So Iâve never actually watched The Princess Bride with closed captioning. All the copies I own/have owned didnât come with that option. Well, itâs on Disney+ now, and it DOES have captions. I decided to watch it tonight because apparently half of my coworkers havenât seen it and that made me sad.
AND WHEN I TELL YOU I WAS APPARENTLY MISSING THINGS-
I now know ALL of Fezzikâs rhymes from the boat.
I know exactly what fighting moves Westly and Inigo were saying in that EPIC fight.
I can understand what Fezzik is saying when they break into the castle (I love Andre the Giant, but his accent is so hard for me to decipher)
Apparently I have missed something in the twenty years Iâve been watching this movie. When Inigo is drunk in the Thievesâ Forest, a member of the Brute Squad comes around the corner of the building after Inigo proclaims this is where [heâll] stay, that he will not be moved.
âHo, there!â he says.
Now. I always assumed Inigo just repeated the manâs phrase.
Oh no. The closed captions read as follows:
âI do not budge. Keep your Joder.â
Because heâs a Spaniard, in the movie it is pronounced exactly like âHo, there.â
THAT. IS. NOT. WHAT. THAT. MEANS.
Joder means fuck in Spanish.
So when the guy comes around the corner, I can only assume Inigoâs sloshed brain just heard him shout âfuckâ at him, and THAT is how he responded.
NO ONE I KNOW realized this for nearly FORTY YEARS!!!!!
Closed captioning, yâall. Itâs not just because you canât make out what theyâre saying. Itâs also for recognizing jokes people were slipping into movies and past censors from before you were born.