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The Princess Bride is a Tongue- in Cheek comedy about a turn of
the century love story. The movies Starts off with a girl named Buttercup
tormenting a boy she calls “Farm Boy” whose real name is Westley They fall in
love. A few weeks pass and Westley has to leave on a ship to find money so
buttercup and he can get married. He sets out but the ship he works on gets
attacked by the Dread Pirate Roberts! Buttercup vows to never love again.
Months pass and Buttercup is still mourning over the loss of her love. Then
Prince Humperdink orders that she must marry him.
Vizzini, Inigo, and Fezzik, pose as poor lost circus performers,
to kidnap (and Murder) Princess Buttercup and start a war between Guilder and
Florin. The countries never got along so this was just provoking Prince
Humperdink to start a war. They take her on a boat to the cliffs of insanity.
But wait! The Dread Pirate Roberts comes to her rescue! But, he has to climb
the Cliffs of Insanity. Vizzini orders Ingio to wait until he gets to the top
and sword fights him. They fight and Roberts knocks Ingio out. He continues
on his
journey.
He finds Vizzini and he plays a mind game with him. There are two glasses of wine
that Roberts poisons. He has Vizzini drink which one he thinks doesn’t have
the poison. They drink and both glasses have the poison, but Roberts is
immune to it.
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Roberts takes Buttercup and tells her that he is the Dread
Pirate Roberts. Believing he is the one who killed her Westley she pushes him
down a gorge. While falling he screams “As you wish!” Roberts is Westley.
Buttercup throws herself down the gorge after him. He confesses the name
Dread Pirate Roberts has been passed down and it is only the name that scares
people. They make their way through the Fire Swamp and defeat fire
shooting out of the ground, Rouses (Rodents Of Unusual Size,) and quick sand.
When they leave the swamp, the prince and his soldiers are waiting for them.
Buttercup makes a deal that she will go with Humperdink if they bring Westley
back to his ship unharmed. Humperdink agrees but secretly brings him to his
torture chambers.
On the day of the wedding, The Brute Squad
empties the forest of all but one occupant: Inigo. Inigo learns about Rugen from Fezzik and
decides to kill him. Having been impressed with Westley's skill in
outmaneuvering them during their previous encounter, Inigo and Fezzik decide
that their only chance at penetrating the castle's defenses is by enlisting
Westley's assistance. While searching for Westley, Inigo and Fezzik find
Westley's tortured body and bring it to the local magician Miracle Max and
his wife Valerie, who explain that Westley is only "mostly dead."
They revive Westley, initially to a state of heavy paralysis, in order to
satisfy a grudge against Humperdinck.
Westley, Inigo, and Fezzik invade the
castle, and Humperdinck orders the wedding ceremony shortened. Inigo pursues Rugen through the
castle. Rugen admits that he killed Inigo's father, and
they duel. Although Inigo is injured almost to defeat, his sense of revenge
rekindles his energy and he kills Rugen. Westley
reaches Buttercup, who has decided to commit suicide, and assures her that
her marriage is a sham because in the shortened ceremony she never said
"I do." Still partly paralyzed, Westley bluffs his way out of a
sword fight with Humperdinck, whom Buttercup then ties to a chair. As the
party rides off on four white horses conveniently discovered by Fezzik,
Westley offers the role of Dread Pirate Roberts to Inigo who, finding himself
suddenly out of the revenge business, needs a new purpose in life.
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