1 00:01:46,072 --> 00:01:48,768 [Man Speaking Siamese] 2 00:01:50,777 --> 00:01:53,837 - I'll get someone for the luggage. - Thank you, Captain. 3 00:01:53,913 --> 00:01:58,009 Mother, these people are so funny. Everybody goes barefoot. 4 00:01:58,084 --> 00:02:00,075 Stay where I can see you, Louis. Watch him, Beebe. 5 00:02:00,153 --> 00:02:02,178 - Don't let him get all untidy. - Yes, memsahib. 6 00:02:02,255 --> 00:02:04,348 Memsahib. 7 00:02:04,424 --> 00:02:06,415 Who is here to receive us? 8 00:02:06,493 --> 00:02:09,826 Someone will meet us, Moonshee. Do try and watch the luggage. 9 00:02:11,664 --> 00:02:13,723 No sign of anyone to meet you. 10 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,701 - You sure they knew you were coming? - Oh, yes. 11 00:02:16,769 --> 00:02:19,567 I suppose all this seems strange to you? 12 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,200 Not entirely. I feel as though I already knew Siam. 13 00:02:23,276 --> 00:02:26,575 - Oh? - I read a very interesting book about it on the boat... 14 00:02:26,646 --> 00:02:28,773 by a man who visited it once. 15 00:02:28,848 --> 00:02:31,248 Don't smile. It's really quite good. 16 00:02:31,317 --> 00:02:33,547 For instance, I knew that was the royal palace. 17 00:02:33,620 --> 00:02:36,054 - Right. - You see? 18 00:02:36,122 --> 00:02:38,682 - Have you ever been inside it? - Yes, almost all of it... 19 00:02:38,758 --> 00:02:40,749 except, of course, the nang hahn. 20 00:02:40,827 --> 00:02:43,057 Oh, the harem, you mean. 21 00:02:43,129 --> 00:02:46,064 Yes. It's, uh, quite a place. 22 00:02:46,132 --> 00:02:48,225 I've heard it called a universe... 23 00:02:48,301 --> 00:02:50,633 with a single sun and a thousand moons... 24 00:02:50,703 --> 00:02:53,638 - the king being the sun, naturally. - Good gracious. 25 00:02:53,706 --> 00:02:55,867 They run a bit of language out here. 26 00:02:55,942 --> 00:02:59,639 They say, too, that he's the disc of light they all revolve around. 27 00:02:59,712 --> 00:03:03,808 How many women revolve around this disc of light? 28 00:03:03,883 --> 00:03:08,081 - Oh, 1,000 or more. - Really? 29 00:03:08,154 --> 00:03:10,418 The book didn't mention that. 30 00:03:10,490 --> 00:03:15,120 [Chuckles] I haven't anything against that book of yours, Mrs. Owens, but look here. 31 00:03:15,195 --> 00:03:18,096 This is Siam. There isn't even a consulate here. 32 00:03:18,164 --> 00:03:20,462 - You see... - [Elephant Trumpets] 33 00:03:20,533 --> 00:03:24,731 - Hello. - Someone to meet me, I suppose. 34 00:03:43,890 --> 00:03:46,120 [Speaking Siamese] 35 00:03:46,192 --> 00:03:49,491 Mrs. Owens, may I present His Excellency the Kralahome... 36 00:03:49,562 --> 00:03:53,896 Prime Minister of Siam. Chow Koon, Mem Anna Owens. 37 00:03:58,171 --> 00:04:01,368 Are you lady who is to teach children of royal family? 38 00:04:01,441 --> 00:04:04,604 - Yes. - Have you friends in Bangkok? 39 00:04:04,677 --> 00:04:06,668 No, I know no one in Bangkok at all. 40 00:04:06,746 --> 00:04:08,611 Are you married? 41 00:04:11,384 --> 00:04:13,375 I was married. My husband is dead. 42 00:04:16,856 --> 00:04:19,654 [Speaking Siamese] 43 00:04:19,726 --> 00:04:24,026 - How long your husband been dead? - About a year. 44 00:04:24,097 --> 00:04:26,725 What manner of man, uh, your husband? 45 00:04:26,799 --> 00:04:31,202 He was an officer in Her Majesty's Army, serving in... 46 00:04:35,608 --> 00:04:38,577 Ask His Excellency why it is necessary to know these things? 47 00:04:38,645 --> 00:04:40,704 [Man Speaking Siamese] 48 00:04:40,780 --> 00:04:42,873 [Speaking Siamese] 49 00:04:44,117 --> 00:04:46,381 My master says, if he ask... 50 00:04:46,452 --> 00:04:49,114 it should be enough for mem to answer. 51 00:04:51,291 --> 00:04:54,692 Tell your master that his business with me is in my capacity as governess. 52 00:04:54,761 --> 00:04:58,253 It is not necessary for him to pry into my personal affairs. 53 00:04:58,331 --> 00:05:00,663 [Speaking Siamese] 54 00:05:03,136 --> 00:05:05,536 [Speaking Siamese] 55 00:05:05,605 --> 00:05:11,237 My master graciously says mem need not talk at all. 56 00:05:11,311 --> 00:05:13,939 His slaves will take her to palace. 57 00:05:14,013 --> 00:05:16,447 - Tell him to wait. - Uh, Chow Koon! 58 00:05:16,516 --> 00:05:21,613 I was promised that a house of my own would be provided for me on my arrival. 59 00:05:21,688 --> 00:05:24,282 - I wish to be taken there. - [Speaking Siamese] 60 00:05:25,792 --> 00:05:28,727 [Speaking Siamese] 61 00:05:28,795 --> 00:05:32,697 My master says if mem does not wish to go to palace... 62 00:05:32,765 --> 00:05:37,464 she can go wherever she pleases. 63 00:05:37,537 --> 00:05:39,971 Why, that's the rudest man I ever met in my life. 64 00:05:40,039 --> 00:05:42,473 If that book of yours had been any good at all... 65 00:05:42,542 --> 00:05:45,409 you'd know they ask personal questions here just to be polite. 66 00:05:45,478 --> 00:05:48,538 He wasn't being rude. He came out to meet you in person. 67 00:05:48,614 --> 00:05:53,313 And you're a woman, and women do not exist in Siam. They simply do not exist. 68 00:05:53,386 --> 00:05:55,718 I hope I'll have nothing more to do with him. 69 00:05:55,788 --> 00:05:59,884 My dear young woman, you'd better realize you can't do anything here without him. 70 00:05:59,959 --> 00:06:04,328 And if I were you, I'd see him first thing in the morning and tell him you didn't understand... 71 00:06:04,397 --> 00:06:06,991 that you're sorry, or as near it as you can manage. 72 00:06:09,669 --> 00:06:14,402 Well, looks like you sleep onboard tonight. 73 00:06:14,474 --> 00:06:18,968 Means I can't go with you in the morning, get down the river early. 74 00:06:19,045 --> 00:06:21,570 Oh, well, I'll find someone. 75 00:06:21,647 --> 00:06:24,582 - Thank you, Captain Orton. - Not at all, ma'am. 76 00:06:31,991 --> 00:06:33,982 And don't worry, ma'am. 77 00:06:34,060 --> 00:06:36,085 The king has invested money in your passage... 78 00:06:36,162 --> 00:06:38,596 and he's, uh... he's very canny about money. 79 00:06:38,664 --> 00:06:41,360 He'll see that you have a chance to do your work. 80 00:06:43,669 --> 00:06:45,728 [Speaking Siamese] 81 00:06:57,917 --> 00:07:00,750 [Siamese] 82 00:07:08,261 --> 00:07:10,752 Mem. [Siamese] 83 00:07:43,229 --> 00:07:45,390 He's not gonna wait for us. 84 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:56,435 [Siamese] 85 00:07:59,145 --> 00:08:02,012 Ahhh. 86 00:08:03,749 --> 00:08:06,183 Good morning. I wish to see your master. 87 00:08:06,252 --> 00:08:09,585 Mm. I will see. You will wait. 88 00:08:24,170 --> 00:08:26,195 They write in such a funny way here. 89 00:08:26,272 --> 00:08:28,968 Don't be rude, darling. Come here and wait quietly. 90 00:08:30,209 --> 00:08:32,939 - You will come this way. - Thank you. 91 00:08:39,819 --> 00:08:41,878 You will wait. 92 00:08:56,402 --> 00:08:59,337 What shall I draw now? 93 00:08:59,405 --> 00:09:02,067 - Well, let's see. Draw an elephant. - I just did. 94 00:09:02,141 --> 00:09:04,132 I wish we could go. 95 00:09:04,210 --> 00:09:06,303 We're going to wait. 96 00:09:08,915 --> 00:09:12,510 My master wishes to know why you come here, what you want. 97 00:09:14,020 --> 00:09:16,250 Tell His Excellency I did not understand... 98 00:09:16,322 --> 00:09:18,313 the honor he paid me in coming to meet me. 99 00:09:18,391 --> 00:09:21,360 I'm sorry I behaved ungraciously and I came here to tell him so. 100 00:09:21,427 --> 00:09:23,588 [Siamese] 101 00:09:27,667 --> 00:09:31,364 [Siamese] 102 00:09:31,437 --> 00:09:36,170 My master wishes to know if mem truly regrets sin of having bad temper... 103 00:09:36,242 --> 00:09:39,370 or if she only says so in order to ask favor ofhim? 104 00:09:39,445 --> 00:09:41,538 L... 105 00:09:44,684 --> 00:09:46,675 Tell him it's both. 106 00:09:46,752 --> 00:09:50,552 I am sorry and I would like his help in getting started with my work. 107 00:09:50,623 --> 00:09:53,217 [Siamese] 108 00:09:55,928 --> 00:09:58,624 [Whispering] Why doesn't he have a coat on? You make me wear one. 109 00:09:58,698 --> 00:10:01,496 - Quiet, dear. - Let's go. I don't think I like him. 110 00:10:01,567 --> 00:10:03,762 [Laughing] 111 00:10:07,073 --> 00:10:11,066 - What is your name, boy? - Louis Owens, sir. 112 00:10:11,143 --> 00:10:14,340 - Are you afraid of me? - I don't think so. 113 00:10:14,413 --> 00:10:17,439 That is good. I like you. 114 00:10:19,151 --> 00:10:22,643 - Take seat. Sit down. - Thank you. 115 00:10:22,722 --> 00:10:26,180 Your Excellency speaks English. I didn't know. 116 00:10:26,258 --> 00:10:29,659 Not necessary to know everything in first minutes. 117 00:10:36,302 --> 00:10:38,327 What for you object to live in palace? 118 00:10:38,404 --> 00:10:41,737 Your Excellency, I must have a place of my own... 119 00:10:41,807 --> 00:10:45,903 where I can go when my duties are over for the day. 120 00:10:45,978 --> 00:10:49,345 What you wish to do evenings that cannot be done in palace? 121 00:10:49,415 --> 00:10:51,406 You don't understand, Your Excellency. 122 00:10:51,484 --> 00:10:53,509 It isn't for some foolish reason. 123 00:10:53,586 --> 00:10:57,579 I came here to teach because I must work to support myself and my son. 124 00:10:57,657 --> 00:11:01,957 - Why you not marry again? - Oh, no. Not ever. 125 00:11:02,028 --> 00:11:04,792 The only thing I want now is to bring up my son. 126 00:11:04,864 --> 00:11:08,857 He's very like his father, and I want him to grow up that way. 127 00:11:08,934 --> 00:11:11,596 That's difficult to do in a strange country. 128 00:11:11,671 --> 00:11:14,105 That's why we must have a home of our own. 129 00:11:14,173 --> 00:11:16,801 This is very important to me, Your Excellency. 130 00:11:16,876 --> 00:11:20,141 - Please believe that. - You say king promise you this house? 131 00:11:20,212 --> 00:11:24,740 - Yes. I have the letter. - You do not show me. I do not think you lie. 132 00:11:24,817 --> 00:11:28,947 But sometime His Majesty do not remember everything he promise. 133 00:11:29,021 --> 00:11:31,717 But couldn't you remind him? 134 00:11:31,791 --> 00:11:34,487 Mem, if I tell king he breaks his promise... 135 00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:37,552 I will make anger in him. 136 00:11:37,630 --> 00:11:42,499 I think it is better if I make anger in him about larger matters. 137 00:11:42,568 --> 00:11:44,593 Very well. If you're afraid to tell him, I'm not. 138 00:11:44,670 --> 00:11:47,605 Will you arrange for me to see him as soon as possible? 139 00:11:47,673 --> 00:11:49,664 You think you tell king he breaks his promise? 140 00:11:49,742 --> 00:11:51,505 Yes, if that's necessary. 141 00:11:51,577 --> 00:11:54,808 Lfhe wants to get angry about breaking his own promise... 142 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,145 Mem, I think I arrange this meeting for you. 143 00:11:58,217 --> 00:12:00,344 - When? - I do not know. 144 00:12:00,419 --> 00:12:02,444 His Majesty very busy now. 145 00:12:02,521 --> 00:12:04,751 Is he too busy to remember he asked me to come? 146 00:12:04,824 --> 00:12:07,952 Unfortunately, new year and you arrive at same time. 147 00:12:08,027 --> 00:12:10,018 New year more important. 148 00:12:10,096 --> 00:12:12,087 It wouldn't take 10 minutes of his time... 149 00:12:12,164 --> 00:12:16,157 And after new year is festival called Songkran, with fireworks. 150 00:12:16,235 --> 00:12:18,328 That will take week or so maybe. 151 00:12:18,404 --> 00:12:21,703 - Then it's time for cremation of late cousin. - But surely... 152 00:12:21,774 --> 00:12:26,973 Then His Majesty goes upriver to receive sacred white elephant. 153 00:12:27,046 --> 00:12:30,607 Then ceremonies of tonsure of hair of oldest daughter. 154 00:12:30,683 --> 00:12:32,776 What am I supposed to do in the meantime? 155 00:12:32,852 --> 00:12:35,844 Wait. Live in palace and wait. 156 00:12:35,921 --> 00:12:38,685 This is ridiculous. I came here to teach. 157 00:12:38,758 --> 00:12:41,693 Mem, this country has been here 1,000 years before you came... 158 00:12:41,761 --> 00:12:43,786 and must continue. 159 00:12:43,863 --> 00:12:47,390 That may be, but I intend to keep my part of the bargain... 160 00:12:47,466 --> 00:12:50,060 and I assure you I expect the king to keep his. 161 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:58,536 Mem, I do not think king will remember this promise... 162 00:12:58,611 --> 00:13:02,377 but I do think will be very interesting meeting. 163 00:13:05,284 --> 00:13:07,377 [Siamese] 164 00:13:14,894 --> 00:13:16,885 I don't think we'd better open this one. 165 00:13:16,962 --> 00:13:19,829 - It's full of things I didn't know what to do with. - [Sobs] Yes, memsahib. 166 00:13:19,899 --> 00:13:21,890 Beebe, do stop crying. 167 00:13:21,967 --> 00:13:24,527 I told you Moonshee will probably be here any minute. 168 00:13:24,603 --> 00:13:26,594 I think I shall never see him again. 169 00:13:26,672 --> 00:13:30,233 - They said he could not live here with us... - Nonsense. 170 00:13:30,309 --> 00:13:34,006 You must have misunderstood. It's just there isn't room for him here now. 171 00:13:34,079 --> 00:13:37,105 - Yes, memsahib. - Do you remember where I packed those sheets? 172 00:13:37,183 --> 00:13:39,378 - I see fireworks. - It's New Year's Day. 173 00:13:39,451 --> 00:13:41,510 No, it isn't, Mother. It's only April. 174 00:13:41,587 --> 00:13:43,782 It's the New Year's out here. 175 00:13:43,856 --> 00:13:48,589 I won't sleep a wink tonight unless we have our own sheets on those beds. 176 00:13:48,661 --> 00:13:50,754 After dinner, may we go see the fireworks? 177 00:13:50,830 --> 00:13:54,231 We'll see. Ah, yes. They're in here. I remember now. 178 00:13:54,300 --> 00:13:58,669 There, Beebe. All right. Come on, darling. Now I'll see about dinner. 179 00:14:08,314 --> 00:14:11,408 We would like to have some dinner. 180 00:14:11,483 --> 00:14:16,216 Something to eat. Eat. 181 00:14:16,288 --> 00:14:19,485 No, wait a moment. What part of the palace are we in? 182 00:14:24,730 --> 00:14:27,460 Well, poor souls. They don't seem to understand. 183 00:14:27,533 --> 00:14:31,902 - What made them shut the door? - Uh, I don't know... 184 00:14:34,807 --> 00:14:37,173 What are they doing there? 185 00:14:37,243 --> 00:14:39,734 Oh! Oh, no! 186 00:14:41,313 --> 00:14:44,416 Oh. So that's why Moonshee can't be here with us. 187 00:14:44,549 --> 00:14:48,815 Oh, go away. Beebe. 188 00:14:50,355 --> 00:14:52,346 What a thing for me to do. 189 00:14:52,424 --> 00:14:55,120 And I said so positively. 190 00:14:55,193 --> 00:14:57,252 Oh, Louis, you'll have to forgive your mother. 191 00:14:57,328 --> 00:14:59,319 I said we'd have a home of our own... 192 00:14:59,397 --> 00:15:01,422 and here I've brought you straight into a harem. 193 00:15:01,499 --> 00:15:03,490 - [Laughing] - What does that mean? What is a harem? 194 00:15:03,568 --> 00:15:05,968 [Weepy Chuckling] Well, it's... it's... 195 00:15:06,037 --> 00:15:08,005 Oh, don't ask me now. 196 00:15:08,072 --> 00:15:10,336 When you ask me something like that, I should have a good answer... 197 00:15:10,408 --> 00:15:13,275 and I will, but I just can't think of one now. 198 00:15:13,344 --> 00:15:15,403 [Sobbing] 199 00:15:27,525 --> 00:15:30,153 Do I have to wear this suit, Mother? 200 00:15:30,228 --> 00:15:32,458 Don't sulk, dear. Come, we must hurry. 201 00:15:32,530 --> 00:15:35,021 Where did I put my... Oh, here it is. 202 00:15:41,372 --> 00:15:43,363 The day is here, Mem Owens. 203 00:15:43,441 --> 00:15:47,878 It is unfortunate mem had to wait for new year and cremation... 204 00:15:47,946 --> 00:15:50,039 but at least she's ahead of white elephant. 205 00:15:50,114 --> 00:15:52,582 Who is going to present me to the king? 206 00:15:52,650 --> 00:15:55,710 Oh, by all means, I present you myself. 