Kingdom of Heaven Movie Quotes
Hospitaller
I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of God. Holiness is in right action and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. What God desires is here
[points to head]
Hospitaller
and here
[points to heart]
Hospitaller
and what you decide to do every day, you will be a good man - or not.
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Balian of Ibelin
What man is a man who does not make the world better.
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King Baldwin IV
Come forward. I am glad to meet Godfrey's son. He was one of my greatest teachers. He was there when, playing with the other boys, my arm was cut. It was he, not my father's physicians, who noticed that I felt no pain. He wept when he gave my father the news... that I am a leper. The Saracens say that this disease is God's vengence against the vanity of our kingdom. As wretched as I am, these Arabs believe that the chastisement that awaits me in hell is far more severe and lasting. If that's true, I call it unfair. Come. Sit.
[they sit down on opposite sides of a chessboard]
King Baldwin IV
Do you play?
Balian of Ibelin
No.
King Baldwin IV
The whole world is in chess. Any move can be the death of you. Do anything except remain where you started, and you can't be sure of your end. Were you sure of your end once?
Balian of Ibelin
I was.
King Baldwin IV
What was it?
Balian of Ibelin
To be buried a hundred yards from where I was born.
King Baldwin IV
And now?
Balian of Ibelin
Now I sit in Jerusalem, and look upon a king.
King Baldwin IV
[Baldwin chuckles]
When I was sixteen, I won a great victory. I felt in that moment I would live to be a hundred. Now I know I shall not see thirty. None of us know our end, really, or what hand will guide us there. A king may move a man, a father may claim a son, but that man can also move himself, and only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember that howsoever you are played or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone, even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power. When you stand before God, you cannot say, "But I was told by others to do thus," or that virtue was not convenient at the time. This will not suffice. Remember that.
Balian of Ibelin
I will.
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Balian of Ibelin
[Saladin has just offered safe conduct in his terms]
When the Christians captured Jerusalem, they massacred every Muslim in the city walls...
Saladin
I am not those men. I am Salahudin.
[with more emphasis]
Saladin
Sala-hu-din!
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King Baldwin IV
A King may move a man, a father may claim a son, but remember that even when those who move you be Kings, or men of power, your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God, you cannot say, "But I was told by others to do thus." Or that, "Virtue was not convenient at the time." This will not suffice. Remember that.
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Godfrey of Ibelin
Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath.
Hospitaller
Arise a knight and Baron of Ibelin.
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Saladin
Who defends?
Imad
Balian of Ibelin, the son of Godfrey.
Saladin
Godfrey? Godfrey nearly killed me in the Lebanon. Truly, I did not know he had a son.
Imad
It was his son at Kerak.
Saladin
The one you let live?
Imad
Yes.
Saladin
Perhaps you should not have.
Imad
Perhaps I should have had a different teacher.
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Balian of Ibelin
God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn't, then he is not God and we need not worry.
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Imad
Your quality will be known among your enemies, before ever you meet them.
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Saladin
Will you yield the city?
Balian of Ibelin
Before I lose it, I will burn it to the ground. Your holy places - ours. Every last thing in Jerusalem that drives men mad.
Saladin
I wonder if it would not be better if you did.
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Balian of Ibelin
You go with the army?
Hospitaller
My order is with the army.
Balian of Ibelin
You go to certain death.
Hospitaller
All death is certain. I shall tell your father what I've seen you become.
[rides away]
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Godfrey of Ibelin
You are not what you were born, but what you have within yourself to be.
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Saladin
[to Guy de Lusignan]
A king does not kill a king. Were you not close enough to a great king to learn by his example?
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Saladin
As-Salaam-Alaikum
Balian of Ibelin
And peace be with you.
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Balian of Ibelin
It is a kingdom of conscience, or nothing.
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Balian of Ibelin
[to the people of Jerusalem] It has fallen to us, to defend Jerusalem, and we have made our preparations as well as they can be made. None of us took this city from Muslims. No Muslim of the great army now coming against us was born when this city was lost. We fight over an offence we did not give, against those who were not alive to be offended. What is Jerusalem? Your holy places lie over the Jewish temple that the Romans pulled down. The Muslim places of worship lie over yours. Which is more holy?
