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onebluebookworm · 2 years ago

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January 2023 Book Club Picks

Emily Goes to Exeter by Marion Chesney: Hannah Pym - faithful former housekeeper to the late Lord Clarence - has just received the surprise of her life - a legacy of five thousand pounds, enough to retire and live the life of adventure she’s always dreamed of. She starts with a trip to Exeter on the London Quicksilver stagecoach, where she meets a cast of colorful characters - the shy Mrs. Bisley, the arrogant and annoying Cap. Seaton, the respectable lawyer Mr. Fletcher, the motherly Mrs. Bradley, and (most intriguingly of all) the spoiled Emily Freemantle and her rakish, brooding husband-to-be, Lord Harley. When a snowstorm strands the passengers of the Quicksilver at an inn, Hannah uses it as the perfect excuse for a little matchmaking.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck: George and Lenny are an unlikely pair - a small, quiet, planner and a hulking man with the intellect of a child - yet together, they have formed a family. Together they travel the California countryside, looking for work, hoping to one day scrape together enough money for a farm all their own, where they can finally “live of the fatta the land”. After finding work at a new ranch and befriending another hand named Candy, their dream may finally be in sight. But all of it is wrenched away in one tragic moment.

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy: Jenette was six years old when she had her first audition, her mother’s words about wanting her only daughter to be a star ringing in her ears. She knew it would make her mother happy. All Jenette ever wanted to do was make her mom happy. So when she started talking about “calorie restriction”, Jenette did it. She went along with the at-home makeovers and acting lessons and sudden, frightening mood swings whenever her mom didn’t get her way. She shared everything with her mother - her diaries, her emails, her income, even showers. But then her mom died, and Jenette was left with what her mother had given her - anxiety, depression, self-loathing, an eating disorder - and no idea how to work through it on her own. In her heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious memoir, McCurdy takes us through the journey of beginning therapy and learning how to recover from all that her mother left her with.

Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose: Eleven men believe the boy is guilty of murdering his father. Only Juror Eight believes there is some reasonable doubt. But a unanimous vote has to be reached - guilty or not guilty. What follows is a tense drama of one man’s painful struggle to see justice properly done in the face of indifference, prejudice, and rage.

The Princess Bride by William Goldman: William Goldman is at a loss. He wants to share his favorite childhood story with his son, the same story his father read to him as a child, but comes across an unexpected problem - his father skipped over all the boring, historical minutiae that the author S. Morgenstern spent hundred upon hundreds of pages on. Goldman, determined to get his son to experience his favorite book, decides to rewrite the book himself, just as his father told it to him, to make sure the stirring romance, the side-splitting humor, and the action-packed adventures of Princess Buttercup, Westley, Inigo Montoya, and Fezzik the Giant are told in full, glorious detail.

#book club #january 2023 #emily goes to exeter #marion chesney #of mice and memes #john steinbeck #i'm glad my mom died #jenette mccurdy #twelve angry men #reginald rose #the princess bride #william goldman

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lillywillow · 2 years ago

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Twue Wuv

Summary: After Bucky goes through a bad breakup, you help him cheer up by bringing your mutual love of The Princess Bride

Written for: @buckybarnesbingo

Words: 948

Square Filled: Y4- “As You Wish”

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Female Reader

Warnings: A lot of Princess Bride quotes (just a quick disclaimer, I don’t own them)

Bucky had been your best friend ever since the pair of you met and became Avengers. In your off time, you showed him many different movies but one of his favourites was The Princess Bride. He loved the action, the comedy, the romance; to him, this movie had it all. It was one of your favourites too. There were many days and nights you spent watching the film. It was one of your go-to feel-goods. Whenever one of you was having a bad day, the other one would pop the movie on and everything would start to feel better.

…

Recently, Bucky had been dating a woman you couldn’t stand. She was always nice to you but when his back was turned, she was horrible to you. The woman also wanted to change him into something he was not. Eventually things went too far and Bucky broke things off. He knew he would be better off in the long run but it still hurt. You gave him some time to grieve. First a few days passed, then a week. Halfway through week two, you decided to do something to pull him out of his funk.

…

That afternoon, you all but kicked down his door to find him still in bed. Surprised by the sudden noise, Bucky sat up.

“Up you get, Barnes! We’re off to storm the castle!” you grinned, tossing a toy sword at him. “Meet me in the gym!”

With that, you ran off. Bucky stared at the sword you had thrown him and smiled a little for the first time in weeks. He quickly got himself ready and went to meet you with his sword.

…

You waited a little while for Bucky to show up but when you saw him, you grinned.

“Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father.” You got into a fighting stance. “Prepare to die!”

You lunged at Bucky with your sword. He managed to block and counter your attack with his own sword.

“You cannot defeat me, woman! I’m on the brute squad!” he grinned.

“You are the brute squad!” you retorted.

This continued on for a while, the pair of you sword fighting while exchanging quips and quotes from The Princess Bride. Already you could see the spark returning to Bucky’s eyes. It had been quite some time since you had seen it. Halfway through the fight, you swapped to your dominant hand and fought a little harder, just like Inigo did in the movie. After going on like this for quite some time before Bucky knocked the sword out of your hand, sending it flying.

“Well, what are you waiting for? Strike true,” you stated, holding your arms out to the sides and waited for him the conduct the ‘finishing blow’.

Bucky paused for a few minutes before a cheeky smiled crossed his face.

“There’s a shortage of perfect breasts in the world. It would be a pity to damage yours,” he smirked.

You were both taken aback by his comment and greatly amused by it.

“Oh, I can’t believe he had the nerve to say it to your face!” you laughed out loud.

“Hey, you can’t deny that Westley has charm,” he grinned, handing you the sword to put away.

“So much charm,” you agreed, collecting the other sword.

“Thanks for that, Y/N. I really needed that,” he softly smiled. “We should do this again sometime.”

“As you wish,” you softly replied.

Bucky was about to walk away but thought about your words. He had watched The Princess Bride enough times to know what they meant.

“Y/N?”

“Yes, Bucky?”

“You and I both know what those words mean…”

“I know.”

“Does that mean you…?” Bucky left the question hanging.

There was no denying it now that you were in love with your best friend.

“Yeah… it does. I love you Bucky. It hurt so much to see you with that woman. Not because I was jealous but because I could see what she was doing to you. I felt like she was dragging you further and further into the Pit of Despair and I was going to lose you. You should be with someone who cares and about you and loves you…”

“Someone like you?” he asked.

You went quiet and looked at the floor.

“I love you too, Y/N.”

You looked at him in surprise.

“I do love you. The only reason I went out with that woman was… well… because I was scared. Scared of my feelings for you, scared I would lose you as a friend if I asked you out… You’re right, I was in the Pit of Despair when I was with her, and not just because of the way she was treating me but because of how she was treating you. She thought I couldn’t see it when she picked on you but I could. We had many fights about it. That was what eventually broke us up. I really just wanted to be with you…”

“I guess you could say she was like… Prince Humperdinck?” you softly chuckled.

“You could say that… I guess that makes me Princess Buttercup and you Westley,” he smiled. “I think what we’ve got is twue wuv.”

You laughed a little at that.

“So… would you like to get dinner sometime?” you asked.

“As you wish,” Bucky smiled.

#bucky barnes bingo #As You Wish #Twue Wuv #The Princess Bride #friends to lovers #Movies #Marvel #marvel fanfiction #marvel one shot #Bucky Barnes #bucky barnes x reader #sword fight

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lumosnoxlumos · 3 years ago

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Six of Crows Princess Bride AU

Kaz as Inigo Montoya, after Pekka Rollins, who killed his brother

My name is Kaz Brekker. You killed my brother. Prepare to die.