207 00:15:55,787 --> 00:15:59,382 First, let us observe manner of entering presence of His Majesty. 208 00:15:59,457 --> 00:16:02,984 Let us suppose Lord of Light sits here. 209 00:16:03,061 --> 00:16:05,655 Here is door. [Siamese] 210 00:16:16,074 --> 00:16:19,601 - Oh, no. - It is custom of country. 211 00:16:19,677 --> 00:16:22,168 I couldn't. I'm very sorry, but I couldn't. 212 00:16:22,247 --> 00:16:24,772 His Majesty very sensitive about such matters. 213 00:16:24,849 --> 00:16:28,444 Your Excellency, I intend to show His Majesty the utmost respect... 214 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:31,580 but he cannot possibly expect me to crawl on the floor. 215 00:16:31,656 --> 00:16:33,954 I wouldn't do that for my own queen. 216 00:16:34,025 --> 00:16:36,687 What you do in presence of your own queen? 217 00:16:36,761 --> 00:16:38,820 I'll show you. 218 00:16:44,669 --> 00:16:46,899 Do as you wish, mem. 219 00:16:46,971 --> 00:16:49,701 But remember, you are not only one with temper. 220 00:16:49,774 --> 00:16:51,969 This king has temper too. 221 00:16:52,043 --> 00:16:54,068 I return when it is time. 222 00:16:54,145 --> 00:16:56,204 You will wait. 223 00:17:04,889 --> 00:17:09,223 Mother, I can walk on my knees if they want me to. That's easy. 224 00:17:09,294 --> 00:17:12,320 Louis, I want you to walk in and make your bow exactly as I've shown you. 225 00:17:12,397 --> 00:17:15,457 Don't you dare crawl in like a worm. Don't you dare! 226 00:17:16,668 --> 00:17:18,727 Yes, Mother. 227 00:17:24,008 --> 00:17:26,306 Perhaps they don't like us here or something. 228 00:17:26,377 --> 00:17:28,572 Oh, this is perfectly childish. 229 00:17:31,382 --> 00:17:34,681 - The mem is ready now? - Quite ready. 230 00:18:01,512 --> 00:18:06,142 Sorry, mem, His Majesty has concluded audience. 231 00:18:06,217 --> 00:18:08,447 You mean he isn't going to receive us after all? 232 00:18:08,519 --> 00:18:11,682 Some other day, not today. 233 00:18:11,756 --> 00:18:15,385 - I wish to be presented now. - I do not advise it. 234 00:18:16,628 --> 00:18:18,721 Louis. 235 00:18:34,746 --> 00:18:37,010 Who? Who? Who? 236 00:18:37,081 --> 00:18:39,914 Your Majesty, I present new English governess... 237 00:18:39,984 --> 00:18:42,714 Mrs. Anna Owens, and son Louis. 238 00:19:09,414 --> 00:19:11,678 How old shall you be? 239 00:19:11,749 --> 00:19:16,209 You do not look like scientific person for teaching of school. 240 00:19:16,287 --> 00:19:20,690 - How old shall you be? - I am 150 years old, Your Majesty. 241 00:19:37,141 --> 00:19:39,803 In what year were you born? 242 00:19:43,614 --> 00:19:47,072 1712, Your Majesty. 243 00:19:47,151 --> 00:19:50,484 - And how many years shall you be married? - Several, Your Majesty. 244 00:19:56,327 --> 00:19:59,660 How many grandchildren shall you have by now? How many? How many? How many? 245 00:19:59,731 --> 00:20:03,098 Ah! You do not answer that so quick. 246 00:20:03,167 --> 00:20:06,000 I make better questions than you make answers, hmm? 247 00:20:06,070 --> 00:20:09,733 [Laughing] 248 00:20:12,977 --> 00:20:15,241 [Siamese] 249 00:20:15,313 --> 00:20:17,372 [Laughter] 250 00:20:22,386 --> 00:20:25,514 You not afraid to tell king something is not his business? 251 00:20:27,558 --> 00:20:31,324 It would not be a compliment to His Majesty if I were afraid of him. 252 00:20:31,395 --> 00:20:36,162 Ah. Not to be afraid is good thing in scientific mind. 253 00:20:37,835 --> 00:20:39,928 I think maybe... 254 00:20:40,004 --> 00:20:42,234 you will make very good school-teaching. 255 00:21:05,096 --> 00:21:07,530 These... my wives. 256 00:21:07,598 --> 00:21:12,729 This... Chow Chon Son Llin, who is favorite. 257 00:21:12,804 --> 00:21:15,705 They not speak English, and I haven't time for teaching... 258 00:21:15,773 --> 00:21:18,469 being busy with foreign affairs and other situations. 259 00:21:19,544 --> 00:21:21,535 [Siamese] 260 00:21:21,612 --> 00:21:24,137 We'll get my children. 261 00:21:24,215 --> 00:21:26,240 I have fine idea. 262 00:21:26,317 --> 00:21:29,480 You teach all my wives as have sense to learn. 263 00:21:29,554 --> 00:21:31,647 Siam be very modern country. 264 00:21:31,722 --> 00:21:34,054 Very good... everybody speaking English. 265 00:21:34,125 --> 00:21:36,355 I would be happy to, Your Majesty. 266 00:21:36,427 --> 00:21:38,987 Ah, here come my children. 267 00:21:44,769 --> 00:21:47,465 You see, mostly boys. 268 00:21:53,578 --> 00:21:56,240 Not all. Few more. 269 00:22:09,827 --> 00:22:12,762 [King] Ahhh.! Oh. 270 00:22:18,769 --> 00:22:20,760 How many are there, Your Majesty? 271 00:22:20,838 --> 00:22:22,863 They are not all here, of course. 272 00:22:22,940 --> 00:22:24,931 Only those old enough for school. 273 00:22:25,009 --> 00:22:27,068 I have 67 children. Not many. 274 00:22:27,144 --> 00:22:29,135 I began marriage a little late. 275 00:22:29,213 --> 00:22:31,306 Which is the eldest? 276 00:22:34,185 --> 00:22:37,518 Ah, this one. This is Prince Chulalongkorn. 277 00:22:38,656 --> 00:22:42,114 This... Princess Fa-Ying. 278 00:22:42,193 --> 00:22:44,320 This... Prince Tay Wa Wong. This... 279 00:22:44,395 --> 00:22:47,887 [Chuckles] No. Too many. Will take time to learn. 280 00:22:47,965 --> 00:22:51,901 They're a wonderful-Iooking family, Your Majesty. You make me wish I had 67. 281 00:22:51,969 --> 00:22:55,132 Ah, is impossible. That is very funny. 282 00:22:55,206 --> 00:22:57,071 Come. 283 00:23:15,059 --> 00:23:18,756 I consider Mrs. Owens suitable for teaching wives as well as children. 284 00:23:18,829 --> 00:23:22,287 - Thank you, Your Majesty. - You shall begin school next Thursday. 285 00:23:22,366 --> 00:23:25,301 That is best day for such undertaking according to astrologers. 286 00:23:25,369 --> 00:23:27,929 - Very well, Your Majesty. - I am very pleased with this lady. 287 00:23:28,005 --> 00:23:31,099 Why was she not presented here more soon? 288 00:23:35,513 --> 00:23:37,879 150 year, hmm? 289 00:23:39,250 --> 00:23:41,946 How many grandchildren? [Chuckling] 290 00:23:42,019 --> 00:23:44,351 You may go. 291 00:23:55,566 --> 00:23:59,229 Good day, Your Excellency. Come, darling. 292 00:24:23,494 --> 00:24:25,519 Is this the school? 293 00:24:25,596 --> 00:24:28,258 I don't know, dear, but we'll find out soon. 294 00:24:35,573 --> 00:24:38,406 Don't they even start school on time here? 295 00:24:38,476 --> 00:24:41,536 Perhaps the astrologers found a star they'd overlooked. 296 00:24:41,612 --> 00:24:44,843 [Gong] 297 00:25:05,169 --> 00:25:07,467 What's the matter now, Mother? 298 00:25:07,538 --> 00:25:10,530 I don't know. Must have something to do with the king. 299 00:25:10,608 --> 00:25:15,011 [King] June 12, 1862.! June 12, 1862.! 300 00:25:22,053 --> 00:25:24,283 June 12, 1862! 301 00:25:24,355 --> 00:25:27,449 June 12, 1862.! 302 00:25:28,893 --> 00:25:30,918 He is fool! 303 00:25:30,995 --> 00:25:33,623 You understand meaning of word "agility"? 304 00:25:33,697 --> 00:25:36,291 I think Your Majesty's giving a very good illustration of it. 305 00:25:36,367 --> 00:25:38,392 You see, she understands! 306 00:25:38,469 --> 00:25:41,495 This ignorant and lazy man is my secretary. 307 00:25:41,572 --> 00:25:45,406 Understands nothing. All he ever wants to do is sleep, sleep! 308 00:25:46,877 --> 00:25:50,643 On June 12, 1862, which is today... 309 00:25:50,714 --> 00:25:52,739 and therefore birthday for me. 310 00:25:52,817 --> 00:25:56,184 You see, I am young and strong. 311 00:25:56,253 --> 00:26:00,155 - I have agility like young man! - Of course, Your Majesty. 312 00:26:00,224 --> 00:26:03,489 Then how can I be spare man? How can I? 313 00:26:03,561 --> 00:26:06,257 Perhaps if Your Majesty could explain a little more. 314 00:26:06,330 --> 00:26:08,355 Birthday should be happy day. 315 00:26:08,432 --> 00:26:10,525 And what is first happening? 316 00:26:10,601 --> 00:26:14,697 It is writing about me in British newspaper from Singapore says I am spare man. 317 00:26:14,772 --> 00:26:17,866 A king cannot be spare man! 318 00:26:17,942 --> 00:26:20,604 How can I be spared from work which is necessary? 319 00:26:20,678 --> 00:26:23,112 Who can fill my place? I ask you this! 320 00:26:23,180 --> 00:26:25,171 Who can fill my place? 321 00:26:25,249 --> 00:26:28,514 Your Majesty, the word spare has two meanings. 322 00:26:28,586 --> 00:26:31,521 One of them is "extra," the other is "thin." 323 00:26:31,589 --> 00:26:35,685 They don't mean to say that you're unnecessary, just thin. 324 00:26:41,932 --> 00:26:45,561 - Why should you contradict me? - I'm only trying to help you. 325 00:26:45,636 --> 00:26:47,900 Is it help to say I am wrong? 326 00:26:47,972 --> 00:26:51,237 How can king be wrong and woman be right? I ask you that. How? 327 00:26:51,308 --> 00:26:54,573 I'm afraid, Your Majesty, that it has happened sometimes. 328 00:26:54,645 --> 00:26:58,741 It is clear you are not scientific. Why are you here? 329 00:26:58,816 --> 00:27:01,876 Because you told me you intended opening my school today. 330 00:27:01,952 --> 00:27:06,753 My astrologers are fools. How can this be good day for schools? You may go. 331 00:27:09,460 --> 00:27:12,588 Very well, Your Majesty, but since you've postponed opening the school... 332 00:27:12,663 --> 00:27:14,688 there's something I would like to discuss with you. 333 00:27:14,765 --> 00:27:18,360 I should like to use the time getting settled in my own house. 334 00:27:18,435 --> 00:27:21,199 - House? House? House? - The house you promised me. 335 00:27:21,272 --> 00:27:23,263 Conditions different suddenly. 336 00:27:23,340 --> 00:27:26,400 - Have we not agreed to teach our women? - Well, of course I have. 337 00:27:26,477 --> 00:27:28,707 How can you teach them if you live outside? 338 00:27:28,779 --> 00:27:31,373 It is our pleasure that you shall reside within this palace. 339 00:27:31,448 --> 00:27:33,882 If Your Majesty remembers, you promised me a house. 340 00:27:33,951 --> 00:27:36,385 I will do remembering of what I promise. 341 00:27:36,453 --> 00:27:38,284 Who is king here? 342 00:27:38,355 --> 00:27:40,915 I remind you... 343 00:27:40,991 --> 00:27:44,358 I do not know condition which will arise. 344 00:27:44,428 --> 00:27:47,261 I do not know anything but that you are my servant... 345 00:27:47,331 --> 00:27:51,529 and that it's our pleasure that you shall reside within this palace... 346 00:27:51,602 --> 00:27:53,695 and you shall obey. 347 00:27:53,771 --> 00:27:56,365 Your Majesty, I'm prepared to obey all your commands... 348 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,431 as far as they concern my duties as a teacher. 349 00:27:58,509 --> 00:28:01,808 You shall live in palace. You shall live in palace! You shall... 350 00:28:06,183 --> 00:28:09,152 Come back! Come back! 351 00:28:09,220 --> 00:28:12,121 I command you, come back! 352 00:28:17,127 --> 00:28:19,118 That king hasn't very good manners. 353 00:28:19,196 --> 00:28:21,426 His mother certainly didn't teach him not to shout. 354 00:28:21,498 --> 00:28:24,058 Women don't seem to count for very much out here. 355 00:28:24,134 --> 00:28:26,932 "How can a king be wrong and a woman be right?" 356 00:28:27,004 --> 00:28:29,837 Well, the Disc of Light isn't going to talk to me like that. 357 00:28:33,510 --> 00:28:35,569 Beebe, take Louis into the other room. 358 00:28:37,181 --> 00:28:39,411 Yes, what do you want? 359 00:28:39,483 --> 00:28:41,474 I have been ordered into Forbidden City... 360 00:28:41,552 --> 00:28:44,077 so I could personally conduct mem to house... 361 00:28:44,154 --> 00:28:47,089 His Majesty has graciously decided she should have. 362 00:28:47,157 --> 00:28:49,148 A house outside the palace? 363 00:28:49,226 --> 00:28:51,251 His Majesty instruct me to say... 364 00:28:51,328 --> 00:28:54,991 he desire to observe fully terms of his promise. 365 00:28:56,700 --> 00:28:58,395 Well. 366 00:29:22,526 --> 00:29:24,687 Is this it? 367 00:29:42,546 --> 00:29:45,913 Get out of my way! 368 00:29:45,983 --> 00:29:48,781 Get out of my way! 369 00:29:52,122 --> 00:29:54,989 What was it like? Is there a stable for my pony when I get it? 370 00:29:55,059 --> 00:29:58,085 - Is it on the river? - Oh, Louis, it was horrible. 371 00:29:58,162 --> 00:30:01,222 And he did it deliberately to teach me a lesson... 372 00:30:01,298 --> 00:30:03,425 to put me in my place. 373 00:30:07,905 --> 00:30:10,396 But he'll rue this day, let me tell you... 374 00:30:10,474 --> 00:30:12,908 if he knows the meaning of the word rue. 375 00:30:12,976 --> 00:30:15,410 Unpack these things, Beebe. Unpack everything. 376 00:30:15,479 --> 00:30:18,539 - But, memsahib, you said... - It doesn't make any difference what I said. 377 00:30:18,615 --> 00:30:21,049 That man's going to give me a house before I leave... 378 00:30:21,118 --> 00:30:23,109 if I have to stay here the rest of my life. 379 00:30:23,187 --> 00:30:26,679 I'll not just go away and let him sit here laughing at me. 380 00:30:26,757 --> 00:30:28,816 [Sobs] I'll not. 381 00:30:30,928 --> 00:30:34,261 Mrs. Owens has graciously changed her plans... 382 00:30:34,331 --> 00:30:36,856 so will live in royal palace... 383 00:30:36,934 --> 00:30:40,165 and be free for question of education at all times. 384 00:30:41,705 --> 00:30:43,969 I command you to be diligent... 385 00:30:44,041 --> 00:30:46,475 and to make most of this opportunity... 386 00:30:46,543 --> 00:30:48,875 for sake of yourselves and country. 387 00:31:11,301 --> 00:31:13,201 We will come to attention, please. 388 00:31:18,642 --> 00:31:22,635 - [Squealing, Giggling] - Order, please! 389 00:31:24,214 --> 00:31:27,980 Quiet.! Order, please.! Quiet.! 390 00:31:28,051 --> 00:31:30,246 Order.! Quiet.! 391 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,153 Be quiet.! Be quiet.! Order, please.! 392 00:31:33,223 --> 00:31:37,421 Quiet! Order! 393 00:31:37,494 --> 00:31:39,826 Don't any of you understand any English at all? 394 00:31:39,896 --> 00:31:41,761 Aaah! 395 00:31:44,868 --> 00:31:47,996 [Squealing, Giggling Stops] 396 00:31:48,071 --> 00:31:51,131 They think you wear dress like that... 397 00:31:51,208 --> 00:31:53,335 because you're shaped like that down there. 398 00:31:53,410 --> 00:31:56,038 - [Giggling] - Oh, you speak English. 399 00:31:56,113 --> 00:31:58,604 Good morning, sir. 400 00:31:58,682 --> 00:32:00,673 I am very glad to see you. 401 00:32:00,751 --> 00:32:03,720 I think of you very often. 402 00:32:03,787 --> 00:32:06,551 In the beginning... 403 00:32:06,623 --> 00:32:09,888 God created the heaven and the Earth. 404 00:32:11,528 --> 00:32:14,053 Missionary. 405 00:32:14,131 --> 00:32:16,361 Oh, a missionary taught you English. 406 00:32:17,701 --> 00:32:20,135 - Thiang. - Lady Thiang. 407 00:32:20,203 --> 00:32:22,398 - Yes, sir. - How fortunate. 408 00:32:22,472 --> 00:32:25,168 I shall ask you to help me in explaining to the others. 409 00:32:25,242 --> 00:32:28,609 Uh, yes, sir. Good morning, sir. 410 00:32:31,715 --> 00:32:34,206 We shall now begin the class. 411 00:32:37,087 --> 00:32:39,248 [Gong] 412 00:32:51,268 --> 00:32:55,364 The usual way to begin would be with the English alphabet... 413 00:32:55,439 --> 00:32:57,430 but I should like to impress His Majesty... 414 00:32:57,507 --> 00:32:59,634 with the way English people feel. 415 00:33:00,844 --> 00:33:03,335 [Siamese] 416 00:33:03,413 --> 00:33:07,543 Therefore, we will begin by learning a song or two... 417 00:33:07,617 --> 00:33:09,744 - [Thiang Translating] - Or a sentence or two... 418 00:33:09,820 --> 00:33:11,879 which will express English feeling. 419 00:33:11,955 --> 00:33:14,549 For instance, this one. 420 00:33:14,624 --> 00:33:16,683 It's an old proverb. 421 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,594 "If a man break faith with me... 422 00:33:20,664 --> 00:33:22,689 "shame on him... 423 00:33:22,766 --> 00:33:27,203 "but if I let him deceive me twice... 