I said some time ago that I had never seen 'The Princess Bride', so a lot of in-jokes escaped me. It was shown on UK television recently, so I caught up with it on the I-Player internet system. I enjoyed it... but it was largely filmed on familiar ground.
In my 'Uniforms', Melanie goes climbing in the Peak District, spending a day at Stanage Edge and camping just downhill from it. Well, in the film, the escaping couple run along some rocky outcrops after the poisoning competition, and at one point they are having a discussion with a backdrop of a rocky area with a broad path worn through the bracken to it. That is Carl Wark, and the rocks they are running along are the top of Stanage, with the camp site tucked down to their right after the trees.
Just so you know!
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I love
that film
Angharad
Recently acquired the BluRay
Recently acquired the BluRay of that film for Amy to watch. We haven't had the chance really to sit down and watch it together but I find it so strange that she's never seen it! (or at least not the whole thing).
It's just a lot of fun
We watch it whenever we can catch it. I think we have it on DVD.
Portia
Written by Monty Python?
Never having seen the film I just looked at the trailer and for USA 1987 it was very Pythonesque so checking Wiki:- 'The film was shot in various locations in the United Kingdom and Ireland:
Carl Wark, Sheffield, England
Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire, England
Cave Dale, Castleton, Derbyshire, England
Bradley Rocks and Robin Hood's Stride, Birchover, Derbyshire, England
Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland (for the Cliffs of Insanity)
Haddon Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England
Penshurst Place, Kent, England [7]
The Cliffs of Insanity are actually the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, Ireland
Rhona McCloud
The Princess Bride
It might interest you to know that the Princess eventually marries a VERY powerful U.S. politician although the location is in the Kingdom of Netflix.
Princess Bride is in my top ten.
The book was lightning in a bottle by William Goldman.
Since the invention of the kiss, there have been five kisses rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. The end.
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)