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The Princess Bride has so many gems. My favorite line changes almost daily.
Today it's:
quote: Vizzini: OH! THE SOT HAS SPOKEN! WHAT HAPPENS TO HER IS NOT TRULY YOUR CONCERN. I WILL KILL HER, AND REMEMBER THIS, NEVER FORGET THIS: WHEN I FOUND YOU, YOU WERE SO SLOBBERING DRUNK, YOU COULDN'T BUY BRANDY! AND YOU! FRIENDLESS, BRAINLESS, HELPLESS, HOPELESS! DO YOU WANT ME TO SEND YOU BACK TO WHERE YOU WERE, UNEMPLOYED, IN GREENLAND!!!
"True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops."--Miracle Max
In the movie they change cough drops to BMT, but I like the cough drops line better. Maybe because I had a cold when I read it, and I think I'm getting a cold now.
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Sorry to hear that. Maybe mine is because I'm currently on the rolls, like Fezzig in Greenland.
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*really wants to watch Princess Bride now, after seeing it in the Pirates thread and this new thread*
I'm terrible at remembering lines, but I LOVE that movie. I watched it weekly during college although I haven't seen it in almost a year now! *runs to get the dvd*
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My fave line has to be "wove, twue wove is what bwings us togethewr today" that translates to "love true love is what brings us together today" It always makes me laugh! Then again...there is " my name is inigo montoya you killed my father prepare to die" (and all it s repetitions)
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The whole script is marvelous. Here are two of my favorites:
quote: When I was strong enough, I dedicated my life to the study of fencing -- so the next time we meet, I will not fail. I will go up to the six-fingered man and say, "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
quote: Humperdinck: Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it. I'm swamped!
Count Rugen: Get some rest. If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything.
quote: When I was strong enough, I dedicated my life to the study of fencing -- so the next time we meet, I will not fail. I will go up to the six-fingered man and say, "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
The best thing about this line is the delivery.
I can't think of a favorite line, but my favorite scene is the swordfight between Inigo and Westley, and the dialogue that comes before it.
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"Jou seem a nice enough fellow--I hate to kill you." "You seem like a nice fellow, I hate to die." Posts: 2506 | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote: You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!!
quote:This is True Love. You think this happens every day?
Inigo: You keep using that word -- I do not think it means what you think it means.
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quote:Westley: I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurts. No problem. There's a popping sound preceding each, we can avoid that. Two, the Lightning Sand. But you were clever enough to discover what that looks like, so in the future we can avoid that too.
Buttercup: But Westley, what about the R.O.U.S.'s?
Westley: Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist...
And, of course, one comes flying from offscreen right when he says that =)
"You are the dread Pirate Roberts and you take no prisoners." "I can't afford to let people go. Once word out that you've gone soft they stop listening to you and then it's nothing but work, work, work."
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You guys are lucky that Diosmel is out of town. She would just quote the entire movie. Seriously.
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"Cows. We are all of us here passionately interested in the subject of cows. We are practically reaching the point of frenzy, such is our curiosity."
(and I didn't even have to look it up. )
Favorite line from the movie (well, one of them) is the part just before Westley says "Drop your sword."
quote: It's possible, pig. I might be bluffing. It's conceivable, you miserable vomitous mass, I'm only lying here because I lack the strength to stand. Then again, perhaps I have the strength after all.
I LOVE the entire rhyming conversation, there, but that last part always makes me giggle. I lvoed the movie, haven't read the book, but I assume it's also amazing. I had to read the script, for old times' sake. Thank you, for linking that!
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Here's one of my favorite bits. This old lady cracks me up.
quote: Ancient Booer: Boo! Boo! Boo! [The Booer moves to the front of the crowd]
Buttercup: Why do you do this?
Ancient Booer: Because you had love in your hands, and you gave it up.
Buttercup: But they would have killed Westley if I hadn't done it.
Ancient Booer: Your true love lives! And you marry another. True Love saved her in the fire swamp, and she treated it like garbage. And that's what she is, the queen of refuse. So bow down to her if you want, bow to her. Bow to the queen of slime, the queen of filth, the queen of putrescence. Boo! Boo! Rubbish! Filth! Slime! Muck! Boo! Boo! Boo!
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I always liked the inflection that Mandy Patinkin gave the line, "I am waiting for Vizzini"
And it almost makes me cry when he says, "I want my father back, you son of a bitch."
But the last line of the book is somewhat priceless too, if only for the fact that it's so unexpected.
They're on the white horses and then...
quote: However, this was before Inigo's wound reopened; and Wesley relapsed again; and Fezzik took the wrong turn; and Buttercup's horse threw a shoe. And the night behind them was filled with the crescendoing sound of pursuit....
