The Princess Bride (5/12) Movie CLIP - The Battle of Wits (1987) HD
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Westley (Cary Elwes) tricks Vizzini (Wallace Shawn) and poisons him, allowing Westley and the Princess (Robin Wright Penn) to escape together.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
Based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, The Princess Bride is staged as a book read by grandfather (Peter Falk) to his ill grandson (Fred Savage). Falk's character assures a romance-weary Savage that the book has much more to deliver than a simpering love story, including but not limited to fencing, fighting, torture, death, true love, giants, and pirates. Indeed, The Princess Bride offers a tongue-in-cheek fairy tale depicting stable boy-turned-pirate Westley's journey to rescue Buttercup (Robin Wright), his true love, away from the evil prince (Chris Sarandon), whom she had agreed to marry five years after learning of what she had believed to be news of Westley's death. With help from Prince Humperdinck's disgruntled former employee Miracle Max (Billy Crystal), swordsman Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), and a very large man named Fezzik (Andre the Giant), the star-crossed lovers are reunited.
CREDITS:
TM & © MGM (1987)
Cast: Cary Elwes, Wallace Shawn, Robin Wright Penn
Director: Rob Reiner
Producers: Norman Lear, Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Jeffrey Stott, Steve Nicolaides
Screenwriter: William Goldman
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Vizzini fell victim to one of the classic blunders: never let the challenger provide his own means of death.
+GibbonOfHealth
If you get into a challenge on their terms, it will be unwinnable.
***** I know. Clearly Vizzini was more overconfident than intelligent.
+Zijyfe Duufop (sysdaemon) now that I think of it I think they might have gotten the inspiration from this scene
It's as true in this movie as in life. Nothing scarier than a motivated idiot.
INCONCEIVABLE!!!
He wasn't as smart as he thought he was. He failed to realize that a clever man *would never stake his life on a game he had any chance of losing.*
He simply did not think Wesley was as clever as he actually was
he's smart, he's trying to get westley to react and get information based on that and besides westley at this point had climbed up a rope he knew was going to be cut fought an impossible to beat swordsman and beaten a giant it was obvious he was very confident
It's not in this scene, but he had no choice... Wesley could have killed him with a sword easily.
@@VeriStrawberi Indeed, but as long as he had a knife to Buttercup's throat, he held all the cards. The moment he agreed to Wesley's game and lowered the blade, it was already over. He gave up his only advantage because he believed he could win in a battle of wits, never considering the idea that the game was rigged.
The answer was inconceivable!
I always admired Wesley's foresight to think to build up an immunity over time to iocaine just in case he comes across a sicilian one day that challenges him to a battle of wits to the death.
There are probably a few other situations he though of as well not just this situation where immunity to a poison would come in handy
@@rossspeight-burns7216 yeah, good point.
More like, he was surrounded by a bunch of no-good, treacherous, murdering pirates, and he figured that they would probably try to poison him sooner or later.
@@jculver1674 um, excellent point again.
As is tradition
i love how Vizzini actually SOLVES the riddle, that both are poisoned, and doesn't even realize it
Unless inhaling the powder is also deadly. That's why he told him to smell it before they started
@@killking72 Humperdinck inhaled the powder too though and he was fine. So i think it puts that theory to rest.
@@ethankleinman1067 unless all the poison was used up
Not just once, but 3 times he solves it, each time coming to the correct conclusion that he can drink from *neither* cup lol
@@ethankleinman1067 part of the joke, lots of subtle humor in this movie.
i’ve just realised it’s the dude that mr incredible yeets through like 50 walls
And Rex from Toy Story
I'm not happy Bob...not HAPPY
He’s also Metatron in Supernatural
And Bertram from Family Guy.
Good thing, too...you were this close to losing your -*gasp*
I always get a kick out of how he just drops over dead. No seizure, no gagging or chocking, nothing. He just falls over dead. Love that bit.
Was the crazed agitation, flushed anxiety, and hysteric laughter "normal" for him - or were they onset symptoms of the lethal poison?
@@pwnmeisterage Nah! That's normal for him
I believe Rob Reiner came up with that idea, but I'm not sure. I just read _As You Wish_ and there was a lot of behind-the-scenes information.
@@LadyhawksLairDotCom I literally JUST read that part of the book and came here to post the same thing lmao. It was the director's idea to keel over sideways.
Me seeing that for the first time: "what was that!?"
Wesley: death
Me: what kind
Wesley: instant
I just noticed something.
When he mentions how he could’ve put the poison in his own glass and hope on his strength to save him, Wesley stops smiling and tenses up.
Viz was actually right when he said that. He just didn’t take it far enough. And for just a second, Wesley did think he was beat.
But once he continues talking. Wesleys smile returns as he realizes he has no idea.
Good catch.! Wesley swallows at that moment, betraying his sudden worry.
Why would he be concerned if both were deadly to Vizzini and both were fine for him?
@@gorg6151 if vizzini figures out the game is rigged, he obviously wouldn't play along. and maybe he'd suddenly put a knife to the princess's throat
Wesley first looks nervous when Viz started going on about how he couldn't pick either cup.
@@gorg6151 if Viz guessed that he poisoned both cups, he would have won the battle of wits.
