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Yes, yes. Now, which glass has the iocaine powder?
the cheesy FX weren't exactly ILM quality, and I didn't much like the bookends.
The adaption to movie was based on a book adaption of the original which thankfully adapted out a bunch of nonesense from the original writer.
So if you are talking about the adaption from the adaption then yes, I'd say it was a perfect adaption.
As for the movie, I found it hilarious when I was growing up, I still find it hilarious, so I'm not sure if it's perfect, but it's pretty dang close.
um. Ice. That S.Morgenstern stuff is a literary device. Ol'Billy wrote the original. There was no adaption. It's his screenplay based on his book.
And, yeah. An almost perfect film.
Except that Westly has no flaws. even when he's dead, he's perfect.
My seven-year olds love The Princess Bride -- it's a brilliant movie, and my husband and I can go through it reciting the entire thing line by line.
And my gawd, Cary Elwes was cute.
Farm boy, stand there and look tasty for a moment!
hehe, I only found out after a high school friend and I went all over town to used book stores looking for a copy of the S.Morgenstern unabridged version.My bad, thanks for the correction.
Except that Westly has no flaws. even when he's dead, he's perfect.
Except that Westly has no flaws. even when he's dead, he's perfect.
Point taken, but Princess Bride's lines are so often quoted because they're good, not because they're cringingly awful.Isn't that consistent with cult films that have such memorable lines that fans memorize the whole dang script?
Everything you say is true, I can't argue with that. Tho' what I didn't much like about the bookends is that it makes the rest of the film totally unreal. Yes yes it's supposed to be unreal, it's a fantasy story in the truest sense -- a magical tale to be read to the kids at bed-time. But the realist part of me, with feet firmly grounded in concrete, wonders how a straightforward action swashbuckler version would have played out, with maybe Buttercup as the narrator looking back.See I actually like the bookends. I think they add to the "wink" the whole things makes to the audience.
I don't know anything about it's literary paper trail. I do think it's a funny movie.The Princess Bride.
Perfect movie?
Perfect script?
Perfect adaption?
I agree--the weakest part of the movie. Crystal was trying too hard, imo.I always liked it when I was younger but haven't seen it in years. I remember liking everything about it except the scene with Billy Crystal and Carol Kane. It always fell flat with me. But maybe it just wasn't my kind of humor.