man, i love this guy

daroff:
there’s a great scene at the beginning of the princess bride that just nails why this is one of the greatest films of all time. grandpa just lists everything that rules about this movie: fencing, fighting, chases, escapes, true love, miracles. when i was five-years-old, i woke up and watched this movie every morning before school. unfortunately, i found out recently, there’s some book out there that says telling a girl you like the princess bride is a good way to get her interested. that made me feel dirty.

jenni:
i too believe that princess bride is one of the greatest films of all time. so this might be the most peaceful he said, she said there has ever been. but what daroff might not agree with me on is the fact that i believe inigo montoya is the true male lead of this film. sure, the love story is great and all but inigo’s plight is even more
heartwrenching and leads to know true happy ending. inigo will never get his father back, even after finally finding the six-fingered man. and may i also mention that i once played inigo montoya in my high school drama class’s radio play of princess bride. i rule.

daroff:
i can agree with that, and i commend you on such an insightful analysis. although i’m not sure you’d agree with me that this movie survives despite some really sloppy filmmaking. especially toward the end, it gets pretty muddled. we lose track of fezzik, and the adr sounds like they slapped it on at the last second. i read the screenplay, and i think what got dropped at some point is a way cooler sword fight between inigo and rugen. the whole point of the movie is that inigo has to train to beat this guy, and he doesn’t put up much of a fight. but no one can deny the westley inigo fight. although it was never official, in my college green room, me and this kid used to do that fight line by line, move by move. did you know that thibauld cancels out cappe farre?

jenni:
wow, daroff complimented my analysis instead of calling me a whore, this is a momentous day! but honestly, i actually do agree with you on the sloppy filmmaking but think it is part of the overall charm of the film. it goes to show that you don’t need fancy editing and hollywood bells and whistles to make an endearing film. the emotions of this film is what carries it…not that the swordfights weren’t badass.

daroff:
oh you’re still a stupid whore. you’re just right this time. if you fire a bow in random directions, you’re bound to hit the target at some point. we’ll call this your statistically probable lucky shot. but you’re totally wrong in the bad filmmaking being part of the charm of the film. you don’t love this film because the ending drags, you love it despite the dragging end. yes, the emotions carry the film, but they just as easily could have also made a more solid movie. i wouldn’t call solid filmmaking “bells and whistles.”

jenni:
kid gloves are off motherfucker. how quickly a discovery of agreement can twist suddenly into bitter descent into name-calling. saying “just as easily” makes it sound like it’s a walk in the park to make a genius film. let’s go back for a second and recall that you love this film. yet you feel as if it would have been simple to improve it.
you said yourself, you love this film despite all that. so why all the deconstruction? this film is lovely, emotional, adventerous, and endearing. shouldn’t we be celebrating that instead of trying to find the remotest of things about it to disagree about? let’s not pull a billy crystal. he said “true love’ damn it!

daroff:
i’m sorry, it just pains me, physically pains me, to agree with you. it makes me sick to my stomach. i had to grasp at straws to do it, but i just had to disagree. thank you for emasculating me in front of the readers. i hate you so much.

jenni:
SHE HAS SPOKEN!