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 * Book ||

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 * Movie ||

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Plot

The Princess Bride is a novel about true love, adventure, action, and revenge. In the novel we meet a young farm boy named Westley, he is in love with the beautiful daughter (Buttercup) of his employer. Soon after they both fall in love, Westley dies in a pirate attack while on a boat to america. We see Butercup a few years later, she is engaged to marry the Prince of Florin, Prince Humperdink. One day when Buttercup is out riding her horse she get kidnappped by three men; a giant, a master sword fighter, and a tactical genius. While they are escaping with the Princess, a lone man in black is constantly following them. Eventually the man in black overtakes the kidnappers and proceeds to kidnap Buttercup. The kidnapper is revealed to be Westley, who miraculously was spared by the Dread Pirate Roberts. They are caught running away and Westley is sent to be killed by Prince Humperdink. Westley must save Buttercup before she is forced to marry the Prince. He does this with the help of Inigo Montoya (The swordsman who is looking for revenge against the Count for killing his father), and Fezzik (The giant who is constantly misunderstood).


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 * Sick Kid's Grandpa ||

Changes In Dialouge

There have been many changes to the story of The Princess Bride. For example, the narrarator's role has changed to a different person. In the novel, the narrarator is author William Goldman. He makes many comments throughout the story. He puts his comments in italics, there are quite a few. Since this is an abridgement of a story written a couple hundred years ago, Goldman explains what the past author was trying convey. This is quite different from the movie. In the movie, the story is read aloud by a Grandfather to his sick child. (Goldman first discovered this story as a sick child, being read to by his father). The Grandfather reads this story, then we see the story through the imagination of the little child. This is quite different because we don't see the same commentary in the movie. The general dialouge in this movie is quite a bit different too. Many of the characters here still have the same iconic lines, but there are many circumstances where the actors lines change. What is interesting about the changes in this movie is that the lines are not cut out. What they did instead was give the line to a different character. In the movie when Westley has kidnapped Buttercup, Westley says to Buttercup, "Life is pain, anyone who tells you differently is trying to sell you something.". This was not actually said by him in the book. This line was instead said by Fezzik's mother. She said this to him to try and convince him to continue becoming a street fighter. In this spot, they changed the line because Fezzik's mother was cut out as a character. She was cut out because it wasn't completely neccesary to the plot of the story.


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 * Inigo Montoya ||

Scenes That Were Cut

Many scenes and people were cut from the process of adapting this novel into feature film. Some of the scenes cut were not important to the story, while others should have been kept in the movie. The scene where Inigo trains to become a master swordsman was cut from the film due to its length and lack of exitement. This was a very important part of the story because we learn that Inigo has spent his entire life studying to become a swordsman. We learn just how talented he became in those years he spent learning. In the movie, Inigo talks about how he trained hard to get his revenge on the six-fingered man, but we never really know that he gave up everything in his life for revenge. We also never know how good Westley must be by being able to beat Inigo. Therefore, by cutting this scene, we don't learn the sacrifices Inigo made to train, or the level of skill both he and Westley have. Another scene that was cut from the movie was the scene where Fezzik and Inigo rescue the man in black (Westley) from the zoo of death. In this scene, the duo walk through each level of Prince Humperdink's storage facility of his animals that he likes to hunt. This is very dangerous, Inigo has to fight off bats, tigers, and many other ferocious creatures. He comes only to see that the man in black is dead. This scene is nessesary because it gives a reason why Inigo needs the man in black. It also gives us more detail about Fezzik. When Fezzik is terrified of the bats, this tells us to never judge a book by its cover. Fezzik may seem all strong and brave, but he is really a pacifist. This scene was cut because it would need too much background information to make sense. With all of that information in a movie, the audience can easily get bored. Even though this is a very important scene in the movie, it is not able to be in there because of the time restrictions.

Change in Genre

This book also changes in one very important way. The novel of the Princess Bride is supposed to be an abridged version of a novel written by S. Morgenstern. S. Morgenstern is actually a ficticious character created by William Goldman. Actually, most of the commentary about his life is entirely fiction. Goldman originally wrote this story just as a bedtime story for his two daughters. The novel is supposed to be a satire about many things in old European and even modern culture. In my opinion, the film did not convey exactly the same idea. While the book pointed things out in the culture, the film just stuck to the storyline without putting in the references to culture. This is also supposed to make fun of regular fairy tales, whenever we see a nice scene, Goldman does something to turn it upside down. He parodies many things in this novel; he makes fun of history by putting in facts such as the ranking of beauty (not very life-changing things), and even the structure of novels itself. The movie doesn't follow Goldman's goal of satire by cutting out the unhappy ending and leaving it like a fairy tale While this book seems to convey all types of satire, the novel seems disapointingly straightforward.

Reveiw

 In creating a movie adaptation of a book, there are many things that must be changed in the process of adapting this for a visual presentation. Firstly, you cant really have all of this information thrown at the audience at one time. This may confuse or bore the audience. Because there are so many changes, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. By itself, The Princess Bride is a very good movie, maybe even a classic. But when you stack it up next to the book, the novel is obviously the better of the two. The novel provides more information, it gives the characters more depth, and it conveys to the reader that this is a satire. The movie, while very humorous, does not do any of these things. None of the book's intentions are included in the movie. The movie is really just read as a fairy tale, but nothing more. One thing that does work for the movie is the humor involved. The actors in the story bring the words to life, they were excellent choices for the movie. Even though the movie was very funny, it lacked the depth that the story had. Therefore, if you were to see only one version, I would choose to read the book version