kind of genre you know french expressionism or something like that and, uh, he almost got it and thank god yeah this, it all worked out well, ron reiner got a hold of it. Do you know who they uh originally wanted? Because they couldn't get Andre the Giant when William Goldman was considering it Arnold. Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 1:Arnold Schwarzenegger, but by that point he was too big of a star. Liam Neeson auditioned for it but, they dismissed him because of his height.
Speaker 2:They also considered Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for.
Speaker 3:Andre.
Speaker 2:It's because they couldn't get the first two at the time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, do you know who auditioned for Princess Buttercup?
Speaker 2:I know Uma Thurman was one Yep. I consider Whoopi Goldberg, Meg Ryan.
Speaker 1:Sean Young, Susie Amos, Courtney Cox.
Speaker 3:Courtney.
Speaker 1:Cox and Whoopi Goldberg. No way, that would have been a movie, princess.
Speaker 3:Buttercup.
Speaker 2:Bow, that would have been something.
Speaker 3:And a lot of issues with Andre the Junker, because this was like he was, what A year or two away from dying.
Speaker 1:No he died in the 90s.
Speaker 2:He just he had a lot of because he was so big, he died in 1993.
Speaker 3:What year did this movie come out?
Speaker 1:1987. Okay, I think this was. It was like production was like 1986 and 87. Yeah, but he was still part of the wwf and he was supposed to fight. He was supposed to have some big match in tokyo but it got canceled and he also had like back surgery yeah, because of his uh, he was so like his back was bothering him, so bad that scene where he catches buttercup buttercup, like they had to put her on she was on like yeah because you couldn't even lift her.
Speaker 1:He's fighting Wesley. Cary Ells is walking on a platform behind him as they're moving. He's sidestepping next to him just so he's not actually on his back. It hurt that much. He was really worried because he spoke French and his English wasn't that great. He said he really liked this because it was something where people really worried because he spoke.
Speaker 3:French and, like his English, wasn't that great.
Speaker 1:Oh, Andre the Giant.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he said he really liked this because it was something where people didn't just like stare at him, because he got to be like a normal person. He felt like because he was just part of the movie he's one of the best characters in that whole movie.
Speaker 1:Like, every scene with him is gold.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they all look like they're having fun Making those. I mean, this was like the Dread Potter Robbers.
Speaker 2:Come for your soul.
Speaker 3:Whenever you read about Movies being made, there's always like A nightmare. Like kind of Like a little spot, a little snippet Of the production and like it seemed Like the Princess Bride had no flaws Whatsoever.
Speaker 1:Because I think the last person cast Was Robin Wright as Buttercup whatsoever. Because I think the last person cast was robin wright as buttercup.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was like they still hadn't picked and like they really liked her because her agent, like like, was like you need to do this and it's like her first major movie. Yeah, and rob ryan is like, I'm sitting there with the the writer, um, wasn't william goldman. Yeah, and robin wright showed up, yeah, and it is like the sun was going down. So it was like the flowing gold hair, like back and gold hair. It was like she got backlit by God and she had the halo and Goldman just looked up at her and went well, that's what I wrote.
Speaker 1:She was cast right there.
Speaker 3:Billy Crystal was so hilarious that he caused nausea and rib injuries in the cast and crew.
Speaker 1:The Miracle Max scene. Because, rob Reiner, they were like he would come in and go action and then he'd leave because he was ruining takes laughing so hard and almost threw up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they said that he had to go outside and stop himself from puking.
Speaker 2:Who was the lady that played his wife in this?
Speaker 1:Carol Kane.
Speaker 2:They said that a lot of their, pretty much their entire scenes, scenes were just ad-libbed between the two of them.
Speaker 1:They were the only ones who were just like do it Happening? Happening? Billy Crystal's like I met the makeup guy and he's like how do you want your character, this Miracle Max guy, to look? And he's like I want him to be a cross between Casey Stengel, the old Yankees manager, and my grandmother.
Speaker 3:According to Mandy Patinkin. Crystal was so hilarious in the movie that it caused his only onset injury. He wasn't injured during any of the fight scenes, but he did get a bruised rib from holding his laughter during Crystal's performance Because he's supposed to be like drunk and stuff like that. I thought that was funny.
Speaker 1:There was like 30 hours of Billy Crystal doing Miracle Max and it's just like bizarre stand-up, like Yiddish jokes and like all this stuff that he's working into it and the whole MLT the mutton lettuce and tomato. He's like where the mutton's nice and lean. He just made that up. Like nobody wrote that, he just said it.
Speaker 2:And like they were all like it's gold. This is great.
Speaker 3:Also Manny dinkin.
Speaker 1:I'm butchering his name uh, this was thank you this was his favorite role and he was in like what um? Oh, was he not criminal minds?
Speaker 3:no something along that line yeah, like um cis or something.
Speaker 1:Anyway csi or something yeah, uh, he.
Speaker 3:He said this was his favorite role. He says every day, at least three people come up to him and say hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die. And he says he's learned to love it. It just means that it's transit of the ages. You really really needed this character because his father died. The actor's father died, so it was grounding for him.
Speaker 1:Like Wallace died, so like it was grounding for him. Now, like wallace sean, he's like talks about, he's like there's like one bit he was saying he's like I was walking down the street and I was like karen grosser's and I dropped something and somebody just shouted inconceivable at me watching this with my little girl for the first time.
Speaker 2:She she started watching and she watches this disney show called elena, which it's based in South American culture animated thing, but the character does a lot of the fencing stuff. So, when she saw the man in black and Inigo start doing the fencing, she was like I know what that is. She really likes watching them and she goes. Oh, they're not left-handed. They start switching. She enjoyed that part.
Speaker 1:I was kind of surprised. They trained for like three or four weeks with Bob Anderson, who did Star Wars, and he also does the fights he's in Vader's suit fighting Mark Hamill in Empire Strikes Back, because David Prowse just didn't have the skill.
Speaker 3:I guess the ness.
Speaker 1:But he also trained Viggo Mortensen in Lord of the Rings. Oh wow, he did say he's like. Viggo Mortensen is like the best person I've ever trained Like. If you told me he was born with a sword in his hand, I would have believed you. But the three of them learned how to fight and do the duels right and left-handed.
Speaker 3:And Cary.
Speaker 1:Ells was like it got to the point. He's like I was better left-handed.
Speaker 3:There's a YouTube series where, like real sword masters, like break, like break down the best sword fight scenes in film history and the one between Inigo Montoya and Wesley is considered number one in all of film history.
Speaker 2:So, because it's actually them doing it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. The only time it's not them is where they do the flip on the bar. Yeah, and that's just kind of Because I like where Inigo's about to jump and like Wesley's like gesturing at his butt with the sword. He's like come on, go, go, and the music's like and then Wesley throws the sword and there's a drum roll. Yeah.
Speaker 2:But he does.
Speaker 1:It does like a flip lands on the floor, but you can see who are you. You can see the ground when he lands. Yeah, it's a mat. It's the mat. You see all the dust go.
Speaker 3:This. This movie spent 12 years in developmental hell. It bounced around and cost two studio heads their jobs, as they announced they were trying to make it. When the studio that owned the book's rights put up all of its optioned material for sale to Clean House, goldman decided to buy back the rights to his own book so that any adaptation would be done right, because they were about to make it with um the friend, the famous french actor whose name is francois truffa, and he's a famous, uh french director, known for his new wave masterpieces such as jewels and jim and the 400 blows ah, yes, yes, classic films.
Speaker 1:Seen him a thousand times each.
Speaker 3:So that's about all the behind the scenes, I think.
Speaker 1:Christopher Reeves. He tried to get in to the movie and play Wesley yeah, really, but they already had Carrie Ells pretty much pegged.
Speaker 3:You know how he auditioned for that role.
Speaker 1:Carrie Ells.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he channeled Fat Albert what.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I got him the job he just busted it and looked at Rob Reiner and went I guess, okay, sure, why not? I think Rob Reiner already had Carriels in mind to play Wesley after some movie that he had just done.
Speaker 3:What did he do before? It must have been some sort of local UK film.
Speaker 1:I can tell you so, based on his performance in lady jane famous movie. Yes, obviously, obviously everybody's gonna start like looking at rob reiner's like directorial credits all over the place it's all over the place, but they're all really good movies yeah, no, he gets.
Speaker 3:What's the last movie? Is he done directing? Has he done a movie in the past? It's all over the place.
Speaker 2:It's all over the place, but they're all really good movies. Yeah, no, what's the last movie Is?
Speaker 3:he done directing? Has he done a?
Speaker 2:movie in the past decade. I mean, the last thing I know of is the.
Speaker 1:Wolf of Wall Street. No, he didn't direct that. Oh, he's just part of it. Yeah, yeah, he plays his dad where he's like losing it and tell Dad that I was on a dinner. Yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 3:This is Spinal Tap. Oh, that's right.
Speaker 1:He did direct it. The Sure Thing, I don't remember that one. Stand by Me.
Speaker 3:The Princess.
Speaker 1:Bride when Harry Met Sally Misery, misery's great, a Few Good Men. Oh, that's right the American.
Speaker 2:President, I don't remember that one Solid movie repertoire. The movie only well, I say, only cost. It cost about $16 million, they said to make, but it only made $30 million.
Speaker 1:It wasn't a huge hit. Once it went to VHS and home rentals and release, it became the cult, classic and great film it is now.
Speaker 2:And what would you imagine that it's rated right now without looking?
Speaker 1:Oh well, On IMDb it's probably rated PG-13 because there's blood.
Speaker 2:IMDb.
Speaker 1:Oh 100% 8.9.
Speaker 2:Well, you've got to look and see what IMDb is. There's 8 out of 10.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:And then on Rotten Tomatoes it's a 96%, and the fans give it a 94%.
Speaker 3:Okay, that's solid. I think that it's a movie that transcends the generations. I remember watching this last year with my well, two years ago with my daughter, and she loved it, but it is kind of cheesy and some of the special effects don't quite stand up the time, but it has its kind of self-awareness.
Speaker 1:It's about more than that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it has a self-awareness of its own, corny, that makes it work.
Speaker 2:My daughter liked the fact that it was like a storybook kind of thing, the starting stuff. She was like this is not princesses, that's the most important thing.
Speaker 1:If this movie did not have that, with what's his face, peter Falk and Fred Savage, the movie, it would have just been like all right, it's another silly fairytale movie the original ending that they wanted to do that I think Rob Reiner changed was instead of him saying the classic as you wish line Wait, wait, wait as you wish. Like a, instead of him saying the classic as you wish, line Wait, wait, wait as you wish. Instead of him saying that Like a T-800? Yeah, a rope.
Speaker 3:Instead of him saying that to his grandson before he leaves, they're going to have the camera pan from Fred Savage right to the window and all the cast of the story was going to be like waving at him through the window. It could be goofy.
Speaker 2:No, I've seen something that does something like that oh it was the, the Scrooge when they're, they're all standing up. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:You know who did the music for this movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:No, mark Knopfler, who's?
Speaker 2:that.
Speaker 1:The lead guitar player and a singer for dire straits.
Speaker 3:Didn't they want, it wasn't Queen.
Speaker 1:David Bowie yeah, david, no, no, they wanted.
Speaker 3:Paul. They wanted Paul From the Beatles, paul McCartney, paul McCartney to do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And he turned it down. So I think it's, I think it's pretty, pretty solid. The music is also like Really good, it's rock and roll, it's Dire Straits yeah.
Speaker 1:Anybody who's seen Dire Straits do Sultan's the Swing live on like whatever or Vivo, is that what it's called, I don't know On YouTube, when it's like the music video thing, because you know, MTV doesn't play music videos anymore. Yeah, but there's like a whole bunch of stuff where, like, Dire Straits is doing the show and there pauses it and he's just like. He's like I'm so mad because he's like halfway through, like the 14 minute version, and he's like, and his buddy's like, why he goes, because nothing I will ever watch is this good. He's like I'm so mad. He's like I found it.
Speaker 2:I found number one wow, well, real quick, before we get started, there's a couple of reviews I was gonna let you hear. Uh, there's one that's 10 out of 10 by sagita 86. That's possibly one of the most enjoyable films ever made 10 out of 10 by Sagita86. It's possibly one of the most enjoyable films ever made 10 out of 10. As you wish, inconceivable. My name is Nico Montoya. I love this film so much, from its opening scenes to the young boy being read a story by his kindly grandfather, to the romance, action, adventure and fun of the fairy tale. Princess Bride tells you a tale of the beautiful buttercup and her true love, wesley, who. Bride tells you a tale of the beautiful Buttercup and her true love, wesley, who becomes separated through the course of an unfortunate event involving some pirates. Wesley's destiny is to rescue Buttercup from the clutches of an evil prince so that they might be together again. Yet he's not bargained on some of the wonderful characters that he will befriend, and you have some people that didn't like it.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 2:Like you have this one person, British Dame 7001.
Speaker 3:Screw you. British Dame 7001.
Speaker 2:One out of ten. A load of puke bile Wow.
Speaker 3:Come on, people Boo.
Speaker 2:Boo. Come on, people. What's the big deal? I have tried and tried to watch and like this movie on recommendations from my so-called friends, but, please, this movie is nothing but a load of boring, contrived, cliched crap. Wow, no originality whatsoever it is original.
Speaker 3:It is.
Speaker 2:Everything spoofs and cliches it. Don't get me started on the acting. This is going to be the worst acting I've seen in my life, totally laughable and amateurish, to say the least. Let me say one more time so no one else wastes their valuable time on this pile of putrid crap. The acting was laughable and amateurish. The storyline was old and unoriginal. People, if you want to see a good movie, rent something else.
Speaker 3:Rent it Alright. So this is like the lady that has an opinion about everything.
Speaker 1:This is the lady that thinks the Room is a good movie.
