Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
33:52 – 37:44… at all about just playing the biggest prick in the world. Yeah. He owns it. He does a good job. Absolutely true. I would say he's almost eligible for the Apex Mountain Award, like the person at the top of his game. Yes. I mean, what else? I mean, you know better than me. I don't even know what else he was in. I just think that it's really Carrie Elwes is at Apex, and he says that. Oh, yeah. For sure. I mean, he had other good roles, but it never got better for him than being Wesley. That's totally true. You can't. It's just not even debatable. I happen to love Robin Hood Men in Tights. As I said, I love …
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And Chris Arandon does a beautiful job of that. Everybody's overacting in a wonderful way in this movie, but he's not worried at all about just playing the biggest prick in the world. Yeah. He owns it. He does a good job. Absolutely true. I would say he's almost eligible for the Apex Mountain Award, like the person at the top of his game. Yes. I mean, what else? I mean, you know better than me. I don't even know what else he was in. I just think that it's really Carrie Elwes is at Apex, and he says that. Oh, yeah. For sure. I mean, he had other good roles, but it never got better for him than being Wesley. That's totally true. You can't. It's just not even debatable. I happen to love Robin Hood Men in Tights. As I said, I love Twister. I like many of his movies, but he was only the leading man in a heartthrob one time, in my opinion. He was. Yeah. I mean, this is. And part of it was the movie's just gone on and on and on. It's a cult classic, but it's just a classic now. You know? And this is. Yeah. I mean, he will be Wesley forever. He also has just been dining out on it ever since. Like, he's like, he really. Which I actually appreciate. Sure. When, like, a former star, like, has, like, one particular role they're really famous for, I think they should own it. Like, I don't like when they don't want to talk about it, but he wrote a book. He did, like, went back and did research, and he wrote a book about making The Princess Bride. Yeah. So this is, like, really his whole life. Sure. We got to give him the apex mountain. Otherwise, we'd just be depriving him so much. No, he deserves it. He definitely deserves it. He was great. Was there any unintentional comedy to you? This is a hard one because it's a funny movie. Yeah. I mean, even a lot of the comedy is, like, semi-unintentional. You know what I mean? Like, it's a little. I mean, not unintentional, but it's tongue-in-cheek. So there's not a lot. Like, if there were anything unintentional, I don't think I would know the difference. Yeah. One of the things that always comes up, though, is Andre the Giant and the way he delivered his lines. Enough of that! Pesci, are there aks ahead? If there are, we all be dead. No more rhymes now. I mean it. Anybody want a peanut? Yeah! Right? So, I mean, they did a lot of work with him for him to learn the script and to be able to say it in such a way. Because Andre's speech is not easy to understand. And so they, like, recorded all the lines on tape and he walked around with a Walkman, like, listening to the things he was about to say before he went on. So he would, like, you know, could get everything. Yeah. Rob Reiner, like, read everything into a dictation tape recorder or a cassette tape. And that's how Andre learned his lines. And it went really well. But he's still sort of unintelligible. Right? I mean, there's still, there's a lot of lines that you can't tell exactly what he says unless you have subtitles on. And I think there's a lot of unintentional comedy in that. That's true. If anybody else, even the stuff you can't understand, if anyone else delivered anybody want a peanut the way that he did, like, it would have not have been as funny. That's part of why he's so famous, right? Like, just like his whole being was so exceptional. Yes. Yeah. And, like, just out of the ordinary. Yeah. That he had that effect, even in this movie. Yeah. It was really cool. I would also just say that Carrie always being a heartthrob is funny to me. He was a heartthrob. I'm sorry, but I just, he's not for me. He's not my type. All right. I mean, to each his or her own, I guess. My biggest unanswerable question about this is why did he wait until she was captured to come back to her? Like, why did Wesley wait until Buttercup was imperiled to come back to her? Like, he had a lot of time. And I know he kind of explains it, but not to the extent that I find. He was busy being a pirate. Okay. But also, the story doesn't work any other way. Okay. And this is a story about stories. Like, it had to happen. And along the same lines, if she were so in love with him, would that disguise really work? Oh, no. I mean, yeah. That's ridiculous. But that's the best part of, I mean, that's obviously a decision, right? Sure. I mean, if you, if they, it would be interesting if they remade it today, even if it was remade as a comedy, if they would go further in disguising him to make that more of a plausible plot point?
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