"Truly you have dizzying intellect"
"Wait till I get going!! Where was I?"
Every single line in this film is absolute gold
"Austrailia"
love how they're so casual even in the battle they knew one is a liar and one is a trickster
@@ZhaoYun320 'many people are saying I'm a stable genius'- something 45th President of U.S. might say
@@ZhaoYun320 “Yes, Australia. And you must have suspected I would have known the powder's origin, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me” 😏
I wouldn't be surprised if the entire script eventually ends up in the "memorable quotes" section on IMDB.
Love how done Westley sounds when he says "Australia"
Someone mentioned this before me and I'll just go for a repeat:
"You've beaten my giant which means you're exceptionally strong, so you could've put the poison in your own goblet trusting in your strength to save you."
DAMN HE WAS REALLY CLOSE.
"But you've also bested my Spaniard which means you must have studied and in doing so you must have learned that man is mortal"
He unintentionally figured it out, Westley could have studied enough to figure out a way for his strength to save him by building an immunity to the poison. And Westley was panicking, you could actually see it once the music starts going, so he had to say something to throw him off.
"If your opponent is making a mistake, don't correct them"
@@xrstevenson "A ninja never reveals his secrets."
He had figured out where the poison was, he just didn't realize it. He figured out that it was in both but, being blinded by pride, believed that he was the only one using underhanded tactics and so believed that he could chest his way out of a game he lost from the moment he agreed.
He was right, Wesley revealed that he spent years developing a tolerance to the powder
He had all the pieces of the puzzle, but he put them together wrong.
"You've fallen victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia."
Never gets old
Westley: No u
This quote became a meme.
@@beneko1127 Dammit you beat me to making a Risk reference.
Second is don't invade Russia in the winter
Vietnam
I really like Westley clearly being smart enough not to fall for "WHAT IN THE WORLD COULD THAT BE?" But humoring him anyways. He's comfortable turning his back knowing it doesn't really matter what Vizzini does.
i mean he could have put his own poison into wesley's cup, that would have been a problem
@@SlukkeThough Westley is immune to the iocane powder and his cup already has poison in it as well
Wesley more than likely knew that Vizzini was going to switch the glasses with that ‘trick’
@@BlueBird180but Vizzini doesn't know that
It’s to allow him to make the switch. He is two moves ahead. Vizzini will do what he does - switch, wait to see if Westley drinks Fromm the cup in front of him, and then figure that means Westley put the poison in the cup that was at the time closer to Vizzini, which is now in Westley’s hand; which to Vizzini means the cup he actually ends up with must be safe.
I can't believe Wallace Shawn was so nervous and self conscience he thought he was going to ruin this movie. He was an absolute pleasure to watch!
It was “inconceivable”
He always is a pleasure to see. I love him in star trek as the grand nagus.
He was mainly nervous because their first pick for Vizzini was Danny Devito but I dunno if he was either busy or they didn’t even offer it to him. But Wallace Shawn was so nervous he was gonna be replaced.
Now Dany Devito I could see pulling this off but I think Wallace Shawn helped make Vizzini’s time memorable.
He is a more thrilling villain than Prince Humperdinck though he isn’t nearly as cool as Count Rugen.
I come back to this lovely movie time and time again just for him! 😂😂
All Wesley said was “Where is the poison?”, he never said “I only poisoned one cup”.
TRUTH!
"Westley"
If he poisoned both cups so why didn't he die?
@@tessowens6757 Um, did you watch it, or is this a trick question? 3:34
@@Martin_Gregory you know....I watch this when I was a kid and like as soon as he drank it I was confused and paused it and then did not watch the rest of it thinking it was the same as when I watch it years ago. My bad I have returned to monke brain
As a kid,I always thought vizinni was talking sense, I just couldnt understand what he said. Now that I'm older I realize how much it really is BS
BlockHead hahahaha
Actually no from the perspective of a competitive mafia player that was a solid case. Every info he gave could be used to reinforce a case or build it entirely
He wasn't wrong, though. He couldn't choose either one.
Lok
Like everyone has said, the reasoning was sound but the conclusion he drew missed the most important take away. He thought himself into a corner.
Vizzini was actually quite smart with how he was constantly trying to trick Wesley into revealing secrets, before finally switching cups, and only drinking after Wesley had.
His only flaw was that he did not realize that Wesley was playing a different game than he was.
so the real moral of the story is this
never go in against a sicilian when death is on the line, except for when your opponent is immune to the poison
@@speedrunner1763 Correction:
Never let the challenger choose the means of death
Vizinni was playing chess...
Wesley was playing Death Note
@@wanderingaceminecraftandmo8034Nah Vizinni was playing chess but Wesley was playing 4d chess
His mistake was failing to understand the game.
Vizzinis childlike move is actually pretty genius in one way.
If Wesley drank from his cup, Vizzini would know the cup he's holding is not the poison.
If Wesley reluctantly drank from his cup, or tried not to, Vizzini would know the cup he's holding is the poison.
So in one way, he had both ways covered to know if he was drinking the poison or not.
He did not expect however that Wesley would drop the poison in both cups.
Well yes, assuming that Wesley didn't know he switched cups. But i think it's pretty obvious he knew exactly why Vizzini "saw" something remarkable over his shoulder at exactly that moment.
