directed by: Rob Reiner
written by: William Goldman (+ book)
starring: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, Peter Falk
seen: 29th November, 2017
I'm trying to imagine that I'm an american young adult who grew up with The Princess Bride as the ultimate from-the-heart-feel-good film who would see a czech from-the-heart fairy tale film for the first time. Would my feelings be similar to those I have as a czech young adult with czech fairy tales deeply in my heart, seeing The Princess Bride for the first time? Because, frankly, my TBP impressions are as follows: "My oh my, eighties must have been a terrible time" plus "a lot of that violence is both harmless and unwarranted" and mostly "all those people on the internet with their enormous praise for The Princess Bride created a colossally impossible to fulfil expectations on my part".
Or perhaps my nationality and my favourite films aren't as important as the saddening fact that I am no longer either a child or a teenager so all I can do is to laugh at the few crafty jokes and ask myself the philosophical question who I find more attractive, Robin Wright or Cary Elwes, because they are both really almost unbelievably beautiful, but the magic of the film itself leaves me completely unaffected?
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