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Sunday, January 19, 2014

The Princess Bride-movie review

  I watched a movie called The Princess Bride.


 I've heard of this movie before, so I presumed that it was famous, and good. But I kind of think differently now. Before moving on to my opinion, I will introduce the movie a little. The genre of this movie, is Comedy, Romance, Adventure and Fantasy. this movie has all those genres mixed together. The main characters are Princess Buttercup, Westley and Prince Huperdinck.
  Buttercup, falls in love with Westley. However, they didn't have enough money to get married. So, Westley went out to the sea to earn money. Buttercup was waiting for him, until she heard the news that Westley was killed by a pirate. When Buttercup hears the news, she decides not to love anyone again. A few years later, Buttercup is chosen as the bride of Prince Humperdinck. Eventually, she becomes a princess. Though she was the fiancee of the Prince Humperdinck, she never loved him. One day, she was horse riding, and she gets kidnapped. The kidnappers were Vizzini, Inigo and Fezzick. Vizzini was a small smart man, who was like the leader. Inigo was a Spanish man, looking forward to revenge on his father. The last one, Fezzik, was a giant, a little dumb. So they kidnapp her. But they find out that they were being followed by a man dressed in all black costume. All three of the kidnappers challenges him, but he wins them all. Prince Humperdinck was also looking for the missing princess.
  Anyway, the black man and the Princess Buttercup talks, and find out that the black man is Westley. Princess Buttercup falls in love with him again. At last, they get caught by Prince Humperdinck. Princess begs him to save Westley, but Prince Humperdinck sends him to the Pit of Despair, tortures him, and kills him. Whilst, Inigo becomes really upset because he can't revenge on his father's death. The one who killed his dad was the Prince's right arm, Count Rugen. Fezzick goes with him, and Inigo decides to go to find the black man, Westley. But he finds out that Westley is dead. So he brings Westley to the previous king's magician, Miracle Max. Miracle Max gives Westley a cure, It was a type of medicine, and Miracle Max tells them to feed it after 50 minutes,  that would allow Westley to be alive 'fully'. But because they are in a hurry, they just gave him the medicine not waiting. In result, only his consciousness was back. His body was all floppy. This was a comedy part. It was really funny. Anyhow, that day was Prince Humperinck and Princess Buttercup's wedding day. Westley and his friends break into the castle, and... If you want to know more about it, watch it your self!!

  Personally, I didn't quite know what this movie was. It was really confusing. However, I liked the way the movie is introduced in the first scene and onwards. How the grandfather read this book to his grandson. I thought this idea is good. But overall, I don't really like this movie, because the story develops really fast. Like how it only takes a few minutes for Buttercup to realize that the black man is actually Westley, her lover who she thought to be dead 5 years ago. The adventure was nice and exciting, such as the one they had in the forest. I also think that it may have been better if they focus on one main genre or two.
   I am guessing that what the movie was trying to tell the people, was about love. How you should never give up love like Princess Buttercup did in the movie. And they talked a lot about true love. So, I guess they are saying that true love is stronger than anything else. In short, I think it was good, but it wasn't so good, but it wasn't bad either. If i were to rate it, I would give about 3 out of 5.

2 comments:

  1. Michelle,
    I enjoyed your post. It was well-written. You need to work on your structure though and write in paragraphs. Each new idea should be its own paragraph. You should also include the trailer in your post so your readers can watch it.
    You explained your opinion well and gave good reasons to support it. Good job!

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  2. Hi! I'm Elina. I agree with miss Angela. You should divide your work into several paragraphs. However, I really like the content! And I'd like to know the lessons related to leadership you learned through watching this movies.

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