Le pirate (1948)
Gene Kelly: Serafin
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Quotes
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Manuela : I wish I had now. Now, will you get out of here?
Serafin : You won't come with me?
Manuela : No.
Serafin : Very well then.
[He goes through the window, turns to Manuela]
Serafin : You know, it isn't essential for you to love me to be in the troupe. It helps, but it isn't essential.
Manuela : Get out!
Serafin : [leaves to go out window] Good-bye.
Manuela : No, not that way! You'll kill yourself.
Serafin : You do care. You do care!
Manuela : No, I don't! No, I don't!
Serafin : Manuela, you love me! You love me!
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Serafin : You should try underplaying sometime. Very effective.
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Serafin : [standing by the noose] Usually for our opening I perform a rope trick, but tonight under the circumstances, I will skip the rope.
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Serafin : It's hard to kill an actor.
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Serafin : You know, it isn't essential for you to love me for you to join the troupe. It-it helps, but it isn't essential.
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Serafin : [after Manuela smashes a painting over his head] You're overdoing this! You're being vindictive!
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The Viceroy : I must say, Macoco, you're very satisfying! The other members of your profession whom I've met officially looked more like bookkeepers than pirates, but you - ooo hooo hooo - you fill the eye.
Serafin : Thank you.
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Serafin : You have the manners of a spoiled brat and the effrontery of an unbridled egotist!
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Serafin : Boys, here is my last cigar. Divide it among you.
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Serafin : Don't tell me you've never longed for a prince instead of a pumpkin.
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Serafin : Do not anger Macoco. Do not bring down Macoco's wrath upon your head.
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Serafin : I believe a condemned man has a right to one last request.
The Viceroy : Oh, within reason - a visit from a loved one, a prayer, a beef steak.
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Serafin : [after tricking his troupe and stealing their last cigar] I was, er... keeping it lit for you.
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Serafin : Come, pure spirit. Come with me.
Don Pedro Vargas : I forbid it, it's a disgrace!
The Viceroy : [to Don Pedro] Sit down, Don Pedro.
[turns back to Serafin]
Serafin : Gracious lady, if you have any wish express it freely to me. I, who am your friend.
Manuela : I wish...
Serafin : Yes?
Manuela : I wish...
Don Pedro Vargas : Black magic! I won't have him practice black magic on my future wife! Oh, It's an outrage!
The Viceroy : [to Don Pedro] Hold your tongue, Don Pedro. I will not have this performance ruined by your bourgeoise possessiveness.
Serafin : Excellency, would you please tell him this is not flirtation. It is science.
The Viceroy : It is science.
Don Pedro Vargas : Whatever you called, I don't like it!
The Viceroy : [turns to Don Pedro] I demand that you hold your tongue!
[turns back to Serafin]
The Viceroy : Proceed, sir, with this mesmerism.
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Serafin : [yells] Macoco!
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Serafin : [singing] When I arrive in any town, I look the ladies up and down...
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Manuela : I should have thought that in a town like Port Sebastián, bodyguards were unnecessary.
Serafin : You, gracious lady, will always need a bodyguard. Even in the lonely wastes of the Sahara Desert, the sands would rise up and follow you. Tell me, what is your name?
Manuela : I do not see how that could possibly concern you.
Serafin : It is as vital to me as the beat of my heart. Are you married?
Manuela : No, but I will be by this time next week.
Serafin : Then you should never step into the sight of other men. It is too great a provocation.
Manuela : Very well. I shall remove the provocation.
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Serafin : I must have a pure person, one pure person. "Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered." Purity at last. Purity. Ah, gracious lady, that you should be here makes it indeed a blessing. Come, come. I, Serafin, ask it.
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Serafin : You know whatever I ask you, whatever power I have for you is for your happiness.
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Serafin : We shall galvanize them.
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Serafin : I sense in this room an air of strangulated discomfort. These must be relatives. Remove them.
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Manuela : I - I hardly know you.
Serafin : I hardly know you, either. We'll have the excitement of discovery.
Manuela : But, I...
Don Pedro Vargas : Do you two realize that I am in the room?
Serafin : Must I remind you...
Don Pedro Vargas : I won't stand by and allow you to make love to my affianced wife!
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Serafin : I believe a condemned man has a right to one last request.
The Viceroy : Well, within reason. A visit from a loved one, a prayer, a beefsteak.
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Serafin : As me mother used to say, no noose is good noose.
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Serafin : [singing] All the world loves a clown, Act the fool, play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh, Wear the cap and the bells, And you'll rate with all the great swells, If you become a doctor, folks will face you with dread, If you become a dentist, They'll be glad when you're dead, You'll get a bigger hand if you can stand on your head, Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown
Serafin , Specialty Dancer , Specialty Dancer : Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown...