1 00:01:38,311 --> 00:01:39,300 Grandmother. 2 00:01:43,318 --> 00:01:44,478 Come closer. 3 00:02:02,111 --> 00:02:04,080 Take this to your village... 4 00:02:04,114 --> 00:02:06,242 and tell the people... 5 00:02:06,284 --> 00:02:10,017 the day of their deliverance is at hand. 6 00:02:33,655 --> 00:02:36,489 Make way for Prince Prospero! 7 00:02:50,679 --> 00:02:51,839 Get back there! 8 00:03:07,302 --> 00:03:09,430 According to my custom... 9 00:03:09,472 --> 00:03:11,270 I have come here personally... 10 00:03:11,308 --> 00:03:14,244 to thank you for the year's harvest... 11 00:03:14,279 --> 00:03:16,771 To make sure we'll starve on what is left. 12 00:03:17,449 --> 00:03:18,940 And to invite you to a feast... 13 00:03:18,985 --> 00:03:20,476 to be held in a fortnight... 14 00:03:21,155 --> 00:03:22,783 when annually I gather about me... 15 00:03:22,824 --> 00:03:24,451 the nobles of the countryside. 16 00:03:24,493 --> 00:03:26,291 When you'll throw us the scraps from your table... 17 00:03:26,329 --> 00:03:27,455 as if we were dogs. 18 00:03:27,497 --> 00:03:28,658 Exactly. 19 00:03:29,667 --> 00:03:31,465 But these dogs have a loud bark... 20 00:03:31,503 --> 00:03:32,971 and show their teeth. 21 00:03:33,005 --> 00:03:34,165 Why? 22 00:03:35,007 --> 00:03:37,499 An old woman met a holy man on the hill. 23 00:03:37,544 --> 00:03:38,842 He made a prophecy. 24 00:03:39,514 --> 00:03:42,348 He said the day of our deliverance was at hand. 25 00:03:43,186 --> 00:03:44,517 From your tyranny. 26 00:03:47,024 --> 00:03:50,017 Well, then, shouldn't you be on your knees to give thanks? 27 00:03:57,205 --> 00:03:58,366 Garotte them. 28 00:04:03,147 --> 00:04:04,614 No! I beg of you. 29 00:04:04,649 --> 00:04:07,050 Mercy! Mercy! Mercy in the name of... 30 00:04:09,823 --> 00:04:11,314 The girl was addressing me. 31 00:04:12,159 --> 00:04:13,320 What is your name? 32 00:04:15,397 --> 00:04:16,558 Francesca. 33 00:04:16,599 --> 00:04:18,568 What do you want of me, Francesca? 34 00:04:19,370 --> 00:04:20,531 Forgive them! 35 00:04:20,572 --> 00:04:21,698 Forgive them! 36 00:04:21,740 --> 00:04:24,107 That is not possible. 37 00:04:24,143 --> 00:04:25,509 They have defied me. 38 00:04:26,179 --> 00:04:28,148 If my hound bites my hand... 39 00:04:28,182 --> 00:04:30,651 after I have fed and caressed him... 40 00:04:30,686 --> 00:04:32,677 should I allow him to go undisciplined? 41 00:04:33,556 --> 00:04:34,989 Forgive them. I beg of you. 42 00:04:36,861 --> 00:04:38,420 How innocent you are. 43 00:04:40,667 --> 00:04:44,695 However, I am disposed to temper justice with mercy. 44 00:04:45,539 --> 00:04:48,031 So I will leave it up to you, Francesca. 45 00:04:54,719 --> 00:04:55,880 One must die. 46 00:04:57,056 --> 00:04:58,217 Which one? 47 00:05:05,333 --> 00:05:06,665 One is my father. 48 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:11,502 The other, the man I love. 49 00:05:15,514 --> 00:05:17,244 You promised me entertainment... 50 00:05:18,151 --> 00:05:19,676 but I never hoped for this. 51 00:05:21,356 --> 00:05:24,087 Can such eyes ever have known sin? 52 00:05:24,861 --> 00:05:26,489 They will, Alfredo. 