He’s also the one who’s masterminding the plan to start the war with Guilder

He kidnaps Wylan to start the war but didn’t want to kill him

Inej is hired as the fighter, the best swordsperson in the buisness

sold to an underground fighting ring years ago, she’s trying to earn enough money to go home,

Wylan as Buttercup, whose father the king sent him away after he decided he was worthless

Then Alys died with Van Eck’s son, leaving him with no heir

Van Eck was getting old, so he brought Wylan back, hiring a regent to rule instead of him

Jesper as Westley, who fell in love with Wylan but never told him

When Van Eck made Wylan come back, he couldn’t tell Jesper

So Jesper thinks Wylan was kidnapped, and began looking for him

He knows Kaz already, is helping start the war as a side project

Matthias as Fezzik, the wrestler that Kaz hired mostly to be intimidating at his club but also helps Kaz with starting the war in Guilder

Nina is a friend of Wylan

They meet at the palace, when Wylan gets kidnapped by Kaz Nina goes after him

She meets Matthias there

Like, comment, reblog for more!

#Six of crows #shadow and bone #wylan van eck #nina zenik #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #jesper fahey #soc #princess bride #princess bride au

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twentiethcenturymoviesandtv · 4 years ago

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The Princess Bride: Facets of Film

Movie-making is a tough and complicated business. Once you have a studio sold on your pitch and script, there’s changes to be made, casting to be done, lighting choices, changes to the script, sets to find, costumes to make, special effects to prepare, more changes to the script, camera set-up, studio supervision, and then, possibly, more changes to the script.

In a business populated by that many people all working on the same project, every film is a minor miracle that it got made at all.

As you may have gathered, making a movie is a huge undertaking. There’s a lot that goes into it: cameras, music, sets, special effects, costumes, and more, managed by a lot of people who are very good at their jobs. All of these little elements, which don’t seem that important on their own, all go into piecing together a coherent narrative in a way that makes sense, and looks good, to an audience.

These elements, cinematography, lighting, costuming, special effects, etc., are the elements that can catch the attention of an audience, taking a ‘good’ film, and turning it into a ‘great’ film, thanks to the powers of movie magic.

See, movies are a very visual medium. You can have a good story and characters in a book, but you have to imagine what it looks like as it moves along. In a film, you have to watch what someone else made up. This can be either an advantage or a disadvantage, and the difference is made entirely thanks to production design. These ‘facets of film’, the trimmings that make a movie a movie, are vital to visual storytelling, enabling casual movie-goers to interpret what the framing of some scenes is trying to tell them.

Most audience members subconsciously internalize things like thematic costume changes, or a musical cue, without putting thought into figuring out what exactly was getting that point across. The point is, these ‘facets of film’ are not only for filmmakers or movie critics to think about and fawn over: This storytelling shorthand is an important tool that gives the audience all of the information they need to have, without spelling it all out in dialogue. Westley as the Dread Pirate Roberts wears all black as visual shorthand that he is dangerous, Humperdinck wears fine clothes to establish status and style, even Buttercup, whose clothing is plain when she is with Westley and uncomfortably bedecked when she is with Humperdinck, is dressed in a way that conveys something to the audience.

In other words, it’s very useful.

A good director knows to use these aspects of ‘storytelling shorthand’ well, as opposed to competently. Too often, directors can decide to focus the production crew, and the movie itself, in the wrong place, attempting to garner praise for production design rather than substance.

There’s nothing wrong with looking good and being a well-done movie from a technical standpoint, but the balance is necessary. A good director knows that visual storytelling accentuates its story, rather than overshadows it, intended to get the plot across in the most effective way possible, focusing on what is important: the story and characters.

Much like The Princess Bride does.

The Princess Bride isn’t exactly a blockbuster-style film. There isn’t a huge budget spent on special effects or huge setpieces, but what is in there is done so with a remarkable touch. Every inch of this film is designed to look like it takes place in a fairy-tale story, not exactly ‘real locations’, but looking like pictures you’d find in a story book. That extends to the camerawork.

Camerawork is a pretty big deal in film for obvious reasons.

The way a director uses a camera can tell the audience a lot, using some shots to emphasize different emotions, or even to get across different feelings to the audience. Filmmakers use editing of these shots together to tell the story, to move the audience’s line of vision so that it is always centered on the action while also helping to set the mood or leave a visual impression on the audience.

So, does The Princess Bride manage that?

Most of the camerawork in The Princess Bride is fairly standard stuff, wide-shots for action, close-ups for dialogue or emotion, establishing shots for a new location, etc. However, there are a handful of tricks that are notable: natural lighting used in the shots to make them feel open, spacious, and real, contrasting with artificial levels of darkness in the Fire Swamp, or the upwards-facing shot of Fezzik’s impersonation of the Dread Pirate Roberts, seeming to increase his size and formidability. Other shots, like the coming-into-focus of Westley rising to point his sword at Humperdinck, are equally effective, in uses of ‘subjective camera’. There are other, more traditional examples: shots of Buttercup’s abduction from above to make her seem even smaller, and establishing ‘relationship’ shots of people on the same level in the same frame, such as the sunset-lit kiss sequences bookending the film. Even the editing, while being mostly standard, is given a few moments to shine, such as when the Grandfather is trying to find his place in the story after interrupting to make sure the Grandson isn’t frightened by the Shrieking Eels.

Still, overall, it’s a fairly simple film in terms of visual style. The cinematography is aimed at one goal: creating a charming, warm, comforting atmosphere that translates well and correctly conveys the mood of the audience.

This is even more so aided by the film’s score.

It’s fairly obvious that a movie’s soundtrack is integral to its success: a good movie can be elevated to iconic levels thanks to a good score (i.e. Jaws, Psycho, Star Wars, etc.). In other cases, music can be passable, serviceable, without being bad or fantastic.

In the case of The Princess Bride, the score is….interesting, to say the least. Instead of a traditional ‘fantasy’ score, the soundtrack was composed by Mark Knopfler, the front guitarist for the band Dire Straits (Money for Nothing, Walk of Life), using synthesizers and acoustic guitars to get the sound of the film. The score, especially both the instrumental and vocal covers of ‘Storybook Love’ (sung by Willy DeVille) is memorable, overall, if nothing to write home about. The soundtrack does what it is intended to do: set the scene, notably in the scene ‘The Chatty Duelists’, where Inigo and Westley fight to the stings of the music. The music overall accentuates the grand, sweeping visuals as well as the tense, exciting sequences, keeping the audience in the story very well.

Speaking of grand, sweeping visuals:

The sets of The Princess Bride overall aren’t really ‘sets’ at all. The ‘Cliffs of Insanity’ were in actuality the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland, and even Humperdinck’s castle was actually a real medieval manor house. From Miracle Max’s shack to the Fire Swamp, to Rugen’s torture chamber, the rest of the settings of The Princess Bride do their job very well, creating a fantastical atmosphere that serves the story admirably. These aren’t the vivid, magical sets of The Wizard of Oz, designed to create an atmosphere of dreamlike fantasy, rather, the settings of The Princess Bride are more intended to create a feeling of Magical Realism, that it is a storybook, but that the locations look and feel familiar and realistic. This is helped somewhat by the fact that the film itself doesn’t rely on special effects much at all: aside from the Shrieking Eels and the (rather unrealistic looking) ROUSes (saved by the storybook feel of the entire film), there aren’t any real fantasy-specific special effects that other films might utilize.

There’s more to an immersive movie experience than sets, costumes and music, though. In the end, no matter how impressive, the special effects, sets and costumes don’t really mean anything if the characters aren’t believable. The movie really rests on the shoulders of the performers: it’s on the actors to try to sell not only their surroundings and story, but the characters themselves, everything from the personality to the emotions.

In the case of The Princess Bride?

Cary Elwes’s performance as Westley is lighthearted, emotional, and extremely sincere. He’s charismatic, charming, and makes you believe that he’s exactly as skilled as the story needs him to be. He also manages to convince an entire audience of the genuine love he has for Buttercup, and is distinct as both his Westley persona and his ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’ persona. In other words, he’s perfect.

Cary Elwes balances the ‘indestructibility’ that most protagonists seem to possess, seemingly in control of dire situations, as well as the vulnerability necessary for an audience’s sympathy and concern for his well-being, for his goal. In other words, he manages to pull off a character that seems designed for an earlier time, updating it with a sense of humor and charm that perfectly suits the rest of the film.

