The Princess Bride - What’s The Difference?
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- Опубліковано 1 гру 2015
- The Princess Bride is a book within a book that was adapted into a book within a movie that garnered most of its success on home video. Now it’s time for us to read between the lines to find the differences between the book and the film. Subscribe: goo.gl/9AGRm
The Princess Bride is a romantic comedy about lost love, revenge, torture, kidnapping, desire, and much more. Farmhand Westley falls in love with the beautiful Buttercup, but before they can be together forever they must endure many trials. The book and film have many similarities, both dealing with long lost lovers being reunited only to be pulled apart again and then finding their way back into each other’s arms, but many of the characters in the film look significantly different than their book counterparts, plus Buttercup is not nearly as dimwitted in the movie. At that, it’s time pull back the proverbial shower curtain on all the differences between the book and the film.
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You either love The Princess Bride, or you've never seen it.
+GothMermaidGamer Truer words have rarely been spoken.
+GothMermaidGamer After watching this, I kinda hate the book though.
+Stryker XL Why do you hate the book? I've never watched the movie all the way through but the book is one of my favorites.
+NeverlandHunter
I'm just wondering here, how is it you've managed to see parts of the movie but not the whole thing? It isn't that long.
Granted, I like the book better too, but the story is definitely good enough that it's worth seeing in either medium.
+Daniel Gehring Just flipping through channels when it's already started :)
This is one of the very, VERY rare occasions where I prefer the movie over the book.
I usually prefer the movie over the book in a majority of cases.
this is a rare occasion where i don't have a preference. i enjoy both equally, i just usually wind up watching the movie because it's faster.
Essentially, the author took the movie as a re-do on the book, and took his chance to improve the story ... THAT'S the way to adapt something. Also, having the original author as the screenwriter *made* the film.
same
The book is a huge meta-joke, and a very good one I might add, while the movie just tells the story straight. I like both for different reasons.
Actually, in the book, he used more conventional torture until he realized that Wesley wasn't feeling anything because he was thinking of Buttercup, so he used the machine.
Actually, the Count knew the whole time that Wesley wasn't feeling anything. He is such an expert on pain, he can tell whether or not his victims are feeling it. The Machine wasn't yet finished when Wesley was first imprisoned, that's why he wasn't put on it immediately.
Actually, I am just two dogs in a trench-coat.
That's exactly how my dad read The Lord of the Rings to me as a little kid. He knew the book so well that he didn't read the book to us so much as told as the story with book in hand as more of a guide just in case. I don't think I've ever met anyone who knew the works of Tolkien better than him.
Aaron O'neil That. Sounds. AWESOME!
Aaron O'neil Tolkien would love that. He always wanted to create a cultural English epic in the likes of the Iliad or the Aeneid, something that fathers would tell their sons in an oral tradition.
I read books so much the problem is I come from a family that we start normally but then we end up all over the story before getting back to the story 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
This was my family too! Our family and reread Lord of the Rings like some families read the bible!
Is your dad Stephen Colbert?
This movie would NEVER have worked without the fact that this was a story read to a child… It’s like we’re seeing the movie through the imagination of a child… which is why the dialog / crazy scenes work. This movie is a work of fricking art. Whoever condensed this book to a movie did an incredible job… but the writer (now that I know that the book had the kid / grandfather) was brilliant too. Just brilliant!
The movie left out one of my favorite parts of the book: the creative process that Inigo's father went through to create the sword for the six-fingered man.
Ugh that was so freaking good!
Oh that was such a good part!!!
You're right, that back story is a good and worthy part.
That would make an incredible montage.
I think William Goldman put a lot of himself into Domingo. Why? Because he got the “Artist Problems” struggle storyline down to a T lmao. I always forget how much I love Domingo as a character until I reread and cackle at how much I love him again. My dude is so underrated.
In the movie Wesley only threatens to hit Buttercup for saying that she loved greatly but in the book he actually slaps her. They left that out.
And actually in the book and movie his name is Westley and not Wesley.
I did not see that coming since so much of the book was quoted in the movie
Skywalker you have reincarnated 😨
My favorite line is from the book: 'Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.'
That’s got to be my favorite line too. So wholesome, and so true to the whole story and such a wonderful outlook on life.
Thanks for that❤. And I must admit I’ve only seen the movie… love the channel… snippets are great reminders of our memories and the fun we have had… ❤
If I ever make a Princess Bride cartoon, that line is going in there.
