Orpheus (1950)

María Casares: The Princess - Death

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• The Princess - Death : Sleeping or dreaming, the dreamer must accept his dreams.

• The Princess - Death : Not drinking doesn't suit you.

• The Princess - Death : I don't have the right to love anyone - and yet I love.

• The Princess - Death : Are you in love with this idiot?

  Heurtebise : What if I am?

  The Princess - Death : You have no right to love in *any* world.

  Heurtebise : Nor do you.

  The Princess - Death : What?

  Heurtebise : You can't escape the rules.

  The Princess - Death : I order you to be quiet!

  Heurtebise : You're in love with Orphée and you don't know how to handle it.

  The Princess - Death : Shut up!

• Heurtebise : Do you have orders?

  The Princess - Death : What did you say?

  Heurtebise : I asked you if you had orders.

  The Princess - Death : When I carry out my orders, I expect mine to be carried out.

  Heurtebise : That's exactly why I ask if you have orders.

  The Princess - Death : You dare to ask?

  Heurtebise : If you had orders, your butchers would have completed their task.

• The Princess - Death : Perhaps I overstepped my authority without realizing it.

• The Princess - Death : My love.

  Orphée : I loved you even before we met.

• The Princess - Death : Will you obey me?

  Orphée : I will obey you.

  The Princess - Death : Whatever I ask?

  Orphée : Whatever you ask.

  The Princess - Death : Even if I condemned you? If I tortured you?

  Orphée : I belong to you and I will never leave you.

  The Princess - Death : Never again.

• The Princess - Death : Without willpower we are cripples.

• The Princess - Death : Do you know who I am?

  Jacques Cégeste : I do.

  The Princess - Death : Say it.

  Jacques Cégeste : You are my Death.

  The Princess - Death : Good. From now on you will serve me.

  Jacques Cégeste : I will serve you.

  The Princess - Death : You will obey my orders.

  Jacques Cégeste : I will obey your orders.

  The Princess - Death : Excellent.

• The Princess - Death : Are you sleepwalking?

  Orphée : I must be.

• The Princess - Death : Everyone is dawdling. I don't like this dawdling.

• The Princess - Death : Transmit.

  Jacques Cégeste : Jupiter gives wisdom to those he would lose. I repeat. Jupiter gives wisdom to those he would lose.

• The Princess - Death : I demand absolute discipline.

• Orphée : You are all-powerful.

  The Princess - Death : In your eyes. Here Death takes on innumerable forms. Young and old, they receive orders.

  Orphée : And if you disobeyed those orders? They can't kill you. It is you who kill.

  The Princess - Death : What they do is worse.

  Orphée : Where do the orders come from?

  The Princess - Death : They are sent back and forth by so many sentinels - like the tom-toms of your African tribes, the echoes of your mountains, the wind whispering through your trees.

  Orphée : I will go to he who gives those orders.

  The Princess - Death : My poor love, he exists nowhere. Some say he thinks of us. Others, that we are his thoughts. Others say he sleeps and that we are his dream - his bad dream.

• The Princess - Death : This is the first time I have almost understood the notion of time. Waiting must be frightful for men.

  Jacques Cégeste : I no longer remember.

• Orphée : A miracle will happen.

  The Princess - Death : Miracles only happen in your world.

  Orphée : All worlds are moved by lovers.

  The Princess - Death : In our world no one is moved.

• The Princess - Death : What has been must no longer be.