The Story of Dread Pirate Roberts
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- Wesley telling the origin story of the Dread Pirate Roberts from the fire swamp scene of The Princess Bride. Especially apropos since the apprehension of the alleged Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht who went by the nom de guerre "Dread Pirate Roberts" www.npr.org/blo...
#PiratePower
Years ago I was at a science fiction convention. One of the vendors was selling a t-shirt that said on the front "I am the Dread Pirate Roberts No. 3,124". On the back it said "Inquire about franchise opportunities in your area".
Hilarious! Makes me want to know if the shirt's still available.
My only question is why a shirt about a fantasy movie was being sold at a sci-fi convention.
😂
I actually laughed out loud at this, thank you sir.
🤣🤣🤣
That story alone is one of the things that made this movie great. The idea of a famous pirate actually being a series of men who've passed down the title building on a legend is pretty cool. It's like "the phantom" only it doesn't suck.
Precisely! :)
Hey! Venom Snake and Big Boss was awesome in MGS V. Except Venom did betray Big Boss...
Kinda reminds me of Batman
The ghost who walks "The Phantom"
Except ... The Phantom doesn't suck.
When I saw this scene I thought, "No wonder it's Dread Pirate Roberts as opposed to Dread Pirate Robert."
+Rowan Buchanan I'm noticing all the little things in this now...
I mean, roberts is a last name
Rowan . You look like an actual angel .
keep it in your pants
KucklePuff Why in the world are you saying that?
Remember, the Dread Pirate Robert's is reported to never take prisoners so, the majority of the people he encounters never live to describe his looks, voice, height, etc.
About 1% live to tell the tale. Oftentimes it's who the Dread Pirate Roberts thinks would be a good future Dread Pirate Roberts.
Also helps that he's probably masked a lot of the time, like Wesley was against Vezzini's group, so even the people who surrender to him wouldn't necessarily know his face
@@ashanark5782 What's the name of this movie? I saw it once in middle school in 2006, and never learned the name of it.
@@peterparker-wu3io The Princess Bride : )
"The real Roberts retired 15 years, been living like a King in Patagonia. Thank you."
Perfect haha. I love the completely incongruous references to remote but specific places throughout this film.
It's actually not a bad scheme, if you think about it. A succession of pirate leaders gets to have their day and retire happily.
Yep, it would only work as long as a Man could be expected to live, so one lifetime. If we go by what Wesley is saying, then in a Man's lifetime, there might be as many as 8-10 Roberts. And then if the last one trains a Son then it could be said the Son took over for his aging Father, and then the legend might start over. Once a more settled world emerged, like when Cameras appeared, it would not be so easy, but still it's quite the idea. Even the name is genius since it's a reference to the greatest Pirate ever, Black Bart Roberts.
@@michaelheath2866 True, but over time it might become a mystical role of sorts, something immortal. Either people would realize it wasn't always the same person but a role, a title, but that making it no less frightening (whoever deemed worthy of the role must be just as dangerous). Or they might believe Dread Pirate Roberts to be an immortal being, which in this universe seems possibly plausible.
like politicians
@@quillmaurer6563 there have been such legends weaved that make men seem like immortal beings of great power and command. Combined with the exaggerated legends of cruelty and merciless pillaging, men could start saying things like “he is a man that even death fears to oppose” or “his cruelty has transcended from his mortal form and taken a life of its own, and he lives on as a revenant pirate, ever hungry for more riches”. Sailors and pirates in particular, even fishermen, have a way about weaving wild tales that blur lines. It’s just something about the seas and oceans that make men good liars.
Can't say the same for Blackbeard. A.K.A. Edward Teach.
I love the little "thank you" without breaking the stride of his story when she moves the hanging vines out of his face at 1:38, too cute
Callie Craik me too.
A big fan myself
So British 😜
He's carrying her but appreciated simple courtesy. Wesley is a gentleman.
It would not surprise me at all to learn if this was actually unscripted and was more a automatic response because the actor is simply that nice.
When I watch this scene I'm always impressed by how smooth Wesley (Cary Elwes) is when he picks her up and continues the story as he carries her across the tree log. While Robin Wright may not weigh that much, doing that over multiple takes while delivering his lines would have required a good deal of stamina.