I love the movie, but I love the book for so many other reason. My favourite speech in the book is after Buttercup pushes Wesley over the hill and then throws herself after him when she realizes who he is. Wesley tells her that what he was yelling up to her was to stay up there, while he came back up, and how her throwing herself down after him has put a considerable crimp in his escape plan. She asks him why he can't just get them both back up the hill. And his response is priceless. (paraphrased) "Yes, under normal circumstances, this would be a simple task. A doddle. But today, in rescuing you, I have climbed the Cliffs of Insanity, had a duel to the death with a master swordsman, wrestled with a man twice my size, and fought an intellectual war of wits with a Sicilian. To sum up, I'm tired. Do you understand tired, Buttercup? I've put in a day, is what I'm trying to tell you." I actually had to put down the book for a spell, I was laughing so hard.
Westley is such a goldmine of amazing lines XD. Another book-only line that made me have to pause the dramatic reading I was listening to was when he first came back to life, He’s just kind of spewing random thoughts because he’s clearly in shock, and between the “why won’t my arms move” and the other classic stuff there’s
“I wish I could remember what it was like when I was dead. I’d write it all down. I could make a fortune on a book like that. I can’t move my legs either.”
I don’t know why that’s so funny to me but I cackle every time I remember it XD
I think that The Princess Bride's movie and book are the perfect example of how to change a story to take advantage of different mediums. Virtually every change that the movie version makes is done either to make the story more streamlined (so it fits the expected length of a movie and has a consistent style) or to take proper advantage of its ability to give the audience sensory information. Since novels aren't nearly as limited length-wise and give the reader words with which to assemble a picture rather than the picture itself, it has room to include a lot more details and complexity, especially in regards to backstory, which the narrator can dive into without issue.
There are so many ways to screw up a movie adaptation of a book that even the BEST adaptations usually fail the book in one way or another. The two examples that stand out to me are the Harry Potter route and the How to Train Your Dragon route. The Harry Potter movies rank up there with The Princess Bride as one of the most faithful adaptations I've ever seen, but they aren't as good as the books because, though they follow the plot quite closely, they leave out nuances and important bits of lore and they accidentally make serious changes to some of the characters and themes due to very small moments. The How to Train Your Dragon movies, meanwhile, have the distinction of being some of the BEST movies I've ever seen, but hands-down one of the WORST adaptations of a book ever created, because they opt to change literally everything about the book except some of the names.
The Princess Bride has neither problem. I love the book and the movie equally, because the book was amazing and the movie knows exactly what changes to make in order to best represent that amazingness on a screen. To be fair, the fact that William Goldman was in charge and had prior experience making movies probably helped.
Lord of the Rings is another good example. The movies realized that they had the benefit of being one story told in three parts. And while it doesn't do the exact same narrative structure as the books, the movies do tell their timeline rather linearly and streamline things in a way that actually makes sense. Like why the Scouring never happened. 1) Saruman died at the tower of Orthanc in the Extended Cut and was made prisoner in the theatrical release. 2)The Dunedain rangers never joined with Aragorn, thus keeping the defense of the Shire up.
Well put.
@@tcrpgfan
The Lord of the Rings rejected the entire philosophy of the books and replaced it with something else. They may have "streamlined" some things, but they massively diverted on others that are core to Tolkien's values.
Loved the film, found the book a long time after and quite frankly found it a chore to read through.
Fezzik was such a precious being in the book's backstory though, when i read it i was _not_ expecting to love him so much. His parents are terrible people and he deserves all the love.
Inigo was also better developed, the book generally did better with those two. The _"I want Domingo Montoya back, you son of a bitch!"_ line and its scene of him against count Rugen is also much more gratifying.
Well that is high praise indeed, considering the movie did the revenge scene SO DAMN WELL.
@@jamainegardner4193 It did! The book better establishes Inigo's grief and lifelong rivalry with the guy though imo, so the payoff is great. (Though with the context behind it, the movie's definitely lives up)
@@peeblekitty5780 Buttercup's Baby had Inigo's love interest, because Morgenstern/Goldman thought he was too one dimensional.
This is very accurate. The only thing I can think of that you missed is that I'm pretty sure Buttercup is a redhead in the book. They describe her hair as being "the color of autumn" IIRC, which I think translates to a sort of orangey auburn color.
ShyAndReclusive they look so good together though, cuz their hair colors and eye colors match so well. Like they literally look perfect together.
And "skin like wintery cream" ...
