Still getting caught up from my vacation.
This was a great little bit of ear candy. Lots of fun tidbits. As soon as we knew what the store really was I expected him to stay in the store and go back with her, so the ending had a slight twist to it.
MWS did a wonderful reading. I really liked
Brave Men Run and he brought the same understated depth to this reading.
I thought it was cool that he judged a video store by their classics section. We used to do the same thing.
Sadly, those movies almost never rented. Usually, once a movie left the "new release" wall, it became decoration. The only exception was "9 1/2 weeks." We had two copies and they both rented every weekend. I guess sex really does sell.
We were always amazed at this in my store. Sometimes I thought we should have had 10 copies of 9 1/2 weeks.
Looking at all filmmaking factors, I'm not totally sure I would put The Princess Bride in the top 2 or 3 best-made movies I've ever seen; but it's easily my favorite screenplay. It's wonderfully written, and succeeds perfectly at what it intended. It doesn't have to be "the best" for me to like it best.
PB looks like the whole thing was shot on a stage. The visuals are just straight forward here it is. The acting and story are what really does it.
My wife and I love to watch it, but I'm under strict orders to not quote lines from the movie before or while the actors are saying them. One time she let me quote everyone in the film to see how far into the movie I could go. When we got to the cliffs of insanity, she said, "Shut up, just Shut UP!!"
In 1000 years, maybe that little change you made to your evening commute could lead to someone who might have been the next Stalin instead becoming the next Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan comment removed in spirit of
Eley's Second Law of Forums.
One quibble, without listening again, didn't the male character once wait outside the store, and watch the girl lock up and walk away? If so, she would have then noticed that something was wrong, as she did later. Or did I mis-hear?
He watched her lock the door. In retail depending on the type of store you have about an hour of work to do after you kick out the customers and lock the doors. She was about to go count the till and stuff like that.