True Love: The Princess Bride Phenomenon (2012) - Reiner, Elwes, and Wright on the film
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2020
- A conversation with Rob Reiner, Cary Elwes, and Robin Wright about the making of the 1987 film The Princess Bride. Video from the Criterion Blu-Ray
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While Rob was absolutely right about Wright, Carey and Andre being perfect for their roles, only one word comes to mind when I think of anyone else playing Wallace Shawn's part.
As a PB fan, this comment deserves 10 thumbs up 😂
Transwoman!
No wait… not quite right.
Oh I know. Inconceivable!
What a sweet, gentle, romantic & funny film. It's one of my 5 "drop what you're doing & watch it again" films. And I agree with what Carey Elwes wrote in a tweet, when the idea of remaking the film was being floated around: "There’s a shortage of perfect movies in this world. It would be a pity to damage this one.”
What are the other 4?
Serendipity.
About Time.
Clue!
@@richardlloyd2589 Tim Curry is fantastic in Clue!
My wife and I have "As you wish" engraved in our wedding bands.
Thats awesome👍👍👍
Awww...
That is So Sweet. Thanks.
That is AWESOME! Jealous.
Twu luv
Uncommon and unexpected humility from Rob. Surprised sounding, "We've made something that has lasted." Yes, Rob. It's just... the perfect, timeless film.
I always say to my husband “I’m not a witch, I’m your wife!”
My husband and I were in Scotland for a wedding. I was turned and talking to friends when the wedding started. As the bride is walking down the isle, I’m looking at the groom and smiling. My husband leans to whisper something in my ear-“Marwige is what bwrings us togever today.” It was all I could do not to break out laughing as the priest looked JUST like the guy in the movie!
I would have lost it after that first word! ROFL "Marwige..."
So, who else started laughing while reading this, then read it out loud??!!
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
I would have been finished 😂🤣😂👍
@@daftirishmarej1827 I didn't read it out loud, but I did chuckle! 😄 My sister is getting married this September, and I texted her a photo I took of the Princess Bride priest (I was watching the movie, and I'd paused it to take the photo). Anyway, I told her I'm sure we could hire him on short notice. She texted back, "As you wish." 😆😂
This movie is perfect. Nothing off about it. No need to remake it, re-imagine it or make a sequel decades later. It's it's own shiny bubble of amazing and anyone that wants to remake it, etc is nuts.
Agreed, to remake it would be inconceivable.
You already know they’re going to make it with black people. 😒 they can’t help themselves and most of Hollywood are democrats so the insanity never ceases.
which is why they will and it will suck and you will watch it anyway - BECAUSE YOU'RE A TOOL
@Phineas Gage straight up
the lighting could've been better.
The Princess Bride has to be the most watched movie ever. Considering that I don't generally re-watch movies, I've seen Princess Bride at least 20 times.
ditto!
Same here! I just watched it with my son, and he liked it too...which says a lot about a movie that is not new...and one that has kissing in it...haha
I saw it the 1st time when I was 29 and haven’t seen it since; my eldest sister wanted me to watch it when I was 10 or 11 but yeah that’s when I got round to it
@@imhiz4eva "Ditto"? Ditto, you provincial-- oops, wrong movie. 😁
Robin Wright is truly a timeless beauty, living in NY I have seen so many actors who look nothing like they do on the screen, when I saw her I was amazed as she is even more beautiful in person
Well, she is the Princess Bride after all.
Wish she didn't do House of Cards
@@PeterJames143 I'm glad she did, was perfect in it.
This interview will be 10 years old next year. Where does it go 😭😭
Fairy tales are timeless. 😁❤️
Only 15 more years til the next gathering :)
The Princess Bride was the first movie my husband of 33 years and I saw together in 1987. Love it! Thank you!
Us too!
Our world needs a movie like this. Just a beautiful movie. ❤
After all the years the chemistry is still there! ❤
I've watched many videos similar to this where actors, directors and the likes review old films. I must say, I am taken at how friendly and genuine these three are talking to each other. Most notable being Rob. Must have been another reason they had lightning in a bottle.
For example, Mandy (who played Inigo) was brought to tears in fond memories of this film. Wonderful stuff.
Hands down, the greatest movie of all time!!!
