Now that it’s so widely known, though, it’s practically useless because its so easy to recognize. No other substance is so completely tasteless, odorless, colorless and dissolves so quickly in liquid. It’s a dead giveaway!
“As you wish.” Rather than As You Command.
Much more romantic. 
I thought so too… Until Raj said it to Howard on TBBT. 
I always loved that Humperdink smells the empty vial, and pronounces it as being iocane.
Interesting subtlety about the cry of ultimate anguish-- It’s made not because Wesley’s true love is getting married, but because he’s hooked up to The Machine. He was able to endure all manner of mundane torture by thinking of Buttercup, but The Machine is able to overwhelm that. The Machine, in other words, is actually stronger than his love.
But how does Inigo recognize the sound as that of ultimate anguish? Because that’s the sound his heart made when the Six-Fingered Man killed his father. The most powerful and truest love in the movie is not actually Wesley’s and Buttercup’s love for each other, but Inigo’s love for Domingo.
Well, it does seem that Buttercup makes absolutely no bones about the fact that she loves another. She asks about Wesley’s arrival right in front of Humperdinck’s chief of the guard. So it would seem to be common knowledge among the palace staff, and Fezzik WAS in with the guards, so he’d probably have heard about it and maybe passed it on to Inigo.
And funny you should mention Buttercup’s parents–they are, as you guys have said, in the book. But there’s a “Mother” and “Father” listed in the credits of TPB. It doesn’t seem to refer to the King and Queen (who are listed separately), or the boy’s mother (who, I believe, is also listed separately). So maybe Buttercup’s parents were originally filmed, but cut?
Why does he offer Inigo the job then?
That was the idea- that the Dread Pirate Roberts position was passed from person to person, with the previous one living off the riches he’d accumulate. They’d remove all the crew, install the new Dread Pirate and bring on new crew who never knew he was a replacement captain.
Inigo had no main purpose now that’d he killed the six-fingered man, so being the Dread Pirate would be good work.
Westley is going to settle down with Buttercup, Inigo is out of a job, “There’s not much money in the revenge business”, and Inigo would make a great Dread Pirate Roberts.
Is there? I don’t see a “Father” listed on the IMDb (there is a “Mother”, but that’s the Fred Savage character’s mother who’s seen briefly at the very beginning of the movie), and I don’t remember ever seeing one listed in credits of the movie itself.
I think it’s unlikely that Buttercup’s parents were ever in the script at all. Not only are they very minor characters in the book, but because they’re a squabbling elderly couple they come across as basically just a less important/entertaining version of Miracle Max and Valerie.
But he’d have to live up to the reputation. Take no prisoners.
Buttercup’s parents wouldn’t be elderly, would they? Who are the King and Queen seen just before and during the wedding scene? Are those supposed to be Humperdink’s parents? Buttercup isn’t really a princess – she just looks like one. She’s a farm girl who bosses around the hired hand.
She is (or would be) a princess by virtue of marrying a prince, not by virtue of her own birth.
Which of course he did -
That’s how they’re described in the book.
Yes. This is made explicit in the book*, but I thought it was pretty obvious in the movie. We’re told that Humperdink’s father the king is still alive, the king and queen at the wedding seem to be family rather than guests, and Buttercup’s conversation with the king after the wedding also indicates that she knows him personally. He’s certainly not her father; she’s a commoner, and his reaction to her kiss would be pretty creepy if they were related.
*The king and queen are about as minor in the book as they are in the movie, but it is noted that the queen is actually Humperdink’s “evil” stepmother. She’s a perfectly nice woman, Humperdink just refers to her as his evil stepmother as a joke.
Florinese women didn’t have much right of inheritance until legal reforms in the 19th century.
Plot? What plot?
Well, yeah, but if you let everyone go, you didn’t take any prisoners, and it’s these non-prisoners that spread the tales. Jack Sparrow pointed this out in POTC when the same thing was said about the Black Pearl.
Prince Humperdink made her a princess. He wouldn’t otherwise have been able to marry a commoner. So he had his father carve out a weensy little area of their kingdom (Hammersmith) and made Buttercup the princess of it.
That’s why she was announced as “The Princess… Buttercup!” at their engagement.
(No, seriously! It was in the novel!)
Huh? Dread Pirates Roberts most certainly do take prisoners. Ryan, as the DPR, took Westley prisoner when he captured Westley’s ship.