Neocon,
Lol, you are giving her way too much credit. I told him never to trust a women who does the things she does. He didn't listen and now he is going to marry her. Poor bastard.
As for the book, it has undergone a rework by William Goldman. The same guy who penned "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". The official title of the book is, "The Princess Bride, S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure...The "good parts' version abridged by William Goldman".
One of Goldman's notes in his introduction, is that you have to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published, lol. Basically what Morgenstern did was write a satiric history of his country and the decline of the monarchy in Western civilization. Goldman states that the first 60 (right sixty) pages are just about the ancestry of Prince Humperdinck and no action, no swordfights, no princess, in other words, no good parts.
In any event, Goldman had no idea about this when he agreed to adapt the book and his only knowledge of it had been when a family member had read it to him as a child and edited all the political bs. He was under contract so he did his first abridgement and that formed the basis for the film Rob Reiner made.
I read a review of the film (and I am sorry but I can't remember who wrote it) and this comment always stuck with me. What kind of fairy tale is this where the prince is prettier than the princess? I don't see it that way.
HAGO
TH
P.S. Buzz is a personal hero and role model. |
