The Princess Bride, directed by Rob Reiner, is a popular fantasy film based on William Goldman’s novel. The movie won the Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film and Best Costumes, and was nominated for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film also won the 1988 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
The Princess Bride is a high-spirited adventure that pits true love against inconceivable odds. The story follows a bedridden boy who reads a book about a farmboy-turned-pirate named Buttercup, who is kidnapped on the eve of her wedding to Prince Humperdinck. Although it received mixed reviews from critics, it proved to be a box office success and won Goldman his first Academy Award.
Goldman’s novels, including The Princess Bride, were published in the 1970s and were adapted into a romantic adventure comedy. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards for its visual and sound effects. In 2016, the film was inducted into the National Film Registry, being deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”
The Princess Bride has won 17 awards, including the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. The film has been nominated for several other awards, such as the Storybook Love and The Last Emperor. The film has also won the Oscar for Best Picture.
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I was in the hospital coming out from under anethesia and I was very woozy and the Doctor asked me my name and I said “My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father. Prepare to die.” I drifted back off to the sound of hysterical laughter. I rate my friends on how much they can quote from this movie.
In 1976, my sister read this book for her high school sophomore English class. She gave it to me and said I should read it. I remember the last paragraph was all about the world’s best kiss – – a kiss so wonderful it couldn’t be described in the book. We sent away to get the full description – – there was an address at the back of the book to mail $1 to along with your request!! haha . . . Can’t remember what we got back. The next year, I went away to college. I scoured the University of Idaho’s library for the “long, boring original” version that was described at the beginning of Goldman’s book written by S. Morgenstern. I called home and asked my sister if I had the author’s name and title correct. She laughed and laughed!! She said, “That was just part of the story! That S. Morgenstern book was made up by Goldman.” I can still feel the embarrassment of being laughed at by my little sis. I introduced my husband to the movie years later when we bought our very first VHS article player. And all these years later, it is a favorite of our 4 grown kids. My daughter, for her wedding day, asked her acoustic guitar player to learn Mark Knopfler’s “STORYBOOK LOVE” from the soundtrack. Thank you, William Goldman, for the best book/screenplay ever. Thanks to Mr. Reiner and cast for the perfect fairytale.
One of my favorite parts of the entire movie is when Wesley and Buttercup just enter the Fire Swamp and they look around and Wesley says “It’s not that bad.” And the LOOK Buttercup gives him, THAT was priceless. It was sort of a “What is WRONG with you???” look. That look was incredible. It’s a bit subtle compared to the rest of the movie but maybe that’s why I love it so much.
In this time of a writer’s strike the fact that the original author of the novel, William Goldman, adapted his own work into a screenplay really makes it work. The book is wonderful but has so many indulgences and footnotes that it takes a very deft writer to adapt it. Everyone else’s contribution is important, but the foundation is the script.
I’m 50 now and l don’t know how many times I watched it when it came out my uncle worked at the local movie theater so I had free admission all the time to any movie from 1982 to 2005 when he retired 😢 took my first real girlfriend to this and snuck in to the back of the theater and well snuggled a bit great memories As you wish my lady 😘 Thers so many great people both in front of and behind the cameras Great movie great memories 😂❤
In case any diehard fans somehow missed it, there was a “lockdown” reboot of actors on their phone cameras & whatever props they could muster at home. It is here on YOUTUBE & a must see. It is not the full movie, and the cast changes, but I love it ! It’s like a loving tribute to the movie and actors.
Why is it with these EW/People “reunions” instead of being regaled with production tales by the cast and crew we get a blow-by-blow retelling of the film from bland magazine people for like 90% of the article? We know what the movie is about. We don’t need you to pad your runtime with redundant information.
I loved, loved, loved this fantastic movie. Every part played by the perfect actor, memorable in every way. I’ve never heard so many lines from another movie. Fun, funny, endearing to the core, a classic to live forever. Heartfelt thanks for this revisit, so good to see them again, they’ve hardly changed and all look marvelous ❤
I loved it, showed it to my kids, and they to theirs.” This is Spinal Tap” and ” Princess Bride,” are two marvelous Rob Reiner timeless films. My kids and I also delighted in Spinal Tap. One of my sons was in a band as a teen, and says the ridiculous scenes are not that far off ftom his own memories. Brilliant script, brilliant acting, brilliant directing. A win win for multi generational experiences.
Back in the 70s I bought the paperback attracted by the elaborate cover and loved it. When the movie came out life got in the way & I never got to the theater but then the article came out, so I rented it while my husband was away at a conference & introduced the story to my elementary school age daughter. We rented it several times, eventually introducing it to her much younger sister. When the older daughter moved out f the house, she raided my book collection & took that old, ratty paperback with her (with permission). She bought the DVD. I think the book has fallen apart now, but both daughters read it, Both daughters have copies o the movie, and they have introduced all three of my older daughter ‘s sons. When the younger daughter has children they will be introduced. My husband has nver figured out our love of the movie. He thinks it’s just dumb fantasy crap. Maybe the grandson’s will explain it to him. I don’t even try.
