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- I'll get someone for the luggage.
- Thank you, Captain.
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Mother, these people are so funny.
Everybody goes barefoot.
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Stay where I can see you, Louis.
Watch him, Beebe.
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- Don't let him get all untidy.
- Yes, memsahib.
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Memsahib.
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Who is here to receive us?
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Someone will meet us, Moonshee.
Do try and watch the luggage.
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No sign of anyone to meet you.
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- You sure they knew you were coming?
- Oh, yes.
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I suppose all this
seems strange to you?
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Not entirely. I feel as though
I already knew Siam.
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Oh?
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I read a very interesting book
about it on the boat...
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by a man who visited it once.
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Don't smile.
It's really quite good.
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For instance, I knew
that was the royal palace.
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- Right.
- You see?
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- Have you ever been inside it?
- Yes, almost all of it...
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except, of course, the nang hahn.
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Oh, the harem, you mean.
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Yes. It's, uh, quite a place.
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I've heard it called a universe...
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with a single sun
and a thousand moons--
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- the king being the sun, naturally.
- Good gracious.
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They run a bit of language out here.
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They say, too, that he's the disc of light
they all revolve around.
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How many women revolve
around this disc of light?
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- Oh, 1,000 or more.
- Really?
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The book didn't mention that.
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I haven't anything against that
book of yours, Mrs. Owens, but look here.
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This is Siam.
There isn't even a consulate here.
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You see--
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- Hello.
- Someone to meet me, I suppose.
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Mrs. Owens, may I present
His Excellency the Kralahome...
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Prime Minister of Siam.
Chow Koon, Mem Anna Owens.
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Are you lady who is to teach
children of royal family?
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- Yes.
- Have you friends in Bangkok?
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No, I know no one in Bangkok at all.
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Are you married?
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I was married.
My husband is dead.
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- How long your husband been dead?
- About a year.
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What manner of man, uh,
your husband?
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He was an officer
in Her Majesty's Army, serving in--
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Ask His Excellency why
it is necessary to know these things?
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My master says, if he ask...
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it should be enough
for mem to answer.
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Tell your master that his business with me
is in my capacity as governess.
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It is not necessary for him
to pry into my personal affairs.
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My master graciously says
mem need not talk at all.
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His slaves will take her to palace.
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- Tell him to wait.
- Uh, Chow Koon!
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I was promised that a house of my own
would be provided for me on my arrival.
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I wish to be taken there.
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My master says if mem
does not wish to go to palace...
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she can go wherever she pleases.
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Why, that's the rudest man
I ever met in my life.
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If that book of yours
had been any good at all...
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you'd know they ask personal questions
here just to be polite.
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He wasn't being rude.
He came out to meet you in person.
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And you're a woman, and women do not
exist in Siam. They simply do not exist.
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I hope I'll have nothing more
to do with him.
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My dear young woman, you'd better realize
you can't do anything here without him.
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And if I were you,
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I'd see him first thing in the morning
and tell him you didn't understand...
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that you're sorry,
or as near it as you can manage.
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Well, looks like you sleep
onboard tonight.
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Means I can't go with you in the morning,
get down the river early.
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Oh, well, I'll find someone.
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- Thank you, Captain Orton.
- Not at all, ma'am.
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And don't worry, ma'am.
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The king has invested money
in your passage...
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and he's, uh-- he's very canny
about money.
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He'll see that you have a chance
to do your work.
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Mem.
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He's not gonna wait for us.
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Ahhh.
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Good morning.
I wish to see your master.
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Mm. I will see. You will wait.
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They write in such a funny way here.
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Don't be rude, darling.
Come here and wait quietly.
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- You will come this way.
- Thank you.
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You will wait.
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What shall I draw now?
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- Well, let's see. Draw an elephant.
- I just did.
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I wish we could go.
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We're going to wait.
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My master wishes to know why
you come here, what you want.
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Tell His Excellency
I did not understand...
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the honor he paid me
in coming to meet me.
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I'm sorry I behaved ungraciously
and I came here to tell him so.
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My master wishes to know if mem truly
regrets sin of having bad temper...
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or if she only says so
in order to ask favor of him?
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I--
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Tell him it's both.
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I am sorry and I would like his help
in getting started with my work.
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Why doesn't he have a coat on?
You make me wear one.
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- Quiet, dear.
- Let's go. I don't think I like him.
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- What is your name, boy?
- Louis Owens, sir.
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- Are you afraid of me?
- I don't think so.
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That is good. I like you.
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- Take seat. Sit down.
- Thank you.
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Your Excellency speaks English.
I didn't know.
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Not necessary to know everything
in first minutes.
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What for you object to live in palace?
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Your Excellency,
I must have a place of my own...
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where I can go when my duties
are over for the day.
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What you wish to do evenings
that cannot be done in palace?
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You don't understand,
Your Excellency.
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It isn't for some foolish reason.
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I came here to teach because I must work
to support myself and my son.
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- Why you not marry again?
- Oh, no. Not ever.
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The only thing I want now
is to bring up my son.
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He's very like his father,
and I want him to grow up that way.
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That's difficult to do
in a strange country.
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That's why we must
have a home of our own.
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This is very important to me,
Your Excellency.
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- Please believe that.
- You say king promise you this house?
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Yes. I have the letter.
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You do not show me.
I do not think you lie.
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But sometime His Majesty
do not remember everything he promise.
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But couldn't you remind him?
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Mem, if I tell king
he breaks his promise...
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I will make anger in him.
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I think it is better if I make anger
in him about larger matters.
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Very well.
If you're afraid to tell him, I'm not.
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Will you arrange for me
to see him as soon as possible?
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You think you tell king
he breaks his promise?
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Yes, if that's necessary.
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If he wants to get angry
about breaking his own promise--
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Mem, I think I arrange
this meeting for you.
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- When?
- I do not know.
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His Majesty very busy now.
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Is he too busy to remember
he asked me to come?
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Unfortunately, new year and you
arrive at same time.
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New year more important.
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It wouldn't take
10 minutes of his time--
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And after new year is festival
called Songkran, with fireworks.
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That will take week or so maybe.
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Then it's time for cremation
of late cousin.
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But surely--
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Then His Majesty goes upriver
to receive sacred white elephant.
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Then ceremonies of tonsure of hair
of oldest daughter.
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What am I supposed to do
in the meantime?
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Wait. Live in palace and wait.
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This is ridiculous.
I came here to teach.
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Mem, this country has been here
1,000 years before you came...
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and must continue.
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That may be, but I intend to keep
my part of the bargain...
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and I assure you
I expect the king to keep his.
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Mem, I do not think king
will remember this promise...
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but I do think will be
very interesting meeting.
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I don't think we'd better
open this one.
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It's full of things
I didn't know what to do with.
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Yes, memsahib.
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Beebe, do stop crying.
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I told you Moonshee
will probably be here any minute.
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I think I shall never see him again.
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- They said he could not live here with us--
- Nonsense.
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You must have misunderstood.
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It's just there isn't room
for him here now.
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Yes, memsahib.
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Do you remember where
I packed those sheets?
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- I see fireworks.
- It's New Year's Day.
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No, it isn't, Mother. It's only April.
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It's the New Year's out here.
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I won't sleep a wink tonight unless
we have our own sheets on those beds.
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After dinner,
may we go see the fireworks?
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We'll see. Ah, yes.
They're in here. I remember now.
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There, Beebe.
All right. Come on, darling.
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Now I'll see about dinner.
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We would like to have some dinner.
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Something to eat. Eat.
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No, wait a moment.
What part of the palace are we in?
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Well, poor souls.
They don't seem to understand.
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- What made them shut the door?
- Uh, I don't know--
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What are they doing there?
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Oh! Oh, no!
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Oh. So that's why Moonshee
can't be here with us.
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Oh, go away. Beebe.
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What a thing for me to do.
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And I said so positively.
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Oh, Louis, you'll have to
forgive your mother.
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I said we'd have a home of our own...
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and here I've brought you
straight into a harem.
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What does that mean? What is a harem?
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Well, it's-- it's--
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Oh, don't ask me now.
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When you ask me something like that,
I should have a good answer...
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and I will,
but I just can't think of one now.
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Do I have to wear this suit,
Mother?
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Don't sulk, dear.
Come, we must hurry.
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Where did I put my--
Oh, here it is.
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The day is here, Mem Owens.
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It is unfortunate mem had to wait
for new year and cremation...
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but at least she's ahead
of white elephant.
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Who is going to present me
to the king?
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Oh, by all means,
I present you myself.
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First, let us observe manner
of entering presence of His Majesty.
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Let us suppose
Lord of Light sits here.
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Here is door.
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- Oh, no.
- It is custom of country.
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I couldn't.
I'm very sorry, but I couldn't.
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His Majesty very sensitive
about such matters.
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Your Excellency, I intend to show
His Majesty the utmost respect...
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but he cannot possibly expect me
to crawl on the floor.
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I wouldn't do that
for my own queen.
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What you do in presence
of your own queen?
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I'll show you.
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Do as you wish, mem.
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But remember,
you are not only one with temper.
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This king has temper too.
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I return when it is time.
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You will wait.
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Mother, I can walk on my knees
if they want me to. That's easy.
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Louis, I want you to walk in and make
your bow exactly as I've shown you.
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Don't you dare crawl in like a worm.
Don't you dare!
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Yes, Mother.
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Perhaps they don't like us here
or something.
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Oh, this is perfectly childish.
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- The mem is ready now?
- Quite ready.
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Sorry, mem, His Majesty
has concluded audience.
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You mean he isn't going
to receive us after all?
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Some other day, not today.
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- I wish to be presented now.
- I do not advise it.
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Louis.
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Who? Who? Who?
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Your Majesty,
I present new English governess...
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Mrs. Anna Owens, and son Louis.
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How old shall you be?
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You do not look like scientific person
for teaching of school.
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- How old shall you be?
- I am 150 years old, Your Majesty.
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In what year were you born?
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1712, Your Majesty.
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- And how many years shall you be married?
- Several, Your Majesty.
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How many grandchildren
shall you have by now?
238
00:19:59,182 --> 00:20:00,940
How many? How many? How many?
239
00:20:01,089 --> 00:20:03,782
Ah! You do not answer that so quick.
240
00:20:03,851 --> 00:20:06,684
I make better questions
than you make answers, hmm?
241
00:20:23,070 --> 00:20:26,198
You not afraid to tell king
something is not his business?
242
00:20:28,242 --> 00:20:32,008
It would not be a compliment
to His Majesty if I were afraid of him.
243
00:20:32,079 --> 00:20:36,846
Ah. Not to be afraid
is good thing in scientific mind.
244
00:20:38,519 --> 00:20:40,612
I think maybe...
245
00:20:40,688 --> 00:20:42,918
you will make very good
school-teaching.
246
00:21:05,780 --> 00:21:08,214
These-- my wives.
247
00:21:08,282 --> 00:21:13,413
This--Chow Chon Son Llin,
who is favorite.
248
00:21:13,488 --> 00:21:16,389
They not speak English,
and I haven't time for teaching...
249
00:21:16,457 --> 00:21:19,153
being busy with foreign affairs
and other situations.
250
00:21:22,296 --> 00:21:24,821
We'll get my children.
251
00:21:24,899 --> 00:21:26,924
I have fine idea.
252
00:21:27,001 --> 00:21:30,164
You teach all my wives
as have sense to learn.
253
00:21:30,238 --> 00:21:32,331
Siam be very modern country.
254
00:21:32,406 --> 00:21:34,738
Very good--
everybody speaking English.
255
00:21:34,809 --> 00:21:37,039
I would be happy to, Your Majesty.
256
00:21:37,111 --> 00:21:39,671
Ah, here come my children.
257
00:21:45,453 --> 00:21:48,149
You see, mostly boys.
258
00:21:54,262 --> 00:21:56,924
Not all. Few more.
259
00:22:10,511 --> 00:22:13,446
Ahhh! Oh.
260
00:22:19,453 --> 00:22:21,444
How many are there, Your Majesty?
261
00:22:21,522 --> 00:22:23,547
They are not all here, of course.
262
00:22:23,624 --> 00:22:25,615
Only those old enough for school.
263
00:22:25,693 --> 00:22:27,752
I have 67 children. Not many.
264
00:22:27,828 --> 00:22:29,819
I began marriage a little late.
265
00:22:29,897 --> 00:22:31,990
Which is the eldest?
266
00:22:34,869 --> 00:22:38,202
Ah, this one.
This is Prince Chulalongkorn.
267
00:22:39,340 --> 00:22:42,798
This-- Princess Fa-Ying.
268
00:22:42,877 --> 00:22:45,004
This-- Prince Tay Wa Wong.
This--
269
00:22:45,079 --> 00:22:48,571
No. Too many.
Will take time to learn.
270
00:22:48,649 --> 00:22:52,585
They're a wonderful-looking family,
Your Majesty. You make me wish I had 67.
271
00:22:52,653 --> 00:22:55,816
Ah, is impossible.
That is very funny.
272
00:22:55,890 --> 00:22:57,755
Come.
273
00:23:15,743 --> 00:23:19,440
I consider Mrs. Owens suitable
for teaching wives as well as children.
274
00:23:19,513 --> 00:23:22,971
- Thank you, Your Majesty.
- You shall begin school next Thursday.
275
00:23:23,050 --> 00:23:25,985
That is best day for such undertaking
according to astrologers.
276
00:23:26,053 --> 00:23:28,613
- Very well, Your Majesty.
- I am very pleased with this lady.
277
00:23:28,689 --> 00:23:31,783
Why was she not presented here
more soon?
278
00:23:36,197 --> 00:23:38,563
150 year, hmm?
279
00:23:39,934 --> 00:23:42,630
How many grandchildren?
280
00:23:42,703 --> 00:23:45,035
You may go.
281
00:23:56,250 --> 00:23:59,913
Good day, Your Excellency.
Come, darling.
282
00:24:24,178 --> 00:24:26,203
Is this the school?
283
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,942
I don't know, dear,
but we'll find out soon.
284
00:24:36,257 --> 00:24:39,090
Don't they even
start school on time here?
285
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,220
Perhaps the astrologers found
a star they'd overlooked.
286
00:25:05,853 --> 00:25:08,151
What's the matter now, Mother?
287
00:25:08,222 --> 00:25:11,214
I don't know. Must have something
to do with the king.
288
00:25:11,292 --> 00:25:15,695
June 12, 1862!June 12, 1862!
289
00:25:22,737 --> 00:25:24,967
June 12, 1862!
290
00:25:25,039 --> 00:25:28,133
June 12, 1862!
291
00:25:29,577 --> 00:25:31,602
He is fool!
292
00:25:31,679 --> 00:25:34,307
You understand meaning
of word "agility"?
293
00:25:34,381 --> 00:25:36,975
I think Your Majesty's giving
a very good illustration of it.
294
00:25:37,051 --> 00:25:39,076
You see, she understands!
295
00:25:39,153 --> 00:25:42,179
This ignorant and lazy man
is my secretary.
296
00:25:42,256 --> 00:25:46,090
Understands nothing.
All he ever wants to do is sleep, sleep!
297
00:25:47,561 --> 00:25:51,327
On June 12, 1862, which is today...
298
00:25:51,398 --> 00:25:53,423
and therefore birthday for me.
299
00:25:53,501 --> 00:25:56,868
You see, I am young and strong.
300
00:25:56,937 --> 00:26:00,839
- I have agility like young man!
- Of course, Your Majesty.
301
00:26:00,908 --> 00:26:04,173
Then how can I be spare man?
How can I?
302
00:26:04,245 --> 00:26:06,941
Perhaps if Your Majesty
could explain a little more.
303
00:26:07,014 --> 00:26:09,039
Birthday should be happy day.
304
00:26:09,116 --> 00:26:11,209
And what is first happening?
305
00:26:11,285 --> 00:26:15,381
It is writing about me in British newspaper
from Singapore says I am spare man.
306
00:26:15,456 --> 00:26:18,550
A king cannot be spare man!
307
00:26:18,626 --> 00:26:21,288
How can I be spared from work
which is necessary?
308
00:26:21,362 --> 00:26:23,796
Who can fill my place?
I ask you this!
309
00:26:23,864 --> 00:26:25,855
Who can fill my place?
310
00:26:25,933 --> 00:26:29,198
Your Majesty, the word spare
has two meanings.
311
00:26:29,270 --> 00:26:32,205
One of them is "extra,"
the other is "thin."
312
00:26:32,273 --> 00:26:36,369
They don't mean to say
that you're unnecessary, just thin.
313
00:26:42,616 --> 00:26:46,245
- Why should you contradict me?
- I'm only trying to help you.
314
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,584
Is it help to say I am wrong?
315
00:26:48,656 --> 00:26:51,921
How can king be wrong and woman be right?
I ask you that. How?
316
00:26:51,992 --> 00:26:55,257
I'm afraid, Your Majesty,
that it has happened sometimes.
317
00:26:55,329 --> 00:26:59,425
It is clear you are not scientific.
