SABRINA [1995]

You are Cordially Invited to the Most Surprising Merger of the Year

[Linus Larrabee]: Listen, I work in the real world with real responsibilities.

[Sabrina]: I know you work in the real world and you're very good at it. But that's work. Where do you live, Linus? 

[Linus Larrabee]: So, that really is a beautiful name. How did you get it? 

[Sabrina]: My father's reading. It's in a poem. 

[Linus Larrabee]: Oh?

[Sabrina]: "Sabrina fair, listen where thou art sitting under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, in twisted braids of lilies knitting the loose train of thy amber-dropping hair." 

It's an incredible airplane - it's beautiful. I've never seen anything like it. 

[Linus Larrabee]: Ah, yes. [return to reading his work paper]

[Sabrina]: Don't you ever look out the window? 

[Linus Larrabee]: When do I have time? 

[Sabrina]: What happened to all that time we saved taking the helicopter?

[Linus Larrabee]: I'm storing it up. 

[Sabrina]: No, you're not. 

[Linus Larrabee, pause]: So, your little poem - what does it mean?

[Sabrina]: It's the story of a water sprite who saved a virgin from a fate worse than death. 

[Linus Larrabee]: And Sabrina's the virgin.

[Sabrina]: Sabrina's the savior. 

[Sabrina]: You probably don't believe in marriage.

[Linus Larrabee]: Yes, I do. That's why I never got married.

More isn't always better, Linus. Sometimes it's just more. 

[Sabrina]

[Fairchild]: You don't deserve her. 

[Linus Larrabee]: I don't, I know that; but I need her, and I don't need anything. 

I think you know I love you. And you promised if there was anything you could ever do... 

[Linus Larrabee]

[Fairchild]: Marry me. Marry me for my money. People do it every day.

[Joanna]: I'm not amused, Thomas, and I have a great sense of humor.

[Fairchild]: Then marry me for love.

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FIRST KNIGHT [1995]

Their Greatest Battle Would Be For Her Love

For the first in my life, I wanted what all wise man say can't last; 
what can't be promised or made to linger any more than sunlight. 

I don't want to die without having felt its warmth on my face.

[King Arthur]

Only a fool wants what he can not have.

[King Arthur]

There are laws that enslave men, and laws that set them free.

[King Arthur]

What we hold to be right, and good, and true is right and good and true for all men. 

Otherwise we're just another robber tribe.

[King Arthur]

There's a peace only to be found on the other side of war. 

If that war should come, I will fight it!

[King Arthur]

Lancelot, just a thought. 

A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; 
and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life? 

I may be wrong.

[Arthur]

You risked your life for another. There is no greater love.

[Arthur] 

I dare not kiss so lovely a lady. I have but one heart to lose.

[Lancelot]

Love has many faces. I may look on you differently, but not with less love.

[Guinevere]

I only know one way to love my lord, and that is body and mind and soul.

[Guinevere]

Self-sacrifice is very easy. 

It's having to sacrifice someone you love that puts your convictions to the test.

[Malagant] 

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LEGENDS OF THE FALL [1994]

After The Fall From Innocence 
The Legend Begins

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. 

Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

[One Stab]

I thought Tristan would never live to be an old man. 

I was wrong about that. I was wrong about many things. 

It was those who loved him most who died young. 

He was a rock they broke themselves against however much he tried to protect them. 

[One Stab]

She was like the water that freezes inside a rock and breaks it apart. 

It was no more her fault than it is the fault of the water when the rock shatters

[One Stab]

Every warrior hopes a good death will find him. 

[One Stab]

[Susannah]: Were you going to say goodbye? Tristan? How long will you be gone? 

[Tristan]: Not long. A few months. 

[Susannah]: I can make it better for you. 

[Tristan]: No.

[Susannah]: If we'd had a child or if I were pregnant, would you still be going? 

[Tristan]: Yes. 

[Susannah]: Just give me a chance. 

[Tristan]: Don't do that. 

[Susannah]: Look at me. Please, look at me. I'll wait for you. 

However long it takes. I'll wait for you forever. 

I followed all of the rules, man's and God's. 

And you, you followed none of them. 

And they all loved you more. 

Samuel, Father, and my... even my own wife. 

[Alfred]

[Tristan]: Alfred's going to do well wherever he is. 

[Colonel Ludlow]: Except here with us.

[Tristan]: That's my fault.

[Colonel Ludlow]: I didn't say that. 

[Tristan]: I couldn't bring Samuel back home alive either, could I?

[Colonel Ludlow]: Don't you dare say that boy! That was in God's hands.

[Tristan]: Was it?

[Alfred]: I don't know what to say. Tristan's always been wild. You love him for that.

[Susannah]: Do I? Yeah, I suppose I do.

[Alfred]: Susannah, he does love you.

[Colonel Ludlow]: Alfred! She's to be your brother's wife.

[Alfred]: Yes, though you might better remind him of that.

[Colonel Ludlow]: He's not here to defend himself. 

[Alfred]: No, he's not but I see you are here to defend him and what is his. 

Even though he's abandoned her and you. 

And I won't even speak of who else he abandoned. 

[Colonel Ludlow]: Damn you, boy. Don't you blame my son for Samuel's death! 

Samuel chose to be a soldier and soldiers die. 

Sent to be slaughtered by the men in the government. 

Parasites like you! 

Damn and blast you! 

*turms to Susannah* Damn you too! 

[Alfred]: Shut your mouth! You leave her out of this! 

[Colonel Ludlow]: You get out of my house and off my land. 

[Alfred]: Why? Because I want to serve my country like you did? 

Or because, like you, I love a woman who doesn't love me? 

He used her and he deserted her. Your darling Tristan.

[Susannah]: Alfred, don't, please. 

[Alfred]: I loved her! I love her still. 

And he stole her from me. 

If you want to know the truth of it he stole her from Samuel before the war. 

[Colonel Ludlow]: God help me, I'll kill you. 

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