So apparently, over the summer, Quibi (the shortest-lasting streaming service ever lmao) did a quarantine project called “Home Movie: The Princess Bride” where a bunch of celebrities recreated The Princess Bride in tiny chunks at home.
And like there was no permanent cast, all these celebrities seem to have gotten a scene or part of a scene to do (i’m not sure exactly, I did not ever watch Quibi and thus haven’t seen this yet), and then they just… recreated it as best they could. At home. Under quarantine.
So like, you had Jennifer Garner in a blanket cape playing Princess Buttercup AND the Booing Old Woman with a crowd comprised entirely of stuffed animals:
Or Taika Waititi paying Westley off a badly-drawn Inigo on a piece of cardboard held in front of someone’s face:
And it’s all just delightful.
But my absolute favorite part of this thing that I’ve sadly never seen but assume is probably absolutely hilarious and a treasure and I want to find it some day and watch the whole thing… is that Carey Elwes is in it.
Okay I just watched this and… it is the most ridiculous, most meta, most absurd and yet most wonderful thing. I don’t know how they decided who would play which role in which scene–several parts were played by actors whose gender did not match the character’s, and the actors were more diverse than they were in the original movie. There is a wide range in terms of how seriously the actors took it; some scenes are done with Legos; many of the scenes with dialogue were performed by two actors in completely different places filming their lines separately; and sometimes the actor playing a role changes from one moment to the next, with no uniformity of costuming or anything. It only works because everyone knows the movie, but… it is still hilarious!
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