Why are you here?
318
00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:02,560
Because you told me you intended
opening my school today.
319
00:27:02,636 --> 00:27:07,437
My astrologers are fools. How can this
be good day for schools? You may go.
320
00:27:10,144 --> 00:27:13,272
Very well, Your Majesty, but since
you've postponed opening the school...
321
00:27:13,347 --> 00:27:15,372
there's something
I would like to discuss with you.
322
00:27:15,449 --> 00:27:19,044
I should like to use the time
getting settled in my own house.
323
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,883
- House? House? House?
- The house you promised me.
324
00:27:21,956 --> 00:27:23,947
Conditions different suddenly.
325
00:27:24,024 --> 00:27:27,084
- Have we not agreed to teach our women?
- Well, of course I have.
326
00:27:27,161 --> 00:27:29,391
How can you teach them
if you live outside?
327
00:27:29,463 --> 00:27:32,057
It is our pleasure that you
shall reside within this palace.
328
00:27:32,132 --> 00:27:34,566
If Your Majesty remembers,
you promised me a house.
329
00:27:34,635 --> 00:27:37,069
I will do remembering
of what I promise.
330
00:27:37,137 --> 00:27:38,968
Who is king here?
331
00:27:39,039 --> 00:27:41,599
I remind you...
332
00:27:41,675 --> 00:27:45,042
I do not know condition
which will arise.
333
00:27:45,112 --> 00:27:47,945
I do not know anything
but that you are my servant...
334
00:27:48,015 --> 00:27:52,213
and that it's our pleasure that you
shall reside within this palace...
335
00:27:52,286 --> 00:27:54,379
and you shall obey.
336
00:27:54,455 --> 00:27:57,049
Your Majesty, I'm prepared
to obey all your commands...
337
00:27:57,124 --> 00:27:59,115
as far as they concern
my duties as a teacher.
338
00:27:59,193 --> 00:28:02,492
You shall live in palace.
You shall live in palace! You shall--
339
00:28:06,867 --> 00:28:09,836
Come back! Come back!
340
00:28:09,904 --> 00:28:12,805
I command you, come back!
341
00:28:17,811 --> 00:28:19,802
That king hasn't very good manners.
342
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,110
His mother certainly
didn't teach him not to shout.
343
00:28:22,182 --> 00:28:24,742
Women don't seem to count
for very much out here.
344
00:28:24,818 --> 00:28:27,616
"How can a king be wrong
and a woman be right?"
345
00:28:27,688 --> 00:28:30,521
Well, the Disc of Light
isn't going to talk to me like that.
346
00:28:34,194 --> 00:28:36,253
Beebe, take Louis
into the other room.
347
00:28:37,865 --> 00:28:40,095
Yes, what do you want?
348
00:28:40,167 --> 00:28:42,158
I have been ordered
into Forbidden City...
349
00:28:42,236 --> 00:28:44,761
so I could personally
conduct mem to house...
350
00:28:44,838 --> 00:28:47,773
His Majesty has graciously
decided she should have.
351
00:28:47,841 --> 00:28:49,832
A house outside the palace?
352
00:28:49,910 --> 00:28:51,935
His Majesty instruct me to say...
353
00:28:52,012 --> 00:28:55,675
he desire to observe fully
terms of his promise.
354
00:28:57,384 --> 00:28:59,079
Well.
355
00:29:23,210 --> 00:29:25,371
Is this it?
356
00:29:43,230 --> 00:29:46,597
Get out of my way!
357
00:29:46,667 --> 00:29:49,465
Get out of my way!
358
00:29:52,806 --> 00:29:55,673
What was it like? Is there a stable
for my pony when I get it?
359
00:29:55,743 --> 00:29:58,769
- Is it on the river?
- Oh, Louis, it was horrible.
360
00:29:58,846 --> 00:30:01,906
And he did it deliberately
to teach me a lesson...
361
00:30:01,982 --> 00:30:04,109
to put me in my place.
362
00:30:08,589 --> 00:30:11,080
But he'll rue this day,
let me tell you...
363
00:30:11,158 --> 00:30:13,592
if he knows the meaning
of the word rue.
364
00:30:13,660 --> 00:30:16,094
Unpack these things, Beebe.
Unpack everything.
365
00:30:16,163 --> 00:30:19,223
- But, memsahib, you said--
- It doesn't make any difference what I said.
366
00:30:19,299 --> 00:30:21,733
That man's going to give me
a house before I leave...
367
00:30:21,802 --> 00:30:23,793
if I have to stay here
the rest of my life.
368
00:30:23,871 --> 00:30:27,363
I'll not just go away and let him
sit here laughing at me.
369
00:30:27,441 --> 00:30:29,500
I'll not.
370
00:30:31,612 --> 00:30:34,945
Mrs. Owens has graciously
changed her plans...
371
00:30:35,015 --> 00:30:37,540
so will live in royal palace...
372
00:30:37,618 --> 00:30:40,849
and be free for question
of education at all times.
373
00:30:42,389 --> 00:30:44,653
I command you to be diligent...
374
00:30:44,725 --> 00:30:47,159
and to make most
of this opportunity...
375
00:30:47,227 --> 00:30:49,559
for sake of yourselves and country.
376
00:31:11,985 --> 00:31:13,885
We will come to attention, please.
377
00:31:19,326 --> 00:31:23,319
Order, please!
378
00:31:24,898 --> 00:31:28,664
Quiet! Order, please! Quiet!
379
00:31:28,735 --> 00:31:30,930
Order! Quiet!
380
00:31:31,004 --> 00:31:33,837
Be quiet! Be quiet! Order, please!
381
00:31:33,907 --> 00:31:38,105
Quiet! Order!
382
00:31:38,178 --> 00:31:40,510
Don't any of you understand
any English at all?
383
00:31:40,580 --> 00:31:42,445
Aaah!
384
00:31:48,755 --> 00:31:51,815
They think you wear dress like that...
385
00:31:51,892 --> 00:31:54,019
because you're shaped
like that down there.
386
00:31:54,094 --> 00:31:56,722
Oh, you speak English.
387
00:31:56,797 --> 00:31:59,288
Good morning, sir.
388
00:31:59,366 --> 00:32:01,357
I am very glad to see you.
389
00:32:01,435 --> 00:32:04,404
I think of you very often.
390
00:32:04,471 --> 00:32:07,235
In the beginning...
391
00:32:07,307 --> 00:32:10,572
God created the heaven
and the Earth.
392
00:32:12,212 --> 00:32:14,737
Missionary.
393
00:32:14,815 --> 00:32:17,045
Oh, a missionary taught you English.
394
00:32:18,385 --> 00:32:20,819
- Thiang.
- Lady Thiang.
395
00:32:20,887 --> 00:32:23,082
- Yes, sir.
- How fortunate.
396
00:32:23,156 --> 00:32:25,852
I shall ask you to help me
in explaining to the others.
397
00:32:25,926 --> 00:32:29,293
Uh, yes, sir.
Good morning, sir.
398
00:32:32,399 --> 00:32:34,890
We shall now begin the class.
399
00:32:51,952 --> 00:32:56,048
The usual way to begin would
be with the English alphabet...
400
00:32:56,123 --> 00:32:58,114
but I should like
to impress His Majesty...
401
00:32:58,191 --> 00:33:00,318
with the way English people feel.
402
00:33:04,097 --> 00:33:08,227
Therefore, we will begin
by learning a song or two...
403
00:33:08,301 --> 00:33:10,428
or a sentence or two...
404
00:33:10,504 --> 00:33:12,563
which will express English feeling.
405
00:33:12,639 --> 00:33:15,233
For instance, this one.
406
00:33:15,308 --> 00:33:17,367
It's an old proverb.
407
00:33:17,444 --> 00:33:21,278
"If a man break faith with me...
408
00:33:21,348 --> 00:33:23,373
"shame on him...
409
00:33:23,450 --> 00:33:27,887
"but if I let him
deceive me twice...
410
00:33:27,954 --> 00:33:30,013
shame on me."
411
00:33:48,642 --> 00:33:51,167
It is not good day. I feel it.
412
00:33:51,244 --> 00:33:53,678
There will not be
many gifts this morning.
413
00:34:22,609 --> 00:34:26,375
- Who shall this be?
- My name is Tuptim.
414
00:34:26,446 --> 00:34:30,212
She was sent
by governor of Lao province.
415
00:34:30,283 --> 00:34:33,446
She's daughter
of his youngest brother.
416
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:37,684
Ah. What favor shall
this governor want now?
417
00:34:39,126 --> 00:34:42,357
Never mind. Write letter.
Say thank you.
418
00:34:44,898 --> 00:34:48,299
Make it nice letter.
419
00:35:08,989 --> 00:35:12,049
Where this come from?
420
00:35:12,125 --> 00:35:14,889
I do not know, Your Majesty.
421
00:35:55,669 --> 00:35:58,536
There is writing on it.
422
00:35:58,605 --> 00:36:02,041
Read it to me, oh, my father.
423
00:36:02,108 --> 00:36:05,134
You would not understand it,
little one.
424
00:36:05,212 --> 00:36:08,943
But I have studied a month now.
425
00:36:09,015 --> 00:36:14,146
The English mem cha
says I'm very clever...
426
00:36:14,221 --> 00:36:16,883
and you will be pleased.
427
00:36:16,957 --> 00:36:19,585
Tell me something that you
have learned in school.
428
00:36:19,659 --> 00:36:24,961
Good morning.
This is the thought for the day:
429
00:36:25,031 --> 00:36:28,091
A promise delayed...
430
00:36:28,168 --> 00:36:31,069
is justice deferred.
431
00:36:31,137 --> 00:36:33,765
A promise neglected...
432
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,900
is a truth untold.
433
00:36:36,977 --> 00:36:42,176
East or west, home is best.
434
00:36:48,822 --> 00:36:52,622
♪ Which seek thro' the world ♪
435
00:36:52,692 --> 00:36:58,153
♪ Is ne'er met with elsewhere ♪
436
00:36:58,231 --> 00:37:00,665
♪ Home, home ♪
437
00:37:00,734 --> 00:37:04,363
♪ Sweet, sweet home ♪
438
00:37:04,437 --> 00:37:09,636
♪ There's no place like home ♪
439
00:37:09,709 --> 00:37:13,873
♪ There's no place like home♪♪
440
00:37:24,224 --> 00:37:29,025
♪ Be it ever so humble ♪
441
00:37:29,095 --> 00:37:31,825
♪ There's no place like--♪♪
442
00:37:31,898 --> 00:37:34,230
That will do for today.
443
00:37:34,301 --> 00:37:37,998
Now I think it's time we started
learning our alphabet.
444
00:37:38,071 --> 00:37:40,301
Look on your slates and listen...
445
00:37:40,373 --> 00:37:43,206
while I pronounce the letters.
446
00:37:43,276 --> 00:37:45,301
"A."
447
00:37:45,378 --> 00:37:47,369
"B."
448
00:37:47,447 --> 00:37:49,472
"C."
449
00:37:49,549 --> 00:37:51,540
"D."
450
00:37:51,618 --> 00:37:53,586
"E."
451
00:37:53,653 --> 00:37:56,622
Oh, good morning, Your Majesty.
452
00:37:59,559 --> 00:38:03,222
Are you going to say something
to our class this morning?
453
00:38:03,296 --> 00:38:06,732
No!
454
00:38:08,501 --> 00:38:12,062
"F." "G."
455
00:38:25,618 --> 00:38:30,112
♪ There's no place like home♪♪
456
00:38:30,190 --> 00:38:34,092
No singing here!
If singing necessary, I sing!
457
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:36,526
Your Majesty.
458
00:38:38,531 --> 00:38:40,624
It has begun, Toongramon.
459
00:38:42,302 --> 00:38:44,793
We've lost Cambodia.
460
00:38:53,780 --> 00:38:57,045
Our governor of Cambodia has made
a treaty with the French government.
461
00:38:57,117 --> 00:38:59,642
They have recognized Cambodia
as independent of Siam...
462
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,882
placed it under their "protection"...
463
00:39:02,956 --> 00:39:06,687
and this governor of ours still protests
his loyalty to Your Majesty.
464
00:39:12,332 --> 00:39:16,496
So, a camel's nose is in the tent.
465
00:39:18,371 --> 00:39:21,966
The partition of Siam, it has begun.
466
00:39:22,041 --> 00:39:25,602
For a long time,
we've said this hour must come.
467
00:39:25,678 --> 00:39:29,136
Now it is no longer talk.
It is upon us. What do we do?
468
00:39:32,986 --> 00:39:35,147
Nothing.
469
00:39:37,991 --> 00:39:41,256
We shall do nothing
whatever in this matter...
470
00:39:41,327 --> 00:39:43,591
because there is nothing we can do.
471
00:39:45,064 --> 00:39:47,692
Your father took such a man once...
472
00:39:47,767 --> 00:39:50,201
and burned out both his eyes...
473
00:39:50,270 --> 00:39:54,366
hung him in the sun in a cage
over cool running water...
474
00:39:54,441 --> 00:39:57,706
until he went mad.
475
00:39:57,777 --> 00:40:01,679
We have not the right to waste ourselves
on something which cannot be changed.
476
00:40:01,748 --> 00:40:04,808
We shall save what strength
and cunning we may have...
477
00:40:04,884 --> 00:40:07,580
to hold together what is left of Siam.
478
00:40:09,055 --> 00:40:11,853
And if we cannot save all
that is left...
479
00:40:11,925 --> 00:40:14,018
we shall save what we can.
480
00:40:20,099 --> 00:40:23,159
Tell me something, Toongramon.
481
00:40:23,236 --> 00:40:25,227
A long time ago...
482
00:40:25,305 --> 00:40:28,365
I came to you and asked you
to leave a life of peace...
483
00:40:28,441 --> 00:40:31,069
and be the king.
484
00:40:31,144 --> 00:40:33,169
If I could ask you now
to make that choice...
485
00:40:33,246 --> 00:40:35,305
what would your answer be?
486
00:40:37,217 --> 00:40:40,812
Think well before you answer that.
487
00:40:40,887 --> 00:40:44,414
Think what this can mean to you.
488
00:40:44,491 --> 00:40:48,393
You feel great responsibility for me,
don't you, Chow Koon?
489
00:40:48,461 --> 00:40:51,089
You might still be living peacefully
at the monastery...
490
00:40:51,164 --> 00:40:53,257
if I had not persuaded you.
491
00:40:55,134 --> 00:40:58,763
Perhaps it is not too late to return.
Think well on that.
492
00:40:58,838 --> 00:41:02,672
The monastery instead of this place
where you have only enemies and danger.
493
00:41:02,742 --> 00:41:05,905
Well, you know this is not the end.
494
00:41:05,979 --> 00:41:08,607
The ships of Europe
will crowd thicker on our seas...
495
00:41:08,681 --> 00:41:10,706
greedy for conquest.
496
00:41:10,783 --> 00:41:13,445
They have the power...
497
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,545
and the cunning.
498
00:41:15,622 --> 00:41:17,700
They know how to set
your nobles against you,
499
00:41:17,743 --> 00:41:19,381
how to buy and threaten them.
500
00:41:19,692 --> 00:41:22,923
How can you hope to hold Siam together
against enemies without and within?
501
00:41:22,996 --> 00:41:27,660
All that it can mean to you is that
in the end you will die in a lost cause.
502
00:41:31,004 --> 00:41:34,064
I have done you a sorry service...
503
00:41:34,140 --> 00:41:36,199
to have brought you to this moment.
504
00:41:38,011 --> 00:41:41,845
I think you take too much credit
on yourself, Chow Koon.
505
00:41:43,650 --> 00:41:46,141
There is a man born for every task...
506
00:41:46,219 --> 00:41:48,653
and I was born for this one.
507
00:41:48,721 --> 00:41:51,656
Remember,
I was prince before I was monk.
508
00:41:53,660 --> 00:41:55,753
Let me ask you...
509
00:41:55,828 --> 00:41:58,524
if you were in my place,
what would your answer be?
510
00:42:01,134 --> 00:42:05,628
Then give me as much credit
as you allow yourself, my friend.
511
00:42:12,412 --> 00:42:15,575
If only we had more time.
512
00:42:19,819 --> 00:42:22,845
- She's got someone else at it.
- She?
513
00:42:22,922 --> 00:42:25,220
That woman and her house!
514
00:42:26,492 --> 00:42:28,551
Stop it!
515
00:42:29,829 --> 00:42:31,854
Take a lesson from her, my friend...
516
00:42:31,931 --> 00:42:34,832
and you'll never give up on anything.
517
00:42:34,901 --> 00:42:37,529
- Give her a house.
- But--
518
00:42:37,604 --> 00:42:40,266
Give her a house! If she was meant
to be a sign to us, she deserves a reward.
519
00:42:40,340 --> 00:42:43,707
And if she wasn't, well,
give her a house anyway...
520
00:42:43,776 --> 00:42:45,869
before she drives me out of my mind!
