Script To Screen: “The Princess Bride”
A memorable scene from the 1987 movie The Princess Bride, screenplay by William Goldman based on his novel.
A memorable scene from the 1987 movie The Princess Bride, screenplay by William Goldman based on his novel.
Setup: The Princess Bride on the verge of marrying the evil Prince Humperdinck while Westley, Indigo Montoya, and Fezzik try to get there to stop the proceedings.
Here is the movie version of the scene:
Some personal trivia: Given my background in theological studies, I was once asked to officiate at of one of my best friends’ daughter’s wedding. And the couple asked me to begin the ceremony with “Mawidge…mawidge is what bwings us togewer today… Mawidge, the bwessed awwangement, that dweam wiffim a dweam…”
Which I totally did.
What do you notice comparing the script to the movie version of the scene? I’ll see you in comments for a discussion of this terrific scene from The Princess Bride.
One of the single best things you can do to learn the craft of screenwriting is to read the script while watching the movie. After all a screenplay is a blueprint to make a movie and it’s that magic of what happens between printed page and final print that can inform how you approach writing scenes. That is the purpose of Script to Screen, a Go Into The Story series where we analyze a memorable movie scene and the script pages that inspired it.
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