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Balian of Ibelin
The wall? The Mosque? The Sepulchre? Who has claim? No one has claim.
[raises his voice]
Balian of Ibelin
All have claim!
Bishop, Patriarch of Jerusalem
That is blasphemy!
Almaric
[to the Patriarch] Be quiet.
Balian of Ibelin
We defend this city, not to protect these stones, but the people living within these walls.
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English Sergeant
[walking along the waterfront at Messina]
When we took the Holy Land, we took the Saracen trading ports. The Italian ships carry silks and spices... and pilgrims, if they have money. And Italy becomes rich, as the Savior intended.
English Sergeant
Muslims. Saracens.
Balian of Ibelin
And they are allowed their prayers?
English Sergeant
If they pay the tax. "Subhana Rabbi'l Adhim."
[he turns to Balian]
English Sergeant
"Praise be to God. It is proper to praise him."
Balian of Ibelin
Sounds like our prayers.
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Bishop, Patriarch of Jerusalem
Convert to Islam... repent later!
Balian of Ibelin
You've taught me a lot about religion, your Eminence.
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Richard's Knight
We crusade to recover the kingdom of Jerusalem
Balian of Ibelin
Go till the men speak Italian and continue until they speak something else
Richard Coeur de Lion
We come along this road to find Balian of Ibelin, who defended Jerusalem against the Saracens.
Balian of Ibelin
I am a blacksmith
Richard Coeur de Lion
And I am the king of England
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Hospitaller
Are you sorry for all your sins?
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Sybilla
There will be a day when you will wish you had done a little evil to do a greater good.
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Jerusalem
Who do you think you are? Will you alter the world? Does making a man a knight make him a better fighter?
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Saladin
I pray you pull back your cavalry and leave this matter to me.
King Baldwin IV
I pray you retire unharmed to Damascus. Reynald of Chatillon will be punished. I swear it. Withdraw or we will all die here.
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Tiberias
But Saladin and the king between them would make a better world.
Hospitaller
If it lives only for a while, Tiberias, it still has lived.
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Godfrey of Ibelin
I once fought two days with an arrow through my testicle.
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Balian of Ibelin
What could a king ask of a man like me?
Godfrey of Ibelin
A better world than has ever been seen. A kingdom of conscience. A kingdom of heaven.
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Odo
Have you been at war?
Balian of Ibelin
On horse. And as an engineer also.
Odo
Against whom and for whom did you fight?
Balian of Ibelin
For one lord against another, on a point which cannot be remembered.
Odo
There's better game now: one God against another. The pay is proportionate.
[chuckles]
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Bishop, Patriarch of Jerusalem
The things that we have left undone plague us as death comes. That is why to the dying there is no comfort but the Lord.
King Baldwin IV
Spare me your sermon. Go and prepare your people for the coronation of my nephew.
Bishop, Patriarch of Jerusalem
Your confession, my lord.
King Baldwin IV
I shall confess to God when I see him... not to you. Now, leave me.
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Bishop
A law can go too far... it can go too far. I ask myself, 'would Jesus do thusly?' There is so much done in Christendom of which Christ would be incapable.
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Hospitaller
One may stare into the light, until one becomes the light. I've done it many times.
Balian of Ibelin
[throws a rock at a bush that catches fire by the spark]
There's your religion. One spark, a creosote bush. There's your Moses. I did not hear it speak.
Hospitaller
That does not mean that there is no God. Do you love her?
Balian of Ibelin
Yes.
Hospitaller
The heart will mend. Your duty is to the people of the city. I go to pray.
Balian of Ibelin
For what?
Hospitaller
For the strength to endure what is to come.
Balian of Ibelin
And what is to come?
Hospitaller
The reckoning is to come for what was done one hundred years before. The Muslims will never forget. Nor should they.
[the Hospitaler slowly walks away as a second bush several yards from the burning one catches fire. The Hospitaler is nowhere to be seen in the clear and open desert]
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Hospitaller
Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves.