This logic is flawed. Vizzini could get the same information regardless of which cup he picked or in what order.
@@LameDuckStudiosHe’d get the information but he wouldn’t be able to “trick” Wesley into drinking from the poisoned cup.
I didn't catch that. That's smart
It would of been great if he said "Neither one were poisoned. He was dead the moment he inhaled the powder."
I prefer it as it is but. . .
Wow! *applauds*
Adam DeLocke It only works if you swallow it!
he means the poison is harmless to eat but has toxic fumes
And the whole challenge was just waiting for the poison to do its thing. Honestly he might have been just saying the shit about immunity to have a laugh or look cool to his childhood sweetheart
oh snap.
"Where was I?" .. "Australia"
This one line alone always gets me to laugh hysterically 🤣
That would be a good idea,
only in the year 1997.
I have such a dizzying intellect that I loose my train of thought after just one sentence off topic! I AM A GENIUS!
Also I'm just sayin, ibogaine is from africa
@@user-yr8jr4vn1j it’s not ibogaine. It’s iocaine
@@user-yr8jr4vn1jiocane is the poison they’re talking about - which is fictional
I saw this as part of a group lesson in High School. A part of a Drama or English class. Junior year. The SECOND Vizzini keeled over, someone in the class said "dumbass..." The whole class ERUPTED into laughter. The timing was excellent.
I saw this movie in middle school along with the movie the Matrix that same year. I think in English class as well
The way Westly said "You guessed wrong" and the look he had when he said it has the most subtle darkness to it that actually makes it terrifying, like there is so much power and gravity behind it.
Through the movie we are so blinded by Westley's charm and love for Buttercup it's easy to forget he is still a killer and very competend pirate. That line is kind of a gentle reminder to how ruthless he can be
According to Cary Elwes, Wally Shaw was a complete wreck during this scene. It was actually the very first part of the film he worked on, and he was distraught over having to do such a verbose monologue as his very first shot. He also was very self conscious and was convinced he was going to be fired and replaced at any moment.
Yeah I heard that too...someone even told me that you could see him sweating in one scene and that was because he was nervous he was gonna be fired and replaced because he heard a rumour he was their second choice for the role and that they would get the other actor for the part and he would be replaced...so it was real sweat not meant to be in the movie lol...he did great im this role though it's a shame his character died so soon!
No one is a great actor in this, it's a great written film. Have fun storming the castle!
hahahahahhaahahaahahaa i watched The Wizard right before this literally on the same night
Napalm I'll agree with you; the writing is absolutely superb. THAT BEING SAID, the actors gave the written word heart, and I think that it was the perfection of their casting that greatly added to the overall effect of this film.
Fair enough.
A strange game the only winning move was not to play
The Kobayashi Gambit
War Game Simon I recognize any line from gazillions movies
How about a nice game of chess?
A mental game of chess would be nice like how Sherlock Holmes and Professor James Moriarty did it in Games of Shadows.
“The Game is rigged, but you cannot lose if you do not play” - The Wire
I love how Vizzini makes complete sense at first, before instantly diving into total nonsense.
But he was right though, he clearly shouldn't have picked from either glass. An intelligent person could deduce that our masked hero here wouldn't bet his life on the game if it meant also losing buttercup, and so he would create a situation he couldn't lose. If viz had pointed that out, I think he would have "won", not that it would do him much good at this point.
I just realized Wesley gulps when Vizzini says "You're exceptionally strong, so you could have put the poison in your own goblet trusting on your strength to save you." Very nice details you catch in these exchanges throughout the film!
Instead of switching the wine glasses, he should’ve poured out the wine out of his glass
he was dead from smelling the poison.
neither cup was poisoned
@@madtechnocrat9234 the opposite, both cups were poisoned. Did you not watch the whole video?
@@ChrisTheWeak no they were not. he did not build immunity.
@@madtechnocrat9234 Dude what are you smoking?
He chose......poorly.
Inconceivable
Indiana Jones? isn't it? :)
He also chose ...smartly. Westly Drank FIRST. SMART MOVE.
At least he didn't get suckered into drinking from the gold cup covered in emeralds, that naughty little Fraulein choose that cup to kill that guy so she could take off with Indy......
Wow That’s incredible hahaha
Vizzinis double smirk before they drink is my single favorite example of physical acting ever.
The score helped IMMENSELY, in this scene and many others
Interestingly, there was absolutely a way for Vizzini to win. And the way Wesley phrased his challenge even suggested as much. He said "Where is the poison?" Not "Which cup has the poison?" The game ends when you choose and we both drink. He never said Vizzini had to choose a cup, the bottle was sitting right there on the table, he could have chosen to drink safely from that, were he actually as clever as he thought he was.
Yep even he says the game only ends when we find out who is right and who is dead, doesn't mean either of them need to die they can both be right
I actually totally agree he tried to give him an out.
In the previous fights Inigo and the giant fought on fair ground, handicapping their strength in some way (using his non dominant hand or going hands on respectively) which is why even when beaten he chose to spare them both.
But here he cheated by switching the glasses when his back was turned. He tried to be tricky and it cost him his life
princess buttercup is just sat there like: 😒
How she doesn't bust out laughing is beyond me
She could have run away easily.
