The movie, directed by Rob Reiner, was a sleeper hit for the just-dawning age of alternate viewing options, doing only moderate business at the box office but becoming an enduring success through the emerging home-video market. The book is relentlessly gushy as it relates Elwes’s behind-the-scenes tales of the making of that 1987 classic, which is as splendid a family film and romantic fantasy as there is.
Every screenwriter, makeup artist, fight choreographer, agent is the finest that - well, you get the idea.Īnd you get it over and over and over again in “As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From the Making of ‘The Princess Bride,’ ” which Elwes wrote with Joe Layden. Every fellow actor is hard-working, amazingly talented, genuinely nice.
If you’re a savvy star, every director you work with is the best, kindest, most insightful director in the business. But it’s you who will feel as if you need a sword as you make your way through his book, to hack through the jungle of encomiums that hide the smattering of genuinely interesting nuggets.Įlwes, who played the farm-boy hero Westley in the movie, one of his first major roles, has worked steadily in television and film ever since, a résumé few amass without mastering the Hollywood panegyric. In his new memoir about the making of the film “The Princess Bride,” the actor Cary Elwes spends a fair amount of time on the preparation and execution of that movie’s rollicking sword-fighting scene.
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