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Patriarch of Jerusalem
When a body is burnt, it cannot be resurrected until Judgment Day.
Balian of Ibelin
If we do not burn these bodies, we will all be dead of disease in three days. God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn't... then he is not God, and we need not worry.
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Godfrey of Ibelin
Do you know what lies in the Holy Land? A new world. A man who, in France, had not a house, is, in the Holy Land, the master of a city. He who was the master of a city begs in the gutter. There, at the end of the world, you are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.
Balian of Ibelin
I have to find forgiveness. That's all I know.
Godfrey of Ibelin
Whatever your position, you are of my house, and that means you will serve the King of Jerusalem.
Balian of Ibelin
What could a king ask of a man like me?
Godfrey of Ibelin
A better world than has ever been seen. A kingdom of conscience. A kingdom of heaven. There is peace between Christian and Muslim. We live together, or between Saladin and the king, we try. Did you think that lay at the end of a Crusade?
[Balian shakes his head]
Godfrey of Ibelin
It does. My son, you are all that survives me. Do not disappoint me.
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Mullah
[just before the final assault on Jerusalem] Brothers! Brothers! God has sent you this day! You will take no prisoners! As they did, so shall it be done! Allahu akbar!
Muslim Soldiers
Allahu akbar!
Mullah
Allahu akbar!
Muslim Soldiers
Allahu akbar!
Mullah
Allahu akbar!
Muslim Soldiers
Allahu akbar!
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[last title card]
Title card
The King, Richard the Lionheart, went on to the Holy Land and crusaded for three years. His struggle to regain Jerusalem ended in an uneasy truce with Saladin. Nearly a thousand years later, peace in the Kingdom of Heaven remains elusive.
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Sybilla
What becomes of us?
Balian of Ibelin
The world will decide. The world always decides.
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Mullah
[the mullah pays a visit to Saladin in his tent after the battle at Kerak]
Why did we retire? Why? God did not favor them. God alone determines the results of battles.
Saladin
The results of battles ARE determined by God, but also by preparation, numbers, the absence of disease, and the availability of water. One cannot maintain a siege with the enemy behind. How many battles did God win for the Muslims before I came... that is, before God determined that I should come?
Mullah
Few enough. That's because we were sinful.
Saladin
It is because you were unprepared.
Mullah
If you think that way, you shall not be king for long.
Saladin
[Saladin rises to his feet]
When I'm not king, I quake for Islam. Thank you for your visit.
[the mullah does not budge; Saladin takes a step forward and extends his hand]
Saladin
Thank you for your visit.
[the mullah takes his meaning and grasps the offered hand]
Mullah
You promised. You promised to return Jerusalem. Don't forget.
[he leaves]
Saladin
If I do not deliver war, I have no peace.
Imad
The King of Jerusalem will die soon. When he is dead, the boy will become king of a kingdom he cannot control. The Christians will make the war you need.
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Tiberias
That witness... all of Jerusalem... Holy God... and me.
Reynald de Chatillon
That "witness," if you call him that, is a Saracen. He lies.
Tiberias
There will come a day, Reynald de Chatillon, when you are not protected by your title.
Reynald de Chatillon
Oh? When will that be? Alert me, Tiberias, when men are equal and the Kingdom of Heaven has arrived.
Tiberias
Those Templars have been hung for a raid that I KNOW you commanded!
Reynald de Chatillon
Prove it. I will wait at Kerak until you do.
Tiberias
The king will take your castle of Kerak, Reynald.
Reynald de Chatillon
Try to take it, Tiberias. I'll be there.
[he walks out with a dirty look at the Saracen witness]
Muslim Grandee
[in Arabic]
You're letting him go? Why are you letting him go?
Tiberias
I cannot protect your caravans unless you agree to be escorted by our soldiers.
Muslim Grandee
[in English]
I trade to make money, not to offend God by associating with Christians.
Muslim Grandee
Gold is gold.
[Tiberias tosses it to him]
Tiberias
Of course.
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Tiberias
That I would rather live with men than kill them is certainly why you are alive.
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Godfrey of Ibelin
It will soon be beyond my concern.