Faceless Voice Well she is blindfolded.
Kiliel Ship she must of been like,
This conversation is stupid 😅.
She had little personality in the movie
It is amusing because technically Vezzini was correct. Either choice would kill him. He should have followed his instinct. You can even see that Westley is getting nervous, like he might have been figured out.
If he had followed his thought about Wesley trusting his physical strength to save him...alas, it was inconceivable to him
Pretty sure he was dead when he snorted the powder at the beginning,
Mister Warsaw ahhh I never thought of that!! That is a strong possibility.
I can't remember what i posted, they must've deleted my comment 😕😞😟
Some Polish Guy -
If that's the case, Humperdinck would've died too. He sniffed the iocane as well
Love how the princess is just quietly crying inside listening to this conversation
3:14 Bro forgot to say the word"inconceivable"before he dropped dead.🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
"Where was i?" "Australia" "yes Australia"
Little piece of advice, we are not *_all_* criminals... 😇 ❤️ from 🇦🇺!
INCONCEIVABLE!
Things are upside down thee, so reverse your choice.
Abby shepherd That was not in the script. He said that because he forgot the line after that, but the other guy just rolled with it.
Abby shepherd
Nothing is as compelling an argument as Australia.
Truly you have a dizzying Intellect
Wait till I get going!
He actually does. Wally Shaw studied at Harvard and has degrees in economics and history.
This blew my mind the first time I seen it. Circa early 90's.
Mandela effect. Her dress used to be BLUE. Thank you Cern for merging the dimensions. Thank you very much.
Robert Flinch average rick and morty fan
The genius of this scene is that Wesley both outwitted and didn't outwit him. Wesley knew he couldn't outwit him if it was a battle of the minds straight up, so he turned a battle of wits into a battle of strength... which in and of itself is outwitting your opponent
How is it a battle of strenght?
Surviving poison doesn't take just strenght it takes resistance and that takes years to build up
@@user-pi3hd2bt3f so would you say he spent years training his body to resist poison? Last time I checked training was a feat of strength. Bro resistance is still a form of strength. Hell working out is just damaging your body with movement of weights and then letting your body heal to wit it can RESIST more weight for a longer period of time.
@@wintersoldier909 my bad
I just think of tolerance more like an ability
@@user-pi3hd2bt3f Instead of wits vs strength, consider it as a battle of the mind vs a battle of the body.
Im technicality, it was wits vs wisdom. Vizzinic acted as if he knew everything, Wesley knew he did not.
Vizzini even got it right when he guessed Wesley poisoned his own cup and planned to tank the poison. But Vizzini was so nervous he distracted himself with further speculation.
He overthought it. That was his downfall.
"You do have a dizzying intellect."
Yeah! :D
Westley DID give up the most perfect clue: Westley drank first, so he knew the poison wasn't in his glass. It's a VERY SMART move.
In his mind, Westley wouldn't have drank first if he knew the poison was in his goblet. The rest was just waiting for opportunity.
Nope. They even spend 2 seconds of screen time showing this fact.
Why the fuck would you drink a glass of poison if you know it's in front of you? -- Thoughts in his head.
He waits. Westley drinks first. - Smart.
(Now we can argue, why would you agree to this, and him handling the poison, but hey, he'll totally murder you anyway if you hurt that girl)
Annoying when people delete all their dumb comments.
Napalm38382 They were both poisoned, he built up an immunity to iocane powder
There’s actually a lot of depth to this scene, and I really like that.
For one thing, when Vizzini starts talking about Westley relying on his strength to save him, you can see Westley start to get flustered, because Vizzini’s really close to the truth, not to mention the guy’s next words are “you’re trying to get me to give something away.”
Furthermore, Vizzini doesn’t drink from his goblet until Westley drinks from his, figuring that if Westley is willing to drink from his goblet, he must’ve chosen correctly when he switched the cups.
This is genuinely a really intriguing scene even if you remove the twist at the end.
Completely agreed. He gets a lot of crap, but for what he was given he honestly did everything right
It was a battle of wits after all, not a simple guessing game
Vizzini couldn't see the forest for the trees. He was a genuinely very intelligent person who had every piece of the puzzle, but he formulated his own plan to trick Westley and failed to imagine Westley outsmarting him
Except for the part where none of the giblets were poisoned and he was dead as soon as he inhaled the poison. It just took a minute to kill him
They foreshadow it in the book too. When Vizzini begins his vacillating about how he both can't choose his own goblet and can't choose Westley's, the narration says "The man in black was starting to get nervous." Then when Vizzini says "You could have put it in your cup, trusting on your strength to save you", it says "The man in black was very nervous now."
Wesley never lied, btw. *WESLEY* never stated he poisoned only one of the goblets. The battle of wits was never "which glass is poisoned," It was "where is the poison," and the only correct answer was "in both goblets." A man of honor, even if a poisoner.
He said the game ends when Vizzini decides and they both drink, but he never specified that he had to drink from the goblet. Such could've been done by drinking from the wine bottle itself.
This is actually one of the most cleverly written pieces in the whole film. Never get into a land war in Asia hahaha!
Nice picture.
