In truth, he intends to start a war with the country of Guilder by killing Buttercup and framing Guilder for the murder. When Buttercup threatens suicide if the wedding happens, Humperdinck falsely promises to find Westley. Before being knocked out, Westley spots six fingers on Rugen's right hand. Humperdinck secretly orders his sadistic vizier, Count Rugen, to take Westley to the Pit of Despair for torture on a machine Rugen invented. Buttercup agrees to return with Humperdinck after he promises to release Westley. Humperdinck captures them after they emerge from the Fire Swamp.

Having found Buttercup, Westley intends to pass the title to another. While making their way through the dangerous Fire Swamp to avoid Humperdinck, Westley explains how 'Dread Pirate Roberts' is an inherited title that he assumed when the previous Roberts wished to retire. While tumbling down, he shouts, 'As you wish!' Upon realizing he is Westley, Buttercup throws herself down after him and they are reunited.

Buttercup correctly guesses he is the Dread Pirate Roberts, berates him for killing Westley, and shoves him down a hill. He defeats Inigo in a fencing duel and knocks him out, chokes Fezzik into unconsciousness, and tricks Vizzini into drinking a deadly poison. The man in black confronts the outlaws atop the Cliffs of Insanity. A masked man in black pursues them, as do Prince Humperdinck and his soldiers. Before the wedding, she is kidnapped by three outlaws: a small Sicilian man named Vizzini, a giant from Greenland named Fezzik, and a Spanish fencing master named Inigo Montoya, who seeks revenge against a six-fingered man who murdered his father. When his ship is attacked by the Dread Pirate Roberts, Westley is presumed dead.įive years later, Buttercup is unwillingly betrothed to Florin's Prince Humperdinck. Whenever she tells farmhand Westley to do something, he always complies, saying, 'As you wish.' The two fall in love, and Westley leaves to seek his fortune overseas so they can marry. The tale is about Buttercup, a young woman living on a farm in the fictional kingdom of Florin. Plot Ī grandfather reads a novel to his sick grandson, who initially dismisses the story. In 2016, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being 'culturally, historically or aesthetically significant'. The film also won the 1988 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. The film is number 50 on the Bravo's '100 Funniest Movies', number 88 on The American Film Institute's (AFI) ' AFI's 100 Years.100 Passions' list of the 100 greatest film love stories, and 46 in Channel 4's 50 Greatest Comedy Films list. After only having modest success at the box office at first, it has over time become a cult film and been considered as one of the best films of the 1980s, and one of Reiner's best works. The film was first released in the United States on September 25, 1987, and was well received by critics at the time. The film preserves the novel's metafictional narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather to his sick grandson. Adapted by William Goldman from his 1973 novel of the same name, it tells the story of a swashbuckling farmhand named Westley, accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his true love Princess Buttercup from the odious Prince Humperdinck. The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, and Christopher Guest.

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