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According to the Oxford dictionary, Inconceivable is defined as not capable of being imagined or grasped mentally; unbelievable. The Princess Bride begins with a bedridden child whose grandfather comes to visit. Grandpa pulls out the book “The Princess Bride” and begins to read to his unwilling grandson. The story centers around Buttercup, a former farm girl who is now betrothed to Prince Humperdinck of Florian, whom she does not love. Furthermore, Buttercup is mourning the death of her beloved Westley, who was killed out at sea by the Dread Pirate Roberts. Westley was a farm boy who would always tell Buttercup “As you wish” whenever she asked for something, but she later realized that it actually meant “I love you.” The grandson is not elated …show more content…

Though, as one breaks it down one can see that it does not follow the stereotypical princess story. This plays to the movies advantage because it draws in moviegoers of all ages to it. Those who are younger will be entranced by the colorful landscapes shown on the screen, while the older crowd will love the storyline and the action depicted. Conversely, scenery plays an important role in the movie’s action scenes. The cliffs where Inigo duels Dread Pirate Robert for the first time leaves the watcher on the edge of their seats, wondering who is going to come out unscarthed. The lighting used in certain scenes helps the watcher get a sense of what is happening and also portrays events that are happening. While in the “Fire Swamp,” the dark lighting conveys the message that something bad might happen. When Westley and Buttercup are tumbling down the hill, the sun is shining and the skies are blue. These two characters are finally reunited after years of being apart, and they are smiling and embracing each other like they have just found true love all over again. Moviegoers will enjoy this movie, regardless if they have their doubts walking into the movie theater. There is something for everyone in the movie. It is perfect whether one is having a girls night, a date night, or if one is just looking for a good

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Although The Princess Bride focuses on the relationship between Westly, the poor farm boy, and Buttercup, the soon to be princess, the true hero of the story is Inigo Montoya. Inigo shows traits of heroism throughout the entirety of the book and the movie. After Inigo’s father is killed by the deranged Count Rugen, Inigo swears that he will avenge his father by killing Count Rugen (Goldman 139). Inigo also shows heroism when Westly is killed in the zoo of death; Inigo takes Westly to Miracle Max where he is brought back to life.     Inigo Montoya’s story of becoming a hero did not begin when he met Fezzik and Vizzini; or when Inigo saved Westly from the zoo of death.

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Yet the distinct differences between them also affect the plots to an extent to which the suspense in the movie is less compared to the novel. Although the differences greatly alter the two, it makes each of them unique and exclusive from each other. Despite these differences, there is one theme that links both the novel and the movie together: that people with different personalities, interests, and appearances are also the same to each other. The book shows more examples of this theme than the movie, making the novel more understanding to other individuals than the film itself. Because of this, we would recommend the book and film to those who experience a likeliness to the conflicts in each storyline, such as a fight between two different social

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The fantasy is about Buttercup, a milkmaid, and Westley, a farm boy, who fall in love and have to face many obstacles. The story mainly develops the themes of true love and revenge. However, in the book, The Princess Bride by William Goldman, the story develops the theme of revenge and true love in more depth compared to the movie. First of all, the book provides a detailed past of each main character which makes the reader sympathize with them. For example, in the book, the author has dedicated four to five pages to understand Inigo’s and Fezzik’s past.

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First of all, The Princess Bride is a movie about love, vengeance, and companionship. The story focuses on a farm girl, Buttercup, who has been chosen as the prince's bride to Prince Humperdinck. However, Buttercup does not love him, as she mourns the death of her one true love, Westley. She is later on kidnapped by a band of bandits: Vizzini, Fezzik, and Montoya. However, they are chased by Dread Pirate Roberts himself, aka Westley and attempts to rescue Buttercup.

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This critical analysis will talk about the movie "The Princess Bride". The Princess Bride is a movie that narrates the love story of Buttercup, a girl from a big kingdom who had a employe called Westley, and Westley, a brave man who is employe of Buttercup and do what she tells him to do. Both of them were from a little village of a kingdom, were Buttercup and Westley fall in love, but like Westley didn 't have money for getting married with Buttercup, he makes a trip by boat. In this trip he is "captured" by a pirate called Robert. 5 years later, Buttercup becomes the fianceé of the prince, but she doesn 't like him; then she reunites with Westley and after some obstacles both of them end together. After talking about the movie, the text will tell how do the story showed the Middle Ages in the political, cultural, economic and social dimensions.

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