I spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder. 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! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha.Īnd to think, all that time it was your cup that was poisoned. Well, I- I could have sworn I saw something. We've gathered up some of our favorite lines to prove just that point.
Princess bride westley and buttercup fire swamp movie#
IT HAS WORKED! YOU'VE GIVEN EVERYTHING AWAY! I KNOW WHERE THE POISON IS! Directed by Rob Reiner (of Spinal Tap and When Harry Met Sally fame), Princess Bride and its mix of satire, adventure, and fantasy have kept us coming back for years, firmly placing it in the status of cult movie classic. You're trying to trick me into giving away something. But, you've also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me. You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? You've beaten my giant, which means you're exceptionally strong, so you could've put the poison in your own goblet, trusting on your strength to save you, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. Hes strong, tall, and very handsome, and Buttercup also knows that hes quite intelligent. Though Buttercup is cruel to him, he loves her and does everything she asks. Westley, the hero of The Princess Bride, meets Buttercup when he works on her familys farm. Scene: Inside the Fire Swamp Westley: Its not that bad. And you must have suspected I would have known the powder's origin, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me. Westley/Farm Boy/The Man in Black Character Analysis. When Buttercup got the news that Westley was murdered,- Grandson: Murdered by pirates is. Because iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.
But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. Humperdinck, having seen Westley and Buttercup traveling (clumsily) in a particular direction, concludes that they are headed into the fire swamp. It ends when you decide and we both drink, and find out who is right. Where is the poison? The battle of wits has begun.
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