Cyrano de Bergerac

00:41:21,894 --> 00:41:23,285 You've done it, now. 696 00:41:23,325 --> 00:41:24,536 You've made your fortune. 697 00:41:24,566 --> 00:41:25,747 He was willing to forget. 698 00:41:26,167 --> 00:41:27,859 There you go again, growling. 699 00:41:27,889 --> 00:41:30,141 Yesss, this latest pose of yours, 700 00:41:30,181 --> 00:41:32,753 ruining every opportunity that comes you way, 701 00:41:32,783 --> 00:41:33,784 becomes exaggerated. 702 00:41:33,824 --> 00:41:34,935 Very well, then, I exaggerate. 703 00:41:34,965 --> 00:41:36,396 There are certain things in this world 704 00:41:36,426 --> 00:41:37,788 a man does well to carry to extremes. 705 00:41:37,828 --> 00:41:40,400 Your precious independence. Your white plume. 706 00:41:40,430 --> 00:41:42,101 How do you expect to succeed in life? 707 00:41:42,131 --> 00:41:43,092 What would you have me do? 708 00:41:43,132 --> 00:41:45,284 Seek for the patronage of some great man 709 00:41:45,324 --> 00:41:48,577 and like a creeping vine on a tall tree crawl upward 710 00:41:48,607 --> 00:41:50,219 where I cannot stand alone? 711 00:41:50,639 --> 00:41:51,550 No, thank you. 712 00:41:51,910 --> 00:41:56,584 Be a buffoon in the vile hope of teasing out a smile on some cold face. 713 00:41:57,045 --> 00:41:58,416 No, thank you. 714 00:41:58,756 --> 00:42:00,968 Eat a toad for breakfast every morning. 715 00:42:01,008 --> 00:42:04,241 Make my knees calloused. Cultivate a supple spine. 716 00:42:04,271 --> 00:42:06,032 Wear out my belly groveling in the dust. 717 00:42:06,303 --> 00:42:07,113 No, thank you. 718 00:42:07,574 --> 00:42:11,597 With my left hand scratch the back of any swine that roots up gold for me 719 00:42:11,627 --> 00:42:15,631 while my right, too proud to know his partner's business, takes in the fee. 720 00:42:15,661 --> 00:42:16,642 No, thank you. 721 00:42:16,762 --> 00:42:20,535 Shall I use the fire God gave me to burn incense all day long? 722 00:42:20,805 --> 00:42:21,746 No, thank you. 723 00:42:21,806 --> 00:42:25,139 Struggle to insinuate my name into the columns of the Gazette? 724 00:42:25,169 --> 00:42:29,983 Calculate, scheme, be afraid? Love more to make a visit than a poem? 725 00:42:30,023 --> 00:42:32,726 Seek introductions, favors, influences? 726 00:42:32,756 --> 00:42:33,787 No, thank you. 727 00:42:33,817 --> 00:42:37,010 No, I thank you, and again I thank you. 728 00:42:40,673 --> 00:42:47,068 But, to sing, to laugh, to dream, to walk in my own way, 729 00:42:47,108 --> 00:42:49,260 free with and eye to see things as they are. 730 00:42:50,131 --> 00:42:51,993 A voice that means manhood. 731 00:42:53,514 --> 00:42:55,396 To cut my have the right shoes. 732 00:42:55,436 --> 00:43:02,412 And a word, a yes, a no, to fight, or write, 733 00:43:03,593 --> 00:43:05,204 but never to make a line I have not heard 734 00:43:05,234 --> 00:43:06,545 in my own heart. 735 00:43:07,166 --> 00:43:09,148 To travel any road under the sun, 736 00:43:09,768 --> 00:43:11,550 under the stars, 737 00:43:12,851 --> 00:43:16,294 nor care if fame or fortune lie beyond the bourne. 738 00:43:17,145 --> 00:43:19,026 Yet, with all modesty to say, 739 00:43:20,027 --> 00:43:22,609 my soul be satisfied with flowers, 740 00:43:23,530 --> 00:43:24,781 with weeds, 741 00:43:25,992 --> 00:43:27,624 with thorns, even, 742 00:43:28,695 --> 00:43:31,727 but gather them in the one garden you may call your own. 743 00:43:33,019 --> 00:43:35,241 In a word, I'm too proud to be a parasite. 744 00:43:35,501 --> 00:43:38,263 And if mine intellect the germ that grows towering to heaven 745 00:43:38,293 --> 00:43:39,564 like the mountain pine 746 00:43:40,155 --> 00:43:42,367 I stand not high, it may be, 747 00:43:44,058 --> 00:43:45,259 but alone. 748 00:43:45,299 --> 00:43:47,972 Alone, yes, but why go about making enemies? 749 00:43:48,902 --> 00:43:52,656 Watching other people making friends...everywhere, 750 00:43:52,696 --> 00:43:54,788 as a dog makes friends. 751 00:43:55,288 --> 00:43:58,361 I mark the manner of these canine courtesies, 752 00:43:58,391 --> 00:44:03,585 and think, here comes, thank heaven, another enemy. 753 00:44:03,625 --> 00:44:09,581 Yes, tell this to all the world, and then to me say very softly 754 00:44:09,611 --> 00:44:12,363 that she loves you not. 755 00:44:15,656 --> 00:44:17,768 Let me be alone for a moment. 756 00:44:20,820 --> 00:44:21,881 Cyrano, wait. 757 00:44:21,911 --> 00:44:23,593 Give us your story of the fight. 758 00:44:24,364 --> 00:44:25,234 Presently. 759 00:44:25,264 --> 00:44:26,846 No, the story, now! 760 00:44:26,876 --> 00:44:28,807 Oh, let him alone. There's time enough. 761 00:44:28,837 --> 00:44:30,199 I want it now! 762 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:35,934 As an example for that young t