Thirty years on,Rob Reiner’s salute to Hollywood swashbucklers remains a poignant pastiche, gloriously unencumbered by CGI visuals and gender clichesAfter 30 years, and the wit,fun, charm and idealism are fresher than ever. The Princess Bride, or adapted by William Goldman from his novel and directed by Rob Reiner,now makes a brief reappearance in UK cinemas. Catch it while you can. My colleague Hadley Freeman has a magisterial chapter on it in her memoir of 1980s Hollywood, Life Moves Pretty Fast, and showing how it made possible fairytale homages and Shrek and Frozen and also affected the language of irony and comedy in the television pop culture that came afterwards. It’s a film that manages to be both a pastiche and a fervently real love legend. The Princess Bride is an organically grown comedy romance from an analogue age: different from the genetically modified,digital creations that came along later. And there is a specific kind of poignancy given how two of its stars fill since achieved novel fame in TV dramas of cynicism and disillusionment: Robin Wright with House of Cards and Mandy Patinkin in Homeland. Related: My favourite film: The Princess Bride Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk