As we all know, The Princess Bride is one of the greatest movies ever made. Maybe the greatest. Heros, villains, giants, wizards, sword fights, true love. It's got it all. Just check out some of the taglines: "Scaling the Cliffs of Insanity, Battling Rodents of Unusual Size, Facing torture in the Pit of Despair. - True love has never been a snap." "She gets kidnapped. He gets killed. But it all ends up okay." How could that movie not be awesome?
What some people may not know is that it was a book first. I found out a couple years ago. At first I was upset b/c I thought that one of my favorite movies was not even an original. But the author of the book is the same guy who wrote the script, so I would say that integrity is maintained. I decided I should read the book, and I'm now about 100 pages in. I'm enjoying it, but the problem is it could never be as good as the movie. Some of it is exactly the same as the book (line for line - "Inconcievable!" for example), and there's some minor differences. I'm at the part where the Man in Black is about to reach the top of the Cliffs of Insanity. I'd say that in the movie, the next 30 minutes from this part is arguably the best section of the movie. So I'm pretty excited.
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