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Matt Glasby

In this regular feature series on some of the most talked-about films, we examine the legacy of classics, re-evaluate modern blockbusters, and revisit some of the most memorable lines in film. We continue this week with the best quotes from 1987’s The Princess Bride .
1. Buttercup (Robin Wright): “You mock my pain!”
The Man in Black (Cary Elwes): “Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
2. Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin): “You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.”
The Man in Black (Cary Elwes): “You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die.”
3. The Grandson (Fred Savage): “They’re kissing again. Do we have to read the kissing parts?”
4. Vizzini (Wallace Shawn): “He didn’t fall?! Inconceivable!”
Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin): “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
5. Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin): “Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father! Prepare to die!”
6. Buttercup (Robin Wright): “We’ll never survive.”
The Man in Black (Cary Elwes): “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”

7. Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin): “Who are you?”
The Man in Black (Cary Elwes): “No one of consequence.”
Inigo Montoya: “I must know.”
The Man in Black: “Get used to disappointment.”
8. Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin): “I do not mean to pry, but you don’t by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?”
The Man in Black (Cary Elwes): “Do you always begin conversations this way?”

9. The Man in Black (Cary Elwes): [Drinking from a poisoned goblet] “You guessed wrong.”
Vizzini (Wallace Shawn): “You only think I guessed wrong! That’s what’s so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders – the most famous of which 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’! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!” [Dies]
Classic romcom Amelie is adorable, alluring – but an acquired taste
10. The Grandson (Fred Savage): “Grandpa, maybe you could come over and read it again to me tomorrow.”
Grandpa (Peter Falk): “As you wish.”
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Starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright and Mandy Patinkin, The Princess Bride has become a cult classic in the years since its 1987 release
It was even inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2016, being deemed as “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”


Starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright and Mandy Patinkin, The Princess Bride has become a cult classic in the years since its 1987 release and was even inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2016.


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