I just realized what Westley meant from “you’re trying to trick me into revealing something” By Vizzini talking back and forth about the cups he was trying to get Westley to look at the cup he poisoned. Revealing the truth with his eyes. Even though he poisoned both,Westley never looked at the cups but at Vizzini the whole time.
truly you have a dazzling intellect
@@jesus-sz5qn dizzying
It's like poker. The more advanced you get, the more you study your opponent's face and reactions rather than the cards.
Vizzini was correct on where the poison was, even though he said a mouthful.
@@jesus-sz5qn wait till he gets going!
Westly: “Inhale this but do not touch.”
Vizzini: *sniff* “I smell nothing.”
Westly: “What you do not smell is a lethal poison. You are now dead.”
"Westly" ;)
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There's actually a running theory that Wesley lied to the princess and that this is somewhat the truth! I've seen logic as far as 'wine had a non lethal activater that reacts with the poison and Wesley never smelt the poison, just pretended'
@@jameshenderson4094 Westly
@@jameshenderson4094 thing is doesn’t Humperdinck smell the poison later to identify it while he’s tracking Buttercup?
One of the most sneakily hilarious quips in the movie (which is saying something):
“But you’ve also bested my Spaniard which means you must have studied. And in studying, you must have learned that man is mortal”
But his Spaniard was…and I quote, “…so slobbering drunk that he couldn’t buy Brandy”. Not much of an achievement. 😂😂
@@thedarkninja2000 *** “Couldn’t. Buy. BRANDYYYY”
I love how the first episode of "Sherlock" had a climax based off of this scene😂
Exactly good thing there are people who know this and are still a fan of Sherlock
That was actually from the first Sherlock Holmes book: _A Study in Scarlet,_ though Sherlock himself was never confronted with the two pills in the novel, so that aspect of it could've been taken from this.
His downfall was assuming that the rules were that the poison had to be in one goblet or the other. The game was to determine where the poison was, and to then take a drink. The vagueness opens up different opportunities from both sides. Wesley could've not poisoned either goblet and hoped for Vizzini to panic and give up. Vizzini could've chosen to drink directly from the bottle, as Wesley did not specify from where he had to drink. So by assuming that certain rules were set into place that weren't there, he fell for a trap.
For a self-proclaimed genius, Vizzini wasn't much of an "out of the box" thinker.
He also wasn't very observant, since he paid attention to the guy's face instead of his hands. THE HANDS GAVE IT AWAY!
Intellectual arrogance. He was so sure he understood the rules of the game, he didn't need to think it through any further. Besides, he always intended to win by cheating; switching glasses and watching if the man in black drunk first. So the entire monologue was his attempt to get the man in black off balance and twitchy so that he'd react when he did the 'What's that over there.' stunt.
...Thanks, Captain Obvious.
@@adams1030 Takes a heroic pose as his cape waves in a convenient breeze. 'You are welcome citizen! Now I must away!' Runs off with his arms out making wooshing noises.
A game that relies on your opponent thinking the rules are being followed, against someone that fancies himself a genius. Easy money
2:38 oh my god i just realized that Vizzini was waiting to see if wesley drank first because if he did, that would tell Vizzini that wesley thought that his own cup was safe, and that’s why Vizzini had thought he’d won! Because he switched the glasses! Damn that makes a lot more sense. I thought he was just crazy.
Pls dont say the lords name in vain
@@axelrivera3382 lol
@@axelrivera3382 your funny @Captain Axe
@@axelrivera3382 Now don't get me wrong, nothing wrong with a bit of common decency. But I've always found it funny how really devout people think this is such a big no-no, because it kinda implies that their god is a vengeful and petty one :) If your god truly is a forgiving power of good and benevolence then I think it would let something like that slide and understand that to err is human. So if this is out of genuine fear of "not getting in heaven" and/or "angering god" that says a lot about ones twisted and frankly downright disturbing view on spirituality :)
@@Micras08 he would let it slide if you repented
As an Australian I appreciate the shout out to my convict ancestors
0:27 I love Vezzini's laugh like "You thought that would confuse me?" He's so full of himself.
Wesley: I spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder.
Shyamalan: What a twist. :o
domidium it really was
*Shyamalan will remember that*
It's actually not too hard to build up an immunity to poisons. You start with a very low dose. Then when you're no longer affected by that dose, you increase the dosage. Eventually, what was once a lethal dose of poison will be only as deadly as a tablespoon of sugar to an average person.
@@DarthDestructusTheSithLord Is that how vaccines work too?
It’s the way they make anti venoms also, they inject horses
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders: over analyzing leads to inaccuracies.
He over-analyzed the wrong things, which were the masked guys personality and his past
AP classes would like to know your location...
He tried to untie the gordian knot, and almost thought to cut it...
...He instead tried to rip it, making the knot tighter and breaking his hands.
Right wing conspiracies in a nutshell.
2:49 Vizzini’s longest last words in film history
This clip would have been funnier if he said: “You chose correctly.” When he switched the goblets.
“But it’s so simple”....then proceeds to over-complicate the scenario.
Story of my life
That’s Sicilians for you
When you are good at something, it tends to feel simple, even when you know every step.
you'll probably do the same if your life was on the line
The concept of a strategy can be simple. The strategy itself can be complicated.
When you come to the comments to find memes, but you don’t find them
“You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!”
Lol nice
THUNDER CROSS SPLIT ATTACK!
wait . . .
@@Euruzilys Nice
INCONCEIVABLE!!
I just tried to find camera shots from here I need to finish an assessment 😭
He would have been right if he stopped after saying he couldn't choose the cup in front of Westley and he also couldn't choose the cup in front of him. Oh well! Brilliant scene.
"you're no match for my brains"
takes the time while he's distracted to switch the cups instead of quickly pouring his own out
The most amazing thing about this scene is that when Vizzini was breaking things down, he was always right.
And Wesley was sly.
He just didn't realise it
They both tried to win by altering the game without the other's knowledge. The battle of wits was not the picking of the right cup it was the battle of who had the best method to win despite what cup the poison was in.
Nope he thought he was a genius and never considered an immunity, one of the ways humans have evolved forever. He left out a classic trait for humans in his determinations. He was foolish and arrogant and that's why he's dead. Alternatively Westley could have stabbed him in the throat while he was rambling on and on but ya this is better.
Wesley poured in both glasses. How is this still debatable @@mattc3581
“So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.”
“So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.”
Yup. You were right. Couldn’t choose either.
Correct. Westley said to Viz that the challenge ends when Viz chooses, and both men drink. If Viz had just chosen to drink from the bottle, he'd have won even though Westley didn't die due to his immunity.
Wallace Shawn...such a great and underrated actor!! He always falls perfectly into place when it comes to his roles, like a square peg to a square hole.
I love how he is 100% correct that he cannot choose the wine in front of himself or Roberts.
He was smart enough to figure it out but too cocky to understand his own deductive reasoning.
He didn’t figure it out at all. It’s actually surprising how stupid he was here. One of the first things he should’ve thought of was the possibility that perhaps both goblets were poisoned. His over analysis of everything is highly convoluted and makes very little sense, relying on far too much guesswork on Vizzini’s part, much of it coming from nowhere. Vizzini’s reasoning is quite narrow, as he doesn’t see any other possibilities other than one goblet or the other being poisoned. The way Wesley words the question leaves numerous solutions Vizzini clearly didn’t think of. Wesley asks where the poison is, not which goblet it is in. He could’ve put it in one, both, even neither, and as an alternative, Vizzini could’ve drank from the bottle the wine was poured in as a truly clever method of outsmarting Wesley. He is not nearly as bright as he thinks he is and the only reason he might have been considered smart was because the other two men working with him weren’t exactly the brightest bulbs.
@@a_fine_edition2746 His reasoning on him being strong enough to resist the poison was close if not for the one crucial element.
@@a_fine_edition2746 on the contrary, the man DID figure it out. Wesley was actually starting to panic once Vizzini said "you'll rely on your strength to save you" and Wesley also said that Wesley has clearly "studied". Wesley was panicking, look at this hand the whole time as well. Because if your opponent is doing someone wrong, you DON'T correct him. Wesley was bluffing and tried to throw Vizzini off. Sadly for Vizzini he DID fall for it, as he didn't pursue nor ponder those two ideas into thinking of the possibility that Wesley studied the poison and learned that he could develop an immunity, which relied on the strength to do so.
TL;DR Vizzini did infact come close to figuring it out but he was thrown off by Wesley
Citrusbird386 In your comment, you switched the names of Wesley and Vizzini. Wesley is the man in Black.
@@justinlokere my mistake, I'll fix that
I picked wrong, Inconceivable!
+CLB TV you keep on using that word, i do not think it means what you think it means.
Jake The Velociraptor 😂
Dude Buddy Man that’s inconceivable!!!!
😂😂😂Inconceivable
@@donaldbarnes4763 no just false memory
I can’t believe he outsmarted the Grand Nagus!
He must have the lobes of a true Ferengi
"You know Bob, a company....."
"Is like an enormous clock 🙄⏰ "
"Is like an enormous cl... YES! Precisely!"
If you know you know😂
Vizzini watched him drink first, so he knew he’d chosen correctly, presuming this was a fair test.
Drinking was not part of the contest.
Anything after "The contest begins now" was not part of the rules.
@@stephenolan5539 “We drink, and we find out who is right and who is dead.”
@@Scyllax
That is not one of the rules that is just a mind game to trick Vizzini.
The battle had already started.
When have you ever seen rules given after a game has started?
@@stephenolan5539 What are you talking about? All the comment is saying is that Vizzini had a viable strategy if only one cup was poisoned.
Or rather, presuming that he understood the test correctly. The test was "where is the poison?", not, "One of these glasses is poisoned; pick one, and I will drink the other". For Vizzini, the truly correct answer would've been to drink from the bottle, leaving Wesley to drink from both cups.
I use a variation of vizzini's speech when someone falls victim to the 4 turn checkmate in chess. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. the most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well known is this: never go in with a Sicilian (a chess opening) when chess is on the line"
how about the 2 turn check mate??
Shouldn't you be the one giving Vizzini's speech when about to (unknowingly) lose?
"A joust-- _to the death!"_
"Would you mind changing that to a game of chess?"
"Chess-- to the death?"
@@willh1655 no one ever falls for that one. Everyone knows about it. it's the first thing you learn in chess. Don't move in this very specific way or you lose.