424 00:33:27,270 --> 00:33:29,329 shame on me." 425 00:33:47,958 --> 00:33:50,483 It is not good day. I feel it. 426 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,994 There will not be many gifts this morning. 427 00:34:21,925 --> 00:34:25,691 - Who shall this be? - My name is Tuptim. 428 00:34:25,762 --> 00:34:29,528 [Man] She was sent by governor of Lao province. 429 00:34:29,599 --> 00:34:32,762 She's daughter ofhis youngest brother. 430 00:34:32,836 --> 00:34:37,000 Ah. What favor shall this governor want now? 431 00:34:38,442 --> 00:34:41,673 Never mind. Write letter. Say thank you. 432 00:34:44,214 --> 00:34:47,615 Make it nice letter. 433 00:35:08,305 --> 00:35:11,365 Where this come from? 434 00:35:11,441 --> 00:35:14,205 I do not know, Your Majesty. 435 00:35:54,985 --> 00:35:57,852 There is writing on it. 436 00:35:57,921 --> 00:36:01,357 Read it to me, oh, my father. 437 00:36:01,424 --> 00:36:04,450 You would not understand it, little one. 438 00:36:04,528 --> 00:36:08,259 But I have studied a month now. 439 00:36:08,331 --> 00:36:13,462 The English mem cha says I'm very clever... 440 00:36:13,537 --> 00:36:16,199 and you will be pleased. 441 00:36:16,273 --> 00:36:18,901 Tell me something that you have learned in school. 442 00:36:18,975 --> 00:36:24,277 Good morning. This is the thought for the day: 443 00:36:24,347 --> 00:36:27,407 A promise delayed... 444 00:36:27,484 --> 00:36:30,385 is justice deferred. 445 00:36:30,453 --> 00:36:33,081 A promise neglected... 446 00:36:33,156 --> 00:36:36,216 is a truth untold. 447 00:36:36,293 --> 00:36:41,492 East or west, home is best. 448 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,894 [Children Singing In Distance] 449 00:36:48,138 --> 00:36:51,938 Which seek thro'the world 450 00:36:52,008 --> 00:36:57,469 Is ne'er met with elsewhere 451 00:36:57,547 --> 00:36:59,981 Home, home 452 00:37:00,050 --> 00:37:03,679 Sweet, sweet home 453 00:37:03,753 --> 00:37:08,952 There's no place like home 454 00:37:09,025 --> 00:37:13,189 There's no place like home 455 00:37:15,899 --> 00:37:19,027 [Singing Continues, Indistinct] 456 00:37:21,438 --> 00:37:23,463 [Siamese] 457 00:37:23,540 --> 00:37:28,341 Be it ever so humble 458 00:37:28,411 --> 00:37:31,141 There's no place like... 459 00:37:31,214 --> 00:37:33,546 That will do for today. 460 00:37:33,617 --> 00:37:37,314 Now I think it's time we started learning our alphabet. 461 00:37:37,387 --> 00:37:39,617 Look on your slates and listen... 462 00:37:39,689 --> 00:37:42,522 while I pronounce the letters. 463 00:37:42,592 --> 00:37:44,617 "A." 464 00:37:44,694 --> 00:37:46,685 "B." 465 00:37:46,763 --> 00:37:48,788 "C." 466 00:37:48,865 --> 00:37:50,856 "D." 467 00:37:50,934 --> 00:37:52,902 "E." 468 00:37:52,969 --> 00:37:55,938 Oh, good morning, Your Majesty. 469 00:37:58,875 --> 00:38:02,538 Are you going to say something to our class this morning? 470 00:38:02,612 --> 00:38:06,048 No! 471 00:38:07,817 --> 00:38:11,378 "F." "G." 472 00:38:13,056 --> 00:38:16,787 [Man Humming 'Home, Sweet Home'] 473 00:38:18,828 --> 00:38:23,094 [Humming Continues] 474 00:38:24,934 --> 00:38:29,428 There's no place like home 475 00:38:29,506 --> 00:38:33,408 No singing here! If singing necessary, I sing! 476 00:38:33,476 --> 00:38:35,842 Your Majesty. 477 00:38:37,847 --> 00:38:39,940 It has begun, Toongramon. 478 00:38:41,618 --> 00:38:44,109 We've lost Cambodia. 479 00:38:53,096 --> 00:38:56,361 Our governor of Cambodia has made a treaty with the French government. 480 00:38:56,433 --> 00:38:58,958 They have recognized Cambodia as independent of Siam... 481 00:38:59,035 --> 00:39:02,198 placed it under their "protection';... 482 00:39:02,272 --> 00:39:06,003 and this governor of ours still protests his loyalty to Your Majesty. 483 00:39:11,648 --> 00:39:15,812 So, a camel's nose is in the tent. 484 00:39:17,687 --> 00:39:21,282 The partition of Siam, it has begun. 485 00:39:21,357 --> 00:39:24,918 For a long time, we've said this hour must come. 486 00:39:24,994 --> 00:39:28,452 Now it is no longer talk. It is upon us. What do we do? 487 00:39:32,302 --> 00:39:34,463 Nothing. 488 00:39:37,307 --> 00:39:40,572 We shall do nothing whatever in this matter... 489 00:39:40,643 --> 00:39:42,907 because there is nothing we can do. 490 00:39:44,380 --> 00:39:47,008 Your father took such a man once... 491 00:39:47,083 --> 00:39:49,517 and burned out both his eyes... 492 00:39:49,586 --> 00:39:53,682 hung him in the sun in a cage over cool running water... 493 00:39:53,757 --> 00:39:57,022 until he went mad. 494 00:39:57,093 --> 00:40:00,995 We have not the right to waste ourselves on something which cannot be changed. 495 00:40:01,064 --> 00:40:04,124 We shall save what strength and cunning we may have... 496 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,896 to hold together what is left of Siam. 497 00:40:08,371 --> 00:40:11,169 And if we cannot save all that is left... 498 00:40:11,241 --> 00:40:13,334 we shall save what we can. 499 00:40:19,415 --> 00:40:22,475 Tell me something, Toongramon. 500 00:40:22,552 --> 00:40:24,543 A long time ago... 501 00:40:24,621 --> 00:40:27,681 I came to you and asked you to leave a life of peace... 502 00:40:27,757 --> 00:40:30,385 and be the king. 503 00:40:30,460 --> 00:40:32,485 If I could ask you now to make that choice... 504 00:40:32,562 --> 00:40:34,621 what would your answer be? 505 00:40:36,533 --> 00:40:40,128 Think well before you answer that. 506 00:40:40,203 --> 00:40:43,730 Think what this can mean to you. 507 00:40:43,807 --> 00:40:47,709 You feel great responsibility for me, don't you, Chow Koon? 508 00:40:47,777 --> 00:40:50,405 You might still be living peacefully at the monastery... 509 00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,573 if I had not persuaded you. 510 00:40:54,450 --> 00:40:58,079 Perhaps it is not too late to return. Think well on that. 511 00:40:58,154 --> 00:41:01,988 The monastery instead of this place where you have only enemies and danger. 512 00:41:02,058 --> 00:41:05,221 Well, you know this is not the end. 513 00:41:05,295 --> 00:41:07,923 The ships of Europe will crowd thicker on our seas... 514 00:41:07,997 --> 00:41:10,022 greedy for conquest. 515 00:41:10,099 --> 00:41:12,761 They have the power... 516 00:41:12,836 --> 00:41:14,861 and the cunning. 517 00:41:14,938 --> 00:41:18,931 They know how to set your nobles against you, how to buy and threaten them. 518 00:41:19,008 --> 00:41:22,239 How can you hope to hold Siam together against enemies without and within? 519 00:41:22,312 --> 00:41:26,976 All that it can mean to you is that in the end you will die in a lost cause. 520 00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,380 I have done you a sorry service... 521 00:41:33,456 --> 00:41:35,515 to have brought you to this moment. 522 00:41:37,327 --> 00:41:41,161 I think you take too much credit on yourself, Chow Koon. 523 00:41:42,966 --> 00:41:45,457 There is a man born for every task... 524 00:41:45,535 --> 00:41:47,969 and I was born for this one. 525 00:41:48,037 --> 00:41:50,972 Remember, I was prince before I was monk. 526 00:41:52,976 --> 00:41:55,069 Let me ask you... 527 00:41:55,144 --> 00:41:57,840 if you were in my place, what would your answer be? 528 00:42:00,450 --> 00:42:04,944 Then give me as much credit as you allow yourself, my friend. 529 00:42:11,728 --> 00:42:14,891 If only we had more time. 530 00:42:14,964 --> 00:42:19,060 [Violin Playing 'Home, Sweet Home'] 531 00:42:19,135 --> 00:42:22,161 - She's got someone else at it. - She? 532 00:42:22,238 --> 00:42:24,536 That woman and her house! 533 00:42:25,808 --> 00:42:27,867 - Stop it! - [Stops] 534 00:42:29,145 --> 00:42:31,170 Take a lesson from her, my friend... 535 00:42:31,247 --> 00:42:34,148 and you'll never give up on anything. 536 00:42:34,217 --> 00:42:36,845 - Give her a house. - But... 537 00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,582 Give her a house! If she was meant to be a sign to us, she deserves a reward. 538 00:42:39,656 --> 00:42:43,023 And if she wasn't, well, give her a house anyway... 539 00:42:43,092 --> 00:42:45,185 before she drives me out of my mind! 540 00:42:51,668 --> 00:42:54,364 [Violin Playing 'Home, Sweet Home'] 541 00:42:56,439 --> 00:42:59,465 [Monkeys Chattering] 542 00:42:59,542 --> 00:43:02,841 - Very nice. - Yes, mem. 543 00:43:02,912 --> 00:43:05,642 No fish here. 544 00:43:05,715 --> 00:43:08,275 No fish. 545 00:43:10,887 --> 00:43:13,447 You like it? 546 00:43:13,523 --> 00:43:16,151 I could be quite comfortable here. 547 00:43:16,225 --> 00:43:19,717 It is, of course, our wish that mem shall be perfectly satisfied. 548 00:43:19,796 --> 00:43:23,857 Oh, I am perfectly, Your Excellency. 549 00:43:23,933 --> 00:43:26,401 I said I'd get a house, and I got it... 550 00:43:26,469 --> 00:43:30,064 but now you may go to the king and tell him he can have it back. 551 00:43:30,139 --> 00:43:33,540 I wouldn't live in it if it had a roof made of rubies. 552 00:43:33,609 --> 00:43:36,203 And you can tell him something else too. 553 00:43:36,279 --> 00:43:40,375 I wouldn't live in a country where promises mean nothing, simply nothing. 554 00:43:40,450 --> 00:43:42,816 I won't stay in Siam a minute longer than I have to... 555 00:43:42,885 --> 00:43:46,844 not if he gave me the whole palace to live in all by myself. 556 00:43:46,923 --> 00:43:50,120 [Sighs] Good day, Your Excellency. 557 00:43:54,831 --> 00:43:56,856 I'll find out what time we sail. 558 00:43:56,933 --> 00:43:59,561 I think we can go aboard ship the first thing in the morning. 559 00:43:59,635 --> 00:44:01,728 If Louis wakes up, tell him I'll be back soon. 560 00:44:01,804 --> 00:44:03,795 Yes, memsahib. 561 00:44:10,513 --> 00:44:13,414 [Muffled Screams] 562 00:44:17,987 --> 00:44:20,217 How dare you treat me in this manner? 563 00:44:20,289 --> 00:44:22,849 I demand an explanation, and I warn you... 564 00:44:22,925 --> 00:44:25,223 - Be quiet, sir. - That I'm a British subject. 565 00:44:25,294 --> 00:44:27,524 That is not reason you are safe. 566 00:44:27,597 --> 00:44:31,533 I could have you killed if that would serve my purpose. Such things are simple here. 567 00:44:35,505 --> 00:44:40,670 Sir, did you enjoy your triumph about your house? 568 00:44:42,612 --> 00:44:46,275 'Cause you shall now enjoy greater triumph. 569 00:44:46,349 --> 00:44:48,374 I have something to ask of you... 570 00:44:48,451 --> 00:44:51,716 not demand, but ask. 571 00:44:51,788 --> 00:44:54,052 It is that you shall stay in Siam. 572 00:44:55,725 --> 00:44:57,750 You may enjoy yourself if you like, sir. 573 00:44:57,827 --> 00:45:00,455 No matter what you asked, I wouldn't do it. 574 00:45:00,530 --> 00:45:03,590 - If you do not stay in Siam, where will you go? - I don't know. 575 00:45:03,666 --> 00:45:06,499 - Have you other place to put your life? - What has that to do with you? 576 00:45:06,569 --> 00:45:09,629 - Have you, sir? - Please stop calling me "sir"! 577 00:45:09,705 --> 00:45:14,233 I call you sir so you will not be lowly like a woman... 578 00:45:14,310 --> 00:45:18,406 but you continue to talk like a woman, I no longer call you sir. 579 00:45:19,916 --> 00:45:22,976 You think now you are nothing here... 580 00:45:23,052 --> 00:45:25,077 but that could be different. 581 00:45:25,154 --> 00:45:27,349 How could it be as long as the king... 582 00:45:27,423 --> 00:45:29,857 can change his mind from one day to another? 583 00:45:29,926 --> 00:45:32,986 - The king is not ordinary man. - Indeed he isn't. 584 00:45:33,062 --> 00:45:36,122 - He is Ionely man. - Lonely! 585 00:45:36,199 --> 00:45:38,929 Mem, I have watched you. 586 00:45:39,001 --> 00:45:41,765 I think there is need here for you. 587 00:45:41,838 --> 00:45:44,272 I think you know what is truth about many things. 588 00:45:44,340 --> 00:45:47,173 I know you have courage to speak it. 589 00:45:47,243 --> 00:45:49,268 The king has no one near him like you. 590 00:45:49,345 --> 00:45:52,803 He has many wives, but they cannot help him. 591 00:45:52,882 --> 00:45:56,147 You can speak with him as a woman where they cannot. 592 00:45:56,219 --> 00:46:00,315 And he will listen to you, because he will know you do not seek something for yourself. 593 00:46:00,389 --> 00:46:04,155 Indeed I wouldn't, least of all the chance to revolve around him. 594 00:46:04,227 --> 00:46:07,263 - He doesn't need help. - Mem, why you not see? 595 00:46:07,396 --> 00:46:08,795 Why? 596 00:46:08,864 --> 00:46:11,560 He is two men! 597 00:46:11,634 --> 00:46:15,297 One part of him is king, like his father was. 598 00:46:15,371 --> 00:46:18,397 Other part tries to be man of new world... 599 00:46:18,474 --> 00:46:21,807 scientific man who desires to learn all modern things to save his country. 600 00:46:23,746 --> 00:46:26,374 But greedy men of Europe are at our door. 601 00:46:26,448 --> 00:46:29,315 They say Siam is barbaric land... 602 00:46:29,385 --> 00:46:31,819 and so must be ruled by them. 603 00:46:31,887 --> 00:46:36,187 So king must learn all modern things now. 604 00:46:36,258 --> 00:46:40,160 He tries work too big for any man, with no one to help. 605 00:46:40,229 --> 00:46:42,789 His own people are his enemies. They do not want change. 606 00:46:44,767 --> 00:46:46,758 And sometimes inside himself is enemy... 607 00:46:48,237 --> 00:46:50,296 that cannot change. 608 00:46:52,007 --> 00:46:55,499 Mem, are you blind? Have you no eyes to see? 609 00:46:55,577 --> 00:46:58,603 He does not live coldly with mind as I do. 610 00:46:58,681 --> 00:47:01,343 But with heart. 611 00:47:01,417 --> 00:47:04,875 With heart, mem, as king must... 612 00:47:04,953 --> 00:47:07,353 and so is torn in two within himself. 613 00:47:07,423 --> 00:47:10,517 And to whom can he turn? Whom can he trust? 614 00:47:11,627 --> 00:47:15,028 He is very Ionely man... 615 00:47:17,633 --> 00:47:20,329 and very strange man. 616 00:47:23,172 --> 00:47:25,163 Yet for him, I would die. 617 00:47:30,979 --> 00:47:33,812 I'm... 618 00:47:33,882 --> 00:47:36,874 I'm afraid I haven't been very understanding. 619 00:47:41,190 --> 00:47:45,058 Mem, I cannot promise that it will ever be easy for you. 620 00:47:47,563 --> 00:47:50,225 We have proverb here... 621 00:47:50,299 --> 00:47:52,995 "Go up by land, and you meet tiger. 622 00:47:53,068 --> 00:47:58,165 Go down by water, and you meet crocodile. ' 623 00:47:58,240 --> 00:48:01,676 But for you, it will be place to put your life. 624 00:48:11,754 --> 00:48:16,282 "Your Majesty once suggested that I might possibly be of some slight help to him... 625 00:48:16,358 --> 00:48:20,158 with his correspondence and in the translation of..." 626 00:48:20,229 --> 00:48:23,995 Ah! Alak, take letter. 627 00:48:24,066 --> 00:48:27,763 To Mrs. A. Owens, by our gracious consent, governess of the court of Siam... 628 00:48:27,836 --> 00:48:31,499 uh, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 629 00:48:31,573 --> 00:48:33,803 Dear mem, I have your letter... 630 00:48:33,876 --> 00:48:36,310 in which you make offer of assistance. 631 00:48:36,378 --> 00:48:38,471 In reply, beg to state... 632 00:48:38,547 --> 00:48:42,540 you were engaged for teaching school, not otherwise. 633 00:48:42,618 --> 00:48:44,643 I think you shall ask yourself... 634 00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:47,985 are your scholars now interested in facility of language... 635 00:48:48,056 --> 00:48:52,356 more than certain songs and proverbs concerning houses? 636 00:48:52,428 --> 00:48:55,488 [Wheezy Chuckling] 637 00:48:55,564 --> 00:48:57,794 [Wheezy Chuckling Continues] 638 00:48:57,866 --> 00:49:02,235 [Singing English Alphabet] 639 00:49:05,207 --> 00:49:08,301 [Alphabet Ends, Singing Starts Over] 640 00:49:11,413 --> 00:49:13,904 This seems to be definitely no answer. 