The Princess Bride Analysis

During life, birth, and death, a family is one of the few natures of life that are present throughout. Often times, the value of family is taken for granted, and people tend to disregard the importance it carries. Due to the power present in the nature of a man, often times it is challenging for women to establish a firm independence, in distinction of the common norms inaugurated in society and in family. In both A Thousand Splendid Suns and Pride and Prejudice, men are the dominant figures in all households, as they have control over their financial status, who their children marry, where they live, and create means in which the females of the family must follow. The inferiority that women face leads to an inquiry of an immense pride

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.

Through the over-exaggeration of certain qualities, Goldman creates caricatures of familiar fairy tale archetypes to mock the shallowness of their characters. The main character, Buttercup, plays the role of “the beautiful damsel in distress” where her beauty overshadows all other favorable qualities. Buttercup’s beauty is the large focus of her character as the narrator spends some time describing how she moves through the ranks of beautiful women (Goldman 67). Besides her good looks, Buttercup is portrayed in a generally detestable manner being dim-witted and cowardly. Her stupidity is shown throughout the novel by her lack of awareness of current situations. When the hero, Westley, tells Buttercup he is leaving, she is angry and unaware that Westley has loved her for many years and wants to go to America to earn money to support a life for the two of them. Buttercup’s cluelessness prompts Westley to say, “You never have been the brightest” (63). Even the man that loves Buttercup the most, points out how dumb she is. Then, after escaping the Fire Swamp with Westley, Buttercup surrenders to Prince Humperdinck, naively believing that this will guarantee safety for Westley and herself (216). This shows that Buttercup is a coward in the

While Jenny repeatedly rejects Forrest as her lover, she is romantically attracted to him enough to keep coming back into his life. After Forrest’s mother passes away Jenny comes back, saying she misses home and is here to stay. Even after leaving again, she comes back into Forrest’s life with a letter, inviting him to her Georgia home, which brings Forrest to the bus stop where he narrates his autobiography.

In the film, The Princess Bride, the director Rob Reiner introduced many themes into the plot. A significant theme in the film, The Princess Bride, is ’Intelligence’. Had intelligence not have been a contributing factor to the plot, there would be a completely different outcome at the end.

Despite having an archetypal storyline, The Princess Bride proves to be anything but predictable. From the moment the title appears onscreen in a font that evokes classic fairy tales such as Sleeping Beauty, it is clear the story is going to be rooted in fantasy. Following the appearance of the title comes the sound of a child’s cough as the black screen gives way to the graphics a baseball video game. The camera pans around the room to reveal posters of Chicago Cubs and Bears players, and soon rests on a child, presumably the source of the cough. Thus, the mise-en-scene has introduced to one of our two narrators, the other being the child’s grandfather who comes to read him a story. Though the novel read by the grandfather conveys a hackneyed tale of undying love, the film frames this in a self-aware way with periodic interruption of the story’s narrative by comments from young boy which are cynical at first, by grow to reflect a genuine interest as the movie progresses. This move is self-reflexive in that it reminds the audience that they are, in fact, watching a move; however, this serves to elevate the meaning of the film. Through the use of sound, editing, and mise-en-scene, The Princess Bride emphasizes that even though the concept of true love has saturated society and become cliché, it’s no less potent because of the cultural overplay. I will specifically discuss the utilization of deep focus shots, color, and lighting that caricaturize the traditional fairy tale,

O Brother Where Art Thou? The movie is set in Mississippi in the late 1930's, with The Great Depression looming in the background. A condensed plot, are that the three main characters Ulysses McGill, Pete Hogwallop and Delmar O'Donnell are convicts that break away from a chain gang. They break away because they're on a quest to find the treasure that Everett hid. As the three men go along in their literal chains, they run into a ton of problems and interesting characters like The KKK, a campaigning governor, a robber, and a blind prophet. From the research I have done, the popular opinion is that this film is loosely based on the book, "The Odyssey". The overall tone and mood is somewhat goofy, but it has some heavy topics behind it like The

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a Coen brothers film that was based on Homer’s epic, “The Odyssey.” The setting of the movie was during the depression era in Mississippi. The movie’s tone, characters, story, and settings reflect how barren and poor the general populous was after the stock market crash of 1929. This movie had many themes that warrant analysis. The theme of inequality between the white and black races was prevalent throughout the movie. Inequality and unfairness within the human race in general was also clearly depicted. This movie thoroughly depicts the multifaceted themes and issues present during the depression era.