This movie has a special place in my heart, it was one of the first movies that my wife and I watched together when we were dating over thirty years ago. What a brilliant masterpiece. We had a line that we used from the movie with our children as they were heading out the door…
Have fun storming the castle. Do you think it will work? It will take a miracle. Bye….
Thanks for the wonderful movie it truly is a gem.
No mention of Mandy Patinkin, he was great as Iñigo Montoya. He added so much to the movie!
TBH I think he did the best acting job in that movie. And that’s especially high praise because literally the entire cast was fantastic! He gave Inigo so many little quirks and his reactions felt so genuine.
The Princess Bride - A true timeless classic.
Some movies are timeless. As long as there are grandparents and grandchildren, 34 years to 34,000, this will always be a great and worthy story.
Yes, that is an interesting thought isn't it. How long before it stops being watched? We still watch Shakespeare in the original txt, people actually learn what is half a foreign language, and about cultures that have little in common with us, to watch Will.
One of the most outrageously funny scenes was with Peter Cooke as the Archbishop who performed the wedding ceremony. No matter how many times I watch the perfect film, I laugh to tears at that little scene. RIP Peter.
I convinced my pastor to start my wedding ceremony with the “Mawwiage” speech XD
Absolutely.
"Mawwiage" almost knocked me out of my seat at the theater. That was not what I expected to come out of Peter Cook's mouth - but it was perfect! (just like everything about this movie) 😎
Thank GOD they never ruined this by trying to make a sequel.
One of those movies engraved within my soul.
Perfection. Cary's book has great tales of the making of it, and he's delightful at ComicCons and the like.
It's ALL Pure Love❤❤❤❤
Absolutely love The Princess Bride.
I could watch this movie over and over and over. It is a priceless gem.
Yes I saw a VHS around 27 years ago. My son was about 1 year old. I was blown away by this movie & bought my own VHS. One day a few years later I left the TV on after the movie ended and realised there was this most amazing song at the end. Again I was blown away. Great movie, great cast, great fight scenes, great acting, great song & great director. My wife asked me to do something I have never done before. At 68 I will sing in front of a large group of people at our daughter's wedding - this is the song I have chosen. Thanks Mark Knopfler & Willy DeVille
❤❤❤❤❤
Wow, how did it go?
The most wonderful, funny, romantic, and action packed movie I've ever seen.
One of my all time favorites. Love this film.
Bill Goldman handed the manuscript for the book to my mother while standing over my couch, and I rode with Mom in a taxi to deliver the finished manuscript to him. Fun times!
Wait, what? Why??? I need context!!!
Much like the movie, this interview put a huge smile on my face. No matter how many times I see "Princess Bride," it makes me smile. The stories of Andre's drinking are not exaggerated. As a sports reporter who spent many years in Tampa, FL (a wrestling hot-bed) I had the chance to chat with many pro wrestlers who had worked and drank with Andre. They all agreed that Andre could put away alcohol like most of us consume sweet tea on a hot day.
I went to a reading of Cary Elwes' book, and he said that one time Andre drank so much he passed out in a hotel lobby. They didn't know what to do with him, no way could they move him!
my kids and I in parting, say
"have fun storming the castle" "do you think it'll work?" "it'll take a miracle"..."bye".."bye"
LOL! That's fantastic! I love that part of the movie!
I just think it plays so well coming from Miracle Max, considering that was why they came to see him. It just all fits together so well. That's why we all love it.
my father-in-law does this sometimes.lol
As youuuuuu wiiiiiish...
@@deniseseno8776 yeah, that too occaisionally
Once a movie is released, it becomes the mental and emotional property of the audience. A filmmaker is handing over his baby to the world and he never gets it back if they love it. It's a gift that pays!
I was a teenager when this movie came out and my friends and I watched it at least a few times a year. We bought it on CD when my kids were toddlers (my eldest is 23 now) this movie was a huge part of their childhood. Can't wait to share it with grandkids.
I saw it the first night it was shown at Hoyts on George St, Sydney.
I sat and watched it with my twins' sons and daughter the first time they saw it.
And one of the sons just had a daughter, the Girl is also expecting, and I will make sure I am there when my great nieces see it the first time too. I will be around 60 then, so I might even make it to show the film to my great great niece one day.
My parents started indoctrinating the grandkids with this film as soon as possible.
Nothing like hearing your 3yo niece wishing you goodbye and "have fun castle".
I was doing live-action role playing when this movie came out (almost nobody was doing LARP back then) and a group of people decided to go as the Princess Bride characters. One of them was, of course, Inigo Montoya. What the party didn't know was that the organizers decided to play along and put Count Rugen on the field. I happened to be lucky enough to be there when they met. The real shock on "Inigo's" face was hilarious.
I work in a thrift store and I got aT-shirt with Dread Pirate Roberts and Inigo crossing swords and has some of their dialog on it.
My husband and I had just been together a short time when we watched this together in the theatre. He was 26 and I was 18 and we were a hot mess, but totally head over heels in love. 34 years later, and he is still my absolute best friend and I cry when I watch interviews like this! (we have matching tattoos with a yng yang symbol that say As Your Wish
Too bad about the tattoo. The line was “as you wish”
@@herbertbrown119 I'm sure it was merely a typo in her post.
@@shellymars9961 Maybe. That happens
@@herbertbrown119 lol indeed...it was a typo
@@imhiz4eva Glad to hear that
Rob Reiner was on fire as a director at that time. Great movie. It's a perfect combination of story, characters, humor (but not TOO much humor) and that most important thing that so many movies fail to capture: Heart.
I think the ending they ended up using was the best and I think they were right to cut what they cut out. And considering how old Carl Reiner (Rob's dad) was when he passed away I'd say there's a real good chance that the three of them CAN meet again in 25 years, which would be 2037 if we go by when this interview came out (2012).
It’s endlessly sad how Reiner’s brain and personality has been warped by Trump derangement. He was such a great storyteller
@@avengemybreath3084 Well, Trump is such a despicable human being, it has that effect on people. Not a single good person quality.
Rob Reiner made some of the most entertaining films ever, This is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men...
@@avengemybreath3084 So you support Trump, then? And you don't think he is the greatest threat to US democracy that there has ever been, and worthy of condemnation?
@@avengemybreath3084 - Rob is telling the truth, MAGA hats are deranged.
I loved the remote acting of The Princess Bride on television recently. I was so emotional!
I just watched this wonderful, sweet movie again and enjoyed it as much as the first time. ❤️👍🏼👌😀
Best movie ever... max kudos to Mark Knopfler, for his unforgettably Beautiful music work...!
One of my favorite movies of all time. Even our nieces and nephews quote favorite lines. I do it all the time. I even ask my dental patients their favorite lines. This was a great conversation!
The Princess Bride was the first DVD I bought..
I didn't own a DVD player
So the first Movie I watched on my first DVD player was this movie.
Now I really must start looking for my DVD and binge-watch this gem over and over and over...
As a footnote, I really must say that I found Mandy's and Elwes's sword-fight scene most electrifying and mind-blowing, but Shawn's (Vizzini) iconic ''inconceivable!'' acting keeps me asking for more. Love this film, I really do.
Ah the sword fight scene - I still remember the cinema I watched it in. The thing I remember most of all was in the sword fight scene one shot was little wide and you could see the top of the matt painting and the rail it was on. My DVD release doesn't have it. I'm almost disappointed.
I programmed Alexa to say "As you wish" whenever my wife asks her to turn on and off the lights in the house. It is one of our two favorite movies with lines firmly engrained in our relationship.
Thank you, it's a joy to know how aware they are of having made such a masterpiece. I remember very well the happiness it was to discover Pincess Bride at the movie theater, it was a wonder from the first to the last second
Thank you to the cast, director and anyone who had anything to do with this wonderful gift to the world. Bless you forever!
I wish Peter Falk was still with us
"Oh, ah... One more thing before I go..." ;)
I want this conversation to go on for hours!
Would've been even better if more cast members (eg Mandy) gradually joined the conversation. (If it went on for hours that is)
When I was working with the College Marching Band in the early 80's, we did a lot of parades that fall. As the band would step off from the staging area, I said Billy Crystal's line, "Have fun storming the castle." The front half of the band laughed so hard they got out of step and had to skip-hop to get back on the correct foot. Still a great line. :)
I've just watched "Land" at the cinema in New Zealand and knew I had seen Robin Wright before. Ah yes Princess Bride. A favorite family movie. I remember visiting my son and his wife in Sydney Australia when they were 24 year olds, and we watched the video together, quoting the lines together. Thankyou, Team for huge family memories
No wonder the movie was so good. Awesome cast and crew.
I want to see the blooper real of Billy Crystal bringing the cast to tears with laughter, take after take.
I'd love to see the blooper reel of this entire movie!
*In the HISTORY of film making, I'd say that the "Adventure-Fantasy" is hardest to land but the most rewarding and amazing when done right. Princess Bride is among the best and takes it's place along with movies like, Labyrinth, Never Ending Story, Goonies, or even a, "Raising Arizona"(surreal more than fantasy). The fact that the great majority of the movie was live action and human characters was the crowning touch (degree of difficulty), and that it was a love story without being heavy handed made it one of a kind.*
I rented this on video, remember those? After finishing the movie, I rewinded it and started watching it all over again right from the beginning. Absolutely love it, it might be my all time favorite? Jan.
I look forward to that 50th Anniversary conversation. Hopefully, we'll all be alive at that time (and with all our marbles present and accounted for)!
very fun interview...the movie will never die
This movie is a timeless classic 💟
I wanted to name my son, Wesley, but the hubby was not a fan....It was my top choice...lol The thing about the Princess Bride is that it checks all the boxes...adventure, mystery, romance, comedy, drama...and it's one of the few movies of all time that makes you feel good watching it. Most movies these days are dark, depressing, and if they are adventurous, they aren't lighthearted. That's why I can watch it over and over again (and I generally hate to re-watch movies), and why everyone I know seems to love it.
I saw this movie for the first tim, few months ago, with a special person...who’s no longer part of my life 😔
❤️
I didn't see this movie until decades after it first came out but it has become one of my favourites. No matter how bad a day I am having it makes me feel good. I have introduced other people to it, and they have loved it too.💗
To this day I watch this movie. I watch it with my daughter and she is now 12. Classic
Robin is so beautiful. It hurts to look at her.
This is the greatest movie. I shared this with my daughter when I first came out. And I have now shared it with her three daughters. When we are all together and have nothing to do we will put this on and watch it like it’s the first time we ever saw it v
We saw Carey in Medford, Massachusetts right before the pandemic. It was an amazing experience.
My favorite movie of all time. It always makes me smile..
My go-to date movie back in the day. Taped it off Showtime in 1989 or so.
Favorite line: "Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
That IS a classic line. Along with: Not a lot of profit in revenge
I watch this movie again once every four or five years. I love it so much, I don't want to spoil it by overuse. Otherwise, I could watch it three or four times a year, and would have overdosed on it by the turn of the century. It's still fresh for me.
Not incidentally, Robin Wright is, as Rob Reiner says, the most beautiful woman in the world. Then and now. The face that could launch a thousand ships.
Funny you should say that ( "spoil it by overuse" ). I got to the point where I knew it so well, I had to take a break from it. That's when I discovered Goldman's ( or was it Morganstern's ) novel. It's hilarious ( introduction included ). The story is the same, but different. For instance, did you know Humperdinck was once engaged to a noblewoman with more hats than anyone in the region? At their wedding feast, the wind blew through the great hall, blowing off her hat, revealing her as bald. Humperdinck told her to feel free to run.
I showed this movie to my students at a Chinese university. They loved it. It’s a great film.
My husband flew F14s in the Navy. When he was deployed on the carrier, he said all the guys in the Ready Room would watch the Princess Bride all the time. My husband knows all the lines :0).
This is so marvelous, the three of you! I saw Cary talk about his book in Petaluma California a few years ago now, again marvelous. What a Gift to US ALL! Thank You for making the movie and for this interview.
The stars have aged as well as the movie.
_It is odorless, tasteless, dissolves instantly in liquid, and is among the more deadly poisons known to man._
Prince Humperdinck (sniffing vial): IOCANE!
Cracks me up to this day.
Great film!
But he KNEW he had a deadly poison handed to him. And poisons are one of his expert skills.
No odor and colourless . . . probably the one he *knows* is all of that.
As an Australian we have always particularly enjoyed the line: and Australia is entirely populated by criminals
One thing would have made this interview even better: if, when they put their hands in at the end, Cary had flopped his hand in just as he did in the movie, lol!
If you love the movie, read the book. It's amazing and expands on a few things in the movie like what happened when they tried to get into the pit of despair.
The movie is better. Helps when you have the author of the book write the movie, too. He was able to refine the story down further to something even sharper and funnier.
I second this. I’ve read the book at least 11 times now and its still my favorite in the world. Some of the movie dialogue is better than the book’s version, but overall its so flipping fantastic and the writing style is so much fun too!