53 00:05:26,530 --> 00:05:27,690 They will. 54 00:05:28,366 --> 00:05:31,029 However, this is not for your entertainment. 55 00:05:31,704 --> 00:05:33,832 Even so, Francesca, you must choose. 56 00:05:33,874 --> 00:05:36,673 One will live, one will die, 57 00:05:36,711 --> 00:05:38,703 or both will die. 58 00:05:40,549 --> 00:05:41,710 Silence that. 59 00:05:44,388 --> 00:05:45,514 Well, choose, Francesca. 60 00:05:45,556 --> 00:05:46,717 Which will die? 61 00:05:47,392 --> 00:05:48,553 Choose. 62 00:05:50,530 --> 00:05:52,692 Must I take care of everything myself? 63 00:05:58,909 --> 00:06:00,035 Well, what is it? 64 00:06:00,077 --> 00:06:01,670 Look, sir. Look. 65 00:06:16,867 --> 00:06:18,528 The Red Death. 66 00:06:26,046 --> 00:06:28,675 That old woman was told the prophecy? 67 00:06:28,717 --> 00:06:30,378 - Yes. - Did you touch her? 68 00:06:31,721 --> 00:06:33,382 - No. - Or you or you? 69 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:37,355 Take them to the castle. 70 00:06:37,396 --> 00:06:38,590 - I'll take the girl. - No! 71 00:06:38,630 --> 00:06:39,757 They may provide us... 72 00:06:39,799 --> 00:06:41,198 with some entertainment after all. 73 00:06:41,234 --> 00:06:43,066 To your horses, friends. 74 00:06:46,576 --> 00:06:48,237 Burn the village to the ground. 75 00:06:49,146 --> 00:06:50,875 Why do you burn their homes? 76 00:06:50,914 --> 00:06:52,382 Winter comes. 77 00:06:52,417 --> 00:06:54,386 This is your day of deliverance... 78 00:06:54,420 --> 00:06:55,580 remember? 79 00:07:05,201 --> 00:07:06,499 Come on, there. Come on, hurry up. 80 00:07:06,537 --> 00:07:08,004 Come on, quick. 81 00:07:08,038 --> 00:07:09,199 Come on. Over there. 82 00:07:09,808 --> 00:07:11,275 Come on, then. Come on. 83 00:07:11,911 --> 00:07:13,742 Get moving, there. Quickly, get along. 84 00:07:22,692 --> 00:07:24,183 Come on. 85 00:07:24,896 --> 00:07:26,056 Hurry up! 86 00:08:12,896 --> 00:08:14,022 Couriers, 87 00:08:14,064 --> 00:08:15,862 you are to go to my intended guests... 88 00:08:15,900 --> 00:08:19,360 to the Duke of Verga, to Verona, Florence... 89 00:08:19,405 --> 00:08:20,531 tell them that they are to come here... 90 00:08:20,573 --> 00:08:22,235 to my castle without delay... 91 00:08:23,911 --> 00:08:25,243 And if they wish admittance... 92 00:08:25,747 --> 00:08:27,716 to avoid the village of Catania... 93 00:08:27,750 --> 00:08:28,910 but to come at once. 94 00:08:32,256 --> 00:08:33,382 You will wash. 95 00:08:33,424 --> 00:08:34,551 In my own time. 96 00:08:34,593 --> 00:08:35,719 The prince says now is the time. 97 00:08:35,761 --> 00:08:38,424 I will do nothing until I know about Gino and my father. 98 00:08:47,444 --> 00:08:49,709 Modesty, but no humility. 99 00:08:49,748 --> 00:08:52,377 Gino and my father, where are they? 100 00:08:52,418 --> 00:08:54,045 Why do you hide yourself? 101 00:08:55,789 --> 00:08:57,621 It's not right that you should look at me. 102 00:08:59,427 --> 00:09:00,588 You may go. 103 00:09:05,569 --> 00:09:07,561 That cross you wear around your neck... 104 00:09:08,407 --> 00:09:09,898 is it only a decoration... 105 00:09:10,576 --> 00:09:13,410 or are you a true Christian believer? 106 00:09:14,248 --> 00:09:15,580 Yes, I believe. 107 00:09:16,251 --> 00:09:17,617 Truly. 108 00:09:17,653 --> 00:09:19,884 Then I want you to remove it at once... 109 00:09:19,923 --> 00:09:22,084 and never to wear it within this castle again. 110 00:09:37,113 --> 00:09:38,240 This peasant girl, 111 00:09:38,282 --> 00:09:39,579 is she always to be bathed in my bedroom? 112 00:09:39,616 --> 00:09:41,915 We'll find you another room, Juliana. 113 00:09:41,953 --> 00:09:44,252 Meanwhile, you will dress the Lady Francesca 114 00:09:44,290 --> 00:09:45,417 in one of your finest gowns. 115 00:09:45,459 --> 00:09:46,585 I don't... 116 00:09:46,626 --> 00:09:47,753 Later, you can instruct her... 117 00:09:47,795 --> 00:09:49,160 in the ways of the court. 118 00:09:49,197 --> 00:09:50,961 Please, my father... 119 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:53,962 Oh, yes. Your father. 120 00:09:55,306 --> 00:09:57,274 Your father and your lover... 121 00:09:57,308 --> 00:09:58,776 are being quartered... 122 00:09:59,644 --> 00:10:01,545 in a warm and safe place. 123 00:10:02,816 --> 00:10:04,978 Now I must join my guests. 124 00:10:15,667 --> 00:10:16,793 You may think that... 125 00:10:16,835 --> 00:10:18,667 you've impressed the Prince Prospero, 126 00:10:19,506 --> 00:10:21,566 but you can count on little help from me. 127 00:10:22,777 --> 00:10:24,176 You will do as he told you. 128 00:10:25,348 --> 00:10:27,749 Yes, as we all must do. 129 00:10:30,188 --> 00:10:32,520 I will do what I must to save my men. 130 00:10:35,027 --> 00:10:36,518 But if they are killed... 131 00:10:37,197 --> 00:10:42,102 I will die and so will Prince Prospero. 132 00:10:49,214 --> 00:10:53,175 Let me speak to you about the anatomy of terror. 133 00:10:53,220 --> 00:10:54,380 Terror? 134 00:10:56,057 --> 00:10:58,720 What would you know of terror, Alfredo? 135 00:10:59,395 --> 00:11:02,160 Your senses are much too blunt. 136 00:11:02,833 --> 00:11:04,664 What is terror? 137 00:11:06,004 --> 00:11:07,164 Come. 138 00:11:14,349 --> 00:11:15,339 Silence. 139 00:11:18,355 --> 00:11:19,344 Listen. 140 00:11:22,694 --> 00:11:26,689 Is it to awaken and hear the passing of time... 141 00:11:31,039 --> 00:11:34,703 or is it the failing beat of your own heart? 142 00:11:39,718 --> 00:11:44,521 Or the footsteps of someone who just a moment before... 143 00:11:44,558 --> 00:11:46,220 was in your room? 144 00:11:48,731 --> 00:11:51,223 But let us not dwell on terror. 145 00:11:52,402 --> 00:11:54,894 The knowledge of terror is vouchsafed... 146 00:11:56,008 --> 00:11:58,569 only to the precious few. 147 00:12:07,523 --> 00:12:11,188 And now may I present for your entertainment... 148 00:12:12,363 --> 00:12:16,699 the dancers Esmeralda and Hop Toad. 149 00:13:12,381 --> 00:13:14,179 Wherever did you find her? 150 00:13:14,217 --> 00:13:16,186 Pretty toy, isn't she? 151 00:13:16,220 --> 00:13:17,482 Delightful. 152 00:13:31,908 --> 00:13:33,034 I wonder... 153 00:13:33,076 --> 00:13:34,908 I'm sure you do, Alfredo. 154 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:37,708 I'm sure you wonder about every female... 155 00:13:37,749 --> 00:13:39,718 in my household... 156 00:13:39,752 --> 00:13:42,085 every one with the appearance of innocence. 157 00:13:42,756 --> 00:13:44,054 You seem to take great pleasure... 158 00:13:44,092 --> 00:13:45,218 in corrupting it. 159 00:13:45,260 --> 00:13:47,388 I'm not corrupting Alfredo, no. 160 00:13:47,430 --> 00:13:48,590 Instructing. 161 00:14:14,568 --> 00:14:18,232 If the wench were full-size, she'd drown us all in wine. 162 00:14:20,242 --> 00:14:23,406 Well, my first novelty seems to have failed. 163 00:14:24,081 --> 00:14:25,878 However, on the Sabbath at midnight... 164 00:14:25,916 --> 00:14:27,043 for your amusement... 165 00:14:27,085 --> 00:14:29,384 there will be a masquerade. 166 00:14:29,422 --> 00:14:30,889 The wardrobes of the castle... 167 00:14:30,923 --> 00:14:32,585 are yours to use. 168 00:14:33,260 --> 00:14:36,720 But I beg of you, even for the humor of it, 169 00:14:36,765 --> 00:14:38,232 do not wear red. 170 00:14:41,606 --> 00:14:42,937 You go too far. 171 00:14:43,941 --> 00:14:45,933 I am not without influence and power. 172 00:14:45,978 --> 00:14:47,947 Against the Red Death? 173 00:14:49,783 --> 00:14:50,943 Yes. 174 00:14:51,620 --> 00:14:53,451 Yes, it came to the village. 175 00:14:54,624 --> 00:14:57,287 Even now, it lays waste to the countryside. 176 00:14:58,295 --> 00:14:59,923 So you can count yourselves fortunate... 177 00:14:59,964 --> 00:15:01,728 that you are here in this castle... 178 00:15:02,735 --> 00:15:05,227 under the protection of Prince Prospero. 179 00:15:19,592 --> 00:15:21,925 May I present the Lady Francesca? 180 00:15:23,430 --> 00:15:25,763 Meanwhile, continue with your merrymaking. 181 00:15:26,601 --> 00:15:28,934 Act according to your natures. 182 00:15:31,776 --> 00:15:33,266 Senor Veronese... 183 00:15:34,780 --> 00:15:37,409 you do little but eat and swill... 184 00:15:37,450 --> 00:15:40,420 and dream of other things. 185 00:15:40,454 --> 00:15:42,286 How like a pig you are. 186 00:15:42,958 --> 00:15:44,118 Be one. 187 00:16:07,258 --> 00:16:10,251 You, Senor Lampredi... 188 00:16:11,097 --> 00:16:13,589 you laugh at this poor pig... 189 00:16:14,602 --> 00:16:16,570 while you are small and insignificant... 190 00:16:16,604 --> 00:16:18,903 no more than a worm. 191 00:16:18,941 --> 00:16:20,933 Can you be a worm, Lampredi? 192 00:16:44,944 --> 00:16:46,809 Senorita Escobar... 193 00:16:47,481 --> 00:16:48,971 do you hear how she laughs? 194 00:16:49,818 --> 00:16:53,311 It is like nothing so much as a braying jackass. 195 00:16:54,323 --> 00:16:55,484 Be one. 196 00:17:07,443 --> 00:17:11,778 You, Senor Rimini, ride that jackass to market. 197 00:17:12,783 --> 00:17:13,943 Giddyap! 198 00:17:20,627 --> 00:17:24,428 As for the rest of you, use your imaginations. 199 00:17:24,466 --> 00:17:27,129 Show me the lives and loves of the animals. 200 00:17:39,653 --> 00:17:40,780 See if we cannot make something... 201 00:17:40,822 --> 00:17:43,815 more exotic of her that will appeal to me. 202 00:17:59,515 --> 00:18:00,847 Francesca? 203 00:18:03,788 --> 00:18:05,757 My father imprisoned a friend of his... 204 00:18:05,791 --> 00:18:07,953 in this room for 3 years. 205 00:18:09,629 --> 00:18:11,120 When he was released... 206 00:18:11,965 --> 00:18:14,434 he could never again bear to look at the sun... 207 00:18:15,971 --> 00:18:17,940 or even a daffodil. 208 00:18:17,974 --> 00:18:19,771 How cruel. 209 00:18:19,810 --> 00:18:21,142 Cruel? 210 00:18:21,979 --> 00:18:23,277 It was simply a test... 211 00:18:23,315 --> 00:18:25,284 to prove how easily a man's mind... 212 00:18:25,318 --> 00:18:27,115 can be controlled and twisted. 213 00:18:27,988 --> 00:18:29,853 My family have always been interested... 214 00:18:29,890 --> 00:18:31,119 in such things. 215 00:18:31,159 --> 00:18:32,285 Somewhere in the human mind... 216 00:18:32,327 --> 00:18:33,454 my dear Francesca... 217 00:18:33,496 --> 00:18:35,488 is the key to our existence. 218 00:18:36,667 --> 00:18:38,829 My ancestors tried to find it... 219 00:18:39,838 --> 00:18:42,137 to open the door that separates us... 220 00:18:42,174 --> 00:18:45,008 from our creator. 221 00:18:49,351 --> 00:18:51,820 You need no doors to find God. 222 00:18:51,855 --> 00:18:52,982 If you believe... 223 00:18:53,023 --> 00:18:54,183 Believe? 224 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:57,328 If you believe, my dear Francesca, 225 00:18:57,362 --> 00:19:00,025 you are gullible. 226 00:19:01,201 --> 00:19:03,102 Can you look around this world... 227 00:19:03,137 --> 00:19:06,130 and believe in the goodness of a god who rules it? 228 00:19:06,809 --> 00:19:10,941 Famine, pestilence, war, disease, and death... 229 00:19:10,982 --> 00:19:12,950 they rule this world. 230 00:19:12,985 --> 00:19:15,146 There is also love and life and hope. 231 00:19:15,187 --> 00:19:17,679 Very little hope, I assure you. 232 00:19:18,659 --> 00:19:19,819 No. 233 00:19:21,162 --> 00:19:24,155 If a god of love and light ever did exist... 234 00:19:25,334 --> 00:19:26,996 he is long since dead. 235 00:19:28,005 --> 00:19:29,337 Someone... 236 00:19:30,341 --> 00:19:32,469 something... 237 00:19:32,511 --> 00:19:34,173 rules in his place. 238 00:19:45,029 --> 00:19:46,190 No. 239 00:19:49,035 --> 00:19:50,867 No, that room is not open to you. 240 00:19:52,873 --> 00:19:54,034 Not yet. 241 00:19:54,709 --> 00:19:55,870 What's in there? 242 00:19:58,548 --> 00:19:59,708 You look as though... 243 00:20:01,552 --> 00:20:03,885 Is there something to fear in that room? 244 00:20:05,223 --> 00:20:07,886 For the uninvited, there is much to fear. 245 00:20:09,730 --> 00:20:11,722 This has been a trying day for you. 246 00:20:13,402 --> 00:20:14,733 You must sleep. 247 00:20:16,239 --> 00:20:18,070 You must sleep. 248 00:20:23,583 --> 00:20:25,744 Tomorrow you may see Gino and your father. 249 00:20:40,773 --> 00:20:42,105 Prince Prospero. 250 00:20:43,778 --> 00:20:46,111 Why do you roam the late night corridors? 251 00:20:48,618 --> 00:20:49,949 Sleep eludes me. 252 00:20:51,455 --> 00:20:53,252 You have disturbing thoughts? 