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Mark Edmondson
Pulse reporter
The Princess Bride, according to Big Muddy Film Festival officers, is a kid's movie. That's why they showed it at University 8 Theaters.
What they didn't expect was only a smattering of children, and the rest of the seats to be filled by college students and community members.
Why? It's not a kid's movie. Instead, it's a great movie produced for everyone and full of action, adventure, True Love and "Rodents of unusual size."
Set in the Dark Ages, Buttercup, a young, beautiful maiden, falls in love with a farm boy. To afford a wedding, he must sail abroad to find work. He never makes it, as pirates attack his ship. Pirates known for not leaving survivors.
So, five years later, Buttercup has been handpicked by the prince of the land to be his bride. She doesn't love him, but respects the laws of her country and plans to go ahead with the wedding. But then a Spaniard, a giant, and a Sicilian planning on starting a war kidnap her.
As the kidnappers sail "across the sea," they find themselves being followed by a man dressed entirely in black. He pursues the kidnappers up the Cliffs of Insanity, where he is greeted by the Spaniard, named Inigo Montoya, who remained behind to finish him off.
After allowing the man in black to recuperate from his climb, and after a brief chat, the two decide the time has come for their duel.
"You seem a decent fellow," Montoya says. "I hate to kill you."
"You seem a decent fellow," the man in black says. "I hate to die."
A battle ensues, and to avoid giving away any more of the movie for the two or three people who haven't seen it, nothing more will be said about the plot.
When The Princess Bride was released in 1987, it wasn't nearly as popular as what it became on VHS and later DVD, similar to the popularity Reservoir Dogs reached after its release. Since then, The Princess Bride has grown into a cult classic, often quoted and frequently watched. Expect it to grow into something like The Sound of Music or anything by Disney.
The Big Muddy Film Festival succeeded marvelously with the showing of this movie. The film originally sent to them was unplayable, and to get the film running, a replacement was air-delivered overnight, which shows the pride and dedication the festival producers put into making The Bid Muddy Film Festival, one of the best festivals in the country.
If you missed The Princess Bride in the theater, look for it on DVD, and hope next year it will play again.
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