![]() ![]() Buttercup seems to feel pretty terrible about it, too, judging from her nightmares, but I think she made a rational choice. Westley probably feels even more betrayed after Buttercup makes her deal with Humperdinck. Call me old-fashioned, but I think that when you fake your own death so you can assume the identity of a pirate feared throughout the world, and you choose not to tell your fiancée what the deal is, you lose your right to get super mad at her should she choose to move on with her life after a few years! And I would, in general, prefer to think that the scene where he threatens to slap her just does not exist. So Westley feels betrayed that Buttercup got engaged to Humperdinck, and fair enough, I guess, but he does not take into account that as far as she knows he’s been dead for three years. ![]() He’s immune to iocane powder! He’s enough of a visionary to foresee that in the future we will all be wearing masks! He … is kind of a dick to his girlfriend, tbh. The sheer drive of his determination to avenge his father, his ferocious and single-minded strength of purpose, are endlessly captivating to read.īut soon after their introductions, both Fezzik and Inigo get taken down by the man in black: the man who can beat Fezzik at wrestling and Inigo at fencing and Vizzini in a battle of wits. There’s a reason that, in a book full of oft-quoted jokes, it’s Inigo’s “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya” line that gets quoted most often, even though it’s not really a joke at all. What are you gonna do?Īnd if Fezzik is The Princess Bride’s most lovable character, Inigo is probably its most tragically compelling figure. He doesn’t consider himself a real poet because he knows he’s not smart enough, but he just loves rhymes! All he wants is to hang out with his best friend Inigo Montoya, playing rhyming games, but instead he ends up having to kidnap Princess Buttercup and climb the Cliffs of Insanity because his mean boss told him to. We get their full backstories here, which the movie never really has time to delve into: the full lore of the six-fingered sword and Inigo’s lengthy training regimen of rock-squeezing plus poor Fezzik’s tragedy as a giant kid who just wants to be liked and whose parents force him into wrestling.įezzik is maybe the most lovable character in this whole book. It feels like William Goldman is much more interested in them than he ever is in either Westley or Buttercup, and they drive the plot more effectively than anyone else in the book. This part of the book introduces Fezzik and Inigo, arguably the true main characters of The Princess Bride. ![]() Together, let us scale the Cliffs of Insanity Fezzik and Inigo! The man in black! The Cliffs of Insanity! The Machine! And it’s where the meta frame story gets truly, exceptionally charming. Chapters 5 and 6 of The Princess Bride are where the story really kicks off and we get to the stuff everyone remembers most. Well, now we’re into the really good parts. ![]()
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