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Princess Bride. The narrative framework of some shitkid not appreciating that his grandpa is Columbo ruins the whole thing. Those two characters should be cut out and then it can be good. ...Okay, Peter Falk can stay.
Remove Savage and all the other characters, and just have Falk tell the audience the story without any kind of "imaginary" scenes. It's just Peter Falk talking into a camera. Preferably wearing Columbo's signature trench coat.
And he should narrate the whole story like this:
