[hirundo]

I wonder if the bulk of the The Princess Bride counts as a nested flic, since it's a bedtime story. Or Aladdin (1992), framed as a tale told by a peddler. I was disappointed that the story didn't come back to the peddler at the end, it felt like an unclosed parenthesis.

[dragontamer]

The peddler has Robin Williams voice and is therefore implied to be the genie.

The new movie also implies the genie to be the storyteller, as Will Smith tells the story of Aladdin in the live action version. But this time, the storyteller is a sailor.

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Shaharazad was the first to tell the story of Aladdin in 1001 Arabian nights. So it always was a story inside a story. Shaharazad wants to delay her execution, so she keeps telling stories to the sultan.

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Princess Bride novel is written by fictional authors, who are providing historic and dueling commentary. It is clear that some of the later fictional authors have erased part of the story.

So it too is a book within a book (which translated into a movie within a movie, with grandpa removing some bits of the story to make it more palpable to the kid)

[latexr]

> Shaharazad was the first to tell the story of Aladdin in 1001 Arabian nights.

Aladdin’s tale wasn’t part of the original text[1]:

> Known along with Ali Baba as one of the "orphan tales", the story was not part of the original Nights collection and has no authentic Arabic textual source, but was incorporated into the book Les mille et une nuits by its French translator, Antoine Galland.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin

[latexr]

> I wonder if the bulk of the The Princess Bride counts as a nested flic, since it's a bedtime story.

From the “Contribute” page[1]:

> Nestflix is a wiki dressed up as a streaming platform that catalogs fictional films and tv shows inside real movies and tv shows.

The Princess Bride scenes were neither film nor show, so it doesn’t count.

> Or Aladdin (1992), framed as a tale told by a peddler. I was disappointed that the story didn't come back to the peddler at the end, it felt like an unclosed parenthesis.

That was the original idea[2][3].

[1]: https://nestflix.fun/contribute

[2]: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2019/08/2...

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLdSUxsBHDM

[geoduck14]

I was disappointed it didn't have Robin Williams in it.

[Andrew_nenakhov]

According to the second rule, Genie couldn't bring people back from the dead.