521
00:43:00,226 --> 00:43:03,525
- Very nice.
- Yes, mem.
522
00:43:03,596 --> 00:43:06,326
No fish here.
523
00:43:06,399 --> 00:43:08,959
No fish.
524
00:43:11,571 --> 00:43:14,131
You like it?
525
00:43:14,207 --> 00:43:16,835
I could be quite comfortable here.
526
00:43:16,909 --> 00:43:20,401
It is, of course, our wish that mem
shall be perfectly satisfied.
527
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:24,541
Oh, I am perfectly,
Your Excellency.
528
00:43:24,617 --> 00:43:27,085
I said I'd get a house,
and I got it...
529
00:43:27,153 --> 00:43:30,748
but now you may go to the king
and tell him he can have it back.
530
00:43:30,823 --> 00:43:34,224
I wouldn't live in it
if it had a roof made of rubies.
531
00:43:34,293 --> 00:43:36,887
And you can tell him
something else too.
532
00:43:36,963 --> 00:43:41,059
I wouldn't live in a country where
promises mean nothing, simply nothing.
533
00:43:41,134 --> 00:43:43,500
I won't stay in Siam
a minute longer than I have to...
534
00:43:43,569 --> 00:43:47,528
not if he gave me the whole palace
to live in all by myself.
535
00:43:47,607 --> 00:43:50,804
Good day, Your Excellency.
536
00:43:55,515 --> 00:43:57,540
I'll find out what time we sail.
537
00:43:57,617 --> 00:44:00,245
I think we can go aboard ship
the first thing in the morning.
538
00:44:00,319 --> 00:44:02,412
If Louis wakes up,
tell him I'll be back soon.
539
00:44:02,488 --> 00:44:04,479
Yes, memsahib.
540
00:44:18,671 --> 00:44:20,901
How dare you treat me
in this manner?
541
00:44:20,973 --> 00:44:23,533
I demand an explanation,
and I warn you--
542
00:44:23,609 --> 00:44:25,907
- Be quiet, sir.
- That I'm a British subject.
543
00:44:25,978 --> 00:44:28,208
That is not reason you are safe.
544
00:44:28,281 --> 00:44:32,217
I could have you killed if that would serve
my purpose. Such things are simple here.
545
00:44:36,189 --> 00:44:41,354
Sir, did you enjoy your triumph
about your house?
546
00:44:43,296 --> 00:44:46,959
'Cause you shall now
enjoy greater triumph.
547
00:44:47,033 --> 00:44:49,058
I have something to ask of you...
548
00:44:49,135 --> 00:44:52,400
not demand, but ask.
549
00:44:52,472 --> 00:44:54,736
It is that you shall stay in Siam.
550
00:44:56,409 --> 00:44:58,434
You may enjoy yourself
if you like, sir.
551
00:44:58,511 --> 00:45:01,139
No matter what you asked,
I wouldn't do it.
552
00:45:01,214 --> 00:45:03,354
If you do not stay in Siam,
where will you go?
553
00:45:03,452 --> 00:45:04,298
I don't know.
554
00:45:04,350 --> 00:45:07,183
- Have you other place to put your life?
- What has that to do with you?
555
00:45:07,253 --> 00:45:10,313
- Have you, sir?
- Please stop calling me "sir"!
556
00:45:10,389 --> 00:45:14,917
I call you sir so you will not
be lowly like a woman...
557
00:45:14,994 --> 00:45:19,090
but you continue to talk like a woman,
I no longer call you sir.
558
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,660
You think now you are nothing here...
559
00:45:23,736 --> 00:45:25,761
but that could be different.
560
00:45:25,838 --> 00:45:28,033
How could it be as long as the king...
561
00:45:28,107 --> 00:45:30,541
can change his mind
from one day to another?
562
00:45:30,610 --> 00:45:33,670
- The king is not ordinary man.
- Indeed he isn't.
563
00:45:33,746 --> 00:45:36,806
- He is lonely man.
- Lonely!
564
00:45:36,883 --> 00:45:39,613
Mem, I have watched you.
565
00:45:39,685 --> 00:45:42,449
I think there is need here for you.
566
00:45:42,522 --> 00:45:44,956
I think you know what is truth
about many things.
567
00:45:45,024 --> 00:45:47,857
I know you have courage to speak it.
568
00:45:47,927 --> 00:45:49,952
The king has no one near him like you.
569
00:45:50,029 --> 00:45:53,487
He has many wives,
but they cannot help him.
570
00:45:53,566 --> 00:45:56,831
You can speak with him as a woman
where they cannot.
571
00:45:56,903 --> 00:45:58,073
And he will listen to you,
572
00:45:58,098 --> 00:46:01,023
because he will know you do not
seek something for yourself.
573
00:46:01,073 --> 00:46:04,839
Indeed I wouldn't, least of all the chance
to revolve around him.
574
00:46:04,911 --> 00:46:07,947
- He doesn't need help.
- Mem, why you not see?
575
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:09,479
Why?
576
00:46:09,548 --> 00:46:12,244
He is two men!
577
00:46:12,318 --> 00:46:15,981
One part of him is king,
like his father was.
578
00:46:16,055 --> 00:46:19,081
Other part tries to be man
of new world...
579
00:46:19,158 --> 00:46:22,491
scientific man who desires to learn
all modern things to save his country.
580
00:46:24,430 --> 00:46:27,058
But greedy men of Europe
are at our door.
581
00:46:27,132 --> 00:46:29,999
They say Siam is barbaric land...
582
00:46:30,069 --> 00:46:32,503
and so must be ruled by them.
583
00:46:32,571 --> 00:46:36,871
So king must learn
all modern things now.
584
00:46:36,942 --> 00:46:40,844
He tries work too big for any man,
with no one to help.
585
00:46:40,913 --> 00:46:43,473
His own people are his enemies.
They do not want change.
586
00:46:45,451 --> 00:46:47,442
And sometimes
inside himself is enemy...
587
00:46:48,921 --> 00:46:50,980
that cannot change.
588
00:46:52,691 --> 00:46:56,183
Mem, are you blind?
Have you no eyes to see?
589
00:46:56,261 --> 00:46:59,287
He does not live
coldly with mind as I do.
590
00:46:59,365 --> 00:47:02,027
But with heart.
591
00:47:02,101 --> 00:47:05,559
With heart, mem, as king must--
592
00:47:05,637 --> 00:47:08,037
and so is torn in two within himself.
593
00:47:08,107 --> 00:47:11,201
And to whom can he turn?
Whom can he trust?
594
00:47:12,311 --> 00:47:15,712
He is very lonely man...
595
00:47:18,317 --> 00:47:21,013
and very strange man.
596
00:47:23,856 --> 00:47:25,847
Yet for him, I would die.
597
00:47:31,663 --> 00:47:34,496
I'm--
598
00:47:34,566 --> 00:47:37,558
I'm afraid I haven't been
very understanding.
599
00:47:41,874 --> 00:47:45,742
Mem, I cannot promise that
it will ever be easy for you.
600
00:47:48,247 --> 00:47:50,909
We have proverb here--
601
00:47:50,983 --> 00:47:53,679
"Go up by land, and you meet tiger.
602
00:47:53,752 --> 00:47:58,849
Go down by water,
and you meet crocodile."
603
00:47:58,924 --> 00:48:02,360
But for you,
it will be place to put your life.
604
00:48:12,438 --> 00:48:16,966
"Your Majesty once suggested that I might
possibly be of some slight help to him...
605
00:48:17,042 --> 00:48:20,842
with his correspondence
and in the translation of--"
606
00:48:20,913 --> 00:48:24,679
Ah! Alak, take letter.
607
00:48:24,750 --> 00:48:28,447
To Mrs. A. Owens, by our gracious consent,
governess of the court of Siam...
608
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:32,183
uh, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
609
00:48:32,257 --> 00:48:34,487
Dear mem, I have your letter...
610
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:36,994
in which you make offer
of assistance.
611
00:48:37,062 --> 00:48:39,155
In reply, beg to state...
612
00:48:39,231 --> 00:48:43,224
you were engaged for teaching school,
not otherwise.
613
00:48:43,302 --> 00:48:45,327
I think you shall ask yourself...
614
00:48:45,404 --> 00:48:48,669
are your scholars now interested
in facility of language...
615
00:48:48,740 --> 00:48:53,040
more than certain songs
and proverbs concerning houses?
616
00:49:12,097 --> 00:49:14,588
This seems to be
definitely no answer.
617
00:49:36,922 --> 00:49:38,913
Do you speak English?
618
00:49:38,991 --> 00:49:41,926
My family speaks some English
a long time.
619
00:49:41,994 --> 00:49:45,191
- What is your name?
- Tuptim.
620
00:49:45,264 --> 00:49:48,722
He's very amusing, but none of us
can do any work while he's here.
621
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,428
You'd better take him outside
until school is over.
622
00:49:51,503 --> 00:49:53,562
He will be good, mem.
623
00:50:01,180 --> 00:50:05,241
He's really very clever,
but I cannot allow him to stay.
624
00:50:05,317 --> 00:50:07,308
Take him out now, Tuptim.
625
00:50:07,386 --> 00:50:11,482
If he make people to laugh
in this dull palace, that is good.
626
00:50:11,557 --> 00:50:14,287
I don't want to make a report of this
to His Majesty.
627
00:50:16,161 --> 00:50:19,028
His Majesty give him to me.
628
00:50:20,499 --> 00:50:22,899
But not to bring to school.
629
00:50:32,578 --> 00:50:36,344
Go to the king... if you like.
630
00:50:38,984 --> 00:50:41,350
Mem...
631
00:50:43,021 --> 00:50:45,512
do not make quarrel
with new favorite of the king.
632
00:50:45,591 --> 00:50:48,856
- You will lose.
- Tuptim?
633
00:50:55,567 --> 00:51:00,027
Let's get on with our work now, please.
We've lost enough time.
634
00:51:00,105 --> 00:51:03,370
Mem, there is thing in this book
I do not believe.
635
00:51:03,442 --> 00:51:05,467
What is it, Prince Chulalongkorn?
636
00:51:05,544 --> 00:51:07,535
It shows world like round ball...
637
00:51:07,613 --> 00:51:09,638
that spins on stick through middle...
638
00:51:09,715 --> 00:51:12,843
and everyone knows that world
rests on back of great turtle...
639
00:51:12,918 --> 00:51:15,182
who keeps it from running into stars.
640
00:51:15,254 --> 00:51:17,722
- Where did you get the book?
- I gave it to him.
641
00:51:17,789 --> 00:51:21,623
- But you shouldn't without asking me.
- I'm sorry.
642
00:51:21,693 --> 00:51:24,218
There are many stories about the world,
Your Royal Highness.
643
00:51:24,296 --> 00:51:26,321
When we're further along
with our studies...
644
00:51:26,398 --> 00:51:28,389
I shall try and explain them to you.
645
00:51:28,467 --> 00:51:31,129
But for the present,
I think we'd better stick to our letters.
646
00:51:31,203 --> 00:51:34,229
But I know all my letters, mem.
647
00:51:34,306 --> 00:51:36,740
Quiet, please!
648
00:51:36,808 --> 00:51:38,833
I know that you
are very quick to learn...
649
00:51:38,910 --> 00:51:40,901
and I shall do all I can
to help you...
650
00:51:40,979 --> 00:51:44,107
but for the present,
I wish you to recite with the class.
651
00:51:57,462 --> 00:52:00,522
Oh. You wanted to see me,
Lady Thiang?
652
00:52:00,599 --> 00:52:02,658
Yes, sir.
653
00:52:02,734 --> 00:52:03,819
I'm glad you stayed.
654
00:52:04,116 --> 00:52:06,717
I wanted to thank you
for warning me about Tuptim.
655
00:52:06,772 --> 00:52:08,763
Yes, sir.
656
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,434
I don't quite understand
about Tuptim being the favorite.
657
00:52:11,510 --> 00:52:13,842
I thought that Lady Son Klin--
658
00:52:13,912 --> 00:52:17,177
Why you think
Lady Son Klin not here?
659
00:52:17,249 --> 00:52:20,707
- Oh, I thought perhaps she was ill or--
- She in prison.
660
00:52:20,786 --> 00:52:22,754
But what for?
661
00:52:22,821 --> 00:52:26,951
Because she gamble too much,
which is law...
662
00:52:27,025 --> 00:52:29,255
but she do not
go to prison for this...
663
00:52:29,328 --> 00:52:31,796
if she is still favorite.
664
00:52:31,863 --> 00:52:35,560
- Is there anything we can do?
- She is young.
665
00:52:35,634 --> 00:52:37,966
She will become
used to such things.
666
00:52:38,036 --> 00:52:41,904
I will help her
when this can be done...
667
00:52:41,973 --> 00:52:44,601
but it is hard.
668
00:52:44,676 --> 00:52:46,871
I not in favor with my lord.
669
00:52:46,945 --> 00:52:49,971
- Oh?
- Not for long time.
670
00:52:50,048 --> 00:52:52,881
My lord's table--
671
00:52:52,951 --> 00:52:55,476
I taste food there, that is all.
672
00:52:55,554 --> 00:52:58,717
- For fear of poison?
- Yes, sir.
673
00:52:58,790 --> 00:53:02,886
Guard my lord, that is all.
674
00:53:02,961 --> 00:53:05,794
- Oh, I'm sorry.
- No, sir.
675
00:53:05,864 --> 00:53:09,129
No, not for me, sorry.
676
00:53:09,201 --> 00:53:13,467
I Chow Chom Manda,
mother royal prince.
677
00:53:13,538 --> 00:53:15,972
Prince Chulalongkorn?
678
00:53:16,041 --> 00:53:19,977
Yes, sir. Yes. My little boy.
679
00:53:20,045 --> 00:53:24,846
- You like little boy?
- Yes, of course.
680
00:53:24,916 --> 00:53:29,250
You think my little boy learn?
681
00:53:29,321 --> 00:53:32,484
Well, yes. He seems very bright.
682
00:53:32,557 --> 00:53:34,491
Please, mem.
683
00:53:35,627 --> 00:53:38,357
You do not mind
that it is hard for him--
684
00:53:38,430 --> 00:53:41,661
hard to learn from woman.
685
00:53:41,733 --> 00:53:44,861
He wants much to learn.
686
00:53:44,936 --> 00:53:50,374
Please, you will help him
to learn all wisdom.
687
00:53:50,442 --> 00:53:53,104
That is most important thing.
688
00:53:53,178 --> 00:53:56,409
Yes, of course.
And I'm sure he'll do beautifully.
689
00:53:58,250 --> 00:54:03,153
Well, after today,
I think I can manage a large cup of tea.
690
00:54:03,221 --> 00:54:05,849
Louis!
691
00:54:05,924 --> 00:54:09,018
Thank you, Lady Thiang,
for all your help.
692
00:54:09,094 --> 00:54:11,085
Good-bye, sir.
693
00:54:12,864 --> 00:54:15,059
Ready for tea? I'm sure I am.
694
00:54:15,133 --> 00:54:18,432
Well, we might as well, I suppose.
695
00:54:21,039 --> 00:54:23,735
Oh, dear.
What seems to be the trouble?
696
00:54:25,143 --> 00:54:27,168
I think you'd better tell me.
697
00:54:27,245 --> 00:54:29,713
Well, I can't make any sense of it.
698
00:54:29,781 --> 00:54:32,341
He says nobody can touch his head
because it's sacred...
699
00:54:32,417 --> 00:54:34,408
and his shoulders are, almost.
700
00:54:34,486 --> 00:54:37,546
Anyone who struck me upon head
would have to be killed.
701
00:54:37,622 --> 00:54:39,647
When I am king like my father...
702
00:54:39,724 --> 00:54:41,919
no one may stand
so head is higher than mine.
703
00:54:41,993 --> 00:54:44,018
So the only way
they know how to fight...
704
00:54:44,095 --> 00:54:47,997
is to hold a long stick and beat
each other on the shins and legs with it.
705
00:54:48,066 --> 00:54:51,934
You might just as well stand and kick each
other's shins, but he wouldn't even do that.
706
00:54:52,003 --> 00:54:55,700
It is a matter that takes much skill.
I would've beaten him very badly.
707
00:54:55,774 --> 00:54:58,208
I see.
708
00:54:58,276 --> 00:55:01,939
But suppose you tell me why it was
necessary to fight in the first place.
709
00:55:02,341 --> 00:55:04,520
Well, he said I wasn't a man
710
00:55:04,591 --> 00:55:07,270
because I told you I was sorry
about giving him the book...
711
00:55:07,653 --> 00:55:10,311
and a man shouldn't tell a woman
he's sorry, not about anything.
712
00:55:11,490 --> 00:55:13,617
Oh.
713
00:55:14,759 --> 00:55:16,750
Tell me, Your Royal Highness...
714
00:55:16,828 --> 00:55:20,855
if your father corrected you about
something, would you resent that?
715
00:55:20,932 --> 00:55:25,232
He is man. He is very wise.
He knows everything.
