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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8225167" data-attributes="member: 6779196">I’m sorry, but this is just silly. The stakes and tension in The Princess Bride don’t come from the framing device. Nobody watching that movie for the first time is particularly invested in the characters of the grandfather and grandson, or worried that their relationship won’t hold together if the grandson doesn’t enjoy the story. That isn’t even presented as a possibility. There is zero tension in the scenes with them, they’re there for the purpose of comic relief, and to stand in for the framing device of the novel (that being an abridgment of a full novel that doesn’t actually exist). No, the tension 100% comes from the fictional scenario, and it doesn’t matter that it’s fictional in-universe.Now, if you want to argue that you don’t think a D&amp;D movie could pull that off, or that you don’t think it would make as good a movie as if they play the fiction straight, without such a framing device? By all means, make that argument. But trying to pretend the tension in The Princess Bride comes from the grandpa and grandson rather than the story of Westly, Buttercup, Inigo, et al is either a woeful misunderstanding of the story or actively disingenuous.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8225167, member: 6779196"] I’m sorry, but this is just silly. The stakes and tension in [I]The Princess Bride[/I] don’t come from the framing device. Nobody watching that movie for the first time is particularly invested in the characters of the grandfather and grandson, or worried that their relationship won’t hold together if the grandson doesn’t enjoy the story. That isn’t even presented as a possibility. There is zero tension in the scenes with them, they’re there for the purpose of comic relief, and to stand in for the framing device of the novel (that being an abridgment of a full novel that doesn’t actually exist). No, the tension 100% comes from the fictional scenario, and it doesn’t matter that it’s fictional in-universe. Now, if you want to argue that you don’t think a D&D movie could pull that off, or that you don’t think it would make as good a movie as if they play the fiction straight, without such a framing device? By all means, make that argument. But trying to pretend the tension in [I]The Princess Bride[/I] comes from the grandpa and grandson rather than the story of Westly, Buttercup, Inigo, [I]et al[/I] is either a woeful misunderstanding of the story or actively disingenuous. [/QUOTE]

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