641 00:49:23,225 --> 00:49:26,251 [Squealing, Giggling] 642 00:49:32,401 --> 00:49:34,335 [Squealing, Giggling Continue] 643 00:49:36,238 --> 00:49:38,229 Do you speak English? 644 00:49:38,307 --> 00:49:41,242 My family speaks some English a long time. 645 00:49:41,310 --> 00:49:44,507 - What is your name? - Tuptim. 646 00:49:44,580 --> 00:49:48,038 He's very amusing, but none of us can do any work while he's here. 647 00:49:48,116 --> 00:49:50,744 You'd better take him outside until school is over. 648 00:49:50,819 --> 00:49:52,878 He will be good, mem. 649 00:49:52,955 --> 00:49:54,980 [Siamese] 650 00:49:58,827 --> 00:50:00,419 [Laughter] 651 00:50:00,496 --> 00:50:04,557 He's really very clever, but I cannot allow him to stay. 652 00:50:04,633 --> 00:50:06,624 Take him out now, Tuptim. 653 00:50:06,702 --> 00:50:10,798 If he make people to laugh in this dull palace, that is good. 654 00:50:10,873 --> 00:50:13,603 I don't want to make a report of this to His Majesty. 655 00:50:15,477 --> 00:50:18,344 His Majesty give him to me. 656 00:50:19,815 --> 00:50:22,215 But not to bring to school. 657 00:50:28,557 --> 00:50:30,650 [Giggling] 658 00:50:31,894 --> 00:50:35,660 Go to the king... if you like. 659 00:50:38,300 --> 00:50:40,666 Mem... 660 00:50:42,337 --> 00:50:44,828 do not make quarrel with new favorite of the king. 661 00:50:44,907 --> 00:50:48,172 - You will lose. - Tuptim? 662 00:50:54,883 --> 00:50:59,343 Let's get on with our work now, please. We've lost enough time. 663 00:50:59,421 --> 00:51:02,686 Mem, there is thing in this book I do not believe. 664 00:51:02,758 --> 00:51:04,783 What is it, Prince Chulalongkorn? 665 00:51:04,860 --> 00:51:06,851 It shows world like round ball... 666 00:51:06,929 --> 00:51:08,954 that spins on stick through middle... 667 00:51:09,031 --> 00:51:12,159 and everyone knows that world rests on back of great turtle... 668 00:51:12,234 --> 00:51:14,498 who keeps it from running into stars. 669 00:51:14,570 --> 00:51:17,038 - Where did you get the book? - I gave it to him. 670 00:51:17,105 --> 00:51:20,939 - But you shouldn't without asking me. - I'm sorry. 671 00:51:21,009 --> 00:51:23,534 There are many stories about the world, Your Royal Highness. 672 00:51:23,612 --> 00:51:25,637 When we're further along with our studies... 673 00:51:25,714 --> 00:51:27,705 I shall try and explain them to you. 674 00:51:27,783 --> 00:51:30,445 But for the present, I think we'd better stick to our letters. 675 00:51:30,519 --> 00:51:33,545 But I know all my letters, mem. [Recites Alphabet Quickly] 676 00:51:33,622 --> 00:51:36,056 - [Laughter] - Quiet, please! 677 00:51:36,124 --> 00:51:38,149 I know that you are very quick to learn... 678 00:51:38,226 --> 00:51:40,217 and I shall do all I can to help you... 679 00:51:40,295 --> 00:51:43,423 but for the present, I wish you to recite with the class. 680 00:51:46,602 --> 00:51:49,730 [Chattering] 681 00:51:56,778 --> 00:51:59,838 Oh. You wanted to see me, Lady Thiang? 682 00:51:59,915 --> 00:52:01,974 Yes, sir. 683 00:52:02,050 --> 00:52:06,009 I'm glad you stayed. I wanted to thank you for warning me about Tuptim. 684 00:52:06,088 --> 00:52:08,079 Yes, sir. 685 00:52:08,156 --> 00:52:10,750 I don't quite understand about Tuptim being the favorite. 686 00:52:10,826 --> 00:52:13,158 I thought that Lady Son Klin... 687 00:52:13,228 --> 00:52:16,493 Why you think Lady Son Klin not here? 688 00:52:16,565 --> 00:52:20,023 - Oh, I thought perhaps she was ill or... - She in prison. 689 00:52:20,102 --> 00:52:22,070 But what for? 690 00:52:22,137 --> 00:52:26,267 Because she gamble too much, which is law... 691 00:52:26,341 --> 00:52:28,571 but she do not go to prison for this... 692 00:52:28,644 --> 00:52:31,112 if she is still favorite. 693 00:52:31,179 --> 00:52:34,876 - Is there anything we can do? - She is young. 694 00:52:34,950 --> 00:52:37,282 She will become used to such things. 695 00:52:37,352 --> 00:52:41,220 I will help her when this can be done... 696 00:52:41,289 --> 00:52:43,917 but it is hard. 697 00:52:43,992 --> 00:52:46,187 I not in favor with my lord. 698 00:52:46,261 --> 00:52:49,287 - Oh? - Not for long time. 699 00:52:49,364 --> 00:52:52,197 My lord's table... 700 00:52:52,267 --> 00:52:54,792 I taste food there, that is all. 701 00:52:54,870 --> 00:52:58,033 - For fear of poison? - Yes, sir. 702 00:52:58,106 --> 00:53:02,202 Guard my lord, that is all. 703 00:53:02,277 --> 00:53:05,110 - Oh, I'm sorry. - No, sir. 704 00:53:05,180 --> 00:53:08,445 No, not for me, sorry. 705 00:53:08,517 --> 00:53:12,783 I Chow Chom Manda, mother royal prince. 706 00:53:12,854 --> 00:53:15,288 Prince Chulalongkorn? 707 00:53:15,357 --> 00:53:19,293 Yes, sir. Yes. My little boy. 708 00:53:19,361 --> 00:53:24,162 - You like little boy? - Yes, of course. 709 00:53:24,232 --> 00:53:28,566 You think my little boy learn? 710 00:53:28,637 --> 00:53:31,800 Well, yes. He seems very bright. 711 00:53:31,873 --> 00:53:33,807 Please, mem. 712 00:53:34,943 --> 00:53:37,673 You do not mind that it is hard for him... 713 00:53:37,746 --> 00:53:40,977 hard to learn from woman. 714 00:53:41,049 --> 00:53:44,177 He wants much to learn. 715 00:53:44,252 --> 00:53:49,690 Please, you will help him to learn all wisdom. 716 00:53:49,758 --> 00:53:52,420 That is most important thing. 717 00:53:52,494 --> 00:53:55,725 Yes, of course. And I'm sure he'll do beautifully. 718 00:53:57,566 --> 00:54:02,469 Well, after today, I think I can manage a large cup of tea. 719 00:54:02,537 --> 00:54:05,165 Louis! 720 00:54:05,240 --> 00:54:08,334 Thank you, Lady Thiang, for all your help. 721 00:54:08,410 --> 00:54:10,401 Good-bye, sir. 722 00:54:12,180 --> 00:54:14,375 Ready for tea? I'm sure I am. 723 00:54:14,449 --> 00:54:17,748 Well, we might as well, I suppose. 724 00:54:20,355 --> 00:54:23,051 Oh, dear. What seems to be the trouble? 725 00:54:24,459 --> 00:54:26,484 I think you'd better tell me. 726 00:54:26,561 --> 00:54:29,029 Well, I can't make any sense of it. 727 00:54:29,097 --> 00:54:31,657 He says nobody can touch his head because it's sacred... 728 00:54:31,733 --> 00:54:33,724 and his shoulders are, almost. 729 00:54:33,802 --> 00:54:36,862 Anyone who struck me upon head would have to be killed. 730 00:54:36,938 --> 00:54:38,963 When I am king like my father... 731 00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:41,235 no one may stand so head is higher than mine. 732 00:54:41,309 --> 00:54:43,334 So the only way they know how to fight... 733 00:54:43,411 --> 00:54:47,313 is to hold a long stick and beat each other on the shins and legs with it. 734 00:54:47,382 --> 00:54:51,250 You might just as well stand and kick each other's shins, but he wouldn't even do that. 735 00:54:51,319 --> 00:54:55,016 It is a matter that takes much skill. I would've beaten him very badly. 736 00:54:55,090 --> 00:54:57,524 I see. 737 00:54:57,592 --> 00:55:01,255 But suppose you tell me why it was necessary to fight in the first place. 738 00:55:01,329 --> 00:55:06,562 Well, he said I wasn't a man because I told you I was sorry about giving him the book... 739 00:55:06,635 --> 00:55:09,627 and a man shouldn't tell a woman he's sorry, not about anything. 740 00:55:10,806 --> 00:55:12,933 Oh. 741 00:55:14,075 --> 00:55:16,066 Tell me, Your Royal Highness... 742 00:55:16,144 --> 00:55:20,171 if your father corrected you about something, would you resent that? 743 00:55:20,248 --> 00:55:24,548 He is man. He is very wise. He knows everything. 744 00:55:24,619 --> 00:55:27,019 Well, you see, in our country... 745 00:55:27,088 --> 00:55:30,455 it's possible for me to be almost like a father to Louis... 746 00:55:30,525 --> 00:55:32,550 even though I am a woman. 747 00:55:32,627 --> 00:55:34,618 And because we love one another very much... 748 00:55:34,696 --> 00:55:37,358 he knows I want only what is right for him. 749 00:55:37,432 --> 00:55:41,368 And he can accept authority from me just the same as you can from your father. 750 00:55:41,436 --> 00:55:45,202 I do not think I would like country in which this was so. 751 00:55:45,273 --> 00:55:50,472 But since it is so with us, I see no great need to fight. 752 00:55:50,545 --> 00:55:53,446 It would be much nicer if you could be friends. 753 00:55:54,549 --> 00:55:57,143 Well, he was not coward. 754 00:55:57,219 --> 00:55:59,312 He would've tried sticks. 755 00:56:01,823 --> 00:56:03,814 Well, all right, then. 756 00:56:03,892 --> 00:56:07,225 That's better. We'll see you in school tomorrow. 757 00:56:38,226 --> 00:56:40,820 [Footsteps Running] 758 00:56:43,598 --> 00:56:45,759 [Knocking] 759 00:56:45,834 --> 00:56:47,825 [Knocking Continues] 760 00:56:47,903 --> 00:56:50,838 - [Door Unlocks, Slides Open] - [Man Speaking, Indistinct] 761 00:56:53,241 --> 00:56:56,039 - [Knocking] - Memsahib.! Memsahib.! 762 00:56:56,111 --> 00:56:59,308 It is the end. The end has come! I knew it would come! 763 00:56:59,381 --> 00:57:01,815 - Don't be foolish, Beebe. What is it? - His messengers are here. 764 00:57:01,883 --> 00:57:03,874 The king wishes to see you. 765 00:57:03,952 --> 00:57:06,216 - What can he want at such a time? - I don't know. 766 00:57:06,288 --> 00:57:08,381 Help me find my things. 767 00:57:16,698 --> 00:57:18,791 Your Majesty. 768 00:57:22,871 --> 00:57:27,103 Mem, I think your Moses shall have been a fool. 769 00:57:27,175 --> 00:57:29,166 Moses? 770 00:57:29,244 --> 00:57:33,806 Moses, Moses, Moses. I think he shall have been a fool. 771 00:57:33,882 --> 00:57:37,283 Here it stands, written by him: 772 00:57:37,352 --> 00:57:40,515 'The world was created in six days. ' 773 00:57:40,588 --> 00:57:45,855 Now, you know, I know it took many centuries to create world. 774 00:57:45,927 --> 00:57:48,828 I think he shall have been a fool to have written so. 775 00:57:48,897 --> 00:57:50,922 What is your opinion? 776 00:57:50,999 --> 00:57:53,092 Do you mean to say that you sent for me... 777 00:57:53,167 --> 00:57:55,260 at this hour of night just to ask me that? 778 00:57:55,336 --> 00:57:57,634 Yes. What is your opinion? 779 00:57:57,705 --> 00:57:59,866 Couldn't you have waited till morning? 780 00:57:59,941 --> 00:58:03,536 Mem, you say you wish to help with study, et cetera. 781 00:58:03,611 --> 00:58:05,738 Do you wish help or do not? 782 00:58:08,049 --> 00:58:12,952 I'm sorry, Your Majesty. I do want to help if I can. 783 00:58:13,021 --> 00:58:17,720 Then what is your opinion of this thing as stated by Moses? 784 00:58:17,792 --> 00:58:20,852 Mem, it is necessary for me to read all European books... 785 00:58:20,929 --> 00:58:23,295 to try to understand knowledge of modern world... 786 00:58:23,364 --> 00:58:25,559 and there have been very many things written. 787 00:58:25,633 --> 00:58:28,466 There have been mountains of things written... 788 00:58:28,536 --> 00:58:31,835 and knowledge is buried underneath this mountain. 789 00:58:31,906 --> 00:58:35,808 I ask you to consider this is very much reading for one lifetime. 790 00:58:35,877 --> 00:58:37,868 And how shall I do this understanding... 791 00:58:37,946 --> 00:58:40,039 when different English books say different things? 792 00:58:40,114 --> 00:58:42,981 Your Majesty... 793 00:58:43,051 --> 00:58:45,576 the Bible was not written by men of science. 794 00:58:45,653 --> 00:58:47,917 It was written by men of faith. 795 00:58:47,989 --> 00:58:51,049 It was their explanation of the miracle of creation... 796 00:58:51,125 --> 00:58:53,150 which is just as great a miracle... 797 00:58:53,227 --> 00:58:55,718 whether it took six days or many centuries. 798 00:58:55,797 --> 00:58:58,994 I think science does not contradict the Bible. 799 00:58:59,067 --> 00:59:02,127 It has only made us more aware of how great the miracle was. 800 00:59:09,077 --> 00:59:12,569 Well, I still think your Moses shall have been a fool. You may go. 801 00:59:24,659 --> 00:59:27,890 Moses. The idea. 802 00:59:27,962 --> 00:59:30,123 3:00 in the morning. 803 00:59:30,198 --> 00:59:33,361 - Someone ought to tell him a thing or two. - [Baby Crying] 804 00:59:45,380 --> 00:59:48,611 [Crying Continues] 805 00:59:48,683 --> 00:59:51,550 [Siamese] 806 00:59:56,357 --> 00:59:59,292 Lady Tuptim's slave? 807 01:00:10,738 --> 01:00:14,299 I am not sorry about the monkey, if that is why you make me stay. 808 01:00:14,375 --> 01:00:16,900 It isn't the monkey, Lady Tuptim. 809 01:00:16,978 --> 01:00:19,742 I want to ask your help for someone. 810 01:00:19,814 --> 01:00:25,480 - It's your slave woman L'Ore. I've talked with her. - By what right? 811 01:00:25,553 --> 01:00:29,011 I can't believe you would deliberately keep her in chains so long... 812 01:00:29,090 --> 01:00:32,457 - and with a child too. - She tried to run away. 813 01:00:32,527 --> 01:00:36,827 She was only trying to go to her husband. He wants to buy her freedom. 814 01:00:36,898 --> 01:00:42,029 Isn't there a law in Siam that says a slave must be freed if the money is offered? 815 01:00:42,103 --> 01:00:44,697 What right has she to be happy with someone she love... 816 01:00:44,772 --> 01:00:46,865 while I am shut up here? 817 01:00:46,941 --> 01:00:51,173 Let her stay where she is. You can have your law. 818 01:00:51,245 --> 01:00:56,342 I have the king. Go and find this out for yourself. 819 01:01:03,925 --> 01:01:06,359 - Mem cha. - Oh, yes, Your Royal Highness. 820 01:01:06,427 --> 01:01:09,988 What is it about this law? Does it mean slaves of king too? 821 01:01:10,064 --> 01:01:12,658 Of course. A law is the same for everyone. 822 01:01:12,733 --> 01:01:15,167 But I do not understand about law... 823 01:01:15,236 --> 01:01:17,227 that makes it more important than king. 824 01:01:17,305 --> 01:01:21,469 - Tell me. - I'm sorry. We'll talk about it some other time. 825 01:01:21,542 --> 01:01:25,069 - Now I must go and see your father. - Yes, mem cha. 826 01:01:26,981 --> 01:01:29,074 - Mem? - Oh, yes, Lady Thiang. 827 01:01:29,150 --> 01:01:33,211 Is it not all right for him to ask you things... 828 01:01:33,287 --> 01:01:35,312 things outside of the books? 829 01:01:35,389 --> 01:01:38,756 Of course. But some other day when we have more time. 830 01:01:38,826 --> 01:01:42,159 I'm sorry, but I must go to the king now. 831 01:01:42,230 --> 01:01:45,722 He's really doing very well with his studies. 832 01:01:58,746 --> 01:02:00,737 Your Majesty, I've come to you because I felt... 833 01:02:00,815 --> 01:02:03,010 I must bring something to your attention. 834 01:02:03,084 --> 01:02:06,576 - It concerns... - Why must you stir up tempest over Lady Tuptim's slave? 835 01:02:06,654 --> 01:02:08,781 I have much unpleasantness because of this. 836 01:02:08,856 --> 01:02:10,915 Then Lady Tuptim has already told you about it. 837 01:02:12,793 --> 01:02:14,784 I do not have time to waste discussing matters of such nature. 838 01:02:14,862 --> 01:02:18,093 In future, do not trouble me with same. They do not interest me. You may go. 839 01:02:18,166 --> 01:02:21,135 But surely, Your Majesty, you want to hear all the truth. 840 01:02:21,202 --> 01:02:23,227 You've only heard Lady Tuptim's story. 841 01:02:23,304 --> 01:02:27,297 - Perhaps this slave isn't important. - Why you stand over my head? 842 01:02:27,375 --> 01:02:29,969 I don't understand. 843 01:02:30,044 --> 01:02:32,308 Last night, when I invited you to consider Moses... 844 01:02:32,380 --> 01:02:34,405 you stood up over me. 845 01:02:34,482 --> 01:02:36,473 You do so now. I cannot stand up all the time. 846 01:02:36,551 --> 01:02:38,781 In this country, no one's head shall be higher than the king's. 847 01:02:38,853 --> 01:02:42,983 It is sign of great disrespect. In future, you shall conduct like all other subjects. 848 01:02:43,057 --> 01:02:46,891 - You mean on the floor? - All subjects do so. 849 01:02:48,296 --> 01:02:50,560 I'm sorry. I shall try my best... 850 01:02:50,631 --> 01:02:53,065 never to allow my head to be as high as Your Majesty's... 851 01:02:53,134 --> 01:02:55,659 but I simply cannot grovel on the floor. 