The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, and Christopher Guest. The film tells the story of a swashbuckling named Westly and Buttercup who encounter the Fire Swamp, where they encounter the Rodents of Unusual Size (ROUS) and the Fire Swamp. The ROUS are described as pure rat strains, usually weighing 80 pounds, running as fast as a wolfhound, about 40 miles per hour. They are carnivorous and can attack in a frenzy.
The R.O.U.S. were created with diminutive actors inside rat suits. The R.O.U.S. were created with whimsical imagery and fantastical creatures such as the ROUS and the Fire Swamp. The R.O.U.S. In the film adaptation, Westley, played by Cary Elwes, tackles a rodent of unusual size, which turns out to be a man in a suit.
The Princess Bride was jam-packed with facts that fans didn’t know about the classic movie. The film was inspired by one of the main characters in The Princess Bride, a feared sea captain who handed his name down to his predecessors.
In the film adaptation, Andre the Giant was self-medicinating with copious amounts of alcohol. The film’s director, Rob Reiner, was meticulous in his approach to creating these creatures, ensuring every detail was just right to immerse the audience in the fantasy world of the film.
📹 The Princess Bride: TheROUSes (Rodents of Unusual Size)
I do not claim any rights to this video….I couldn’t find any good scenes with TheROUSes on here, so I decided to put one together …
📹 The Princess Bride -RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE (ROUS)
A very funny DVD extra about filming the Fire Swamp scene in The Princess Bride apparently there were little people inside the rat …
We struggle to get home — to the good, the beautiful, and the true — when we are tempted to work for power, money, and status. We become entrenched in the rat race, shackled by the rule of abject societal norms. The ROUS by nature is an allegory to that rule and the rat race. When we walk down the same old path of everyday life, we always take the same path where that vivacious “rodent of unnatural size” follows closely behind…waiting for the perfect moment to strike us down. When we are knocked down by this mentality, even our beloved cannot help us, they can only stand in the back and watch us getting beaten down. The only thing that can help us is passion, assertiveness, and energy, represented by the fire that finally weakens the beast. These qualities give us ownership and help us to earn our way out of this cycle. Ultimately, it is up to us to put the sword through the beast of temptation and finish him off.
It’s unnerving to see the lady do absolutely nothing at all, while the dude is fighting for his life and the solution to the problem, which is to say the sword that he dropped, is just a few feet away, meaning she could have just picked it up at any time and handed it to him (if she truly isn’t capable of using it herself).
You can see at the start of the article that one if the R.O.U.Ses is right next to him, he looks at it, and decides to move on to reduce the chance of an attack. He only says that they don’t exist because he doesn’t want to further scare the lady. Apologies if I refer to them by pronouns..been a while since I watched this movie.
I remember when my class watched this movie in grade seven as a movie review assignment for language arts. In this scene all the boys were like, “help him, do something, don’t just stand there”. And then when we saw her grab the stick we all had the reaction of, “ok finally” followed shortly after by, “omg wow” as she poked it in the head and then fell for seemingly no reason at all. Most of the girls were just shaking their heads obviously thinking “we wouldn’t be that useless in her shoes”.
I loled at this scene. I remember perusal this in high school and the classroom Jock was taking this movie so seriously. Just this 6’2 dudebro getting pissed at anyone who didn’t appreciate the movie or made fun of it. “Bro stop laughing at this shit. This is good goddamn cinema.” Meanwhile we’re sat perusal a total sleaze fest of 80s practical effects.
This scene had me in tears when I saw it as a kid. To be honest, I still find it disturbing because of the sound effects. The music is really intense, the snarling is nasty, Westley really sounds like he’s in agony with each bite, but the end of the fight was what really made it too much for me. The screams that the ROUS makes when Westley stabs it made me feel sorry for it. Afterwards, although I loved the rest of the movie for years I would have to fast-forward through this scene. What the heck is a scene like this doing in a movie that everywhere else has such a light tone (except for the scene with the machine, but I have the same feeling about that)?
This was the first scene I had ever seen from any movie ever as a kid. It’s hard to describe how fucked up it seemed to be, with the characters acting not really even that concerned about the giant rat. Imagine not seeing any type of media in your life and then just randomly walking in on this scene.