The color of autumn to me is deep brown, with fiery orange/red highlights.
You've never seen an Albertan autumn, eh? Huh.
This book was the most amazingly meta-tastic piece of fiction I've ever sampled. I highly recommend it for fans of the awesome film! I wish they'd film a short of the bit of Buttercup's Baby that was in the book, with the remaining cast.
When I read the book I didn't know it wasn't a real book previously. I am so gullible. It was so meta I didn't know it was meta.
I actually looked up if Florin was a real country because William just kept acting like it was.
+pinkpandamiranda Me too! I was *so* confused for a while. I tried to get the unabridged version.
I still don't get why in the world he did the whole alternate-history thing and made up a fake wife and son and everything. The reasoning behind it goes waaay over my head. I mean why would you... want to...
Erulasse Aranel William is the Master Troll. I think he just wanted to do a meta narrative about the bullshit writers have to deal with (aforementioned copyright laws and whatnot) but knew it would never sell so he wrote in a generic fantasy companion piece to pull readers in. It really is unique and really screams "passion project"
The names Florin and Guilder are actually based on former Dutch coints "Gulden" & "Florijn".
Don't feel bad. I bought and loved a book called "Why Cats Paint" for years before realizing it was a satire of the art world. And I'm an art teacher! I kept wondering what kind of special scented paint they used to get the cats to paint.
The novel is HILARIOUS! Another big "what's the difference" to me is the Goldstein narrator's ("parenthesis") statements in the books, where he explains the origins of things in even more detail than needed:
“Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?'
(This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here
even before stew.)”
“Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept
some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David
of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer
stand the fact that his neighbor Saul's cactus outshone his own.
(Originally, jealousy pertained solely to plants, other people's cactus
or ginkgoes, or, later, when there was grass, grass, which is why, even
to this day, we say that someone is green with jealousy.) Buttercup's
case rated a close fourth on the all-time list.
It was a very long and very green night.”
I wonder how the movie would have been with a narrator over it? I know not everyone can pull it off.
This was after
taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.
And it was before glamour, too.
@@jonahfalcon1970 But if it weren't for women like the Countess, it wouldn't have been necessary.
"NO MORE RHYMES NOW!,I mean it"
"anybody want a peanut?"
pish posh hahaha... Awesome part!
The rhymes are actually a minor plot point in the book.
My favorite part of "I Love you, Man."
Aarrhhhh ! ! ! : (
best line in the movie
God DAMN young Cary Elwes was hawt.
yup
I still find him hot, or do i have serious problems?
Dary Stabbo I don't think so, everyone is different. To me, he was hotter physically when he was younger, but he's certainly more suave and distinguished nowadays, and those are attractive qualities. So he's still hot, just in different ways. And I could listen to the man talk for days.
I saw him in person at a convention, and even though he's probably 40 years older than me, he was still pretty hot! Just in different ways. Haha.
Shineymcshine79 he does the voice of the cat in The Cat Returns, a Miyazaki movie, if you need an Elwes voice fix. :D
"Yes you're very smart. Shut up." is one of my favourite quotes
I enjoyed both primarily because William Goldman WROTE both! I prefer the original author abridging his own work than another writer and Goldman knew what to adjust for cinematic purposes IMHO.
So while the book is a satire on fairy tales, the movie is what the book would have been if played straight.
Funny thing about Movie Princess Bride, it inspired the Shrek Movie for the meta humor of the book and the seriousness of the movie, since Shrek has a book of its own. The Live-Action Mario Movie was originally going for that direction, making it feel more faithful to the game franchise’s tone than what we got today since 1993.
The book was not a satire on fairy tales. The in-universe book was a satire on the upper class. The book was about the creative process.
damn! westley has the face of an angel! i mean i m' not gay but that guy...
George Kelesidis when the man is even prettier than the woman, even straight guys tend to notice, haha!
Something about his smug smile in this was always funny to me.
My mom said said that she had a crush on the main character but she couldn’t remember his name so I said do you mean Andre the giant 😂
He also plays Lawrence Gordon from saw
@@brock9432 the movie is not that old. how old was your mother when she had a crush on him?
This is one of the few cases where I said; "Hey! They actually improved on the story in the book." Although I DID miss the trip down the stairs.
Pretty good! Both are wonderful. I will say that it's not just the ending where the book is darker than the movie. The book is bittersweet in many ways -- wonderfully so.
