It is, in a way, Goldman's retelling of the same story his father read to him, one that was clearly very formative for him as a young child. From there it continues on more-or-less apace with the movie, except for when Goldman interjects (usually at the end of a chapter) with his own reasons for cutting one portion of the story or another, and then later to comment on why he feels certain parts of the novel are important. It's a good eighth of the way into the book until the actual story of Westley and Buttercup begins. RELATED: The Princess Bride: An INCONCEIVABLE Ranking of the Movie's Best Quotes And so Goldman sets out to abridge the book, only leaving in 'the good parts.' His father, when he read it aloud to Goldman as a child, abridged it drastically, only reading the parts that would be exciting to a ten-year-old boy.

Goldman is confused and infuriated by this, untile he actually picks up a copy of the book and realizes that it's terribly dreary, with long, boring accounts of royal lineages and the history of Florin. Willow was petty cool too, and Time Bandits was golden if a bit more adult (not NSFW, just jokes kids might not actually get) in orientation.Goldman then tries to acquire a copy for his son on his tenth birthday, going through great pains and spending hundreds of dollars to eventually do so. May I add Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal to your watch list, if you haven't seen them? If you are into that whole '80s primary school aged fantasy shtick, those were the four pillars of this genre, at least for me at an appropriately-aged child at the time. In a way the movie reminds me of 'The Never Ending Story' I'm still confused as to how an actual adult can hit that audience so dead on, but they really did. Will always remember the experience -perfectly targeted primary school aged humor and fantasy. I walked in all sour faced, 'a movie about a princess?' I laughed so hard, though, all the damned way through. I remember watching this as a primary school kid at the screening at mums uni prolly 6 months after release (the 'movie club' or whatever, very cheap tickets for a screening in the biggest lecture theater they had going). Latest Discussions The Super Mario Bros Movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves John Wick: Chapter 4 Renfield Keanu Reeves Tobey Maguire

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