The Princess Bride

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2016

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

It's been almost thirty years since The Princess Bride was released and the film remains imminently quotable and almost universally beloved. Chris, Donna, and Carlos each discovered it at different ages and thus had very different reactions to it. They see where their experiences line up, where they diverge, and offer their thoughts on what makes the movie so endearing.

Topics include: the difficult process of adapting William Goldman's novel into a feature film and how director Rob Reiner cracked the code, the pitch-perfect tone that shifts from sincerity to absurdity over the course of the running time, why Wallace Shawn is sweating so profusely in his big scene, the unconventional way one cast member stayed warm during production, the mystery of The Sloppy Poodle Man, and much much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember the Princess Bride?
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:31.7	I'm Chris.
0:32.4	I'm Donna.
0:33.2	And I'm Carlos.
0:34.3	And today we're revisiting the Princess Pride.
0:52.9	Thank you. I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting the Princess Bride. There were many unsuccessful attempts to turn William Goldman's 1973 novel, The Princess Bride, into a feature film.
0:59.9	As the list of executives, directors, and actors who came and went from the project continued to grow,
1:05.0	it gradually developed a reputation for being unfilmable.
1:08.9	Fortunately for filmmaker Rob Reiner,
1:12.1	he was on a bit of a hot streak after the critical and commercial success
1:13.8	of movies like This is Spinal Tap
1:15.6	and The Sure Thing,
1:16.8	the kind of hot streak that makes a studio
1:18.6	like 20th century Fox say,
1:20.5	tell us what you want to do next
1:21.7	and will greenlight it.
1:23.2	And what Reiner wanted to do next
1:24.9	was the Princess Bride.
1:26.9	Is a sentence that sounds a lot more salacious now that I hear it out loud.
1:31.1	The film was a modest hit when it was released in the fall of 1987, but the cast and crew would
1:35.8	have to wait a couple of decades before they could understand and appreciate the full scope
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