Inara and Princess Buttercup
POSTED BY: Ryce
UPDATED: Friday, May 19, 2006 21:50
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Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
OH lets! Lets rewrite the Princess Bride as BIG DAMN PRINCESS BRIDE.
Well lets look at the pairings
Mal/Wesley
Inara/Buttercup
Atherton/Humperdink
Badger/Vizzini
Niska/Count Tyrone Rugen
Crow/The Albino
Jayne/Fezzik
All look solid but I'm having trouble with the rest of the crew.
Simon and Kaylee I guess could come in as Miracle Max and his wife. And Book perhaps as the Grandfather (I know - he never married - but still) with River as The Grandson. That leaves Zoe and Wash to vie for Inigo and I don't see either of them fitting the bill right. Maybe if they both act the part doing the same motions and speaking the lines alternating one word at a time we could gain in surealism what we lose in thematic convergence.
David
"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de
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Zoe: My name is Zoe Washburn, you killed my husband, prepare to die.
Joss: Oh, you're that little Browncoat brat. I should have killed you when I had the chance.
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Originally posted by daveshayne:
Niska/Count Tyrone Rugen
I'm just trying to imagine it, having trouble, help me out here:
Niska: Beautiful, isn't it? It took me half a lifetime to invent it.
Mal: And they say people don't look like their pets.
Niska: I think by now you noticed my deep and abiding interest in pain. Pleasant I'm writing the definitive work on it.
Mal: Starting a book club? You trying to tor- trying to torture me.
Niska: People must know what happened to Malcolm Reynolds, they must know that the machine is still running; so I want you to be totally honest about how the machine makes you feel.
And so on. But that's not very good, or indeed at all funny.
Anyway it was Niska, not Miracle Simon, who brought Mal back to life.
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You keep using that word ( inconceivable) I do not think it means what think it means.
Mind you my favorite line ( which is strangely applicable to River) Life is pain highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
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Originally posted by christhecynic:
And so on. But that's not very good, or indeed at all funny.
You don't think so? I thought it was a hoot.
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Anyway it was Niska, not Miracle Simon, who brought Mal back to life.
Actually it was Niska's henchman who brought Malcolm back to life in War Stories. Simon did the next best thing in Out Of Gas however and we can't have Niska as a good guy and there really isn't anybody else who fits the bill for Rugen so I stand by my casting decision.
David
"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de
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I would love to hear Nathan do the "To the pain" scene!
No. (a little pause) To the pain.
I'll explain. And I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you wart-hog-faced buffoon.
It won't be the last. To the pain means the first thing you lose will be your feet, below the ankles, then your hands at the wrists, next your nose.
I wasn't finished -- the next thing you lose will be your left eye, followed by your right
Wrong! Your ears you keep, and I'll tell you why ---- so that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish -- every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, "Dear God, what is that thing?" will echo in your perfect ears. That is what "to the pain" means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.
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Originally posted by daveshayne:Quote:
Originally posted by christhecynic:
And so on. But that's not very good, or indeed at all funny.
You don't think so? I thought it was a hoot.
In that case I take it back.
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Anyway it was Niska, not Miracle Simon, who brought Mal back to life.
Actually it was Niska's henchman who brought Malcolm back to life in War Stories.
True, and that scene would actually go great with The Princess Bride:
Kid: Wait! What does the henchman mean he's dead? He didn't mean dead. Mal's only faking right?
Grandfather: You wanna watch this or what?
Kid: Who gets Niska?
Grandfather: I don't understand.
Kid: Who kills Niska? At the end, somebody's got to do it. Is it Zoe? Who?
Grandfather: Nobody. Nobody kills him. He lives.
Kid: You mean he wins? Jesus, Grandpa! What did you read me this thing for?
And so on, doesn't need to be changed at all really, just the names.
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there really isn't anybody else who fits the bill for Rugen so I stand by my casting decision.
Oh I agree, he fits perfectly, I was just trying to stick the two together in my head.
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Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.
Such a great line.
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The Dread Pirate Reynolds... lol
Although I could SO see Zoe taking Wash's body to "Miracle Mal"... 
The kid and his grandpa have to be Shepherd Book and the 'kid taking a dirt nap with Baby Jesus' from the movie.
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