Timeline for Meaning of "Never get involved in a land war in Asia" in The Princess Bride?
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| Nov 10, 2021 at 23:20 | comment | added | stevec | The documentary doesn't mention the Prices Bride. The full quote from the documentary is "There are two military aphorisms that every soldier knows and that Hitler ignored at his peril. The first is that no plan survives contact with the enemy, and the second: never fight a land war in Asia, unless you're heading west. Hitler ignores both of them, and that will prove to be a big mistake". | |
| Nov 10, 2021 at 23:16 | comment | added | uhoh | @stevec rats! do they actually mention The Princes Bride? | |
| Nov 10, 2021 at 23:11 | comment | added | stevec | The quote is also mentioned in this WWII documentary (at 32m 12s) referring to Germany invading Russia | |
| Oct 6, 2021 at 21:33 | answer | added | Flater | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 30, 2021 at 18:04 | answer | added | Juhasz | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 21, 2020 at 5:48 | vote | accept | uhoh | ||
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| Oct 3, 2019 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackMovies/status/1179637330375782400 | ||
| Sep 29, 2019 at 22:04 | answer | added | Charles E. Grant | timeline score: 26 | |
| Sep 28, 2019 at 6:59 | history | edited | galacticninja |
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| Sep 28, 2019 at 4:16 | answer | added | Todd Wilcox | timeline score: 14 | |
| Sep 28, 2019 at 3:24 | comment | added | user18935 | Vizzini is exercising hubris during a 'battle of wits' with the other guy. His megalomania demands that he show his superiority by performing the typical villain monologue. This involves labeling the other guy's actions as a classic blunder. He goes on to describe two other classic blunders. The first is the one mentioned above. The second is 'never go in against a Sicilian, when death is on the line!' Since he falls dead from the poison after saying this, he is proven wrong and the other guy is the better of the two despite Vizzini's high opinion of his former self. | |
| Sep 28, 2019 at 3:17 | comment | added | uhoh | @Jeeped Yes, I'm definitely not planning on doing this, but does the reference have anything to do with the movie's plot, or is it an unrelated reference? | |
| Sep 28, 2019 at 3:15 | history | edited | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2019 at 3:10 | comment | added | user18935 | Why should you never fight a land war in Asia? | |
| Sep 28, 2019 at 2:42 | history | undeleted | uhoh | ||
| Sep 28, 2019 at 2:41 | history | deleted | uhoh | via Vote | |
| Sep 28, 2019 at 2:39 | history | asked | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
