![]() ![]() The next night, Buttercup has another dream.He also warns us not to expect too many happy fake-outs as the story continues, and even lets slip that certain characters are going to die, and not necessarily the ones we think. At this point, Goldman takes a moment to tell us how much this fake-out made him freak when he was just a little boy listening to this story. It was all a dream, and her wedding is still sixty days away. The screaming gets louder and louder until finally. It's not clear how the woman knows this, but she definitely shakes Buttercup's conscience. This woman accuses Buttercup of giving up her one true love for the sake of living a life of riches. They all cheer for her as she walks past, but a sole voice calls out boo. Now that she's queen, Buttercup wants to walk among the commoners as their queen.Yeah, sorry folks-this is what happens in the book. And then the wedding happens and Buttercup becomes Queen of Florin. Oh yeah, and the King of Florin dies, thus making Humperdinck the new King. Meanwhile, the preparations for Humperdinck and Buttercup's wedding continue.Westley knows he's in for torture, so he starts preparing his mind to withstand the pain.The only person in the room with him is an albino, a guy whose skin and hair is totally white. Now we flash back to Westley, who is chained up in a giant cage on the final level of Prince Humperdinck's Zoo of Death.He gets scared then, and starts calling for Inigo, but there's no answer, so eventually he goes into a cave and waits there, trying to look on the bright side of life. He follows the path to where the Sicilian lies dead from poison. He knows that his group has a rule for what to do when things don't go well with a plan, but he can't remember what it is. Meanwhile, we look in on Fezzik, who is also recovering from unconsciousness following his fight with Westley.And this thought makes him turn to drinking. He realizes that he's right back where he was before the Sicilian found him-a.k.a. When he gets back to the Thieves' Quarter, the place is even worse than Inigo remembered it.Inigo doesn't know what to do at first, but then he remembers the clear instructions that his leader, the Sicilian, gave for whenever a plan went wrong: "'Go back to the beginning.'" So as Inigo remembers, they began their scheme back in the Thieves' Quarter, a dingy neighborhood in Florin City.We look back in on the story to follow Inigo Montoya after he regains consciousness from his fight with Westley.According to Goldman, these pages just include tons of description of the festivities leading up to Prince Humperdinck's marriage to Buttercup. This chapter begins with another huge chunk that Goldman has decided to cut from the original Morgenstern version of The Princess Bride. ![]()
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