The Princess Bride - Blog Posts

The fact that Eddie died before he could watch the princess bride come out in theaters hurts me so bad!!

You can’t tell me that the princess bride wouldn’t have been one of his favorite fantasy books along with Tolkiens the hobbit & lotr.

It’s honestly criminal

The fact that Eddie died before he could watch the princess bride come out in theaters hurts me so bad!!

You can’t tell me that the princess bride wouldn’t have been one of his favorite fantasy books along with Tolkiens the hobbit & lotr.

It’s honestly criminal

i cant stop thinking about this. they have the same exact fucking energy

So I just watch half of The Princess Bride in class, and if you don't want me to ruin it for you, stop reading.

They look like siblings.

I'M SORRY😭 Blonde people being in relationships just icks me. How are you comfortable kissing another blonde person who looks like you?? Like c'mon Buttercup, Westley looks like your biological brother. Or a cousin, AT LEAST✋️ What were the directors and/or writers thinking? Like, don't get me wrong, the half of the movie that I've watched so far is great. Story, perfection👌 BUT THEY LOOK LIKE SIBLINGS. It popped into my head while watching it and I ruined it for myself🥲 Anyways...😝 Thanks for listening to my (probably) unreasonable crashout☺️🤭

SIBLINGS^

EVEN THEIR EYE COLOUR IS SIMILAR😭✋️

I've slowly been chipping away at drawing scenes from that imaginary Muppet retelling of the Princess Bride, figured it was about time to share what I've drawn on Tumblr!

Elliott grew up wanting to be Westley from The Princess Bride.

idk what kind of drug they put into 80s movies but we need to bring it back

Well out of the blue I just remembered today the time I accidentally joined the cast of a production of The Princess Bride….in the middle of the production.

How to make the princess bride a TV series.

Title:

"The Fantastic Adventures of The Dread Pirates Roberts"

It would run for three seasons.

S1 follows the story of the "Dread Pirate Roberts" before Wesley. It would start with how he came to be dpr. It would jump across about thirty years of pirating, romance, and adventure ending with finding Wesley.

S2 follows the time that Wesley spent as dpr. It would show how he came to be dpr, how was his first day as dpr, a few of the hijinks that he got up to as dpr, and most importantly, how he became the man we see in "The Princess Bride". We end on a lingering shot showing him at the start of his journey to save his true love, fade to black and then the words "to see what happens next go watch the princess bride" show up before the credits roll.

S3 (the last season) would follow Inigo Montoya for his time as the dpr. He and Fezzik start off their adventure in a bit of a slump. You see Inigo just spent his whole life in pursuit of revenge and now has nothing left to live for. The first half of the first episode is a bit sad. Inigo is drunk for most of it and Fezzik is just trying to keep his friend from accidentally throwing himself off the ship. About halfway through the episode a ship from a far away kingdom shows up and attacks our drunken dpr kidnapping Fezzik and the crew and marooning Inigo on a small island jack sparrow style. Inigo has a new revenge spree to go on and a new purpose in life (to take down the people who did this). Along the way Inigo will: realize the kingdom who did this is looking to go all imperial and take over the whole territory, end up helping to form a resistance force against the invading kingdom, discover that the resistance leader that is helping him coordinate everything is actually quite attractive, team up with Wesley again (for double dpr action), turn dpr from a notorious boogyman into a folk hero, and discover the kind of man he really wants to be. Once the empire is fully pushed from the realm and everyone is safe Inigo decides to retire as dpr with no successor, allowing the name to end things off as a hero of the people instead of terror of the seas. And everyone lived happily ever after.

The end.

Keep political intrigue to a minimum. This the princess bride universe, the focus should be on fighting, romance, and a narration style kind of like how I met your mother but with a good story book feel (think Ella enchanted).

Episodes are 22 minutes long and seasons are 26 episodes a piece. The finally will be 50 minutes long and there will be a full 22 minute episode devoted to epilogue.

Thank you I will accept any questions now.

westley and buttercup from the princess bride but theyre both boys

wesley and buttercup were t4t i dont make the rules

this was gonna be my experience with meds this morning but I think it actually could be used in funnier contexts too

because yeah. I will be using this whenever I commit a stupid also.

you know that part of the movie, The Princess Bride when they’re going through the fire swamp and as soon Westley stops carrying Buttercup and she starts walking on her own, she immediately falls through the quicksand stuff? That is an exact representation of my life every time I attempt to get out of bed in the morning

i'm just curious bc i'm watching How to Train Your Dragon and i always forget how happy and calm it makes me feel. i mean, i did name my cat after Toothless the dragon. but i also love Lion King, that's my Disney comfort movie. and my Ghibli comfort movie is Spirited Away. watching any of these when i'm in a foul mood or my anxiety is high always helps 🥰 but i watch them just for fun too, not only when i'm in a mood. what about you?

This is actually an insane roundup omg

wake up babe, hua cheng saying "as you wish" in the new tgcf dub episode just dropped

Character List:

Characters Who I Will Write For! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Avatar: The Way of Water:

Jake Sully

Neytiri te Tskaha Mo'at'ite

Neteyam te Suli Tsyeyk'itan

Lo'ak te Suli Tsyeyk'itan

Ao'nung

Criminal Minds:

Aaron Hotchner

Emily Prentiss

David Rossi

Spencer Reid

Derek Morgan

Elle Greenaway

Enola Holmes:

Sherlock Holmes

Viscount Tewksbury

Enola Holmes

Fantastic 4:

Johnny Storm

Susan Storm

Reed Richards

Harry Potter:

Harry Potter

Ronald Weasley

Draco Malfoy

Sirius Black

Cedric Diggory

Fred Weasley

George Weasley

Hermione Granger

Mattheo Riddle

Theodore Nott

Regulus Black

Lorenzo Berkshire

Remus Lupin

The Marauders

Hunger Games:

Katniss Everdeen

Gale Hawthorne

Peeta Mellark

Finnick Odair

IT:

Bill Denbrough

Eddie Kaspbrak

Stanley Uris

Richie Tozier

Henry Bowers

Mike Hanlon

Ben Hanscom

Labyrinth:

• Jareth

Marvel:

Tony Stark

Peter Parker

Steve Rogers

Natasha Romanoff

Wanda Maximoff

Bruce Banner

Clint Barton

T’Challa

Shuri

Loki Laufeyson

Thor Odinson

Peter Quill

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World:

Scott Pilgrim

Ramona Flowers

Shameless:

Lip Gallagher

Carl Gallagher

Fiona Gallagher

Ian Gallagher

Stranger Things:

Steve Harrington

Eddie Munson

Dustin Henderson

Lucas Sinclair

Jim Hopper

Eleven

Mike Wheeler

Will Byers

Jonathan Byers

Max Mayfield

13 Reasons Why:

Hannah Baker

Clay Jensen

Justin Foley

Monty De La Cruz

The Babysitter:

Melanie Cyrus

Cole Johnson

Bee

Phoebe Atwell

The End of The Fucking World:

James

Alyssa

The Lost Boys:

David

Dwayne

Marko

Paul

Michael Emerson

The Princess Bride:

Buttercup

Westley

Inigo Montoya

Wednesday:

Wednesday Addams

Xavier Thorpe

X-Men:

Alex Summers

Scott Summers

Charles Xavier

Erik Lehnsherr

Logan Howlett

Peter Maximoff

Hank McCoy

Mystique

Storm

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Leave requests for who you would like to see me write for!

-Hal

Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

there is no way in hell inigo montoya and fezzik from the princess bride weren't gay for eachother.

Am I … Does anyone else see the similarities… Or is it just me..

cause… I just…

I CANNOT UNSEE IT! WHY DO THEY LOOK SO SIMILAR! 👀😵‍💫

Part 6/6 - The Kingdom of Florin

      Part 1 - The Family | 2 - Style | 3 - The Sicilian Assassins | 4 - Buttercup and Westley | 5 - The Prince and the Count

The seat of power for the Kingdom of Florin is a Military Fortress built on top of a seaside cliff.

Instead of elegant Gothic spires which was popular during the 15th and 16th century, Florin Castle is a bulky and imposing fortress reflecting the Military nature of the country, its simple people, Buttercup’s prison-like experience, and its ruler — Prince Humperdinck.