[Guy de Lusignan and his knights walk over to the campsite]
Godfrey of Ibelin
My son.
Guy de Lusignan
Would I had fought you when you were still capable of making bastards.
[he laughs]
Godfrey of Ibelin
I knew your mother when she was making hers. Fortunately, you're too old to be one of mine.
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Sibylla
Why do you think I'm here?
Balian de Ibelin
I know that Ibelin is not on the way to Cana.
Sibylla
What else do you know, my lord?
Balian de Ibelin
I know that you are a princess and I am no lord.
Sibylla
You're a knight.
Balian de Ibelin
Neither earned nor proved.
Sibylla
I'm not here with you because I'm, I'm bored or wicked. I'm here because... because in the East between one person and another there is only light.
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Tiberias
There is a rumour. We must condemn it immediately.
Sybilla
Call it treason. And kill those who whisper it.
Tiberias
The rumour will die if we show the boy as active...
Sybilla
[bursts out]
How long before he wears a mask? Will you have one made for him? How did my boy deserve it? Jerusalem is dead, Tiberias. No kingdom is worth my son alive in hell. I will go to hell instead.
[Tiberias steps forth and hugs Sibylla]
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Balian of Ibelin
How can you be in hell, when you are in my heart?
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Godfrey of Ibelin
It was not that they had no right to take you, it was the way they asked.
Balian of Ibelin
They had the right to take me.
Godfrey of Ibelin
So do I.
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King Baldwin IV
[to Sibylla]
My beautiful sister. So beautiful. I'm sorry if I've caused you any pain. Remember me as I was.
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King Baldwin IV
I felt in that moment that I would live to be a hundred. Now I know I shall not see thirty.
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King Baldwin IV
If you continue like this, I shall have to find some use for you. If God can spare you, that is.
Balian of Ibelin
God does not know me.
King Baldwin IV
Yes, but I do.
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Tiberias
I have given Jerusalem my whole life. First, I thought we were fighting for God. Then I realized we were fighting for wealth and land. I was ashamed.
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Imad
This is not a very good horse... I will not keep him.
[he hands the reins to Balian]
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Almaric
You must have known him.
Balian of Ibelin
What?
Almaric
Since you carry Godfrey's sword, you must have known him.
Balian of Ibelin
I did.
Almaric
A man my size?
Balian of Ibelin
Yes.
Almaric
And green eyes?
Almaric
[pause]
Come with us... my lord.
[Almaric and his men bow to Balian]
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Balian of Ibelin
Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Safeguard the helpless. Never lie, even if it leads to your death; that is your oath.
[slap]
Balian of Ibelin
And that is so you don't forget it. Rise a knight... rise a knight!
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Bishop, Patriarch of Jerusalem
[almost crying] Who do you think you are? Will you alter the world? Does making a man a knight make him a better fighter?
Balian of Ibelin
Yes
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Nasir
[to Balian]
... and if God does not love you, how could you have done the things you have done?
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Balian of Ibelin
Why would it be his horse?
Imad
Because it is on his land.
Balian of Ibelin
I took this horse from the sea.
Imad
[Imad translates, the knight yells again]
He says you are a great liar and he will fight you because you are a liar.
Balian of Ibelin
I have no desire to fight.
Imad
Then you must give him the horse.
[Balian draws his sword]
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Nasir
You reap what you sow. You have heard of this, no?
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Guy de Lusignan
[about Sibylla]
My wife does not lament my absences. And is either the best of wives... or the very, very worst.
[leaves]
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Hospitaller
[to Balian]
You sail now for Jerusalem as your father wished. If God has purpose for you there, he'll keep you safe in his hands.
[pauses]
Hospitaller
If not, God bless you.
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Balian of Ibelin
Such as we are... you will be.
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Gravedigger
[Sybilla has cut her hair and disguised herself as a common nurse]
You are not a sister.
Sybilla
We are what we do.
Gravedigger
Then I'm a man who's traveled a long way to die for nothing. What would you say to that?
[Balian walks by and Sybilla turns away]
Sybilla
I would say that I'm sorry.
