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Character: There's a lot in a Name
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“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” This line, brilliantly delivered by Mandy Patinkin as he engages in the climatic duel against Count Tyrone Rugen (Christopher Guest) in Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride, is one of my all time favorites, but what makes the line so great is not that it’s delivered five times during the lethal swordfight, not the revelation of a murderous tragedy in Inigo’s past, nor is it Inigo’s declaration of the demise of the evil Count. What makes the line so memorable is simply the inclusion of a name: Inigo Montoya.…
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Falling Down (1993)
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Screenplay Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller Movie Time: 113 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Frustrated defense worker William Foster (Michael Douglas) is gridlocked in Los Angeles traffic and decides to leave his car. He walks over to a nearby liquor store to buy a coke, but when he realizes the coke is 85 cents, he is outraged and begins his path of destruction with a baseball bat that he acquires from the Korean store owner. (00:10:06)
