Character Analysis : Film Review : The Princess Bride

As little girls, women may imagine themselves as the princesses that they hear and see in movies and books. These princess often defeat the villain, meet the love of their life, the prince, and live “happily ever after”. Sadly, life is far from the things we see in these movies and books. The Princess bride, by William Goldman is a fantasy novel about a beauiful girl, named Buttercup, who is forced to marry the Prince Humperdinck after the love of her life, Westley dies. She is later kidnapped by three men, and two of those men, named Inigo and Fezzik, come together with the undead Westley to avenge an important death

The Princess Bride is an amazing movie that has many great characters. It is based off of a book that shares the same name. Although there were many main characters, I have chosen to write about the characteristics of the ones that remind me of people that I know. These characters names are Wesley, Vizzini, and Prince Humperdinck. All of these characters could be described as being overly confident, and fairly intelligent.

William Goldman wrote an epic book called The Princess Bride. The Princess Bride tells a story of a Beautiful lady who sworn not to love again after her true love is presumed dead. The book and the movie, The Princess Bride, have many interesting similarities and differences. The differences outnumber the similarities by a long shot.

I admired the character Princess Jasmine in the film “Secondhand Lions” by Tim McCanlies because she was a minor character but she stood out in the film. This movie was about a fourteen year old boy whose mother sent him off to his Great Uncle's farm on a mission to find their millions that rumor said they had stashed away. His summer stay features stories of his Uncle's past and of their adventures a long time ago with princesses, wars and evil sheiks. Film techniques helped manifest Jasmine’s importance in the movie through narration, music and costume. This essay in my opinion, concludes Jasmine was a minor character that was seen rarely, but her presence was overall substantial.

These unexpected happenings destroy the unrealistic ideas within classical fairy tales making The Princess Bride a better reflection of real life. Through Goldman’s narration, he points out the expectations one has for a fairy tale to follow a certain plotline. Near the end of the story, before Westley dies in the “Machine” at the hands of Count Rugen, the narration interrupts the story with young Goldman fighting with his father. The father does not want to continue the story, but due to his son’s persistence, he reluctantly explains that Westley is killed. Young Goldman is extremely upset and begins crying as he can hardly believe that Westley, Buttercup’s true love, dies. He seems even more traumatized after learning that Prince Humperdinck, the villain of the story, survives or “wins” (282). Young Goldman is clearly uncomfortable with the idea of the hero “losing” to the villain and represents most readers who will also recognize the outcome as the opposite of what one expected. These “plot twists” occur again at the end of the book. In the conclusion, Buttercup, Westley, Inigo and Fezzik manage to escape Prince Humperdinck’s army, astride four white stallions and are fleeing the kingdom. However, instead of the expected “happily ever after”, the ending holds much uncertainty. The second last line reads, “Inigo’s wound

The Princess Bride undermines the cheesy ideals of classic fairytales while celebrating true love? Westley’s reinvention of himself throughout the movie? Is the young boy a spoiled brat? Is life “unfair”? What are the examples of true love in the movie?

Once upon a time there was a young girl who lived on a farm and for the longest time it didn’t seem like she would amount to anything. This girl’s name was Buttercup and she fell in love with the farm boy, Westley. Westley had to go to America to make money so him and Buttercup could have a wedding, but he was said to be killed by The Dread Pirate Roberts. After this happened, Buttercup swore she would never love another, but one day the Prince of Florin, Prince Humperdink, had told her that she must marry him. Nobody knew that his plan all along was to kill Princess Buttercup, and he had hired three men to do it for him. Vizzini, Fezzik and Inigo had failed to kill the princess when The Man in Black came into the picture and foiled their

In The Princess Bride, the storytellers introduce the plotline to suggest that how we as humans fight for what we believe in because it makes us happy.

    This movie is the perfect melting pot of humor and action. A lot of movies fail to hit the balance between too much humor and too much action. The Princess Bride is an exclusion to this cinematic misfortune. Although there are interruptions from the story with the narration by a grandfather and his grandson.“The Princess Bride” is a wonderful adventure movie meant for people of all ages with humorous irony, colorful and unique characters, and fantastical, well choreographed stunts.

When you think of a princess you may picture a girl with a lavish dress on and a crown full of jewels on top of her head, but not in William Goldman’s The Princess Bride. The readers encounter just a regular girl from a family that was never royalty, and who is always thinking of her one true love who was once thought dead.

Firstly, “The Princess Bride” is mainly about a girl who is in love with a farm boy. The boy Westley has to go to war so he could come back and have money to marry his true love. But, rumors spread that Westley was dead so Buttercup was forced to marry the king. Who knew Westley came out of nowhere and we were all surprised that he changed his name to Dread Pirate Roberts and that’s what kept him alive all these years. The king finds Buttercup and brings her back to the palace and forces her to marry him. He plans to kill her but instead she wants to commit suicide because what she thought was gonna happen didn’t. In the end they live happily ever after, far away from the kingdom.

“The Princess Bride” was one of my mom’s favorite movies when she was little. Because of this, I have seen the movie with her several times. However, I had never read the book. I have always been told that books are better than movies but with this story, I do not agree. I liked the movie much better.

The Princess Bride is a timeless classic written in 1973 by William Goldman that was later on, in 1987, turned into a movie. The Princess Bride is a fairy-tale adventure of a young couple madly in love that must fight and overcome tough obstacles to be together, one of them being the evil prince, which has demanded her hand in marriage. Although the Princess Bride is an all-time classic, there are many character flaws. The characters seem to be extremely static and typical; the princess looks like any other princess, the hero saves the day, and the villain is defeated. The stale characters make the witty humor priceless and unbelievably entertaining which makes you fall in love with these boring characters. Buttercup’s princess looks; Westley’s

The book Princess Bride by William Goldman is a novel which also is a movie. In this book a girl named Buttercup loves a boy named Westley, but her father tells her Westley has died so, Buttercup then has to marry Prince Humperdinck. Prince Humperdinck plans to kill her, but Westley comes to save her. If you look at both movie and book some parts are the same, but other parts are different or cut out, so the movie does a bad job following the book.

Today’s Disney princess movies are a far cry from the fairytales from which they originated. Though they have the same basic story and often teach the same moral lessons, the modern interpretations see these stories through rose-tinted glasses, so to speak. In the early to mid 1800’s, the time of such authors as the Grimm brothers and Hans Christian Andersen, fairytales were used to terrify children into behaving and consequently tend to be very violent. In modern times, fairytales are used as entertainment for younger audiences and tend to teach lessons in a more gentle fashion. Not only are the stark contrasts between the two styles interesting, but they provide an excellent idea of the values and what was considered proper in the respective periods.