The Princess Bride

I hope you are prepared, because I am opening up an ancient relic. The Princess Bride had to come from somewhere, and this gem is wonderful.

[Spoiler] For those who have not seen the movie, the story is about two people, Wesley and Buttercup, who fall in love. Wesley worked on the Buttercup’s family farm, and when he speaks with her father about marriage, he finds he needs a different way to provide for her. So Wesley sets off and disappears for way too long. Buttercup had given up on his return so she becomes engaged to Prince Humperdink, who is a huge douche canoe. He makes a deal with three men to kidnap her to incite a war with the neighboring country. Wesley comes back as the Man in Black and saves her, where his identity is revealed. Humperdink finds them, arrests the Man in Black, and leaves his right-hand man to torture him. Yada yada yada, Wesley and Buttercup ride off together in the sunset and they kiss.

What is wonderful about the book is that Rob Reiner followed the source material very closely. So the lines that we all remember with the characters are there. Inigo Montoya has his showdown with the Six Fingered Man, Fezzik jogs people’s memories, Wesley is mostly dead, but brought back to life.

If you would like to reenact the grandfather reading to young Fred Savage, the book is available here.

10/10