This is one of Hollywood’s perfect movies. The only thing I would want to ever see in a remake is for them to bring back Fred Savage and have him be the dad reading to his sick kid, then cut back to the original move. Don’t try to be cleaver with anything. Don’t add any more to the story, either for the sick kid or the adventure story. Just don’t touch it. The sick kid is now playing on Xbox, and Fred Savage takes the day off work to read to them. They interrupt at similar times to keep the correct break ups, but otherwise, its the same classic movie, with a new story teller. Hollywood, if you can’t do that, just don’t touch it. Cary Elwes said it right in a tweet, “There’s a shortage of perfect movies in this world. It would be a pity to damage this one.”
Unfortunately I had this stop this in the middle so I could watch The Princess Bride once again for probably 100 times one of my all-time favorites and one that you can’t get tired of perusal like my favorite movie of all time Cool Hand Luke I can only watch that every maybe 5 years or more I believe The Princess Bride to be the most overwhelmingly epic story of all time and the fact that they turned it into a movie with such Grace and communion it’s just inexplicable
Love this movie! Can’t believe the one commentor didn’t realize that the reason Wallace Shawn switched the drinks was to see if the man in black would drink his without hesitation, to judge if he thought his drink was safe. If not, he would pull some other trick to keep from drinking the poisoned drink. I also can’t believe they spoiled all the surprises for younger viewers who may not have seen the movie yet. This article needed a spoiler alert.
This is one of my all time favorite movies. I love it on many, many levels. It is stellar storytelling. I love all the sub plots and characters but Inigo Montoya’s mission to avenge hs father was deeply moving to me.. The movie came out a few weeks after my father died in 1987. He had endured a very profuondly stressful period created by other people’s actions that I consider to be a major contributing factor in him developing the pancreatic cancer that killed him. He passed the day atfer he was diagnosed. Time is a great healer and this movie was a very early part of that process for me. Time to watch it again!
I was 18 in 87. I remember the first time I saw this movie on cable. Didn’t know a thing about it. Honest to God, I didn’t realize it was a comedy until ‘the sword fight’. It, of course, changed my life. Now, a few years later, I am old enough to appreciate so much more about this movie. The actors, the writer, the director… just the entire process of making a movie. But this movie is Cinematic History. It is loved SO much by SO many people. It’s no wonder that so many of them went on to have solid, if not stellar, careers. From the very deepest parts of my heart, I want to thank each and every person that went in to the making of PB. You influenced more lives with this movie than you will ever know. Thank You.
My sons babysitter talked me into perusal this with my son. She let me borrow her article over the weekend. I was like the Grandson…and she The Grandfather. She even repeated the Grandfather word for word, telling me about it. My kid even talked me into it, so we went home and watched it…and again…and again. Now, I talk others into perusal it.
Billy mentions at the end there, the small lines that initially get overlooked. For me; Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up. Cracks me up every time Mandy Patinkin tells wonderful stories of the film and Andre, does a great impression of him too. That Wallace Shawn was terrified of heights, and they were in a harness being lifted up the cliffs. Andrea, with his huge hands, patted Wallace and said I will look after you, I will look after you. And Wallace was fine after that
I read somewhere that William Goldman wrote the book because his father read him a book as a child and Goldman wanted to read the book to his kid, but when he bought the book to read to his kid, Goldman realized that his father would edit the book as the father was reading it. Goldman, when he wrote The Princess Bride, wrote his book as close as he remembered of what his father ‘read’ to him when Goldman was a kid.
My daughter’s wedding on the beach in California was elegant and beautiful. Her and her husband started their life together with the quotable quote, “Mawwwage. Mawwage is what brings us to today. Marriage, that blessed arrangement. That dream, within a dream!” – The Impressive Clergyman. They are still married. Marry someone who loves a laugh and a great movie.😊❤
It was my turn to pick a movie so we went to the theater. My kids not happy because they couldn’t pick what they wanted so they were sulky and pouting when I told them we were going to watch the princess bride. They were like the little boy at the beginning of the movie. When we came out of the theater they could not stop talking about it and it became one of our favorite family movie. My kids were one boy one girl and seven years apart and even my husband and I loved it, something for everyone. I remember my son saying, “mom sure knows how to pick a movie”. Best compliment a mom could have, I was better than popcorn, at least, for a day.
I saw this at the movies in Australia as a kid and adored it. I remember being blown away by the sword fight! My teenage son recently watched the DVD we own of it and I think he loved it almost as much as I do. LOL. I was reciting the lines along with it – I know it so well. This was disappointing as a cast reunion though – fans don’t need a re-cap of the story. We want to hear more “behind the scenes” memories from the people who made it.
