Inconceivably Great
Most movies based on books could never compare to the book. However, The Princess Bride film is the perfect ninety-eight-minute representation of the novel. The film is one of the most successful adaptations in film history. The 1987 film was successful partially because the screenplay was written by William Goldman, the author of the novel, The Princess Bride. William Goldman mirrored his 1973 fantasy romance novel into a fruitful movie filled with suspenseful battles, heartfelt romance, and witty comic relief. The Princess Bride is about a poor farm boy’s adventure in the empire of Florin to save his true love. Personally, I adore romance movies, and I would recommend The Princess Bride to all romance movie lovers. Fortunately,
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the romance in this film is brief and tolerable to those who dislike romantic films.
Although the film is a romantic movie, many would appreciate the balance of romance, comedy, and action in the film. People of all ages would enjoy watching the poor farm boy, Westley, battle swordsmen, giants, and swamp creatures. Cary Elwes, the actor who plays Westley, and other reputable actors play their roles effortlessly. No other casting could possibly make The Princess Bride any better. In addition to the casting, the beautiful costumes and theatrical make-up in the film aid the actors in creating the authentic impression of a medieval fairy tale. This fairy tale is visually brought to life by the director of the film, Rob Reiner. The gifted director hired very talented professionals to use the ideal songs, sound effects, and sceneries to create the fictional kingdom of Florin. The Princess Bride is a well-crafted adaptation with plenty of captivating characters, thrilling action …show more content…
scenes, and clever jokes. The thrilling plot of The Princess Bride transitions from scene to scene with fluidity. As each scene begins and ends, the plot can be easily followed by the viewer. In the opening scene, a grandfather introduces and reads the book, The Princess Bride, to his sick grandson. Throughout the film the grandfather narrates the movie and acts as comic relief. In the film, Westley, a farm boy, replies “As you wish” after Buttercup, a beautiful woman, gives him orders. After realizing that every time Westley said, “As you wish”, he was really telling her that he loves her, Buttercup falls in love with him. Westley, played by Cary Elwes, leaves Buttercup, played by Robin Wright, to earn money for marriage, but Buttercup later finds out Westley has been murdered by the Dread Pirate Roberts. However, later in the film Buttercup realizes Westley remains alive. Then, Buttercup is forced into an engagement with Prince Humperdinck, played by Christopher Sarandon Jr. She is kidnapped just before the wedding by three men: Vizzini, Fezzik, Inigo Montoya. Westley saves Buttercup from the kidnappers by defeating them one by one. Vizzini overuses the word “inconceivable” throughout the film. He is inconceivably annoying, but he is amusing when he starts to annoy the characters in the film. Thankfully, Vizzini, played by Wallace Shawn, is trick and poisoned by Westley. The giant wrestler named Fezzik, played by André the Giant, is choked by Westley until he faints. Inigo Montoya, played by Mandy Patinkin, tells Westley he is looking for the six-fingered man who killed his father. Inigo is defeated in a fencing duel and knocked unconscious by Westley. After, the kidnappers are defeated, reveals who he is to his true love, Buttercup. Prince Humperdinck and his soldiers find and capture Buttercup and Westley at the edge of the Fire Swamp. With the help of Inigo, Fezzik, and a wizard, Westley is able to escape and save Buttercup from marrying Prince Humperdinck. While helping Westley escape, Inigo was able to avenge his father by killing the six-fingered man, Count Rugen who is played by Christopher Guest. After the grandfather is finished narrating, his grandson asks him if he could read him the story again. In the closing scene, the grandfather replies “As you wish”. Each actor fit the role of their character and maintained the integrity of the novel’s characters. The intricate costumes and make-up also assisted in translating the characters in the novel to film. The costumes for every character were carefully selected to fit each of the character’s persona. For instance, the designer, Phyllis Dalton, made each costume the appropriate medieval royalty attire for Prince Humperdinck. All the costumes with the help of special effects make-up artist, Lois Burwell, stay true to the mystical renaissance theme. For example, Count Rugen had a prosthetic sixth finger in the film. Prosthetics were also used on the wizard to enlarge his nose and age his face. White face make-up was used on the albino to give him a pasty appearance. Both costumes and make-up played a significant role in the production of The Princess Bride. Although costumes and make-up aided in creating the fairy tale, the film would not be great without the music, sound effects, and photography. Music, sound effects, and photography are all the essential parts when creating a great movie. The music in The Princess Bride correlates with the mood, scenery, and theme of each scene. The sound effects were realistic and had perfect timing during the film. The beautiful scenes of Ireland and England shot by the Visual Effects Department did of wonderful job depicting a kingdom in a fairy tale. For the most part, all the scenery and music in the movie correlated with their scenes. Because The Princess Bride was well-executed, there were many cast members who received awards and nominees. The Princess Bride granted countless awards and nominee to the talented people behind the film.
