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The Princess Bride - How Has Anyone Not Seen This Fairytale Masterpiece?

The greatest craft of the Princess Bride isn't its superb writing, but is in fact its unwavering sincerity masquerading as a bedtime story.

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The Princess Bride (1987), starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, and Mandy Patinkin, is a fairy tale, a comedy, and — on The Arc (thearc.fm) — an argument about how a film can be technically clumsy (visible dummies, obvious green screen) and still be a masterclass in storytelling. Robby has seen it thirty times since he was sixteen and even teaches it in his storytelling class; Jaclynn had never seen it at all, having been too scared of it as…

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