716
00:55:25,303 --> 00:55:27,703
Well, you see, in our country...
717
00:55:27,772 --> 00:55:31,139
it's possible for me to be
almost like a father to Louis...
718
00:55:31,209 --> 00:55:33,234
even though I am a woman.
719
00:55:33,311 --> 00:55:35,302
And because we love
one another very much...
720
00:55:35,380 --> 00:55:38,042
he knows I want
only what is right for him.
721
00:55:38,116 --> 00:55:42,052
And he can accept authority from me
just the same as you can from your father.
722
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:45,886
I do not think I would like country
in which this was so.
723
00:55:45,957 --> 00:55:51,156
But since it is so with us,
I see no great need to fight.
724
00:55:51,229 --> 00:55:54,130
It would be much nicer
if you could be friends.
725
00:55:55,233 --> 00:55:57,827
Well, he was not coward.
726
00:55:57,903 --> 00:55:59,996
He would've tried sticks.
727
00:56:02,507 --> 00:56:04,498
Well, all right, then.
728
00:56:04,576 --> 00:56:07,909
That's better. We'll see you
in school tomorrow.
729
00:56:53,925 --> 00:56:56,723
Memsahib! Memsahib!
730
00:56:56,795 --> 00:56:59,992
It is the end. The end has come!
I knew it would come!
731
00:57:00,065 --> 00:57:02,499
- Don't be foolish, Beebe. What is it?
- His messengers are here.
732
00:57:02,567 --> 00:57:04,558
The king wishes to see you.
733
00:57:04,636 --> 00:57:06,900
- What can he want at such a time?
- I don't know.
734
00:57:06,972 --> 00:57:09,065
Help me find my things.
735
00:57:17,382 --> 00:57:19,475
Your Majesty.
736
00:57:23,555 --> 00:57:27,787
Mem, I think your Moses
shall have been a fool.
737
00:57:27,859 --> 00:57:29,850
Moses?
738
00:57:29,928 --> 00:57:34,490
Moses, Moses, Moses.
I think he shall have been a fool.
739
00:57:34,566 --> 00:57:37,967
Here it stands, written by him:
740
00:57:38,036 --> 00:57:41,199
"The world was created in six days."
741
00:57:41,272 --> 00:57:46,539
Now, you know, I know it took
many centuries to create world.
742
00:57:46,611 --> 00:57:49,512
I think he shall have been a fool
to have written so.
743
00:57:49,581 --> 00:57:51,606
What is your opinion?
744
00:57:51,683 --> 00:57:53,776
Do you mean to say
that you sent for me...
745
00:57:53,851 --> 00:57:55,944
at this hour of night
just to ask me that?
746
00:57:56,020 --> 00:57:58,318
Yes. What is your opinion?
747
00:57:58,389 --> 00:58:00,550
Couldn't you have waited
till morning?
748
00:58:00,625 --> 00:58:04,220
Mem, you say you wish
to help with study, et cetera.
749
00:58:04,295 --> 00:58:06,422
Do you wish help or do not?
750
00:58:08,733 --> 00:58:13,636
I'm sorry, Your Majesty.
I do want to help if I can.
751
00:58:13,705 --> 00:58:18,404
Then what is your opinion
of this thing as stated by Moses?
752
00:58:18,476 --> 00:58:21,536
Mem, it is necessary
for me to read all European books...
753
00:58:21,613 --> 00:58:23,979
to try to understand
knowledge of modern world...
754
00:58:24,048 --> 00:58:26,243
and there have been
very many things written.
755
00:58:26,317 --> 00:58:29,150
There have been mountains
of things written...
756
00:58:29,220 --> 00:58:32,519
and knowledge is buried
underneath this mountain.
757
00:58:32,590 --> 00:58:36,492
I ask you to consider this is
very much reading for one lifetime.
758
00:58:36,561 --> 00:58:38,552
And how shall
I do this understanding...
759
00:58:38,630 --> 00:58:40,723
when different English books
say different things?
760
00:58:40,798 --> 00:58:43,665
Your Majesty...
761
00:58:43,735 --> 00:58:46,260
the Bible was not written
by men of science.
762
00:58:46,337 --> 00:58:48,601
It was written by men of faith.
763
00:58:48,673 --> 00:58:51,733
It was their explanation
of the miracle of creation...
764
00:58:51,809 --> 00:58:53,834
which is just as great a miracle...
765
00:58:53,911 --> 00:58:56,402
whether it took
six days or many centuries.
766
00:58:56,481 --> 00:58:59,678
I think science
does not contradict the Bible.
767
00:58:59,751 --> 00:59:02,811
It has only made us more aware
of how great the miracle was.
768
00:59:09,761 --> 00:59:13,253
Well, I still think your Moses
shall have been a fool. You may go.
769
00:59:25,343 --> 00:59:28,574
Moses. The idea.
770
00:59:28,646 --> 00:59:30,807
3:00 in the morning.
771
00:59:30,882 --> 00:59:34,045
Someone ought to tell him a thing or two.
772
00:59:57,041 --> 00:59:59,976
Lady Tuptim's slave?
773
01:00:11,422 --> 01:00:14,983
I am not sorry about the monkey,
if that is why you make me stay.
774
01:00:15,059 --> 01:00:17,584
It isn't the monkey, Lady Tuptim.
775
01:00:17,662 --> 01:00:20,426
I want to ask your help for someone.
776
01:00:20,498 --> 01:00:23,982
It's your slave woman L'Ore.
I've talked with her.
777
01:00:24,787 --> 01:00:26,188
By what right?
778
01:00:26,341 --> 01:00:29,695
I can't believe you would deliberately
keep her in chains so long...
779
01:00:29,774 --> 01:00:33,141
- and with a child too.
- She tried to run away.
780
01:00:33,211 --> 01:00:37,511
She was only trying to go to her husband.
He wants to buy her freedom.
781
01:00:37,582 --> 01:00:42,713
Isn't there a law in Siam that says a slave
must be freed if the money is offered?
782
01:00:42,787 --> 01:00:45,381
What right has she to be happy
with someone she love...
783
01:00:45,456 --> 01:00:47,549
while I am shut up here?
784
01:00:47,625 --> 01:00:51,857
Let her stay where she is.
You can have your law.
785
01:00:51,929 --> 01:00:57,026
I have the king.
Go and find this out for yourself.
786
01:01:04,609 --> 01:01:07,043
- Mem cha.
- Oh, yes, Your Royal Highness.
787
01:01:07,111 --> 01:01:10,672
What is it about this law?
Does it mean slaves of king too?
788
01:01:10,748 --> 01:01:13,342
Of course.
A law is the same for everyone.
789
01:01:13,417 --> 01:01:15,851
But I do not understand about law...
790
01:01:15,920 --> 01:01:17,911
that makes it
more important than king.
791
01:01:18,292 --> 01:01:19,342
Tell me.
792
01:01:19,403 --> 01:01:22,177
I'm sorry.
We'll talk about it some other time.
793
01:01:22,226 --> 01:01:25,753
- Now I must go and see your father.
- Yes, mem cha.
794
01:01:27,665 --> 01:01:29,758
- Mem?
- Oh, yes, Lady Thiang.
795
01:01:29,834 --> 01:01:33,895
Is it not all right for him
to ask you things...
796
01:01:33,971 --> 01:01:35,996
things outside of the books?
797
01:01:36,073 --> 01:01:39,440
Of course. But some other day
when we have more time.
798
01:01:39,510 --> 01:01:42,843
I'm sorry,
but I must go to the king now.
799
01:01:42,914 --> 01:01:46,406
He's really doing very well
with his studies.
800
01:01:59,430 --> 01:02:01,421
Your Majesty,
I've come to you because I felt...
801
01:02:01,499 --> 01:02:03,694
I must bring something
to your attention.
802
01:02:03,768 --> 01:02:04,743
It concerns--
803
01:02:04,768 --> 01:02:07,284
Why must you stir up tempest
over Lady Tuptim's slave?
804
01:02:07,338 --> 01:02:09,465
I have much unpleasantness
because of this.
805
01:02:09,540 --> 01:02:11,599
Then Lady Tuptim
has already told you about it.
806
01:02:13,109 --> 01:02:15,616
I do not have time to waste
discussing matters of such nature.
807
01:02:15,656 --> 01:02:18,777
In future, do not trouble me with same.
They do not interest me. You may go.
808
01:02:18,850 --> 01:02:21,819
But surely, Your Majesty,
you want to hear all the truth.
809
01:02:21,886 --> 01:02:23,911
You've only heard
Lady Tuptim's story.
810
01:02:23,988 --> 01:02:27,981
- Perhaps this slave isn't important.
- Why you stand over my head?
811
01:02:28,059 --> 01:02:30,653
I don't understand.
812
01:02:30,728 --> 01:02:32,992
Last night, when I invited you
to consider Moses...
813
01:02:33,064 --> 01:02:35,089
you stood up over me.
814
01:02:35,166 --> 01:02:37,157
You do so now.
I cannot stand up all the time.
815
01:02:37,235 --> 01:02:39,465
In this country, no one's head
shall be higher than the king's.
816
01:02:39,537 --> 01:02:43,667
It is sign of great disrespect. In future,
you shall conduct like all other subjects.
817
01:02:43,741 --> 01:02:47,575
- You mean on the floor?
- All subjects do so.
818
01:02:48,980 --> 01:02:51,244
I'm sorry. I shall try my best...
819
01:02:51,315 --> 01:02:53,749
never to allow my head
to be as high as Your Majesty's...
820
01:02:53,818 --> 01:02:56,343
but I simply cannot
grovel on the floor.
821
01:02:56,420 --> 01:02:59,082
You are very stubborn, mem.
822
01:02:59,156 --> 01:03:01,317
I do not understand
why you must be so.
823
01:03:01,392 --> 01:03:04,293
Your Majesty,
I couldn't possibly work that way.
824
01:03:04,362 --> 01:03:06,762
Surely when we're alone,
it isn't necessary--
825
01:03:06,831 --> 01:03:10,824
No one shall say I am not a reasonable man.
I grant you such favor.
826
01:03:10,902 --> 01:03:12,767
Thank you, Your Majesty.
827
01:03:12,837 --> 01:03:16,034
But you shall observe care that head
shall not be higher than mine.
828
01:03:16,107 --> 01:03:19,201
If I shall sit, you shall sit...
829
01:03:19,277 --> 01:03:21,336
uh, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera.
830
01:03:21,412 --> 01:03:24,245
- I'll try, Your Majesty.
- Very well. You may go.
831
01:03:28,419 --> 01:03:31,183
Not until I've said
what I came to say.
832
01:03:33,291 --> 01:03:36,727
I think this slave has a right
to expect justice from you.
833
01:03:36,794 --> 01:03:39,786
And I think it's wrong
when the king of Siam...
834
01:03:39,864 --> 01:03:43,891
upholds his wife when she chooses
to disobey the law.
835
01:03:43,968 --> 01:03:48,029
I am the law here, as people
can discover if not discreet.
836
01:03:48,105 --> 01:03:50,369
I'm sorry to hear you say that,
Your Majesty...
837
01:03:50,441 --> 01:03:54,400
because it goes against everything
I thought you wanted for your country.
838
01:03:54,478 --> 01:03:57,242
How shall you know
what I want for my country?
839
01:03:57,315 --> 01:03:59,374
I know you want it to progress...
840
01:03:59,450 --> 01:04:02,078
to take its place among
the other nations of the world.
841
01:04:02,153 --> 01:04:04,678
You made this law yourself...
842
01:04:04,755 --> 01:04:08,748
but if you put your own will
above the laws you make, you'll fail.
843
01:04:08,826 --> 01:04:11,522
Other countries
won't trust a nation...
844
01:04:11,595 --> 01:04:14,257
where a man can put himself
above the law.
845
01:04:14,332 --> 01:04:16,664
Everything might change
with your successor.
846
01:04:16,734 --> 01:04:18,725
Siam's word,
her treaties with them...
847
01:04:18,803 --> 01:04:20,998
would be good
only as long as you live.
848
01:04:21,072 --> 01:04:25,907
I do not like this talk
about successor.
849
01:04:25,977 --> 01:04:29,003
Why must you make entire household
in uproar over one slave?
850
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:34,040
I ask you to remember,
there are 3,000 women in household.
851
01:04:34,118 --> 01:04:36,780
3,000 women
can be very much uproar.
852
01:04:36,854 --> 01:04:41,348
And how shall I do work which is
necessary when there is so much uproar?
853
01:04:41,425 --> 01:04:44,758
But this is more important,
Your Majesty.
854
01:04:44,829 --> 01:04:48,390
The progress you want isn't
a matter of customs or manners.
855
01:04:48,466 --> 01:04:50,957
It's the spirit behind those things.
856
01:04:51,035 --> 01:04:55,233
It's--It's recognizing that every
living person is an individual...
857
01:04:55,306 --> 01:04:58,366
with the same right to liberty
and justice under the law...
858
01:04:58,442 --> 01:05:01,411
so that he can make as much
as he's willing to make of his life.
859
01:05:01,479 --> 01:05:03,709
Your law began to give
your people that right...
860
01:05:03,781 --> 01:05:05,772
but a law must be the same
for everyone--
861
01:05:05,850 --> 01:05:07,875
for slave just as much as for king.
862
01:05:11,155 --> 01:05:13,749
Consider Her Gracious
Majesty Victoria...
863
01:05:13,824 --> 01:05:16,224
queen of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland...
864
01:05:16,293 --> 01:05:18,989
and powerful sovereign of British colonies
around globe of human world...
865
01:05:19,063 --> 01:05:21,156
and our most affectionate sister.
866
01:05:21,232 --> 01:05:23,496
- Is she not above the law?
- No, Your Majesty.
867
01:05:23,567 --> 01:05:27,901
My country may have many faults,
but her laws are the same for all.
868
01:05:27,972 --> 01:05:30,440
And in the United States,
their president Mr. Lincoln...
869
01:05:30,508 --> 01:05:32,806
is fighting a war
for the same principle.
870
01:05:32,877 --> 01:05:35,937
Ah. This sounds like progress
in America pretty bloody.
871
01:05:36,013 --> 01:05:39,642
Sometimes you have to fight
for what you believe in.
872
01:05:39,717 --> 01:05:42,447
Who shall this Mr. Lincoln be?
873
01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:44,579
Is he king of this United States?
874
01:05:44,755 --> 01:05:46,207
He is their president.
875
01:05:46,256 --> 01:05:48,217
What is this "president"?
I do not understand.
876
01:05:48,256 --> 01:05:50,026
It means he was elected.
877
01:05:50,094 --> 01:05:52,961
That means he was chosen by the people
by a vote to lead them.
878
01:05:53,030 --> 01:05:57,694
I do not think I like this.
Shall he be winning this war?
879
01:05:57,768 --> 01:05:59,633
No one knows, Your Majesty.
880
01:05:59,703 --> 01:06:02,365
And how shall he be trained to rule
if he is not born to do so?
881
01:06:02,440 --> 01:06:04,374
But he doesn't rule them.
882
01:06:04,442 --> 01:06:07,878
He only sees that the laws
they make themselves are carried out.
883
01:06:07,945 --> 01:06:11,108
And I believe he studied very hard.
He educated himself.
884
01:06:11,182 --> 01:06:14,310
This very difficult thing.
I know of sad experience.
885
01:06:14,385 --> 01:06:17,377
I teach myself English
and other language.
886
01:06:17,455 --> 01:06:20,618
In this respect,
Mr. Lincoln and I much alike.
887
01:06:20,691 --> 01:06:22,682
He said something
about progress once...
888
01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:25,558
when he was speaking
at a school.
889
01:06:25,629 --> 01:06:28,530
He said he was afraid
we were inclined...
890
01:06:28,599 --> 01:06:31,693
to accept as wisdom
what is only knowledge...
891
01:06:31,769 --> 01:06:36,536
and to accept as progress things
that are nothing more than change.
892
01:06:36,607 --> 01:06:39,633
He said true progress...
893
01:06:39,710 --> 01:06:42,338
must bear some relation
to man's character.
894
01:06:42,413 --> 01:06:45,473
It must have its roots in his heart.
895
01:06:49,487 --> 01:06:51,853
I think I like this Mr. Lincoln.
896
01:06:55,226 --> 01:06:57,251
Why is he not winning
this war of his?
897
01:06:57,328 --> 01:07:00,058
Has he not got enough guns
and elephants for transporting same?
898
01:07:00,131 --> 01:07:02,656
There are no elephants in America.
899
01:07:02,733 --> 01:07:05,668
- No elephants?
- No, Your Majesty.
900
01:07:05,736 --> 01:07:09,172
Ah. No wonder Mr. Lincoln
does not win war.
901
01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:12,437
- We will write letter to Mr. Lincoln.
- Now, Your Majesty?
902
01:07:12,510 --> 01:07:14,705
Now--when you think?
Now always best time.
