What do you get when you put comedy, adventure, fantasy, and romance into a pot add a pinch of salt for taste and stir them together? You get one of the most revered films in the history of modern (and all) cinema. Yet there is something else that stands out with The Princess Bride over all of its genre mixing, and that is the absolute charm the film has managed to keep for nearly three decades. Really, when you look at it, it is a very, very charming film. It's filled with comical charm, charming wit and overall, a very, very charming Cary Elwes.
The characters are so polite even even during fights to the death, and it's pulled off so effortlessly that it casts an unique aura to the film. Besides outstanding writing and direction, the cast truly makes this film come to live and reside in immortality. Who could not root for Cary Elwes' Westly, a simple farmboy turned Pirate turned selfless hero on his quest to save his true love, buttercup? Or getting a kick out of watching Andre The Giant, who was wrestling's number one villain at the time, as a gentle, and lovable Fezzik. But arguably to many the most memorable performance has to go to Mandy Patinkin in the role of Indigo Mantoya, the man responsible for getting over some of the most quotable lines in an already extremely quotable film.
The Princess Bride is that film that will never get old, never become stale, never reach the point of absurdity, because it is just too damn charming to be anything else.
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