One of the challenges I encountered for the castle design was keeping the colours saturated enough to match the palette of the project while keeping the emotional geography of “prison” in tact. Although a violet palette was explored, the red brick that is common in Northern European architecture gave a more militaristic no frills impression that is more in line with the Kingdom and its Prince.

After many sketches, I realised that a country celebrating its 500th anniversary would probably have a castle built far before the current century. So incorporating a bulkier Romanesque style Keep as the castle’s foundation is what finally made things come together and give it a solid direction. Since Florin is a Militaristic state, it would make sense for them to continually be making Military advances, so one of the Castle’s most recent evolution/natural progression is a towards a very early prototype of a Bastion Fort. This makes Florin castle the most advanced, secure, and fortified structures in the land while upping the stakes for the infiltration during the near end of the series.

Fun Fact! While looking for references of Danish Castles, I came across an old map of Kronborg Castle. (Just google "old map of Kronborg castle", you'll see it right away) I thought it looked super familiar and I realised that it actually looked very similar to the layout of the Map of Florin and Guilder! So I included the bonus map I was required to submit.

Part 5/6 - Prince Humperdinck and Count Rugen (The Prince and the Count)

     Part 1 - The Family | 2 - Style | 3 - The Sicilian Assassins | 4 - Buttercup and Westley | 6 - Florin Castle

I loved Chris Sarandon's curls so although I eventually went in the direction of a shorter cut for Humperdinck, I wanted to keep some sort of waviness to his hair. I also wanted to make sure that it was clear that Humperdinck is a hunter and at the same time have an almost wild and animal-like feeling to him so the wavy hair helped bring it to that direction.

In the books Humperdinck is described as "weighed close to 250 pounds, brick hard". Although in the books he is not tall, I did not want the leading antagonists of both the first and back half of the series to BOTH be short (Vizzini and Humperdinck). Felt like I would be sending a not so good message.

For Count Rugen, I went with black so that there would be a transfer of association from Man-in-Black/Dread Pirate Roberts/Secretly Westley in the first part of the series to Count Rugen later on. Diagonal slashes on clothing was a more northern style plus it makes him look even more like death which is in line with the whole Executioner-Grim Reaper direction I wanted to go with him.

Differentiating him from Inigo was also important. So although I went towards a thin direction for both, everything else about them is a contrast. While Inigo was meant to have a flamboyance and a certain “Fencing is life and my passion” feeling, for Count Rugen the idea was that although he is a master Fencer, his purpose is death and fencing is one of the ways he does it kind of thing.

Part 4/6 - Buttercup and Westley

      Part 1 - The Family | 2 - Style | 3 - The Sicilian Assassins | 5 - The Prince and the Count | 6 - Florin Castle

I wanted to make it very clear that the man in black / Westley is a pirate. So I used loose billowy clothes that also made him feel bigger and intimidating.

Horse is a Jutland horse, native to Denmark (which is what’s in between Sweden and Germany). It’s a draft horse, so good for farming, which is where Buttercup grew up, on a farm. I also wanted Horse and Westley’s design to somewhat mirror each other. Since Buttercup grew up on a farm, I did not want her to look dainty. 

Buttercup’s story is more than just about love, it’s also about freedom. I realised that freedom was the core to her character. Her horse riding, doesn’t care what others think, and wild personality is all about freedom. I wanted her hair to flow with the wind, for her and her hair feel full of life. In the book, Buttercup had red hair. For her to have such a bold hair colour, especially one that in Europe during the medieval period was not considered desirable, felt right. Her hair and her personality is a defiance to the standard of beauty and of how a woman “should” be. That someone as bold as her would be considered the most beautiful woman in the world felt pretty badass. Having red hair (kinda vermillion) also provided opportunity to work with Humperdinck’s more blood red. When wearing her presentation dress as Princess of Hammersmith (despite the title of Princess, it is a title that does not sound dainty), Humperdinck’s red on her dress subdues the boldness of Buttercup’s red hair. Combining this with a restrictive design for her presentation dress and of her hairstyle, her design become reflective of her situation as a prisoner.

But when on her daily ride her dress can flow and her bright, bold, red hair is free.

