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[Princess Bride] When Wesley rescues Buttercup, he’s a total dick to her. Is he just messing with her, or does he legitimately think she wants to marry Humperdink?

I did not read the book, so perhaps it is clearer there, but I honestly can’t tell in the movie. I always sort of thought he was just messing with her, but watching it recently, she is pretty upset the entire time. If he was truly not mad at her, it would have made a lot more sense to tell her who he was as soon as possible, because there would be less chance of her purposely slowing him down, trying to kill him, or leaving a trail for Humperdink to follow. Especially since she believes him to be the Dread Pirate Roberts, the one who she thinks killed her beloved. It’s really just cruel.

But in rewatching it recently, it seems to me now that he only decides to tell her who he is (by shouting “AS YOU WISH” once he makes her so mad that she tries to kill him. So was he legitimately testing her the whole time, and only believes her once she tries to kill him, or was he just playing with her the whole time, and then decided he went too far and the game was over once she pushed him?
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He's testing her. He doesn't want to believe that she passed him up for Humperdinck but if she had he wouldn't have revealed himself to her.

The book, which is a fair bit more cynical than the movie, suggests that he was at least entertaining the possibility of killing her if she had spurned him for Humperdinck.