![]() Fezzik was on my side, your side, our side. ![]() The WWF persona was a man to fear, the kind of giant who might throw you off a cliff if you triggered his wrath. ![]() “OBEY” was, instead, a gentle reminder, a soft demand from Fezzik for loyalty and friendship, a command I was happy to follow. If you visualized Fezzik, then Fairey’s work was no longer a clever send-up of an Orwellian theme. Instead, these drawings were asking me to “OBEY” Fezzik. ![]() I used to imagine that the face depicted on Fairey’s authoritarian stencils was not the 7-foot, 4-inch, 520-pound World Wrestling Federation icon. ![]() But I was way more interested in his character from The Princess Bride, Fezzik. Before his death in 1993, and before the generational rise of this movie, Andre the Giant was best known as an angry, hulking, powerful professional wrestler. When Andre the Giant’s stenciled face began appearing everywhere in American cities in the 1990s, immortalized against brick and concrete in the artist Shepard Fairey’s series of “OBEY” stickers, posters, and graffiti, his image suddenly became Americana. ![]()
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