I had to stop perusal about halfway through because I realized this isn’t so much a reunion where they interview cast members and talk about their stories. It’s a synopsis of the movie presented by employees of the entertainment industry. I don’t want to hear it from individuals who were in diapers when the movie was released. I want to hear it from those who were actually there.
Robin Wright is as beautiful as ever 🤩 What a great movie and nice recap. Definitely one of my favorite movies to watch over and over. I met Cary Elwes at Comic-Con a few years ago, and he was so nice! He signed an extra photo and took a selfie with me and my 2-year-old daughter for free! Great guy!
117 times I have seen this film, perhaps more, but I gave up counting ages ago. One of the few things I can thank my sister for is throwing a copy of the book at me and saying “Here. You prolly would like this crap” when we were in high school. The only other movie that I’ve memorized almost all the lines to was Platoon because it was one of the only movies we had on base in Korea. Utterly amazing film, and as far as I’m concerned it was the closest to perfect of anything filmed. Knopfler’s soundtrack was beautiful, Local Hero might be the only thing he’s done that was more astounding. This was one of those productions that comes along once in maybe a generation, perfect cast, perfect director, perfect soundtrack, just magic on film.
Princess Bride entered that rarefied group of beloved cult movies that you will always stop what you are doing and watch if they come on by chance on conventional TV (it loses something of that sense of serendipity in the digital age when you can just watch anything, whenever you want). The list is not made up of movies that are necessarily great but rather ones that have that special combination of elements that makes them endlessly watchable, compelling and entertaining even if you have seen them dozens of times. The sort of movie that if you are depressed and unable to sleep at 3 am and you switch on the TV and it’s showing you will settle in and watch happily til the end and feel less depressed as a result. The list (at least for me) includes, in addition to Princess Bride, such varied efforts as It’s a Wonderful Life, The Blues Brothers, Groundhog Day, Blade Runner, The Shawshank Redemption, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, The Fifth Element, The Sixth Sense, Die Hard (and the sequels), Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon (basically anything with Bogart), Gilda, Kiss me Deadly, The Terminator (and the first sequel), Alien and Aliens, Legend, The Goonies, The Natural, Brazil, Gladiator, Anything by Monty Python, Starship Troopers, Spirited Away (original Japanese version and US dub), Star Wars (original unimproved trilogy), Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Matrix (but not the sequels) Baron Munchausen, Time Bandits, Rocky Horror, Donnie Darko, The Wizard of Oz, Forbidden Planet, The Godfather (1 and 2), Anything by Kurosawa, Anything with the Marx Brothers etc, etc.
It is the perfect movie. What it means to you when you’re 8 changes when you see it when you’re 18 and means something else when you’re 28. It’s not dated. It’s fantasy, comedy, action and fun. Perfect cast, perfect director. These people are immortalized in this movie. They did not, however, show scenes from the one part of the movie that makes me laugh every. single. time.
To the man who said “I’m not sure what it gains him to switch glasses.” Basically, by switching glasses, then letting the man in black drink first, he ascertains which cup his enemy believes is poisoned. If the man in black hesitates, he can simply say “If you prefer, I’ll drink that glass instead.” And since he already switched them, he’d be returning the poison to him. If the man in black looks satisfied with the choice, he’d know that the cup he swapped is free of poison and simply drink. If he had not switched the glasses first, and the man in black had looked satisfied to drink his own, he wouldn’t have been able to ask for that cup. The only circumstance in which the man in black would swap drinks is if he believed he had the poison. So this is actually a genius move.
Omg, can Carey, Robin and Carol please age? I’m younger than all of them and they put me to shame! What a great bunch of sports for taking that amazing, fun picture! Love it! Romances that I like are few and far between. But this movie has everything. The fact that everyone involved is stellar in their own right and versatile in their craft makes this an unforgettable endeavor. Thank you for all of this!
They’ve done a few of these reunions now and I’ve noticed that Mandy is never present at these get together. I know his schedule can’t be that busy. But I’ve also heard that he’s not the easiest person to work with in the industry because of his level of demand. If that’s true, that’s very unfortunate.
“I hired you to help me start a war, it’s a prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition.” -Viccini – Vizzini “Inconceivable.” – Viccini Vizzini (Or should I hint at, Machiovelli) “You keep saying that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.” – Inuego Montoya “Hello, my name is Inuego Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.” – Inuego Montoya “Buttercup”, “As you Wish” – Wesley (Good Pirate Roberts)
Kinda cool. Though I would have preferred the actors tell us about the movie. Instead, we get about two minutes of the actors, the article is supposed to be about, and 30 minutes of nobodys explaining the movie. Who thought this through? “Here’s a article reunion of actors from a great movie you know and love, but if you blink, you’ll miss them.”.