I assume that if you have seen this movie, you know the love story is totally cheesy and not based in reality. However, I still feel I need to point out what's wrong with it, so that you don't just subconsciously accept the assumptions/statements about what love is.
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Here we go!
Buttercup: [when she hears that Westley has been murdered by pirates] "I will never love again."
And 5 years later, she still believes she will never love again. So, she's just planning to be sad for the rest of her life because her high school sweetheart died? Dude. You can't live that way. Stuff happens and people break up (or die) and it's not the end of the world. But anyway, she is engaged to Prince Humperdinck (though she doesn't want to be), and when Westley comes back into her life, he's upset about it? Because she's being unfaithful to him? He was freaking dead, what do you want her to do?
Westley: "I told you I would always come for you. Why didn't you wait for me?"
Buttercup: "Well... you were dead."
Westley: "Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
Okay, that's nice that you love each other, but... I'm sorry, if you're dead, you're dead.
Also, I really feel like Westley's ability to rescue her had less to do with "true love" and more to do with the fact that he was incredibly strong and talented (and in the right place at the right time).
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Prince Humperdinck: "You truly love each other and so you might have been truly happy. Not one couple in a century has that chance, no matter what the story books say. And so I think no man in a century will suffer as greatly as you will." [turns on torture machine]
Apparently Westley and Buttercup had some really unique connection called "true love", and that's what it takes to make a relationship work. What is "true love", as defined by this movie? Does it mean their personalities are just really really compatible, or their emotions are really strong, or what? Seems to be saying that in order for a relationship to work, you need the perfect combination of initial conditions. No. In reality, a relationship needs two people who are willing to help each other and serve each other and be selfless- it's about how you care about each other every day, it's not about the initial conditions.
(Am I right here? This is coming from someone who's 23 and hasn't dated that much. Can someone back me up on this?)
Dread Pirate Roberts [aka Westley]: "He simply said 'Please, I need to live.' I asked him what was so important. He said 'true love.'"
So someone who's in a relationship deserves to live more than someone who is not? Westley and Buttercup are more important than the other characters in this movie, because they have "true love"?
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Grandpa: "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."
This line is completely nonsensical and ridiculous. I don't get how you can judge other people's kisses. A kiss is really only meaningful for the people involved, right? And what does "pure" mean?
Fezzik: "I fight gangs for local charities and stuff."
Haha, I just included that quote because it's funny. Move along.
And back to this "true love" thing, since the movie is so keen on it. Is it the idea that there is exactly 1 person in the entire world who is perfect for you? Because that totally makes no sense. (I'll probably write a blog post later about how much that makes no sense. I feel pretty strongly about it.)
In summary: This movie is hilarious and here is a link to a page where I got a lot of these quotes. But please make sure you don't take anything it says about romance seriously.