Anybody want a peanut?
I disagree. Sure, his failure to fully toilet train until he was 7 clearly has implications that play out with his need to control as much of his life as possible, but other than that the minutiae covered in those pages overwhelms the tale.
Life imitating art: My nephew had a “boy’s night” with his sons, and he wanted to introduce them to the wonders of TPB. Upon hearing the title, they said, “we don’t want to watch a princess movie”!
After reluctantly starting the movie, they came around so much, they wanted to see it again the next day. New converts!
Have fun storming the castle!
It took months to convince my son and husband to watch it and of course, it is now a favorite for both of them and they can recite almost every line!
Just so you know … I read the word “convince” as “conceive.” Made the first half of your sentence something of a head-scratcher until I realized my mistake.
Inconvincable!
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what I think it means.
It would take a miracle…
I always feel a little sorry for the ROUSes. I mean, what did they ever do.
By the time Westley inherited the business from the Dread Pirate Roberts poser, they didn’t have to attack. From his reputation, they surrendered all their treasure immediately.
Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist.
See the keyboard? Clean it.
Wham!
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Buttercup’s elderly parents play a pretty minor role in the book (at least in the abridged version), but they’re there.
As to the OP, I don’t think it’s stated in the book whether Buttercup’s parents actually own the farm or if they’re tenants. In Ye Olden Times Buttercup would not necessarily have been able to inherit the farm even if her parents did own it*. In any event, it’s not a very successful farm. Buttercup is an only child, and by the time she’s in her teens is starting to attract a lot of attention due to her looks. While her parents didn’t dream that the prince himself would take an interest in her, they presumably were hoping she’d make a decent match and have both a better life for herself and be able to provide for them in their old age.
*This is the situation of the more prosperous Bennett girls in Pride & Prejudice. Their family estate is entailed on a male heir, so when their father dies their cousin will inherit everything.
She doesn’t get eaten by the mods at this time.
If you want to nitpick The Princess Bride, there’s the scene where Inigo hears someone making the sound of ultimate suffering. He says it has to be the man in black, because his true love is marrying another. How would he know that?
He heard about it from the Brute Squad?
He’d know about the wedding, since that would probably be big news in Florin. He wouldn’t know that the man in black was Buttercup’s true love. It didn’t come up the first time they met, nor when Westley fought with Fezzik.
It’s interesting how Inigo does figure out that the man in black must have out-thought Vezzini, having beaten himself and Fezzik in their own specialties.
It may not have been a key topic of conversation, but surely Inigo knew enough to deduce the truth.
The man in black had pursued them when they had captured Buttercup with skill and determination that could not be matched by any mere mercenary or rogue, and his manner and bearing were not of such a man. A soldier would not be so devoted, and would bear the colors of his lord. A kinsman would try first to bargain with the captors; family is always the first to pay a ransom.
There is one other possibility still remaining, that the man in black is some sort of Hero, a doer of good deeds, perhaps on some sort of Quest. This would account for his bearing and his skill, and also for some part of his determination, for Heros are known sometimes to be very determined, obstinate even, in their pursuit of honor and justice (though they generally show such qualities in the highest degree only when rescuing the object of their true love—or at least their libidinous intent). He might have sworn an oath to protect the innocent or the beautiful (or the innocent and beautiful, which would explain more of his determination, as there would be so few others likely to qualify for his services of protection).
But what then would explain the cry? It sounded like the man in black, and only the loss of one’s true love could produce such anguish. (And even if it had not sounded like him, what are the odds of two men with such bravery, devotion and passion as only heroism or true love can produce being found in one kingdom on one day?) And who else could the man in black truly love than the lovely Buttercup, set soon to marry another whom she herself could not possibly love. It was obvious. Even the Brute Squad should have been able to figure it out.
The very best part (for me) was the excruciatingly detailed instructions on creating iocane powder. Such an amazingly easy process. I was hoping for at least a montage in the movie.