Robin Wright is similarly well-suited for Buttercup, as she’s written. I’ve discussed elsewhere the potential problems presented by Buttercup’s rather uninteresting personality and role in the story, but Buttercup’s Defrosting Ice Queen tendencies are very well conveyed, especially early on. As I mentioned in other articles, her chemistry with Elwes makes the romance element of the film convincing in the few scenes they have together. She does a good job with the material given to her, it’s just a shame that there wasn’t more for her to do.

On the other hand, Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya, despite the unconvincing accent, is inspired, with Patinkin bringing both warm humor and ice-cold vengeance and formidability to the role. Both he and Elwes brought great physicality to their sword-fight sequences, training hard in order to do as much of their own fighting as possible, and it shows in the performances in the final product. Inigo’s inner conflict is showcased well, with Patinkin providing both the comedic highlights as well as the intense emotional ones, especially his final duel with Rugen. It is Inigo’s lines which tend to be the most memorable, owing a lot to Patinkin’s iconic delivery.

All three of the main trio play their parts perfectly, but they are only the chief standouts in an entire film full of them.

André René Roussimoff (better known as André the Giant) despite not being an actor in the same vein as the rest of the cast, is iconic as Fezzik. The instant likeability present in the performance carries strongly throughout the film, with his own fair share of memorable dialogue (which, granted, nearly every member in the cast has). His physicality isn’t really what makes him such a distinct part of the cast, rather, it’s the character’s heart and humor that makes this performance such an integral part to the film at large.

Similarly (though in the opposite direction), Wallace Shawn is a wonderful choice for Vizzini, his distinct voice and mannerisms giving the character plenty of funny dialogue without entirely removing the threat he poses. Despite not having a lot of screen time, Shawn manages to make the role iconic instantly, with inflections that make the word ‘inconceivable’ memorable to this day.

Chris Sarandon is perfectly cast as Prince Humperdinck, playing arrogance and control that all come crashing down in the final scene. Humperdinck is all bark and no bite, appearing confident and competent until he is met by someone who might pose a challenge. He’s conniving, cold, and disinterested in anything other than his war, making it especially rewarding when he is defeated.

Similarly, Christopher Guest plays Count Rugen with a sophisticated coolness, never really invested in what’s going on or terribly worried about it until that ‘little Spanish brat’ comes for revenge, very well equipped to deliver it. He plays the final duel scene notably with an increased losing of composure, cluing the audience in to his inevitable demise for the sake of vengeance.

The other characters perfectly hit their mark as well: Billy Crystal and Carol Kane are a comedic team to be reckoned with as Miracle Max and Valerie, with other special standouts including Peter Cook as the Impressive Clergymen (a scene stealer with only one appearance), and Peter Falk and Fred Savage as the Grandfather and the Grandson, respectively.

Every character in The Princess Bride comes across exactly as they should: as characters in a fairytale, fondly looked back on from a place of adulthood. Each performance is perfectly suited to each character and the type of movie that they are in, with every performance hitting a mix of sincerity and drollness. These performances aren’t necessarily subtle, but they aren’t supposed to be. They are heroes and villains, giants and master swordsmen and princesses, acting out a fairy-tale that knows exactly what it is, with tonal consistency that never seeks to outdo the material the actors are given. These performances are the final piece to cementing this film as a true classic, bringing entertainment to people decades after it’s first release.

In short, the filmmakers of The Princess Bride knew what they were doing. Everything from the performances to the camerawork gets across every emotion and aspect of the story instantly, with the sets and costumes working to explain simply what’s going on as quickly as possible. It’s a storybook set to film, both comforting and exciting, and the ending feels right, no matter how many times we revisit it.

The Princess Bride has long been considered a cult classic, a hidden gem that was looked over by a public who never really knew it was there in the first place. Even if it never reaches the high peaks of fame as other fantasy classics, it may not be a stretch to hail it as one of the greatest fantasy films (or films in general) ever made, through simple (but not simplistic) substance, if not bombastic style.

Of course, no movie comes around accidently. There had to be some work done behind the scenes for this film to have come about.

Join me next time as we discuss the Facets of Filmmaking: the Behind the Scenes of The Princess Bride.

Thank you guys so much for reading! If you have something you’d like to add or say, don’t forget that the ask box is always open! I hope to see you all in the next article.

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ganymedesclock · 5 years ago

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I found a version of the Silksong gameplay demo with clean video and audio (nobody talking over it) and, couple of thoughts:

Looks like the French Language version doesn’t have a lot of its text hooked up yet. To that end- it’s surprising how much of the game is nicely intuitable and legible without that.

It somehow didn’t hit me just how much of the Moss Grotto is bones. Where are all of these bones coming from, Pharloom. I am really not liking this implied massacre in your kingdom’s distant history.

Visually, a lot of Pharloom really feels like Ari Gibson doing a little dance of “look what I can do now!”- there’s a lot of small movement. Chains and lanterns sway faintly where in Hollow Knight they’re still objects; there are doors you not merely open with a lever but reopen every time you approach them, and they’ll shut themselves after a bit. It’s really neat to see- and it really lends more to the feeling of Pharloom being a living kingdom, to Hallownest’s uneasy grave.

Holy hell Lace looks like a nasty boss to fight. With the way she chains attacks she can very easily take two masks of damage per hit, and since the official demo presenters never got caught in her ‘pin flurry’ attack I didn’t realize she can just Star Platinum you down two masks. I have a sneaking suspicion that little giggle of hers when she defeats you is going to become memetic once more people are actually getting their hands on this game. Her voice is also a bit lower and more threatening than I was anticipating, and she seems to be tossing off quips / retorts of some kind about as much as she is attacking.

I wonder how they pitched that to Lace’s VA, since IIRC she was part of the fandom of the original. “Hey, we’re super glad to have you! You’re going to ruin Hornet’s tuesday and sound like you’re having the time of your life the entire time.”

It is nothing short of absolutely adorable how Forge-Daughter and Ballow are very clearly having a nice little chat that you interrupt. Even just listening to the voice grunts, it’s clear Ballow’s chattier to her than he is to you, while Forge-Daughter’s rather laconic. Also kinda cute how everybody with the bell helmets (bellmets?) has a metallic echo quality to their voice.

Overall it sounds like the boss themes- both Lace’s theme and what I presume is the generic one that plays for the Moss Mother- have a very strings-ish focus. The main theme of the game seems to have a harp as its primary sound.

Back to Lace- they really are making a point to rub those glowing flies she’s conducting in our faces, since she’s such a difficult boss, and they made sure that every time we go back to rechallenge her, while her dialogue doesn’t repeat, the flies show up again. It really does seem like they at least want us to believe at this point that Lace is the one who saved Hornet- which, so far, I see no reason to doubt (her dialogue- not present here- has her refer to the cage and Hornet “falling from” it when there don’t appear to have been any witnesses to Hornet’s arrival besides the cult members she probably killed when she tore the bridge apart). Which is an interesting stroke of complexity to add to her character right out of the gate- that she’s acting against us but... seemingly, not entirely so?

Also I know I’m a sucker for Princess Bride but, am I gonna have to be the one joking about them having a dynamic like Westley and Inigo Montoya’s first meeting?

Lace “I could toss you a rope, but, I am just waiting around to kill you.” Hornet “That does put a damper on things.”

The sad noise Hornet makes when she goes into the lava hurts my soul. Especially because I know I’m gonna make her make that noise a lot until I get the hang of her platforming vs. Ghost’s. Sorry in advance Hornet.

#Hollow Knight #Silksong #long post

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simplythebestbug · 5 years ago

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Alright hear me out

Ok ok ok listen up... Miraculous Ladybug Princess Bride AU

On it’s own it’s ALREADY a kickass idea but listen

Here’s the important part...

