“Hear
this now: I will always come for you.”
“But
how can you be sure?”
“This
is true love - you think this happens every day?”
The Princess Bride
is a movie I have always wanted to see. I know so many people who love it and
the quote “As you wish” is usually on lists of top movie quotes of all time. It
looked silly and fun and it was. But, being me, I do not see the big deal with
it.
The story begins with a little boy who is home sick. His
grandfather comes to visit him for the day and brings along a book that his
father used to read to him when he was a boy and he was sick. The book is
called The Princess Bride. The boy is not thrilled with the title because it
sounds like a love story and all he wants is something that has to do with
sports.
The story in book begins with a young country girl named
Buttercup (Robin Wright) who’s family runs a vast estate. There is a farm boy
named Wesley (Cary Elwes) whom she has a slight infatuation with. Over time
Wesley and Buttercup come to love each other. Unfortunately he has to go away
for some time and Buttercup promises to never love anyone else.
Five years pass and Wesley does not return home. Buttercup
still pines for him but has been betrothed to the prince Humperdink. Somehow
Buttercup is kidnapped by a guy named Vizzini and his two cohorts Fezzik a
giant man and Inigo Montoya who only lives to seek revenge for the murder of
his father. They whisk her away on a boat and Fezzik realizes another boat is
following them. Vizzini has the boat go between an eerie cliff and they climb
it. The man in the other boat follows them. Vizzini, Fezzik, and Buttercup
leave the cliff side where the man is climbing up and Inigo stays behins to
fight him. The man manages to fight off Inigo and eventually Fezzik and kills
Vizzini.
The man is dressed all in black in a mask. He claims to
be a notorious pirate. Buttercup cannot stand the man she tells him to go away
but accidentally pushes him off a very steep hill. As the man rolls violently
down the hill he yells out “as you wish” which is something Wesley used to say
to her all the time whenever she ordered him around on her farm. Buttercup
realizes who he is and rolls right down after him.
Things happen, Buttercup gets taken back to the castle,
she thinks she is married to the prince but she really is not, Wesley was
killed then brought back to life, Inigo gets his revenge, and Buttercup and
Wesley live happily ever after. Also the little boy likes the story in the end
and asks his grandfather to come over the next day to read it to him again.
Honestly I still do not see what the big deal about The Princess Bride is. I thought it was
cute, Cary Elwes was beyond beautiful, and there were scenes that made me laugh
a bit but there was not anything in it that I could see why it is such a
classic. I guess maybe because it was a different way to tell a fairy tale and
it was a bit silly. I would not mind watching The Princess Bride again. It was not terrible it was enjoyable and is
definitely a movie I can suggest seeing.
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