This is how Goldman created a spoof that was also a tribute or a tribute that was also a spoof. The framing device allows Peter Falk’s grandpa to fast-forward through the boring stuff and also - perhaps more importantly - too soft sell the love stuff. Morgenstern is just Goldman in another guise. The “historical” story Goldman claims to be abridging is actually just something he invented and the “author” S. Part of the reason why the story of The Princess Bride works at all is that despite being populated by characters named “Princess Buttercup” and “Humperdinck,” the story is presented as an“abridgment” of an older historical tale.
Produced at a moment when Hollywood was getting more and more corporate, The Princess Bride showed a generation of kids, embodied by Fred Savage’s flu-struck grandkid, that it was okay to care. The movie was deeply uncynical and deeply kind. The movie was progressive and subversive without ever being off-putting or self-righteous. “Something in T he Princess Bride affects people.” The mystery of why people were affected by a movie full of puns and weird jokes is fairly easily solved in hindsight. “I’ve gotten more responses on The Princess Bride than on everything else I’ve done put together - all kinds of strange outpouring letters,” Goldman said in 1979. In the epic send-up of heroic swashbuckling stories, Goldman did his male leads a favor, letting them be 100 percent in love, 100 percent heroic, and 100 percent funny. The prolific author of novels and screenplays was best known for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but for children of the eighties, he’ll always be best loved for The Princess Bride. Writer William Goldman has died at the age of 87.
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