Speaker 2:Probably One more Hell Cabano one out of ten. My six-year-old puts on better shows than this in the backyard. In the backyard. What a load of claptrap. Not only did the movie not make a lot of sense, but the acting left a lot to be desired, scored highly on the sphincter clincher scale. I was also surprised that Peter Falk would lend his talent to a production of this caliber. Maybe he was in need of money, who knows? Anyway, a waste of money. I was foolish enough to buy it on DVD and waste my time.
Speaker 1:Well, you know what she's named after? The unibrow girl from hey Arnold. So that's what we get.
Speaker 2:And then I have one more.
Speaker 1:Screw you, Helga Pataki.
Speaker 2:We all know we like this. I only wrote one of the good ones. Here's another one. It's a one out of ten. It says completely overrated rubbish. This is a long one here, rubbish.
Speaker 3:Boo.
Speaker 2:Look, I rented this film because I knew it was rated 94 on the IMDb Top 250. I guess the fact I had such high expectations removed any chance of me liking this film. I felt it was utter trash. There was very little I could say was even mildly amusing. Much of Andre the Giant's lines were about as effective as he would have been if he tried to play a slim, short, well-spoken Englishman. Cary Ewells was a pathetic hero. I felt no affinity towards him whatsoever. The short, bald guy managed to do only one thing annoy the crap out of me. Overall, the story was boring, the writing was lame and the main characters of carrie ewells and robin wright were one dimensional and failed to understand how anyone could warm to them. The only scenes I found interesting and even enjoyable were those involving fred savage. In short, a major disappointment and yet another example of a film that, in my view, has no business being on the IMDb top 250 list.
Speaker 3:I thought Fred Savage was probably the most annoying character in the whole movie.
Speaker 2:And then they wrote at the bottom this film ranked number 94 of all time Inconceivable.
Speaker 3:Inconceivable. Alright, alright, let's rate her review 2 out of 10.
Speaker 1:Because she said inconceivable. It's just a bonus point at that point. Anyways, tom, if you want to take us through the scene by scene here as we examine this movie, the movie opens with young Fred Savage in his Walter Payton Bears jersey, sick at home in bed playing video games in the 80s playing some sort of baseball game it was.
Speaker 3:Playing video games in the 80s, playing some sort of baseball game it was. I don't think it was the MLB, I think it was just like Nintendo Baseball All-Stars or something like that it was super.
Speaker 2:It's got that. I actually played that you know and I was like because I saw it on TV.
Speaker 3:The first time I ever saw Prince's Bride was on TV. I saw it, my dad pulled it up and I saw just the baseball game. I was like who's playing Nintendo right now?
Speaker 1:It tripped me up Young Hayden easily confused.
Speaker 2:Everybody's still his. I started watching the wrong movie for the wrong week.
Speaker 3:I didn't think like you know. At least he watched it. They just showed video games on TV or movies. But you know that was pleasantly surprised. It was like three at a time.
Speaker 1:The poor boy Fred Savage, who's not, he's just a grandson is what he's billed as he homesick. His mom comes in, he's like your grandpa's here, and he's like, oh, mom, so he's going to pinch my cheek again. I hate that. And Peter Falk busts in with, like the most grandpa get up possible A suit with a cardigan on underneath, his suit jacket, the hat, the overcoat.
Speaker 3:What does he say? He says like how you doing, or something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's like he jazz hands it, he kind of had the Kramer bust in the room.
Speaker 1:He puts down his hat, walks up, grabs Fred Savage by his meaty cheek, he just peels it off and he's just staring at his mom, like I told you. She's like, well, I'm going to leave you guys alone. And he's like I got you a present because you're sick. And he's like, oh yeah, he rips it open, he goes a book and he's like that's right, books. He's like when I was a kid, television was books. And he's like you know, this is a book I read to your dad and now I'm going to read it to you.
Speaker 1:And he's like is this a kissing book?
Speaker 3:There is some kissing, yeah, and he's like ah grandpa and he's like fencing monsters revenge.
Speaker 2:Guess I could give it a try, and he's like you could read something he's like.
Speaker 1:Thank you, your vote of confidence is overwhelming.
Speaker 2:I'll try to stay awake.
Speaker 3:I love it when he settles into the story. He opens it up. He's like the Prince's Bride by William Goldsmith, or whatever.
Speaker 1:Or by S Morgenstern.
Speaker 3:Yeah, why does he say that? S Morgenstern?
Speaker 1:That was good.
Speaker 3:All right, well, anyways, he starts the, but the way he like settles in the story, like as an audience, I'm like yeah.
Speaker 1:It's like everybody just kind of snuggles up a little bit more. It's just like now we're getting into it Gravelly. Grandpa voice Columbo over here. Oh jeez, I'm sorry. So the book opens that there's this farm, there's Buttercup. She lives in the country of Florin, which is somewhere, and she has a farmhand. You never see anybody else, it's just the two of them. So I don't know who's paying. Wesley.
Speaker 2:He's the farmhand, but there's no one else around.
Speaker 1:It's just the two of them. It's like her pastimes are riding her horse and tormenting this guy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and he loves it. And he's living for every second of it. To be fair, if Robin Wright was the woman tormenting me, I'd be okay with it too.
Speaker 1:Don't give me that. Look over there. My wife over here in the background.
Speaker 3:My wife.
Speaker 1:Anyway, as they set the stage, the two of them falling in love, because all the times where Wesley says, as you wish, what he really meant to say was I love you. And then they figure it out and it's like aw. And Fred Savage is like Grandpa, this is a kissing book. And he's like keep your shirt on.
Speaker 3:All right, now shut up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're very brave, now shut up. Or he's like yeah, you're very smart, now shut up. So Wesley departs to seek his fortune, since he can't marry because he's poor. So he goes out onto the seas for high adventure. And then we find out his ship was attacked by the dread pirate Roberts, who leaves no survivors. And then for like what a week she didn't eat or survivors. And then for like what a week she didn't eat or sleep. And she's like I'll never love again.
Speaker 2:And immediately becomes the new princess.
Speaker 1:And then Prince Humpadink, humpadink, humpadink, humpadink, ah Like grabs her and is just like hey you're going to be the princess, but it's five years and she's forcibly betrothed to him because he's the prince and royalty. He's just like we're getting married. She's like I don't even know you or like you, he goes tough Royalty Trump card. So that's when they have the first thing, where he's standing up there and he has his little speech and the townsfolk in the castle and it's like princess, buttercup, folk in the castle and it's like princess buttercup and it's her, but it's not with the lady yelling
Speaker 1:boo my favorite there's a sad little bugle. Yeah, literally sound just like that. So they have that little moment and the. You know, peter falk is voiceovering this whole thing where it's like, you know, even though she mentioned she did not love him, it's like she still liked to ride, and she's riding galloping around, you know.
Speaker 2:Why didn't she just ride away?
Speaker 1:What oh, when the yeah that's where she meets Vassini, played by Wallace Shawn, and Inigo Montoya, played by Manny Patangan and Andre the Giant, who plays Fezzik.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and he just like grabs her yeah.
