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The Princess Bride

Night

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One of my all-time favorite movies.


Boy/Fred Savage - ESFJ
Grandfather - INFP
Princess Buttercup - INFP
Prince Humperdinck - ESTJ

Dread Pirate Roberts persona (Westley) - INTJ
Westley - IxFJ
Vizzini - INTP
Ínigo Montoya - ISFJ
Fezzik - ISTP

Count Rugen/Six-Fingered Man - ISTJ
The Albino - ESTP
Miracle Max - ENTJ
Valerie (Max's wife) - ENFP


Thoughts?
 

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Nice. :laugh: Although I think Vizzini might be more of an ENTP. He's so animated.
 

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An ENTP would also certainly work for Vizzini.

My rationale for INTP was his well-forged (if poorly applied) internal thought register when determining which goblet contained Iocane powder.
 

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Has anyone besides me read the book? :peepwall:

Inigo and Fezzik are somewhat better developed in the book. So is Buttercup, but it's not flattering. :laugh:

I think Fezzik could be an F.
 

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I've haven't read the book, but going by the movie I think all four NT types are represented.

Westley - ENTP
Viccini - INTJ
Prince Humperdinck - ENTJ
Count Rugen/Six-Fingered Man - INTP

Also
Ínigo Montoya - ESFJ
Fezzik - INFP
Princess Buttercup - Can't tell because she has no personality.
 

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I've haven't read the book, but going by the movie I think all four NT types are represented.

Westley - ENTP
Viccini - INTJ
Prince Humperdinck - ENTJ
Count Rugen/Six-Fingered Man - INTP

Also
Ínigo Montoya - ESFJ
Fezzik - INFP
Princess Buttercup - Can't tell because she has no personality.

Viccini seems to me to be an INTP. A little too excitable for INTJ'ness.
 

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Viccini seems to me to be an INTP. A little too excitable for INTJ'ness.

INTP's are the least excitable people I know. Also Viccini is more of a planner, and he's more directive than an INTP would be. "Wait here and when he comes within range smash his head with a rock." Also when he's playing the "iocane powder game" he's clearly an INTJ. He's not reasoning through it with Ti, because how do you really reason through something like that? Rather he's examining the possibilities from every angle, which is Ni.
 

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INTP's are the least excitable people I know. Also Viccini is more of a planner, and he's more directive than an INTP would be. "Wait here and when he comes within range smash his head with a rock." Also when he's playing the "iocane powder game" he's clearly an INTJ. He's not reasoning through it with Ti, because how do you really reason through something like that? Rather he's examining the possibilities from every angle, which is Ni.
He's obviouthly ENTP!
 

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And INTJs are excitable?

Ever seen an angry or frustrated INTJ?

Rather more like Ne. I'd imagine an INT wouldn't involve the other party in the process. An INTJ even less so, maybe.

It's true that the INT would usually keep their thoughts to themself. It's an Ni thought process, but it's verbalized so that the scene is interesting rather than boring.
 

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Vizzini, I'd think, would be an ENTP because he just won't shut up when he's thinking! The man thinks outloud, which seems signifigantly more ENTP than either INTJ or INTP :)

and yes, I've not only read the book, but stole it from the library by accident and now own it as well :blush:
 

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He really is an extrovert, if you isolate E/I and ignore your stupid little functions.
 

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I think I type him as an INTJ, because his approach to problem solving is like an INTJ, while Westley is more like an ENTP. The "iocane power game" is the prime example. Vizzini ponders all of the possibilities trying to figure out every aspect of the game, then makes a quick decisive final move. That is how an INTJ reasons. Westley on the other hand makes up the game from scratch (and he also cheats in a way). That is more like how an ENTP reasons.

An INTP Profile
The INTJ resembles a chess player, ruminating on the possibilites and then making decisive accurate moves. If the INTP played life as chess, he would keep wishing to modify the allowed-move-properties of his various pieces to optimise his strategy, find that that isn't allowed, and ask to start the game afresh! The ENTP chess player would indeed modify the rules to his advantage and complain that the standard rules were inadequate! The ENTJ would play by the standard rules but insist on making the moves for his opponent as well !

I guess I am going more by functions, while others are determining E/I first and then figuring out the rest.
 

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I guess I am going more by functions, while others are determining E/I first and then figuring out the rest.
Only to support the initial "ENTP" declaration, in my case. He acts like an ENTP caricature. An INTJ wouldn't get himself in such silly situations to begin with.
 

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Only to support the initial "ENTP" declaration, in my case. He acts like an ENTP caricature. An INTJ wouldn't get himself in such silly situations to begin with.

Heh I think he's more of an INTJ caricature. He's made this careful plan that can't possibly go wrong and then he melts down when it does. ENTP's don't care when their plans go wrong, or the modify them when they do. An ENTP caricature looks more like Doc Emmett Brown or Cosmo Kramer.
 

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An ENTP caricature looks more like Doc Emmett Brown or Cosmo Kramer.
Funny you should say that, because I think the three are from a similar stock, character-wise. How many plans have they all tried, only to see them fail?
 
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