Buttercup correctly guesses he is the Dread Pirate Roberts and berates him for killing Westley. He takes Buttercup prisoner and they flee, stopping near a gorge.
He defeats Inigo in a duel and knocks him out, chokes Fezzik into unconsciousness, and tricks Vizzini into drinking poison, killing him. The man in black confronts the outlaws atop the Cliffs of Insanity. Prince Humperdinck, his soldiers, and also a masked man clad in black, pursue the outlaws. Before the wedding, she is kidnapped by three outlaws, a short Sicilian 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, who is infamous for never leaving survivors, Westley is presumed dead.įive years later, Buttercup is forcibly betrothed to Prince Humperdinck, the heir to the throne of Florin.
Westley leaves to seek his fortune overseas so they can marry. Whenever she tells farmhand Westley to do something, he always complies, saying, "As you wish." She eventually realizes that he loves her and she loves him. The tale is about Buttercup, a beautiful young woman living on a farm in the fictional kingdom of Florin. The film is an enactment of a book that a grandfather reads to his sick grandson, who initially dismisses the story. The film also won the 1988 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. In 2016, the film was inducted into the National Film Registry, being deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
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. Over time the film has become a cult film. The film was first released in the United States on October 9, 1987, and was well received by critics at the time, but was only a modest box office success. The film preserves the novel's metafictional narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather ( Peter Falk) to his sick grandson ( Fred Savage). Adapted by William Goldman from his 1973 novel The Princess Bride, it tells the story of a 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-drama film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, and Christopher Guest.
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