903
01:07:14,778 --> 01:07:17,212
But I wanted to talk to you
about the slave woman--
904
01:07:17,348 --> 01:07:21,648
- Take letter to Mr. Lincoln.
- Yes, Your Majesty.
905
01:07:25,823 --> 01:07:29,350
By the blessing of the highest
superagency of the whole universe...
906
01:07:29,426 --> 01:07:32,759
king of Siam, sovereign
of all interior tributary countries...
907
01:07:32,830 --> 01:07:35,958
adjacent and around
in every direction...
908
01:07:36,033 --> 01:07:39,833
uh, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
909
01:07:42,473 --> 01:07:46,432
To his most respected excellent--
910
01:07:51,115 --> 01:07:55,609
To his most respected
excellent presidency.
911
01:07:55,686 --> 01:07:58,746
President of
the United States of America...
912
01:07:58,822 --> 01:08:02,258
it has occurred to us--
913
01:08:02,326 --> 01:08:05,989
it has occurred to us...
914
01:08:06,063 --> 01:08:10,056
that should there be several pairs
of young male elephants...
915
01:08:10,134 --> 01:08:13,501
turned loose in forests of America...
916
01:08:13,571 --> 01:08:19,100
we are of opinion that after a while
they will increase in numbers...
917
01:08:19,176 --> 01:08:21,940
- and inhabitants of--
- Your Majesty.
918
01:08:22,105 --> 01:08:22,862
Well?
919
01:08:22,887 --> 01:08:25,437
I don't think you mean pairs
of male elephants.
920
01:08:25,482 --> 01:08:27,473
Do not interrupt.
921
01:08:27,551 --> 01:08:30,247
And inhabitants of America
will be able to catch them...
922
01:08:30,321 --> 01:08:33,017
and tame them
and use them as beasts of--
923
01:08:33,090 --> 01:08:35,183
- Your Majesty.
- How can I think--
924
01:08:35,259 --> 01:08:38,057
Only male elephants?
925
01:08:42,199 --> 01:08:44,929
Hmm. Hmm.
926
01:08:45,002 --> 01:08:49,666
We, on our part, will procure
young male and female elephants...
927
01:08:49,740 --> 01:08:53,801
and forward them unto you
one or two pairs at a time.
928
01:08:53,877 --> 01:08:56,004
Believe me.
929
01:08:56,080 --> 01:09:00,483
Yours faithfully,
uh, et cetera, et cetera.
930
01:09:00,551 --> 01:09:02,951
That is all. You may go.
931
01:09:03,020 --> 01:09:05,887
But, Your Majesty, I had hoped
you'd talk about the slave woman.
932
01:09:05,956 --> 01:09:09,289
That is all. Good day, Mem Owens.
933
01:09:10,594 --> 01:09:13,062
Good day, Your Majesty.
934
01:09:26,410 --> 01:09:28,901
"True progress...
935
01:09:28,979 --> 01:09:32,881
shall lie in man's heart."
936
01:09:45,462 --> 01:09:47,487
Good morning, Lady Tuptim.
937
01:09:47,564 --> 01:09:51,000
I wish to show you
something very beautiful.
938
01:09:51,068 --> 01:09:53,059
Oh, how lovely.
939
01:09:53,137 --> 01:09:56,004
My name mean "pomegranate."
940
01:09:56,073 --> 01:10:00,510
He say I am most perfect
and fascinating woman in palace.
941
01:10:00,577 --> 01:10:04,741
- It's a beautiful gift.
- It is worth thousand times price of slave.
942
01:10:04,815 --> 01:10:07,613
Then the slave is free?
943
01:10:07,685 --> 01:10:10,449
She mean nothing to me now.
944
01:10:10,521 --> 01:10:13,251
I do not wish to see her again.
945
01:10:13,324 --> 01:10:15,849
It was very generous of you,
Lady Tuptim.
946
01:10:15,926 --> 01:10:18,121
Perhaps it means much more
than you realize.
947
01:10:19,830 --> 01:10:23,405
You did not know this--
that she is free?
948
01:10:24,009 --> 01:10:24,925
No.
949
01:10:25,001 --> 01:10:27,403
It is strange he did not tell you this.
950
01:10:27,538 --> 01:10:29,802
He didn't give me any answer at all.
I thought--
951
01:10:29,873 --> 01:10:32,774
Then you did talk to him.
952
01:10:32,843 --> 01:10:36,108
And it is you he listened to.
953
01:10:36,180 --> 01:10:39,877
If I am not first here,
what is left for me?
954
01:10:54,498 --> 01:10:56,557
"I appreciate most highly...
955
01:10:56,633 --> 01:10:59,329
"Your Majesty's tender
of good offices...
956
01:10:59,403 --> 01:11:01,564
"in forwarding to this government...
957
01:11:01,638 --> 01:11:04,129
"a stock from which
a supply of elephants...
958
01:11:04,208 --> 01:11:06,438
"might be raised on our own soil.
959
01:11:06,510 --> 01:11:11,004
But, unfortunately, the present
jurisdiction of this government--"
960
01:11:11,081 --> 01:11:16,451
- "Jurisdiction"?
- It means authority.
961
01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:19,819
Jurisdiction.
962
01:11:19,890 --> 01:11:21,881
Jurisdiction.
963
01:11:24,395 --> 01:11:27,091
"The present jurisdiction
of this government...
964
01:11:27,164 --> 01:11:30,827
"no longer reaches those latitudes
southerly enough...
965
01:11:30,901 --> 01:11:33,631
"to favor the multiplication
of the elephant.
966
01:11:33,704 --> 01:11:36,798
"But this nation is warmly grateful...
967
01:11:36,874 --> 01:11:39,775
"for this indication
of Your Majesty's friendship...
968
01:11:39,843 --> 01:11:42,835
"and commends both Your Majesty...
969
01:11:42,913 --> 01:11:45,473
"and the generous people of Siam...
970
01:11:45,549 --> 01:11:48,279
"to the blessings of almighty God.
971
01:11:48,352 --> 01:11:52,948
Your good friend,
Abraham Lincoln."
972
01:11:56,059 --> 01:11:59,586
Yes, I think I like this Mr. Lincoln.
973
01:12:01,765 --> 01:12:06,225
Jurisdiction.Jurisdiction.
974
01:12:08,705 --> 01:12:10,969
But no elephants.
975
01:12:13,878 --> 01:12:16,369
I thought the prince might like
to come to lunch, but he didn't.
976
01:12:16,447 --> 01:12:21,043
I think he's lonesome. He doesn't
even live with his mother or talk to her.
977
01:12:21,119 --> 01:12:24,054
It's almost as if he didn't have a mother.
Why is that?
978
01:12:24,122 --> 01:12:26,420
That's just the way
things are out here, dear.
979
01:12:26,491 --> 01:12:29,187
I've noticed he hasn't seemed
quite so interested in his school.
980
01:12:29,260 --> 01:12:31,854
Probably something on his mind.
I'll have to find time to talk to him.
981
01:12:31,929 --> 01:12:34,022
Mem. Uh, mem.
982
01:12:34,098 --> 01:12:37,363
His Majesty wish
that you come to him at once.
983
01:12:37,435 --> 01:12:39,528
But we're just beginning luncheon.
984
01:12:39,604 --> 01:12:43,404
His Majesty say
you shall come right now.
985
01:12:43,474 --> 01:12:45,567
Oh, dear.
986
01:13:07,432 --> 01:13:11,960
Mem, shall it be proper for English
dignitary to see some of our women?
987
01:13:12,036 --> 01:13:14,869
Well, if Your Majesty were in England,
you'd wish to see...
988
01:13:14,939 --> 01:13:17,806
some of the prettiest women there,
wouldn't you?
989
01:13:17,875 --> 01:13:20,708
But how shall I let him
see them like this?
990
01:13:20,778 --> 01:13:22,712
No shoes on feet.
991
01:13:22,780 --> 01:13:26,045
He will go back and tell Queen Victoria
I am barbarian.
992
01:13:26,117 --> 01:13:28,813
- Why you not think of that?
- Who will tell her, Your Majesty?
993
01:13:28,886 --> 01:13:31,013
Sir Edward Ramsay.
994
01:13:33,891 --> 01:13:37,588
So you, mem, shall choose
most beautiful women of harem...
995
01:13:37,662 --> 01:13:40,722
and dress and educate same
in European custom for presentation.
996
01:13:40,798 --> 01:13:43,096
When do you wish
to have them ready?
997
01:13:43,167 --> 01:13:45,397
5:00 post meridian, this Saturday.
998
01:13:45,470 --> 01:13:51,102
But that's only four days. I can't
possibly have them ready in four days.
999
01:13:51,175 --> 01:13:53,609
Mem, shall it be possible
you are becoming lazy?
1000
01:13:53,678 --> 01:13:56,010
I'm not lazy at all. I simply can't--
1001
01:13:56,080 --> 01:13:59,743
Perhaps if mem understood
very great importance of occasion.
1002
01:13:59,817 --> 01:14:02,217
Then why have you not told her this?
1003
01:14:04,555 --> 01:14:07,319
Mem...
1004
01:14:11,696 --> 01:14:13,857
do you think I am barbarian?
1005
01:14:15,066 --> 01:14:18,194
Oh, of course not, Your Majesty.
1006
01:14:18,269 --> 01:14:21,830
I hope Sir Edward
shall agree with you.
1007
01:14:21,906 --> 01:14:24,466
The situation for Siam
very murky and critical.
1008
01:14:24,542 --> 01:14:26,635
Oh? What's happened?
1009
01:14:26,711 --> 01:14:30,203
My agents in Singapore
have obtained copies of letters...
1010
01:14:30,281 --> 01:14:32,647
written to British government
from certain persons...
1011
01:14:32,717 --> 01:14:36,619
wishing to acquire interests
in Siam or parts thereof.
1012
01:14:36,687 --> 01:14:39,121
Such letters describing me
as barbarian...
1013
01:14:39,190 --> 01:14:42,318
and not suitable as ruler of Siam...
1014
01:14:42,393 --> 01:14:46,329
wherefore they suggest necessity
of establishing protectorate, maybe.
1015
01:14:46,397 --> 01:14:48,331
That's outrageous.
1016
01:14:48,399 --> 01:14:51,197
I have met situation by requesting...
1017
01:14:51,269 --> 01:14:54,329
official visit
of British representative...
1018
01:14:54,405 --> 01:14:57,568
who shall see for himself
whether or not I am barbarian...
1019
01:14:57,642 --> 01:15:00,406
make report of same
to your gracious queen.
1020
01:15:02,079 --> 01:15:05,981
So, now you see necessity
of making dresses for them.
1021
01:15:08,286 --> 01:15:13,246
Y-Your Majesty, wouldn't it make
a better impression upon Sir Edward...
1022
01:15:13,324 --> 01:15:17,021
if the ladies receive
in their own manner and dress?
1023
01:15:17,094 --> 01:15:19,153
Mem, you are not scientific.
1024
01:15:19,230 --> 01:15:21,164
He knows we are Siamese.
1025
01:15:21,232 --> 01:15:24,258
I wish him to see
we are also European.
1026
01:15:24,335 --> 01:15:27,429
So you shall tell me
which of these girls...
1027
01:15:27,505 --> 01:15:30,372
are most like European women
for dressing as same.
1028
01:15:30,441 --> 01:15:33,069
Very well, then.
1029
01:15:33,144 --> 01:15:35,339
Let me see.
1030
01:15:45,089 --> 01:15:47,751
Son Klin, stand still.
How can I fasten this?
1031
01:15:47,825 --> 01:15:50,089
Mem, what kind of men
are Englishmen?
1032
01:15:50,161 --> 01:15:52,527
I have heard they have the evil eye--
1033
01:15:52,597 --> 01:15:55,691
terrible blue eyes, mem,
that look into the soul!
1034
01:15:55,766 --> 01:15:58,792
Nonsense.
Who ever heard of such a thing?
1035
01:16:00,872 --> 01:16:02,931
Oh, dear!
1036
01:16:03,007 --> 01:16:05,032
- What shall be trouble now?
- I forgot.
1037
01:16:05,109 --> 01:16:07,839
They've practically
nothing to wear underneath.
1038
01:16:10,448 --> 01:16:14,407
- Shall you be wearing something underneath?
- Certainly, Your Majesty.
1039
01:16:20,691 --> 01:16:22,534
I am not aware of difference.
1040
01:16:22,559 --> 01:16:24,620
But there is a great difference,
Your Majesty,
1041
01:16:24,650 --> 01:16:26,012
whether you're aware of it or not.
1042
01:16:26,063 --> 01:16:28,998
All properly dressed European ladies
must have undergarments.
1043
01:16:29,066 --> 01:16:32,126
If I am not aware of difference,
how shall Sir Edward be?
1044
01:16:32,203 --> 01:16:35,764
- But he might notice.
- He should not.
1045
01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:40,402
Mem, what is your opinion?
Shall they be all right?
1046
01:16:40,478 --> 01:16:42,912
I think they're going
to look charming.
1047
01:16:44,548 --> 01:16:48,075
Your Majesty,
do you mind if I make a suggestion?
1048
01:16:48,152 --> 01:16:50,086
What shall this be?
1049
01:16:50,154 --> 01:16:52,645
I think it's wrong that
the only reports about Siam...
1050
01:16:52,723 --> 01:16:55,658
are taken back by sea captains
and adventurers.
1051
01:16:55,726 --> 01:16:57,785
And I think that if you ask him...
1052
01:16:57,862 --> 01:17:00,695
Sir Edward would help you get official
representatives from England...
1053
01:17:00,765 --> 01:17:02,790
to be here permanently.
1054
01:17:02,867 --> 01:17:06,462
A consulate, I mean. And such men
would tell the truth in their reports.
1055
01:17:06,537 --> 01:17:10,371
As long as you're having Sir Edward here,
why not have other people at the same time?
1056
01:17:10,441 --> 01:17:14,434
The Dutch and the French, all the Europeans
you can reach with invitations...
1057
01:17:14,512 --> 01:17:17,777
and ask their help in accomplishing
the same thing with their countries.
1058
01:17:17,848 --> 01:17:19,975
- All at same time?
- Why not?
1059
01:17:20,051 --> 01:17:23,851
You want all the other governments
to know what you're trying to do here.
1060
01:17:23,921 --> 01:17:28,756
Too many people. I think you shall proceed
with the outer garments, mem.
1061
01:17:40,137 --> 01:17:44,233
Oh, dear.
I don't think I can stand it.
1062
01:17:46,711 --> 01:17:48,906
You shall write invitation
for dinner for Saturday...
1063
01:17:48,980 --> 01:17:50,880
6:00 post meridian...
1064
01:17:50,948 --> 01:17:53,542
from list of European people
furnished hereto...
1065
01:17:53,617 --> 01:17:57,246
and any other desirable you may think of,
submitting names to me personally.
1066
01:17:57,321 --> 01:18:00,017
- But I thought you said--
- We are aware, gratefully...
1067
01:18:00,091 --> 01:18:02,184
that such idea
was suggested by you...
1068
01:18:02,259 --> 01:18:06,491
but it's idea of doing so with dinner
which is important.
1069
01:18:06,564 --> 01:18:09,499
All slaves shall be given you
as you shall need for cooking and serving...
1070
01:18:09,567 --> 01:18:11,558
and you shall train same.
1071
01:18:11,635 --> 01:18:13,660
Furthermore,
you shall set table yourself...
1072
01:18:13,738 --> 01:18:15,729
so that everything shall be done
in best European custom.
1073
01:18:15,806 --> 01:18:17,933
I'll do everything I can,
Your Majesty, but--
1074
01:18:18,009 --> 01:18:21,274
I shall prove to all
that I am not barbarian.
1075
01:18:21,345 --> 01:18:23,506
You may go.
1076
01:18:36,093 --> 01:18:38,186
Shall this be correct
for table service?
1077
01:18:38,262 --> 01:18:41,789
Perfect, Your Majesty.
The loveliest I've ever seen.
1078
01:18:41,866 --> 01:18:45,199
Oh! Oh, how magnificent!
1079
01:18:46,871 --> 01:18:49,965
- Suitable for European, maybe?
- Oh, yes!
1080
01:18:52,176 --> 01:18:55,873
- But where are the knives and forks?
- Mem? Pure gold, mem.
1081
01:18:55,946 --> 01:18:58,642
We couldn't possibly use
chopsticks with soup...
1082
01:18:58,716 --> 01:19:01,082
and other things I've arranged for.
1083
01:19:01,152 --> 01:19:04,212
- Mem, have you such things?
- Yes, but not nearly--
1084
01:19:04,288 --> 01:19:08,247
Get knives, forks, spoons, two kinds
from Mem Owens, and have them copied.
1085
01:19:08,325 --> 01:19:10,316
- And in gold.
- But there isn't time, Your Majesty.
1086
01:19:10,394 --> 01:19:13,056
They shall work without sleeping
until this is ready.
1087
01:19:13,130 --> 01:19:16,395
And If it is not done, each man
shall be beaten 100 strokes.
1088
01:19:16,467 --> 01:19:19,129
Tell them this.
1089
01:19:19,203 --> 01:19:21,296
They shall be ready.
1090
01:19:31,816 --> 01:19:35,013
- Mem?
- Yes, Your Majesty?
1091
01:19:35,086 --> 01:19:40,183
Shall it be necessary for me to use...
knife and fork also?
1092
01:19:40,257 --> 01:19:43,090
It would be desirable,
I think, Your Majesty.
1093
01:19:46,330 --> 01:19:48,924
Would you like me
to show you how?
1094
01:19:50,701 --> 01:19:52,692
That shall not be necessary!
1095
01:19:52,770 --> 01:19:55,671
I have ability for proper use
without lesson.
1096
01:20:09,720 --> 01:20:11,711
Now, ladies, take your seats, please.
1097
01:20:11,789 --> 01:20:13,882
And, remember, all you have to do
is sit in your chair...
1098
01:20:13,958 --> 01:20:17,826
until His Majesty makes the presentation,
then rise and bow.
1099
01:20:17,895 --> 01:20:20,329
- Now, do you understand?
- Oh, yes, mem.
1100
01:20:20,397 --> 01:20:22,388
I only hope you do
when the time comes.
1101
01:20:22,466 --> 01:20:24,559
Now just sit quietly
until the presentation...
1102
01:20:24,635 --> 01:20:27,627
and for goodness sake,
be careful with your dresses.
1103
01:21:02,673 --> 01:21:06,404
Your Majesty, may I present
Mrs. Cortwright and Mr. Cortwright.
1104
01:21:06,477 --> 01:21:10,436
Mr. Cortwright is the editor
of the newspaper in Singapore.
1105
01:21:10,514 --> 01:21:14,883
Ah. This is newspaper
that prints I am spare man.
1106
01:21:14,952 --> 01:21:18,149
I should like to talk with you,
Mr. Cortwright.
1107
01:21:20,191 --> 01:21:24,355
Rose water.
Hospitable custom of country.
1108
01:21:30,034 --> 01:21:34,027
Wherefore have you decorated yourself
better than all the rest?
1109
01:21:34,104 --> 01:21:37,130
- Shall it be for my observation?
- Your Majesty.
1110
01:21:37,208 --> 01:21:41,611
You are fine. Very fine, indeed.
1111
01:21:41,679 --> 01:21:44,239
Your Majesty, may I present
Miss Elizabeth MacFarlane...
1112
01:21:44,315 --> 01:21:46,306
who's just come out from England.
1113
01:21:49,019 --> 01:21:54,252
Miss MacFarlane's brother
is the lieutenant governor in Singapore.
1114
01:21:54,325 --> 01:21:56,316
Are you an anecdote,
Miss MacFarlane?
1115
01:21:56,393 --> 01:21:58,486
I beg your pardon?
1116
01:21:58,562 --> 01:22:00,996
You are unmarried woman.
1117
01:22:01,065 --> 01:22:04,592
An anecdote and an unmarried woman
are not the same in English.
1118
01:22:04,668 --> 01:22:06,966
They are the same.
1119
01:22:07,037 --> 01:22:10,905
An anecdote is a hereto untold event
of curious interest.
1120
01:22:10,975 --> 01:22:14,069
And an unmarried woman's life
is also an untold event...
1121
01:22:14,144 --> 01:22:16,305
and therefore of curious interest.
1122
01:22:16,380 --> 01:22:19,645
- I say they are the same.
- But--
1123
01:22:19,717 --> 01:22:22,914
Well, this will make an interesting
anecdote for you, Miss MacFarlane.
1124
01:22:22,987 --> 01:22:24,921
Makes no difference--
1125
01:22:24,989 --> 01:22:28,220
I'm sure Miss MacFarlane would like
some rose water, Your Majesty.
1126
01:22:33,197 --> 01:22:35,995
She is very ugly.
1127
01:22:42,339 --> 01:22:45,035
Herewith shall be list of subjects
for you to bring up for talk.
1128
01:22:45,109 --> 01:22:47,134
Because on such subjects,
I am very brilliant...
1129
01:22:47,211 --> 01:22:49,338
and will make fine impression.
1130
01:23:23,948 --> 01:23:25,973
- Mem?
- Yes, Alak?
1131
01:23:26,050 --> 01:23:28,382
The napkins, they did not come.
1132
01:23:28,453 --> 01:23:31,513
- I think he will be very angry.
- It's too late now.
1133
01:23:31,589 --> 01:23:34,080
We can only pray he won't notice.
1134
01:24:00,685 --> 01:24:03,552
His Majesty made a very interesting point
the other day about Moses...
1135
01:24:03,621 --> 01:24:05,782
when he was reading the Bible.
1136
01:24:05,857 --> 01:24:08,189
Ah. Moses.
1137
01:24:08,259 --> 01:24:10,591
A very remarkable man.
1138
01:24:10,662 --> 01:24:13,961
If you remember,
he wrote in the Bible--
1139
01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:18,901
But unfortunately,
the present jurisdiction...
1140
01:24:18,970 --> 01:24:21,370
of my good friend
Mr. Lincoln's country...
1141
01:24:21,439 --> 01:24:23,464
did not favor the multiplication
of the elephant...
1142
01:24:23,541 --> 01:24:27,875
and we considered the idea
was not practical.
1143
01:24:27,946 --> 01:24:30,813
I was not aware that Your Majesty
was so familiar...
1144
01:24:30,882 --> 01:24:32,975
with Mr. Lincoln's situation
with the war in America.
1145
01:24:33,051 --> 01:24:35,076
Ah! This is point.
1146
01:24:35,153 --> 01:24:37,587
This is exactly impression
I hope you will correct.
1147
01:24:37,655 --> 01:24:40,886
Court of Siam,
through much study thereof...
1148
01:24:40,959 --> 01:24:45,453
is familiar with happenings
on entire globe of modern world.
1149
01:24:46,831 --> 01:24:49,493
And now, ladies, gentlemen...
1150
01:24:49,567 --> 01:24:52,900
I commend to you theatricals
for your pleasure...
1151
01:24:52,971 --> 01:24:56,998
and they shall be of history
of kingdom of Siam...
1152
01:24:57,075 --> 01:24:59,805
a very old and very proud history.
1153
01:26:02,573 --> 01:26:04,700
Not now, Your Majesty.
They've finished.
1154
01:26:04,776 --> 01:26:07,604
May I permit them to say
I am barbarian without napkin?
1155
01:26:07,646 --> 01:26:08,612
But--
1156
01:26:33,905 --> 01:26:37,272
Oh!
1157
01:26:37,342 --> 01:26:39,970
Gracious heavens, no!
1158
01:26:53,691 --> 01:26:57,183
Wherefore do you not sit down
when I am in same position?
1159
01:27:00,832 --> 01:27:04,097
I've experienced very fatiguing day.
1160
01:27:04,168 --> 01:27:07,365
So have I, Your Majesty,
and it's very late.
1161
01:27:07,438 --> 01:27:09,463
Very anxious day for me also.
1162
01:27:09,540 --> 01:27:11,599
I had great fears for success.
1163
01:27:14,112 --> 01:27:16,706
Are you aware of why
I am so hungry?
1164
01:27:16,781 --> 01:27:20,444
I was sick. Very sick.
1165
01:27:20,518 --> 01:27:24,614
However, I shall tell you that on account
of conversation with Sir Edward...
1166
01:27:24,689 --> 01:27:26,987
we are in accord
with British government...
1167
01:27:27,058 --> 01:27:30,789
regarding consulates and other matters
relating to security of this nation.
1168
01:27:30,862 --> 01:27:34,059
I am very happy thereof.
1169
01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:39,292
I am very happy too, Your Majesty.
Very.
1170
01:27:40,405 --> 01:27:43,169
I--
1171
01:27:43,241 --> 01:27:49,111
I hope you will accept
slight gift of appreciation.
1172
01:27:49,180 --> 01:27:51,239
For you.
1173
01:27:53,384 --> 01:27:56,319
Your Majesty, you're very kind.
1174
01:27:57,655 --> 01:27:59,646
I shall treasure it always.
1175
01:28:14,772 --> 01:28:18,401
- Shall you be hungry?
- Terribly.
1176
01:28:20,011 --> 01:28:22,172
Plenty for two.
1177
01:28:38,629 --> 01:28:41,860
Well, this is odd.
Where do you suppose everybody is?
1178
01:28:41,933 --> 01:28:46,097
- Perhaps they're just late.
- It's queer they should all be late.
1179
01:28:51,275 --> 01:28:54,369
Looks as though something
extraordinary is going on.
1180
01:28:54,445 --> 01:28:56,470
Perhaps there won't be
any school today.
1181
01:28:56,547 --> 01:28:59,573
- I'll try and find out what's happening.
- May I get my pony and ride?
1182
01:28:59,650 --> 01:29:03,142
If you like, but be sure
you take Moonshee with you.
1183
01:29:07,325 --> 01:29:10,852
Good day, sir.
1184
01:29:10,928 --> 01:29:14,420
Lady Thiang, something
very strange is going on.
1185
01:29:14,499 --> 01:29:17,559
I'd be grateful if you could tell me
what's happening.
1186
01:29:17,635 --> 01:29:22,436
Why are you concerned
with such matters instead of school?
1187
01:29:22,507 --> 01:29:26,671
Because whatever it is,
it affects my school and me.
1188
01:29:30,848 --> 01:29:35,251
- Why you come to me?
- Because I thought you would know.
1189
01:29:35,319 --> 01:29:38,516
- You do not say I told you.
- Of course not.
1190
01:29:38,589 --> 01:29:42,855
- Lady Tuptim has been found.
- Tuptim?
1191
01:29:42,927 --> 01:29:45,293
Didn't you know she had
run away from the palace?
1192
01:29:45,363 --> 01:29:48,457
No. She hasn't been to school
for some time.
1193
01:29:48,533 --> 01:29:52,094
But how could she possibly
get out of the palace?
1194
01:29:52,169 --> 01:29:55,104
She escaped in robes of novice
of the priesthood...
1195
01:29:55,172 --> 01:29:57,106
which someone gave to her.
1196
01:29:57,174 --> 01:30:00,405
- Where was she found?
- I do not know.
1197
01:30:00,478 --> 01:30:02,571
All I do know is...
1198
01:30:02,647 --> 01:30:06,139
when she was brought
back to the palace...
1199
01:30:06,217 --> 01:30:08,947
they brought a young priest with her.
1200
01:30:12,456 --> 01:30:16,483
- What will this mean, Lady Thiang?
- What it has always meant here.
1201
01:30:16,561 --> 01:30:18,586
When will she go on trial?
1202
01:30:18,663 --> 01:30:20,824
They question her now.
1203
01:30:20,898 --> 01:30:23,230
You mean her trial's already begun?
1204
01:30:23,301 --> 01:30:26,065
This is not the same thing.
1205
01:30:26,137 --> 01:30:30,335
- But she will have--
- I do not say any more.
1206
01:30:30,408 --> 01:30:33,172
And I think it will be best...
1207
01:30:33,244 --> 01:30:37,442
if you return to teaching of pupils.
1208
01:30:37,515 --> 01:30:39,676
Thank you, Lady Thiang.
1209
01:30:44,322 --> 01:30:46,586
The other novices
who lived in cell with me...
1210
01:30:46,657 --> 01:30:49,319
never knew I was woman
until this morning.
1211
01:30:49,393 --> 01:30:51,418
They were with me all the time.
1212
01:30:51,495 --> 01:30:53,759
If they did not know I was woman...
1213
01:30:53,831 --> 01:30:56,163
how could he know?
1214
01:30:56,233 --> 01:30:58,497
They will tell you he did not know.
1215
01:30:58,569 --> 01:31:01,595
Why are they not here?
Why do you not ask them?
1216
01:31:01,672 --> 01:31:05,870
The truth is this man
got you a novice's robe...
1217
01:31:05,943 --> 01:31:08,207
in which you escaped
from the palace.
1218
01:31:13,451 --> 01:31:17,683
You went to his cell and stayed
with him there until you were found.
1219
01:31:17,755 --> 01:31:20,189
Will you confess to this...
1220
01:31:20,257 --> 01:31:22,953
or must we get it out of him?
1221
01:31:23,027 --> 01:31:26,394
No, wait!
1222
01:31:26,464 --> 01:31:28,489
You must believe the truth about him.
1223
01:31:28,566 --> 01:31:33,162
He had nothing to do with it.
He is completely innocent.
1224
01:31:36,307 --> 01:31:41,244
I went to the monastery because
I did not know where else to go.
1225
01:31:41,312 --> 01:31:44,839
But Phra Palat did not recognize me,
not then or ever...
1226
01:31:44,915 --> 01:31:48,510
not even though he had known me
since he was a boy.
1227
01:31:48,586 --> 01:31:52,579
I had been betrothed to him
by my family...
1228
01:31:52,657 --> 01:31:55,888
before I was sent to palace.
1229
01:31:55,960 --> 01:31:59,225
After I was sent to palace,
he entered the priesthood...
1230
01:31:59,296 --> 01:32:01,594
and put me
out of his mind completely.
1231
01:32:02,933 --> 01:32:05,231
If he ever thought of me at all...
1232
01:32:05,302 --> 01:32:09,762
he thought of me as gone forever
beyond the wall of inside.
1233
01:32:11,509 --> 01:32:13,534
He taught us every day...
1234
01:32:13,611 --> 01:32:18,947
and I grew quiet and happy
because I was near him.
1235
01:32:19,016 --> 01:32:21,382
I no longer wanted
to be anything to him...
1236
01:32:21,452 --> 01:32:25,445
but only to be near him.
1237
01:32:26,624 --> 01:32:29,286
Only to be near him.
1238
01:32:29,360 --> 01:32:31,419
A very pretty story...
1239
01:32:31,495 --> 01:32:33,861
and you told it beautifully.
1240
01:32:33,931 --> 01:32:35,956
Only no one believes you, of course.
1241
01:32:36,033 --> 01:32:39,400
Now, let us get back
to the beginning.
1242
01:32:39,470 --> 01:32:42,098
- You went to this man because you love him.
- No!
1243
01:32:42,173 --> 01:32:44,038
You lived in his cell as a woman.
1244
01:32:44,108 --> 01:32:46,440
Ask the others.
They will tell you the truth.
1245
01:32:46,510 --> 01:32:49,946
You make him break
his holy vows. Confess!
1246
01:32:50,014 --> 01:32:53,506
I will not. I will not!
1247
01:33:00,791 --> 01:33:04,454
Stop it! Stop it, you hear?
Stop it!
1248
01:33:04,528 --> 01:33:06,621
She's telling the truth,
and you know it.
1249
01:33:06,697 --> 01:33:09,666
Why don't you call the others novices?
You don't want the truth!
1250
01:33:09,734 --> 01:33:11,964
I shall go to the king
and have her taken out of your hands.
1251
01:33:12,036 --> 01:33:15,267
We will wait.
1252
01:33:15,339 --> 01:33:17,330
The mem has much to learn.
1253
01:33:41,532 --> 01:33:44,990
Your Majesty will forgive me.
It's a matter of great importance.
1254
01:33:46,370 --> 01:33:49,032
It's Lady Tuptim, Your Majesty.
1255
01:33:54,445 --> 01:33:58,176
Is there nothing dishonorable to me...
1256
01:33:58,249 --> 01:34:01,343
that is secret here?
1257
01:34:01,418 --> 01:34:04,785
Go. All of you, out!
1258
01:34:09,927 --> 01:34:14,387
It will be better
if you understand at once...
1259
01:34:14,465 --> 01:34:16,831
that this matter
does not concern you.
1260
01:34:16,901 --> 01:34:19,369
But it does. It does dreadfully...
1261
01:34:19,436 --> 01:34:23,463
because of her,
and even more because of you.
1262
01:34:23,541 --> 01:34:26,476
Your Majesty, I'm sure
if you'd known in the first place...
1263
01:34:26,544 --> 01:34:28,535
that she was in love
with someone else...
1264
01:34:28,612 --> 01:34:31,012
you never would've allowed her
to be brought here at all.
1265
01:34:31,081 --> 01:34:34,517
But now they're trying to make her
confess to something that isn't true...
1266
01:34:34,585 --> 01:34:37,489
torturing her without regard
to proof or witnesses.
1267
01:34:37,514 --> 01:34:38,909
You waste your time.
1268
01:34:38,956 --> 01:34:41,754
But surely you're going to see
that they call her witnesses.
1269
01:34:41,826 --> 01:34:45,353
This shall be my affair.
1270
01:34:45,429 --> 01:34:47,556
You must when she's called to trial.
1271
01:34:47,631 --> 01:34:51,226
I do not wish to talk more of this!
1272
01:34:51,302 --> 01:34:54,203
You can't refuse her a trial.
1273
01:34:54,271 --> 01:34:58,708
- There must be a law in this.
- I am the law!
1274
01:34:58,776 --> 01:35:03,907
That's what I was afraid of,
Your Majesty.
