The Princess Bride (1987)

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Wikidata Q506418, film, IMDb tt0093779, TMDB 2493: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Rob Reiner as director (The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!); 2 more episodes agree.

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Led to

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No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Fred Savage: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (deflation device): The Princess Bride → Fred Savage. The movie's only deflation is through Fred Savage, whose cynicism melts, unlike Masters' drunk Man-at-Arms.
    “I also think that movie makes its only deflation happen through Fred Savage, which has its own emotional arc of watching his cynicism melt away”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:23:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Guardians of the Galaxy: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Guardians of the Galaxy → The Princess Bride. Drax is like Andre the Giant's Fezzik-style revenge figure, Rocket like Wallace Shawn's Vizzini, Gamora like Robin Wright's Buttercup.
    “He's kind of like the character who's like, you killed my...”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:14:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Mark Knopfler: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (scored): Mark Knopfler → The Princess Bride. Knopfler did the whole score for The Princess Bride.
    “Now, Mark Knopfler did the whole score for the Princess Pride.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:38:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Masters of the Universe: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (tonal comp): Masters of the Universe → The Princess Bride. The Princess Bride deconstructs the same tropes while playing it straight, letting it have its cake and eat it too in a way Masters can't.
    “You know what movie, Masters of the Universe has a lot in common with that is in this conversation, is the princess bride.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:22:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Mean Girls: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (timeless): Mean Girls → The Princess Bride. Simmons says the film will live on like The Princess Bride, a short list.
    “Princess Bride, I think, is like that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:20:20 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)

Misery: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Misery → The Princess Bride. Reiner's apex discussion; the wine scene echoes iocaine powder in Princess Bride.
    “the wine scene, it's funny, the iocaine powder, he's trying to put iocaine powder in her wine”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 1:10:49 · Brian Koppelman (0.50 sure it was them)

Rob Reiner: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (creative match): Rob Reiner → The Princess Bride. Reiner and Goldman were a great match for the story and cast it perfectly.
    “I think Reiner and Goldman were like such a great match for that story.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:22:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Storybook Love (Mark Knopfler and Willie DeVille video): 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (movie tie-in): Storybook Love (Mark Knopfler and Willie DeVille video) → The Princess Bride. The video is just the recording session with the movie playing behind it, which a host calls unambitious.
    “That concept was incredibly unambitious, which is this is the recording session.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:41:30 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

The Natural: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): The Natural → The Princess Bride. Both are very 80s and use basic generic themes told in an awesome way.
    “both very 80s, they belong to that decade, but both trying to accomplish a lot of the same things of just these very basic generic themes”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:17:47 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

craft (3)

  1. craft (craft): Misery → The Princess Bride. Reiner's apex discussion; the wine scene echoes iocaine powder in Princess Bride.
    “the wine scene, it's funny, the iocaine powder, he's trying to put iocaine powder in her wine”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 1:10:49 · Brian Koppelman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (deflation device): The Princess Bride → Fred Savage. The movie's only deflation is through Fred Savage, whose cynicism melts, unlike Masters' drunk Man-at-Arms.
    “I also think that movie makes its only deflation happen through Fred Savage, which has its own emotional arc of watching his cynicism melt away”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:23:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. craft (scored): Mark Knopfler → The Princess Bride. Knopfler did the whole score for The Princess Bride.
    “Now, Mark Knopfler did the whole score for the Princess Pride.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:38:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Guardians of the Galaxy → The Princess Bride. Drax is like Andre the Giant's Fezzik-style revenge figure, Rocket like Wallace Shawn's Vizzini, Gamora like Robin Wright's Buttercup.
    “He's kind of like the character who's like, you killed my...”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:14:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): The Natural → The Princess Bride. Both are very 80s and use basic generic themes told in an awesome way.
    “both very 80s, they belong to that decade, but both trying to accomplish a lot of the same things of just these very basic generic themes”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:17:47 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)

unmapped (4)

  1. unmapped (timeless): Mean Girls → The Princess Bride. Simmons says the film will live on like The Princess Bride, a short list.
    “Princess Bride, I think, is like that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:20:20 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (tonal comp): Masters of the Universe → The Princess Bride. The Princess Bride deconstructs the same tropes while playing it straight, letting it have its cake and eat it too in a way Masters can't.
    “You know what movie, Masters of the Universe has a lot in common with that is in this conversation, is the princess bride.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:22:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (creative match): Rob Reiner → The Princess Bride. Reiner and Goldman were a great match for the story and cast it perfectly.
    “I think Reiner and Goldman were like such a great match for that story.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:22:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (movie tie-in): Storybook Love (Mark Knopfler and Willie DeVille video) → The Princess Bride. The video is just the recording session with the movie playing behind it, which a host calls unambitious.
    “That concept was incredibly unambitious, which is this is the recording session.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:41:30 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

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