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The Princess Bride Musical
adamy writes "Maybe a good thing, maybe a bad thing. William Goldman has started collaborating on a musical version of the time-honored classic. Guess the only thing left to do now is go through the pockets and look for loose change."
Can anyone explain what the connection is between the "Princess Bride," and something a typical Slashdot reader would be interested in?
Yes. That would be "The Princess Bride". Next?
Why can't people come up with NEW ideas? Geeze, we have remakes of Psycho, the Fog, etc, etc. Nothing new. Nada. Oh, except maybe Serenity........
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
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Anybody want a peanut gallery perspective on this? It's inconceivable that this would be a bad thing. I trwoo luv the film, and I have a feeling, that if done in the right type of way, it could be done brilliantly. Like Spamalot and the Producers, it's smart to choose a film that has massive repeat value, material that has that 'i could see this a million times' quality. Other possible film to stage adaptations, in this vein, now that I think of it : Clue. Goonies. Lost Boys. Bad stage adaptations of films? I don't think they exist. So quotable. However, if they screw up, they should prepare to die. Why are you smiling?
Yeah, so there's a fairy-tale love story in there. There's also fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes and miracles. Oh, yeah, and the whole thing's a satire.
But you're not the first one to think it was a kissing book.
Monty Python, Evil Dead, The Princess Bride, the A-Team, The Bush Administration...
"Nerds!"
"I do not think that means what you think it means."
Nerd, as a stereotypical or archetypal designation, refers to people of above-average intelligence whose interests (often in science and mathematics) are not shared by mainstream society. -From Wikipedia
Imagine if you would, for just a moment, that there is more to life than linux, sco, microsoft, google, nintendo, sony, etc. Imagine too, that someone out there, might be interested in this.
However, slashdot does need a "Culture" section for these kinds of articles(ie, Serenity, the Raiders of the Lost Ark remake, Spamalot, etc...)
Erm, wouldn't the story of a pretty girl who rewards with her devotion the poor and unlucky but hard-working and cleverly inventive young lad with a taste for ironic word-play be of significant interest to your generic young male geek?
Or have their mating habits changed?
It's hardly a chick flick. Who gives a rat's ass about Buttercup anyway? She was Westley's motivation, sure, but Inigo was my favorite character. Revenge is cooler than romance any day. Especially for a movie I first saw when I was 12 or something.
If you're so convinced it's "a kissing book", I suppose you felt no swell of outrage when Inigo Montoya related the story of his father's death? No grin when Westley revealed that he was not left-handed either? No, you weren't paying attention, because there was a girl in the beginning of the story. While the rest of us were waiting for Vizzini to keel over from the poison, or laughing at Miracle Max's antics, you were terrified of getting cooties from the girl who hadn't even been on screen for the last dozen scenes or so.
When Inigo delivered the line he'd waited his lifetime to say, and he finally had Count Rugen cornered, and the rest of us teetered on the edges of our seats waiting for the denouement, and we bit our lips and took deep breaths and tasted the sweetness of revenge as he declared "I want my father back, you son of a bitch", we cheered and sighed and thanked the universe that sometimes things do work out in the end, but you were wisely avoiding all of that, content to ignore the movie because paying attention might mean you were enjoying a "chick flick".
Dear parent poster, I regret to inform you that you're tragically misinformed about what "chick flick" means. In a chick flick, all the male characters, save for maybe one, are abusive, neglectful, or ignorant. Tune into Oxygen sometime and you'll see plenty of them. The general point of such movies is to reassure the audience that you can only be a decent human being if you have a uterus. Female characters in such movies are universally noble, smart, and caring, though somehow they always end up being the victims of male characters, whose motives are always shallow and whose actions are always vicious. If Slashdot ever posts about one of those, please let us know. But until then, don't try to assert that the Princess Bride falls into that category, because I assure you, it does not.
Get your facts straight before bashing a movie revered by the overwhelming majority of Slashdotters, not to mention the general population. For starters, try watching it.