For starters, Buttercup and her dearest farm boy, don't enjoy the sort of elusive love at first sight romance of many fairy tale narratives. And it fits the manner with which Princess Buttercup, and her complicated love story with Westley, plays out within the movie. This in itself is a subversive message for a fairy tale to give to it's audience, but it's also a crucial one. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something." As Westley tells Buttercup before she discovers his true identity, "life is pain, highness.
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The movie unravels the tropes of fairy tales and celebrates their unbridled optimism, while also pointing out that in the real world, life sadly doesn't share the same beats as a fairy tale does. But it also teaches some extremely serious and important lessons among all the fun and frivolity of the story, too. What do you want it to be about?' One of them said 'a princess' and the other one said 'a bride.' I said, That’ll be the title.Īs such, the story is just as loving, sweet, and simple as it's point of inspiration is, and clearly The Princess Bride was written with the enjoyment of two specific young girls in mind. In an oral history of The Princess Bride by Entertainment Weekly, Goldman said: I had two little daughters, I think they were 7 and 4 at the time, and I said, 'I’ll write you a story. It's worth noting that the 1973 novel of The Princess Bride upon which the movie was based was written by William Goldman for his daughters. But, dig a little deeper, and actually The Princess Bride is feminist on a rudimentary level.
On the surface, the movie isn't exactly pushing the boundaries of what female characters can achieve. She's also the only main female character among a male dominated ensemble. Though The Princess Bride is a savvy spoof of fairy tales - delighting those who loved "kissing books" as kids and also those who hated them, the movie's leading lady is still ostensibly a damsel who needs saving. If you grew up a forward-thinking woman, it might be hard to stomach the idea that Princess Buttercup in The Princess Bride was actually secretly feminist.
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