Gravedigger
And I'm sorry for you... Queen of Jerusalem.
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Balian of Ibelin
This army will be destroyed, and the city left defenseless.
Guy de Lusignan
When I wish a blacksmith to advise me in war, I will tell him.
Balian of Ibelin
Saladin wants you to come out. He is waiting for you to make that mistake.
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King Baldwin IV
Saladin has crossed the Jordan with 200,000 men.
Tiberias
He will make first for Kerak and Reynald de Chatillon.
King Baldwin IV
[rejects the help and stands up by himself]
We must meet him before he reaches Kerak. I will lead the army.
Tiberias
My lord, if you travel, you'll die.
King Baldwin IV
Send word to Balian to protect the villagers.
King Baldwin IV
Assemble the army.
[the Templars cheer]
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King Baldwin IV
On your knees... lower. I am... Jerusalem. And you, Reynald, will give me the kiss of peace.
[takes off glove]
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[last lines]
Richard Coeur de Lion
We come by this road to find Balian, who was defender of Jerusalem.
Balian of Ibelin
I am the blacksmith.
Richard Coeur de Lion
And I am the king of England.
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Balian of Ibelin
No.
[stops]
Balian of Ibelin
And yes.
Sybilla
[laughs]
A woman in my place has two faces; one for the world, and one which she wears in private. With you I'll be only Sibylla.
Sybilla
[hears a noise and turns her head. A servant hides behind a wall]
Tiberias thinks me unpredictable. I am unpredictable.
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Richard's Knight
We crusade to recover the city of Jerusalem.
Balian of Ibelin
You go to where the men speak Italian, and then continue until they speak something else.
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Balian of Ibelin
[a single horsemen is seen in the distance standing on top of a hill]
They are here.
Almaric
It is only one man.
Balian of Ibelin
No, they are here.
[the camera zooms out and makes the whole Saracen army visible behind the hill]
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Hospitaller
The blacksmith is the man you seek. His name is Balian. But know that he mourns. The burial that we passed at the crossroads was for his wife. Their child died. She was overcome by grief and killed herself.
Godfrey of Ibelin
Do you still advise what you advised upon the road?
Hospitaller
I do, my lord.
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Hospitaller
[while watching the public execution of some Templars in Jerusalem]
The king has made a peace with Saladin these past six years. He holds Jerusalem as a place of prayer for all faiths, as the Muslims did before we came. These men are Templars. They killed Arabs.
Balian of Ibelin
So they are dying for what the Pope would command them to do.
Hospitaller
Yes... but not Christ, I think. Nor this king.
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Bishop, Patriarch of Jerusalem
Who are you? Do you think you can change the World? Does making a man a knight make him a better fighter?
Balian of Ibelin
[pause, turn slowly to face Bishop] Yes.
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Priest
You always turn the other cheek. I think that you conceive yourself without sin... that is a sin!
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Hospitaller
If the ribs are broken, the marrow will enter the blood and you will develop fever and die or a cyst will form and you will live.
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Saracen Messenger
The Sultan asks for his sister's body, the heads of those responsible and the surrender of Jerusalem.
Guy de Lusignan
Does he?
Saracen Messenger
What is you reply?
Guy de Lusignan
This.
[Decapitates the messenger]
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Saladin
When I'm not King, I quake for Islam.
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Sibylla
This is from France. I've never been there. This from my brother. This to remind us of death. And this... I put the day I saw you.
Balian de Ibelin
You lie.
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Balian of Ibelin
A queen never walks. Yet you are walking.
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Guy de Lusignan
Give me a war.
Reynald
That is what I do.
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Hospitaller
Where do you go?
Old Pilgram
To Jerusalem, brother.
Hospitaller
By which road?
Old Pilgram
Someone knows... God knows.
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Godfrey of Ibelin
[Balian catches up with Godfrey's group after killing the village priest]
If you've come to kill me... even these days, it is not easy. Well?
Balian of Ibelin
I have done... murder.
Godfrey of Ibelin
Haven't we all.
Balian of Ibelin
Is it true that in Jerusalem I can erase my sins... and those of my wife? Is it true?