Loved the movie, adored the book, became completely disillusioned with the world when I discovered it was all lies
+ben middleton Same! Except I watched the movie when I was really young, so I don't remember it well. I love the book though.
I love both the book and the film, and treat them as the different entities they are. If you haven't read the book, I hope you will -- it's so much fun and very charming.
"Inconceivable!"
+Sudoku Brony "You keep saying that word. I don't think it means what you think it means"
The Princess Bride... when Robin Wright and Cary Elwes were still breathtakingly beautiful
you mean, like still 30 years after?
Robin Wright is still amazingly beautiful.
They both look fine
@@wendysnelgrove5870 she's still attractive but not breathtaking
@@B-Mag who said they weren't? I said they weren't breathtakingly beautiful though I'm sure fine is just as good 🙄
What I love about this movie is the obvious fondness and love the actors have for this film. Cary especially since he put together the book "As you wish" which has stories from the filming of the movie.
You missed the part in the book where Wesley actually slaps Buttercup as opposed to the movie where he only gestures it but quickly stops himself. That part of the book always bothered me.
Me too - even the threat in the movie, and in general his hostile attitude, given that he was presumed dead. And yet my girl cousin and another girl staunchly defended him. Go figure!
Why did he even gesture it? That should have been taken out of the movie
@@shannw0129 naw. He's a pirate, dangerous and lacks morality since he had to survive.
@@SCMTranslation right. It's like learning Santa isn't real.
@@SCMTranslation I know your comment was 2 years ago but I've just read the book and I can't get past that part where he slaps her and is constantly toxic towards her. I mean I get he was hurt but that was so unnecessary. Even worse was towards the end when he is telling Buttercup to tie Humperdinck up and she says that he would do it better (she obvs doesn't know his condition), he literally roars at her that she is the property of the Dread Pirate Roberts and she will do what he says. Yes the word 'property' was used!
Have you considered the difference between...... The book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and then each of the movies ... "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". One book, and two movies, all different from one another in many ways...
+David Townend They'd probably do WWatCF, mostly because there's enough differences to be interesting.
There are differences with both. Oh, wait, I believe I already said that.
David Townend True, but there are more in the first one. The Burton one did have many differences, sure, but it was truer to the book. But why am I telling you? I'm guessing you've read the book. I have not.
:)
David Townend I do like how in Burton's version, the song lyrics are ripped right from the book.
I wish Columbo would read me a bedtime story...
Zman Jace Oh totally! He would end each chapter by say “There’s just one thing bothering me.”
Raven Le Faye id like Peter ford. The guy who ran the wedding.
Book Wesley: *Slaps Buttercup*
Readers: _I N C O N C I E V A B L E_
This was randomly in my recommended and I know it's 4 years old but ...
My favorite parts of the book were the reveal of the Princess of Guilder to be bald when they opened all the doors to the banquet hall causing a powerful cross breeze, "Madam feel free to flee!" and the scene with the king bats as Fezzik is incredibly afraid of them and Inigo tells him a story to get his mind off them...and then trails off before telling him the end and making him think the bats got to his friend, which prompts Fezzik to get over his fear long enough to "save" Inigo and get to the next floor.
Goldman's book has the best chapter in human history, and it's all about Buttercup's training. It's one page total. It says the original chapter in Morgenstern's version about Buttercup's training was the longest chapter in the original book at over 100 pages. It then simply states that all you need to know from the chapter is this: One thing led to another and three years passed. It's genius.
My mom read us the book long before the movie was released. She would read us a little bit at a time before bed. I remember my mom didn't want to wait so she continued reading it on her own. When she got to the part that Wesley died, she got so mad and threw the book across the room. My dad read ahead and told her to keep reading. Reluctantly, she did. I remember hearing that they were making a movie and was super excited. I wasn't disappointed in the movie, but acknowledged that the book was better.
The parts in the book that weren't mentioned in this video was the stories of the most beautiful women in the world at various times during Buttercup's life and how those women became *not the most beautiful women in the world. That part was funny and was left out of the movie. I'd recommend the book to anyone.
8:42I always loved that gag about the albino's voice
Good analysis but there's one change you forgot to mention. There's a more active role in the book for Yellin - The Chief Enforcer Of All Florin, who is in the movie in a few scenes but mostly as a comedic foil for Humperdink.
