Inconceivable Facts About The Princess Bride. It's no wonder The Princess Bride is such a beloved film: It's action- packed but still lighthearted, sweet but not saccharine, silly but still smart—and, of course, endlessly quotable. Fortunately, in 2. Cary Elwes, was inspired to write a behind- the- scenes book about the making of the movie in honor of its 2. André the Giant, who played Fezzik, passed away in 1.

Pulling from the impressively detailed text of As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Brideand various interviews Elwes and others have given over the years, we rounded up a series of fun facts and anecdotes sure to delight any fan of the film, which was released 3. IT WAS WRITTEN FOR THE AUTHOR'S DAUGHTERS. William Goldman, who wrote the novel The Princess Bride in 1. Entertainment Weekly that, "I had two little daughters, I think they were 7 and 4 at the time, and I said, 'I’ll write you a story. What do you want it to be about?' One of them said 'a princess' and the other one said 'a bride.' I said, 'That’ll be the title.'"2.

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BOTH THE DIRECTOR AND THE LEADING MAN ALREADY KNEW AND LOVED THE STORY BEFORE FILMING EVEN BEGAN. Cary Elwes's stepfather had given him Goldman's book in 1. Rob Reiner, who directed the movie, first read the book in his 2. Goldman gave it to his father. It quickly became Reiner's favorite book of all time, and he had long wanted to turn it into a movie—but he had no idea that many before him had tried and failed.

FOR A LONG TIME, NO ONE WAS ABLE TO MAKE THE MOVIE. At one point or another, Robert Redford, Norman Jewison, John Boorman, and François Truffaut all tried to get the book made into a movie, but due to a series of unrelated incidents—"green- lighters" getting fired, production houses closing—it languished for years. In one of these proto- Princess Brides, a then- unknown Arnold Schwarzenegger was supposed to play Fezzik.) After several false starts, Goldman bought back the rights to the book. The movie only got made because Reiner had built up so much good will with movies like This is Spinal Tap and The Sure Thing that the studio, 2.

Century Fox, offered to make any project of his choice. MANDY PATINKIN FELT A PERSONAL CONNECTION TO THE CHARACTER OF INIGO MONTOYA."The moment I read the script, I loved the part of Inigo Montoya," Patinkin told. Entertainment Weekly. That character just spoke to me profoundly. I had lost my own father—he died at 5. I didn’t think about it consciously, but I think that there was a part of me that thought, If I get that man in black, my father will come back. I talked to my dad all the time during filming, and it was very healing for me."5.

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ANDRÉ THE GIANT COULD REALLY, REALLY DRINK. Three bottles of cognac and 1. When the cast would go out for dinner, André—who, according to Robin Wright, ordered four appetizers and five entrees—would drink out of a 4. The American."6. ANDRÉ HAD AN UNCONVENTIONAL METHOD FOR LEARNING HIS LINES. Reiner and Goldman met André, then a famous wrestler, at a bar in Paris. I brought him up to the hotel room to audition him. He read this three- page scene, and I couldn’t understand one word he said," Reiner recalled.

I go, ‘Oh my God, what am I going to do? He’s perfect physically for the part, but I can’t understand him!’ So I recorded his entire part on tape, exactly how I wanted him to do it, and he studied the tape. He got pretty good!"7. WILLIAM GOLDMAN WAS INCREDIBLY NERVOUS ON THE SET. Of all the projects he’d written and worked on—which included the Academy Award- winning Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid—Goldman loved The Princess Bride best of all. This manifested itself as extreme nervousness about the project.

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Reiner invited Goldman to be on set for the duration of the filming—which Goldman did not want to do, saying, “I don’t like being on set. If you’re a screenwriter, it’s boring”—but on the first day, he proved to be a slight nuisance. Watch We`Re Back! A Dinosaur`S Story Online Free HD.

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The first couple takes were plagued by a barely- audible chanting, which turned out to be Goldman praying things would go well. And when Wright's character's dress caught on fire, he panicked, yelling, "Oh my god! Her dress is on fire!"—even though Goldman himself had written that into the script. WALLACE SHAWN WAS BRILLIANT, BUT ALWAYS ON EDGE.

Shawn, who played Vizzini the Sicilian, really is, like his character, a man of "dizzying intellect." He has a history degree from Harvard and studied philosophy and economics at Oxford. In fact, on a day off from filming The Princess Bride, Shawn went to Oxford to give a guest lecture on British and American literature. Watch Sleepy Hollow IMDB. But Shawn was inconsolably nervous for the entirety of filming. After learning from his agent that Reiner had originally wanted Danny De. Vito for the part, Shawn was wracked with insecurity, perpetually convinced that he was going to be fired after every bad take. Danny is inimitable," Shawn said. Each scene we did, I pictured how he would have done it and I knew I could never possibly have done it the way he could have done it."9.

THE DUEL BETWEEN WESTLEY AND INIGO WAS EXCRUCIATINGLY RESEARCHED AND REHEARSED. Goldman spent months researching 1. Westley and Inigo's duel; all the references the characters make to specific moves and styles are completely accurate. Then Elwes and Patinkin, neither of whom had much (if any) fencing experience, spent more months training to perfect it—right- and left- handed."I knew that my job was to become the world’s greatest sword fighter," Patinkin recalled in Elwes's book. I trained for about two months in New York and then we went to London and Cary and I trained every day that we weren’t shooting for four months.

There were no stuntmen involved in any of the sword fights, except for one flip in the air.” Even after months of pre- shooting training, the fencing instructors came to set and, when there were a few free minutes, would pull Elwes and Patinkin aside to work on the choreography for the scene, which was intentionally one of the last to be shot. IT WAS ELWES'S IDEA TO DIVE HEADFIRST INTO THE "QUICKSAND."That particular Fire Swamp stunt was accomplished by having a trap door underneath a layer of sand, below which there was foam padding for the actors to fall onto. Originally, the direction called for Westley to jump in feet- first after Buttercup, but Elwes argued this wasn't particularly heroic. Switching up the direction was a risky move—if the trap door wasn't opened at exactly the right instant, Elwes risked banging his head—or even breaking his neck.