Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride | Cary Elwes | Talks at Google 

Thank you for your service, Sir 😁

First let me thank you for you service and sacrifice for us and this country! Second, your story speaks volumes of the kind of man Cary is and how he feels in his adopted country where he now resides. I wish more celebrities were as humble as he! God bless you sir! 🇺🇲

@@Warrior_Spirit_Experience-Jen Thank you....yes it does speak volumes. Many celebs i have met are very nice. Some not as much....however he is one of the best. He was very kind to me and my daughter and neither of us will ever forget not only his kindness but his humbleness and love for his fans!! If you ever get the chance to meet him you truly must!!

Your story brought tears to my eyes. That's so awesome and that's how it should be. I wish nothing but the best for you. Thank you for fighting for our freedoms that so many take for granted. Thank you for your service and sacrifices you have made for our Country! God bless you sir!

@@tennesseecopperhead7874 Oh, it be a dream come true to meet him! That movie was such a huge part of my life. It came out when I was a sophomore in highschool and I spent decades looking for my own "Wesley". I'm happy to say I finally found him and we've been together for 23 years. Unfortunately, I had to go through a few "Humperdincks" but it was worth it. I've always admired Cary the more I followed his career. He's greatful, humble and truly talented. Perhaps someday our paths will cross 🤞. I'm happy you were able to meet him!

Darn...wish I was there! It reminds me of the theater audience at Grauman's in Hollyweird as we watched Rocky Horror PS in '75.

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That's the power of stories !

LOL! I'd love to have been there for that.

That sounds amazing

As you wiiiiiiish!

As you wiiiiiiish!

"Inconceivable!" "I don't think that word means what you think it means."

it was a kissing book

My favorite movie of all time. Best casting, best script, best everything :)

Have you seen his Bill Clinton impersonation?? It is SPOT on.

His accents were great, but the impressions weren't spot on. His Andre wasn't as playful as in real life, and his Rob Reiner sounded more like Peter Falk, but they were entertaining nonetheless. He's a great storyteller.

Gotta love that Fat Albert impression :-P

@@mosesramirez6330 They wanted a nice buttercup

@@SupremeChimp hi. Shit the fuck up

No it doesn't. It speaks about Andre.

The only film I've ever watched twice at the cinema in one week, all those years ago, and I still love it to this day.

@@SupremeChimp SupremeChump

@@bearbryant3495 I suspect that those two know each other, and that it's playful banter. That's how it comes across to me.

If I would have exist in this year, I would've asked him to marry me😂

Clyde- that's cool! Thanks for sharing that! :)

How fun!!

@Dean Vennard Harrow is in west London.

Dean Vennard - Harrow School _is_ in London. 🙄 Sorry, didn’t see the other replies . . . Only your’s was in my notifications.

I agree. I never knew why wasn't more famous. I saw Lady Jane before TPB and then Glory. I love him in all of them.

Ever seen The Pentagon Wars? A little HBO movie that he was absolutely brilliant in.

Really? He seems very nice but I read the book long before the film was ever made and Cary seemed...well, not farm boy-like.

I feel the same

I loved Hot Shots, the first Saw, even The Crush, never see a movie like that today. Almost forgot about Days Of Thunder. But I've always thought he should have been a bigger movie star. I know he says he's had a blessed career. But I see a very Alexander Skarsgard like quality to him. He's shown his real acting prowess and psychotic intensity in movies like Kiss The Girls.

Wow! How freaking cool is that

@@pinkyhotmessx69 It's not cool at all, because it's not true. He's lived all his life in public housing in Philadelphia. Google him, you'll see.

🤣🤣 That is inconceivably awesome!!

D.O.U.S's... I don't think they exist.

I'm so terribly sorry for your loss....😥

A beautiful and inspiring testimonial to your husband.

You were lucky to have found each other 💝

Thank you all for your kind words. It was not luck, but a blessing from God to have met and been loved by my husband. ❤ 💕 Peace and blessings to all.

Awh I am so sorry

Totally

Then don't watch the "Home Movie" version. He does an excellent Prince/King too in nothing but his own clothing

Or anyone else playing the other roles either! Especially Buttercup or Mad Max...

Heck the casting of every character was a bullseye everyone fit their role like a glove.

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that dweam within a dweam?

@@sirmycho That bwessed awangement.

@@sirmycho I believe it's dweam wivvin a dweam! LOL!

I would have loled.

That's awesome! I would have been quietly laughing!

Yep ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I feel like it did well on HBO - it was popular there as well - so that made up for a lot - at least in the US.

It did very well on VHS to DVD.

Actually it made double what it cost to make when it opened. 👍

Same with It's a Wonderful Life.

his mel brooks was spot on

@@billshaffer9689 I mean, right??? the "don't hung up, don't hung up!" part... I could see Mel in my mind's eye! :D

However Humperdinck is completely different in the book.

