A “special sword” created for the six-fingered man - The Man in Black had “never seen its equal”, acording to the movie. The book goes into a great deal more detail.
“The king’s stinking son fired me. And thank you so much for bringing up such a painful subject. While you’re at it, why don’t you give me a nice paper cut, and pour lemon juice on it.”
My questions (since its a kissing book):
How many kisses are there in the movie?
How many kisses (“since the invention of the kiss”) had been rated “the most passionate, the most pure”?
In the book (I know we are discussing the movie but…) Miracle Max says that coughdrops are better than true love.
[slight hijack from the trivia format]
In the duel to the death scene Vizzini actually was very close to the correct answer, but he didn’t quite figure it out. When he says “You’ve beaten my Giant, which means you are very strong. You could have put the poisin in your own glass trusting in your strength to save you,” he almost gets the answer. If he had followed through on that thought, he might have figured it out. What would have happened then, I am not sure.
[/end hijack]
That was the thread that got me to settle into SDMB in the first place. “There are some very clever people here,” I said to myself, “I think I’ll stay.”
The kisses:
There is one right after Westley fetches the pitcher, and another as he is leaving to seek his fortune. There is one when Westley and Buttercup are reunited just outside the fire swamp. There are several kisses when they are reunited again inside the castle. And then at the end there is the one that “left them all behind.” That makes five Westley-Buttercup kissing incidents.
Also, the kid’s mom kisses him, but that one probably doesn’t count. Did I miss any?
I have a real question that is slightly off topic. Does the supposed “original” book The Princess Bride (by “S. Morgenstern”) really exist, or was William Goldman pulling our leg? No one I know has ever been able to find it.
He’s pulling our legs, but it’s more than that: The whole “autobiographical” section in the beginning of the book is also fictional (the bit about the frigid wife and the fat son). In other words the Real William Goldman is writing about a fictional world with a character named William Goldman who shares many points of history with the real William Goldman (they both wrote the screenplay for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, frex), but has some signifigant divergences too (the Real W.G. has two daughters and no sons). In the world of the fictional WG there’s an S. Morganstern, etc…
Fenris, who still doesn’t like the “autobiographical” section, but loves the rest of the book.
He leaves a piece of fabric torn from the uniform of a Guilderian soldier on Buttercup’s saddle, and sends the horse back to the castle.
This story is on the album jacket (remember those?) for the movie soundtrack. Mark Knopfler (of Dire Straits) agreed to do the music for the film if Reiner would put the hat he wore in Spinal Tap into the film. It was a ballcap for a US Navy ship (I forget which one) which had the gold laurel wreaths on the brim. Unfortunately, Reiner had no idea what became of the hat, so he got a matching one and (I believe) it hangs on the wall or on a shelf behind the kid’s bed.
[sub]Say, does anyone else think those are the sappiest lyrics they’ve ever heard during the end credits? Sheesh…[/sub]
Here’s my trivia questions…
When do the Screaming Eels get the loudest?
How did Buttercup discover Humperdinck was lying about sending the letter to Westley?
How many years had Inigo searched for the six-fingered man?
When he said all the ships in his armarda would see them off on their honeymoon - “All but your four fastest?”
Twenty years - Tough question, but he tells Miracle Max!!
Hmmmm
My next questions:
a) What is the name of Miracle Max’s Wife?
b) What is the function of the chocolate on the Miracle Pill?
c) What is a “hippo-britanic” land mass?? (No, I really want to know…)
a) Valerie “Get back witch!” “I’m not a witch! I’m your wife!”
b) “It makes it go down easier”
c) I always thought he said “hippo-potamic”, meaning hippopotamus-like (very large)
[albino]
“Nobody withstands the Machine.”
[/albino]
The purpose of the Machine is to “suck life” out of the poor sap that is connected to it. Count Rugen uses it to torture Wesley in order to gain information about its effects on humans.
Rugen: “This is for posterity, so please, be honest. How do you feel?”
Wesley: [weeping]
Rugen: “Interesting.”
My trivia question:
How many times does the phrase “As you wish” occur in the movie?
I believe the first thing to go is your feet, at the ankle (correct me if I’m wrong). I’m positive that what is kept are the ears so that Humperdinck can hear every exclamation of “Dear God, what is that THING!” when people see him.
And gooooood question on the powder, Mahaloth! (and good catch on the answer, Darwin’s Finch!)