Speaker 1:And she's like we're just poor circus travelers. And she's like oh, it's not a village for miles or anything. He goes. Good, then, no one's going to hear you scream. And Andre the Giant goes and Vulcan death grips her.
Speaker 2:Like he barely just touched her, Granted his hand on top of her head to keep the heat in.
Speaker 1:Like a hat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just stick his hand on top of her head and she's like she was 5'8 when the movie started but after a continuous issue she left at 5'2. So they kidnap Princess Buttercup and put her on the ship and they're framing Gilder, the sworn enemy of Florin, across the sea. Across the sea, and he's got like a fancy cape and he's like ripping off a piece of fabric and just shoves it into the saddle and he slaps the horse on the butt and sends it away. It's like, yeah, when they find the horse they'll find the uniform part.
Speaker 3:And they'll know, Gilder did it. And then frontier Doesn't like question everything.
Speaker 1:The whole time he's just asking all these kinds of questions.
Speaker 2:Fezzik's.
Speaker 1:just like you didn't say anything about killing anyone, he's like you want me to leave you where I found you, Unemployed in Greenland.
Speaker 2:I like how, when they get on the boat, he's just talking down to Fezzik, even though he's looking up.
Speaker 1:He's like up to Andre the Giant's knee, not while rubbing, I mean it.
Speaker 3:Anybody want a penis.
Speaker 1:Nah, nah, as they set out sailing. And then they're sailing into the night and Indigo Montoya sees the boat and it's just like there's somebody following us. What here he looks and goes. Maybe it's just a local fisherman out for a pleasure cruise at night. He just knows like he shouldn't be out here. As they keep sailing along, then Robin Wright Buttercup just yeets herself off the boat to swim towards them, and then we get to the shrieking eels.
Speaker 3:You know it's like they don't actually I know you're concerned.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:The cutbacks are perfectly tied. It's like Peter Fox talking to Fred Savage he goes like she's fine, like nothing, she doesn't get killed.
Speaker 2:He's like. You can see the kid Like he's holding the blanket yeah.
Speaker 1:He's like what he's like? No, you can keep reading and then he starts reading and he's like, you already read that part, oh, he's like. He's like my, my, beg, your pardon, beg your apology, my bad, okay, okay, and then the eel comes up, it's like and you see, after the giant giant hand go bam and the eel, just like that thing died or it has a concussion, a severe concussion and the yeeter out of the boat and they keep sailing and I love how Inigo Montoya looks as he's going.
Speaker 1:He's like you think he's using the same wind we are, inigo that's why you're not in charge here as they go, and this is like he's gaining on us and it's like it doesn't matter See the cliffs of us and it's like it doesn't matter, see the cliffs of insanity, italy.
Speaker 2:And it's like duh. I like how their whole philosophy is to let Andre carry all three of them up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they have like a vest with harnesses to put people in and he's just like this was obviously planning, because they put the rope there prior.
Speaker 2:Right, but my whole thing is you're going to trust your life to carry this man, to carry all three of you up the side of this.
Speaker 1:I still wonder how they filmed it.
Speaker 3:It was probably a horizontal set and they probably had something to kind of push them along a little bit like. Spider-man, you know kind of thing.
Speaker 2:So I do like how Cindy's, like he's catching us. What do I even pay you for and he's like I'm carrying three. It's like he's only going to carry himself.
Speaker 1:You were this colossus, you were this great, legendary thing. Cut the rope and I love how he goes to cut it. And Andre the Giant hasn't even made it up yet. Yeah, like they're going to leave him. But you know, the man in black arrives, grabs onto the rope and just goes as he starts catching up and gaining and he goes like he's climbing.
Speaker 3:He's gaining on us Inconceivable.
Speaker 1:So then they cut the rope and you watch it go off the cliff edge, and then he looks and goes off the cliff edge. And then he looks and goes huh, he's still climbing. He didn't fall Inconceivable. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means I love that line. And then Vassini's like we're taking the princess. It's like we're going straight to the Gilder frontier, it's like. It's like if he falls great, if not the sword he goes. I'm going to do them left-handed.
Speaker 3:He's like. You know what a hurry we're in.
Speaker 1:He's like if I do it, my right would be over too quickly. I won't get any satisfaction.
Speaker 2:Have it your way. And he goes like hey, can you hurry it up a bit?
Speaker 1:He's like well, Unless you have some rope or a branch.
Speaker 2:He's like I'd offer you a rope out of my. I feel like you would not take it as my wood is a Spaniard.
Speaker 1:No good, I've known too many Spaniards.
Speaker 2:The bad part is.
Speaker 1:He goes like yeah, he's like you just have to wait. He's like I hate waiting. He's like, after all, I'm only waiting up here to kill you. He's like that really does put a dampener on our relationship. The dialogue is just so good. He's like throw me the rope, yeah, on the soul of my father. If somebody said that to you, you'd be like all right, toss it. All right, toss it. He climbs up and Wesley goes to draw the sword and he's just like nah, when you're ready, Catch your breath. And he's like thank you, always start conversations this way.
Speaker 1:And he's like my father was slaughtered by a man with six fingers on his right hand and he just holds up his hand. He's like five, and he's like okay, and he tells him he literally takes his sword out, hands it to the guy he just said I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm waiting here to kill you. And he just looks and he hands it back to him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's just in there examining the hill and stuff.
Speaker 1:He just turns around and stab him when you watch, Wesley draws second. So when Indigo takes his sword out, which is set for him to be truly right-handed, and he switches into his left hand, you see Wesley switch to his left hand.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, Like, okay, Like, I see the game you're playing Spaniard.
Speaker 1:And then they have the great duel.
Speaker 3:Yeah, an amazing sword duel. You know, even to this day. Yeah, it's fencing, which is kind of like ha all right, you know a little goofy but, like you know as far as like real sword play, it's one of the best, and those actors you know weeks and weeks of training.
Speaker 1:And practicing when they weren't doing that, because I think they learned each other's choreography to the second, so they were never going to be out of place. Nobody got hurt. All the fencing, you see, is them yeah it's really well done.
Speaker 3:And then, of course, wesley defeats as they're dueling.
Speaker 1:He's just like indigo's just like. He's like I must admit, he's like you're better than I am. He's like then why are you smiling? And he's like because there's something I know that you don't know. And he's like what's that? He goes I'm not left-handed as he switches, like mid-swing, and he's like. It's like oh, I don't know what watching going. Oh no, he's right-handed, like that was such a big deal. And then they fight up the little steps and wesley's just like you know.
Speaker 1:He's like there's something I should tell you, he's like tell me he's like I'm not left-handed either and like he like shoves him off in the music's like, like he's a superhero and he just like launches the sword out. Every time he does it the music stops. Yeah, like he swipes it out of his hand and backflips over a rock and looks up and catches it and as soon as he catches it, the music cues back in. It has no business being that funny.
Speaker 3:It's almost like slapstick, but I don't know the way that they put the beat to the music and how extra the actors are, but like intentionally, so it's funny. And even as a kid, there was no real fear of death. You just kind of like were enjoying the moment as they were as well.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, it's really well done. It's the most respect-laden fight, because after he like disarms indigo and he's like kill me quickly. And he's like I would rather destroy a stained-glass window than an artist like yourself, but since I can't have you following me either, and he's like please understand, I hold you in the highest respect.
