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The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride is a Great Movie.
The Princess Bride
The narrative of the movie is framed by a scene featuring a boy sick in bed (Fred Savage) and his grandfather (Peter Falk). (It is obvious that this scene takes place near Chicago, due to the many Chicago sports souvenirs in the boy's bedroom; and due to the fact that William Goldman grew up in Highland Park, a Chicago suburb.) The plot of the movie is the enactment of the story as it is being read, which is interrupted by comments from the grandson and grandfather.A beautiful woman named Buttercup (Robin Wright) lives on a farm in the fictional country of Florin. She delights in ordering the farm hand Westley (Cary Elwes) to perform chores for her. Westley's only answer is "As you wish." Eventually Buttercup realizes his true affection for her, and she returns his love. Westley leaves to seek his fortune so that they can marry, but Buttercup later receives word that his ship was attacked by the Dread Pirate Roberts, who is notorious for taking no prisoners. Five years later, believing Westley to be dead, Buttercup is reluctantly engaged to Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon), heir to the throne of Florin.
Before the wedding, Buttercup is kidnapped by a trio of outlaws: the Sicilian criminal genius Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), the Spanish fencing master Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), and the gigantic Turkish wrestler Fezzik (André the Giant). They are pursued by a masked man in black. Inigo, who is seeking revenge on a six-fingered man who killed his father, duels the man in black but is knocked unconscious and thus defeated. Next, the man in black wrestles Fezzik and chokes the giant until he blacks out. The man in black catches up with Vizzini, who is holding Buttercup hostage, and proposes a battle of wits. Vizzini is tricked into drinking poison, and subsequently dies.
The man in black reveals that he is the Dread Pirate Roberts, Westley's murderer. Enraged, Buttercup shoves him into a gorge, yelling "You can die too, for all I care!" only to hear him call, "As you wish!" She realizes that he is Westley, who tells her that the Dread Pirate Roberts attacked his ship, but made Westley his apprentice after hearing of the depths of his love for Buttercup; eventually, Roberts secretly passed Westley his name and captaincy. The couple travel through the feared Fire Swamp to evade Humperdinck's rescue party, but upon exiting, they are captured by Humperdinck and his menacing six-fingered vizier Count Tyrone Rugen (Christopher Guest). Buttercup agrees to return with Humperdinck in exchange for Westley's release, but instead he is brought to Rugen's torture chambers.
Buttercup expresses unhappiness regarding her marriage, and Humperdinck claims he will send ships to locate Westley, but if they fail, Buttercup will marry him. Humperdinck reveals that although he arranged Buttercup's kidnapping to start a war with the country of Guilder, it will be better propaganda if she dies on her wedding night.
On the day of the wedding, Inigo learns about Rugen from Fezzik and decides to kill Rugen, so they seek out the man in black, hoping that his wits will help them overcome the guards. Buttercup learns that Humperdinck never sent the ships, and taunts him with her enduring love for Westley. Enraged, he tortures Westley to the state of 'mostly dead'. Inigo and Fezzik find Westley's body and bring it to the magician Miracle Max (Billy Crystal), who revives Westley to satisfy his grudge against Humperdinck. Westley, Inigo, and Fezzik invade the castle, and Humperdinck orders the wedding ceremony cut short. Inigo pursues Rugen through the castle and kills him. Westley reaches Buttercup, who has decided to commit suicide, and assures her that her marriage is a sham because she never made any vows. Still partly paralyzed, he bluffs his way out of a sword fight with Humperdinck. As the party rides off on white horses conveniently discovered by Fezzik, Westley offers the role of Dread Pirate Roberts to Inigo, who has avenged his father and needs a new purpose in life.
The story finished, the grandfather gets up to leave. The grandson-who had grown more interested throughout-asks his grandfather to read it to him again the following day. The grandfather replies, "As you wish."
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SOOO
Also: Exercising & Weight Lifting so that i can get more muscle. I like to laugh at people when they fall down, its fun :P
Yo, I'm interested in SkateBoarding, SnowBoarding, Bowling, Texting and Swimming.
Things I want to Buy:
iPod Touch, Airsoft Gun & a Cellphone :D
My favorite color is blue. I <3 Gatorade & Vitamin Water & Video games (favorite ones Halo).
Music:
HEADSTRONG BY TRAPT IS MY FAVORITE SONG!!!
