capricious nerd / nerd teacher [books] reviewed The Princess Bride
capricious nerd / nerd teacher [books]
You could delete the whole "prologue" and be fine.
3 star
First things first: In a lot of ways, the movie sets it up to be better and more interesting narrative. Instead of being told by the author (as you are in the book) what's he's doing, you have a grandfather telling the young boy the story. The connection between the person 'reading' the story to someone else (grandfather to sick …
First things first: In a lot of ways, the movie sets it up to be better and more interesting narrative. Instead of being told by the author (as you are in the book) what's he's doing, you have a grandfather telling the young boy the story. The connection between the person 'reading' the story to someone else (grandfather to sick grandson versus 'abridging author' to novel reader) makes a lot of it more compelling and interesting.
Second: I know when it was written, but the constant jokes on fatphobia and the misogynist marriage are frustrating. It's kind of 'tongue-in-cheek', but it's also really quite infuriating to keep seeing something where Goldman's 'wife' is thrown under a bus for every minor thing. I wasn't expecting that, and it's probably what made the movie feel much better (even if Westley and Buttercup's relationship, in any form, isn't the healthiest).
1.3 stars
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Princess Bride is a timeless tale that pits country against country, good against evil, love against hate. This incredible journey and artfully rendered love story is peppered with strange beasties monstrous and gentle, memorable surprises both terrible and sublime, and such unforgettable characters as...
Westley, the handsome farm boy who risks death (and much worse) for the woman …
The Princess Bride is a timeless tale that pits country against country, good against evil, love against hate. This incredible journey and artfully rendered love story is peppered with strange beasties monstrous and gentle, memorable surprises both terrible and sublime, and such unforgettable characters as...
Westley, the handsome farm boy who risks death (and much worse) for the woman he loves; Inigo, the Spanish swordsman who lives only to avenge his father's death; Fezzik, the gentlest giant ever to have uprooted a tree with his bear hands; Vizzini, the evil Sicilian, with a mind so keen he's foiled by his own perfect logic; Prince Humperdinck, the eviler ruler of Guilder, who has an equally insatiable thirst for war and beauteous Buttercup; Count Rugen, the evilest man of all, who thrives on the excruciating pain of others; Miracle Max, the King's ex-Miracle Man, who can raise the dead (kind of); and, of course, Buttercup... the princess bride, the most perfect, beautiful woman in the history of the world!