I never knew it was so easy to add lightsaber effects to any YouTube clip. Earlier this week, when I wrote about the new Clone Wars lightsaber game for the Nintendo Wii, I saw it done with the infamous “Star Wars Kid” video (see it here). And now, thanks again to Fark.com, I see it done with a clip from The Princess Bride (above).
Apparently, this is only the latest in a trend; people have been changing swords to lightsabers in nearly every movie featuring swashbuckling, including the Pirates of the Caribbean movies (see here and here), the Lord of the Rings movies (here), the recent Zorro movies (here), Kill Bill (here), Gladiator (here) and 300 (here). Someone even recently added the effect to the end of Boogie Nights (here).
This clip, though, seems most relevant, because now it seems as if the six-fingered man didn’t kill Inigo Montoya’s father, he is Inigo Montoya’s father. It’s just like the end of The Empire Strikes Back, except Inigo Montoya is so much cooler than Luke Skywalker. Now, if only someone can turn Buttercup into Leia, Fezzik into Chewbacca and Miracle Max into Yoda, we’ve got a good mashup.
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