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Differences Between The Princess Bride Book And Movie

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The Princess Bride: Film Versus Novel
The novel The Princess Bride by William Goldman was published in 1973. The movie The Princess Bride directed by Rob Reiner, released in 1987, Starred Cary Elwes as Westley and Robin Wright as Buttercup. The Princess Bride is about the most beautiful girl in the kingdom Florin, Buttercup, who falls in love with her farm boy, Westley. After Westley goes missing, Buttercup becomes engaged to the prince, Humperdinck, by force. Buttercup is kidnapped by, a sicilian named vizzini, a giant Turk, named Fezzik, and champion swordsman, named Inigo. She is reunited with Westley but is unable to escape her engagement until she is finally saved. The Princess Bride movie, made very few changes to the characters, plot, and theme of the novel. The plot of the movie is the same, and is in the same order, as the book. In the movie Westley goes missing, Buttercup is kidnapped, and Westley saves her from marrying Humperdinck. This is identical to the book, even the side plots in the movie are similar. They took out the sequence when Inigo and Fezzik go to save Westley. In the book Fezzik and Inigo enter the wrong way into the Zoo of Death and had to out smart …show more content…

The theme is that life is not like it is in story books. In the book William Goldman, claims this book was originally written by someone named S. Morgenstern, that Florin and Guilder are real, and that he is just abridging The Princess Bride because he loved it when he was younger. In one of he interjections he says “that life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death…”(Goldman, 358). This conveys the theme that life is not like it is in fairytales. In the movie a similar line is spoken by Westley. Before Buttercup realizes it is Westley who is saving her he says, “Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” (The Princess Bride). This once again conveys the theme that life is not like it is portrayed in the

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