#Buttercup and westley movie
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Adaptation Species Change: In the book, Buttercup gets attacked by sharks while trying to escape from Vizzini.Humperdinck's habit of simultaneously riding four white horses is removed, making them seem to come out of nowhere at the end.The book explains that she was declared princess-by-fiat of some little backwater principality just so that Humperdinck wouldn't be marrying a commoner. Buttercup is somewhat confusingly presented to the populace as a princess when she's betrothed, but not yet married, to Prince Humperdinck.In the film, he's described as an outstanding tracker, but his physical abilities are never mentioned, and he has a normal build. Adaptational Wimp: In the book, Prince Humperdinck is a hulking bruiser who kills apes with his bare hands.In the film, she doesn't do it until Vizzini has noticed someone following them, so 1. Adaptational Intelligence: In the book, Buttercup jumps from the kidnappers' boat the instant she regains consciousness.In the movie, it's their last kiss in the story that gets this description. In the novel, Westley and Buttercup's first kiss is described as obliterating the five other greatest kisses in human history.anyone who tells you differently is selling something' when he's angry at Buttercup for (he thinks) abandoning him, and Miracle Max, who's become very cynical after his mistreatment by Humperdinck, gets the line about True Love being the greatest thing in the world except a good sandwich.

#Buttercup and westley movie

The movie has a more hopeful frame story, about a child being read The Princess Bride for the first time, but some of the cynical zingers are retained and given to characters within the story: Westley says 'Life is pain.

The novel's frame story is narrated by an adult looking back nostalgically at his childhood (as represented by the times his father used to read him The Princess Bride), and he gets in a few cynical zingers about what he's learned from growing up.

In the film, he's played by Chris Sarandon. Adaptational Attractiveness: In the book, Prince Humperdinck is short and weighs 250 pounds and described as resembling a barrel (muscle, not fat: he works out by wrestling apes to death).

#Buttercup and westley full

Humperdinck: I give you full marks for bravery.