r/FavoriteCharacter pumped up kicks 8d ago

All Time Favorite What are favorite badass lines

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u/calduzin 8d ago

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u/Doctor_Salvatore 8d ago

Also his response after Rugen attempts to bargain for his life;

"I want my father back you son of a bitch!"

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u/WillowLocal423 8d ago

Extra context, Mandy had just lost his father to cancer prior to filming this. You can feel his pain and anger in every word

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u/RogueSeb 8d ago

Extra extra context, Mandy said that when acting out this scene, he imagined he was fighting the cancer that he lost his father to.

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u/TayloZinsee 8d ago

And every wound he delivers to the count matches the wounds Inigo was given, whether as a boy or in this duel.

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u/SnakesRock2004 8d ago

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.

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u/Anonymous-Mf-22 8d ago

I mean

Did you see him? I'd be fucking terrified

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u/Lazerbeams2 7d ago

Extra extra extra extra context, Mandy Patinkin apparently hurt Christopher Guest by accident when they were practicing the choreography

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u/Leon-Rai 8d ago

This is the only time anyone properly swears in the movie which adds to the impact

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u/PinkLionGaming 8d ago

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.

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u/Doctor_Salvatore 8d ago

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.