True Love

One of my favorite movies of all time is the movie “The Princess Bride.” The movie is a major tongue in cheek flick that brings great truths about the power of “true love.” All throughout the story true love keeps the young man, who has been supposedly killed, pursuing his true love, Princess Buttercup. Their love started at a young age where he was just a servant boy who every time she asked for something he would say, “As you wish.” When he said “as you wish” he was really saying “I love you.” They were separated because of Prince Humperdinck’s desire to marry Buttercup. The prince thought he had killed the boy, but the boy’s desire to see his “true love”, his first love, caused him to escape the clutches of the killer and begin his journey of defeating one enemy after another. Except one. The prince had captured him after going through the fire swamp and his right hand man took him and hooked him up to the machine of pain. It was a machine that would drain the very life out of him. They hooked him up to the machine and proceeded to drain his body of all life. It was over. But, his two buddies snuck into the dungeon and carried him to a man by the name of Miracle Max. Miracle Max proceeded to tell the two that their friend was too far gone, and then it happened. Westley gasped with one last breath two words, “True Love.” Miracle Max then realized there was still hope and he brought him back to life to pursue the one he loved. Here is one of Miracle Max’s great quotes: