No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone. If you haven’t got your health, then you haven’t got anything. I just work for Vizzini to pay the bills. You think people can’t get tired of you, well you’re wrong, they can, and she will, besides you’re too poor. Just because you’re beautiful and perfect, it’s made you conceited. Anyone who says differently is selling something. And, also, it does have kissing in it.Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high. It is filled with good-hearted fun, with performances by actors who seem to be smacking their lips and by a certain true innocence that survives all of Reiner's satire. "The Princess Bride" was adapted by William Goldman from his own novel, which he says was inspired by a book he read as a child, but which seems to have been cheerfully transformed by his wicked adult imagination. (I hope I'm not giving anything away you didn't expect the princess's loved one to stay dead indefinitely, did you?) And the funniest sequence in the film stars Billy Crystal and Carol Kane, both unrecogizable behind makeup, as an ancient wizard and crone who specialize in bringing the dead back to life. It is Shawn who tosses the princess to the Screaming Eels, with great relish.Īnother funny episode involves Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya, a heroic swordsman with a secret. There is, for example, a band of three brigands led by Wallace Shawn as a scheming little conniver and including Andre the Giant as Fezzik the Giant, a crusher who may not necessarily have a heart of gold. There are a lot of people for his characters to meet as they make their long journey, and most of them are completely off the wall. Part of the secret is that Reiner never stays with the same laugh very long. "The Princess Bride" looks and feels like " Legend" or any of those other quasi-heroic epic fantasies - and then it goes for the laughs. "Spinal Tap" looked and felt like a rock documentary - and then it was funny.
Both films are funny not only because they contain comedy, but because Reiner does justice to the underlying form of his story.
In its own peculiar way, "The Princess Bride" resembles "This Is Spinal Tap," an earlier film by the same director, Rob Reiner. The moment the princess is taken away by agents of the evil Prince Humperdinck ( Chris Sarandon), "The Princess Bride" reveals itself as a sly parody of sword and sorcery movies, a film that somehow manages to exist on two levels at once: While younger viewers will sit spellbound at the thrilling events on the screen, adults, I think, will be laughing a lot. Well, it's definitely going to have a lot of Screaming Eels. "Is this story going to have a lot of kissing in it?" Falk's grandson asks.
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