In the movie, there's a whole subplot about how seriously Yellin takes The Prince's orders to clear out The Thieves' Quarter before the wedding and uncover evidence of a plot by Guilder to kill Buttercup. He tries to resign when he can't find evidence of the plot, at which point Humperdink takes him into his confidence and says "There is n plot. You ARE doing a capable job. I will kill The Princess. And once we conquer Guilder, you shall rule it for me." Which honestly had been Humperdink's plan since he wanted to stay in Florin and The Count (the only other man The Prince trusted) was busy with perfecting The Machine and writing about the history of torture.
Fun Trivia Fact: The Albino who tends The Zoo of Death is Yellin's cousin. No such relationship is suggested in the movie.
The scenes with Buttercups parents are pretty damn funny. If you liked the movie you won't regret reading it at all. There's no let down in either direction and both the book and film will be fond memories.
The funny thing is that William Goldman scripted the movie.
Helen Jiang: "Hellraiser" is another example of a "What's the Difference?" episode featuring a work in which the author exerted control over both the book and the movie.
Do What's the Difference for The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy!!!!
i think they already did
i think they already did
JohnBx98
shit, really? Because I looked and saw nothing.
+Azivegu they haven't
hunter woodruff but, that would mean...
no. Its impossible.
JohnBx98 wouldnt lie, would he?
I think I've read the book more times than I've seen the movie. My favorite part of the book is oddly enough, the scene with Humperdink, his father and his stepmother at breakfast...it's one of those "even the worst person in the world" isn't the worst person all the time and with everybody moments.
I'm always surprised by the quality of the shows on cinefix. This is one is pure gold
Thanks Pedro!
+Casey Redmon How could you forget about the deadly hummingbirds in the zoo of death?!
That's why we have you to remind us :)
What’’s the difference between cineflix and the book:
When she falls down the hill, it gets me every time
I love the book. The movie is baked into the fiber of my being, but the book is *soooo* good! Even the "preview chapter" for the sequel at the end is amazing. It advances not only the westly/buttercup story, but also tells about his fictional son as a grown-up. It also makes Fezzik magic when it comes to babies. He's a baby-wizard.
Awwww, same here... I totally flipped when I stumbled upon the book by total chance on a holiday, back in the late 90s.... bedside table book :)
Beatrice Chavarría I had to track it down on purpose, I didn't know it even existed. I actually had the lady at hastings look up "S Morgenstern" for like half an hour before realizing he wasn't a real person!
existenceisrelative I was one of those people who had to get their hands on the original book, boring parts and all, I didn't care, fan of the movie since before I could speak... you can imagine my let-down... That "S. Morgenstern" fellow is quite a trickster, like someone said, one need only look at the book reviews, although nowadays it shouldn't be as easy to make people believe Florin and Guilder exist...
Beatrice Chavarría Plus, have you ever read another book that a cameo-appearance?
What, like the Neverending Story? (maybe I'm misunderstanding your question???)
I loved both versions, though the zoo of death was awesome and there were a lot of funny part cut out of the movie.
jewellangela The zoo of death is awesome! I fully agree book and movie are wonderful they just have some differences for the obvious reason the movie has time constraints.
To everyone who loves the movie and, hasn’t read the book. Give the book a chance. If you don’t care for it that’s ok but, at least you can say why you don’t care for it.
jewellangela "a lot of funny part"??? Do you not know proper grammar? _Parts_ is the word you mean, not part.
Your a dick (yes that was intentional)
(Narnia. What's the difference?) (The Hobbit. What's the difference?) (Dracula. What's the difference?)
Which version of Dracula, the Bela Lugosi version from the 30's or Nosferatu from Germany in 1922 or the one with Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder from the 90's? And with The Hobbit, are you comparing one film or all of them? And if it's all of them that's a daunting and time consuming labor since the novel and the films vary DRASTICALLY. Same with Narnia, it's "The Chronicles of Narnia," so are you just comparing "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" or just "Prince Caspian" as individual book/films respectively, or do you acknowledge that since it's a series it's basically an ongoing story with one timeline where the events of a previous book/film have a consequence that alter the subsequent book/film?
+Rose Gilliand The novel of Dracula and the Gary Oldman Winona Ryder film, is actually quite different. Many similarities but far more divergences.
