Film Techniques In The Princess Bride

When I was little, my mother always read me stories before bed. I couldn’t sleep without hearing the happy ending that I always knew was coming. The Princess Bride, a movie about a grandfather who reads his sick grandson a book about a Farm boy named Wesley and his true love Buttercup. In this fairytale they must overcome great obstacles while fighting for their love. This movie brings me right back to my childhood cuddling up under my covers hanging on my mothers every word. Although it is at some points unrealistic and predictable, The Princess Bride is an interesting, humorous, and heartwarming movie due to its’ setting, comical characters, and deep true love story.

Princess films are beloved classics that range from the beloved Disney franchise, to live action films such as the Princess Diaries, to historical tales as those seen is polish films. No matter what the format or genre these films typically have a prince searching for his love the princess and contain recurring scenes. The film The Princess Bride offers a new comedic approach to this classic genre. While scholars have explored how princess films are able to succeed through the use ideas such as nostalgia or nationalism, The Princess Bride succeeds through the use of comedy. Through the use of comedic devices such as mistaken identity, absurdity, and good old-fashioned slapstick comedy, The Princess Bride is able to parody the traditional

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind(Tim Burton). Who knew that a movie could be so much like the real world events? Two subjects projected in two single clips. One from sorrow and the other formed by fright, yet you can only overcome a fear if you face it. As shown in the Tim Burton clips.

“The Dressmaker” has many similar elements and features to spaghetti westerns. How has the director used this style to engage a modern audience?

“One person’s crazyness is another person’s reality” was once said by the famous director, author, inspirer, Tim Burton. He creates films that have surprised many of his supporters. Most of the films he has directed have had elements of horror and modernness. Tim Burton uses cinematic techniques such as flashbacks, high key lighting, and dolly/tracking to express his style natural creepiness throughout his movies.

Throughout the book, ‘The Princess Bride’, you can tell that many of the characters, even the, not so important characters, have been played with their emotions. Although it seems that once they are happy, or they have found ‘true love,’ everything will go out smoothly until an unexpected turn occurs and we are just left there wondering what’s to come next. One very good example of this is in the last paragraph of page 217, where after everything he had risked, including his life, Buttercup leaves Westley for Humperdinck. Nevertheless, that paragraph there shows that sometimes favorable characters, may appear very bleak sometimes. One character that I’m sure most of us recognise after reading the book, ‘The Princess Bride’, is Buttercup.

“The Princess Bride” was a good movie that was released in October 9, 1987. It was directed by Rob Reiner and the screenwriter was William Goldman. Some major actors in the movie include: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya), Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn (Vizzini), Andre the Giant (Fezzik), and Robin Wright. “The Princess Bride” is about a little boy who is sick and his grandfather tries to make him feel better by reading a story called The Princess Bride. The story starts with a girl named Buttercup (Robin Wright) and how she fell in love with a “farmboy” named Westly (Cary Elwes).

An excellently crafted movie filled with action, witty banter, and even romance, The Princess Bride is entertainment for the whole family. There’s sword fights for for action-inclined people and clever phrases riddled throughout the script for the intellectuals. Overall, the movie has become an American classic. The story itself is presented as a mere love story, but there is so much more to the movie than just the theme of love. Subplots are intertwined masterfully, and the ending leaves all the viewers satisfied and all the separate plots resolved. This movie has earned five stars, and should be seen by everyone at some point in their life.

Each of these scenes have their own uniqueness to them, they may both be fight scenes but they are practically complete opposites. If we are to strip away the context of each scene and just look at them from strictly a fight choreographer point of view there is some slight similarities in the way they fight. Light sabers are a cooler version of a sword so the zapping of their collins and the clanging of swords is very similar. When the context of the scenes is brought into play, involving the sound track, it is when they begin to differ.

It is remarkably difficult to narrow down a favorite movie because I have a few, however the one film that I have already watched numerous times and still plan on watching many more would have to be The Princess Bride. It is a story based on the book by S. Morgenstern’s classic tale of true love and high adventure abridged with the “good parts” version by William Goldman who later translated it to screenplay. The book was actually written as a nonexistent political satire, however this story is also infused with excerpts from Goldman’s fictional life. The film preserves this unique structure to tell a story within a story by using the actors Peter Faulk and Fred Savage as grandfather and sick grandson, respectively. The Princess Bride uses a variety of techniques from acting technique, cinematography, narrative structure, the potential for societal impact, style, genre, and sound to reveal a satire of the common fairy tale, while simultaneously becoming one of the most cherished movies for over thirty years.

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     Scene: Humperdink castle, Prince Humperdink is announcing his bride-to-be and we find out it is the Princess Buttercup.

‘The Princess Bride’, directed by Rob Reiner, and released in 1978. This is a story about a girl named Buttercup and a boy named Westley who fell in love. They go on many adventures that strengthen their relationship. Westley being the hero (A person who is admired for their exceptional achievements) and Prince Humperdink as the villain (A person who uses their evil actions to hurt people.) The director established these characters for the viewers by providing an assortment of film techniques, such as lighting, music and costumes.

The Princess bride is a comedy/romance/adventure/action movie The main characters are Westley-a farm boy, buttercup-a princess who meet indigo montoya- a knight trying to avenge hos farther and fezzic - a giant along the way. The Princess Bride is based off the book ‘The Princess Bride’ and makes frequent references to it in the movie. The movie is set in a fairy tale themed timeline and has mythical beasts such as giant rodents.

In making Citizen Kane Orson Welles implemented a variety of innovative filmmaking techniques. One of the most prevalent is the use of “deep focus”. Deep focus refers to having everything in the scene, including the background in focus at the same time. To accomplish this, the cinematographer must combine composition, lighting, and a special type of camera lens to create the desired effect. This enables the filmmaker to show overlapping actions causes the physical environment in which the film takes place to become more critical.