The book doesn't expand things from the movie. The movie omitted things from the book. Good Grief.
@@nonyabusiness2510 Yes but for the majority of people it's the other way around captain pedantic.
@@nonyabusiness2510 - I think this movie is one of the rare cases where the movie script was better than the book, particularly the ending.
65 y/o mom here. As a family of 6 (4 children) we still say “ROUS’s, mostly dead and as you wish. We must of seen Princess Bride at least 100 times! Absolutely the best! ♥️
There are so many good movies that its hard to say which is your absolute fave but I just say the princes bride because of all its qualities it has a way of making you feel good in a wholesome way without being a sappy cliche. How such a silly movie avoids this is beyond my ability to describe it but somehow it does...Yeh, it still retains its 'best movie ever made' title.
Cary Elwes sounded like he was from Boston for a moment there. Hilarious.
Show it to my boys in 2023. 8 and 10 and they loved it
I adore The Princess Bride. I have worn out so many copies on VHS and then DVD. I now have Disney+ just so I can watch The Princess bride anytime I want(spoiler alert it’s All the time!). I can quote that movie from start to finish. I cannot express enough how much I love the Princess Bride. The book is outstanding as well. I normally read the book and promptly abhor the movie but not in this case it was an amazing movie and I can never say enough good things about that movie. Anytime anyone asks what my favorite movie is , instantly I respond the Princess Bride
GREATEST sword fight of ALL TIME!!!
"Who are you?"
"No one of consequence."
"I must know."
"Get used to disappointment."
“i am not left-handed!”
This was lovely... thank you.
Cary Elwes as James Harcourt, arriving at the scene restaurant in "Another Country" Marek Kanievska's 1984 movie was OUR prince charming. You can't imagine his impact on us. Oh ! James !
I was in college when I watched Princess Bride, I had my son watched it when he was in elementary. When he was in college he downloaded the movie and made me watched it! Now I can watch it anytime! One of My favorite movies❤️
I was a student projectionist at the University of Louisville when we showed The Princess Bride, so I had the privilege of not only watching the movie, but building it from shipping reels, projecting it (I think three times), and tearing it down again. Another student labeled the exhibition reel cases "KISSING BOOK". We had a sort of backdoor arrangement with the distributor to get 35mm prints: at the time, most college theaters were limited to 16mm, because the distributor would make so little money off ticket sales.
20 minute reels? Carbon arc light source?
@@swrennie 1940s Century projectors, retrofitted with Xenon lamps, not carbon arcs, but yep, 20 minute reels.
@@AlanCanon2222 I used the Ashcraft Suprex projectors, probably about ten years newer. Let me know when you stop seeing the cues in movies you're watching...😉👍
@@swrennie haha, that will be never! I start counting down....
I host a Friday movie night in our work/creative building in Pasadena and this just inspired the one I’m picking for next week!! 🙌🏻🌴🎥⚡️❤️💯😎👍🏻
As you wish wonderful 💖 movie I love it the whole cast worked perfectly together I love this movie
I love this movie I think every person that has ever seen it loves it! someday we will die, but that movie will live on through time!!
Everyone who I have shown it to, young, old or whatever has loved it. I haven't found anyone who doesn't like it, and who doesn't quote it! Oh, and Storybook Love was our Wedding Song.
I walked down the isle to it
The most perfect movie in the world
The most perfect movie ever made!!!!
This is hands down my favorite movie... FAVORITE .... & I am 60 & was raised by a movie enthusiast & so have seen a lot of good movies 🤗🥰
That was the most epic sword fight ever!
That was the funniest sword fight ever
My son watched this every day for a long time. He recited every word along with the actors. He was 5.
Totally delightful. Is Rob Reiner one of the loveliest most real human beings ?He’s amazing.
Not anymore sadly
I like her laugh. She seems like fun
She’s got such a cute voice too omg.
I would be fine with an offshoot film where Inigo is a retired rich Lord on some island somewhere, Westley and Buttercup have children/grandchildren who've they've spent all their riches on, Westley has to take some sort of supplement(s) in order to keep him alive, and a new character is adventuring and meets them on his/her travels.
The best fairytale ever ... Love 💕 everything about it and especially the actors...
We like to watch it at least once a year...😊
Great movie!
Completely timeless.