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 EMINEM <3 <3 <3 <3 <3, HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD, LINKIN PARK, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, Afi, Alice in Chains, Alien Ant Farm, The Airborne Toxic Event, The All American Rejects, Avenged Sevenfold, AVRIL LAVIGNE, Beck, Bon Jovi, Bowling For Soup, Breaking Benjamin, Bring Me the Horizon, Brokencyde, Bush, Carolina Liar, Chevelle, D12, Dead By Sunrise, Dead Season, Deftones, DISTURBED, Drowning Pool, Finger Eleven, Flo Rida, Flyleaf, Godsmack, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Hinder, Jimmy Eat World, KATY PERRY, Killswitch Engage, KORN, Lady Gaga, LAMB OF GOD, Ludo, Matchbox Twenty, MC Lars, Metallica, Metric, MGMT, Modest Mouse, Mudvayne, Muse, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, Nickelback, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, The Offspring, Otep, P!nk, PAPA ROACH, PARAMORE, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Rise Against, Rock Kills Kid, Saliva, Saving Abel, Scars on Broadway, Seether, SERJ TANKIAN, Shinedown, SICK PUPPIES, Silverchair, SLIPKNOT, Smashing Pumpkins, Staind, Stone Temple Pilots, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, Theory of a Deadman, Three 6 Mafia, THREE DAYS GRACE, Trapt, The Used, Weezer, 3 Doors Down, 30 SECONDS TO MARS, 311, 3oh!3, Apocalyptica and anything else thats good. I listen to the good music (anything on 94.3 WCYY) not that fake stuff that I hate like country and classical that pretends to be music but isn't really its there to trick ppl into thinking its music when its really not....
Movies:
QUANTUM OF SOLACE, THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK, PITCH BLACK, The Bourne Trilogy, xXx, The Dark Knight, The Mummy, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Ace Venture: When Nature Calls, Ghost Rider, The Mask, Yes Man, Underdog, Goldeneye, Casino Royale, Die Another Day, Dr. No, ThunderBall, Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, A View to a Kill, Tommorrow Never Dies, Never Say Never Again, Star Trek, Babylon A.D., From Russia with Love, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, The World Is Not Enough, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indianda Jones And the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Happy Gilmore, Star Wars, The Pink Panther, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Rock, Oceans 11, 12 & 13, Rush Hour, Austin Powers, Transformers, Get Smart, Bruce Almighty, The Fast and the Furious, Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Iron Man, Tropic Thunder, National Treasure, The Emperors New Groove, Shrek, Evan Almighty, Saw, Wanted, The Mask of Zorro, The Legend of Zorro, Fun With Dick and Jane, Disturbia, Spider-Man, The Scorpion King, The Mummy Returns, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Night At the Museum, Charlies Angels, Batman Begins, Dumb and Dumber, George of the Jungle, X-Men, Elf, Fantastic 4, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Game Plan, Max Payne, The Goonies, Nacho Libre, Conspiracy Theory, Finding Nemo, TMNT, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Hitch, The Three Amigos, The 10th Kingdom, Herbie Fully Loaded, Bench Warmers, The Incredibles, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Tin Man, The Princess Bride, 50 First Dates, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Blues Brothers, Harry Potter, Dodge Ball, Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (the only good musical ever made), Clue, A Knights Tale, Zathura, The Simpson Movie, CatWoman, The Flintstones, The Terminator, Batman (1989), Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, Liar Liar, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Mission Impossible, Back to the Future, RV, Me Myself & Irene, Robots, Ice Age, Men in Black, The Happening, Jumper, All the James Bonds and anything else thats good
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MONK, The Simpsons, The X-Files, Family Guy, Chowder, Mutant X, Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends
Favorite Actors:
JIM CARREY, Vin Diesel, Johnny Depp, The Rock, Daniel Craig, Sean Connery, Heath Ledger, Shia LaBeouf, Ben Stiller, Mike Myers, Nicolas Cage, Will Smith, David Duchovny, Matt Damon, Josh Hutcherson, Steve Martin, Harrison Ford, Tony Shalhoub, Hayden Christensen, Brendan Fraser, Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Zooey Claire Deschanel, Alexa Davalos, Helena Bonham Carter, Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Natalie "Bitty" Schram, Gillian Anderson, Halle Berry, Rachel Weisz, Keira Knightley, Natalie Portman
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