PALI REEL: ‘The Princess Bride’ at Will Rogers State Historic Park

By John Harlow | Editor-in-Chief

There are certain films remembered as much for lines of dialog as their characters, plots or stylish cinematography. They may miss the big prizes, distracted by their own chattiness, but their fruits live on for ever as catch-phrases.

“The Big Lebowski” is the king of LA quotables, but Saturday night’s “The Princess Bride,” curated by Street Food Cinema, runs it close.

As a 1987 snarky fairytale with heart it cracked the Pixar code—fast-paced kid movies with plenty for adults—when Steve Jobs’s movie dream was a baby pixel.

The plot is irrelevant—the Dread Pirate Roberts pursues the kidnapped princess Buttercup, scaling the Cliffs of Insanity, battling Rodents of Impossible Size—or at least very silly.

And the stars—marvel at a young and unscary Robin Wright, ham it up with Chris Sarandon and Palisadian Christopher Guest, marvel at Mandy Patinkin without a beard—but with one of those lines that you will chant along with.

Those lines? You don’t know them? Inconceivable!

You want to be reminded of just one? As you wish.