History Film / ThePrincessBride

* UpToEleven: The Machine has settings on a scale from one to fifty. Level One will drain one year of your lifespan away. Rugen says that he "might one day go as high as Five," but is not sure what that would do. After Buttercup gives Humperdinck her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, he takes it out on Westley by turning the Machine all the way up to Fifty.

* {{Corpsing}}:
** The Miracle Max scene. Creator/BillyCrystal [[HarpoDoesSomethingFunny being given free rein]] had the cast and crew in stitches the whole time the scene was being shot. Creator/CaryElwes had it particularly bad, as he was supposed to be OnlyMostlyDead throughout the scene while Crystal was cutting up left and right, and he couldn't contain himself. The crew finally gave up, and much of the time you see Westley on the table, it's actually a dummy wearing the Dread Pirate Roberts costume. Creator/MandyPatinkin, for all his swashbuckling scenes as Inigo, suffered only one injury on the set: he bruised his ribs from trying to contain his laughter from Billy Crystal's antics. Creator/RobReiner had to direct from afar. He was having so much trouble containing himself, his laughter was ruining take after take.
** According to Cary Elwes' book on the making of the movie, in the first take of the scene where Westley, Inigo, and Fezzik are perched on the wall of Humperdinck's castle, Andre [[{{Gasshole}} let out a truly titanic fart]], so huge [[UpToEleven the sound man had to take his headphones off]], and the entire cast and crew burst out laughing. Several subsequent takes were ruined by Cary and/or Mandy getting the giggles (because Andre kept smiling about it and commenting how he felt much better) and shooting had to pause for everybody to regain their composure.

** Notice how Humperdinck tells Buttercup, with all the sad puppy eyes he can muster, that he hopes she will at least consider him less bad than suicide, as if he really feels hurt that she considers marriage to him to be a FateWorseThanDeath (though it's later subverted, when it turns out that [[spoiler:he only wants her to go through with the wedding so he can murder her and frame a neighboring country, Guilder, for it as an excuse to go to war]].

* AmbiguouslyGay: The way that Prince Humperdink and Count Rugen interact suggests more than mere friendship.

** Inigo tries to call upon the spirit of his dead father to help him find the Pit of Despair. He stumbles across the entrance once he stops trying to receive help from beyond the grave.

* KansasCityShuffle: The Battle of Wits. There is poison in one of two chalices, and Vizzini's supposed to puzzle out which chalice is in. After a long line of increasingly complex lines of thinking, he concludes that it must be in the goblet closest to him, so he pulls a PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo, and once not distracted, they both drink. But he was wrong. ''Both'' goblets were poisoned, and the Man in Black had AcquiredPoisonImmunity. Amusingly enough, he did stumble across the answer a couple of times, but passed over it because he was so sure the poison was only in one goblet.

* ButThatIWouldBelieve. Subverted when Inigo tries to convince Miracle Max to revive the Man in Black. After Miracle Max identifies Inigo's first story about the man in black's wife being a cripple and his children starving, Inigo confesses that he needs the man's help to avenge his murdered father. Miracle Max tell him the first story was better.

* OneSceneWonder: The Ancient Booer, Miracle Max, and the Impressive Clergyman all appear in only a single scene, but they all make quite an impression.

* OnlyMostlyDead: After Humperdinck kills Westley, his friends take him to Miracle Max, who diagnoses him as "only mostly dead" and thus a candidate for revival. For the record, there's a big difference between 'mostly dead' and 'all dead', and that is the fact with 'all dead', there's only one thing you can do: go through his clothes and look for loose change.

* ArmorPiercingResponse: When Westley is climbing up the rock, Inigo offers to throw down some rope to help him, but Westley refuses because he doesn't trust him. After being told by Westley that nothing he can say will convince him to trust Inigo, Inigo swears on the soul of his dead father and promises Westley he will reach the top. Westley is silent for a few moments before requesting the rope.

A 1987 [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie]] directed by Creator/RobReiner, adapted by Creator/WilliamGoldman from [[Literature/ThePrincessBride his 1973 book of the same name]], ''The Princess Bride'' is about the trials of true love in the Renaissance European nation of Florin. The story stars Buttercup (Creator/RobinWright), a simple yet incredibly beautiful farmgirl, and Westley (Creator/CaryElwes), the farmhand she enjoys ordering around. Although they realize that they share the incredibly rare thing called "true love", fate conspires to keep them apart, as Westley is lost at sea.

In a plot against the throne, Buttercup is kidnapped by the criminal trio of Vizzini ([[{{The Chessmaster}} the mastermind]]), Fezzik ([[GentleGiant the giant]]), and Inigo Montoya ([[MasterSwordsman the world's greatest fencer]], [[YouKilledMyFather traveling to avenge his father]]), played by Creator/WallaceShawn, Wrestling/AndreTheGiant, and Creator/MandyPatinkin, respectively — but their steps are hampered by a mysterious man in black who seems determined to stop them at all costs. The subsequent adventures are madcap, iconic, and brilliant.

--->'''Man in Black:''' You mean, you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword, and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people?

* ParodySue: Buttercup and Westley. The former of the PuritySue type, and the latter a [[MaryTzu Marty Tzu]] with a dash of GodModeSue, seeing as he is able to both outfence Inigo and outwrestle Fezzik.

'''Albino:''' ''[raspy voice]'' The Pit of Despair. Don't even-- ''[coughs; normal voice]'' Don't even think about trying to escape.

--->'''Inigo:''' You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

In 2020, the film was "remade" by Creator/JasonReitman for the mobile app Quibi to benefit World Central Kitchen during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Various celebrities filmed themselves reenacting scenes from the film with homemade props and costumes. Fred Savage, Cary Elwes and Rob Reiner participated as did Rob's father Creator/CarlReiner who filmed his scene just three days before his death.

* 1PrinceCharmless: Prince Humperdinck is the main villain, and a real asshole. He wants Buttercup because she's a beautiful woman, and that's it.

* PrinceCharmless: Prince Humperdinck is the main villain, and a real asshole. He wants BUttercup because she's a beautiful woman, and that's it.

** A single instance of "You son of a bitch" is the closest the film gets to an obscenity.

* PrinceCharmless: Humperdinck is the main villain and a real asshole.

** "RodentsOfUnusualSize? I don't think they exist."