#she doesn’t have enough lines to establish her character the way westley or inigo is! or even fezzik or vizzini or humperdinck

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robin wright really gave everything as buttercup in hindsight. pity she didn’t have any lines to deliver

#rewatching the princess bride is a rollercoaster for me EVERYtime #when I was a kid I was always so frustrated that I didn’t like buttercup that much bc I only cared about female characters generally #then when I got older I realised that she was an uninteresting character #and that that was why #yet another bit older and I finally reconciled with the fact that she was poorly written #now? today? she’s not poorly written! and she’s excellently acted! the issue is that she’s BARELY written #she doesn’t have enough lines to establish her character the way westley or inigo is! or even fezzik or vizzini or humperdinck #even miracle max and his wife have more character! bc they’re written to have character! #buttercup is written to be the perfect romantic heroine and damsel! which means they can’t let her have any character! #but robin wright was giving it all despite that! #her face journey of expressions after westley explains the evolution of the dread pirate roberts YELLS the potential for characterising #buttercup #only she didn’t have a line to say! she just had to walk off and fall in a quagmire! #grrrrrr!!! #I love the princess bride but it would’ve been even better if she’d gotten some lines and son character direction bc she could’ve worked #she could’ve worked magic I’m sure of it #so we circle back around to ‘its because a man wrote her’. obviously. #I love the lines she does have btw. they all fuck. she pushes westley down a hill. let her speak more!!!!!!! #my dream scenario is a sequel with all the same cast of actors where buttercup gets to speak #all in the same style of genre and special effects as in the original ofc