That is awful, I love it
"What you do not smell is called iocane powder. It is odourless, tasteless, dissolves instanly in liquid."
The prince when he arrives:
"Iocane powder, I would bet my life on it."
Underrated joke
"Truly, you have a dizzying intellect..." is my favorite line.
One of the best scenes from any movie. Ever.
I find it strange how it took 5 years for someone to reply
Aldo Haimar I find it funny it took 4 months for somebody to respond to yours.
@@mrshadrack8554 I find it hilarious it took someone 3 weeks for someone to reply to yours.
@@youunfriendlyoutlaw4691 I didn’t expect any response.
I dont just find it strange to leave a comment 5 years after...
It's Inconceivable!!!
It's ever so good how Wesley's response to Vizzini pointing out, correctly, that according to logic he cannot drink from either goblet, is to say "you're trying to get me to give something away". It's not a huge moment but it's a lovely little nod to the fact that he is, for the first and perhaps only time in this entire scene, extremely close to the truth of the situation.
*Gasps* I never thought if that
The moral of this scene: How do you outwit someone smarter than you? Simple: You show them what they expect to see.
This scene illustrates the fatal weakness of narcissism and how the protagonist exploited that weakness. Smart though his opponent was, the problem with narcissists is they tend to take what people say at face value because they consider it impossible that they could ever be fooled. He lost because he took the challenge at face value. Had he considered the challenge wasn't what it appeared to be, he could have called the protagonist out and won.
Another layer to this whole scene is that, once Westley sat down, vizzini was already dead. At that distance, Westley could have drawn his blade and killed vizzini before he could draw his knife. Or, he could have just jumped over the rock and tackled vizzini before he could react. No matter what vizzini did, the outcome was already decided.
The moral of this comment: use a dictionary so you don’t misuse words like “narcissism” and pay attention in school so you don’t conflate pseudo-intellects like Vizzini for “smart”. Foolish comment OP, sorry.
@@ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ec Someone's desperately fishing for drama.
Sorry, not taking the bait.
@@terradraca first of all it irritates me that so many people take what clearly represents/symbolizes pseudo-intellectualism as “smart”. It’s a sad comment on our culture that consumes comedy/entertainment(daily show , Fox News) for politics and listens to fools like Jordan Peterson as “intellectuals”. Before the drinking stand off, Westley grinned while saying “really” when Vizzini called Aristotle and Socrates m0r0ns. He knew that he wasn’t truly a smart person therefore he could fool him.
What truly triggers me is mental illness stigma. People keep using mental illness as synonyms for character defect. Most mentally ill people on average have better character in my experience than those without. As the Bible relates, it’s the tree of knowledge and temptation that leads to evil. Not incompetent sick people. Vizzini and the hundreds of other people you diagnosis as narcissists, are not narcissists. I’ve read Freuds entire essay on narcissism, he coined the term. It is a personality disorder. Narcissists are rarely ever successful or powerful, they have fundamentally dysfunctional personalities that makes it difficult to form relationships or communicate.
Vanity, conceit, solipsism , are better words. But your idea of narcissism sounds like it was lifted from buzzfeed. Just pure psychobabble . You’ve never read a treatise on narcissism.
It was nice of Wesley to let his enemy think he had won all the way until the moment of his death. Letting him die happy rather than rubbing it in his face seems the gentleman thing to do.
No one is talking about how Buttercup is just sitting there blankly, not saying a word, and without any expression as to what is going on next to her.
"There was just a knife in my neck. Lets scream and see if theyll flinch and throw it far away."
You think that she’d at least turn her head to whoever she hears is speaking
I like to think that she was being silent because she was trying to figure out the battle of wits in her head while Vizzini was laying it all out,she was basically a spectator.
@@individual2122 That's a clever theory.
@@GenieVillain26 thank you.
If he sounds familiar, he voices Rex the dinosaur in the Toy Story series 😂💕
And Bob’s boss from the Incredibles
And if he doesn't sound familiar he doesn't do the voice?
@@PANZERFAUST90 exactly
@@a-zlin weird
@@PANZERFAUST90 sarcasm
Just my opinion but this scene is just one of those that I’ll never forget. It’ll stick in my mind for ever, hilarious characters, great writing.
It’s actually one of the only scenes I can remember from the movie. It stuck in my head as a kid and I still love it.
If you pay close attention at 1:40, as Wallace Shawn is talking about the giant being slain so he may have poisoned his own drink and relied on his strength to prevail, Cary Elwes gulps while maintaining a straight face, revealing that he had done exactly that
This is actually one of the best movies ever. Period. For real
It's arguably the most quoteable movie of all time. Virtually every line of dialogue is famous.
The only american movie i liked more than this one is blues brothers
Absolutely
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 lol have you heard of the dark knight trilogy? Or the Star Wars prequels?
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my Father...prepare to die.
“In studying you must’ve learned that man is mortal” lmao. Only the most learned know that humans die I guess
I think the inference is that education brings home the idea of human mortality in a more visceral fashion, enough to effect decisions like these.
@@Averyofthemain But extensive medical knowledge also brings forth ideas of treating injuries and poisons, or even building biological tolerance, as shown here with the poison immunity.
