We were all watching Princess Bride a few weeks ago at our movie nightathon, and I noticed a rather glaring plot hole/continutity error I'd never seen before.
Check it— Inigo is looking for the six fingered man, we know this because he tells Wesley/Dread Pirate Roberts during their sword fight. They are the only two people present for that conversation. (Surely he's said it to people before, but they're the only two around this time.)
During the fight, Wesley knocks Inigo out and leaves, where he rescues Buttercup and then is later captured by the Prince, at which time he sees the six-fingered man, who is the Prince's aide-de-camp.
The Prince immediately sends Wesley to the pit of despair, where he is held, captive, tied down. Then the Prince orders the brute squad to clear the village of ruffians for the wedding.
We find Inigo drunk at his house "back to where it all started" when Fezzik shows up and sobers him up. The narrator says that Fezzik tells Inigo that he's seen the six fingered man.
What? How? When?
Fezzik's had no contact with Wesley, he's been either with Buttercup or in a pit alone since we saw him last. Inigo, we assume, has gone back to his village and gotten drunk. Fezzik we don't know about (perhaps something was cut here?) but we don't see him again until he's working for the brute squad.
The narration is wrong, based on what we know has happened. Fezzik couldn't have told him about the six fingered man because the Prince's entourage found the spot where Fezzik WAS, but Fezzik wasn't there.
(Confirmed in the shooting script on IMDB, Fezzik isn't there to see the six-fingered man.)
>>t's where FEZZIK fought the Man in Black. CAMERA PULLS BACK TO REVEAL the Prince, kneeling, inspecting every grain of misplaced sand. The others wait behind him.<<
So, no way Fezzik would have seen the six fingered man. The only person who could have told him about him is in a pit of despair. WTF?
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