852 01:02:55,736 --> 01:02:58,398 You are very stubborn, mem. 853 01:02:58,472 --> 01:03:00,633 I do not understand why you must be so. 854 01:03:00,708 --> 01:03:03,609 Your Majesty, I couldn't possibly work that way. 855 01:03:03,678 --> 01:03:06,078 Surely when we're alone, it isn't necessary... 856 01:03:06,147 --> 01:03:10,140 No one shall say I am not a reasonable man. I grant you such favor. 857 01:03:10,218 --> 01:03:12,083 Thank you, Your Majesty. 858 01:03:12,153 --> 01:03:15,350 But you shall observe care that head shall not be higher than mine. 859 01:03:15,423 --> 01:03:18,517 If I shall sit, you shall sit... 860 01:03:18,593 --> 01:03:20,652 uh, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 861 01:03:20,728 --> 01:03:23,561 - I'll try, Your Majesty. - Very well. You may go. 862 01:03:27,735 --> 01:03:30,499 Not until I've said what I came to say. 863 01:03:32,607 --> 01:03:36,043 I think this slave has a right to expect justice from you. 864 01:03:36,110 --> 01:03:39,102 And I think it's wrong when the king of Siam... 865 01:03:39,180 --> 01:03:43,207 upholds his wife when she chooses to disobey the law. 866 01:03:43,284 --> 01:03:47,345 I am the law here, as people can discover if not discreet. 867 01:03:47,421 --> 01:03:49,685 I'm sorry to hear you say that, Your Majesty... 868 01:03:49,757 --> 01:03:53,716 because it goes against everything I thought you wanted for your country. 869 01:03:53,794 --> 01:03:56,558 How shall you know what I want for my country? 870 01:03:56,631 --> 01:03:58,690 I know you want it to progress... 871 01:03:58,766 --> 01:04:01,394 to take its place among the other nations of the world. 872 01:04:01,469 --> 01:04:03,994 You made this law yourself... 873 01:04:04,071 --> 01:04:08,064 but if you put your own will above the laws you make, you'll fail. 874 01:04:08,142 --> 01:04:10,838 Other countries won't trust a nation... 875 01:04:10,911 --> 01:04:13,573 where a man can put himself above the law. 876 01:04:13,648 --> 01:04:15,980 Everything might change with your successor. 877 01:04:16,050 --> 01:04:18,041 Siam's word, her treaties with them... 878 01:04:18,119 --> 01:04:20,314 would be good only as long as you live. 879 01:04:20,388 --> 01:04:25,223 I do not like this talk about successor. 880 01:04:25,293 --> 01:04:28,319 Why must you make entire household in uproar over one slave? 881 01:04:28,396 --> 01:04:33,356 I ask you to remember, there are 3,000 women in household. 882 01:04:33,434 --> 01:04:36,096 3,000 women can be very much uproar. 883 01:04:36,170 --> 01:04:40,664 And how shall I do work which is necessary when there is so much uproar? 884 01:04:40,741 --> 01:04:44,074 But this is more important, Your Majesty. 885 01:04:44,145 --> 01:04:47,706 The progress you want isn't a matter of customs or manners. 886 01:04:47,782 --> 01:04:50,273 It's the spirit behind those things. 887 01:04:50,351 --> 01:04:54,549 It's... It's recognizing that every living person is an individual... 888 01:04:54,622 --> 01:04:57,682 with the same right to liberty andjustice under the law... 889 01:04:57,758 --> 01:05:00,727 so that he can make as much as he's willing to make ofhis life. 890 01:05:00,795 --> 01:05:03,025 Your law began to give your people that right... 891 01:05:03,097 --> 01:05:05,088 but a law must be the same for everyone... 892 01:05:05,166 --> 01:05:07,191 for slave just as much as for king. 893 01:05:10,471 --> 01:05:13,065 Consider Her Gracious Majesty Victoria... 894 01:05:13,140 --> 01:05:15,540 queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland... 895 01:05:15,609 --> 01:05:18,305 and powerful sovereign of British colonies around globe of human world... 896 01:05:18,379 --> 01:05:20,472 and our most affectionate sister. 897 01:05:20,548 --> 01:05:22,812 - Is she not above the law? - No, Your Majesty. 898 01:05:22,883 --> 01:05:27,217 My country may have many faults, but her laws are the same for all. 899 01:05:27,288 --> 01:05:29,756 And in the United States, their president Mr. Lincoln... 900 01:05:29,824 --> 01:05:32,122 is fighting a war for the same principle. 901 01:05:32,193 --> 01:05:35,253 Ah. This sounds like progress in America pretty bloody. 902 01:05:35,329 --> 01:05:38,958 Sometimes you have to fight for what you believe in. 903 01:05:39,033 --> 01:05:41,763 Who shall this Mr. Lincoln be? 904 01:05:41,836 --> 01:05:43,895 Is he king of this United States? 905 01:05:43,971 --> 01:05:47,338 - He is their president. - What is this "president"? I do not understand. 906 01:05:47,408 --> 01:05:49,342 It means he was elected. 907 01:05:49,410 --> 01:05:52,277 That means he was chosen by the people by a vote to lead them. 908 01:05:52,346 --> 01:05:57,010 I do not think I like this. Shall he be winning this war? 909 01:05:57,084 --> 01:05:58,949 No one knows, Your Majesty. 910 01:05:59,019 --> 01:06:01,681 And how shall he be trained to rule if he is not born to do so? 911 01:06:01,756 --> 01:06:03,690 But he doesn't rule them. 912 01:06:03,758 --> 01:06:07,194 He only sees that the laws they make themselves are carried out. 913 01:06:07,261 --> 01:06:10,424 And I believe he studied very hard. He educated himself. 914 01:06:10,498 --> 01:06:13,626 This very difficult thing. I know of sad experience. 915 01:06:13,701 --> 01:06:16,693 I teach myself English and other language. 916 01:06:16,771 --> 01:06:19,934 In this respect, Mr. Lincoln and I much alike. 917 01:06:20,007 --> 01:06:21,998 He said something about progress once... 918 01:06:22,076 --> 01:06:24,874 when he was speaking at a school. 919 01:06:24,945 --> 01:06:27,846 He said he was afraid we were inclined... 920 01:06:27,915 --> 01:06:31,009 to accept as wisdom what is only knowledge... 921 01:06:31,085 --> 01:06:35,852 and to accept as progress things that are nothing more than change. 922 01:06:35,923 --> 01:06:38,949 He said true progress... 923 01:06:39,026 --> 01:06:41,654 must bear some relation to man's character. 924 01:06:41,729 --> 01:06:44,789 It must have its roots in his heart. 925 01:06:48,803 --> 01:06:51,169 I think I like this Mr. Lincoln. 926 01:06:54,542 --> 01:06:56,567 Why is he not winning this war of his? 927 01:06:56,644 --> 01:06:59,374 Has he not got enough guns and elephants for transporting same? 928 01:06:59,447 --> 01:07:01,972 There are no elephants in America. 929 01:07:02,049 --> 01:07:04,984 - No elephants? - No, Your Majesty. 930 01:07:05,052 --> 01:07:08,488 Ah. No wonder Mr. Lincoln does not win war. 931 01:07:08,556 --> 01:07:11,753 - We will write letter to Mr. Lincoln. - Now, Your Majesty? 932 01:07:11,826 --> 01:07:14,021 Now... when you think? Now always best time. 933 01:07:14,094 --> 01:07:16,528 But I wanted to talk to you about the slave woman... 934 01:07:16,664 --> 01:07:20,964 - Take letter to Mr. Lincoln. - Yes, Your Majesty. 935 01:07:22,503 --> 01:07:25,063 [Siamese] 936 01:07:25,139 --> 01:07:28,666 By the blessing of the highest superagency of the whole universe... 937 01:07:28,742 --> 01:07:32,075 king of Siam, sovereign of all interior tributary countries... 938 01:07:32,146 --> 01:07:35,274 adjacent and around in every direction... 939 01:07:35,349 --> 01:07:39,149 uh, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 940 01:07:41,789 --> 01:07:45,748 To his most respected excellent... 941 01:07:50,431 --> 01:07:54,925 To his most respected excellent presidency. 942 01:07:55,002 --> 01:07:58,062 President of the United States of America... 943 01:07:58,138 --> 01:08:01,574 it has occurred to us... 944 01:08:01,642 --> 01:08:05,305 it has occurred to us... 945 01:08:05,379 --> 01:08:09,372 that should there be several pairs of young male elephants... 946 01:08:09,450 --> 01:08:12,817 turned loose in forests of America... 947 01:08:12,887 --> 01:08:18,416 we are of opinion that after a while they will increase in numbers... 948 01:08:18,492 --> 01:08:21,256 - and inhabitants of... - Your Majesty. 949 01:08:21,328 --> 01:08:24,729 - Well? - I don't think you mean pairs of male elephants. 950 01:08:24,798 --> 01:08:26,789 Do not interrupt. 951 01:08:26,867 --> 01:08:29,563 And inhabitants of America will be able to catch them... 952 01:08:29,637 --> 01:08:32,333 and tame them and use them as beasts of... 953 01:08:32,406 --> 01:08:34,499 - Your Majesty. - How can I think... 954 01:08:34,575 --> 01:08:37,373 Only male elephants? 955 01:08:41,515 --> 01:08:44,245 Hmm. Hmm. 956 01:08:44,318 --> 01:08:48,982 We, on our part, will procure young male and female elephants... 957 01:08:49,056 --> 01:08:53,117 and forward them unto you one or two pairs at a time. 958 01:08:53,193 --> 01:08:55,320 Believe me. 959 01:08:55,396 --> 01:08:59,799 Yours faithfully, uh, et cetera, et cetera. 960 01:08:59,867 --> 01:09:02,267 That is all. You may go. 961 01:09:02,336 --> 01:09:05,203 But, Your Majesty, I had hoped you'd talk about the slave woman. 962 01:09:05,272 --> 01:09:08,605 That is all. Good day, Mem Owens. 963 01:09:09,910 --> 01:09:12,378 Good day, Your Majesty. 964 01:09:17,952 --> 01:09:20,182 [Door Closes] 965 01:09:25,726 --> 01:09:28,217 "True progress... 966 01:09:28,295 --> 01:09:32,197 shall lie in man's heart." 967 01:09:44,778 --> 01:09:46,803 Good morning, Lady Tuptim. 968 01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:50,316 I wish to show you something very beautiful. 969 01:09:50,384 --> 01:09:52,375 Oh, how lovely. 970 01:09:52,453 --> 01:09:55,320 My name mean "pomegranate." 971 01:09:55,389 --> 01:09:59,826 He say I am most perfect and fascinating woman in palace. 972 01:09:59,893 --> 01:10:04,057 - It's a beautiful gift. - It is worth thousand times price of slave. 973 01:10:04,131 --> 01:10:06,929 Then the slave is free? 974 01:10:07,001 --> 01:10:09,765 She mean nothing to me now. 975 01:10:09,837 --> 01:10:12,567 I do not wish to see her again. 976 01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:15,165 It was very generous of you, Lady Tuptim. 977 01:10:15,242 --> 01:10:17,437 Perhaps it means much more than you realize. 978 01:10:19,146 --> 01:10:23,913 - You did not know this... that she is free? - No. 979 01:10:23,984 --> 01:10:26,782 It is strange he did not tell you this. 980 01:10:26,854 --> 01:10:29,118 He didn't give me any answer at all. I thought... 981 01:10:29,189 --> 01:10:32,090 Then you did talk to him. 982 01:10:32,159 --> 01:10:35,424 And it is you he listened to. 983 01:10:35,496 --> 01:10:39,193 If I am not first here, what is left for me? 984 01:10:43,971 --> 01:10:46,098 [Object Shatters] 985 01:10:53,814 --> 01:10:55,873 "I appreciate most highly... 986 01:10:55,949 --> 01:10:58,645 "Your Majesty's tender of good offices... 987 01:10:58,719 --> 01:11:00,880 "in forwarding to this government... 988 01:11:00,954 --> 01:11:03,445 "a stock from which a supply of elephants... 989 01:11:03,524 --> 01:11:05,754 "might be raised on our own soil. 990 01:11:05,826 --> 01:11:10,320 But, unfortunately, the present jurisdiction of this government... ' 991 01:11:10,397 --> 01:11:15,767 - "Jurisdiction"? - It means authority. 992 01:11:15,836 --> 01:11:19,135 Jurisdiction. 993 01:11:19,206 --> 01:11:21,197 Jurisdiction. 994 01:11:23,711 --> 01:11:26,407 "The present jurisdiction of this government... 995 01:11:26,480 --> 01:11:30,143 "no longer reaches those latitudes southerly enough... 996 01:11:30,217 --> 01:11:32,947 "to favor the multiplication of the elephant. 997 01:11:33,020 --> 01:11:36,114 'But this nation is warmly grateful... 998 01:11:36,190 --> 01:11:39,091 'for this indication of Your Majesty's friendship... 999 01:11:39,159 --> 01:11:42,151 "and commends both Your Majesty... 1000 01:11:42,229 --> 01:11:44,789 "and the generous people of Siam... 1001 01:11:44,865 --> 01:11:47,595 "to the blessings of almighty God. 1002 01:11:47,668 --> 01:11:52,264 Your good friend, Abraham Lincoln. ' 1003 01:11:55,375 --> 01:11:58,902 Yes, I think I like this Mr. Lincoln. 1004 01:12:01,081 --> 01:12:05,541 Jurisdiction. Jurisdiction. 1005 01:12:08,021 --> 01:12:10,285 But no elephants. 1006 01:12:13,194 --> 01:12:15,685 I thought the prince might like to come to lunch, but he didn't. 1007 01:12:15,763 --> 01:12:20,359 I think he's Ionesome. He doesn't even live with his mother or talk to her. 1008 01:12:20,435 --> 01:12:23,370 It's almost as if he didn't have a mother. Why is that? 1009 01:12:23,438 --> 01:12:25,736 That's just the way things are out here, dear. 1010 01:12:25,807 --> 01:12:28,503 I've noticed he hasn't seemed quite so interested in his school. 1011 01:12:28,576 --> 01:12:31,170 Probably something on his mind. I'll have to find time to talk to him. 1012 01:12:31,245 --> 01:12:33,338 Mem. Uh, mem. 1013 01:12:33,414 --> 01:12:36,679 His Majesty wish that you come to him at once. 1014 01:12:36,751 --> 01:12:38,844 But we're just beginning luncheon. 1015 01:12:38,920 --> 01:12:42,720 His Majesty say you shall come right now. 1016 01:12:42,790 --> 01:12:44,883 Oh, dear. 1017 01:13:06,748 --> 01:13:11,276 Mem, shall it be proper for English dignitary to see some of our women? 1018 01:13:11,352 --> 01:13:14,185 Well, if Your Majesty were in England, you'd wish to see... 1019 01:13:14,255 --> 01:13:17,122 some of the prettiest women there, wouldn't you? 1020 01:13:17,191 --> 01:13:20,024 But how shall I let him see them like this? 1021 01:13:20,094 --> 01:13:22,028 No shoes on feet. 1022 01:13:22,096 --> 01:13:25,361 He will go back and tell Queen Victoria I am barbarian. 1023 01:13:25,433 --> 01:13:28,129 - Why you not think of that? - Who will tell her, Your Majesty? 1024 01:13:28,202 --> 01:13:30,329 Sir Edward Ramsay. 1025 01:13:33,207 --> 01:13:36,904 So you, mem, shall choose most beautiful women of harem... 1026 01:13:36,978 --> 01:13:40,038 and dress and educate same in European custom for presentation. 1027 01:13:40,114 --> 01:13:42,412 When do you wish to have them ready? 1028 01:13:42,483 --> 01:13:44,713 5:00 post meridian, this Saturday. 1029 01:13:44,786 --> 01:13:50,418 But that's only four days. I can't possibly have them ready in four days. 1030 01:13:50,491 --> 01:13:52,925 Mem, shall it be possible you are becoming lazy? 1031 01:13:52,994 --> 01:13:55,326 I'm not lazy at all. I simply can't... 1032 01:13:55,396 --> 01:13:59,059 Perhaps if mem understood very great importance of occasion. 1033 01:13:59,133 --> 01:14:01,533 Then why have you not told her this? 1034 01:14:03,871 --> 01:14:06,635 Mem... 1035 01:14:11,012 --> 01:14:13,173 do you think I am barbarian? 1036 01:14:14,382 --> 01:14:17,510 Oh, of course not, Your Majesty. 1037 01:14:17,585 --> 01:14:21,146 I hope Sir Edward shall agree with you. 1038 01:14:21,222 --> 01:14:23,782 The situation for Siam very murky and critical. 1039 01:14:23,858 --> 01:14:25,951 Oh? What's happened? 1040 01:14:26,027 --> 01:14:29,519 My agents in Singapore have obtained copies of letters... 1041 01:14:29,597 --> 01:14:31,963 written to British government from certain persons... 1042 01:14:32,033 --> 01:14:35,935 wishing to acquire interests in Siam or parts thereof. 1043 01:14:36,003 --> 01:14:38,437 Such letters describing me as barbarian... 1044 01:14:38,506 --> 01:14:41,634 and not suitable as ruler of Siam... 1045 01:14:41,709 --> 01:14:45,645 wherefore they suggest necessity of establishing protectorate, maybe. 1046 01:14:45,713 --> 01:14:47,647 That's outrageous. 1047 01:14:47,715 --> 01:14:50,513 I have met situation by requesting... 1048 01:14:50,585 --> 01:14:53,645 official visit of British representative... 1049 01:14:53,721 --> 01:14:56,884 who shall see for himself whether or not I am barbarian... 1050 01:14:56,958 --> 01:14:59,722 make report of same to your gracious queen. 1051 01:15:01,395 --> 01:15:05,297 So, now you see necessity of making dresses for them. 1052 01:15:07,602 --> 01:15:12,562 Y-Your Majesty, wouldn't it make a better impression upon Sir Edward... 