Evil Prince Humperdinck of Florin asks Buttercup to marry him and she agrees and decides to marry him . Although after she does say yes to Evil Prince in Source B is its stated the following “ Once the wedding is announced, she is kidnapped by men hired by the prince to kill her on the Florin/Guilder border. Humperdinck plans to blame the murder on Guilder, giving him a reason to invade that kingdom. The kidnappers, however, are followed by a man wearing a black mask and hood.” Which lead this to the second toughest situation Buttercup has now been captured and been kidnapped by Vizzini, Fezzik and Inigo and take her on the coast, Buttercup is not dumb enough to let any mean do whatever they want she believe yes she is a women but she will not let anyone do as they will. But during that they were on the coast they realizes something really strange that Westley was not dead that he was someone else acting on the ship.. Buttercup makes a deal that she will return but with one condition that Wesley gets back safe where he is needed to be. Which to me is the second toughest situation that Buttercup has to go through for instance getting with someone else wehn she didnt wat to , getting kidnapped and now knowiing that her ex lover is actually still alive but her not being able to go and be happy with him and fake out that she loves someone else now

William Goldman in The Princess Bride wrote, “Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation. “Flaws, faults, and imperfections are all basic things people have, based on the saying that no one is perfect. Goldman wrote that flaws can turn into death, or even worse, humiliation. Humiliation is thought of as a very bad thing on byself, but if the public hears of your flawed errors, it turns into a major impact on your life. Monica Lewinsky, a former intern of the White House, is a good example of public humiliation. She made a speech called, “The Price of Shame”, which talks of how her flawed error of falling in love with the President out of lust, and how it caused a huge negative impact on her person, professional, and social life. Lewinsky’s story is very similar to the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which talks of a woman named Hester Prynne who is shamed with the act of adultery, she herself falling love with a man of higher authority. Their entire lives were affected dearly, by people looking at them, and saying things about them that were not true. Even today, public humiliation is taken as a punishment for people's mistakes, and taken to the max. In the article, “Is the Internet a Mob Without Consequence?”, it talks of how public humiliation had taken an even more extreme and easy to achieve the same negative impacts on someone due to technology increase and social media’s. Public shame is something everyone fears. Not just because it would embarrass them, but it will ruin their lives. Someone's social and professional life could be deeply affected, and even a great deal of personal issues and family issues can arise.

The movie The Princess Bride originated from the book The Princess Bride by Williams Goldman. The storyline goes along demonstrating the typical knight and the royal characteristic in Medieval times. The events in the movie are based on the courtly love of the main character, Westley. Before being arrested to be a pirate, Westley was a farm boy, who is deeply in love with Buttercup. When he heard of the kidnap the trio, he immediately came to rescue Buttercup, who is at that time Prince Humperdinck's fiance. Within the fight scene of Westley and Inigo Montoya, a knight from the trio, the chivalry of medieval knights is being shown. From the beginning when Inigo patiently waits for Westley to climb up the cliff for the fight, to during the fight

The director Miyazaki utilizes both physical and visual elements as represented by the characters, in order to communicate and individualize unique character traits and contrasting personalities. Miyazaki’s placing emphasis on character development is a significant aspect of not only the narrative, but also asserts how each gender is represented in a different way.

(Part 1) Thelma & Louise received mix responses from film critics when it first came out. The responses to the film were largely based on preconceived notions about how women operate in the criminal justice system. Obviously, this movie subverted a lot of these presumptions. The first issue was gender. Women had not been perceived as outlaws until this film. The whole idea of a woman in the criminal justice system did not embody what the movie portrayed. Specifically, after Thelma was sexually assaulted and Harlan was shot, the women come to the conclusion that going to the police won’t help them. They do not have faith the male dominated criminal justice system will look past Thelma’s drinking, dancing, and flirting with Harlan. In the article “Outlaw Women: An Essay on Thelma & Louise”, Elizabeth Spelman and Martha Minow said “Louise and Thelma both hear and reject the echo of societal conversations about blaming women who get raped because ‘they asked for it.’” Louise immediately acknowledges this stereotype against them which is the fact if a woman was raped, the law will view it like “she had it coming”. In other words, she was provocative in some way that established consent. Another issue concerning gender was the one of outlaw women. Normally, the traditional outlaw film contains a white male that we as the audience view as virtuous. While most probably favored what Thelma and Louise were doing, there were some points where the deviancy might have been too much.

An image of a magical and mythical world come to mind with a happy ending when fairy tales are mentioned; yet, William Goldman’s The Princess Bride proves fairy tales can also be thrill-packed with adventure and suspense. William Goldman’s book The Princess Bride is a book that takes place in the mythical country of Florin located between Sweden and Germany where the scenery is beautifully filled with vegetation and occupies Buttercup, a milkmaid, and Westley, a Farm Boy. The Princess Bride is filled with risky experiences, adrenaline, and heartbreak leaving the reader with a feeling of wanting to read more due to the unknowns of what stimulation was going to take place next. The theme of love in this novel is responsible for the developments and enactments of each incident that occurred throughout the story line creating it one of the uttermost as well as essential components for constructing the story’s plot.

Love stories have been around for centuries, as ever changing as they have been one thing stays constant, a happily ever after ending. Each story might be perceived differently but each story has the unique ability to capture all that seek to find their own happy ending. The famous Cinderella story shows the perfect example of how the princess culture can be seen in children everywhere. Children are attracted to Cinderella and stories like it because they believe if you are morally good there has to be a happily ever after for them. The film “The Princess Bride” offers the inherent hope that happily ever after’s are attainable for all who persevere.