‘To The Death’
‘No. To the pain.’
‘I… don’t think I’m familiar with that phrase’.
Are any cinema-goers really familiar with that phrase either? While Westley’s bluff and stamina defeats and humiliates Prince Humperdinck in The Princess Bride, the far more memorable (and much more quoted) conflict has to be Inigo Montoya’s promise of ‘You killed my father. Prepare to die’. It’s a fun family film, but Inigo makes Count Rugen beg for his life. Then kills him anyway. In stories of revenge, right and wrong and life and death, does someone always actually have to die in order for us to feel that the story is done?
But, with more and more films belonging to franchises, are their stories ever really done?
Is the bad guy allowed to die if there’s a chance he or she might be needed in the sequel?
Maybe...
‘No. To the pain.’
‘I… don’t think I’m familiar with that phrase’.
Are any cinema-goers really familiar with that phrase either? While Westley’s bluff and stamina defeats and humiliates Prince Humperdinck in The Princess Bride, the far more memorable (and much more quoted) conflict has to be Inigo Montoya’s promise of ‘You killed my father. Prepare to die’. It’s a fun family film, but Inigo makes Count Rugen beg for his life. Then kills him anyway. In stories of revenge, right and wrong and life and death, does someone always actually have to die in order for us to feel that the story is done?
But, with more and more films belonging to franchises, are their stories ever really done?
Is the bad guy allowed to die if there’s a chance he or she might be needed in the sequel?
Maybe...
- 7/29/2011
- by John Hunter
- Obsessed with Film
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