1053 01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:16,337 if the ladies receive in their own manner and dress? 1054 01:15:16,410 --> 01:15:18,469 Mem, you are not scientific. 1055 01:15:18,546 --> 01:15:20,480 He knows we are Siamese. 1056 01:15:20,548 --> 01:15:23,574 I wish him to see we are also European. 1057 01:15:23,651 --> 01:15:26,745 So you shall tell me which of these girls... 1058 01:15:26,821 --> 01:15:29,688 are most like European women for dressing as same. 1059 01:15:29,757 --> 01:15:32,385 Very well, then. 1060 01:15:32,460 --> 01:15:34,655 Let me see. 1061 01:15:44,405 --> 01:15:47,067 Son Klin, stand still. How can I fasten this? 1062 01:15:47,141 --> 01:15:49,405 Mem, what kind of men are Englishmen? 1063 01:15:49,477 --> 01:15:51,843 I have heard they have the evil eye... 1064 01:15:51,913 --> 01:15:55,007 terrible blue eyes, mem, that look into the soul! 1065 01:15:55,082 --> 01:15:58,108 Nonsense. Who ever heard of such a thing? 1066 01:16:00,188 --> 01:16:02,247 Oh, dear! 1067 01:16:02,323 --> 01:16:04,348 - What shall be trouble now? - I forgot. 1068 01:16:04,425 --> 01:16:07,155 They've practically nothing to wear underneath. 1069 01:16:09,764 --> 01:16:13,723 - Shall you be wearing something underneath? - Certainly, Your Majesty. 1070 01:16:13,801 --> 01:16:16,531 [Siamese] 1071 01:16:20,007 --> 01:16:22,134 I am not aware of difference. 1072 01:16:22,210 --> 01:16:25,304 But there is a great difference, Your Majesty, whether you're aware of it or not. 1073 01:16:25,379 --> 01:16:28,314 All properly dressed European ladies must have undergarments. 1074 01:16:28,382 --> 01:16:31,442 If I am not aware of difference, how shall Sir Edward be? 1075 01:16:31,519 --> 01:16:35,080 - But he might notice. - He should not. 1076 01:16:35,156 --> 01:16:39,718 Mem, what is your opinion? Shall they be all right? 1077 01:16:39,794 --> 01:16:42,228 I think they're going to look charming. 1078 01:16:43,864 --> 01:16:47,391 Your Majesty, do you mind if I make a suggestion? 1079 01:16:47,468 --> 01:16:49,402 What shall this be? 1080 01:16:49,470 --> 01:16:51,961 I think it's wrong that the only reports about Siam... 1081 01:16:52,039 --> 01:16:54,974 are taken back by sea captains and adventurers. 1082 01:16:55,042 --> 01:16:57,101 And I think that if you ask him... 1083 01:16:57,178 --> 01:17:00,011 Sir Edward would help you get official representatives from England... 1084 01:17:00,081 --> 01:17:02,106 to be here permanently. 1085 01:17:02,183 --> 01:17:05,778 A consulate, I mean. And such men would tell the truth in their reports. 1086 01:17:05,853 --> 01:17:09,687 As long as you're having Sir Edward here, why not have other people at the same time? 1087 01:17:09,757 --> 01:17:13,750 The Dutch and the French, all the Europeans you can reach with invitations... 1088 01:17:13,828 --> 01:17:17,093 and ask their help in accomplishing the same thing with their countries. 1089 01:17:17,164 --> 01:17:19,291 - All at same time? - Why not? 1090 01:17:19,367 --> 01:17:23,167 You want all the other governments to know what you're trying to do here. 1091 01:17:23,237 --> 01:17:28,072 Too many people. I think you shall proceed with the outer garments, mem. 1092 01:17:37,385 --> 01:17:39,376 [Knocking] 1093 01:17:39,453 --> 01:17:43,549 Oh, dear. I don't think I can stand it. 1094 01:17:46,027 --> 01:17:48,222 You shall write invitation for dinner for Saturday... 1095 01:17:48,296 --> 01:17:50,196 6:00 post meridian... 1096 01:17:50,264 --> 01:17:52,858 from list of European people furnished hereto... 1097 01:17:52,933 --> 01:17:56,562 and any other desirable you may think of, submitting names to me personally. 1098 01:17:56,637 --> 01:17:59,333 - But I thought you said... - We are aware, gratefully... 1099 01:17:59,407 --> 01:18:01,500 that such idea was suggested by you... 1100 01:18:01,575 --> 01:18:05,807 but it's idea of doing so with dinner which is important. 1101 01:18:05,880 --> 01:18:08,815 All slaves shall be given you as you shall need for cooking and serving... 1102 01:18:08,883 --> 01:18:10,874 and you shall train same. 1103 01:18:10,951 --> 01:18:12,976 Furthermore, you shall set table yourself... 1104 01:18:13,054 --> 01:18:15,045 so that everything shall be done in best European custom. 1105 01:18:15,122 --> 01:18:17,249 I'll do everything I can, Your Majesty, but... 1106 01:18:17,325 --> 01:18:20,590 I shall prove to all that I am not barbarian. 1107 01:18:20,661 --> 01:18:22,822 You may go. 1108 01:18:35,409 --> 01:18:37,502 Shall this be correct for table service? 1109 01:18:37,578 --> 01:18:41,105 Perfect, Your Majesty. The loveliest I've ever seen. 1110 01:18:41,182 --> 01:18:44,515 Oh! Oh, how magnificent! 1111 01:18:46,187 --> 01:18:49,281 - Suitable for European, maybe? - Oh, yes! 1112 01:18:49,357 --> 01:18:51,416 [Siamese] 1113 01:18:51,492 --> 01:18:55,189 - But where are the knives and forks? - Mem? Pure gold, mem. 1114 01:18:55,262 --> 01:18:57,958 We couldn't possibly use chopsticks with soup... 1115 01:18:58,032 --> 01:19:00,398 and other things I've arranged for. 1116 01:19:00,468 --> 01:19:03,528 - Mem, have you such things? - Yes, but not nearly... 1117 01:19:03,604 --> 01:19:07,563 Get knives, forks, spoons, two kinds from Mem Owens, and have them copied. 1118 01:19:07,641 --> 01:19:09,632 - And in gold. - But there isn't time, Your Majesty. 1119 01:19:09,710 --> 01:19:12,372 They shall work without sleeping until this is ready. 1120 01:19:12,446 --> 01:19:15,711 And If it is not done, each man shall be beaten 100 strokes. 1121 01:19:15,783 --> 01:19:18,445 Tell them this. 1122 01:19:18,519 --> 01:19:20,612 They shall be ready. 1123 01:19:31,132 --> 01:19:34,329 - Mem? - Yes, Your Majesty? 1124 01:19:34,402 --> 01:19:39,499 Shall it be necessary for me to use... knife and fork also? 1125 01:19:39,573 --> 01:19:42,406 It would be desirable, I think, Your Majesty. 1126 01:19:45,646 --> 01:19:48,240 Would you like me to show you how? 1127 01:19:50,017 --> 01:19:52,008 That shall not be necessary! 1128 01:19:52,086 --> 01:19:54,987 I have ability for proper use without lesson. 1129 01:20:09,036 --> 01:20:11,027 Now, ladies, take your seats, please. 1130 01:20:11,105 --> 01:20:13,198 And, remember, all you have to do is sit in your chair... 1131 01:20:13,274 --> 01:20:17,142 until His Majesty makes the presentation, then rise and bow. 1132 01:20:17,211 --> 01:20:19,645 - Now, do you understand? - [All] Oh, yes, mem. 1133 01:20:19,713 --> 01:20:21,704 I only hope you do when the time comes. 1134 01:20:21,782 --> 01:20:23,875 Now just sit quietly until the presentation... 1135 01:20:23,951 --> 01:20:26,943 and for goodness sake, be careful with your dresses. 1136 01:21:01,989 --> 01:21:05,720 Your Majesty, may I present Mrs. Cortwright and Mr. Cortwright. 1137 01:21:05,793 --> 01:21:09,752 Mr. Cortwright is the editor of the newspaper in Singapore. 1138 01:21:09,830 --> 01:21:14,199 Ah. This is newspaper that prints I am spare man. 1139 01:21:14,268 --> 01:21:17,465 I should like to talk with you, Mr. Cortwright. 1140 01:21:19,507 --> 01:21:23,671 Rose water. Hospitable custom of country. 1141 01:21:29,350 --> 01:21:33,343 Wherefore have you decorated yourself better than all the rest? 1142 01:21:33,420 --> 01:21:36,446 - Shall it be for my observation? - Your Majesty. 1143 01:21:36,524 --> 01:21:40,927 You are fine. Very fine, indeed. 1144 01:21:40,995 --> 01:21:43,555 Your Majesty, may I present Miss Elizabeth MacFarlane... 1145 01:21:43,631 --> 01:21:45,622 who's just come out from England. 1146 01:21:48,335 --> 01:21:53,568 Miss MacFarlane's brother is the lieutenant governor in Singapore. 1147 01:21:53,641 --> 01:21:55,632 Are you an anecdote, Miss MacFarlane? 1148 01:21:55,709 --> 01:21:57,802 I beg your pardon? 1149 01:21:57,878 --> 01:22:00,312 You are unmarried woman. 1150 01:22:00,381 --> 01:22:03,908 An anecdote and an unmarried woman are not the same in English. 1151 01:22:03,984 --> 01:22:06,282 They are the same. 1152 01:22:06,353 --> 01:22:10,221 An anecdote is a hereto untold event of curious interest. 1153 01:22:10,291 --> 01:22:13,385 And an unmarried woman's life is also an untold event... 1154 01:22:13,460 --> 01:22:15,621 and therefore of curious interest. 1155 01:22:15,696 --> 01:22:18,961 - I say they are the same. - But... 1156 01:22:19,033 --> 01:22:22,230 Well, this will make an interesting anecdote for you, Miss MacFarlane. 1157 01:22:22,303 --> 01:22:24,237 Makes no difference... 1158 01:22:24,305 --> 01:22:27,536 I'm sure Miss MacFarlane would like some rose water, Your Majesty. 1159 01:22:32,513 --> 01:22:35,311 She is very ugly. 1160 01:22:41,655 --> 01:22:44,351 Herewith shall be list of subjects for you to bring up for talk. 1161 01:22:44,425 --> 01:22:46,450 Because on such subjects, I am very brilliant... 1162 01:22:46,527 --> 01:22:48,654 and will make fine impression. 1163 01:23:23,264 --> 01:23:25,289 - Mem? - Yes, Alak? 1164 01:23:25,366 --> 01:23:27,698 The napkins, they did not come. 1165 01:23:27,769 --> 01:23:30,829 - I think he will be very angry. - It's too late now. 1166 01:23:30,905 --> 01:23:33,396 We can only pray he won't notice. 1167 01:24:00,001 --> 01:24:02,868 His Majesty made a very interesting point the other day about Moses... 1168 01:24:02,937 --> 01:24:05,098 when he was reading the Bible. 1169 01:24:05,173 --> 01:24:07,505 Ah. Moses. 1170 01:24:07,575 --> 01:24:09,907 A very remarkable man. 1171 01:24:09,978 --> 01:24:13,277 If you remember, he wrote in the Bible... 1172 01:24:15,316 --> 01:24:18,217 But unfortunately, the presentjurisdiction... 1173 01:24:18,286 --> 01:24:20,686 of my good friend Mr. Lincoln's country... 1174 01:24:20,755 --> 01:24:22,780 did not favor the multiplication of the elephant... 1175 01:24:22,857 --> 01:24:27,191 and we considered the idea was not practical. 1176 01:24:27,262 --> 01:24:30,129 I was not aware that Your Majesty was so familiar... 1177 01:24:30,198 --> 01:24:32,291 with Mr. Lincoln's situation with the war in America. 1178 01:24:32,367 --> 01:24:34,392 Ah! This is point. 1179 01:24:34,469 --> 01:24:36,903 This is exactly impression I hope you will correct. 1180 01:24:36,971 --> 01:24:40,202 Court of Siam, through much study thereof... 1181 01:24:40,275 --> 01:24:44,769 is familiar with happenings on entire globe of modern world. 1182 01:24:46,147 --> 01:24:48,809 And now, ladies, gentlemen... 1183 01:24:48,883 --> 01:24:52,216 I commend to you theatricals for your pleasure... 1184 01:24:52,287 --> 01:24:56,314 and they shall be of history of kingdom of Siam... 1185 01:24:56,391 --> 01:24:59,121 a very old and very proud history. 1186 01:25:04,566 --> 01:25:07,296 [Siamese] 1187 01:25:21,883 --> 01:25:25,011 [Continues] 1188 01:26:01,889 --> 01:26:04,016 Not now, Your Majesty. They've finished. 1189 01:26:04,092 --> 01:26:07,960 - May I permit them to say I am barbarian without napkin? - But... 1190 01:26:33,221 --> 01:26:36,588 - [Knocking] - Oh! 1191 01:26:36,658 --> 01:26:39,286 Gracious heavens, no! 1192 01:26:53,007 --> 01:26:56,499 Wherefore do you not sit down when I am in same position? 1193 01:27:00,148 --> 01:27:03,413 [Sighs] I've experienced very fatiguing day. 1194 01:27:03,484 --> 01:27:06,681 So have I, Your Majesty, and it's very late. 1195 01:27:06,754 --> 01:27:08,779 Very anxious day for me also. 1196 01:27:08,856 --> 01:27:10,915 I had great fears for success. 1197 01:27:13,428 --> 01:27:16,022 Are you aware of why I am so hungry? 1198 01:27:16,097 --> 01:27:19,760 I was sick. Very sick. 1199 01:27:19,834 --> 01:27:23,930 However, I shall tell you that on account of conversation with Sir Edward... 1200 01:27:24,005 --> 01:27:26,303 we are in accord with British government... 1201 01:27:26,374 --> 01:27:30,105 regarding consulates and other matters relating to security of this nation. 1202 01:27:30,178 --> 01:27:33,375 I am very happy thereof. 1203 01:27:35,116 --> 01:27:38,608 I am very happy too, Your Majesty. Very. 1204 01:27:39,721 --> 01:27:42,485 L... 1205 01:27:42,557 --> 01:27:48,427 I hope you will accept slight gift of appreciation. 1206 01:27:48,496 --> 01:27:50,555 For you. 1207 01:27:52,700 --> 01:27:55,635 Your Majesty, you're very kind. 1208 01:27:56,971 --> 01:27:58,962 I shall treasure it always. 1209 01:28:14,088 --> 01:28:17,717 - Shall you be hungry? - Terribly. 1210 01:28:19,327 --> 01:28:21,488 Plenty for two. 1211 01:28:37,945 --> 01:28:41,176 Well, this is odd. Where do you suppose everybody is? 1212 01:28:41,249 --> 01:28:45,413 - Perhaps they're just late. - It's queer they should all be late. 1213 01:28:50,591 --> 01:28:53,685 Looks as though something extraordinary is going on. 1214 01:28:53,761 --> 01:28:55,786 Perhaps there won't be any school today. 1215 01:28:55,863 --> 01:28:58,889 - I'll try and find out what's happening. - May I get my pony and ride? 1216 01:28:58,966 --> 01:29:02,458 If you like, but be sure you take Moonshee with you. 1217 01:29:06,641 --> 01:29:10,168 - [Door Opens] - Good day, sir. 1218 01:29:10,244 --> 01:29:13,736 Lady Thiang, something very strange is going on. 1219 01:29:13,815 --> 01:29:16,875 I'd be grateful if you could tell me what's happening. 1220 01:29:16,951 --> 01:29:21,752 Why are you concerned with such matters instead of school? 1221 01:29:21,823 --> 01:29:25,987 Because whatever it is, it affects my school and me. 1222 01:29:30,164 --> 01:29:34,567 - Why you come to me? - Because I thought you would know. 1223 01:29:34,635 --> 01:29:37,832 - You do not say I told you. - Of course not. 1224 01:29:37,905 --> 01:29:42,171 - Lady Tuptim has been found. - Tuptim? 1225 01:29:42,243 --> 01:29:44,609 Didn't you know she had run away from the palace? 1226 01:29:44,679 --> 01:29:47,773 No. She hasn't been to school for some time. 1227 01:29:47,849 --> 01:29:51,410 But how could she possibly get out of the palace? 1228 01:29:51,485 --> 01:29:54,420 She escaped in robes of novice of the priesthood... 1229 01:29:54,488 --> 01:29:56,422 which someone gave to her. 1230 01:29:56,490 --> 01:29:59,721 - Where was she found? - I do not know. 1231 01:29:59,794 --> 01:30:01,887 All I do know is... 1232 01:30:01,963 --> 01:30:05,455 when she was brought back to the palace... 1233 01:30:05,533 --> 01:30:08,263 they brought a young priest with her. 1234 01:30:11,772 --> 01:30:15,799 - What will this mean, Lady Thiang? - What it has always meant here. 1235 01:30:15,877 --> 01:30:17,902 When will she go on trial? 1236 01:30:17,979 --> 01:30:20,140 They question her now. 1237 01:30:20,214 --> 01:30:22,546 You mean her trial's already begun? 1238 01:30:22,617 --> 01:30:25,381 This is not the same thing. 1239 01:30:25,453 --> 01:30:29,651 - But she will have... - I do not say any more. 1240 01:30:29,724 --> 01:30:32,488 And I think it will be best... 1241 01:30:32,560 --> 01:30:36,758 if you return to teaching of pupils. 1242 01:30:36,831 --> 01:30:38,992 Thank you, Lady Thiang. 1243 01:30:43,638 --> 01:30:45,902 The other novices who lived in cell with me... 1244 01:30:45,973 --> 01:30:48,635 never knew I was woman until this morning. 1245 01:30:48,709 --> 01:30:50,734 They were with me all the time. 1246 01:30:50,811 --> 01:30:53,075 If they did not know I was woman... 1247 01:30:53,147 --> 01:30:55,479 how could he know? 1248 01:30:55,549 --> 01:30:57,813 They will tell you he did not know. 1249 01:30:57,885 --> 01:31:00,911 Why are they not here? Why do you not ask them? 1250 01:31:00,988 --> 01:31:05,186 The truth is this man got you a novice's robe... 1251 01:31:05,259 --> 01:31:07,523 in which you escaped from the palace. 1252 01:31:12,767 --> 01:31:16,999 You went to his cell and stayed with him there until you were found. 1253 01:31:17,071 --> 01:31:19,505 Will you confess to this... 1254 01:31:19,573 --> 01:31:22,269 or must we get it out ofhim? 1255 01:31:22,343 --> 01:31:25,710 No, wait! 1256 01:31:25,780 --> 01:31:27,805 You must believe the truth about him. 1257 01:31:27,882 --> 01:31:32,478 He had nothing to do with it. He is completely innocent. 