+Residential Bookworm Dracula's 1992 movie. Yes, I'm talking about the recent Hobbit movies, I remember reading the book and how it was my favorite for quite some time. I'd like to go down memory lane, and hear there thoughts and peoples comparisons. It's the same with how I feel about C.S.Lewis's series The Chronicles Of Narnia. Sadly there hasn't been word of continuing another movie, but I'd love to see them adapt The Magicians Nephew. I've seen The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe in film and play. I've read the series so many times and seen it depicted in different ways. Out of the three movies so far, I'd love to see what's the difference in the lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
+kuribo1 I agree. the novel is more of a diary of all the characters. Also, how in Gary Oldman's version, he has Dracula and Mina have a relationship together.
Well, for one thing there's only three Narnia movies and there r seven Narnia books. Spoiler alert(Susan becomes a traitor)
One of the creepiest moments from the book was near the end of Buttercup's dream where she has Humperdink's baby whom she tries to breastfeed, but he suddenly starts talking and explains that he's about to die because his mother has no love in her soul...or something like that. I for one am really glad that part wasn't in the movie!
This series is not only super informative, but the little quips and jokes make me literally laugh out loud at times. Great show
You guys should do a What's The Difference on The Crow graphic comic and the film adaptation The Crow. By the way it is a law that every time you mention The Crow you always have to mention that Brandon Lee died while filming.
I think this book sounds like a crazy fun read
i love both the movie and the book versions of the Princess Bride. Its one of my favorite stories. As I watched your video comparison, I was surprised by how many differences in the two that I missed. You definitely made me want to watch the movie again.
The 30th anniversary edition of the book includes more about "Buttercup's Baby" including a "partial abridgement". The extra material is reasonably entertaining if you enjoyed the similar bits in the first version of the book.
I just read the book. I loved it.
I love both the book and the movie. And surprising, as you've seen, don't have to many differences from each other. The details of all the fight scenes in the book though are amazing! Everything is broken down into details and yet not overly explained. You can really see the scenes in your head as you read! The book goes into more detail, as said, about all of the characters which is a sad thing that the movie doesn't completely go into. And one thing that both do the same. Humor. The book is very funny as well!
I have read the book and I never realized that they cut the zoo of death out of the movie or moved the perfect kiss to the beginning. I also either missed or forgot about Buttercup ordering the brute squad to stand down.
this is the one I've been waiting for, thank you Cinefix, you make dreams come true
I remember reading this book as a young teenager and thinking " what is wrong with this author?" Definitely prefer the movie, whoever came up with the screenplay was a genius
I loved the movie growing up, and knowing the book's ending, it really makes it even better. Fred Savage is the audience, and Peter Faulk is the director. It's a critique on movies as escapism and audiences (and movie profits) driving the story more than the author. Fred Savage whining the whole time is obviously the audience demanding uncomplicated plot lines with easy-to-swallow resolutions. In the end, Peter Faulk reading happy ending is akin to Rob Reiner changing the movie ending because we, the audience, are nothing more than a sick kid with a short attention span always demanding a predictable ending.
Or not.
I discovered the book when I was in college and loved it. Then a few years later an ad appeared on TV. I was stunned when I heard the line "Allo. My name is Inigo Montoya..." I started screaming, I was so excited that there was going to be a movie. My husband had no idea why I was reacting that way. And then the movie turned out to be even better than the book. I've read and watched both many times in the decades since.
It's been years since I've read this book, and I can remember how it was the author pretending he was abridging someone else's work. There would be lines about cutting out "twenty pages describing the wardrobe she brought in the carriage" or something like that. It's not a bad book. The movie's excellent too, of course.
PJatO: The Lightening Thief - What's the Difference?
Way way way to many
+J1P2K the whole movie is different then the book. the movie almost has nothing to do with the book lmao i loved all the books but the movie was horrid
tjhall1000 I know. I'm just suggesting it because I want him to look at it.
J1P2K
One is shit. The book is not.
EVERYTHIING!!
the acctual reason Buttercps baby hasn't been written is the mother of all writers block
Death?
I wish he were slightly alive.
Yesss! I love you guys for this one. Great research. Both the movie and the book are atop my favorites in their respective categories. Only a couple of things: the man in black totally slaps Buttercup in the book, Vizzini's monologue during the battle of wits is totally different (love that scene)... and yeah, hearing the book plots described makes it sound weird... but book>movie.... just for Iñigo & Fezzik's extra bits...
I loved both the book and the movie, now I have to read it again. Thanks for rekindling my love of this epic tale.
This video is reminding me of how much time I spent not paying attention in English class
Could you please do The Black Cauldron and/or The Golden Compass? I'd pay you with love.
That's our favorite type of currency!
Book Of Three
Absolutely EXCELLENT presentation! Well done! Thanks for the information being delivered in such an entertaining fashion!
Forgot to mention that this is one of my absolute favorite movies! Actually saw it on the big screen in 1987!
Thanks you guys. My favorite movie of all time. Can't wait to see what's next.
2:35 Impressive that she knew how to read as a farmer’s daughter during this time period
So, in the Book...everyone dies at the end?
Oh god...George RR Martin is a Time Lord...
This comment is brilliant
No, in a special edition only Fezzik dies... Rest in Pepperonies Fezzik!
I wonder what kind of person it would take to hold the job of "Time Lord" without fucking shit up and creating a huge pile of discarded timelines.
No, the book has a "Lady or the Tiger" ending. You have to decide for yourself whether they get away ...
if you read buttercup's baby...everyone survives. And then Fezzik dies and you cry your eyes out.😭
I love both. I love the extra details in the book but the movie is just amazing. Both are enormously entertaining and masterfully done!
Another great What's the Difference episode as always! What I would love to see next;
-Carrie-A Clockwork Orange-Battle Royale-What's Eating Gilbert Grape-The Hunger Games-Any of the Star Wars film novels
Alos, Carl Sagan's Contact vs the movie Contact. I am so glad I saw the movie first, because I loved it. And it inspired me to read the book, which I loved even more. But almost anyone I spoke to who read the book first was disappointed in the movie. C'est la vie.
I just got this book for school today, you guys timed this well
but they misspelled westley. my parents love the book and movie so much that they named me after him. and thats the way it was even spelled.
+WhiteTuxMafiaAndFilms You're studying the Princess Bride at school? What the hell? Let me guess, you go to school in the United States?
+L1ttleT3d Ya I mean honestly it's a stupid book to read, even some of my other LA teachers agree. I mean the book is suppose to teach us basic archetypes and how stories have basically have the same structure but...there are so many other books that could do that better. Also why did you get the United States?
WhiteTuxMafiaAndFilms _"Also why did you get the United States?"_
No other country would do that. I love the United States. It's a great place full of great people. I'm an Americanophile. But shit, you guys really need to sort out your education system. The world is full of literature that it's actually important to know. Your teacher is wasting your time discussing a single page of the Princess Bride.
L1ttleT3d Very very very true. Problem is we don't have really anyway to fix it.
Btw, the nightmare thing, the movie says, “buttercups nightmares had been getting worse...” implying that she had had multiple.
I love both of them so much!! The book is so funny and smart and brilliant, but the movie is a bit more accessible, I think. I've read the book a ton of times but everything that isn't in the movie makes sense to not be in the movie. I'd love to see a stage musical adaptation where there are songs that cover Inigo and Fezzik's backstories and a villainous diet between humperdink and Rogen.
my favorite movie, and one of my favorite books.....thank you so much, this video made my year!
One of the best movies ever made.
I kind of would like to see a sort of sequel to the princess bride, where it is the Grandson reading the story to either his own children or like his nieces or nephews, I think it would be fun to see how he would recite the story.
Only if they re-cast. Listening to Fred Savage's breathy yet nasal voice reading an entire book does not at all sound appealing. It may change when he's older, but I can't see it getting better with age. I'm imagining he'll age like milk, not wine or cheese.
Candice ecidnaC Peter Falk’s narration is infrequent, so Fred Savage’s narration would most likely be similar if they went that route with a sequel.
Such a remarkable surprise that a novel is more detailed and longer than the film it has inspired, right? Also, you must realize that S. Morgenstern is a character/psydonym created by Mr. Goldman to highten the drama of his fiction and lend an air of authenticity. He did the same thing with The Silent Gondoliers, set in Venice and also told by his avatar S. Morgenstern but hundreds of years from The Princess Bride's period setting.
This actually makes me want to re-read the book. I really enjoyed getting back stories for the characters that weren't provided in the movie.
So what I’m hearing is that the movie manages to be more iconic than even the book.
Do What's the Difference for Battle Royale
Yes, good choice.
+Elizabeth Wear shitty movie vs holy shit good book. the whats the difference would be more about content and what was cut out rather than plot changes. if you have the stomach for the gore read the comic.
Zomja I stopped reading the comic once it turned into hardcore porn.
+Sotnas yeah friend of mine stopped there too. its a thinker not gonna lie and its dark, its super dark. im not sure what to say on that, i thought it was a good scene cause it actually revealed a lot about her backstory and what would cause her to snap like this. idk, its weird. my recommendation to people who want tp read the comment refrain from just googling the "porn" scene and take it in context rather than ya random hardcore porn.
