In The Princess Bride, Inigo’s quest for his father’s killer is one of the most successful subplots in film history. Watching his performance, it’s such an emotional scene. I was looking up little known facts about the movie and found out that the reason this scene is so moving is because just after Mandy Patinkin took this role, his father died of cancer. In this fight he imagined that this was his chance to beat cancer, to come to terms with his father’s death by getting revenge on cancer (The Six-Fingered Man). Pretty sure I’ve cried whenever I see that scene ever since.
[blubbering]
I got to see TPB in the theater a couple weeks ago and Inigo’s story really is the best part of the movie. That scene is really powerful, Patinkin’s acting is brilliant, and everyone cheered and applauded at the final climax.