1258 01:31:35,623 --> 01:31:40,560 I went to the monastery because I did not know where else to go. 1259 01:31:40,628 --> 01:31:44,155 But Phra Palat did not recognize me, not then or ever... 1260 01:31:44,231 --> 01:31:47,826 not even though he had known me since he was a boy. 1261 01:31:47,902 --> 01:31:51,895 I had been betrothed to him by my family... 1262 01:31:51,973 --> 01:31:55,204 before I was sent to palace. 1263 01:31:55,276 --> 01:31:58,541 After I was sent to palace, he entered the priesthood... 1264 01:31:58,612 --> 01:32:00,910 and put me out of his mind completely. 1265 01:32:02,249 --> 01:32:04,547 Lfhe ever thought of me at all... 1266 01:32:04,618 --> 01:32:09,078 he thought of me as gone forever beyond the wall of inside. 1267 01:32:10,825 --> 01:32:12,850 He taught us every day... 1268 01:32:12,927 --> 01:32:18,263 and I grew quiet and happy because I was near him. 1269 01:32:18,332 --> 01:32:20,698 I no longer wanted to be anything to him... 1270 01:32:20,768 --> 01:32:24,761 but only to be near him. 1271 01:32:25,940 --> 01:32:28,602 Only to be near him. 1272 01:32:28,676 --> 01:32:30,735 A very pretty story... 1273 01:32:30,811 --> 01:32:33,177 and you told it beautifully. 1274 01:32:33,247 --> 01:32:35,272 Only no one believes you, of course. 1275 01:32:35,349 --> 01:32:38,716 Now, let us get back to the beginning. 1276 01:32:38,786 --> 01:32:41,414 - You went to this man because you love him. - No! 1277 01:32:41,489 --> 01:32:43,354 You lived in his cell as a woman. 1278 01:32:43,424 --> 01:32:45,756 Ask the others. They will tell you the truth. 1279 01:32:45,826 --> 01:32:49,262 [Man] You make him break his holy vows. Confess.! 1280 01:32:49,330 --> 01:32:52,822 I will not. I will not! 1281 01:33:00,107 --> 01:33:03,770 Stop it! Stop it, you hear? Stop it! 1282 01:33:03,844 --> 01:33:05,937 She's telling the truth, and you know it. 1283 01:33:06,013 --> 01:33:08,982 Why don't you call the others novices? You don't want the truth! 1284 01:33:09,050 --> 01:33:11,280 I shall go to the king and have her taken out of your hands. 1285 01:33:11,352 --> 01:33:14,583 We will wait. 1286 01:33:14,655 --> 01:33:16,646 The mem has much to learn. 1287 01:33:40,848 --> 01:33:44,306 Your Majesty will forgive me. It's a matter of great importance. 1288 01:33:45,686 --> 01:33:48,348 It's Lady Tuptim, Your Majesty. 1289 01:33:53,761 --> 01:33:57,492 Is there nothing dishonorable to me... 1290 01:33:57,565 --> 01:34:00,659 that is secret here? 1291 01:34:00,734 --> 01:34:04,101 Go. All of you, out! 1292 01:34:09,243 --> 01:34:13,703 It will be better if you understand at once... 1293 01:34:13,781 --> 01:34:16,147 that this matter does not concern you. 1294 01:34:16,217 --> 01:34:18,685 But it does. It does dreadfully... 1295 01:34:18,752 --> 01:34:22,779 because of her, and even more because of you. 1296 01:34:22,857 --> 01:34:25,792 Your Majesty, I'm sure if you'd known in the first place... 1297 01:34:25,860 --> 01:34:27,851 that she was in love with someone else... 1298 01:34:27,928 --> 01:34:30,328 you never would've allowed her to be brought here at all. 1299 01:34:30,397 --> 01:34:33,833 But now they're trying to make her confess to something that isn't true... 1300 01:34:33,901 --> 01:34:38,201 - torturing her without regard to proof or witnesses. - You waste your time. 1301 01:34:38,272 --> 01:34:41,070 But surely you're going to see that they call her witnesses. 1302 01:34:41,142 --> 01:34:44,669 This shall be my affair. 1303 01:34:44,745 --> 01:34:46,872 You must when she's called to trial. 1304 01:34:46,947 --> 01:34:50,542 I do not wish to talk more of this! 1305 01:34:50,618 --> 01:34:53,519 You can't refuse her a trial. 1306 01:34:53,587 --> 01:34:58,024 - There must be a law in this. - I am the law! 1307 01:34:58,092 --> 01:35:03,223 That's what I was afraid of, Your Majesty. 1308 01:35:03,297 --> 01:35:06,425 I beg you, don't take revenge on this girl. 1309 01:35:06,500 --> 01:35:10,231 If you do, you'll have thrown away everything you've done... 1310 01:35:10,304 --> 01:35:13,102 all you've built up for your country and yourself... 1311 01:35:13,174 --> 01:35:15,506 with such labor against such odds. 1312 01:35:15,576 --> 01:35:19,205 And you'll never be able to get it back again. 1313 01:35:19,280 --> 01:35:22,272 How can you have faith yourself in what you're doing... 1314 01:35:22,349 --> 01:35:26,183 or ask anyone else to believe in you or the country you represent... 1315 01:35:26,253 --> 01:35:29,120 when you know yourself you're only pretending? 1316 01:35:29,190 --> 01:35:33,957 That you don't give a snap of your fingers for your people or human progress. 1317 01:35:34,028 --> 01:35:36,053 That it's a lie... 1318 01:35:36,130 --> 01:35:40,032 something to cover up caprice and passion and self-indulgence. 1319 01:35:40,100 --> 01:35:42,591 You go too far. 1320 01:35:42,670 --> 01:35:46,231 This girl hurt your vanity, that's all. You don't love her. 1321 01:35:46,307 --> 01:35:50,641 She didn't hurt your heart. You haven't a heart! You've never loved anyone! 1322 01:35:50,711 --> 01:35:52,804 You are a barbarian! 1323 01:35:52,880 --> 01:35:56,316 You'll never change. You'll be a barbarian as long as you live. 1324 01:36:11,332 --> 01:36:15,166 Mem, how shall you like... 1325 01:36:15,236 --> 01:36:17,534 if I make you watch what I shall do? 1326 01:37:26,540 --> 01:37:29,236 He has not sinned! 1327 01:37:29,309 --> 01:37:31,300 He did no wrong to anyone! 1328 01:37:34,948 --> 01:37:37,007 We have not sinned! 1329 01:37:37,084 --> 01:37:39,484 We have not sinned.! 1330 01:37:39,553 --> 01:37:42,886 [Screaming] 1331 01:37:52,632 --> 01:37:55,396 - Good-bye, mem cha. - Good-bye, Prince Sawat. 1332 01:37:57,637 --> 01:38:00,970 - Bye, mem cha. - Good-bye, Princess Phatana. 1333 01:38:03,944 --> 01:38:07,471 - Bye, mem cha. - Bye, Princess Sumawa. 1334 01:38:09,015 --> 01:38:12,416 - Good-bye, mem cha. - Good-bye, Princess Mowana. 1335 01:38:12,486 --> 01:38:15,284 Where's Prince Chulalongkorn? 1336 01:38:15,355 --> 01:38:17,585 He would not come. 1337 01:38:19,793 --> 01:38:22,728 - Mem cha. - Princess. 1338 01:38:22,796 --> 01:38:26,527 I will always feel so unhappy... 1339 01:38:26,600 --> 01:38:30,627 thinking of you being among all those English people. 1340 01:38:32,539 --> 01:38:34,530 I shan't ever forget you, Princess. 1341 01:38:36,510 --> 01:38:39,104 Good-bye. 1342 01:38:44,818 --> 01:38:46,945 I guess that's all. 1343 01:38:47,020 --> 01:38:50,820 - You go on, Mother. - What are you going to do, Louis? 1344 01:38:50,891 --> 01:38:54,327 I rather thought I'd like to say good-bye to the prince. 1345 01:38:54,394 --> 01:38:57,625 Oh. It's odd he wasn't here today. 1346 01:38:57,697 --> 01:39:00,393 Well, he's funny. 1347 01:39:00,467 --> 01:39:02,765 All right, dear, but don't be too long. 1348 01:39:02,836 --> 01:39:04,895 Oh. 1349 01:39:07,707 --> 01:39:11,143 - Good day, sir. - Good day. 1350 01:39:11,211 --> 01:39:14,942 We are wishing to say something to you, mem. 1351 01:39:15,015 --> 01:39:19,179 - Oh? - Be seated, please. 1352 01:39:23,457 --> 01:39:25,220 Shall you be ready? 1353 01:39:31,932 --> 01:39:34,765 "Dear friend and teacher: 1354 01:39:34,835 --> 01:39:38,896 "My goodness gracious. Do not go away. 1355 01:39:38,972 --> 01:39:43,602 'We are in great need of you. 1356 01:39:43,677 --> 01:39:47,135 'We are like one blind. 1357 01:39:47,214 --> 01:39:50,240 'Do not let us fall down in darkness... 1358 01:39:50,317 --> 01:39:52,547 "but continue... 1359 01:39:52,619 --> 01:39:56,419 "good and sincere concern for us... 1360 01:39:56,490 --> 01:40:00,153 "and lead us in the right road. 1361 01:40:00,227 --> 01:40:02,320 Your loving pupils." 1362 01:40:04,397 --> 01:40:09,061 Thank you. Thank you. 1363 01:40:10,203 --> 01:40:12,535 You can't imagine... 1364 01:40:13,573 --> 01:40:16,371 You can't imag... 1365 01:40:45,605 --> 01:40:48,938 Lady Thiang. I came here because l... 1366 01:40:51,478 --> 01:40:54,743 I've seen very little of you lately. 1367 01:40:54,814 --> 01:40:57,715 Somehow I have a feeling you've been avoiding me. 1368 01:40:57,784 --> 01:41:00,651 I should hate to leave like that. 1369 01:41:01,988 --> 01:41:04,081 I have a sense of having failed here... 1370 01:41:04,157 --> 01:41:08,457 but I'd hoped that we had become rather special friends. 1371 01:41:08,528 --> 01:41:12,726 If there's any reason why... 1372 01:41:12,799 --> 01:41:18,260 Does the mem want me to say she has not failed... 1373 01:41:18,338 --> 01:41:20,738 or does she wish me to speak truth? 1374 01:41:20,807 --> 01:41:23,935 Well, the truth, of course. 1375 01:41:24,010 --> 01:41:26,740 This is maybe not good room... 1376 01:41:26,813 --> 01:41:28,804 for mem to speak about her failure. 1377 01:41:30,116 --> 01:41:35,110 Has she ever observed my wallpaper? 1378 01:41:35,188 --> 01:41:41,058 - It's very beautiful. - But you have not really looked at it. 1379 01:41:41,127 --> 01:41:45,291 It tells a story for anyone with the eyes to see. 1380 01:41:45,365 --> 01:41:47,799 I had it painted. 1381 01:41:49,736 --> 01:41:52,762 That straight young tree... 1382 01:41:52,839 --> 01:41:55,637 is like unto me when I am young... 1383 01:41:55,709 --> 01:41:59,167 and became first wife to my lord... 1384 01:41:59,245 --> 01:42:02,339 who is the great tree there. 1385 01:42:02,415 --> 01:42:04,440 I am happy... 1386 01:42:04,517 --> 01:42:07,918 and you can see that there are flowers all around. 1387 01:42:09,255 --> 01:42:11,280 They are the happiness... 1388 01:42:11,358 --> 01:42:13,417 that grows in our shadow. 1389 01:42:15,328 --> 01:42:17,319 But here... 1390 01:42:17,397 --> 01:42:22,801 other trees grow up between me and my lord. 1391 01:42:22,869 --> 01:42:25,633 That is custom... 1392 01:42:25,705 --> 01:42:29,436 for king to take many wives. 1393 01:42:29,509 --> 01:42:32,307 And here, my lord the king... 1394 01:42:32,379 --> 01:42:34,813 the great tree, grows very fast... 1395 01:42:34,881 --> 01:42:39,875 very high, trying to touch stars. 1396 01:42:39,953 --> 01:42:44,014 But the branches are bare... 1397 01:42:44,090 --> 01:42:46,285 not green with leaves... 1398 01:42:46,359 --> 01:42:49,954 to make kind shadow from the sun. 1399 01:42:50,030 --> 01:42:54,330 See, the flowers are almost gone... 1400 01:42:54,401 --> 01:42:57,393 and the small tree, which is me... 1401 01:42:57,470 --> 01:42:59,461 droops and withers. 1402 01:43:01,074 --> 01:43:03,099 I cannot help him. 1403 01:43:05,545 --> 01:43:10,039 And here I see that beside me... 1404 01:43:10,116 --> 01:43:13,051 very small tree is growing. 1405 01:43:13,119 --> 01:43:15,986 This is my son... 1406 01:43:16,056 --> 01:43:19,651 the prince who shall be king. 1407 01:43:19,726 --> 01:43:22,490 See that the ground is all bare now. 1408 01:43:22,562 --> 01:43:25,725 The sun is very cruel. 1409 01:43:25,799 --> 01:43:27,824 I try to shelter him... 1410 01:43:27,901 --> 01:43:31,564 but I am very small... 1411 01:43:31,638 --> 01:43:34,835 because I am only woman. 1412 01:43:34,908 --> 01:43:40,005 I try, but I do not know if I can do this. 1413 01:43:40,080 --> 01:43:42,105 But you haven't finished it. 1414 01:43:42,182 --> 01:43:47,745 No. I did not know what the end shall be. 1415 01:43:47,821 --> 01:43:50,289 But I know now... 1416 01:43:50,356 --> 01:43:54,690 and I do not wish to paint it. 1417 01:43:54,761 --> 01:43:57,753 I cannot help him. 1418 01:43:57,831 --> 01:44:02,063 This tree will not be better... 1419 01:44:02,135 --> 01:44:05,298 than the other one. 1420 01:44:05,371 --> 01:44:09,535 And this shall be your fault... 1421 01:44:09,609 --> 01:44:11,770 Mem Owens. 1422 01:44:11,845 --> 01:44:14,643 You should have helped him. 1423 01:44:14,714 --> 01:44:16,944 That is what I hoped for. 1424 01:44:18,318 --> 01:44:22,778 He wished for such love as your son has. 1425 01:44:24,057 --> 01:44:28,926 That is what he needed. I watch him. 1426 01:44:28,995 --> 01:44:34,331 He could have grown gentle and kind... 1427 01:44:34,400 --> 01:44:38,860 and in this is happiness, not in lessons. 1428 01:44:40,573 --> 01:44:45,476 All this you could have given him... 1429 01:44:45,545 --> 01:44:48,776 but I could not. 1430 01:44:48,848 --> 01:44:53,649 He is the one you fail. 1431 01:44:53,720 --> 01:44:57,713 And I shall remember you for this failure... 1432 01:44:59,492 --> 01:45:02,689 every time I look at my son... 1433 01:45:04,430 --> 01:45:07,922 as long as I shall live. 1434 01:45:29,856 --> 01:45:32,256 [Sobbing] 1435 01:45:48,408 --> 01:45:50,899 Memsahib.! Memsahib.! 1436 01:45:53,112 --> 01:45:56,946 [Moonshee] Only infidels would send gifts at a time like this, memsahib. 1437 01:45:57,016 --> 01:46:01,316 They should be sold, and this I will undertake for you. 1438 01:46:01,387 --> 01:46:03,719 We'll see, Moonshee. 1439 01:46:07,393 --> 01:46:10,089 - Good day, mem. - Your Excellency. 1440 01:46:10,163 --> 01:46:12,654 You're better today, maybe? 1441 01:46:13,800 --> 01:46:16,166 Much better. 1442 01:46:16,236 --> 01:46:18,932 Won't you sit down, Excellency? 1443 01:46:19,005 --> 01:46:21,030 Not today, mem. 1444 01:46:21,107 --> 01:46:23,507 I'm here officially today. 1445 01:46:23,576 --> 01:46:26,602 I have something I'm ordered to read to you. 1446 01:46:29,282 --> 01:46:32,740 - Are you prepared for listening, mem? - Yes. 1447 01:46:34,988 --> 01:46:37,684 "The unforeseen misfortune... 1448 01:46:37,757 --> 01:46:41,716 "a mournful event of death of said affectionate boy... 1449 01:46:41,794 --> 01:46:46,288 "has caused great sorrow to His Majesty and to royal family... 1450 01:46:46,366 --> 01:46:49,631 'since this boy was beloved by all... 1451 01:46:49,702 --> 01:46:52,102 'as if member of said family. 1452 01:46:53,373 --> 01:46:55,466 "But as sign of regret... 1453 01:46:55,541 --> 01:46:58,977 "that events of such sorrowful nature... 1454 01:46:59,045 --> 01:47:02,242 "must be arriving to those deserving of better happiness... 1455 01:47:02,315 --> 01:47:05,216 'the 12th of September is appointed... 1456 01:47:05,285 --> 01:47:09,119 'as day of mourning for entire country... 1457 01:47:09,188 --> 01:47:12,988 'to observe same with fireworks and other ceremony... 1458 01:47:13,059 --> 01:47:15,755 "just as for member of royal family. 1459 01:47:17,630 --> 01:47:19,598 "Also from this day... 1460 01:47:19,666 --> 01:47:22,464 "Mem Anna Owens shall bear title... 1461 01:47:22,535 --> 01:47:25,800 "of Lady Kroo Yai of kingdom of Siam... 1462 01:47:25,872 --> 01:47:31,572 'as mark of sad respect of said nation. 1463 01:47:31,644 --> 01:47:35,181 Maha Mongkut, king of Siam. ' 1464 01:47:37,483 --> 01:47:40,816 It took him a long time to write it, mem. 1465 01:47:40,886 --> 01:47:44,253 He wrote it many times. 1466 01:47:44,323 --> 01:47:46,018 It was very kind. 1467 01:47:48,027 --> 01:47:53,522 Mem, please try and understand. 1468 01:47:53,599 --> 01:47:57,126 He's trying to say in this letter that he is sorry... 1469 01:47:57,203 --> 01:48:01,367 not only about your son... 1470 01:48:01,440 --> 01:48:04,000 but about the woman. 1471 01:48:04,076 --> 01:48:07,068 That he was wrong. 1472 01:48:07,146 --> 01:48:09,376 That you spoke truth to him. 1473 01:48:09,448 --> 01:48:11,939 That nothing is any better for it. 1474 01:48:13,819 --> 01:48:18,449 That is very much for him to say, mem. 1475 01:48:18,524 --> 01:48:21,618 It is first time that he shall have tried to say... 1476 01:48:21,694 --> 01:48:23,992 that he is sorry to any person. 1477 01:48:26,999 --> 01:48:29,160 Please thank him for me. 1478 01:48:38,244 --> 01:48:41,145 Memsahib, is this to be put up with? 1479 01:48:41,213 --> 01:48:44,410 Is it to be endured for Louis sahib? Fireworks? 1480 01:48:44,483 --> 01:48:48,442 They're holding religious services too, if you'll listen. 