Speaker 2:And he's like please understand.
Speaker 1:I hold you in the highest respect and he just grabs his stuff and takes off running while the music goes.
Speaker 2:That's kind of like the. With all due respect, I can say whatever I want, as long as I say that. I hold you in the highest respect and then knock him out.
Speaker 1:Like the Italian eraser phrase. I don't mean that in a bad way. And then he cuts the Vicini, buttercup and Fezzik and they see it's like he's still following us. And it's just like you know. It's like alright, now it's your turn to Andre the Giant, and he's like kill him. He's like your way and he's like my way. He's like what's my way? He's like pick up one of the rocks, go behind the boulder. When he comes around and his head's in view, hit it with the rock.
Speaker 2:To me that doesn't seem like that would be his way, though.
Speaker 1:He's like I'm always not very sportsmanlike. And then you get the most unintentional jump scare out of this whole movie where Wesley comes around the corner and kind of senses danger and then BAM, the rock explodes right in his face Like a bowling ball and he's like I missed on purpose. I could have killed you if I wanted to. He's like I believe you.
Speaker 2:I mean, I would have thought his way would have been like picking up a big rock and dropping it on top of him.
Speaker 3:No, his way was.
Speaker 1:Like throwing it, like Randy Johnson.
Speaker 3:His way was a battle of strength, right, that's all they agreed. No sword, skill against skill. That's God intended. I'm just saying I would have predicted this.
Speaker 1:I feel like You're at an advantage, he goes. I could kill you now.
Speaker 2:He's like, all right, all right, we'll have it your way.
Speaker 1:You've convinced me why are you wearing a mask as he's trying to punch him in the face? He's like were you burned by acid or something.
Speaker 2:He was so specific, just a very nonconventional conversation he's going along as he fights Fezzik.
Speaker 1:He manages to get behind him because of his speed and choke holds him out until he falls. But the whole time Andre the Giant's talking, they're having a conversation and it's just like have you ever fought one-on-one? I was like what's the most? He's like you use different set of moves when you're fighting 10 guys at once versus only one. And he flips over Andre the Giant onto his back and he's still breathing. He Over Andre the Giant onto his back and he's like, still breathing. He's like I don't envy the headache you're going to have when you wake up, but in the meantime, rest well and dream a large woman. And then, as he takes off, running again, Run up the hill yeah.
Speaker 1:And then I think, that's where we get the cut in, where Humpadink and his posse get to where he dueled. Inigo yeah, and he's like same spots following their footprints.
Speaker 2:He actually knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1:And they're all just like you tell us what happened and he's like it was a great duel. It's like the winner went this way, the loser went that way. It's like the winner went towards Gilder and then they take off in pursuit. So now you know they're. They're being hunted as well. Uh, wesley is, as he meets vicini for the battle of wits. I love how he's being chased when, like with the princess, and he has time to set up a table like a rock with a tablecloth bread, cheese, apples, wine.
Speaker 1:He, like you, just had this for this moment.
Speaker 2:Well, I like how his whole battle of wits comes down to. Will I drink this cup or that cup? It's a 50-50 chance.
Speaker 1:Yeah, clearly I can't choose the wine in front of you. So they meet and that's where we go to the battle of wits. And he's like pour the wine and he sits down and he takes out a cap and he's just like inhale but don't touch, and he takes it and goes like to powder, like that's you know.
Speaker 3:I don't smell anything.
Speaker 1:He's like. Of course you don't. What you don't smell is Iocane powder Odorless, colorless, tasteless, Dissolves instantly in liquid and is one of the more deadly poisons.
Speaker 2:It took a while to explain to my little girl that both cups were poisoned. She was like but he's the only one that died. I said I understand that. What I'm trying to tell you is he's immune. What's immune mean it can't hurt him. Why not? Because he's immune.
Speaker 3:I don't know the way to say immune. I do remember being tripped up by that scene at the end. Both of them were poisoned. I think my parents just brought it off as like he's the good guy, he's going to win, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:So they said they have this awesome back and forth.
Speaker 3:Never got in a land war with Asia. What does he say?
Speaker 1:Well, because at first it starts with you know, he's like I have to choose what, I have to decide what I know about you. Are you the kind of person to put the poison in front of you or as far away in my cup? And he's like you know you've. You've bested my spaniards means you've studied, and studying you have learned that man is mortal he's like, you've also beat my giant, which means you're very strong, and you might be relying on your strength to get you none of this makes any sense no, and he's like surely.
Speaker 1:He's like you must have a dizzying intellect, yeah, and he's like he not even close. He's like what on earth could that be? And he like points off. And Wesley's like what?
Speaker 2:Where, as he just like switches, the cups? I can't remember. Does he actually even switch them or does he just pretend like he's going to? No, he switches them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this end he switches the cups. Oh wait, that's when Wesley puts them down and then he sets them back down and then I mean the great line. It's like you know, you're that smart. And he's like have you heard of Socrates, plato, aristotle? Yes, morons, the great trivia answer from Hayden. When I said those words and Hayden just was like slapped the buzzer and was like morons, yes, woo, give me my point. And then he's like. He's like what's so funny? He goes, I'll tell you in a minute. First let's drink. He's like you fool.
Speaker 1:He starts yelling at him. Wesley's just smirking at him the entire time. Yeah, he's like you chose wrong which didn't matter, Right, which cup he drank out, if he still drank out of the cup. And he's just like you fell for one of the greatest blunders. The first and most well-known is never going to a land war in Asia. But the second and slightly less well-known is this Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
Speaker 2:He's like ah.
Speaker 1:And he's like ah.
Speaker 2:So let me ask you what is a land war with China, and how? Would that not be a good thing to do?
Speaker 3:Well, china is mostly like a landlocked nation and they have giant borders With huge mountains.
Speaker 2:But, how much of that is really patrolled. As far as you know, as you get further and further west, we're getting sidetracked man. I'm just saying you know patrolled. As far as you know, as you get further and further west we're getting sidetracked man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm just saying you know, they're notoriously you know, in the medieval and earlier ages, you know winning their wars.
Speaker 1:Okay, so Wesley frees Buttercup and she deduces he is the Dread Pirate Roberts, who does not leave survivors and had killed Wesley.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:And they have a monologue where he talks about Wesley or himself, and then he's getting angry with her because she's not.
Speaker 2:He's judging whether she still loves him or not.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And then she says something and just shoves him off the cliff as you wish she's like Wesley and she just trips and rolls down there after that was like one of the most infamous forms of what's called wigging.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh yeah, because you could tell it's a dude you see his beard and like his blonde, like Barbie wig just flailing, you know you watch it to this day and you're just like God, I'm so bad. His beady arms as he's rolling down the hill.
Speaker 1:And then it cuts to Humperdinck and his posse and it's just like, oh, they disappeared. It's like they must know we're following them Like they ran. It's just like no, she shoved them down a mountain and she just tripped herself down the mountain, oof.