To point, Vizzini's fatal flaw was that he was not learned enough to know that a living body is incredibly adaptable, and thus ultimately capable of eventually adapting to build a high tolerance and nigh-immunity to various ill effects, such as sickness, disease, or poison. Or maybe he did learn of it, but simply did not consider it due to believing that his opponent would be stringently honorable, fair, and straightforward in the battle of wits.
"How often do people get killed via a duel of wits using poison?"
"Same number of times as most folks do-- _just the once."_
Only the most learned actually accept that it applies to them.
@@khajiitimanus7432 It’s called mithridatism.
You can develop immunity to certain types of poisons through an antibody response.
It’s like a cup spiked with COVID spike proteins.
They always say "where's the poison?", They never ask "how's the poison?"😔
This is my mom's favorite movie, and for good reason. Almost every line in the whole thing is so quotable and hilarious 😂
'You've made your decision, then?'
'The law requires that I answer "no".'
Roger Rabbit Voice: Thanks, I needed that. *Faints*
"We're supposed to help people".
Never even realized that was the same guy
Clips Before Time -
We’re supposed to help OUR people!
@@stoutyyyy also rex from toy story
"They were both poisoned."
😂😂😂😂😂😂dude is savage.
The guy has to have some legit powerful immune system then to trick poison?
@@kejiri3593 ikr judging by how quickly the older man died
@@kejiri3593 not his immune system, he just built up immunity.
@@waspoppin4784 Lets hope he has a antidote on him
@@kejiri3593 he had slowly taken the poison in small doses so his body would gain immunity from it
My mother once said something clever about this scene, “He lost the battle of wits the moment he let his opponent pick it.”
"in studying you must have learned that man is mortal"
Dizzying intellect indeed.
I feel Westley fell for that "Look behind you" trick on purpose. He wanted to appear like Vizzini outsmarted him, when in fact, he didn't. Vizzini basically gave it away when he said, "Me from my glass, and you from yours." That may be why both goblets were poisoned. Westley outsmarted him.
Anakin SkyWalker yeah because he knew he’d win either way
How do you outsmart someone smarter than you?
Answer: Show them what they expect to see.
Westley wanted to make Vizzini feel better...
I don't know about that, he might have wondered if he really does see something.
Obviously he didn't have to worry about him switching cups so he could afford to look back.
@@terradraca very true, and Vizzini expected Westley to have a fair battle. But instead it game was rigged from the beginning
At 1:40 - 1:49
Wesley nervously gulps and his confident smirk briefly goes away, when Vizzini gets dangerously close to figuring out the result of this battle of wits.
These little touches are what makes this movie gold.
Elite writing, acting....everything
“The most famous of which is to never get involved in a land war in Asia” is such an underrated line
He was right. He couldn't have chosen either goblet...sadly his "Genius" ran dry a little too soon.
Michael Fawcett If he was such a genius, how could he not have known that one could develop a tolerance for iocane? I don't imagine there are many poisons one can develop an immunity to.
@@derossetmyers47 It's the same method as building tolerance to something like peanuts. A little bit each day, upping dosage, until your body is immune.
@@banjobill8420 Tell that to the guy who tried to build an immunity to Black Widow venom. Oh wait. You can't because he's dead. 😈
I mean, the man who tried to build up an immunity to Black Widow venom IS dead, but that’s because he did it the greater part of a century ago and time removes all things. He was unsuccessful not because it’s impossible but because he chickened out after the horrific and excruciating pain the first bite caused.
@@banjobill8420 That's not how allergies work, poison can because your body can filter it out, but its different with something like a peanut allergy
Vizzini died, because there was something he didn’t know.
Westley is not left-handed.
Yeah but did he know
He wasn't left handed either?
They are on the Holideck?
Well yeah!
Some of the best dialog ever written.
There's an easy and evil solution. Just make Buttercup taste the wine first and watch his reaction.
Well, technically he did know where the poison was. It was in the cup he didn’t choose.
That didn’t save him.
But man, was he close when he deduced that Wesley was relying on his strength to save him.
At least he got the last laugh.
something i just noticed was that there were two clinks when Wesley puts the poison in the glasses
Vizzini was "wise", but clearly not perceptive
Vizzini was a pseudo-intellectual. The author clearly had spite for him if he killed him and not the swordsman or giant.
Dr. Sturgis there you are 😂
1:43 wow Vizzini got the whole trick right there
I don't get it, was his plan to do that? I thought his only trick was that both were poisoned and her had immunity
I feel like Vizzini was too determined to show off his mental abilities to really think for a moment. The fact that he gave a huge speech is evident of this. Smart people are keenly aware of how little they know and so will often remain quiet in the face of a problem. 1 to allow themselves to think and 2 to not give away their lack of knowledge on the matter
But he was too bold in his abilities. He blathered on, blissfully unaware of his lack of knowledge on the matter of poison.
Just like you did?
He actually logically assessed the problem at first when he anylzed that he beat the giant meaning he has good endurance. Then he over thought the situation out of pride and confidence.
He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know.
I think he actually said all of that stuff not just to be pride of his knowledge but mainly to see Westley's reactions (like watching which cup, see any tense behaviour, etc)
"You must have studied, and in studying, you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible." 😂
0:07 He’s like “Hmm, I knew that.”