1481 01:48:48,520 --> 01:48:52,081 Then listen. 1482 01:48:52,157 --> 01:48:54,250 [People Praying In Distance] 1483 01:49:03,736 --> 01:49:05,829 Mem. 1484 01:49:08,507 --> 01:49:10,998 - You may go. - Yes, mem cha. 1485 01:49:18,417 --> 01:49:21,818 - Mem cha. - Your Royal Highness. 1486 01:49:21,887 --> 01:49:24,117 I came... 1487 01:49:24,189 --> 01:49:26,384 I wanted to ask... 1488 01:49:30,129 --> 01:49:33,530 Do you remember this? 1489 01:49:35,467 --> 01:49:38,527 When we said good-bye to each other... 1490 01:49:38,604 --> 01:49:41,664 he gave it to me. 1491 01:49:41,740 --> 01:49:45,699 I think that you shall maybe want it back. 1492 01:49:45,778 --> 01:49:50,112 No. It was Louis's to give to whom he pleased. 1493 01:49:50,182 --> 01:49:53,174 You think that I may keep it? 1494 01:49:53,252 --> 01:49:55,311 Yes. 1495 01:50:02,328 --> 01:50:05,889 - Mem? - Yes, Your Royal Highness? 1496 01:50:05,964 --> 01:50:08,762 I did not give Nar Lek... 1497 01:50:08,834 --> 01:50:11,200 That is what I called Louis... 1498 01:50:11,270 --> 01:50:14,034 I did not give him anything... 1499 01:50:14,106 --> 01:50:17,303 and there is something I would have given to him, I think. 1500 01:50:17,376 --> 01:50:19,367 It is white. 1501 01:50:19,445 --> 01:50:23,541 Not all white, of course, but it is whiter than most... 1502 01:50:23,615 --> 01:50:25,606 and it is mine. 1503 01:50:25,684 --> 01:50:29,051 There are not many things that are mine, not really... 1504 01:50:29,121 --> 01:50:33,057 I mean, to give, so if you wouldn't mind taking it... 1505 01:50:33,125 --> 01:50:36,117 maybe... maybe it would be like... 1506 01:50:36,195 --> 01:50:38,129 What is it? 1507 01:50:38,197 --> 01:50:42,930 My elephant. It's almost white, and... 1508 01:50:45,137 --> 01:50:47,128 You liked Louis, didn't you? 1509 01:50:47,206 --> 01:50:49,640 Well, he gave me the knife... 1510 01:50:49,708 --> 01:50:53,667 and he'd like it if you had something that could take care of you. 1511 01:50:53,746 --> 01:50:57,910 I think he's very strong, the elephant, and I like him very much. 1512 01:50:59,818 --> 01:51:04,346 But if you gave me this strong, gentle elephant... 1513 01:51:04,423 --> 01:51:06,448 who's going to look after you? 1514 01:51:08,327 --> 01:51:10,454 You're growing so fast... 1515 01:51:10,529 --> 01:51:13,521 your wrists are sticking out of your jacket. 1516 01:51:15,734 --> 01:51:18,464 Somebody really ought to look after you. 1517 01:51:18,537 --> 01:51:20,971 Mem. Mem. [Crying] 1518 01:51:21,039 --> 01:51:23,098 Oh. 1519 01:51:38,056 --> 01:51:40,854 You sent for me, Your Majesty? 1520 01:51:45,464 --> 01:51:48,900 Yes, l... I sent for you. 1521 01:51:50,702 --> 01:51:52,693 What is it, Your Majesty? 1522 01:51:52,771 --> 01:51:55,399 L... 1523 01:52:03,115 --> 01:52:07,779 Mem, doctors I send say you do not take medicine for sleeping as prescribed. 1524 01:52:07,853 --> 01:52:09,844 Resting shall be necessary. 1525 01:52:09,922 --> 01:52:13,517 I do not understand why you shall be so strong-headed in this matter. 1526 01:52:13,592 --> 01:52:17,756 I'm sorry. I'm afraid I haven't... 1527 01:52:20,098 --> 01:52:22,259 I want Your Majesty to know that... 1528 01:52:22,334 --> 01:52:27,271 I'm very grateful for the kind things you've done since... 1529 01:52:27,339 --> 01:52:29,364 since my boy's death. 1530 01:52:29,441 --> 01:52:33,275 Such things I do not important. 1531 01:52:37,783 --> 01:52:40,843 - Is that all, Your Majesty? - No, this is not all. 1532 01:52:40,919 --> 01:52:42,978 I have other matter to talk with you. 1533 01:52:45,090 --> 01:52:48,082 Mem, I become every day more behind with work... 1534 01:52:48,160 --> 01:52:50,185 which every day becomes more difficult... 1535 01:52:50,262 --> 01:52:54,358 thus making for me much confusion, weariness, et cetera. 1536 01:52:54,433 --> 01:52:57,231 For such instance, it shall be important to know... 1537 01:52:57,302 --> 01:53:00,738 why shall geography say this is absolute monarchy? 1538 01:53:00,806 --> 01:53:03,240 How shall I be absolute if, when I wish for something to be so... 1539 01:53:03,308 --> 01:53:07,404 it doesn't happen in this way despite my absolute will to the contrary? 1540 01:53:07,479 --> 01:53:11,108 Geographies. What is opinion, mem? 1541 01:53:13,051 --> 01:53:15,747 I don't know. L... 1542 01:53:15,821 --> 01:53:18,085 Never mind. Is difficult question. 1543 01:53:18,156 --> 01:53:20,852 I am also much worried whether I shall send delegate... 1544 01:53:20,926 --> 01:53:23,793 suitable display, et cetera, to great exhibition in Paris. 1545 01:53:23,862 --> 01:53:25,420 What is opinion? 1546 01:53:25,497 --> 01:53:29,797 It sounds like an admirable idea, Your Majesty. 1547 01:53:29,868 --> 01:53:32,894 Mem, I think you shall not give opinions so quickly without thinking. 1548 01:53:32,971 --> 01:53:36,236 Maybe French have murky reason for suggesting such exhibit. 1549 01:53:36,308 --> 01:53:39,607 Why you not think of this? 1550 01:53:39,678 --> 01:53:44,513 Mem, it would be much help if you would examine correspondence for such murky propositions. 1551 01:53:44,583 --> 01:53:47,450 This I am too burdened to do myself... 1552 01:53:47,519 --> 01:53:50,852 and there is no one else to be trusted. 1553 01:53:50,923 --> 01:53:54,415 This shall be much important, mem. 1554 01:53:54,493 --> 01:53:57,621 What shall answer be? 1555 01:53:57,696 --> 01:53:59,687 I can't, Your Majesty. 1556 01:54:03,335 --> 01:54:07,533 Mem, shall you be forgetting that work is always best remedy? 1557 01:54:07,606 --> 01:54:10,302 I know, but I can't. 1558 01:54:10,375 --> 01:54:15,278 I can't take any more letters or give any more advice. I'd like to, but I can't. 1559 01:54:15,347 --> 01:54:18,874 What shall you be doing, then? 1560 01:54:18,951 --> 01:54:21,545 You do not go away? 1561 01:54:21,620 --> 01:54:23,986 I don't know. L... 1562 01:54:24,056 --> 01:54:28,049 I haven't been able to think. L... 1563 01:54:28,126 --> 01:54:30,686 I'd like to keep on with my school, I think. 1564 01:54:30,762 --> 01:54:33,390 I've nowhere else. 1565 01:54:35,267 --> 01:54:37,929 I'd like to keep on with my school. 1566 01:54:39,438 --> 01:54:41,633 But, mem, only school teaching? 1567 01:54:41,707 --> 01:54:46,041 - I think that also... - It's the children that I want. 1568 01:54:46,111 --> 01:54:48,545 It's the children. 1569 01:54:53,785 --> 01:54:56,219 Very well, mem. 1570 01:55:03,095 --> 01:55:05,495 I think if you do other work, such as letters... 1571 01:55:05,564 --> 01:55:09,591 such arrangement would contemplate raise in salary, but... 1572 01:55:12,004 --> 01:55:14,268 Very well, mem. 1573 01:55:20,779 --> 01:55:23,771 That will be all for today. 1574 01:55:23,849 --> 01:55:28,912 And for tomorrow, you'll need not prepare the lesson in geography. 1575 01:55:28,987 --> 01:55:33,117 I find His Majesty has done away with the geographies we had... 1576 01:55:33,191 --> 01:55:35,318 so we'll have to wait until new books arrive. 1577 01:55:35,394 --> 01:55:38,625 That's all. You may go. 1578 01:55:43,835 --> 01:55:48,169 If... If any of you would like to remain for any questions... 1579 01:56:03,822 --> 01:56:06,382 - Mem. - Yes, Alak? 1580 01:56:06,458 --> 01:56:08,551 - His Majesty wish you... - I told you... 1581 01:56:08,627 --> 01:56:11,494 Mem, while writing correspondence... 1582 01:56:11,563 --> 01:56:14,657 suddenly he very angry. 1583 01:56:14,733 --> 01:56:17,497 I do not know why. 1584 01:56:17,569 --> 01:56:20,936 He say he cannot do such things alone. 1585 01:56:21,006 --> 01:56:23,634 He say no one tell him truth. 1586 01:56:23,709 --> 01:56:27,236 He say there is no one to be trusted. 1587 01:56:27,312 --> 01:56:29,303 He say... 1588 01:56:29,381 --> 01:56:33,283 Oh, mem, if you will not come... 1589 01:56:33,351 --> 01:56:35,478 it will be very bad for me. 1590 01:56:50,368 --> 01:56:52,996 [No Audible Dialogue] 1591 01:57:03,515 --> 01:57:08,248 - [Knocking] - I'm coming. I'm coming. 1592 01:57:22,367 --> 01:57:25,996 [King] Et cetera, et cetera... 1593 01:57:26,071 --> 01:57:28,130 et cetera. 1594 01:57:51,129 --> 01:57:52,721 - "F." - [All] "F." 1595 01:57:52,798 --> 01:57:54,732 - "G." - [All] "G." 1596 01:57:54,800 --> 01:57:56,427 - "H." - [All] "H." 1597 01:57:56,768 --> 01:57:58,668 Mem. 1598 01:57:58,737 --> 01:58:00,705 You must come. 1599 01:58:00,772 --> 01:58:03,468 Quick, mem. 1600 01:58:06,111 --> 01:58:09,205 Please remain in your seats until I return. 1601 01:58:29,935 --> 01:58:32,301 He worked late into night. 1602 01:58:32,370 --> 01:58:35,271 I thought he had fallen into sleep as he has done so often lately... 1603 01:58:35,340 --> 01:58:37,535 and I let him rest. 1604 01:58:37,609 --> 01:58:41,409 But he was ill, very ill. 1605 01:58:41,479 --> 01:58:43,674 He asked for us. 1606 01:58:45,050 --> 01:58:47,382 But we must wait again... 1607 01:58:47,452 --> 01:58:49,977 maybe for last time. 1608 01:59:04,236 --> 01:59:06,568 Mem. 1609 01:59:11,743 --> 01:59:13,768 Yes, Your Majesty? 1610 01:59:15,847 --> 01:59:19,908 Wherefore have you not arrived more quickly? 1611 01:59:19,985 --> 01:59:23,421 - I wish to talk to you. - I'm sorry. 1612 01:59:23,488 --> 01:59:25,820 Sorry, sorry, sorry. 1613 01:59:25,891 --> 01:59:27,984 Sit down, mem. 1614 01:59:29,594 --> 01:59:32,529 You mustn't talk now, Your Majesty. 1615 01:59:32,597 --> 01:59:34,963 I shall talk, I say. 1616 01:59:35,033 --> 01:59:39,265 - There is not much time. I die, mem. - No. 1617 01:59:39,337 --> 01:59:41,635 Do not say foolish things. 1618 01:59:41,706 --> 01:59:44,004 I know if I die or do not die. 1619 01:59:44,075 --> 01:59:48,205 You shouldn't be here. Can't we move you to your room? 1620 01:59:48,280 --> 01:59:53,274 No. I wish to remain here in room with knowledge. 1621 01:59:53,351 --> 01:59:56,980 I have finished thinking about dying. 1622 01:59:57,055 --> 02:00:00,125 I think of many other things while I am lying here. 1623 02:00:00,258 --> 02:00:04,388 I think of things I should have said to you. 1624 02:00:06,898 --> 02:00:08,957 I mean... 1625 02:00:12,871 --> 02:00:17,467 when I think maybe I do not see you again, l... 1626 02:00:18,543 --> 02:00:21,740 I write down these things. 1627 02:00:21,813 --> 02:00:26,409 I think maybe it will be better he shall read them. 1628 02:00:29,120 --> 02:00:32,886 Shall you be listening, old friend? 1629 02:00:32,957 --> 02:00:35,824 There shall be words for you too. 1630 02:00:35,894 --> 02:00:37,885 I'm listening, Toongramon. 1631 02:00:40,698 --> 02:00:44,930 "I think there shall not be much important... 1632 02:00:45,003 --> 02:00:47,267 "that a man shall die... 1633 02:00:47,338 --> 02:00:50,933 'for it is time that does all true things... 1634 02:00:51,009 --> 02:00:53,876 'not man. 1635 02:00:53,945 --> 02:00:57,108 'Then I think it shall be important... 1636 02:00:57,182 --> 02:00:59,776 to consider those who have been of most help. ' 1637 02:00:59,851 --> 02:01:02,820 Ah! Words, words. 1638 02:01:05,823 --> 02:01:08,121 I wish to say... 1639 02:01:08,193 --> 02:01:13,256 you... you have spoken truth to me... 1640 02:01:13,331 --> 02:01:15,356 always. 1641 02:01:15,433 --> 02:01:18,368 Even when I do not wish to hear it... 1642 02:01:18,436 --> 02:01:22,236 you have always courage to say when I am wrong. 1643 02:01:24,175 --> 02:01:26,769 You have set feet of children... 1644 02:01:26,844 --> 02:01:30,644 on excellent path of learning... 1645 02:01:30,715 --> 02:01:35,652 and are therefore most affectionately thought of by same. 1646 02:01:37,121 --> 02:01:42,081 More so than regular parents... 1647 02:01:42,160 --> 02:01:45,254 including self. 1648 02:01:45,330 --> 02:01:50,461 So that if some shall grow better than parents... 1649 02:01:50,535 --> 02:01:53,368 it shall be your doing. 1650 02:01:56,507 --> 02:01:59,533 And as reward for this... 1651 02:01:59,611 --> 02:02:02,512 what shall I have done? 1652 02:02:02,580 --> 02:02:07,347 I have often lost my temper on you. 1653 02:02:07,418 --> 02:02:10,546 I have never spoken gratitude or feeling. 1654 02:02:12,257 --> 02:02:17,456 I haven't even given promised raise in salary. 1655 02:02:19,163 --> 02:02:21,461 I do not wish to die... 1656 02:02:21,532 --> 02:02:23,864 without having said that... 1657 02:02:23,935 --> 02:02:29,032 gratitude and... and... 1658 02:02:29,107 --> 02:02:31,234 and large respect... 1659 02:02:31,309 --> 02:02:33,834 and... 1660 02:02:36,781 --> 02:02:40,649 confidence on you... 1661 02:02:40,718 --> 02:02:43,744 which shall have become larger... 1662 02:02:43,821 --> 02:02:46,813 every day. 1663 02:02:50,628 --> 02:02:54,564 But, mem, if I haven't graciously... 1664 02:02:54,632 --> 02:02:58,625 said this gratitude before... 1665 02:02:58,703 --> 02:03:01,729 you must remember you have been... 1666 02:03:01,806 --> 02:03:04,036 very difficult woman... 1667 02:03:06,611 --> 02:03:11,241 and much more difficult than the generality. 1668 02:03:15,920 --> 02:03:18,115 Generality. 1669 02:03:20,558 --> 02:03:22,753 It's a good word. 1670 02:03:24,929 --> 02:03:27,420 It means... 1671 02:03:27,498 --> 02:03:30,365 - It means... - Never mind. 1672 02:03:35,940 --> 02:03:39,376 True progress... 1673 02:03:39,444 --> 02:03:42,072 shall lie... 1674 02:03:47,185 --> 02:03:50,052 et cetera... 1675 02:03:50,121 --> 02:03:53,090 et cetera... 1676 02:03:53,157 --> 02:03:56,217 et cetera. 1677 02:04:00,965 --> 02:04:03,695 [Man Praying] 1678 02:04:40,872 --> 02:04:42,897 He tried so hard. 1679 02:04:42,974 --> 02:04:45,169 No one will ever know. 1680 02:04:46,577 --> 02:04:50,069 It was so hard to let anyone help him. 1681 02:04:50,148 --> 02:04:55,450 He wanted to, but he couldn't. 1682 02:04:55,520 --> 02:04:59,820 He was like a little boy sometimes. 1683 02:04:59,891 --> 02:05:03,691 You remember, about the forks and knives. 1684 02:05:03,761 --> 02:05:07,356 And he was sick that night, he cared so much. 1685 02:05:07,432 --> 02:05:10,799 They didn't know he cared like that. 1686 02:05:10,868 --> 02:05:13,359 Nobody understood. 1687 02:05:13,438 --> 02:05:15,736 Not really. 1688 02:05:16,908 --> 02:05:19,775 It seems a long time ago... 1689 02:05:19,844 --> 02:05:24,042 I tried to make you understand this man. 1690 02:05:24,115 --> 02:05:27,551 I do not think I said it half so well. 1691 02:05:27,618 --> 02:05:30,382 What happens now? 1692 02:05:30,455 --> 02:05:32,480 All his work... 1693 02:05:32,557 --> 02:05:35,754 I think now the young prince will have much need of you. 1694 02:05:35,827 --> 02:05:40,230 It was meant that you shall stay and help him. 1695 02:06:19,237 --> 02:06:22,729 Let this, our first message to our people... 1696 02:06:22,807 --> 02:06:25,071 be proclaimed. 1697 02:06:25,142 --> 02:06:29,340 And not as if we were doing a great and lordly thing... 1698 02:06:29,413 --> 02:06:33,577 but only what is right and fitting. 1699 02:06:33,651 --> 02:06:38,054 That from this hour, the ancient national custom... 1700 02:06:38,122 --> 02:06:42,718 of obeisance on hands and knees is abolished... 1701 02:06:42,793 --> 02:06:46,889 and all men shall stand before the king... 1702 02:06:46,964 --> 02:06:51,128 and before one another, as men should do. 1703 02:07:19,797 --> 02:07:23,062 And let it be the spirit of this proclamation... 1704 02:07:23,134 --> 02:07:26,228 that this shall be the first of many changes... 1705 02:07:26,304 --> 02:07:30,001 which we hope to bring about as soon as they are possible... 1706 02:07:30,074 --> 02:07:35,137 as I believe my father, the late king, would wish us to do... 1707 02:07:37,882 --> 02:07:40,715 and as I have learned... 1708 02:07:40,785 --> 02:07:44,118 it is right and necessary to do... 1709 02:07:44,188 --> 02:07:47,783 if we are to live and work together... 1710 02:07:47,858 --> 02:07:52,659 in liking and respect for one another... 1711 02:07:52,730 --> 02:07:58,100 as we must do if we are to work together for the good of our country.