1275
01:35:03,981 --> 01:35:07,109
I beg you,
don't take revenge on this girl.
1276
01:35:07,184 --> 01:35:10,915
If you do, you'll have thrown away
everything you've done...
1277
01:35:10,988 --> 01:35:13,786
all you've built up
for your country and yourself...
1278
01:35:13,858 --> 01:35:16,190
with such labor against such odds.
1279
01:35:16,260 --> 01:35:19,889
And you'll never be able
to get it back again.
1280
01:35:19,964 --> 01:35:22,956
How can you have faith yourself
in what you're doing...
1281
01:35:23,033 --> 01:35:26,867
or ask anyone else to believe in you
or the country you represent...
1282
01:35:26,937 --> 01:35:29,804
when you know yourself
you're only pretending?
1283
01:35:29,874 --> 01:35:34,641
That you don't give a snap of your fingers
for your people or human progress.
1284
01:35:34,712 --> 01:35:36,737
That it's a lie...
1285
01:35:36,814 --> 01:35:40,716
something to cover up caprice
and passion and self-indulgence.
1286
01:35:40,784 --> 01:35:43,275
You go too far.
1287
01:35:43,354 --> 01:35:46,915
This girl hurt your vanity, that's all.
You don't love her.
1288
01:35:46,991 --> 01:35:48,670
She didn't hurt your heart.
1289
01:35:48,811 --> 01:35:51,349
You haven't a heart!
You've never loved anyone!
1290
01:35:51,395 --> 01:35:53,488
You are a barbarian!
1291
01:35:53,564 --> 01:35:57,000
You'll never change.
You'll be a barbarian as long as you live.
1292
01:36:12,016 --> 01:36:15,850
Mem, how shall you like...
1293
01:36:15,920 --> 01:36:18,218
if I make you watch what I shall do?
1294
01:37:27,224 --> 01:37:29,920
He has not sinned!
1295
01:37:29,993 --> 01:37:31,984
He did no wrong to anyone!
1296
01:37:35,632 --> 01:37:37,691
We have not sinned!
1297
01:37:37,768 --> 01:37:40,168
We have not sinned!
1298
01:37:53,316 --> 01:37:56,080
- Good-bye, mem cha.
- Good-bye, Prince Sawat.
1299
01:37:58,321 --> 01:38:01,654
- Bye, mem cha.
- Good-bye, Princess Phatana.
1300
01:38:04,628 --> 01:38:08,155
- Bye, mem cha.
- Bye, Princess Sumawa.
1301
01:38:09,699 --> 01:38:13,100
- Good-bye, mem cha.
- Good-bye, Princess Mowana.
1302
01:38:13,170 --> 01:38:15,968
Where's Prince Chulalongkorn?
1303
01:38:16,039 --> 01:38:18,269
He would not come.
1304
01:38:20,477 --> 01:38:23,412
- Mem cha.
- Princess.
1305
01:38:23,480 --> 01:38:27,211
I will always feel so unhappy...
1306
01:38:27,284 --> 01:38:31,311
thinking of you being among
all those English people.
1307
01:38:33,223 --> 01:38:35,214
I shan't ever forget you, Princess.
1308
01:38:37,194 --> 01:38:39,788
Good-bye.
1309
01:38:45,502 --> 01:38:47,629
I guess that's all.
1310
01:38:47,704 --> 01:38:51,504
- You go on, Mother.
- What are you going to do, Louis?
1311
01:38:51,575 --> 01:38:55,011
I rather thought I'd like
to say good-bye to the prince.
1312
01:38:55,078 --> 01:38:58,309
Oh. It's odd he wasn't here today.
1313
01:38:58,381 --> 01:39:01,077
Well, he's funny.
1314
01:39:01,151 --> 01:39:03,449
All right, dear,
but don't be too long.
1315
01:39:03,520 --> 01:39:05,579
Oh.
1316
01:39:08,391 --> 01:39:11,827
- Good day, sir.
- Good day.
1317
01:39:11,895 --> 01:39:15,626
We are wishing to
say something to you, mem.
1318
01:39:15,699 --> 01:39:19,863
- Oh?
- Be seated, please.
1319
01:39:24,141 --> 01:39:25,904
Shall you be ready?
1320
01:39:32,616 --> 01:39:35,449
"Dear friend and teacher:
1321
01:39:35,519 --> 01:39:39,580
"My goodness gracious.
Do not go away.
1322
01:39:39,656 --> 01:39:44,286
"We are in great need of you.
1323
01:39:44,361 --> 01:39:47,819
"We are like one blind.
1324
01:39:47,898 --> 01:39:50,924
"Do not let us
fall down in darkness...
1325
01:39:51,001 --> 01:39:53,231
"but continue...
1326
01:39:53,303 --> 01:39:57,103
"good and sincere concern for us...
1327
01:39:57,174 --> 01:40:00,837
"and lead us in the right road.
1328
01:40:00,911 --> 01:40:03,004
Your loving pupils."
1329
01:40:05,081 --> 01:40:09,745
Thank you. Thank you.
1330
01:40:10,887 --> 01:40:13,219
You can't imagine--
1331
01:40:14,257 --> 01:40:17,055
You can't imag--
1332
01:40:46,289 --> 01:40:49,622
Lady Thiang.
I came here because I--
1333
01:40:52,162 --> 01:40:55,427
I've seen very little of you lately.
1334
01:40:55,498 --> 01:40:58,399
Somehow I have a feeling
you've been avoiding me.
1335
01:40:58,468 --> 01:41:01,335
I should hate to leave like that.
1336
01:41:02,672 --> 01:41:04,765
I have a sense of having failed here...
1337
01:41:04,841 --> 01:41:09,141
but I'd hoped that we had become
rather special friends.
1338
01:41:09,212 --> 01:41:13,410
If there's any reason why--
1339
01:41:13,483 --> 01:41:18,944
Does the mem want me
to say she has not failed...
1340
01:41:19,022 --> 01:41:21,422
or does she wish me to speak truth?
1341
01:41:21,491 --> 01:41:24,619
Well, the truth, of course.
1342
01:41:24,694 --> 01:41:27,424
This is maybe not good room...
1343
01:41:27,497 --> 01:41:29,488
for mem to speak about her failure.
1344
01:41:30,800 --> 01:41:35,794
Has she ever observed my wallpaper?
1345
01:41:35,872 --> 01:41:41,742
- It's very beautiful.
- But you have not really looked at it.
1346
01:41:41,811 --> 01:41:45,975
It tells a story for anyone
with the eyes to see.
1347
01:41:46,049 --> 01:41:48,483
I had it painted.
1348
01:41:50,420 --> 01:41:53,446
That straight young tree...
1349
01:41:53,523 --> 01:41:56,321
is like unto me when I am young...
1350
01:41:56,393 --> 01:41:59,851
and became first wife to my lord...
1351
01:41:59,929 --> 01:42:03,023
who is the great tree there.
1352
01:42:03,099 --> 01:42:05,124
I am happy...
1353
01:42:05,201 --> 01:42:08,602
and you can see that
there are flowers all around.
1354
01:42:09,939 --> 01:42:11,964
They are the happiness...
1355
01:42:12,042 --> 01:42:14,101
that grows in our shadow.
1356
01:42:16,012 --> 01:42:18,003
But here...
1357
01:42:18,081 --> 01:42:23,485
other trees grow up
between me and my lord.
1358
01:42:23,553 --> 01:42:26,317
That is custom--
1359
01:42:26,389 --> 01:42:30,120
for king to take many wives.
1360
01:42:30,193 --> 01:42:32,991
And here, my lord the king...
1361
01:42:33,063 --> 01:42:35,497
the great tree, grows very fast...
1362
01:42:35,565 --> 01:42:40,559
very high, trying to touch stars.
1363
01:42:40,637 --> 01:42:44,698
But the branches are bare...
1364
01:42:44,774 --> 01:42:46,969
not green with leaves...
1365
01:42:47,043 --> 01:42:50,638
to make kind shadow from the sun.
1366
01:42:50,714 --> 01:42:55,014
See, the flowers are almost gone...
1367
01:42:55,085 --> 01:42:58,077
and the small tree, which is me...
1368
01:42:58,154 --> 01:43:00,145
droops and withers.
1369
01:43:01,758 --> 01:43:03,783
I cannot help him.
1370
01:43:06,229 --> 01:43:10,723
And here I see that beside me...
1371
01:43:10,800 --> 01:43:13,735
very small tree is growing.
1372
01:43:13,803 --> 01:43:16,670
This is my son...
1373
01:43:16,740 --> 01:43:20,335
the prince who shall be king.
1374
01:43:20,410 --> 01:43:23,174
See that the ground is all bare now.
1375
01:43:23,246 --> 01:43:26,409
The sun is very cruel.
1376
01:43:26,483 --> 01:43:28,508
I try to shelter him...
1377
01:43:28,585 --> 01:43:32,248
but I am very small...
1378
01:43:32,322 --> 01:43:35,519
because I am only woman.
1379
01:43:35,592 --> 01:43:40,689
I try, but I do not know
if I can do this.
1380
01:43:40,764 --> 01:43:42,789
But you haven't finished it.
1381
01:43:42,866 --> 01:43:48,429
No. I did not know
what the end shall be.
1382
01:43:48,505 --> 01:43:50,973
But I know now...
1383
01:43:51,040 --> 01:43:55,374
and I do not wish to paint it.
1384
01:43:55,445 --> 01:43:58,437
I cannot help him.
1385
01:43:58,515 --> 01:44:02,747
This tree will not be better...
1386
01:44:02,819 --> 01:44:05,982
than the other one.
1387
01:44:06,055 --> 01:44:10,219
And this shall be your fault...
1388
01:44:10,293 --> 01:44:12,454
Mem Owens.
1389
01:44:12,529 --> 01:44:15,327
You should have helped him.
1390
01:44:15,398 --> 01:44:17,628
That is what I hoped for.
1391
01:44:19,002 --> 01:44:23,462
He wished for such love
as your son has.
1392
01:44:24,741 --> 01:44:29,610
That is what he needed.
I watch him.
1393
01:44:29,679 --> 01:44:35,015
He could have grown gentle and kind...
1394
01:44:35,084 --> 01:44:39,544
and in this is happiness,
not in lessons.
1395
01:44:41,257 --> 01:44:46,160
All this you could have given him...
1396
01:44:46,229 --> 01:44:49,460
but I could not.
1397
01:44:49,532 --> 01:44:54,333
He is the one you fail.
1398
01:44:54,404 --> 01:44:58,397
And I shall remember you
for this failure...
1399
01:45:00,176 --> 01:45:03,373
every time I look at my son...
1400
01:45:05,114 --> 01:45:08,606
as long as I shall live.
1401
01:45:49,092 --> 01:45:51,583
Memsahib! Memsahib!
1402
01:45:53,796 --> 01:45:57,630
Only infidels would
send gifts at a time like this, memsahib.
1403
01:45:57,700 --> 01:46:02,000
They should be sold,
and this I will undertake for you.
1404
01:46:02,071 --> 01:46:04,403
We'll see, Moonshee.
1405
01:46:08,077 --> 01:46:10,773
- Good day, mem.
- Your Excellency.
1406
01:46:10,847 --> 01:46:13,338
You're better today, maybe?
1407
01:46:14,484 --> 01:46:16,850
Much better.
1408
01:46:16,920 --> 01:46:19,616
Won't you sit down, Excellency?
1409
01:46:19,689 --> 01:46:21,714
Not today, mem.
1410
01:46:21,791 --> 01:46:24,191
I'm here officially today.
1411
01:46:24,260 --> 01:46:27,286
I have something
I'm ordered to read to you.
1412
01:46:29,966 --> 01:46:33,424
- Are you prepared for listening, mem?
- Yes.
1413
01:46:35,672 --> 01:46:38,368
"The unforeseen misfortune...
1414
01:46:38,441 --> 01:46:42,400
"a mournful event of death
of said affectionate boy...
1415
01:46:42,478 --> 01:46:46,972
"has caused great sorrow
to His Majesty and to royal family...
1416
01:46:47,050 --> 01:46:50,315
"since this boy was beloved by all...
1417
01:46:50,386 --> 01:46:52,786
"as if member of said family.
1418
01:46:54,057 --> 01:46:56,150
"But as sign of regret...
1419
01:46:56,225 --> 01:46:59,661
"that events
of such sorrowful nature...
1420
01:46:59,729 --> 01:47:02,926
"must be arriving to those
deserving of better happiness...
1421
01:47:02,999 --> 01:47:05,900
"the 12th of September is appointed...
1422
01:47:05,969 --> 01:47:09,803
"as day of mourning
for entire country...
1423
01:47:09,872 --> 01:47:13,672
"to observe same with fireworks
and other ceremony...
1424
01:47:13,743 --> 01:47:16,439
"just as for member of royal family.
1425
01:47:18,314 --> 01:47:20,282
"Also from this day...
1426
01:47:20,350 --> 01:47:23,148
"Mem Anna Owens shall bear title...
1427
01:47:23,219 --> 01:47:26,484
"of Lady Kroo Yai of kingdom of Siam...
1428
01:47:26,556 --> 01:47:32,256
"as mark of sad respect
of said nation.
1429
01:47:32,328 --> 01:47:35,865
Maha Mongkut, king of Siam."
1430
01:47:38,167 --> 01:47:41,500
It took him a long time
to write it, mem.
1431
01:47:41,570 --> 01:47:44,937
He wrote it many times.
1432
01:47:45,007 --> 01:47:46,702
It was very kind.
1433
01:47:48,711 --> 01:47:54,206
Mem, please try and understand.
1434
01:47:54,283 --> 01:47:57,810
He's trying to say
in this letter that he is sorry...
1435
01:47:57,887 --> 01:48:02,051
not only about your son...
1436
01:48:02,124 --> 01:48:04,684
but about the woman.
1437
01:48:04,760 --> 01:48:07,752
That he was wrong.
1438
01:48:07,830 --> 01:48:10,060
That you spoke truth to him.
1439
01:48:10,132 --> 01:48:12,623
That nothing is any better for it.
1440
01:48:14,503 --> 01:48:19,133
That is very much for him to say, mem.
1441
01:48:19,208 --> 01:48:22,302
It is first time that he
shall have tried to say...
1442
01:48:22,378 --> 01:48:24,676
that he is sorry to any person.
1443
01:48:27,683 --> 01:48:29,844
Please thank him for me.
1444
01:48:38,928 --> 01:48:41,829
Memsahib,
is this to be put up with?
1445
01:48:41,897 --> 01:48:45,094
Is it to be endured for Louis sahib?
Fireworks?
1446
01:48:45,167 --> 01:48:49,126
They're holding religious services too,
if you'll listen.
1447
01:48:49,204 --> 01:48:52,765
Then listen.
1448
01:49:04,420 --> 01:49:06,513
Mem.
1449
01:49:09,191 --> 01:49:11,682
- You may go.
- Yes, mem cha.
1450
01:49:19,101 --> 01:49:22,502
- Mem cha.
- Your Royal Highness.
1451
01:49:22,571 --> 01:49:24,801
I came--
1452
01:49:24,873 --> 01:49:27,068
I wanted to ask--
1453
01:49:30,813 --> 01:49:34,214
Do you remember this?
1454
01:49:36,151 --> 01:49:39,211
When we said good-bye
to each other...
1455
01:49:39,288 --> 01:49:42,348
he gave it to me.
1456
01:49:42,424 --> 01:49:46,383
I think that you shall maybe
want it back.
1457
01:49:46,462 --> 01:49:50,796
No. It was Louis's to give
to whom he pleased.
1458
01:49:50,866 --> 01:49:53,858
You think that I may keep it?
1459
01:49:53,936 --> 01:49:55,995
Yes.
1460
01:50:03,012 --> 01:50:06,573
- Mem?
- Yes, Your Royal Highness?
1461
01:50:06,648 --> 01:50:09,446
I did not give Nar Lek--
1462
01:50:09,518 --> 01:50:11,884
That is what I called Louis--
1463
01:50:11,954 --> 01:50:14,718
I did not give him anything...
1464
01:50:14,790 --> 01:50:17,987
and there is something I would
have given to him, I think.
1465
01:50:18,060 --> 01:50:20,051
It is white.
1466
01:50:20,129 --> 01:50:24,225
Not all white, of course,
but it is whiter than most...
1467
01:50:24,299 --> 01:50:26,290
and it is mine.
1468
01:50:26,368 --> 01:50:29,735
There are not many things
that are mine, not really...
1469
01:50:29,805 --> 01:50:33,741
I mean, to give,
so if you wouldn't mind taking it...
1470
01:50:33,809 --> 01:50:36,801
maybe-- maybe it would be like--
1471
01:50:36,879 --> 01:50:38,813
What is it?
1472
01:50:38,881 --> 01:50:43,614
My elephant.
It's almost white, and--
1473
01:50:45,821 --> 01:50:47,812
You liked Louis, didn't you?