Godfrey of Ibelin
We can find out together.
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[first title cards]
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It is almost 100 years since Christian armies from Europe seized Jerusalem.
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Europe suffers in the grip of repression and poverty. Peasant and lord alike flee to the Holy Land in search of fortune or salvation.
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One Knight returns home in search of his son.
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France 1184
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Guy de Lusignan
[approaching a Muslim caravan] This caravan is armed, Reynald.
Reynald
Good. No sport otherwise.
Guy de Lusignan
They've seen us. Go after them. The rider is getting away.
Reynald
It's broad desert. Nothing will come of it, nothing.
Guy de Lusignan
I'd prefer not to be hanged before my wife is queen.
Reynald
Don't worry. "Who but Reynald", they'll say. It's always me. They'll believe it in Jerusalem, I assure you. You were at Nazareth, praying.
Guy de Lusignan
You're a dangerous man, Reynald.
Reynald
If the war's to be now or later, I would have it now. How long can the leper last?
Templar Master
God wills it. God wills it!
Templars
God wills it!
Reynald
Jerusalem!
[all charge towards the Muslim caravan]
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Almaric
They will ask for terms. We *must* ask for terms.
Jerusalem
Convert to Islam, repent later.
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Godfrey of Ibelin
Know it? I know all of it.
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Godfrey of Ibelin
[Director's Cut, before caving in his nephew's skull]
Thank my brother for his love!
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Templar Master
We should meet the enemies of God!
Guy de Lusignan
And so we shall.
Tiberias
Then you do so without my knights.
Guy de Lusignan
Then I will have the glory, Tiberias. You had yours, years ago. It's time for mine.
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Reynald de Chatillon
Do you really think the king wants you head of the army once he's gone? Hm? Think your wife does?
Guy de Lusignan
I have a problem.
Reynald de Chatillon
Ah, yes. Balian. I saw him at Kerak. Celebrated.
[he leans in close to Guy]
Reynald de Chatillon
You must beware a popular man. Kill him.
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Son of Roger de Cormier
I am the son of Roger de...
Godfrey of Ibelin
Take your helmet off while addressing me.
Son of Roger de Cormier
[the knight takes off his helmet and clears his throat]
I am the son of Roger de Cormier.
[Godfrey stares at him]
Son of Roger de Cormier
I am accorded the privilege of ransom.
Godfrey of Ibelin
This is true.
[he walks away while the English sergeant drives a pickaxe through the knight's skull]
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Imad
[discussing how to break Jerusalem's defenses]
The wall where the Christopher Gate used to be has been weakened.
Saracen Engineer
Yes, usually when a gate is blocked in, it is weaker than the wall around it.
Mullah
Or stronger.
Imad
It is weaker, Rashid has seen it. This will be our door into Jerusalem.
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Balian of Ibelin
A fortification.
King Baldwin IV
What do you think of it?
[Balian briefly studies the diagram, then looks up]
King Baldwin IV
You disapprove. Well, how would you improve it?
Balian of Ibelin
A cross. Or better, a star. Like this.
[he sketches some changes]
Balian of Ibelin
That way no part of the fortress may be approached without being exposed to fire from another part.
[he sits back in his chair, satisfied]
King Baldwin IV
Very good. You will go to your father's house at Ibelin. Your house, now. And then from there, you will protect the pilgrim road. Safeguard in particular the Jews and the Muslims. All are welcome in Jerusalem. Not only because it's expedient, but because it is right. Protect the helpless. And then maybe one day, when I am helpless, you will come and protect me.
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King Baldwin IV
Protect the helpless, and then maybe one day when l am helpless you will protect me.
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Reynald
I drink water for what it is.
Saladin
I did not give the cup to you.
Reynald
No, my Lord.
Saladin
A king does not kill a king.
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Balian of Ibelin
It is a kingdom of conscience or nothing.
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Balian of Ibelin
In France, a few yards of silk can make a nobleman.
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priest exhorting Crusaders
To kill an infidel, the Pope has said, is not murder; it is the path to Heaven.
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Godfrey of Ibelin
Get me some more wine.
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