253 00:20:53,290 --> 00:20:54,622 And you, Juliana... 254 00:20:55,460 --> 00:20:56,951 what keeps you awake? 255 00:20:58,131 --> 00:20:59,258 I think my thoughts dwell... 256 00:20:59,299 --> 00:21:00,960 on the same subject as you... 257 00:21:01,903 --> 00:21:03,063 the peasant girl. 258 00:21:06,576 --> 00:21:09,410 She has a perfect faith. 259 00:21:10,081 --> 00:21:11,242 So do I... 260 00:21:12,418 --> 00:21:15,252 in you and in what you believe. 261 00:21:16,757 --> 00:21:18,054 I've been an eager student, 262 00:21:18,092 --> 00:21:21,257 but I've held back from the final ceremony. 263 00:21:22,432 --> 00:21:26,427 And now I'm ready to join you at the invocation. 264 00:21:28,774 --> 00:21:31,608 How truly realistic women are. 265 00:21:32,446 --> 00:21:33,914 Finally you are ready to dare... 266 00:21:33,948 --> 00:21:37,407 the most terrible rites and incantations... 267 00:21:37,453 --> 00:21:39,945 to secure your position here. 268 00:21:41,625 --> 00:21:42,956 I wonder... 269 00:21:43,962 --> 00:21:46,591 I wonder if she is ready to dare... 270 00:21:46,632 --> 00:21:52,800 as much or anything for the sake of love. 271 00:27:39,058 --> 00:27:41,050 Did I startle you, my dear? 272 00:27:50,573 --> 00:27:51,734 Watch. 273 00:28:24,721 --> 00:28:26,883 Do you know how a falcon is trained, my dear? 274 00:28:27,725 --> 00:28:30,524 Her eyes are sewn shut. 275 00:28:30,562 --> 00:28:31,860 Blinded temporarily, 276 00:28:31,898 --> 00:28:35,858 she suffers the whims of her god patiently... 277 00:28:35,903 --> 00:28:37,371 until her will is submerged... 278 00:28:37,406 --> 00:28:38,897 and she learns to serve. 279 00:28:39,742 --> 00:28:43,474 Thus your god taught and blinded you with crosses. 280 00:28:43,514 --> 00:28:45,881 You had me take off my cross because it offended... 281 00:28:45,917 --> 00:28:47,249 It offended no one. 282 00:28:48,087 --> 00:28:53,220 My master and his followers look about with open eyes. 283 00:28:53,261 --> 00:28:56,926 No. It simply appeared to me to be discourteous to... 284 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,764 to wear the symbol of a deity long dead. 285 00:29:02,207 --> 00:29:03,538 Your master? 286 00:29:04,544 --> 00:29:05,704 Satan. 287 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:08,541 The lord of flies. 288 00:29:09,551 --> 00:29:11,212 The fallen angel. 289 00:29:12,555 --> 00:29:13,783 The devil. 290 00:29:17,829 --> 00:29:18,990 Come. 291 00:29:34,753 --> 00:29:37,587 Who seeks entrance to Prince Prospero's castle? 292 00:29:38,357 --> 00:29:39,882 Prospero's invited guests. 293 00:29:39,926 --> 00:29:41,291 Open the gate at once. 294 00:29:41,328 --> 00:29:42,728 It is the prince himself... 295 00:29:42,764 --> 00:29:44,630 who speaks to you, Scarlatti. 296 00:29:44,666 --> 00:29:46,931 You are no longer welcome here. 297 00:29:48,605 --> 00:29:49,766 Really? 298 00:29:50,608 --> 00:29:52,201 I know your whims, but... 299 00:29:52,244 --> 00:29:54,406 The village is full of the Red Death. 300 00:29:55,281 --> 00:29:56,441 The Red Death. 