![]() The sparks may fly farthest in the wild hacienda dance or the sexually charged stable sword fight (good luck getting that past a studio C-suite today), but the two play off one another just as well in the quieter moments. But with Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones in the roles, their passion comes alive in a way few swashbucklers before or since have achieved. ![]() ![]() While the script for The Mask of Zorro is solid, giving Elena substance and her love for the new Zorro Alejandro Murrieta meaning for the story, it isn’t anything too out of the ordinary for a good adventure yarn. This is a film that proves the value of good chemistry. While the scene may not be fun, it does provide Athos and Milady with a dramatic resolution and proves that swashbucklers can have a very dark edge to them. There’s not much about Milady to inspire sympathy, but the sight of all our heroes conducting a kangaroo court is still unsettling. But the final confrontation between Milady, Athos, and the rest of the musketeers is deadly serious. Richard Lester had a penchant for comedy that sometimes works against Dumas’s story. Oliver Reed cuts a grim and broken figure as Athos throughout both films, while Dunaway holds her own alongside fellow villains Christopher Lee and Charlton Heston. Dishonored and disillusioned, Athos goes about in melancholy, believing his wife hung dead by his own hands Milady, a wicked soul before and after her marriage to Athos, becomes a ruthless spy in Cardinal Richelieu’s employ. Read this if you want to read about adventure on the high seas, about love, and about what people will do to save those they hold close to their hearts.To call that relationship a “romance” is a stretch before the events of the film, Athos fell in love with Milady and married her, only to discover her criminal past. (I have five copies of the movie and two of the book). This is the story that spawned the cult classic movie. He defeats Inigo, Fezzik and Vezzini to save her. Unbeknownst to all, the mystery figure is Westley. Īs she is being taken away, there is a mysterious figure that begins to follow them. Several years later she is on the brink of marrying Prince Humperdinck but she is kidnapped by a band of criminals, Vezzini the self professed genius, Fezzik the giant, and Inigo, a man who has spent years trying to avenge the death of his father at the hands of one of Humperdinck’s men (the one with six fingers on his left hand). ![]() So, word reaches Buttercup that Westley is no longer alive, she retreats into her room and shuts herself a way from the world. On his way, his ship is attacked by the Dread Pirate Roberts, who wasn’t in the business of keeping captors alive. Westley, being a poor farm boy, leaves Buttercup and decides to seek ways to make money for marriage, in the lands across the sea. One day, they are both amazed to discover that they really like each other. From polishing her horse’s saddle, to fetching pitchers, to feeding pigs, Westley is ordered about by Buttercup. The Princess Bride is the classic tale of love, revenge, pirates, chases, escapes, true love, and the ROUS’S (they do actually exist)īuttercup lives on a small farm in the country of Florin.
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