![]() In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. A love that, even if it may look or feel like it’s left, never has and never will. Immediately afterward, we are informed that this was the first of many nightmares, and William Goldman interjects again to talk about the impressiveness of that fake- out, and how deeply it had upset him as a. It’s impossible not to fall a little bit in love alongside them. Hollywood starlets in the 1950s fall in storied, complicated, decades-long love in this beautiful novel told in flashbacks as aging movie star Evelyn Hugo recounts the loves of her life to a young journalist. We can go from saying, “I will never love again,” to, “I will never need to doubt again.” The king dies and Buttercup is made Florins queen, only to be booed by a crone in the crowd for leaving her true love, Westley, behind. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. And because death could not stop true love – the love that Jesus has for us – we have no need to ever doubt. But not only did death not stop true love, it was the ultimate act of true love. And the disciples are changed in such a way that they go from despair to ready to commit their lives to spreading the gospel, dying for it. But what she really loved about the film was the fairy tale romance at the center of it between her character Princess Buttercup and Cary Elwes Westley. It kinda sneaks up on her, but she realizes it and they have the exchange you saw in the video above. ![]() Her true love is gone, so why even bother giving it another shot? She gets engaged to Prince Humperdinck, who she doesn’t love but since he’s the law of the land she doesn’t really have a choice. At 5:34 Inigo makes his long-rehearsed speech to Rugen: 'Hello, my name is Inigo. Humperdinck hurries him up, and at 5:31 he and Buttercup are wed. Meanwhile, the wedding is progressing slowly due to the old Archdean's pontifications on marriage. They are instantly confronted by Count Rugen. In the film, Buttercup seems to move on, even saying to herself, “I will never love again.” She quits. At 5:30, Fezzik, Inigo and Westley enter the castle. ![]() I gotta imagine there were some strong doubts in their minds about whether or not they should have even followed Him in the first place. But then He dies on the cross and they’re in hiding, they’re afraid to associate with him. They had developed a strong relationship with Him during His time with them. Let’s make this comparison with the disciples and Jesus. ![]() In one of the climactic scenes in the relationship between Westley and Buttercup, he shares a great bit of wisdom about true love. One of my favorite lines in the classic 80s film The Princess Bride (which is my all-time favorite movie, by the way) comes from Westley, the farm boy-turned-pirate who goes to great lengths to get back to his true love, Buttercup, after a long stretch of separation where she feared him dead. ![]()
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