Daily Dialogue — January 24, 2017

“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”

— The Princess Bride (1987), screenplay by William Goldman, novel by William Goldman

The Daily Dialogue theme this week: Callback.

Trivia: In a 2012 interview in New York Magazine, Mandy Patinkin said that his most famous line from The Princess Bride (1987) (“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”) gets quoted back to him by at least two or three strangers every day of his life. Patinkin told the interviewer that he loves hearing the line and he also loves the general fact that he got to be in the movie, stating, “I’m frankly thrilled about it. I can’t believe that I got to be in The Wizard of Oz, you know what I mean?”

Dialogue On Dialogue: A great callback side. This video below shows the setup, then the payoff. Inigo says the line a total of 6 times, each time with more meaning than the last.