That's inconTHEEvable😆

He's English by birth. Don't exactly know why he uses an American accent ( strongly peppered with an English one ) in an interview. Very agreeable ' chap.'

@@guntertorfs6486 After decades living outside your birth country, your accent changes.

That is hilarious

😂

I knew my preacher was the one I wanted to marry us because he used that line when I was first talking to him about wanting to get married. ❤

Love it!

( Joking ) Just don't kill his father

The only movie I own

I’m guessing he would never have let on. He actually seemed to be more in admiration of it… the volume, tonal quality, and duration.

@@notfiveo no he embodied the situation as a apposed speaking be embarrassed by it

Yesss! Right? I was waiting for that to be mentioned, but it wasn't, which makes me wonder if I am an even bigger nerd than the workers at Google!...?

One of my favorites as well!

I absolutely loved him in psych. Actually, I don't think there is anything that he's been in that I didn't like. Robin Hood was hilarious.

I'm not sure it had been done at that time. Wasn't that Psych episode around 2015 or so and this was 2014?

@@TracyCarolan He played the role in 4 episodes of Psych in seasons 4, 5, 6, and 8 from 2009 to 2014.

Loved him as Robin Hood!

I'm going to have his restraining order!

I know he’s such a stud

Don't just reminisce, continue the tradition. My kids have seen every one of them and continue to re-watch them every now and then. I will not deprive them of such magic.

And they had real music! Made by humans!

You bet. I'm now sharing these with my granddaughter. She loves them!!!! We were so lucky

@@pinkyhotmessx69 It is unfortunate, the downside of Napster-- ended up being the end of physical medium. It's awesome that we can stream, yet it is not good that we no longer have physical possession of our beloved songs and movies. That needs to change.

@Herb Superb I would add Willow to that awesome list.

Same here I watched it as a young girl. Now me and my boys watch it and they love it. 💛💚💙

My boys liked it too. And still do! ❤️✌️

"Had me at" the original trailer for the film, which was hilarious. Become a family favorite? Absolutely!!!

He's still around though

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That's sweet!💜 Irony being that my husband and I did that with Forrest Gump for over 3 years at one point because of my chronic Vertigo so that film also has a MAJOR home in the heart of our marriage. That Robin Wright is just MADE to watch act on a loop I guess.😊

Every time my husband and I are watching a movie or tv show where someone falls downhill, one of us will say, “Aaaaas youuuu wiiiiiiiish!” Cannot help it.

Abigail McKern >> Like Cary Grant. It’s a called a “Mid-Atlantic” accent, I think.

@@jaybee9269 Correct! "The Mid-Atlantic accent, or Transatlantic accent, is a cultivated accent of English blending together features of both American and British English that were considered the most prestigious by the early 20th-century American upper class and entertainment industry." Wikipedia

Taking that part in Mel Brooks piece of shit movie didn't help him much. Men in Tights was so bad - it remains the only movie I've ever walked out on.

Frank Kovacs Other than "Lady Jane Grey", "Glory" & "Sawz","Robin Hood Men in Tights"...I can't think of another film of his besides "Princess Bride"

How can you forget his AMAZING performance as the lead in "Crush", opposite a young Alicia Silverstone?! Then there are bit parts like what he did in "Twister," but any real fan of his MUST see crush.

@@Chief2Moon Saw.

@@ncurry1968 That movie was amazing. I'm so sorry you hated it. Cary was amazing and his facial expressions are great! I have that movie memorized from start to finish.

Not a bad idea.

lspr215 I bought the Princess Bride for my granddaughter and told her it had the best sword fight scenes. After we watched it, she fully agreed.

Kathi Sander No question, the Princess Bride swordfight even eclipses Errol Flynn's swordfights...that takes some doing.

lspr215 the only bit that bothers me is when the acrobat does his flip off the ledge and lands... the ground bounces. It’s maddening, lol.

It should. They were trained by an Olympic fencing champion.

@@joannamallory2823 when you say “the acrobat”, it sounds as if you think there were stunt doubles in that scene.

If you listen closely, you can still bits and pieces of his British accent.

Actually, he pronounces American names American and things about himself in kind of a mid-Atlantic mush.

He doesn't sound American at all. Obvious British accent.

@@basedbear1605 Nope, this British person hears mainly American vowels but his speech pattern is still probably British.

@@polyphiloprogenitive4614 You don't hear a British accent because YOU are British. No more than I hear American accents by Americans. Common sense.

It reminds me of Stefan Molyneux's.

To paraphrase Julius Caesar, I came, I saw, I concurred. 😎

Matt Trimm men in tights very funny lol

Tracey Austin manly tights, we’re butch

Was so excited for him to be in stranger things. He always does such a good job in his roles.

