Buttercup tumbles down the hill after him and the two reunite in the basin of a ravine. As he rolls down it, he calls out, "As you wish," revealing himself to be Wesley. He then catches up to Vizzini and Buttercup and defeats the evil boss in a battle of wits by tricking him into drinking poison.īuttercup believes the man to be the Pirate Roberts who killed Wesley and pushes him off a hill in order to escape. Vizzini next orders Fezzik to stay behind and kill the man with his brute strength, but the man succeeds in choking Fezzik unconscious from behind. After a lengthy sword fight, the man defeats Inigo, but merely knocks him unconscious to continue pursuing Vizzini and the others. When they reach and ascend the Cliffs of Insanity, Vizzini orders Inigo to kill the man in black pursuing them. Buttercup tries to escape the vessel but is scared back into it by the giant carnivorous eels that inhabit the water. In time, we learn that Prince Humperdinck hired the trio to murder Buttercup and frame the rival land of Guilder, thereby giving him a reason to instigate a war with them.Ī masked man in black follows the kidnappers' ship from a distance. On one of her therapeutic daily horse rides through the countryside, Buttercup is kidnapped by three outlaws posing as circus performers: a Sicilian boss named Vizzini, a giant named Fezzik, and a Spanish fencing master named Inigo Montoya, who seeks to avenge his father's murder. She therefore presumes Wesley to be dead, and swears she'll never love again.įive years later, Buttercup is betrothed to Prince Humperdinck, despite still loving Wesley. After some time, though, Buttercup is devastated to hear that Wesley's ship has been attacked by the infamous Dread Pirate Roberts, who has never been known to leave the captains of the ships he attacks alive. However, with no money to support Buttercup, Wesley sails away to seek his fortune with the promise that he will return and marry her. Wesley responds only with, "As you wish." Eventually, Buttercup comes to develop feelings for Wesley after she understands that him saying "as you wish" is his way of telling her that he loves her. Morgenstern's story begins with the young and beautiful Buttercup, who spends her days ordering her farmhand, Wesley, to do her bidding. Over the course of the film, however, he becomes increasingly enthralled with the tale. The boy is reluctant to hear the story at first, having sacrificed his time playing video games to listen to it. Morgenstern's book, The Princess Bride, to his sick grandson in an effort to keep him company, and also within the book itself. The story takes place in both the "present day" (1987), where a grandfather reads S.
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