It's all "explained away" in the sequel, Buttercup's Baby, but I dunno if that ever got published except the first chapter...
By the by, I also love the 'perfect breasts' quote.
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Funny how my little brother decided to watch this movie this afternoon...
quote:No one would surrender to the dread pirate Westley.
quote:She is alive, or was an hour ago. If she is otherwise when I find her, I shall be very put out.
quote:Remember, this is for posterity, so please, be honest.
(Rugen to Westley, asking how he feels after being tortured)
quote:Is this a kissing book?
quote:That does put a damper on our relationship.
quote:"Finish him! Finish him! Your way!" "Oh, thank you Vizzini! Which way's my way?" "Pick up one of those rocks, get behind a boulder, and in a few minutes the man in black will come running around the bend. The minute his head is in view, hit it with the rock!" My way's not very sportsman-like."
quote:You mean, I'll put down my sword and you'll put down your rock and we'll both try to kill each other like civilized people?
quote:GENTLY!!
quote:I think I jogged him a little too hard.
quote:My brains, his steel, and your strength against sixty men, and you think a little head jiggle is going to make me happy, hmmm?
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I honestly belived Goldman's story about having a Florinise father...even though there's no such place as Florin.
Westley to Inigo--"You'd make a great Dread Pirate Roberts."
Vizzini--"...never go in against a Sicillian when death is on the line! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHA-(drops dead)"
Westly--"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
Max: Get back witch! wife: I'm not a witch, I'm your wife! But after hearing what you just said, I don't even want to be that anymore! Max: You never had it so good. wife: True love, Max, he said 'true love'! He's afraid, ever since Prince Humperdink fired him... Max: What did you say that name for, I told you never to say that name! wife: what, Humperdink? Max: Aargh! wife: Humperdink! Max: Stop! wife: Humperdink! Hum-per-di-ink, Humperdink Humperdink Humperdink! Max: Noone's listening!
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Ahm The Princess Bride, my uncles is obsessed with that movie. He only recently let his nine year old daughter watch it because he wanted her to be able to somewhat understand it.
Anyway.
quote:"So...You'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword, and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people?"
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that was silly of him Gott. The Princess Bride is my older sister's favorite movie, and I've watched it and quoted it since I was five.
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quote: -You are using Bonetti's Defense against me
-I thought it fitting, considering the rocky terrain
-Naturally, you expect me to attack with Cappa Ferro
-Naturally, but I find that Thibault cancels out Cappa Ferro, don't you?
-Unless the enemy has studied his Agrippa, which I have.
What happened to Rob Reiner? From Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally and Princess Bride to North and Alex & Emma. Such a pity.
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hansenj, I'm with you. For a while, any time anyone in my group of friends said the words "it's possible," someone else followed it up with "...pig."
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All of my favorites have been said already...but here are a couple more.
quote:King: What was that for? Buttercup: Because you've always been so kind to me, and I won't be seeing you again, since I'm killing myself once we reach the honeymoon suite. King: Won't that be nice?
quote:Wrong! Your ears you keep, and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out "Dear God, what is that thing?" will echo in your perfect ears.
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My favorite was always the short and to the point:
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. "
but I forget who said it. A close second was the to the pain speach, I was also surprised not to see it, so I will add it:
Westley: Did you say "I do"?
Buttercup: Uh, no. We sort of skipped that part.
Westley: Then you're not married. If you didn't say it, you didn't do it. Wouldn't you agree, Your Highness?
Humperdinck: A technicality that will shortly be remedied. But first things first. To the death.
Westley: No! To the pain.
Humperdinck: I don't think I'm quite familiar with that phrase.
Westley: I'll explain. And I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog-faced buffoon.
Humperdinck: That may be the first time in my life a man has dared insult me.
Westley: It won't be the last. To the pain means the first thing you will lose will be your feet below the ankles. Then your hands at the wrists, next your nose.
Humperdinck: And then my tongue, I suppose. I killed you too quickly the last time, a mistake I don't mean to duplicate tonight.
Westley: I wasn't finished. The next thing you will lose will be your left eye, followed by your right.
Humperdinck: And then my ears, I understand, let's get on with it.
Westley: Wrong! Your ears you keep, and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, ever woman who cries out "Dear God, what is that thing?" will echo in your perfect ears. That is what "to the pain" means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery for ever.
Humperdinck: I think you're bluffing.
Westley: It's possible, pig. I might be bluffing. It's conceivable, you miserable vomitous mass, I'm only lying here because I lack the strength to stand. Then again, perhaps I have the strength after all. < he stands up >
Drop... your... sword.
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