Critical Analyiss of The Film Princess Bride

In this film analysis, I am going to write about the movie ‘Princess Bride’. This movie is a fantasy and romance movie which was directed by Rob Reiner movie and the story was by William Goldman. Princess Bride is about a fairy tale adventure about a beautiful young woman and her one true love. He must find her after a long separation and save her. An examination of the fight scene between Inigo and Count Rugen positions the audience to feel worried and somewhat relieved that Ingo is avenging his father through lighting, music/soundtrack and camera angles and shots.

The lighting of this fight scene between Inigo and Count Rugen was used to position the audience to feel worried and relieved. The lighting is lit mostly with candles; however, there are excess lighting in the dining hall where Count Rugen dies. The warm lighting in this scene creates a feeling of dampness of the castle. This creates a mood for the audience to feel worried as the dimly lit lights makes the audience anticipate that bad things are going to happen.

The music and sound effects of the fight scene between the two characters immediately position the audience to feel the action going on in the scene. The scene is started by the dramatic music that started playing when Inigo gets stabbed by a knife. Dramatic sounds stereotypically represent how intense the scene is. The dramatic music conjunction with the sword clashing makes the audience feel worried and somewhat relieved. There was also an upbeat in music after Inigo got back up to eye level camera angle, which helped the audience know that Inigo was back again.

In addition, the camera angles that was used in this scene has made the audience feel worried; for example when Count Rugen has a higher angle shot, while Inigo has a low angle shot, showing that Count Rugen has more dominance than Inigo. However, another camera angle that was used in this scene helped the viewers feel a bit relieved after Inigo made a comeback as soon as the camera angle was at eye level. Switching between characters and Count Rugen was the most common camera shots that were in this scene. Switching between characters helps the audience feel what the characters are feeling by facial expressions.

Overall, I think “Princess Bride” is a well-made movie. Because of this scene’s lighting, music and camera shots, it is obvious that the audience is supposed to feel worried and relieved in this scene. We also feel a sense of anticipation, however, as we wonder how the events will unfold. “Princess Bride” is an interesting film that made us audiences feel lots of different emotions through English elements, making us worried and relieved also helps us embrace the possibilities of the imagination through fantasy film.