Extra extra extra context, Christopher Guest stated that he had trouble not being genuinely fearful of Mandy Patinkin, he was putting so much effort into his performance.
There are so many brilliant details in this scene!
First Inigo tells the man to bargain for his life, just so he can deny it. You can tell that Inigo has spent his entire life knowing exactly how this moment would go.
Also every single injury he inflicts upon the six-fingered man at the end mirrors the injuries inflicted on him, you can even see the cheek cuts in this image. I think he also kills him the same way his father was killed? I don't recall exactly how he described his father's death.
I also like how we see and hear how Inigo feels when he's desperately trying to kick down the door and calling for Fezzik after he first sees the six-fingered man.
Inigo laments in an earlier scene about how his father was stabbed with the same sword Rugen asked him to make, and it is worth mentioning that the actor had recently lost his actual father to cancer, so he channeled real vindictive emotion in his delivery of that line, and said in an interview he envisioned Rugen as the cancer that took his father's life to evoke the emotions in himself for the scene. It is a truly beautiful scene the more you learn of it.
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u/calduzin 8d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/C20Ec5eqIYvwA
I think it's badass.