Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride

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The director of the Princess Bride that I have studied employed film techniques and narrative conventions to construct heroes and/or villains. The Princess Bride tells us a story of two unlikely lovers who overcome extreme difficulties in order to be together.

The Princess Bride was made in 1987 and directed by Rob Reiner. They also made a book which was published in 1973 and was written by William Goldman. The story tells us a servant boy who falls in love with a Princess. After a long period of time he returned from being a pirate he came back in all black clothes and came to save the Princess but faced things like sword fighting and fighting with a giant but in the end he lived happily ever after with the Princess in there castle.

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