Part 3 - The Sicilian Assassins

      Part 1 - The Family | 2 - Style | 4 - Buttercup and Westley | 5 - The Prince and the Count | 6 - Florin Castle

With Vizzini I was trying to combine the feeling of baby angels from old renaissance paintings, sinister-ish expressions, and ringmaster, plus dash of gaudiness. I made Vizzini prominently red so that there would be a transfer of association from Vizzini in the first half to Humperdinck in the latter half. The colour red and the pawns on his design apart from being on theme for his character can also serve as foreshadowing, that he is not the overarching antagonist.

Sometimes due to Fezzik’s backstory of working in Greenland, people mistake him for being Greenlandic but it was clearly stated that Fezzik is a Turkish wrestler. It was important that his design made it very clear that he was not European. In the books, he is described as hairy, large, and gorilla-like in appearance. By dividing his head into three sections (upper head, cheeks, and mouth-chin) keeping the graphic shape of his head across different angles was made easier. To determine the direction of Fezzik’s overall design the emphasis was established (his arms), inspiration was taken from circus strongmen, then combined with a strong but soft and lovable feeling.

The general direction of Inigo’s features was clear early on, but his head shape did undergo many iterations. His final head shape design has a clear and readable graphic iconography even in different angles. Its iconic integrity is easily maintained but can be difficult to draw, because of that a diagram was made to show how the structure of his head.

It was important to make sure Inigo and the man in black's silhouettes were distinguishable from one another. So I tried to pull their designs in opposite directions. Inigo's leaning towards a more slender swish-flick feel and the man in black's to a larger, billowy, and intimidating direction.

Part 2/6 - Adapting a Classic (Style)

        Part 1 - The Family | 3 - The Sicilian Assassins | 4 - Buttercup and Westley | 5 - The Prince and the Count | 6 - Florin Castle

One of the ideas behind this project was about bridging the gap between the old and the new. I wanted to express the vibrance and colourful quality of a medieval (nearing renaissance) setting while using contemporary techniques, to appeal to a modern audience, with a nostalgic undertone.

Adding some browns to the palette also helped pushed it towards that slightly nostalgic direction. I shifted the other colours slightly, like using mustard or yellow-orange instead of just yellow, vermillion instead of just orange, and throwing in some violets, all to add that dash of quirky-ness to reflect the fun and witty tone of both the movie and the book.

Another idea is that this version would be a series. This gives us time and opportunity to see and experience the characters' past, like in the book.

I was figuring out how light would interact with the characters while pushing the role of line. I did studies on how to make a line express form, colour, and light. From afar, the line can be reflected light, but up close the "line" expressing reflected light would spread in a stylized manner. This creates the feeling of an increase of detail when we look at something up close all while strengthening the colourful quality of the project throughout.

Part 1/6 - The Framing Device (The Family)

       Part 2 - Style | 3 - The Sicilian Assassins | 4 - Buttercup and Westley | 5 - The Prince and the Count | 6 - Florin Castle

Around two years ago for my final year of college, I was required to pick an existing story to imagine as an animated adaption. So to make sure it could hold my attention for a whole year, of course I chose The Princess Bride.

Let’s start with the grandson from the movie is all grown up telling the story to his own kids. 

The Dad’s design is inspired by Fred Savage, who played the grandson in the movie, combined with a softness and reliably dorky impression that the project calls for. The book talks about the author’s father and his own son while the movie depicts a grandfather and grandson. But the Princess Bride is a story that has something for everyone, it’s not just for little boys. The two children express the idea, further driving it home with their differing personalities — The Princess Bride is for Everyone.

Side note: I needed something to tie their designs together and keep them cohesive, so I thought bears might be a funny way to do it (please get the joke) 🐻🧸🐼

For the kids’ bedroom, I wanted to eliminate the barrier of bed and chair so that a growing closeness between the father and his kids could be literally depicted as the series progresses. I took cues from retro interior design (wood panelling, colours, etc.) and modern design (light wood, shelving/divider, platform, etc.) to create something contemporary but would carry with it a nostalgic undertone.

this is going around twitter rn but im also super curious: please tell me your top four comfort movies that you’re always down to watch bc my friend thinks mine are ridiculous and now we’ve realised everyone’s version of “comfort” is hilariously different

I rewatched the princess bride tonight and this scene made me giggle

I've slowly been chipping away at drawing scenes from that imaginary Muppet retelling of the Princess Bride, figured it was about time to share what I've drawn on Tumblr!