What some may not realize, however, is that the idea of S.
The Princess Bride film brilliantly translated Goldman's autobiographical notes through the device of a frame story, with a grandfather (Peter Falk) reading the novel to his sick grandson (Fred Savage) and Goldman's editing notes being transformed into the grandson's interruptions as the story went on.
Related: The Princess Bride: Cast & Characters Guide Morgenstern's estate, relating the meat of the fairy tale that inspired him as a boy, with occasional interruptions as to what he had cut and why. This, Goldman claimed, inspired him to publish his own abridged "Good Parts" edition of The Princess Bride over the objections of S. It seemed that Goldman's father had skipped over a lot of the original novel in his reading, such as over 50 pages involving assorted noblewomen packing and unpacking their luggage. Goldman was horrified, however, to discover that the epic adventure he remembered so fondly from his childhood was actually a dry political satire, akin to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Morgenstern, how his father had read The Princess Bride to him out-loud when he was sick as a child, and how he was inspired to buy the book for his own son. The Princess Bride novel opens with an introduction where Goldman explains the history of The Princess Bride by S.
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