Well the audio is clearly overdubbed in those scenes lol
I know.....soooo romantic..... Ahhh!😍😍😍😍
Movies are usually overdubbed to get the best possible takes and eliminate unnecessary sounds, like an actor having to catch their breath in between sentences
I heard recently, and still love, that Wallace Shawn (Vizzigo) had a panic attack while shooting the "Cliffs of Insanity" scene, because he's afraid of you (*heights, and I'm leaving this as a "great moments in auto correct history"). Andre the Giant put his hand on Shawn's head and told him not to worry, "I won't let anything bad happen to you."
Apparently he did the same thing for Robin, any time she was cold on set, lol
The fact that Westley became so skilled in swordplay, strength and strategy in only five years speaks to how great of a teacher his Robert’s was and so on and so forth.
It may be true that he learn much from Roberts but I think the main factor for Wesley to excel is his motivations thru true love towards Buttercup
"My name is Ryan." LOL
"His name was Cummerbund" XD
Those lines always get me!
Was it, by chance, Benedict Cummerbund? :D
@@katherinec2759 Or maybe CUMBERBUND!?!? #YALLNASTY. 🙃
Nobody would surrender to the dread pirate wesley
@@aliostrowski1935 Just imagine how someone would surrender to a Dread Pirate Cummerbund
@@user-rz2oh4ns4h or the dread pirate ryan
Gotta admit, the name Dread Pirate Roberts just rolls off the tongue smoothly. They created a neat character and lore in such a silly movie.
It's inspired by a real pirate - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Roberts
“On the set of The Princess Bride, André the Giant once ‘let out a 16-second fart and brought production to a standstill.’ Nobody said anything except director Rob Reiner, who said ‘Are you OK, André?’ to which André replied, ‘I am now, boss.'”
I watched a TH-cam video about André the Giant, including a fair bit about he and this movie. It was a combination of tragic and uplifting.
Up until recently I though he meant "I am the boss now" and not "I'm fine now boss"
@@Austin23191>goes on set
>lets out a 16 second long fart
>says “I am the boss now”
>refuses to elaborate
What a Chad move that would have been
You know, hidden behind the silliness and comedy of this movie are some pretty ingenious ideas... for example these 2 minutes of exposition could have been the premise for an entire movie.
Think of Pirates of the Caribbean, but at the end of the movie it's revealed that Jack Sparrow was actually a guy called Dave the entire time, and the real Jack Sparrow had died or retired years before.
Oh. My. Gosh.
Genius.
I've thought of this being a premise for a movie as a possible sequel. I've heard talks of a remake of this movie, which sounds like a terrible idea, but I think they could certainly build on the concept. I envision something like this: After the ending of this movie, Wesley and Buttercup married, had a kid. Inigo Montoya, his quest to find and kill the six fingered man finished, took on the Dread Pirate Roberts role (this was hinted at in the final scene of the movie). 20 or so years later (him having done it for a long time, maybe not continuously) Inigo is ready to retire and hand off the Dread Pirate Roberts role, and hands it off to Wesley and Buttercup's kid (I don't say son as a female Dread Pirate Roberts isn't outside the realm of possibility). This might be the first third or so of the movie, the rest being about the new Dread Pirate Roberts' adventures, maybe battling with Humperdink or his son or something. Use the original actors in their roles (Wesley, Buttercup, Inigo, Humperdink) but they aren't the leading role of the movie, sort of handing it off to a new generation - similar to how the Star Wars original trilogy cast handed the series off to the Sequel Trilogy characters.
Running with the original poster's comments, Dave also wouldn't even be the second Jack Sparrow, either. He'd be the 4th (with the original Jack Sparrow having been retired for 15 years and living like a king somewhere). After all, no one would be surrender to a pirate named "Dave."
@@forcewielder2000 I feel like it would be more fitting to the Pirates universe that the first Jack would've "disappeared decades ago" with even the previous Jacks not knowing his true whereabouts or fate, only his successor knowing what really happened.
Of course he'd have to show up later as a cursed sailor or just chilling somewhere on a remote island, Jack(our Jack*) would find him, they'd team up for a while and then he'd probably die heroically or something like they usually do.
With his final breath he'd say something like "the name belongs to my brother" and it turns out he wasn't the real Jack either, the real Jack was an orphan child who died 50 years earlier.
This whole scene upped most girls expectations of a guy 😂
this is definitely fantasy
Haha, perhaps! 🙂😁
That reminds me, does anyone know the average weight of women in films who get carried like that by guys? Cos I think any bf I have would struggle to pick me up cos I'm tall, but oh dang, I can barely pick up a paperclip let alone a human person, so neither of us would get to romantically carry the other person across a dangerous swamp area :(
@@rotflmfao3474 115llbs
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Keep in mind that Westley has been working out over 5 years. You can’t say the same thing for every guy you see.
When you know the dread pirate Roberts is a reference to a real pirate, Bartholmew Roberts (or black bart/Barti Ddu). And you know he was Welsh. And Patagonia is one of the few places in the world that has Welsh speaking communities outside of Wales. The subtle attention to detail is just 🤯❤️
"You see, no one would surrender
to the 'Dread Pirate Wesley." =))
+Tardisius Much less the "Dread Pirate Ryan"
And even less the dread pirate cumerbund
I sure as hell would have. His sword skill is incredible (or so the choreography would have us believe.)
Star Trek knows this well.
They all would have just said "Shut up, Wesley!"
“This will all soon be but a happy memory, as Robert’s ship Revenge is anchored at the far end, and I, as you know, am Roberts.” This line always makes me laugh, Cary says it so matter of fact.
Her face at 2:06
"I have no idea what you just said, but just so we don't have to repeat ourselves, I understand everything! 😉"
The whole Dread Pirate Roberts thing sounds like a very convoluted yet very effective Pyramid Scheme.
;)
It's a great story. Also a reference to Black Bart Roberts, best Pirate ever. Hence why Roberts is somehow scarier sounding than Wesley.
You don't seem to understand what a pyramid scheme is.
More of a straight line than a pyramid dude
@@IronicHavoc Who's to say Wesley was the only person the previous Roberts recruited. Those men that worked alongside him were probably other potentials for the title and should they not be picked odds are, they wait until the other Roberts pick one of them.
Wesley's nonchalance throughout this film is absolutely charming!
How so?
Westley is just so darn positive.
I found it kinda funny that basically every five years a new Dread Pirate Roberts is selected
"My name is Ryan" LOL
A masked pirate who was really a title that was passed down from predecessor to successor. That would be a great story for a prequel or sequel for The Princess Bride.
Shut up man.
They will destroy EVERYTHING we love about this.
Dude best plot twist ever! There never was a Dread Pirate Roberts! Wesley and the others merely kept the legend alive. I love it!
He retired and the name has been passed on
We need a Dread Pirate Roberts spinoff.
She probably thought "that made no sands" so she fell into one.
ONCEfineapplinus boooo
Take my thumbs up dammit
Everything in this movie is a perfect combination of funny and common sense. Truly a timeless masterpiece!
1:39 he says thanks when she brushes the vines out of the face :)
Unscripted by the way, they really were just in the way and she helped :)
I honestly Don't know anyone who dislikes this movie. Even younger folks who haven't seen it before and are skeptical of it tend to like it afterward and have a hard time NOT quoting darn near everything in the movie anyway.
My ex girlfriend. There's a reason we are not together any longer.
@@Kaleidoscope_Instructor You have *DODGED* a bullet, trust me.
@@juliall255 you're right! Lol
Westly: “Is everything clear to you?”
Buttercup: *Nods her head*
2:08... then what’s up with that face? Lol
She's like, "Yeah. I have no idea what you just told me."
Buttercup in the book honestly was a pretty thick lady, something that was toned down a fair amount in the movie, but there was an entire section in the prologue to the story that really hammered home how slow buttercup was.
I like the movie a touch more in that aspect.
Maybe she was impressed that while telling the story he was effortlessly keeping her safe from various dangers.
It's perfect. She pretends to understand, but overall she's like what? How?
@@leftcoaster67 Might be a little bit to the math, there. He was in the previous Roberts’ crew for three of the five years he’s been gone, meaning got upgraded to being the new Roberts for 1-2 years, and got a somewhat absurd amount of training done to pick up several skills over the full course of time.
Bruh the way he spun her around and picked her up and carried her😍😍😍😍😍
Its so smooth and cute im obsessed with it!
Came looking for a thing called “Silk Road” but enjoying this either way
And then suddenly one day the Dread Pirate Roberts was Spanish. ;)
"Is everything clear to you?"
Nods yes, looks confused. Turns around and falls into a pit of quicksand
2:04 best 5 seconds
Inigo Montoya became the next dread pirate roberts, then that dude from the silk road that the fbi arrested because he wasn't givin the government a cut of the action was the next.
"My name is Ryan" 😂
Am I the only one who searched up pirate roberts from SILK ROAD
Before this video, I got an ad for the 30th edition of TPB =)
Daft Punk's secret.
I've had thoughts of this being a premise for a possible sequel. I've heard talks of a remake of this movie, which sounds like a terrible idea, but I think they could certainly build on the universe, particularly this concept. I envision something like this: After the ending of this movie, Wesley and Buttercup married, had a kid. Inigo Montoya, his quest to find and kill the six fingered man finished, took on the Dread Pirate Roberts role (this was hinted at in the final scene of the movie). 20 or so years later (him having done it for a long time, maybe not continuously) Inigo is ready to retire and hand off the Dread Pirate Roberts role, and hands it off to Wesley and Buttercup's kid (I don't say son as a female Dread Pirate Roberts isn't outside the realm of possibility). This might be the first third or so of the movie, the rest being about the new Dread Pirate Roberts' adventures, maybe battling with Humperdink or his son or something. Use the original actors in their roles (Wesley, Buttercup, Inigo, Humperdink) but they aren't the leading role of the movie, sort of handing it off to a new generation - similar to how the Star Wars original trilogy cast handed the series off to the Sequel Trilogy characters.
Oh and the story could be told by the grandson to his child. That would be so cute.
@@arcats9004 Good idea - the kid from the first movie (Fred Savage) reading it to a son or nephew or someone else. He's now 46 years old, wouldn't have quite the same impact as an elderly grandfather, but it could work.
I now know the source behind one for all
Very few people would get this comment ^
Cary had potential to be one of the most popular actors ever.
True. From what I heard he got typecast for playing Westley which seemed to be why he chose to play Russ Wheeler, the bad guy.
Unfortunately, I think that move backfired.
I totally wanna watch a show about Wesley going on pirate aventures. I wanna see him learning how to fight, building a resistance to iocaine powder, taking on the mantle of the dread pirate Roberts, and eventually amassing enough fortune and courage to return to Buttercup.
Seems legit
He's using that rapier like a machete to cut those vines.
Jungle vines are tough. That thin rapier was lucky it didn't snap.
To me, the name “Dread Pirate Roberts” sounds more like a pirate gang, or even a ship.
Ever heard of a ship named Roberts? Sounds pretty good.
They should make a TV series about Wesley’s adventures as the Dread Pirate Roberts!
Now that would be epic!! Do you have an idea for how the first episode could go?
I mean I'm a year late but... I'm making a college film about that and it comes out in the summer if you'd like seeing that
Tbh I wouldn’t mind seeing a prequel tv series or movie focusing on the Dread Pirate Robert mantle being passed on leading up to Wesley
I would like to know more about the practical effect of Buttercup disappearing into the sand.
I just noticed the Thousand and One Arabian Nights reference. Huh.
Theoretically Awesome Wesley is Sheherazad? (Sorry if that's spelled wrong) 😂
2:10 R.I.P Princess bride ;-;
END CREDITS...
Story by William Goldman.
Probably the original superhero (or in this case antihero) case where the title is just that, a title that can live for many years with different people filling the role. Batman, Zorro, Dread pirate Roberts, Blackbeard, etc.... Real or fake cases of empires being built not based off of one man, but the legend. I really hope they come out with a futuristic Batman Beyond movie..
I like this story. ^^
Anyone else realize they put this lore into assassins creed 4’s storyline with the sage being the dread pirate roberts. Kinda interesting and scary
Dread Pirate Wesley that's cute I can't ❤😍
been no movie like it!
2:00 - My plans vs 2020.
Inconceivable!