1474
01:50:47,890 --> 01:50:50,324
Well, he gave me the knife...
1475
01:50:50,392 --> 01:50:54,351
and he'd like it if you had something
that could take care of you.
1476
01:50:54,430 --> 01:50:58,594
I think he's very strong, the elephant,
and I like him very much.
1477
01:51:00,502 --> 01:51:05,030
But if you gave me
this strong, gentle elephant...
1478
01:51:05,107 --> 01:51:07,132
who's going to look after you?
1479
01:51:09,011 --> 01:51:11,138
You're growing so fast...
1480
01:51:11,213 --> 01:51:14,205
your wrists are sticking
out of your jacket.
1481
01:51:16,418 --> 01:51:19,148
Somebody really ought
to look after you.
1482
01:51:19,221 --> 01:51:21,655
Mem. Mem.
1483
01:51:21,723 --> 01:51:23,782
Oh.
1484
01:51:38,740 --> 01:51:41,538
You sent for me, Your Majesty?
1485
01:51:46,148 --> 01:51:49,584
Yes, I--I sent for you.
1486
01:51:51,386 --> 01:51:53,377
What is it, Your Majesty?
1487
01:51:53,455 --> 01:51:56,083
I--
1488
01:52:03,799 --> 01:52:08,463
Mem, doctors I send say you do not
take medicine for sleeping as prescribed.
1489
01:52:08,537 --> 01:52:10,528
Resting shall be necessary.
1490
01:52:10,606 --> 01:52:14,201
I do not understand why you shall be
so strong-headed in this matter.
1491
01:52:14,276 --> 01:52:18,440
I'm sorry.
I'm afraid I haven't--
1492
01:52:20,782 --> 01:52:22,943
I want Your Majesty to know that...
1493
01:52:23,018 --> 01:52:27,955
I'm very grateful for the kind things
you've done since--
1494
01:52:28,023 --> 01:52:30,048
since my boy's death.
1495
01:52:30,125 --> 01:52:33,959
Such things I do not important.
1496
01:52:38,467 --> 01:52:41,527
- Is that all, Your Majesty?
- No, this is not all.
1497
01:52:41,603 --> 01:52:43,662
I have other matter to talk with you.
1498
01:52:45,774 --> 01:52:48,766
Mem, I become every day
more behind with work...
1499
01:52:48,844 --> 01:52:50,869
which every day
becomes more difficult...
1500
01:52:50,946 --> 01:52:55,042
thus making for me much confusion,
weariness, et cetera.
1501
01:52:55,117 --> 01:52:57,915
For such instance,
it shall be important to know...
1502
01:52:57,986 --> 01:53:01,422
why shall geography say
this is absolute monarchy?
1503
01:53:01,490 --> 01:53:03,924
How shall I be absolute if,
when I wish for something to be so...
1504
01:53:03,992 --> 01:53:08,088
it doesn't happen in this way
despite my absolute will to the contrary?
1505
01:53:08,163 --> 01:53:11,792
Geographies. What is opinion, mem?
1506
01:53:13,735 --> 01:53:16,431
I don't know. I--
1507
01:53:16,505 --> 01:53:18,769
Never mind. Is difficult question.
1508
01:53:18,840 --> 01:53:21,536
I am also much worried
whether I shall send delegate...
1509
01:53:21,610 --> 01:53:24,477
suitable display, et cetera,
to great exhibition in Paris.
1510
01:53:24,546 --> 01:53:26,104
What is opinion?
1511
01:53:26,181 --> 01:53:30,481
It sounds like an admirable idea,
Your Majesty.
1512
01:53:30,552 --> 01:53:33,578
Mem, I think you shall not give opinions
so quickly without thinking.
1513
01:53:33,655 --> 01:53:36,920
Maybe French have murky reason
for suggesting such exhibit.
1514
01:53:36,992 --> 01:53:40,291
Why you not think of this?
1515
01:53:40,362 --> 01:53:43,568
Mem, it would be much help
if you would examine correspondence
1516
01:53:43,593 --> 01:53:45,221
for such murky propositions.
1517
01:53:45,267 --> 01:53:48,134
This I am too burdened to do myself...
1518
01:53:48,203 --> 01:53:51,536
and there is no one else
to be trusted.
1519
01:53:51,607 --> 01:53:55,099
This shall be much important, mem.
1520
01:53:55,177 --> 01:53:58,305
What shall answer be?
1521
01:53:58,380 --> 01:54:00,371
I can't, Your Majesty.
1522
01:54:04,019 --> 01:54:08,217
Mem, shall you be forgetting
that work is always best remedy?
1523
01:54:08,290 --> 01:54:10,986
I know, but I can't.
1524
01:54:11,059 --> 01:54:15,962
I can't take any more letters or give
any more advice. I'd like to, but I can't.
1525
01:54:16,031 --> 01:54:19,558
What shall you be doing, then?
1526
01:54:19,635 --> 01:54:22,229
You do not go away?
1527
01:54:22,304 --> 01:54:24,670
I don't know. I--
1528
01:54:24,740 --> 01:54:28,733
I haven't been able to think. I--
1529
01:54:28,810 --> 01:54:31,370
I'd like to keep on with my school,
I think.
1530
01:54:31,446 --> 01:54:34,074
I've nowhere else.
1531
01:54:35,951 --> 01:54:38,613
I'd like to keep on with my school.
1532
01:54:40,122 --> 01:54:42,317
But, mem, only school teaching?
1533
01:54:42,391 --> 01:54:46,725
- I think that also--
- It's the children that I want.
1534
01:54:46,795 --> 01:54:49,229
It's the children.
1535
01:54:54,469 --> 01:54:56,903
Very well, mem.
1536
01:55:03,779 --> 01:55:06,179
I think if you do other work,
such as letters...
1537
01:55:06,248 --> 01:55:10,275
such arrangement would contemplate
raise in salary, but--
1538
01:55:12,688 --> 01:55:14,952
Very well, mem.
1539
01:55:21,463 --> 01:55:24,455
That will be all for today.
1540
01:55:24,533 --> 01:55:29,596
And for tomorrow, you'll need not
prepare the lesson in geography.
1541
01:55:29,671 --> 01:55:33,801
I find His Majesty has done away
with the geographies we had...
1542
01:55:33,875 --> 01:55:36,002
so we'll have to wait
until new books arrive.
1543
01:55:36,078 --> 01:55:39,309
That's all. You may go.
1544
01:55:44,519 --> 01:55:48,853
If--If any of you would like
to remain for any questions--
1545
01:56:04,506 --> 01:56:07,066
- Mem.
- Yes, Alak?
1546
01:56:07,142 --> 01:56:09,235
- His Majesty wish you--
- I told you--
1547
01:56:09,311 --> 01:56:12,178
Mem, while writing correspondence...
1548
01:56:12,247 --> 01:56:15,341
suddenly he very angry.
1549
01:56:15,417 --> 01:56:18,181
I do not know why.
1550
01:56:18,253 --> 01:56:21,620
He say he cannot do such things alone.
1551
01:56:21,690 --> 01:56:24,318
He say no one tell him truth.
1552
01:56:24,393 --> 01:56:27,920
He say there is no one to be trusted.
1553
01:56:27,996 --> 01:56:29,987
He say--
1554
01:56:30,065 --> 01:56:33,967
Oh, mem, if you will not come...
1555
01:56:34,035 --> 01:56:36,162
it will be very bad for me.
1556
01:57:04,199 --> 01:57:08,932
I'm coming. I'm coming.
1557
01:57:23,051 --> 01:57:26,680
Et cetera, et cetera...
1558
01:57:26,755 --> 01:57:28,814
et cetera.
1559
01:57:51,813 --> 01:57:53,405
- "F."
- "F."
1560
01:57:53,482 --> 01:57:55,416
- "G."
- "G."
1561
01:57:55,484 --> 01:57:57,111
- "H."
- "H."
1562
01:57:57,452 --> 01:57:59,352
Mem.
1563
01:57:59,421 --> 01:58:01,389
You must come.
1564
01:58:01,456 --> 01:58:04,152
Quick, mem.
1565
01:58:06,795 --> 01:58:09,889
Please remain in your seats
until I return.
1566
01:58:30,619 --> 01:58:32,985
He worked late into night.
1567
01:58:33,054 --> 01:58:35,955
I thought he had fallen into sleep
as he has done so often lately...
1568
01:58:36,024 --> 01:58:38,219
and I let him rest.
1569
01:58:38,293 --> 01:58:42,093
But he was ill, very ill.
1570
01:58:42,163 --> 01:58:44,358
He asked for us.
1571
01:58:45,734 --> 01:58:48,066
But we must wait again...
1572
01:58:48,136 --> 01:58:50,661
maybe for last time.
1573
01:59:04,920 --> 01:59:07,252
Mem.
1574
01:59:12,427 --> 01:59:14,452
Yes, Your Majesty?
1575
01:59:16,531 --> 01:59:20,592
Wherefore have you not
arrived more quickly?
1576
01:59:20,669 --> 01:59:24,105
- I wish to talk to you.
- I'm sorry.
1577
01:59:24,172 --> 01:59:26,504
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
1578
01:59:26,575 --> 01:59:28,668
Sit down, mem.
1579
01:59:30,278 --> 01:59:33,213
You mustn't talk now, Your Majesty.
1580
01:59:33,281 --> 01:59:35,647
I shall talk, I say.
1581
01:59:35,717 --> 01:59:39,949
- There is not much time. I die, mem.
- No.
1582
01:59:40,021 --> 01:59:42,319
Do not say foolish things.
1583
01:59:42,390 --> 01:59:44,688
I know if I die or do not die.
1584
01:59:44,759 --> 01:59:48,889
You shouldn't be here.
Can't we move you to your room?
1585
01:59:48,964 --> 01:59:53,958
No. I wish to remain here
in room with knowledge.
1586
01:59:54,035 --> 01:59:57,664
I have finished thinking about dying.
1587
01:59:57,739 --> 02:00:00,809
I think of many other things
while I am lying here.
1588
02:00:00,942 --> 02:00:05,072
I think of things
I should have said to you.
1589
02:00:07,582 --> 02:00:09,641
I mean...
1590
02:00:13,555 --> 02:00:18,151
when I think maybe
I do not see you again, I--
1591
02:00:19,227 --> 02:00:22,424
I write down these things.
1592
02:00:22,497 --> 02:00:27,093
I think maybe it will be better
he shall read them.
1593
02:00:29,804 --> 02:00:33,570
Shall you be listening, old friend?
1594
02:00:33,641 --> 02:00:36,508
There shall be words for you too.
1595
02:00:36,578 --> 02:00:38,569
I'm listening, Toongramon.
1596
02:00:41,382 --> 02:00:45,614
"I think there shall not
be much important...
1597
02:00:45,687 --> 02:00:47,951
"that a man shall die...
1598
02:00:48,022 --> 02:00:51,617
"for it is time
that does all true things...
1599
02:00:51,693 --> 02:00:54,560
"not man.
1600
02:00:54,629 --> 02:00:57,792
"Then I think it shall be important...
1601
02:00:57,866 --> 02:01:00,460
to consider those
who have been of most help."
1602
02:01:00,535 --> 02:01:03,504
Ah! Words, words.
1603
02:01:06,507 --> 02:01:08,805
I wish to say...
1604
02:01:08,877 --> 02:01:13,940
you--you have spoken truth to me...
1605
02:01:14,015 --> 02:01:16,040
always.
1606
02:01:16,117 --> 02:01:19,052
Even when I do not wish to hear it...
1607
02:01:19,120 --> 02:01:22,920
you have always courage
to say when I am wrong.
1608
02:01:24,859 --> 02:01:27,453
You have set feet of children...
1609
02:01:27,528 --> 02:01:31,328
on excellent path of learning...
1610
02:01:31,399 --> 02:01:36,336
and are therefore most affectionately
thought of by same.
1611
02:01:37,805 --> 02:01:42,765
More so than regular parents...
1612
02:01:42,844 --> 02:01:45,938
including self.
1613
02:01:46,014 --> 02:01:51,145
So that if some shall grow
better than parents...
1614
02:01:51,219 --> 02:01:54,052
it shall be your doing.
1615
02:01:57,191 --> 02:02:00,217
And as reward for this...
1616
02:02:00,295 --> 02:02:03,196
what shall I have done?
1617
02:02:03,264 --> 02:02:08,031
I have often lost my temper on you.
1618
02:02:08,102 --> 02:02:11,230
I have never spoken gratitude or feeling.
1619
02:02:12,941 --> 02:02:18,140
I haven't even given
promised raise in salary.
1620
02:02:19,847 --> 02:02:22,145
I do not wish to die...
1621
02:02:22,216 --> 02:02:24,548
without having said that...
1622
02:02:24,619 --> 02:02:29,716
gratitude and--and--
1623
02:02:29,791 --> 02:02:31,918
and large respect...
1624
02:02:31,993 --> 02:02:34,518
and...
1625
02:02:37,465 --> 02:02:41,333
confidence on you...
1626
02:02:41,402 --> 02:02:44,428
which shall have become larger...
1627
02:02:44,505 --> 02:02:47,497
every day.
1628
02:02:51,312 --> 02:02:55,248
But, mem, if I haven't graciously...
1629
02:02:55,316 --> 02:02:59,309
said this gratitude before...
1630
02:02:59,387 --> 02:03:02,413
you must remember you have been...
1631
02:03:02,490 --> 02:03:04,720
very difficult woman...
1632
02:03:07,295 --> 02:03:11,925
and much more difficult
than the generality.
1633
02:03:16,604 --> 02:03:18,799
Generality.
1634
02:03:21,242 --> 02:03:23,437
It's a good word.
1635
02:03:25,613 --> 02:03:28,104
It means--
1636
02:03:28,182 --> 02:03:31,049
- It means--
- Never mind.
1637
02:03:36,624 --> 02:03:40,060
True progress...
1638
02:03:40,128 --> 02:03:42,756
shall lie...
1639
02:03:47,869 --> 02:03:50,736
et cetera...
1640
02:03:50,805 --> 02:03:53,774
et cetera...
1641
02:03:53,841 --> 02:03:56,901
et cetera.
1642
02:04:41,556 --> 02:04:43,581
He tried so hard.
1643
02:04:43,658 --> 02:04:45,853
No one will ever know.
1644
02:04:47,261 --> 02:04:50,753
It was so hard to let anyone help him.
1645
02:04:50,832 --> 02:04:56,134
He wanted to, but he couldn't.
1646
02:04:56,204 --> 02:05:00,504
He was like a little boy sometimes.
1647
02:05:00,575 --> 02:05:04,375
You remember,
about the forks and knives.
1648
02:05:04,445 --> 02:05:08,040
And he was sick that night,
he cared so much.
1649
02:05:08,116 --> 02:05:11,483
They didn't know he cared like that.
1650
02:05:11,552 --> 02:05:14,043
Nobody understood.
1651
02:05:14,122 --> 02:05:16,420
Not really.
1652
02:05:17,592 --> 02:05:20,459
It seems a long time ago...
1653
02:05:20,528 --> 02:05:24,726
I tried to make you understand
this man.
1654
02:05:24,799 --> 02:05:28,235
I do not think I said it half so well.
1655
02:05:28,302 --> 02:05:31,066
What happens now?
1656
02:05:31,139 --> 02:05:33,164
All his work--
1657
02:05:33,241 --> 02:05:36,438
I think now the young prince
will have much need of you.
1658
02:05:36,511 --> 02:05:40,914
It was meant that you
shall stay and help him.
1659
02:06:19,921 --> 02:06:23,413
Let this, our first message
to our people...
1660
02:06:23,491 --> 02:06:25,755
be proclaimed.
1661
02:06:25,826 --> 02:06:30,024
And not as if we were doing
a great and lordly thing...
1662
02:06:30,097 --> 02:06:34,261
but only what is right and fitting.
1663
02:06:34,335 --> 02:06:38,738
That from this hour,
the ancient national custom...
1664
02:06:38,806 --> 02:06:43,402
of obeisance on hands
and knees is abolished...
1665
02:06:43,477 --> 02:06:47,573
and all men
shall stand before the king...
1666
02:06:47,648 --> 02:06:51,812
and before one another,
as men should do.
1667
02:07:20,481 --> 02:07:23,746
And let it be the spirit
of this proclamation...
1668
02:07:23,818 --> 02:07:26,912
that this shall be
the first of many changes...
1669
02:07:26,988 --> 02:07:30,685
which we hope to bring about
as soon as they are possible...
1670
02:07:30,758 --> 02:07:35,821
as I believe my father, the late king,
would wish us to do...
1671
02:07:38,566 --> 02:07:41,399
and as I have learned...
1672
02:07:41,469 --> 02:07:44,802
it is right and necessary to do...
1673
02:07:44,872 --> 02:07:48,467
if we are to live
and work together...
1674
02:07:48,542 --> 02:07:53,343
in liking and respect
for one another...
1675
02:07:53,414 --> 02:07:58,784
as we must do if we are to work together
for the good of our country.