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Fun "Princess Bride" Facts:
- The song "Storybook Love" was nominated for a 1988 Oscar but lost to "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing.
- "The Princess Bride" did win two Saturn awards and a Hugo award in 1988, however.
- The "Six-fingered man", Count Rugen (who has a total of 11 fingers counting his other hand) was played by Christopher Guest, who also played Nigel Tufnel, in Rob Reiner's This Is Spinal Tap (1984). Nigel Tufnel was famous for having an amplifier that goes up to "11".
- Mark Knopfler agreed to write the music for The Princess Bride on the condition that Rob Reiner put the hat that he wore in This Is Spinal Tap (1984) into the movie.
- While the fencing masters that Inigo and Westley talk about studying (Bonetti, Capo Ferro, Thibault, Agrippa) are all real fencing masters from the 14th to 16th centuries, the styles of fighting they are using have little to do with what those masters actually taught.
- Director Rob Reiner left the set during Billy Crystal's scenes because he would laugh so hard that he would become nauseated.
- Despite his character Fezzik's almost-superhuman strength, André the Giant's back problems at the time prevented him from actually lifting anything heavy. Robin Wright Penn had to be attached to wires in the scene where Buttercup jumps from the castle window into Fezzik's arms because he couldn't support her himself.
- While rehearsing for the film, André the Giant's thick accent prevented many of his lines from being understood. To remedy this, actor Mandy Patinkin slapped André in the face to get him to concentrate harder.
- In the scene that Count Rugen hits Westley over the head, Cary Elwes told Christopher Guest to go ahead and hit him for real. Guest hit him hard enough to shut down production for a day while Elwes went to the hospital.
- The two rival kingdoms in the movie are called Florin and Guilder, which are the names of two Dutch coins.
- According to author William Goldman, when he was first trying to get the movie made in the 1970's, a then-unknown Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to play Fezzik, and he was strongly being considered because Goldman could never get his first choice, André the Giant, to read for the role. By the time the movie was made about twelve years later, Arnold was such a big star they could not afford him, and André was cast after all.
- Westley's character is loosely based on Errol Flynn's character in "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938). Reiner even uses a conversation found in Robin Hood for Westley: "Are you finished?" "Finished? I'm only just beginning."
Why did the chicken cross the road "Princess Bride" style:
- Vizzini - He didn’t get run over? Inconceivable!
- Inigo - I don't mean to pry, but you don't by chance have six feathers on your right wing?
- Westley - This is a chicken crossing the road - do you think this happens every day?
- Count Rugen - Chicken, how does crossing the road make you feel? And remember, this is for posterity, so be honest.
- Humperdinck - Chicken tracks! I’d bet my life on it. The chicken is alive, or was an hour ago.
- Yellin - Chicken? I see no chicken. (Fezzik, tear his arms off.) Oh, you mean *this* chicken.
- Max and Valerie - Bye chicken! Have fun crossing the road! You think he’ll make it? It would take a miracle. B-bye!
- King - The chicken’s going to cross the road? Won’t that be nice. Hee hee - she kissed me!
- Albino - The road. Don’t even think about crossing. The cars are far too thick.
- Fezzik - Don’t go chicken, I mean it. Will you stay and have a peanut?
- Buttercup - He will never cross again.
- Vizzini - Do you know what that sound is, Highness? It is the sound of shrieking chickens. If you don't believe me, just wait, they always scream louder when they are about to cross the road.
- Chicken to Fezzik - Are there cars ahead?
Fezzik to Chicken: If there are then you'll be dead!
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