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Prospero's Books

1991
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An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.

Prospero's Books is a Drama, Fantasy film released in 1991.

2 subtitle releases available in English.

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A magician's spell, the innocence of young love and a dream of revenge unite to create a tempest.

Directed by Peter Greenaway.

Starring:
John GielgudMichael ClarkMichel BlancErland JosephsonIsabelle Pasco

Spoken languages: English. Produced in: Japan, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Italy.

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424 00:44:52,489 --> 00:44:55,742 into something rich and strange. 425 00:45:15,617 --> 00:45:19,119 Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: 426 00:45:19,748 --> 00:45:26,291 Hark! now I hear them-Ding-dong bell. 427 00:45:27,013 --> 00:45:29,802 What is't? a spirit? 428 00:45:37,741 --> 00:45:39,605 Lord, how it looks about! 429 00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:43,333 Believe me, sir, it carries a brave form. 430 00:45:43,793 --> 00:45:46,286 But 'tis a spirit. - No, wench; 431 00:45:46,464 --> 00:45:51,131 it eats and sleeps and hath such senses As we have, such. 432 00:45:51,308 --> 00:45:54,477 This gallant which thou seest Was in the wreck; 433 00:45:55,273 --> 00:45:59,357 and but he's something stain'd With grief, that's beauty's canker, 434 00:45:59,531 --> 00:46:02,633 thou mightst call him A goodly person. 435 00:46:02,955 --> 00:46:07,621 He hath lost his fellows, And strays about to find 'em. 436 00:46:51,460 --> 00:46:54,797 It goes on, I see, as my soul prompts it. 437 00:46:55,219 --> 00:47:01,809 I might call him a thing divine; for nothing natural I ever saw so noble. 438 00:47:06,071 --> 00:47:08,445 O you wonder! 439 00:47:08,869 --> 00:47:11,790 If you be maid or no? 440 00:47:13,002 --> 00:47:16,789 No wonder, sir; But certainly a maid. 441 00:47:17,093 --> 00:47:19,883 My language? Heavens! 442 00:47:21,100 --> 00:47:24,266 I am the best of them that speak this speech, 443 00:47:24,267 --> 00:47:25,849 were I but where 'tis spoken. 444 00:47:26,026 --> 00:47:30,692 How? the best? What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee? 445 00:47:30,868 --> 00:47:35,830 A single thing, as I am now, that wonders to hear thee speak of Naples. 446 00:47:36,294 --> 00:47:40,082 He does hear me; And that he does I weep. 447 00:47:41,011 --> 00:47:45,641 Myself am Naples, who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, 448 00:47:45,813 --> 00:47:49,814 beheld The King my father wreck'd. 449 00:47:52,242 --> 00:47:57,371 This is a scented volume, with crimson ribbons for page-markers. 450 00:47:57,543 --> 00:48:01,841 There is certainly an image in the book of a naked man and a naked woman, 451 00:48:02,010 --> 00:48:04,929 Everything else is conjecture. 452 00:48:06,519 --> 00:48:09,807 O, if a virgin, and your affection not gone forth, 453 00:48:09,983 --> 00:48:13,770 I'll make you The Queen of Naples. 454 00:48:19,417 --> 00:48:21,708 They are both in either's pow'rs; 455 00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:25,027 but this swift busines I must uneasy make, 456 00:48:25,028 --> 00:48:28,173 lest too light winning make the prize light. 457 00:48:28,516 --> 00:48:31,122 I charge thee that thou attend me; 458 00:48:31,123 --> 00:48:33,729 thou dost here usurp the name thou ow'st not; 459 00:48:33,902 --> 00:48:37,171 and hast put thyself upon this island as a spy, 460 00:48:37,345 --> 00:48:39,989 to win it from me, the lord on't. 461 00:48:40,705 --> 00:48:45,835 I'll manacle thy neck and feet together. Sea-water shalt thou drink; 462 00:48:46,007 --> 00:48:50,257 thy food shall be the fresh-brook mussels, wither'd roots, 463 00:48:50,432 --> 00:48:53,804 and husks wherein the acorn cradled. Follow. 464 00:48:53,981 --> 00:48:58,361 No; I will resist such entertainment till mine enemy has more power. 465 00:48:58,530 --> 00:49:03,411 O dear father, make not too rash a trial of him, for He's gentle, and not fearful. 466 00:49:03,583 --> 00:49:06,622 What, I say, my foot my tutor? 467 00:49:07,088 --> 00:49:11,304 Put thy sword up, traitor; Who mak'st a show but dar'st not strike, 468 00:49:11,472 --> 00:49:14,178 thy conscience Is so possess'd with guilt. 469 00:49:14,352 --> 00:49:18,436 Come from thy ward; For I can here disarm thee with this stick 470 00:49:18,437 --> 00:49:20,478 And make thy weapon drop. 471 00:49:22,243 --> 00:49:26,326 Beseech you, father! Sir, have pity; I'll be his surety. 472 00:49:26,500 --> 00:49:31,926 Silence! One word more shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. 473 00:49:32,344 --> 00:49:36,262 What! An advocate for an impostor! hush! 474 00:49:37,187 --> 00:49:40,994 Thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he, 475 00:49:40,995 --> 00:49:42,897 having seen but him and Caliban. 476 00:49:43,322 --> 00:49:47,518 Foolish wench! To th' most of men this is a Caliban, 477 00:49:47,519 --> 00:49:49,615 and they to him are angels. 478 00:49:50,921 --> 00:49:53,248 Come on; obey. 479 00:49:53,425 --> 00:49:58,935 Thy nerves are in their infancy again, And have no vigour in them. 480 00:49:59,103 --> 00:50:03,686 My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up. 481 00:50:04,070 --> 00:50:07,940 My father's loss, the weakness which I feel, 482 00:50:08,119 --> 00:50:13,878 the wreck of all my friends, nor this man's threats To whom I am subdu'd, 483 00:50:14,048 --> 00:50:16,754 are but light to me, ...

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