Westley!Marinette and Buttercup!Adrien

Alright so Adrien is the rough and tumble extremely beautiful sunshine child who just wants to ride horses

Marinette is the farmgirl they took in who does whatever Adrien wants bc she loves him

One day, the Duke Luka came along and was totally flirting with her and Adrien was Not Okay With It™

So that night, Adrien goes to talk to her and tells her he’s in love with her and Marinette’s like “okai cool” and they kiss and she goes to America to make a life for them

But no! Marinette’s ship is captured by The Dread Pirate Ladybug! *le gasp*

Adrien swears never to love again

But Princess Chloe- who happens to like hunting and killing things- gets engaged to him despite the whole “I’ll never love you” thing (I mean, the boy’s pretty!)

Before the wedding, Adrien gets kidnapped by Vizzini!Lila, Fezzik!Ivan, and Inigo Montoya!Kagami

But what is this? The Dread Pirate Ladybug saving him?! Why- MARINETTE?!

So everything goes pretty much the same storyline wise + Miracle Max! Master Fu

Idk where Chat Noir would come in though... BUT LADRIEN IS MORE THAN ENOUGH

Thank you for your time that is all continue on with your day

#miraculous ladybug #au idea #princess bride au #original post #ladrien #love square #marinette dupain cheng #adrien agreste #i need to rewatch this movie #i super love this #it combines two of my favorite things #and agdjsfsgklfg

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allaboutmoviesuniverse · 5 years ago

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Review: The Princess Bride (1987)

"The Princess Bride” is a comedy classic set in the middle ages, written by William Goldman and directed by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright and Chris Sarandon.

“The Princess Bride” title is a funny wordplay and delivers one quotable scene after another. “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”, for example. The film starts with a kind grandfather, played by Peter Falk, who tells his ill grandson, played by Fred Savage, a story that has been passed down for generations. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes alive.

“Princess Bride” is pretty much parodying all Middle Ages blockbusters that Hollywood produced in the 1950/60s. The acting of the star studded cast is on point, and the dialogues are witty, which is the reason why this movie is still one of the most well known and watched comedy’s of all time.

Westley, played by Elwes, is working for farm girl Buttercup, played by Wright, and the two eventually fall in love. But that love doesn’t last very long since Westley goes out to the sea and is killed by pirates, at least that’s what Buttercup believes. Soon she gets chosen to become princess bride to prince Humperdinck, who she can’t stand. To save his true love, Westley goes on a quest with his friends he finds on the way and tries to get his Buttercup back.

We meet a lot characters such as the honorable Inigo, strong but simple minded Fezzik, evil Vizzini and Count Rugen. If you haven’t seen it yet, and your in the mood for something light and funny, “Princess Bride” is always a good choice. While some scenes were longer than needed, the sarcasm, Mandy Patinkin’s spanish accent, Cary Elwes’ charms and Chris Sarandon’s evilness make everything work.

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#the princess bride #rob reiner #cary elwes #mandy patinkin #robin wright #chris sarandon #review #movie #film #movie blog #comedy #80s #1980s movies

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douxreviews · 6 years ago

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The Princess Bride Review

[This review includes spoilers.]

Grandson: "Has it got any sports in it?" Grandfather: "Are you kidding? Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles..."

The Princess Bride is often described as a fractured fairy tale, but I don't think that's accurate because it's so much more. In his original book, William Goldman took the standard elements of a fairy tale and twisted them off center into something exceptionally funny, while still retaining all of the elements that made it an enjoyable fairy tale. And then Rob Reiner took Goldman's story and translated it into a movie that was just as good and did the same thing, which is a remarkable achievement. The Princess Bride is a satire, a tale of true love, a touching story of bloody vengeance, and it's hilarious. It's unique, and defies categorization.

It's difficult to launch directly into a fantasy world, so Goldman cleverly encapsulated the fairy tale into a story that a grandfather (Peter Falk) is reading to his sick grandson (Fred Savage). I've always loved the skillful way it goes back and forth ("Is this a kissing book?" "She does not get eaten by the eels at this time"). Because the grandfather clearly loves the story he's telling, and at the end, his grandson does too, it bridges the generational gap between them. Lovely.

But it's the fairy tale that's important, and I love every minute of it. I want Buttercup and Westley to live happily ever after. I want Inigo to avenge his father and find peace at last. And there are so many scenes that are absolute gems. The duel at the top of the Cliffs of Insanity is probably my favorite because of the way the Man in Black and Inigo bond as they're trying to kill each other. The duel of wits with the iocane powder is priceless. I love the shrieking eels. I love the R.O.U.S.'s in the fire swamp. Inigo's duel with the six-fingered man is just wonderful, a perfect emotional climax to the movie.

The performances are also gems. Westley (Cary Elwes) is gorgeous, dashing, and ridiculous. Buttercup (Robin Wright) is earnestly beautiful and beautifully earnest, the perfect straight woman. Inigo's story is the most compelling, and Mandy Patinkin brings perfect comic timing as well as pathos to the role. It's not easy to pull off a line like "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!" not just once, but many times, and to give it so much impact each and every time.

I can't say enough good things about Wallace Shawn as Vizzini; practically every line he says in this movie is terribly funny. Andre the Giant imparts such sweetness to the role of Fezzik, while still being physically imposing. Honorable mention to Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Billy Crystal and Carol Kane. And Peter Cook as the minister, who made one small scene unforgettable; I start laughing even before he opens his mouth. "Mawwidge. Mawwidge is what bwings us togedder today."

The sight gags are special, too. The climb up the Cliffs of Insanity. Vizzini laughing maniacally before keeling over. Inigo leaning against the tree. Practically every scene with Westley after they give him the pill. The men standing guard in front of the gate makes me laugh every time I see it. But my favorite has always been this one:

"We are but poor, lost circus performers. Is there a village nearby?"

If I have any complaint at all, it's that while Andre the Giant is well cast, Fezzik's lines are sometimes difficult to understand. The scene with the holocaust cloak in particular is almost incomprehensible without subtitles. Okay, I've always hated Inigo's hair, too. Small things, though. And I can't imagine The Princess Bride without them.

I still laugh out loud every time I watch this movie, even while I know the lines so well that I repeat them with the actors. It's that good. William Goldman is probably best known for writing one of the great movies, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I love that movie. But I love The Princess Bride more.

Quotes:

I wanted to put half of the movie in the quotes section, but I restrained myself and just listed my absolute favorites. So if I missed a line or two that you love, feel free to add it to the comments.

Westley: "This is true love. Do you think this happens every day?"

Vizzini: "And you! Friendless, brainless, helpless, hopeless! Do you want me to send you back to where you were? Unemployed, in Greenland?"

Inigo: "Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?" Fezzik: "If there are, we'll all be dead." Vizzini: "No more rhymes now, I mean it." Fezzik: "Anybody want a peanut?" I love the way Inigo indulges Fezzik in his rhyming. It's so sweet.

Inigo: "You are sure nobody's follow us?" Vizzini: "As I told you, it would be absolutely, totally, and in all other ways inconceivable ... Out of curiosity, why do you ask?" Inigo: "No reason. It's only I just happened to look behind us and something is there." Vizzini: "What? Probably some local fisherman, out for a pleasure cruise, at night... in eel-infested waters..."

Vizzini: "He didn't fall? Inconceivable!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." The most quotable line in the movie. I use it a lot.

Fezzik: "You be careful. People in masks cannot be trusted."

Inigo: "I do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?" Man in Black: "Do you always begin conversations this way?"

Fezzik: "Why do you wear a mask? Were you burned by acid, or something like that?" Man in Black: "Oh no, it's just that they're terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future."

Man in Black: "I do not envy you the headache you will have when you awake. But for now, rest well and dream of large women."

Vizzini: "You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is 'never get involved in a land war in Asia', but only slightly less well-known is this: 'Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line'!"

Buttercup: "You mock my pain." Man in Black: "Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."

Westley: (looking around the Fire Swamp) "It's not that bad. (Buttercup looks at him) Well, I'm not saying I'd like to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely."

Humperdinck: "Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work. But I've got my country's five hundredth anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it. I'm swamped."