Sotnas ....you guys do know that Battle Royale was a novel first, right? Like a text novel. Graphic novel came later. They're pretty different themselves.
This is the rate instance where I love the movie and the book independently! Both are masterpieces! I love the book backstories, made me love the movie characters even more! Especially Fezzik.
I loved Inigo Montoya's back story and training, that part was awesome
Man I love this movie... It's kind of like a requirement of being homeschooled XD
The girl who portraits Buttercup in the pictures (not the movie actress) is supercute.
I said the one on the pictures, NOT the movie version.. :)
I wasn't planning to watch Wonder Woman. Now I'm thinking of nothing else.
krampusz ikr I wonder what's her name
I love these. They are entertaining and quite funny as well, plus I learn some things about some of my favorite films.
love these they're so well done.
What's the Difference: Ghost in the Shell.
Easy the manga was episodic in nature.
What's the difference for The Warriors, pleeeeeease?
The Warriors was a book?? No way!
Mr L. Yeah but it was WAAAYYYY different from the movie
+Andy Aquino That would be awesome, but since it was so good as well, I'd even want to include the story of the game (which didn't diverge much in some ways, but did a lot in others).
+Andy Aquino The Warriors was originally based on a book?
harrietamidala1691 Yep!
You guys should really cover Buttercup's Baby. It does give the book a better ending than the cliffhanger that was given. You can get this addition in the Princess Bride 25th Anniversary edition book which also has some really stunning illustrations.
Having read the book once and seen the movie many times, I think I am qualified to assess this comparison. And my pronouncement is ...
Great job, guys!
Good points, and good humor.
One disagreement: At 10:00 you say, "In the movie it only takes the one dream."
Not so. The grandfather, as reader/narrator says, "Buttercup's nightmares were growing steadily worse." So in the movie as in the book, she has multiple dreams before she declares to Humperdinck that she will always love Wesley.
When I was about 10 my mum brought home The Princess Bride on VHS and my brother and I lamented such a horrible, 'girly', choice. To this day she smugly reminds us how much we loved it.
Huh. Looks like I need to reread the book. I didn't remember some of this stuff in the book.
Actually - I like the book a lot better because of the story around the story... in that book I actually was very touched by the supposed real life struggles of Goldmann and the disappointing relationship to his wife and son. It was just... a completely different kind of story, the book being the device of telling a father not quite managing to come to terms with his son being different from him. I kinda like the movie, but it's in my opinion not an adaptation at all since it only describes the book within a book leaving out everything that made "The princess bride" special. I found it astonishing that Goldmann actually wrote the screenplay!
Oh and the missing backstory of Inigo and Fezzig was a shame too.
By the way, all the Publisher and family relation stuff in the book is just as fictional as Florin and Guilder themselves. Goldman actually has two daughters who inspired him to write The Princess Bride because one wanted to hear a story about a princess and one wanted to hear a story about a bride. But it felt so genuine that even the obviously fictional “Morganstern Estate” and “Princess Bride Museum” nonsense were pulled into feeling real right along with it. My dude really committed to the bit and the whole book really shines for it. I fell for it so hard for like a decade!
I have fallen asleep more times than I can count (rugen) trying to read that book, so THANK YOU for finally convincing me not to finish it.
Please do "The Hobbit." I must see the movies shamed!
+Ruth Thompson YESSS
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
the movies are awesome
anyone who says otherwise hasnt read the books :P
i think the movies are good and i've read the book multiple times, so not always. ^^
icefox94
Eh, free country. Freedom of thought.
Do What's the Difference for The Hunchback of Notre Dame please? I would love that
Personally, I loved both. Read the book in the mid-eighties, wondering when it would finally be made a film. Reiner did beautifully and (to me) none of these differences change my opinion. Both were outstanding. One only has to remember that they are virtually different takes on the same tale.
(As an aside, it should be mentioned somewhere that "floren" and "guilder" are both forms of currency. Something that Goldman snuck by nearly everyone)
1: This is a great and astounding recap of all of the differences. I have watched book and read movie myself and it's very refreshing to see another medium going over these things: Hella Tight.
2: Another pair of movie/book this brings to mind (esp regarding the personality differences in the female lead) would be Contact! Dear, gawwwd that would make an excellent book/movie difference show. :D