Inigo Montoya

Stories and fairytales play a role in a person’s lives from the time the young age of reading stories every night before bed to adulthood when reading is a rare pleasure. If written well, a story captures a person’s mind and imagination. Every character, place, and adventure is pictured, making it feel as if the reader lived it with a character. After the success of a novel in bookstores, many novels transform from pages in a book to actors on the silver screen. Often, the portrayal of the movie…

Upon first glance the princess bride may seem like just another “hero-saves-the-girl-and-helps-all-his-friends-achieve-their-goals” type of story, which it is. However what the book and movie both accomplish is to recognize the irony in itself. The book is basically a “Book within a book” and the movie is “A book within a movie”. Both of them achieve their goal in showing this. The book starts with a boy being read a book, his grandfather stops reading because he sees that his grandson is…

the verge of death after learning about their relationship. Finally, most of the other characters in this movie fall under the warrior archetype, relying on strength and fighting in order to get what they want. For example, the kidnappers Fezzik and Inigo are great examples of this…

The romantic comedy film, Princess Bride, is filled with fantasy and adventure. See the famous 1973 novel come alive on the big screen. There are many characters to fall in love with and many quotes that will be worth remembering. To see William Goldman's book be turned into an entertaining film by the director, Rob Reiner, brings true satisfaction. The movie starts off when a young boys grandfather comes to visit him while he is sick. The child isn't too happy about it and wants him to leave.…

Beginnings of the Sport The history of fencing dates back close to five thousand years originating in both Japan and Egypt. In fact, in Europe the general rules of fencing were used even further back close to fourteen thousand years ago! They would use blunted sabres and would use those for sword play. Fencing then became more and more popular in Italy towards the 15th century. Schools were made to teach fencing which then became increasingly popular in England, France, and Spain. This…