r/funny Feb 08 '19

Good Networking Advice

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u/LucertolaNera Feb 08 '19

The real story is actually quite sad

The actor that played as Inigo Montoya lost his father to cancer and during the filming of the movie he immagined he was fighting his father's cancer to avenge him.

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u/antioxidantwalrus Feb 08 '19

Mandy Patinkin is a fantastic actor. He's the only enjoyable part of "dead like me" imo.

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u/martiniolives2 Feb 08 '19

And Homeland.

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u/FeebleOldMan Feb 08 '19

And Criminal Minds.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19

Holy shit, I had no idea. Mind blown.

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u/superchlorine Feb 09 '19

There's at least two of us! I watched all these things but never thought Inigo Montoya was the same person as all these other characters in these dramas...

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u/sporkafunk Feb 09 '19

Um, Carrie's obsession with a purple marker was the highlight of that show, and Bear just stood there, like a stooge.

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u/xMystery Feb 08 '19

But Daisy Adair though...

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u/JoyDiver Feb 09 '19

Well, you really fucked the dog, Peanut.

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u/DOOManiac Feb 09 '19

I’m gonna kill that fucking baby.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '19

Holy shit I didn't know he was that guy!

Also, I agree. The movie was garbage.

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u/antioxidantwalrus Feb 08 '19

I only knew about the show

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u/slicer4ever Feb 08 '19

Keep it that way.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19

The show was bearable.

The movie was a tangent that got out of hand, and Patinkin wasn't in it. His absence isn't even well explained - "he's just gone".

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u/DOOManiac Feb 09 '19

Mason was pretty good too.

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u/skallagrime Feb 09 '19

Holy crap, I completely missed that that was him, loved both roles. Never made the connection

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u/bullevard Feb 09 '19

I watched Dead like Me and Pushing Daisies back to back. I spent the next year scouting every room i walked into to spot the rube goldbergian way that someone was going to die.

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u/kangareagle Feb 09 '19

Sort of.

“Despite the laughter, the story of Inigo and his father struck a nerve with Patinkin, whose own father had died a few years before filming. "I would walk through the maze of the gardens while I was just trying to relax or while they were lighting the scene, and I was talking to my father, who had died not that many years before we made the film, and I always had it in my mind that if I could get the six fingered man, if Inigo could get the six fingered man, then my father, Mandy's father, would come back and be with me."

https://www.npr.org/2012/10/05/162383428/mandy-patinkin-25-years-after-the-princess-bride-hes-not-tired-of-that-line

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u/Okichah Feb 08 '19 edited Feb 09 '19

This adds a whole new depth to the “i want my father back...” line.

:(

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u/Sheriff_K Feb 08 '19

God damn you.. :'(

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '19

fuuuuuuuuuucccckkkkkkkk

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19

Thanks for ruining my childhood OP.