The movie tries to capture this meta aspect by introducing a grandfather character reading to his sick grandson. Goldman presents himself as an author excising the “boring bits” from a (made-up) old fairy tale, and he pauses at the end of each chapter to analyze the fantasy genre and reminisce about his own father telling him fantastical bedtime stories. But the movie loses the wry commentary of the novel’s narrator, Goldman himself. Wesley teams with giant Fezzik and swordsman Inigo Montoya, who is bent on avenging his father’s death, for an epic showdown with the prince. But she finds a savior in her long-lost love Wesley, who braves the mystical fire swamp, fights a Rodent of Unusual Size (R.O.U.S.) and endures a torture machine in his pursuit. In both book and movie, the most beautiful woman in the world, Buttercup, finds herself betrothed to a malicious monarch. It might be “inconceivable” to separate William Goldman’s novel The Princess Bride from Rob Reiner’s satirical-yet-thrilling film adaptation.
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