The Princess Bride

Movie • 1987 • Adventure  

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This movie contains 23 potentially triggering events.
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Anonymous
A grown man jumps down onto a horse, which staggers
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Does an animal die?
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CJKitty12
there is a fight involving ROUS's (rodents of unusual size) which doesn't end in the rats favour...
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xxeaphyr
Westley kills a ROUS (Rat of Unusual Size)
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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zoolover
There are eels though..
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pedanther
No, but there are giant carnivorous eels that behave like the popular image of sharks.
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Are there bugs?
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Buttercup is lied to by Humperdinck, and told later that they are married despite her not having said "I do".
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Nuisance
Inigo's backstory involves a grown man killing his father and scarring his face with a sword.
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N_ot_U
The main character's love interest threatens to hit her (almost does but restrains himself), and treats her condescendingly throughout.
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zoolover
Mention of alcoholism.
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jamieblazej
Inigo Montoya is wasted in a scene or two
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Anonymous
The main love interest threatens to slap her but does not.
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Anonymous
Buttercup is forced to marry against her will, but nothing physical happens.
Humperdinck issues a veiled threat of consummating the marriage.
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Anonymous
Briefly, as a way to sober Inigo up
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Vicini is poisoned if that counts?
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Inigo gets slashed in the face with a sword. The wounds bleed.
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CJKitty12
One of the ROUS's (rodents of unusual size) gets lit on fire, but doesn't die from the fire
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pedanther
Several characters get run through in sword fights, and a character is hit by a thrown knife.
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mcmuds
There’s a scene where they fall into quicksand, but make their way out.
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pedanther
A character is choked unconscious while being kidnapped; it's very brief, with her losing consciousness almost as soon as her attacker's hand is around her throat. Later, there is a wrestling match in which one character subdues the other with a choke hold; this goes on for much longer.
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A character is choked to unconscious but he's fine in the end
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Crow75
Someone is made to faint with a chokehold
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pedanther
Various characters are rendered unconscious by methods including choke holds and being thumped on the head.
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ZarahInkeri
A character is tortured to death, though resurrected later on.
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Nuisance
He doesn't go through with it, but at one point Inigo tells Fezzik to tear someone's arms off.
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N_ot_U
and there is a scene where people jump out of a second storey window, but everyone is safely caught (the comedic elements through the film make it a moment where some viewers might wonder if there's going be a comedic splat when they jump, but it doesn't happen)
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TheCassandraComplex
When Westley is being tortured it looks a bit like a seizure.
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mcmuds
There is talk about it - as a threat to the kidnappers.
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Does a kid die?
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pedanther
Yes, but it doesn't last, and he's alive and well at the end.
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fakegamer
you killed my father, prepare to die

one of the main characters father was murdered and he is seeking revenge
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N_ot_U
but mostly on technicalities that aren't anyone's fault, and the situations when they come up are resolved quickly
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Anonymous
Before the movie Inigo’s father is killed
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Jezebel
Spoiler alert: The beginning of the movie is literally someone getting kidnapped
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xxeaphyr
Not really jumpscares, but surprises nonetheless. (Pretty much only with the ROUSes)
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pedanther
Part of the story involves a boat trip down a river and across a sea.
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There are daggers, but razors did not exist in this time period
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Nuisance
Inigo tries to appeal to his dead father's spirit at one point, there is no evidence that the appeal succeeds other than a strange coincidence that might just have been random chance.
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cobble6
Buttercup and Wesley cough up sand after they get out of a lightning sand pit in the fire swamp, but there is no vomit and nothing is visual- I am severely emetophobic and the scene doesn't affect me at all, it really just sounds like coughing.
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Elle989
I have no gate key.
Oh you mean this gate key.
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jayattheark1102
Not quite electro-therapy, but akin to it.
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xxeaphyr
They go to a healer, but it's more of a shack than a hospital.
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mad_melody
There are no confirmed autistic characters.
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pedanther
There is a scene where a character's dream is initially depicted as if it's actually happening, and only revealed as a dream when she wakes up at the end of it.
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She is just about to when circumstances change
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EvieParman
Suicide is threatened
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N_ot_U
some people get buried in quicksand, but it's not shot from their POV, and you know that they're going to come out of it safely within the next moment or so
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Elle989
She doesn't want to live with Humperdinck so badly.
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xxeaphyr
No more than any other action movie from the '80s would have.
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Does a baby cry?
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Anonymous
The movie uses a grandfather telling the story to his grandson as a framing device, and sometimes they interrupt the story to comment on it, but the audience is never addressed directly, so the fourth wall remains intact.

In the original book, the equivalent framing device is that Goldman, the writer, is talking to you, the reader, about his abridged "good parts version" of the story, so the fourth wall is being broken constantly.
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no LGBT characters
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mad_melody
There are no mentions of Jewish people.
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N_ot_U
Fair amount of misogyny
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xxeaphyr
Fezzik is mocked by Vizzini for his "stupidity."
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Jezebel
A giant is made fun of for his size.
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everyone seems to be cis
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no black characters
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pedanther
The proposed marriage between Humperdinck and Buttercup is an area of concern: it's not specified how large the age gap between the characters is, but he's clearly significantly older (in real life, the actors were 45 and 21). Neither is actually attracted to the other: he's picked her for political reasons, and she's only going along because he doesn't give her a choice. In any case, they don't end up getting married and Buttercup ends up with someone age-appropriate.
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Elle989
It's kissing, you wouldn't like it
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there BDSM?
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
No, but a male character cries after being tortured in a moment played for humor.
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pedanther
Prince Humperdinck's elderly father is depicted as having trouble following what's happening around him, in a way that might be read as related to dementia.
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mcmuds
There is a very drunk person being sobered up by putting his head in a barrel of water.
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mcmuds
Sword Fight - it's not overly bloody, and no gore.

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