Websters Dictionary defines satire as 'a usually topical literary composition holding up human or individual vices, folly, abuses, or shortcomings to censure by means of ridicule, derision. With a great cast, a great script and a great score by Mark Knopfler. Westley, the handsome farm boy who risks death (and much worse) for the woman, he loves Inigo, the Spanish swordsman who lives only to avenge his father's death Fezzik, the gentlest giant ever to have uprooted a tree with his bare hands Vizzini, the evil Sicilian, with a mind so keen he's foiled by his own perfect logic Prince Humperdinck, the eviler ruler of Guilder, who has an equally insatiable thirst for war and the beauteous Buttercup Count Rugen, the evilest man of all, who thrives on the excruciating pain of others Miracle Max, the King's ex-Miracle Man, who can raise the dead (kind of) and, of course, Buttercup. Goldman, in his parenthetical asides to readers, refers to Morgenstern as a satirist and the 'unabridged version' of The Princess Bride as a satire. THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) I never thought it could be made into a movie, but Rob Reiner pulled it off. This incredible journey and artfully rendered love story is peppered with strange beasties monstrous and gentle, memorable surprises both terrible and sublime, and such unforgettable characters as. The Princess Bride is a timeless tale that pits country against country, good against evil, love against hate.
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