301 00:29:57,951 --> 00:30:01,251 Prince Prospero, I beg you, allow us haven. 302 00:30:01,289 --> 00:30:02,757 I beg sanctuary. 303 00:30:02,792 --> 00:30:04,761 This is no church. 304 00:30:05,629 --> 00:30:06,756 By any god... 305 00:30:06,798 --> 00:30:08,823 in all the gods of time, I beg you. 306 00:30:15,810 --> 00:30:16,937 My wife... 307 00:30:16,978 --> 00:30:18,275 you've always thought her beautiful. 308 00:30:18,313 --> 00:30:19,576 And you... you desired her. 309 00:30:19,615 --> 00:30:22,107 I've watched your eyes follow her. 310 00:30:22,152 --> 00:30:23,619 This Scarlatti thought of himself... 311 00:30:23,654 --> 00:30:25,816 as a good man in many things. 312 00:30:26,491 --> 00:30:29,826 And he thought of his wife as pure and unassailable. 313 00:30:30,997 --> 00:30:34,229 I give her to you to do with as you please. 314 00:30:34,268 --> 00:30:37,137 I've already had that doubtful pleasure. 315 00:30:41,345 --> 00:30:44,680 Prince, spare me the Red Death. 316 00:30:45,518 --> 00:30:48,511 I beg you in the name of friendship. 317 00:30:52,862 --> 00:30:54,694 In the name of friendship! 318 00:30:56,032 --> 00:30:57,193 No! 319 00:30:59,203 --> 00:31:00,694 For you, friend. 320 00:31:08,316 --> 00:31:09,476 Madam... 321 00:31:11,354 --> 00:31:13,789 spare yourself the Red Death. 322 00:31:15,493 --> 00:31:16,960 Pick it up! 323 00:31:16,995 --> 00:31:18,623 We've been ordered to teach you the use of arms. 324 00:31:18,664 --> 00:31:20,895 I will not learn to fight my friend. 325 00:31:20,934 --> 00:31:23,961 Now, don't be a fool. One of you could survive. 326 00:31:24,005 --> 00:31:25,473 If you fight well, the living one... 327 00:31:25,507 --> 00:31:26,633 might be given his freedom. 328 00:31:26,675 --> 00:31:27,802 To live like you? 329 00:31:27,844 --> 00:31:30,006 Like one of Prospero's pet dogs? 330 00:31:30,047 --> 00:31:33,643 Kill me and Prospero will see you dead... 331 00:31:33,685 --> 00:31:35,779 for spoiling his entertainment. 332 00:31:37,190 --> 00:31:38,521 I won't kill you. 333 00:31:39,359 --> 00:31:41,624 I'll just cut you a bit. 334 00:32:29,529 --> 00:32:31,862 Stop them! Gino knows nothing of fighting. 335 00:32:32,868 --> 00:32:35,099 He learns rather fast. 336 00:32:45,719 --> 00:32:46,845 It is a true fact... 337 00:32:46,887 --> 00:32:48,355 that the greatest swordsman in Italy... 338 00:32:48,390 --> 00:32:50,017 would not fear the second greatest... 339 00:32:50,059 --> 00:32:51,856 but would fear the worst, 340 00:32:51,894 --> 00:32:54,386 for that one would be unpredictable. 341 00:32:58,737 --> 00:33:02,698 Francesca! Are you unharmed? 342 00:33:02,743 --> 00:33:07,181 Yes, Gino. And you? 343 00:33:07,215 --> 00:33:09,844 Scratches given to taunt me to fight... 344 00:33:11,021 --> 00:33:12,682 but I will not fight my friend. 345 00:33:13,691 --> 00:33:15,319 You may force me to discipline you... 346 00:33:15,361 --> 00:33:16,487 in some other way. 347 00:33:16,529 --> 00:33:18,464 Do what you will. 348 00:33:18,498 --> 00:33:20,831 We will not fight. 349 00:33:20,868 --> 00:33:21,994 And I don't think... 