Speaker 2:Ah, ah.
Speaker 1:Ah, ah, oof. And then he's like oh, at the bottom, yeah so, then, it's now revealed that the man in black is wesley, but anybody watching the film and had seen the beginning and saw him wearing the mask knew it was just carrie ells with a mustache, his little thin mustache his little thin mustache yeah so then they talk and then they see prince humperdink on the top, where they were. Then they run into the fire swamp yeah fire swamp.
Speaker 2:I want to know how they got the scene where he, like, dives into the sand for her.
Speaker 3:I read about that. So they wanted to put her in one more fit of mortal danger and they couldn't think of anything creative. And so Cary Elway's Euls or whatever he was the one who was like, throw her into a sand pit, you know a quicksand, and I I'll dive in and get her and just like, engineered that well, how do you, how do they keep the sand?
Speaker 1:like you know, in a makeshift one, I don't know I mean there's probably stuff underneath that you obviously probably couldn't see. There was like breathing stuff, or no, it was.
Speaker 3:They could totally like. It was like a shallow pool like they. They fall in and go flat under the loose sand and they could stand up at any moment.
Speaker 2:I know it wasn't full of sand. I just didn't know how they keep it to where the sand doesn't just keep falling in a hole or something like that.
Speaker 3:It probably wasn't sand, it was probably corn stuff that's super flammable, oh.
Speaker 1:In the fire swamp.
Speaker 3:It was for a movie.
Speaker 1:There wouldn't have been a fire swamp, it just would have been.
Speaker 2:I do like how, when Robin Wright goes in, she's got her dress and stuff and that little burst of fire hits. They said that William Goodman was on set, knew that was supposed to happen and still went. Her dress is on fire. Her dress is on fire and ruined the first take.
Speaker 3:And then he was like oh, yeah, take.
Speaker 2:And then he was like oh, yeah, so they had to re-film that and get her a whole other dress Run on some unusual sizes.
Speaker 3:Never believe him, ah.
Speaker 1:As he's fighting and like the sword gets knocked, and the whole time and this is a part Rachel got mad at is Buttercup is just standing there watching him fight the man in the rat costume. She kind of like pokes him with a stick, but she like picks it up and holds it up like she's going to bring it down on top of him and then she just goes like just poking it in the face.
Speaker 2:What did you want her to do?
Speaker 1:She's a girl, yeah, and she's like because he's coming at her after he's getting his arm bitten in his chest and he's just like he's about to get the sword and he's like I've got to grab the rat's tail now because of you.
Speaker 3:I love it when he stabs the rat. It goes argh, argh like a dog.
Speaker 1:The goofiest one. And then they escape the fire swamp To run into Humperdinck, humperdinck, humperdinck.
Speaker 3:And his posse. One of the, the captain of the guard, is the six-fingered man, yeah, count Rugen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he sees his hand and he's After, like they Humperdinck takes Buttercup it's like, oh, we're going to take Wesley to his ship and send him on his way, because, like, whatever she says and it was- like what.
Speaker 2:She completely betrayed him there. He was fully well-intending to get out of this.
Speaker 1:And I love how Wesley's just staying there getting like tied up because he knows like yeah, he's like you guys aren't those kinds of people. And he just sees Count Rukus and he goes. Hmm, you have six fingers on your right hand and he's like a man was looking for you and he takes that sword and he goes and clenched actually gave him a concussion.
Speaker 3:I think he had to get stitches, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bust him open like, stop the shoot for a couple of days.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because he, like pommel, struck him.
Speaker 2:Jeez, but supposedly the Carrie Ewells told him to actually hit him.
Speaker 3:Yeah he did.
Speaker 2:Because he wanted that, you know to look real.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, he did, he got it. So now Buttercup threatens to commit suicide because she doesn't want to marry Humperdinck, she wants to marry Wesley.
Speaker 2:God forbid she be rich and live in a castle. She tells the king.
Speaker 3:She's like you know, this is goodbye, or something like that. He's like tonight will be the last night I'll take my life before the morning.
Speaker 1:That's nice, dear. She kissed me. That's later, that's later. So Wesley is taken to the pit of despair, the pit of despair.
Speaker 3:He's got a very novel voice after he coughs.
Speaker 1:You know he has like the whole the machine I think it's just what they call it and he's like suction cups have been around for this, but instead of sucking water, I'm sucking life.
Speaker 3:As a kid I was like what?
Speaker 1:And he's like now remember, this is for posterity, so please be honest, how did that make you feel? And he's like interesting, so they go through the whole plan of having. Then you realize Humperdinck is planned to have Buttercup kidnapped and killed anyway, and now he's just going to have to strangle her on the wedding night and frame Gilder for it so he can go to war with Gilder.
Speaker 3:No, no, I'm just going to have to strangle her. I mean, why not just go to war with Gilder? You're about to be king. He wanted to have the people's backing behind it. That's why he got Buttercup.
Speaker 2:I'm sure there's better ways you can find that.
Speaker 3:It's in the. I didn't see it there, but he got Buttercup because she was one of the people and they all loved her and then he was going to make Gilder look like the enemy by having her killed by their hand.
Speaker 2:They have the current king killed because he wants to be king anyways.
Speaker 1:No, but he wants to go to war with Gilder.
Speaker 2:Yeah, to make it look like.
Speaker 1:Gilder killed the current king, whatever.
Speaker 2:Then he gets king and they want to kill him.
Speaker 1:Humperdinck has his number three guy, not his number two guy, that's Count Ruger, the six-fingered man.
Speaker 3:The number three guy, the red-headed guy with the gray cape show up the gate key.
Speaker 1:Yeah the gate key guy and tells him he's like killers from Kildare and he's like my spies have heard nothing and he goes. He's like we don't have nobody.
Speaker 2:He's like form a brute squad.
Speaker 1:I never knew what a brute squad was. It's like just find the biggest disgusting looking people you could find. It was a response team.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was a response team.
Speaker 1:It was the goons. Assemble the goons, so then they join. And that's where you find out that Indigo was just drunk and he's like there's a Spaniard giving us trouble. He's like then you give him some trouble.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And he's like move. He's like all right, we're done with the scene, I'm leaving and he goes and he's like you help. And then it's Andre the Giant.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And he sees the giant hand and the guard comes up to like wee. It's like oh, Andre, you killed another extra.
Speaker 3:You got to stop doing that, andre, it was for the craft.
Speaker 2:I like that when Fezzik's trying to wake him up, dunking his head in hot and then cold water. He's like that's enough Attempt to drown the man by water.
Speaker 1:He's like we need the man in black. He's like we need the man in black. It's like you know, because he's like there's 30 guards, he goes. How many guys could you take? He goes. He's like I never fight more than 10.
Speaker 3:And he's like he's like that leaves 20.
Speaker 1:He goes not even at my best could I take that many he's like.
Speaker 2:I have no gift for strategy.