It's just like the gray fox
I don't remember it ever circling back around to him handing the title to someone else. Inigo might not wanna be a pirate... but he could be the best Dread Pirate Roberts
He tells Inigo he would make an excellent pirate now that he is out of the revenge business.😅
No one wants to think about the dark fact that this strategy only works if you murder the entire previous crew before the change of command.
and Nolan borrowed this as Ras Al Ghul's way to live forever, its juts a title passed on.
'I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts' he said. 'My name is Ryan; I inherited the ship from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from is not the real Dread Pirate Roberts either. His name was Cummerbund ..real Robert’s retired and living like king in Patagonia ..
I’m actually the “dread pirate Roberts.” Not kidding
Silk Road deep web documentary brought me here
Oh? How?
“Good night, Wesley, good work, sleep well, I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.” This is how you make sure your kids are listening to you when you put them to bed. 😂
I was just gonna say, this sounds like something I’d tell my kids 🤣🤣
It's interesting that despite being freed from the title of Dread Pirate Roberts he still wanted to find an heir for the title. He genuinely cared for the previous title owner and choses to keep the myth alive out of respect.
Soooo romantic haaaahhhh😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰
Robin Wright was a perfect 10.
"Is everything clear to you?" That nod she gave said, "No but whatever".
I want a boyfriend that looks like him💓
One of my favs
So Dread Pirate Roberts is basically the Gray fox?
As you know his name is Wesley 😊
So buttercup just ignores the fact that Wesley has murdered hundreds of innocent people over the last 5 years and profited over their deaths. I feel like this is a red flag
Lol when he asked her is everything clear to you that pause & stare she gave him was clearly a concerning look but ok whatever kind of attitude.
2:09 Damn that's not just quicksand, that's Move Bitch Git Out Tha Way sand.
What a place to cut off the video? Did he save her?
So basically the Dread Pirate Roberts is Code Geass's Zero
So, her being sucked into the quicksand or whatever that was at the end - is that a metaphor for marriage to Sean Penn? :D
ROFL. I think at most they had just gotten married... but, iirc they didn't get married until shortly after.
@@davidsloat1016 Aah - I hear you. Well, anything for a laugh. :)
Have you seen The Princess Bride parody made with kids yet?
Sounds like dogshit
I have never seen this movie, the only reason I am here writing this comment is because a customer at my work today told me that I look like Cary Elwes from The Princess Bride. I definitely need to watch it now, just wanted to share this information
Believe it or not Cary Elwes broke his toe before filming this scene.
Cary was so 🔥🔥🔥
Still is tbh
Inigo is the truest dread pirate Roberts since the first, he spent twenty years of his life learning swordplay in order to revenge his papa's murder. If Westley handed down his knowledge to Inigo and Inigo kept up that tradition then each new dread pirate Roberts would only become better and better.
Yeah I like that idea a lot. If your successor isn't better than you than it's should be considered a failure
I am not the dread pirate Roberts...
I am.
... because "no one would surrender to the Dread Pyrate Wesley." 🤣
If I'm not mistaken Westley past on the name to Inigo Montoya
Is it just me or is this movie very underrated
Isn’t he the guy that ran the Silk Road and failed horribly trying to hire a hit man?
Classic.
SILK ROAD BITCHES
i think this is where they got the idea of deacon’s character in fallout lmao
0:03-0:33 🔥 1:38 thank you. 2:10-2:13 🌩 sand
2:10 Quickest sand
Man... if Madara Uchiha didn't have to have it all for himself (having been led by Zetsu) he could have been as immortal as the Dread Pirate Roberts.
The name is important...
Are they walking the silk road??
So...what is the overall goal for The Dread Pirate Roberts persona?? Yes each man who takes the mantle gets to retire with riches, but what’s the endgame for the overall title?? Just to instill fear?? Create a legend?? Fight for a cause??
Keep the legend going so the fear remains... kinda like Batman or The Phantom.
So... like the Symbol of Peace and All Might??
Kinda i guess, only instead you become a force of terror on the seas, fighting with a sword, and will likely retire wealthy and happy.
Where as the wielders of OFA go on to become beacons of hope in Japan, fight with the power of their predecessors backing them up, and all but the last two had early (Likely violent) ends due to a quirk snatching supervillain from the dawn of the quirk era.
The captions on this need to be fixed