Matt Trimm unlike other Robin Hoods he can speak with a British accent 😂

“I don’t think that word means what you think it means.” ;)

Did you listen to the audiobook? Much better than reading the book.

mY soon to be gran kids will watch this on vhs

Captain Bob Smiley He was good in "Glory" with Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman & Denzel Washington.

Fairy tales and morality tales are timeless

realweezl sounds like a keeper!

now here's a VERY SMART man! perfect date night choice. if she loves it she's a keeper!

Not a dated movie, but clearly a date movie. Ha!

+Norman Singh best reply.

He looks like he's someones aunt.

NoodleChrist he looks like my aunt, just blond and without glasses.

@@xchimino2 Better than me.

Your husband sounds like a lot of fun, as my husband was.

To me the movie itself is a homage to both Mark Knopfler and for Dire Straits.

Music was good but it still baffles me how Knopler made it into the R&R HOF (at least how he got in before some of the actual great acts of the 70's and 80's like Styx or Pat Benatar)

@@ncurry1968 What are you talking about? Dire Straits were as big as Queen when the band retired. There songs are still iconic and Knopfler wrote them.

@@Chiungalla79 I want some of what you are smoking. Straits had one decent album and one VERY GOOD album. The other four (yes, only four more...only six albums in their catalogue) were garbage. As a band, they inspired virtually no one - of the thousands of musicians I know, not a single one of them points to DS as one of their inspirations. Not only that, they won a single Grammy for Money for Nothing...no other song of their's ever won anything (Sultans of Swing was the only other song of their's even nominated). Yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll come back with the fact that they "won" three other Grammy's - one was for best engineering on Brother in Arms...that's not really a band award now is it? Another was for best video for Money for Nothing...can't count that - it has nothing to do with the music and they already won for that song anyway so you can't count it twice. The last was for the "best surround sound album"...whatever the fuck that is (again, not really a band award). They haven't even played since '99...and there is zero demand for them to play again. I don't know why you brought up Queen but I assure you, DS was NEVER as big as Queen. Not even close. Queen put out 14 albums from '73 to '91 and one more after Freddy's death. 16 albums in 18 years...that's insane...DS can suck a dick if they think their 6 albums in 13 years is anywhere close to that. I'm not sure how they are counting albums but their wiki page says they have had 18 #1 albums...not sure how accurate that is...but safe to say, it's a great number more than DS ever dreamed of (they might have had two). Their performance at Live Aid is widely considered the greatest performance in rock history. Queen is on the Mount Rushmore of rock bands...Dire Straights might make a top 300 list. Might. That you would put DS up with Queen is absurd. But it just occurred to me that you already know how stupid that is and you're just trolling me. If that's the case...good one, you got me. P.S. I just showed my 19 year old this thread and he said, "Dire Straits as good as Queen? That's pure jackassery."

@@ncurry1968 You are using arbitrary standards that have nothing to do with my point and you know that. I never said they won the most prices. I never said they wrote the most albums. I never said they are considered as big as Queen in hindsight. But back then they generated comparable crowds and sales as Queen did. They were a household name and still are for people of 50+. Of cause Queens fame aged better. And of cause they put out more albums, which is pretty much easier if all band members write songs mind you. And yes, they won more prices. I`m a huge Queen fan myself. So yeah, by making arbitrary points you might have won the discussion you delusionally thought we were having. But for people that can and do read correctly you actually completely missed the point. And that makes you the jackass here. Btw. bringing your son into this is an appeal to the masses logical fallacy. Learn to think!

I dunno i really enjoyed him in robin hood: men in tights. But then again i love mel brooks films

He used to hang around a bar I worked at nearly forty years ago, but I never took the opportunity to meet him, fool that I was, because he scared the hell out of me. This was long before "The Princess Bride", so his reputation then wasn't for being sweet, it was for being a wrestler, and he was just so HUGE. He terrified me just by sitting there and being mountainous. Years later, when I saw the movie, I regretted never having spoken to him, and I've regretted it ever since.

@@susieusmaximus5330 I met him (lucky me), nicest, funniest guy one could ever enjoy being with, just like in the movie!

UR SO SPECIAL

When WWF came to the arena I worked at I met him at the arcade. He wrestled with the kids that were there (mostly he just laid there and let the kids jump up and down on him). I was very small for my age (18yrs and only 4'4") so I joined the melee. He was so nice and patient, just lying there accepting every headlock that was put on him. I am sad that I never got to talk to him and know him as a person, but how many 18 year olds can say they wrestled the great Andre. I was saddened to find out later in my life that he was living with a lot of pain at the time. But he never showed even the smallest sign. He laughed and enjoyed everyone right up until someone took him to the arena back area to get ready for the show. Clearly one of the highlights of my life.

Umbrella Watch I have BOTH of those films in my DVD collection.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Bob Anderson?