Inigo: "Offer me money." Rugen: "Yes!" Inigo: "Power, too. Promise me that." Rugen: "All that I have and more. Please!" Inigo: "Offer me anything I ask for." Rugen: "Anything you want... " Inigo: "I want my father back, you son of a bitch!"

I'm not much for hobbits or Harry Potter, so this is my favorite fantasy movie. I love every scene and every line. Am I being too effusive? Inconceivable!

Four out of four white horses,

Billie Doux loves good television and spends way too much time writing about it.

#The Princess Bride #Westley #Buttercup #Inigo Montoya #William Goldman #Rob Reiner #Doux Reviews #Movie Reviews #something from the archive

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mslullabies · 6 years ago

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Listen listen. I love and appreciate that art so much, SO MUCH, and I mean this babbling in the old timey fandom spirit of mutual love of thing, not in the new fangled if you disagree you’re a pedophile kind of way. I think that aesthetic correspondences aside, we gotta switch those roles. Let me ehsplain. No. There is too much. Let me sum up:

Matt is Buttercup. In the princess bride, Buttercup clearly has depression after she thinks Westley is dead, and specifically she has the kind that numbs and paralyzes you. It renders her basically indifferent to her own fate (she just goes along with marrying humperdink) until there is an immediate physical danger present (her distress at being kidnapped, later she jumps out of the boat and attempts to swim to shore). In s3 of daredevil, Matt explicitly has depression and although his doesn’t seem as numb and involves more visible signs of pain than Buttercup’s, it renders him inert and indifferent to his own wellbeing. I might say that he’s trying to be as numb as Buttercup just is. Also Fisk as the personification of Matt’s brainscreams is very evocative of Buttercup’s nightmare and the woman accusing her.

So that means Foggy is Westley, who when he’s separated from Buttercup and captured by pirates, just speaks eloquently about why he wants to live, and convinces them to let him. He uses his time as their prisoner to learn the skills he needs to move forward. Likewise, Foggy does not struggle with depression despite his ongoing grieving and trauma (and I could meta about that all day - I love that s3 so clearly contrasted Matt and Karen with Foggy and didn’t condemn or commend anyone for their respective mental health situations.) Foggy does exactly what Westley does - he’s between a rock and a hard place, so he leverages what wiggle room he has, and gets himself into a position where he can move forward. He also pursues and forgives Matt, even though he’s very angry at him.

Even better, through this lens, Karen is Inigo Montoya - she struggles with depression as well, but her trauma manifests as single-minded focus. Inigo’s whole life is focused on revenge, but he is also explicitly shown depressed and drowning his sorrows when he meets with setbacks. Also just attaches himself to Westley as his only hope, just like Karen does with Matt and Foggy. So Karen = Inigo, and that gives us James Wesley as the Count Ruben, and obvs Kingpin as Humperdink. Now Vizini is a lil tougher - I’m thinking Stick, but only bc no one else seems to fit. Except maaaayyybe Elektra, but I’m reluctant to assign her to a role that is so benignly villainous, she’s both more complicated and more important than that. I think she might be Ryan, the previous Dread Pirate Roberts who captures Westley and is moved by his speech about love. She gets a happy retirement that way. Fezzig is also a tough one - I think we might have to bring in another defender to fill his role, and I think that defender might need to be Jessica. Initially I was thinking Punisher, but Fezzig is supposed to be Lorge to the point of being referred to as a giant multiple times, so I think her superstrength is required here. Also the idea of her and Karen playing rhyming games as a way to annoy Stick is giving me heart palpitations. Also please picture her just strapping Matt, Karen, and Stick to her back and climbing the cliffs of insanity. Also please picture her muttering “My way’s not very sportsmanlike” to herself.

You know what, just here’s list of further things you should picture with this character swapped Princess Bride:

- Matt pushing Foggy down a hill, realizing it’s Foggy, and then just throwing himself ass over tea kettle down the hill as well instead of doing anything normal about it - Foggy very grimly saying ‘I can cope with torture’ only to have the person to whom he makes this assertion vigorously shake their head. - “Please understand that I hold you in the highest respect.” - Jessica rolling her eyes and hauling Matt out of the shrieking eel infested waters one-handed - Foggy: You mean you’ll put down your rock and I’ll put down my sword and we’ll try to kill each other like civilized people?” Jessica: Yeah. Sportsmanlike. - Stick holding the point of a knife under Matt’s jaw, pressing it deeper when Foggy advances, and Matt gasps but doesn’t cry out - Jessica repeatedly dunking Karen in a pair of barrels to get her to sober up - Matt doing that little head tilt when he catches Fisk with that “Every ship but your four fastest.” - Karen bodyslamming a door trying to chase Wesley and screaming for Jessica to help her - Jessica semi-carefully propping Foggy up on a suit of a armor - Matt jumping from a window into Jessica’s waiting arms, all in slowmo with dramatic music (she then dumps him on the ground a la Mr. Green in Clue)

And I hardly think it needs saying, but Claire is clearly Miracle Max in all this, and I know I shouldn’t type up a description of that whole scene, we’ve all seen it, but please, gods, just run through the whole thing in your head. Claire is so put out and cranky. Refuses to believe that these are protagonists and not just a passel of regular dumbasses. Luke comes charging in, “Get back brigand!” “I’m not a brigand, I’m your boyfriend!”

#movies I made in my head for no reason #mattfoggy

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gumame1a · 8 years ago

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prompt for gendrya: 5 times Gendry saw Arya Stark truly smile

sorry for the wait!! but thank you so so so much for the prompt :)

two falling sparks, one willing fool (or 5 times Gendry sees Arya Smile)

Gendry had a theory.

While there were definitely other more important things that occupied his mind, and things that he spent his time thinking about, he swears that this was just something that would come and go.The theory was: the only time Arya was really, truly, smiling was when she was unaware of it.And it’s stupid, but the thought makes him smile himself and she’d probably kick his ass if she ever found out what goes around in his head but-He can’t pinpoint exactly how or when, but there came a time where he had learned Arya. At least enough to know when she smiled for real. It was something that he took pride in; she was a fairly hard person to get a read on. Not that it was a conscious effort. No. Just something that he learned over time.He could just tell a genuine smile from a false front.

1The first time he sees her genuinely smile is when he meets her for the first time.Stuck with Lommy and Hot Pie, taking heat for something he had nothing to do with, here he is, sentenced with scraping gum and other questionable sticky clumps off of the cafeterias chairs and tables.Yoren, the history teacher, the only teacher in this high school that Gendry was confident didn’t totally hate teenagers (at least not yet), handed over buckets and what looked like butter knives to each of them, with a pair left for him.

For a second, he thought that his sympathy extended to actually helping them. It took him by surprise and he said so.“Me?” he laughed, as if the thought was so absurd. “That’s cute kid, but no. I’d never be able to stand again.”Yoren leaves without saying who and leaves them to it.Half an hour in, he thought whoever was supposed to be here would never show, but he hears her music before he even sees her because he recognizes it, and it’s that fucking loud, he wonders how she’s not deaf.He’d known her from around. The hallways standing with a sophomore he thinks is named Micah, in the papers with the rest of her family when Governor Stark came into office, a few parties here and there, and he’s confident that even though she has no idea who he is, and not sure how and who added who, but they’re friends on Facebook.Her clothes look expensive with the distinctive trademark fashion of the well-off. But she’s a walking contradiction with her old, worn out and ratty looking pair of Converse. She’s got this bored look on her face and yet, still doesn’t quite lose the aristocratic air that one’s born with the kind of family she’s from. So, sue him if he was 100% expecting her to bitch, whine and ditch.But she surprises him by nodding to no one in particular, letting her messenger bag riddled with buttons that’s falling apart at the seams with a thud, grabs the bucket and knife, and goes to work. Lommy and Hot Pie are not so subtly speculating as to why she might be with them suffering the same sentence. From what he’s heard, it was the bloody nose she gave Joffrey. He can’t say that he blames her. It was about time someone decked that jackass. What amuses him is that while he was taller than Joffrey, she would had to have reached quite a bit to throw the punch.He knows she can hear, but she stonily hacks away at a particularly stubborn piece of gum stuck to the chair, with a scabbed over white knuckled grip.Hot Pie’s scratching against the chair so fast Gendry’s worried it might actually catch fire.“Scrape, gently.”He doesn’t even stop, in fact, if it’s even possible, he’s scratching at it even faster. “Didn’t ask”“Yeah, well, tough shit, I didn’t ask to be here either .”He hears her snort, and it’s so loud at first he thinks she sneezed. But, no, he turns to see that she’s grinning at the underside of a chair, and finds himself smirking too.

2More often than not, it would be just the two of them at Motts. It started when he saw her walking home and asked if she wanted a ride at the last day of their community service and celebrate their freedom.She put her feet on the dash and changed the radio station within seconds of getting in his truck, and all he could do was scoff fondly at Hot Pie and Lommys reaction. He’d have given them an earful had it been any of the two, but he couldn’t bring himself to tell her off and, well, he just knew.From there, there was an effortlessness to the way they moved around each other. She took him completely by surprise at how much a part of his life she’d become. Gradually, it was her phone number in his phone saved as m’lady, both the jackets and hoodies she’d “borrow”, the distinct smell that would linger in his truck, the crap ton of selfies she’d leave on his phone, Nymeria’s fur everywhere in the upholstery despite that happening one time, and the inside jokes they shared. He was surprised how much he needed her and he hoped that she needed him the same way. He never thought he’d ever be this close to a girl, much less having a female best friend.And he likes it.Her presence. When Hot Pie and Lommy were around, they’d go out, but he likes this especially. He likes the companionship of them working in silence. He’d disappeared under the truck that came in a week ago, tinkering around, and she’s on the patched up sofa they picked up off the sidewalk on a whim that now sits in the middle of the garage, sprawled out with her headphones she’d long abandoned, having the radio loud instead and textbooks scattered about her like she’d been there forever, like she belonged there. He made sure he always had something to do with his hands because it was getting harder and harder to be around her, and he knew what that meant, but-He wasn’t going to be that guy. Suddenly, he’s being pulled out from under and the smell of freshly baked bread hits him. Lommy and Arya are on the couch while he and Hot Pie are on the ground. He’d missed the joke that everyone was laughing at, but he smiles anyway when he sees her head thrown back with a smile, as she kicks Lommy off the couch. She might as well have kicked him in the gut with what it was doing to him.He turns to see Hot Pie with an eyebrow raised at him and the smile on his face vanishes.

3He’s on the roof, trying to climb in through her window and sees her with only the laptop light illuminating her face, and she’s smiling at something and…… he falls with a thud that knocks the wind right out of him.“Seven hells, I haven’t done that since the 10th grade,” he groans, and she’s at his side in seconds where he’s on his back.“Are you okay?” He hears her laugh, typical. Here he is physically injured and she’s laughing, but despite everything, he’s laughing too.He’s trying to catch his breath. Somehow seeing her smile stretched out across her face, highlighted by the streetlight that would go out and come back on, with her hair tickling his cheeks doesn’t seem to be helping. He closes his eyes trying not to let her figure out what he’s thinking.I’m royally fucked, that’s what“Yeah, I’m fine. You don’t think they heard, do you?”She scoffs as she takes her place on her bed. “You worry too much.”Someone has toHe freezes in place because he didn’t think this part through. For a moment, he sees his life flash before his eyes when he remembers that she had 3 brothers that could kick his ass and one sister that would fucking murder him with a smile on her face if he so much as thought about Arya the wrong way.Was he really going to sit next to her on her bed, behind her closed bedroom door, unsupervised, at night?Yes. Yes he was.An hour and a half later, Fezzik, Inigo, Princess Buttercup and Westley are riding off into the sunset and the credits roll. He found it strange that she’d never seen it before.

“Hot Pie is Fezzik, Lommy is Inigo, and you’re Princess Buttercup.”“What, why do I have to be the princess?”It was a sort of game they had, casting each other in roles of movies they watched.He shrugs, “It just fits.”“And, what, you’re Westley?” she snorts derisively, but double takes when she catches him staring at her.He doesn’t realize until later what he’s just said. and he stutters under her own stare but has no time to backtrack until she says.“Ha! Fuck that, you can be Princess Buttercup. I’m Inigo Montoya.”

4She’s a junior now, and he’s surprised she’s stuck around. Not that he’s complaining. He’s really not. He was expecting her to ditch and move on without really saying anything after he graduated. But, she made it clear that she wasn’t going anywhere when she demanded that he, Hot Pie and Lommy suffer with her at Sansa’s 18th birthday party.“She’s just turning 18. Honestly, I don’t see the big deal.” She says it like she’s dreading going, but he can tell how proud she is.He looks around the room and while Lommy and Hot Pie are eating enough for a whole village, having no trouble whatsoever enjoying the party, but he just can’t find it in him to. His skin feels like it’s shrunk two size and maybe it’s paranoia, but the moment he’d arrived, he felt like very single pair of eyes were burning a hole on the back of his head. There’s no denying that it’s the nicest party he’s ever been to, and when she leaves his side to take pictures he’s never felt more out of place. But the party fades around him and he can only focus on one thing.She’s standing there with the rest of her family. Governor Stark, Dr. Stark, Senator Robb Stark with his fiance Jeyne Poole, future Attorney Sansa Stark, Bran Stark, smartest of all the Stark kids, Rickon Stark, star hockey player of the Direwolves and Arya, aspiring artist with so much potential, and Jon Snow, the Private Investigator, with all their million dollar smiles. At least he’s sure what it’s going to say in the papers the next day. He can tell it’s forced and he laughs to himself when the official photographer raises her finger for just one more and that she’s just seconds away from ripping his head off.She decides to ditch the reception altogether and she nicks a wine bottle and drags him out to the parking lot, barefoot, having ditched her heels sometime in the night. It was freezing back in the function room, but he thinks his temperature spikes when she slots her fingers through his, abandoning their friends to the buffet. He doesn’t dare let go. They’re sitting in the back of her brother’s truck. She was dangerous for him like this, all affectionate and disorientated. She whispers with a breathy laugh that makes him shiver from the inside out, “You’re never getting rid of me, okay. You’re stuck with me.”“Okay.” Like he actually had much of a choice.“I think that’s enough.” He tugs the wine bottle out of her grasp and she settles at his side, she laughs again against his neck, warm gust of breath hitting the side of his neck, and he inhales sharply, for a split second, forgets how to breathe.Arya’s giggling and stops then, suddenly, like she just realised something, she laughs again oh my god, ass!He laughs a little himself, “What?”“Ass, Gendry!” Like repeating it would make it make sense.He shakes his head, “I don’t-” and he swallows thickly when he sees her staring at him, with a dazed smile, a smile that he’s never seen before. He’d never been much of a poet, maybe a sap, but she looked really fucking happy. And that made him happy. "Arya, I don’t understand.“When she’s calmed down, she says, “When she graduates, she’ll be Attorney Sansa Stark.”It takes him a while for him to connect the dots and he just rolls his eyes. She falls asleep with her head on his lap, with his jacket as a pillow, and a smile on her face and he hopes for the night to never end. He does his best not to move, feeling oddly honored that she decided to fall asleep on him. It was a lot like the first time he got a cat and it was an amusing thought to have. Gendry had another theory: even though she had this self-professed obsession with wolves, she was honestly just a big cat.

5The same unknown number is calling for the fourth time, but judging by the fact that they seemed pretty damned determined to get a hold of him and the handful number of people who knew him and of his friendship (if you could still call it that, these days, it was pretty fucking hard to tell), he can guess who it was.He debates leaving it to ring. He wasn’t obligated to answer, but he figured Sansa, or at least he thought it was Sansa (it was likely that it could have been Margaery, nosey little shits), was never going to stop. She was really determined when she set her mind on anything. And he knows exactly what this is about.Lately, he’d been cancelling every time Arya would ask to hangout. He’d bullshit his way through his excuses whether it was because he was working, or sick, or busy. It was getting harder and harder to say no.The first time was the hardest. He didn’t need to see the caller ID to know it was her, she had her own ringtone. That should have been the first sign. “Hey,”“Hey,” she hesitates, and he curses under his breath, “What’re you doing later?”“Actually, I’m actually down with something. It’s pretty bad. Maybe tomorrow?” “What, you never get sick,”He laughs mirthlessly, and he just wishes the call would end, because he’s just so tired of lying. “Yeah, I know. I’ll call you.”“Okay,” He ends the call before he has the chance to say anything else.Tomorrow, turns into next time, which becomes next week, and it’s been almost a month now. He’d thought that the distance would help figure things out, but he’s pretty sure that the only thing hes figured out is that he’s just useless without her, which he knew already. He takes a deep breath and exhales and answers, “Gendry! Thank God, I didn’t think you were going to answer-” the voice says before he can get a word“Sansa, whatever you’re going to say, it’s not going to change-”“Look, just listen.”Strangely, it’s enough to silence him. “I won’t pretend to know why you’re punishing yourself and won’t let yourself be happy but, before I kick your ass, because trust me I can and I will, I’ll give you the privilege of giving me a good reason not to.”“How generous of you.”He’s met with silence and all he can do is sit down. “I don’t know what you want me to say that you don’t already know.”“Why are you avoiding her?” It’s not like he doesn’t want to. Gods, all he wants to do is be around her. But it was too much. He can’t- He just couldn’t do it. She was everywhere. She was in the air that he was breathing, in his space, in his head. “Because, I sure as hell don’t know, if you could clue me in on that, that’d be-”“Because I don’t trust myself, alright? Is that what you want to hear? That I cannot, for the life of me, keep lying to my best friend? That it just kills me whenever she’s around? Or when she tells me about some dumbass who’s no less deserving than I am of her? That I never will be? That- That all I want to do is just tell her how I feel?”“Why don’t you?”He swears he has a heart attack when he sees her right there, standing right in front of him, fists clenched at her sides, looking like she’s ready to take a swing at him and his first thought is-Fuck“What are you-”“You fucking liar!”It stings more than it should, but no less than he deserves.“What did you hear?”She’s stalking towards him, and he has this wild instinct that’s telling him to run, but he’s too overwhelmed to even move. “Did you mean it?” she’s searching his face for any proof, and he can barely breathe because she’s so close now. “Arya-”“Did you mean it?” She’s staring him down, and all he can do is stare back at her. The look of utter hope and devastation has him surrendering. Before he’s even finished saying “Yes”, she throws her arms around him, and it knocks the wind out of him, as he stumbled backwards. And purely instinctual, like the first time she held his hand, his hands find their place around her, and his lips on hers, and crushes her to him.She breaks away and slides down slowly, breathing heavily, his face following hers, eyes not quite open. While her hands are still gripping the lapels of jacket, his have moved from around her to her face, looking at her, almost like he’s making sure she’s really there. He feels more than sees her smiling into the kiss when she kisses him again, and he hugs her tight, burying his face into her hair .

“I missed you,”“And who’s fault is that?”“Fucking finally!” It’s Margaery this time.He laughs and steps out of their embrace.And just like that, he can breathe again. “Oh my god,” She grabs the phone from him “ hang up!”“I think the words you’re looking for are Your Wel-”Arya hangs up as Gendry sits on the table, blushing furiously, and looks down with a hand on the back of his neck. The look of remorse on his face was replaced with embarrassment. “Look Arya, I’m so-”“Oh, Gods, no, nope. We are not doing that. Just shut up and kiss me.”tadaaaaa, i hope you liked it haha :D title is from the song from afar - vance joy [ao3]

#gendrya #gendrya fanfiction #gendry x arya #got fanfiction #got #gendryatrash #tiny writes #god i hope its not too shitty uuuugh #i hate ending fics its the worst tbh #sorry it got so long omg #tiny answers #modern au

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emiliaboone · 6 years ago

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Fantasy Romance Thoughts: The Princess Bride

Still playing catch-up here. For my second fantasy “good” movie, I chose the Princess Bride, which easily could have been the parody but...it wasn’t. That’s pretty much all I need to say. Here are my thoughts!

Who is in love? Buttercup and Westley How much time? 3/4 of the movie, probably more, but I don’t want to go overboard Happy Ending? Very Plot Focus? It /was/ the plot Lead up: Literally none. I know that this was deliberate: the romance was about them finding each other again, not falling in love but god, it still annoyed me. Were you into it? I mean,…No? They’re not bad, it just didn’t give me warm fuzzies. How was it integrated? It was the entire plot. So… Was it distracting? Only in moments that didn’t make sense. Like when they first fell in love super fast, and when he was acting like a dick for literally no reason. Kiss? The purest. Sex? No Annoyance Level: I would say 4. It feels high on instinct but no…The beginning and him acting like a dick randomly got to me. Rating: 9. This is a solid movie. Thoughts: lol books are lame, right? I love how “torture” is a sport. I can’t tell if his “yeah, it’s really good” is sarcastic or not…Woah, wait, so she loves tormenting him but all he has to do is look at her all sexy and give her the smoulder and she’s like…”oh. say please. he’s sexy”. Right, so. “As you wish” being “I love you” is one of the msot iconic things ever. but when you actually watch it it’s like…wait, what?? That’s it? It goes so quickly that she goes from torment to oh shit he’s in love with me? there wasn’t really anything but a sexy look and ah, god, now it’s bothering me! Wow, seriously, if someone looked at me like that I’d be terrified!! I have to believe there’s a lot that we’re not seeing, but from an “i’m analysing this thing” perspective it’s really annoying. I’m sorry he’s saying “this is true love” with that really creepy face and if I were her i’d be running screaming. Ok I know I’m talking about being annoyed but seriously, this movie is so atmospheric. I was gone for like too seconds and I was RUSHING to get back to it. Less than 5 minutes in. Humperdink is objectively an awesome name. Was he touching her when she passed out? Where does she think she’s going? Serious question for first time viewers: did people not know westley and the dude in black were the same person? Or was that always dramatic irony? I really have to give the humour in this movie props. It’s my favourite kind of humour, simple, and slightly obvious, but is delivered in exactly the right way. Fezzik will never not make me laugh. Ever. I don’t understand this. I know he doesn’t want her to know who he is but he’s been so nice to everyone. Even first time viewers would see this as out of character, right? It doens’t make sense to me that he would pretend to slap her, get misogynistic, or accuse her of cheating on him. Is that is goal? Find out if she waited to get married again? Or is this just him keeping up a front? Especially since he admits it immediately after. Just doesn’t make sense to me. “Do we have to hear the kissing part?” Same. Where did they go down there? is it just in sand? Cos that does not work with physics. PICK IT UP BUTTERCUP!! I haven’t wrote about the romance for a while. They’re suddenly in love again and they’re just like “don’t worry, we’ll be happily ever after” but they don’t actually know where they’re going to go cos she’s definitely engaged. And then he’s been literally a pirate for like 5 years too, is she cool with that? Well at least she tried something. Stand in for the misunderstanding, she leaves with other dude to save him. Okay so all he says is “you have six fingers on one hand” and then he gets clobbered for it? it’s an obvious physical trait, why does he look so scared? Everyone with him knows about it he even has an extra inger in his glove! I know those “last words” were supposed to be sweet but it sounds like his father definitely fucked buttercup. Why is he telling other people of his plan? That doesn’t make sense. Bad villain move. This always makes me laugh, every evil villain machine has a “too high” measure and they always go to that measure, but like, if it’s that bad, why do you have that in the first place? HOW DOES INIGO MONTOYA KNOW ABOUT THE TRUE LOVE THING? WHY DOES FEZZIK KNOW? Also I love how there’s desperate screaming and the peasants are just like “meh” MIKE WAZOWSKI. I also love carol kane. That priest is my fave. it kills me that his actual credit is “impressive clergyman”. I love how cavalier she is about telling people she’s going to kill herself. I just realised that for some reason this is where I picture the end of hamlet happening? It would be really funny if he just collapsed, just saying. How is he still alive? Wait what about the kingdom? All those people?

Those were my thoughts on the Princess Bride! I cannot believe I wrote this movie off as a kid, I must not have been paying enough attention, it was excellent. Great stuff. If you want to see the whole analysis, you can find it here!

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Happy Valentines Day! 33-year-old spoiler warning here, but I guess that goes without saying.

Now - to start it off, the Princess Bride is a story within a story, and if we go deep enough - it’s a story within a story within a story within a story, inviting us to look deeper at our own lives, and to break free of the attachments to the life stories we live out on a day to day basis, and learning to identify at a higher level. But the main focus of the Princess Bride is two main points - a story of true love and all of the forms that true love manifests, and a story of sovereignty.

On its surface, the Princess Bride appears like a fun take on the traditional “damsel in distress” narrative. Girls in Trouble, guy’s gotta rescue her. We have an almost 95% male cast in this movie - and yet the buttercups role here is foundational to the deep spiritual themes underlying this story.

When the story begins, we see Buttercup in a state of sovereign freedom. She can do what she wants, live as she pleases. Like so many movies often depict the female character needing a man to be fulfilled, here we see Buttercup as already accomplished in her life. This is a fundamental lesson right off the bat - that true love happens when two people are content with themselves first, are already in a good relationship with themselves. If they are attached and needing someone else to fulfill them and make them feel okay - true love doesn’t have the opportunity to blossom naturally.

Fortunately, in the story, we are presented with - it does. As Buttercup makes requests of her farm boy Westley, he responds, “As you wish,” - which she comes to realize means “I love you.” Westley doesn’t push himself on her, and she slowly begins to realize that she loves him too. The way that this movie opens sets the stage for the rest of the film because without true love, there is no story.

I also wish to draw attention to the higher story, outside of the book for a moment. The boy, at one point, interrupts the grandfather's reading and remarks about there being kissing in this book! Not something he’s really into. It’s curious because of the transformation of the boy by the end of the story, but let us continue with the main story for now.

In addition to the main ideas of true love being the benevolent force in this film, so too do we see the antagonist force soon coming into play, which is the patriarchal energy of masculine dominance. It’s not so much the people, although it is made manifest personally in Prince Humperdink and Count Rugen, it also manifests in Wesley. You see, shortly after we are introduced to these characters, Wesley goes off into the world to seek his fortune so that he can provide a good life for buttercup and himself. While this appears to be a noble cause on the surface that drives the plot, we also must ask - why couldn’t they do that together?

From Wesley leaving, it sets the stage for Buttercup to be thrust into this same masculine dominant world as she discovers that the dread pirate Roberts killed Wesley, and soon ends up soon to be married to Prince Humperdink. A man who does not value her as a person seeks to control her, manipulate her, and even kill her, all in the name of his gain. This is why sovereignty is actually at the heart of this story - as we see the plot focus on, and spiral around, various masculine forces attempting to capture or dominate the feminine. On the other hand, as Wesley seeks to rescue his damsel, what he is fighting for is not her specifically, but her right to choose - her freedom and her sovereignty. Buttercup herself also represents a more active participant in this, while she does seem powerless against the might of Humperdink’s forces, she is not silent and accepting of the fate that is thrust upon her, but is brave, courageously speaking up for the truth, and what she wants.

A continued thing that is brought to our attention throughout the entirety of the movie is that in his heart - Wesley loves Buttercup. It’s this love in his heart that keeps him motivated and able to overcome any obstacle, whether it’s fencing with Inigo, surviving the terrors of the fire swamp, or being tortured to maximum limit break overdrive. In all of these circumstances, the love in his heart never goes out, even when he dies. We see this spiritual lesson here because even if it’s romanticized in this movie, many traditions teach us the virtues of love, and that love itself is one of - if not the most significant force in all of the universe. If we have love in our hearts, we will steer our lives straight and right - and this movie can help to remind us to connect with that inner love, so that we too may overcome these obstacles we face in our daily lives.

In addition to the pure love that blossoms between Westley and Buttercup, we also see desire manifesting throughout the film in another way, in the form of brotherly bonding. This is also important to discuss, especially for Valentine’s day, because many of us in the world have not found that perfect partner yet, and what’s more - not everyone even wants that to begin with.

So the thing here is that both Wesley, Inigo, and Fezzik are all brought together through various circumstances, and at first, Inigo and Fezzik are Wesley's enemies, if only because they were hired to be so. Nevertheless, the enemies become friends, and they set off to the right some wrongs together. It is through their shared companionship that they can accomplish things that would have been much more difficult to do on their own. Without Inigo and Fezzik, how would Wesley come back to life? Without Wesley, how would Inigo have found the six-fingered man?

Through scenes like these, we are reminded of the spirit of human connection, and that when we band together for a noble cause, significant challenges become even more accessible. There is a phrase that goes “faster alone, perfect together,” and when we learn to embrace each other, share the load, work together, we can accomplish much more than if we try to do everything ourselves. While the first half of this film was more of a solo journey, the second half is about the journey together and the companionships we make along the way, which is just as important in life.

Speaking of Inigo - we find that he demonstrates to us the power of affirmations. Inigo continually remarks to himself this same phrase, over and over. “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya; you killed my father, prepare to die.” The fact that he continuously tells himself this, he is preparing himself and keeping himself focused on his goal of defeating the six-fingered man. He affirms to himself over and over, and this is my destiny, this is my fate, I will avenge the death of my father. The positive energy of his line teaches us the power of affirmations too. If we wake up every day and tell ourselves that we are creating a specific life for ourselves, perhaps it is to meet true love, maybe it is to create great wealth, it is probably to warm the hearts of others - then we keep ourselves focused on the path that we are on. Affirmations are powerful because they directly program the subconscious mind with direction, and this assists us in creating our realities with more clarity and focus.

And now, let us speak for a moment on Vizzini. A classic and hilariously overused line of his “Inconceivable!” demonstrates the nature of arrogance and pride. By being represented and shown to us in this way, it teaches us - the viewers - not to identify with these qualities, or show it to us if we already do. Over and over, Vizzini remarks about how brilliant he is, how he makes these intelligent people (i think it was Plato and Aristotle?) seem like idiots compared to him. He thinks he is so smart, but that’s just it - he only believes he is so intelligent - where a sincere wise person knows that they know nothing. This is doubly more interesting that he repeats ‘Inconceivable”, because how could a person who knows everything find anything to be indeed inconceivable? Ultimately - this arrogance is his undoing, and Wesley easily outsmarts him in a simple game of wits. Once again, reminding us not to brag or pretend we have all of the answers - know what we do know, humble ourselves before others who we can stand to learn from, and strive for good always.

Finally - the story outside of the romance between the Grandfather and the Grandson. We see here two valuable lessons. One is the transformation of the boy and his growth and emotional maturity. In the beginning, he remarks to his grandfather about how ew gross! There’s kissing in this book, nasty! And by the end of it, well maybe kissings not so bad after all. He learns to have respect for the emotional health of the characters, not just the action and adventure.

Second - we see our final manifestation of true love. You see, true love is not just two people falling in love and living happily ever after, and we see this when the boy asks his grandfather to come back and reread the story. “As you wish,” - the grandfather responds, bringing the heartwarming story to a close. In this, we see that the grandfather truly loves his grandson, and is more than happy to spend time with him, read him a story, and make this heartfelt connection. We learn here that love permeates through many layers of human contact, as they demonstrate the wisdom of the 10 of Disks - Legacy beautifully. The understanding that real wealth is not money, but the lasting connections we create throughout our lives, and the passing along of love and wisdom from generation to generation. Further, in the completion of our old stories, we are free to forge new ones.

So as we bring this week’s episode to a close, I ask you with kindness and humility - what story are you writing into your life? Affirm it for yourself now by sharing it in the comments, and while you’re at it - let us know what other episodes you’d like to see on Hidden Spirituality. Happy Valentines Day, and we’ll see you next week!

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