It's difficult to make this kind of movie now

[deleted]

I’m not a big fan of The Princess Bride. It’s not a film I have felt compelled to watch again and again.

Ever After is sweet and charming, has gorgeous costumes, and I have to watch it a couple times a year for the cast of top notch actors. Judy Parfitt, Timothy West, Toby Jones, Jeanne Moreau, Jeroen Krabbe, Lee Ingleby, Angelica Huston, and Drew Barrymore.

What is wrong with calling it a cute for kids romance?

I'm gonna be alone in this, but I actually prefer this to The Princess Bride. 🤐

Despite being a big fan of early Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Billy Crystal, Peter Cook, Mandy Patinkin and Wallace Shawn (not to mention Peter Falk and Fred Savage), I never got the love for The Princess Bride. Ordinarily a tongue-in-cheek fairytale/fantasy story would be right up-my-alley, particularly compared to a 'straighter' fairytale story. But what I love about Ever After, probably my all-time favourite take on Cinderella, is that it downplays Cindererlla's good-looks (ironically, seeing as Drew Barrymore is theoretically one of the prettiest actresses to play the character), and focuses instead on her intelligence and inner-beauty, whilst making at least one of the wicked step-sisters a more traditional beauty (and were it not for her haughty sneer, someone whose glamorous blonde looks would make a more likely candidate for Cinderella, physically-speaking, in contrast to Barrymore, who is made *down* to be a plainer and more unassuming brunette).

In that sense, The Princess Bride, in which the main couple are classically good-looking 'Aryan' blond(e)s (yes, Cary Elwes supposedly has some Jewish ancestry, but he looks almost as WASPy as Brad Pitt and Val Kilmer), whilst the villains are composed of a dark man of Greek heritage, another dark man of Jewish heritage (whose character has a physical deformity), and a Jewish midget (ironic, seeing that the film's writer, director, and the grandpa and grandson he's reading the story to, are all Jewish; then again, EVERY race and ethnicity SIMPS for the blonde, blue-eyed Aryans, DESPITE everything the latter did to the rest of us 'ethnics' and POC).