Speaker 1:I don't have Vassini's brain. He's yeah, it's like we need the man in black. It's like it's like the man in black is dead and it's like it's like, no, he's like, don't trifle me with nonsense. It's like as they leave to go find Wesley. And then that's when Humperdinck finds out Cause, after Robin Wright or the buttercups, like I'm just going to kill myself, yeah, and he locks her in a room and then he runs down the castle hallway and then he's running down the steps in the next cut in the pit of despair, giving Wesley the business, and then he grabs the lever and just yeets it to the, not to 50.
Speaker 2:Don't even say much, he just runs in and throws it up.
Speaker 1:And on screen even Robin Wright. Her character's just like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, everyone, everyone just starts looking around.
Speaker 3:Huh.
Speaker 1:The man of ultimate despair, the sound of ultimate suffering.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Peter Falk says that it was a sound that was heard for miles or something like that.
Speaker 1:And then Inigo knows, he's like, because that's the sound I made when the six-finger man murdered my father. And as they go and then they find the albino guy and he's just like you work for Count Riggid, the Pit of Despair. She's like where is he? He's just staring at him. He's like jog his memory. He just thumps him on the head, he just stares, I jogged it too hard.
Speaker 1:I jogged him too hard and he does the whole praying thing with the sword and he just stops right into a tree and he's like ugh defeated, and he just rests on the notch in opposite.
Speaker 1:He's like and then they're like, listening to in to wesley, it's like he's dead. It's like we need to find a miracle worker, miracle max. And then they find miracle max. He's like banging on the door and he's just like aren't you the guy who used to work for hump? And think it's like thanks for rubbing salt in all wounds. What's next?
Speaker 1:you're gonna give me a paper cut and squeeze lemon juice in it and it's like now get out of here before I call the Brute Squad and Andre's like I'm on the Brute Squad, you are the Brute Squad.
Speaker 2:Because that's when he first noticed this giant man standing there.
Speaker 1:Who just probably just would have shoved the door open. And he's like you know it's a noble cause. It's like his wife is going to do this. It's like his children first lie was better. It's like it's for a noble cause. It's just like ah, he's like I never worked for so little. It's like except one time that was a noble cause. Oh, this is noble and like they do like the thing. It's like true love.
Speaker 1:To blame, to blame. And then here comes his wife, liar, and he's like get back, witch. I'm not a witch, I'm your wife, as he's chasing going I'm not listening so they take the job, they make the pill, because indigo was only mostly dead. The chocolate makes it make sure you wait 15 minutes for full potency and he shouldn't go swimming for an hour, at least an hour after he eats like making it up as they go it's like bye, bye, boys, have fun storming the castle.
Speaker 1:You're taking a whack, it'll take a miracle bye. So then they wait, and they have no clue if it's been 15 minutes or not why do they not give him the pill until they get to the castle? They do. They're at the top of the yeah but, they're looking at the front gate Cause that's guarded by 60 men, not 30.
Speaker 2:But while you're there, why didn't you give it to him there and then carry him there while it's? You know?
Speaker 3:coming to start to work. I don't know, I didn't write it, mitch, so they give him the pill and it's like how long do you think it'll take?
Speaker 1:He wakes up and goes. He's like I'll rip you off the bar, I'll take you single-handedly. And he's like why can't I move my arms? He's like well, you've been mostly dead all day. And wherever they're saying it, he's like tapping his finger. He's like you're already tapping your finger. Doesn't that make you happy, you? He's like what's going on? And he's like let me explain now. Wait, there's too much. Let me sum up. And he gives him the rundown that buttercup's gonna marry humperdink in like 30 minutes. And he's like what are our assets? It's like my steel, his strength, your brain.
Speaker 1:He goes, can't be done yeah he's like if we had like a cloak or a wheelbarrow, it's like that'd be something. It's like, oh, we got the wheelbarrows and he's like miracle max gave me this because it fits so good and he goes. Now we got something why didn't you list those? With our assets.
Speaker 2:He's like hey, you moved your head.
Speaker 1:He rocks, his head when he's talking, and he grabs Carrie L's head and he shakes it up and down. Yes, so they cultivate their plan and at the time of the wedding, all the guards are outside and they're starting the wedding. And it's Peter Cook, legendary British satirist, married, billed as the impressive clergyman. Marriage is what brings us together today.
Speaker 2:Love, true love together today and love through love for us, matt and wife.
Speaker 1:Matt and wife, do you have the wing, the wing, proto. And as you hear, the commotion outside, and then Andre, the Giant Indigo, is carrying Wesley on his back while wheelbarrowing Fezzik, who has his cloak on, and he's like do I light it? He goes, wait. And he's like the Dread Pirate Roberts. He's no survivor. As everybody starts running, he's like light the candle, yeah, and he goes like trying to he's like, light him and he's like, and they just light.
Speaker 3:Andre, the Giant on fire, and he's like I've come for your soul.
Speaker 1:Everybody runs except for the gate key guy. And then he flips off the thing. He's like Fezzik the portcullis the gates are coming down, he just grabs it and goes and he eats it back up and it's like give us the key. He's like I have no gate key and he's like rip his arms off.
Speaker 1:He's like oh, this gate key and they make their way into the castle. Count Rugen and four minions depart to go investigate the troubles. As they're making their way through the castle man and wife, they run into the four and Count Rugen's like he's like kill the giant and the Spaniard he's like leave the dark one for questioning.
Speaker 1:And they all run, and the most haphazard looking guards, because they're like running at indigo who just takes all four of them like in, it's like, he's like he like takes the guy out behind him without even looking he's just like you know, you know, spears him through the chest yeah and then he does. You know, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die, and then Count Rookin runs, he's like, and he starts chasing after him and he goes and locks the door and Inigo's just crashing into it. Fazzack, fazzack, and he takes Wesley, puts him in statue of armor and goes.
Speaker 2:And he's just hanging there.
Speaker 1:And he goes running and smacking himself into the door. He just puts his arm out and stops him and he's like and knocks the door down. He just gestures like hey here you go. And he's like thank you, fezzik and he takes off running and then Fezzik goes back to where Wesley was and there's just the dead guards.
Speaker 3:he's like looking around like, did the john travolta like?
Speaker 1:in pulp fishing. Like where did he go? I don't know what happened here. So that's what happens. And then you find out, because humperdink, yeah, takes buttercup back to the suite. And then that's where she finds wesley. They're making out and he's like jolly, he just drops his head and then they're talking. It's like what about humperdink? And, like you know, humperdink walks his head and then they're talking. It's like what about Humperdinck? Humperdinck walks into the room and Wesley gives him this monologue he's going to cut off his feet, his hands.
Speaker 3:To the pain he's like I'm not familiar with that phrase.
Speaker 1:Basically mutilate him. Accept his ears so everybody could hear him.
Speaker 3:So he could hear every screaming kid. We saved the ears. So, every kid can go. Oh my God, what is that disgusting thing? You'll know the sound of babes as they weep when they gaze upon your hideous face.
Speaker 2:I like him, he's bluffing.
Speaker 3:He's bluffing.