The director of the film, Rob Reiner, won a People’s Choice Award at the 1987 Toronto International Film Festival. He also won Best Dramatic Presentation at the 1988 Hugo Awards. In 1988, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Picture awarded Phyllis Dalton, the Saturn Award for Best Costumes, and The Princess Bride, the Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film. The actor, Robin Wright was a nominee for the Saturn Award for Best Actress in 1988 at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. The awards and nominees given were made possible by the successful of adaptation of The Princess
Bride. Regardless of the many awards received, The Princess Bride has a loyal cult following all over the world. Even after thirty years, faithful fans continue to quote the witty lines from the movie. The author of the novel, William Goldman, triumphantly rendered his novel into a screenplay. Rob Reiner, the director, did an excellent job generating a movie based off the screenplay. The casting, music, make-up, and photography make the fantasy film unforgettable. Despite being released in 1987, The Princess Bride is still considered a cult classic for all ages. William Goldman has created two major pieces of art, his novel and film, The Princess Bride, that will remain timeless. It is almost inconceivable how great it is.
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Provenance: The Princess Bride was written in 1973 by William Goldman and later adapted into a film in 1987.
The clothing in which a character is dressed can tell so much story without having to say a word. The use of clothing and the colour of which in The Princess Bride (Robb Reiner, 1987), is indicative of each character’s motivations as well as alludes to the connection between them and their environments throughout the course of the film. The screenplay for The Princess Bride was written by William Goldman, who also wrote the book that provided the source material for the film. The fantastical mix between action and romance that is shown in The Princess Bride story, translates almost perfectly into a visual medium, despite the box office bumps along the way. Phyllis Dalton’s costume design mixed with Reiner’s directing, and Goldman’s screenplay,
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...and the prince behind. This movie from afar seems like a different type of romance movie, but more analysis into it and there are noticeable similarities many with other movies.
Any time a literary work is turned into a movie, the producers have a difficult task to make the movie as good as the novel. Grand Isle's producers, Turner Pictures and Kelly McGillis, failed miserably. Their dominant error was that they missed everything Kate Chopin was trying to say about her society and human nature in the novel. They twisted the story into a story of an affair, as opposed to a story of one woman's self-discovering journey.
Satire with a funny twist. In the novel The Princess Bride, William Goldman satirizes both fairy tales and the standard literary process through his characters and their actions. Westley, a poor farmer, falls in love with the far from perfect maiden, Buttercup, but has to sail away in order to find his fortunes. Years later, Buttercup, thinking that Westley abandoned her, is forcibly engaged to Prince Humperdinck, a cruel and calculating man. Vizzini, Fezzik, and Inigo, three mysterious kidnappers, abduct the princess in hopes of causing war between the great nations of Guilder and Florin. These events and characters mirror those in a common fairy tale, but with many twists to them. The author, William Goldman, uses both his role as the editor and writer to bring the fairy tale to new light, in order to ridicule the traditional literary structure. He is not actually editing his own novel, in fact he is intentionally including annotations that perhaps would normally be part of an editing process, but are included in The Princess Bride to mock tropes of other fairy tales and the literary process as a whole. Through the portrayal of his characters as archetypes and their flaws, in addition to his unorthodox writing style which allows his to annotate directly in the novel, Goldman satirizes both the literary process and the standard fairy tale.
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Benigni has a true talent to incorporate. So many different genres in one film without genres in one film without being confused with the. The fairy tale makes the film enchanting. works excellently when he recalls himself as a ‘prince’ and his wife. his ‘princess’.
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