Adaptational Nice Guy: A subtle example.In the film, she doesn't do it until Vizzini has noticed someone following them, so 1. Adaptational Intelligence: In the book, Buttercup jumps from the kidnappers' boat the instant she regains consciousness.In the movie, it's their last kiss in the story that gets this description. In the novel, Westley and Buttercup's first kiss is described as obliterating the five other greatest kisses in human history.anyone who tells you differently is selling something" when he's angry at Buttercup for (he thinks) abandoning him, and Miracle Max, who's become very cynical after his mistreatment by Humperdinck, gets the line about True Love being the greatest thing in the world except a good sandwich. The movie has a more hopeful frame story, about a child being read The Princess Bride for the first time, but some of the cynical zingers are retained and given to characters within the story: Westley says "Life is pain. The novel's frame story is narrated by an adult looking back nostalgically at his childhood (as represented by the times his father used to read him The Princess Bride), and he gets in a few cynical zingers about what he's learned from growing up.In the film, he's played by Chris Sarandon. Adaptational Attractiveness: In the book, Prince Humperdinck is short and weighs 250 pounds and described as resembling a barrel (muscle, not fat: he works out by wrestling apes to death).Humperdinck: I give you full marks for bravery. Fred Savage, Cary Elwes and Rob Reiner participated as did Rob's father Carl Reiner who filmed his scene just three days before his death. Various celebrities filmed themselves reenacting scenes from the film with homemade props and costumes. In 2020, the film was "remade" by Jason Reitman for the mobile app Quibi to benefit World Central Kitchen during the COVID-19 Pandemic. ( "They're kissing again.")Īn official roleplaying game, The Princess Bride Roleplaying Game was fully funded on Kickstarter in 2018. The movie uses a Framing Device of a grandfather ( Peter Falk of Columbo) reading the story to his sick grandson ( Fred Savage) with the boy complaining about the story at various points. The subsequent adventures are madcap, iconic, and brilliant. In a plot against the throne, Buttercup is kidnapped by the criminal trio of Vizzini ( the mastermind), Fezzik ( the giant), and Inigo Montoya ( the world's greatest fencer, traveling to avenge his father), played by Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, and Mandy Patinkin, respectively - but their steps are hampered by a mysterious man in black who seems determined to stop them at all costs. Buttercup, knowing that the Prince is well within his rights and believing she can never love again anyway, reluctantly agrees. Although they realize that they share the incredibly rare thing called "true love", fate conspires to keep them apart, as Westley is lost at sea.įive years later, Prince Humperdinck ( Chris Sarandon), who rules Florin in place of his elderly and doddering father, decides to celebrate the kingdom's 500th anniversary by marrying Buttercup, who is still the most beautiful woman in the kingdom. The story is set in the fictional European nation of Florin, and stars Buttercup ( Robin Wright), a simple yet incredibly beautiful farmgirl, and Westley ( Cary Elwes), the farmhand she enjoys ordering around. The Princess Bride is a 1987 movie directed by Rob Reiner, adapted by William Goldman from his 1973 book of the same name. Grandpa: Are you kidding? Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles.
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