Speaker 1:And then he's like maybe I am, or maybe I do have the strength, and then he stands up and it's like, you know, the music's like all impressive and he's like drop your sword. And he's like derp, yeah, like. And he's like tie him up. And then that's when Inigo well, we cut back to Inigo as he's running through and real quick before you get to that.
Speaker 2:I like how you know Wesley's just like sitting there and he's not moving at all and then Inigo's about to take on Count Rugen.
Speaker 1:You see him pull the dagger out of his boot and he runs and waits for Inigo and he cheap shots him, he 360 knifes him, throwing knives him in the gut and he's like and then the Humperdinck-Wesley exchange happens. And then it cuts back to Inigo Because everybody's like Inigo no, and he's like this is a lot of blood, like he's stabbed in the stomach, and he pulls out the dagger and stands up and like drops and gets back up and Count Rugen's like taunting him, yeah, and he like stabs him like through like the shoulder or like the top of his chest.
Speaker 3:Like deflects it weirdly with his yeah.
Speaker 1:As he hand like ones in the arm, but he doesn't really react to it. And then he goes to stab him again and he's like, and he's like moving twice as fast, and he starts taking him out while saying it to him and he gives him the same wounds he gave him as he's fighting.
Speaker 3:Stop saying that. And he gives him the same cuts up the cheek and this is quoting.
Speaker 1:Please. And then he goes to give him the coup de gras and uh, wesley catches the sword and stabs him in the gut and gives him the great line nigo gives catches the sword. That's what I said you said wesley, oh, you know who I meant. No, you're talking about tom, and I go catch the sword, stabs, count rugen in the gut and he's like I want my father back you, son of a well, I remember like it's like oh man, that was so tremendous, and he takes out the sword and Count Rugen's dead.
Speaker 1:And then he meets up with everybody and they're like they got Humperdinck tied up. And then you hear Andre the Giant, because he found four horses and it's like you did a good thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I found these in the stables.
Speaker 1:In case we found the lady.
Speaker 3:Hey, lady yeah but like Wesley, wesley stands up and he's like struggling, he's like kind of like on the bed.
Speaker 1:He's like, I knew it. I knew he was bluffing. I knew he was bluffing. Somebody points the sword at him. He's like I was bluffing, so Robin Wright falls out the window.
Speaker 1:It's like eh, with like the angelic great graceful kick caught by Andre the Giant, and Endigo and Wesley are standing there. He's like what are you going to do now? And he's just like I've been doing revenge for 20 years. He goes I don't know what I'm going to do now. And he's like have you ever considered piracy? He's like you'd make a great Dread Pirate Roberts.
Speaker 1:And he just throws himself out the window and then he goes like huh, I'm a pirate. And then he goes out and then they take off riding and then it cuts back to Grandpa and Fred Savage and he's just like ah, it's just more kissing and he's like you could, you can read a grandpa, he's like you know, in the history of the world there's been three
Speaker 2:five. You know, kisses yeah they're like.
Speaker 1:You know that were like this, like important goes, this one left them all behind yeah, and then the movie. You know he finishes with the book and peter falk is like I think it's time for you to go to bed and he's getting ready to leave and he's's like maybe you can come by tomorrow, grandpa, and read it to me again. And he just turns to the list and goes as you wish Ah, Ah and scene and movie.
Speaker 3:Best Solid ending Mm-hmm Solid movie.
Speaker 2:It won like seven awards too. It did.
Speaker 3:It did.
Speaker 2:See Best Fantasy Film and Best Costumes at the Saturn Awards. To the Saturn Awards, Truly Moving Picture Award at the Heartland Film Festival. National Film Preservation Board is in the National Film Registry since 2016.
Speaker 1:As well as should be.
Speaker 2:Toronto International Film Festival for People's Choice Award, young Artist Award for Best Young Actor in a Motion Picture for a Drama, which is Fred Savage, and then the Hugo Awards for Best Dramatic Presentation by Rob Reiner and William Goldman.
Speaker 3:Well, if and then the Hugo Awards for Best Dramatic Presentation by Rob Reiner and William Goldman. Well, if that was like the only movie I got to be a part of.
Speaker 2:I could die happily.
Speaker 3:I'd be happy, I'd be happy.
Speaker 1:This is always going to be a 10 out of 10 movie to me, because this has everything you want. It's always funny.
Speaker 2:Everyone but these stupid people that rated it an award, except those.
Speaker 3:Philistines those morons? Yeah, they're taking crap out Socrates, plato, morons.
Speaker 1:But speaking of morons, Okay. We got a little bit of trivia.
Speaker 3:No, no, is it about this movie?
Speaker 1:It's not about the Princess Bride. Okay, welcome to the most on-screen deaths. Hmm, I am going to read to you a select number of films or television shows and you're going to tell me the actor Okay, this is a. I can go quick, now I can trim it. Well, some of these are going to go pretty fast.
Speaker 2:Actually, let's do, let's do these. On our other part, we'll use this stuff.
Speaker 3:Oh, you edit this. Yeah, all right, all right. Well, are you inconceivable?
Speaker 1:Inconceivable.
Speaker 3:Wow, that was a great episode. Good job, tom.
Speaker 1:Which I mean the Princess Bride. We can always. We love talking about this movie. It's just such a fun movie and it doesn't matter how old you are. Kids love it. Adults our age, you know, we're in our 30s now. My parents? They still think it's a great movie. So what?
Speaker 3:would you rate it 1 out of 10. 10. You already said 10 out of 10. This is a 10 out of 10 movie. It transcends the ages. I feel comfortable calling it a 10 out of 10 movie when you're going to have everybody from every age group watch it. And I'll agree that it's a good movie. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'd say that 10 out of 10. It's one of the probably one of the probably one of the top 10 movies ever made. That, just like when we did, you were still deployed what we do like the top 10 watching movies of all time. I think we called this number one, or I called it my number one.
Speaker 2:It was in yeah, it was on our list.
Speaker 1:I mean you had it like number two or three. Yeah, because it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3:You see it?
Speaker 2:It's just, it's like if it's on TV back when Caleb was a thing cause you always hope to get the fencing scene when I first watched this movie, that's the first scene I saw was the fire force and I saw the giant rats and I saw them fighting and I was like, what is this?
Speaker 1:that's the first scene I remember seeing in this movie yeah great movie, but sadly we've come to the end of this episode inconceivable All right?
Speaker 3:Well, thanks for listening, and I'm trying to work in a line Inconceivable.
Speaker 1:Anyways, you couldn't come up with a line Inconceivable. Do you want us to leave you where we found you, hayden, unemployed in Greenland?
Speaker 2:If you like this, give us a five star, Give us some reviews, comments. I will Mitch.
Speaker 1:As you wish I knew you were trying Arnold Schwarzenegger. As you wish, I'm from Florida and I'm here to save John Connor. I mean Wesley and Buttercup.
Speaker 3:That's it from me, Hayden.
Speaker 1:That's it for me, tom hey Mitch. We'll see you on the next one. Guilter sucks, guilter sucks, guilter sucks. Take it slow.