350 00:33:22,036 --> 00:33:24,164 you'll give us up to simple torture. 351 00:33:24,206 --> 00:33:25,504 Because if you did... 352 00:33:25,542 --> 00:33:27,533 then in a way, you would have lost. 353 00:33:30,549 --> 00:33:32,380 You surprise me. 354 00:33:33,653 --> 00:33:35,519 However, I'm pleased to find 355 00:33:35,556 --> 00:33:38,890 that you've given me a puzzle to think about. 356 00:33:39,894 --> 00:33:44,731 Somehow, you two will challenge death together. 357 00:33:45,736 --> 00:33:48,069 You may be certain of that. 358 00:34:01,758 --> 00:34:03,818 No. This way, my dear. 359 00:34:03,862 --> 00:34:05,193 It would be better. 360 00:34:10,370 --> 00:34:14,172 I understand. Life is often ugly. 361 00:34:14,209 --> 00:34:16,007 But to torture men! 362 00:34:16,045 --> 00:34:17,842 Is this what your master Satan... 363 00:34:17,881 --> 00:34:19,372 demands as worship? 364 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,348 These cells are very old. 365 00:34:23,389 --> 00:34:25,858 A hundred years ago, an ancestor of mine... 366 00:34:25,893 --> 00:34:28,054 was a Christian monk. 367 00:34:28,730 --> 00:34:32,030 He was made examiner of an early inquisition. 368 00:34:32,067 --> 00:34:37,200 He tortured over 600 men, women, and children... 369 00:34:37,241 --> 00:34:40,040 in order to save their souls... 370 00:34:40,078 --> 00:34:42,707 for your god of love. 371 00:34:42,749 --> 00:34:45,241 I cannot answer. I have no learning. 372 00:34:46,755 --> 00:34:48,553 But then is Satan a god of hate? 373 00:34:48,591 --> 00:34:52,551 Oh, no. Of reality, of truth. 374 00:34:52,596 --> 00:34:55,065 The world lives in pain and despair... 375 00:34:55,099 --> 00:34:56,397 but is at least kept alive... 376 00:34:56,435 --> 00:34:58,266 by a few dedicated men. 377 00:34:58,939 --> 00:35:02,876 If we lost our power, chaos would engulf everything. 378 00:35:03,712 --> 00:35:06,011 Sometimes that power must be used... 379 00:35:06,049 --> 00:35:07,710 to teach harsh lessons. 380 00:35:09,553 --> 00:35:11,044 But I don't want to learn. 381 00:35:12,891 --> 00:35:14,189 I'm afraid. 382 00:35:14,227 --> 00:35:17,664 I do not want to hurt you, my dear. 383 00:35:17,698 --> 00:35:19,428 Can't you understand? 384 00:35:19,467 --> 00:35:21,698 I want to help save your soul... 385 00:35:21,737 --> 00:35:23,797 so you can join me in the glories of hell. 386 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,569 No! Never! 387 00:35:26,744 --> 00:35:28,736 The way is not easy, I know... 388 00:35:29,748 --> 00:35:31,740 but I will take you by the hand... 389 00:35:32,752 --> 00:35:35,415 and lead you through the cruel light... 390 00:35:36,091 --> 00:35:38,423 into the velvet darkness. 391 00:35:40,229 --> 00:35:41,891 Lord Satan... 392 00:35:43,267 --> 00:35:46,602 he who is known as Belial by the ancients... 393 00:35:48,107 --> 00:35:50,906 demon lover, of all those... 394 00:35:50,944 --> 00:35:53,277 who wish to live in your eternal night... 395 00:35:54,616 --> 00:35:58,451 here in your hour of deepest dark... 396 00:35:59,523 --> 00:36:01,788 in your temple and before your altar... 397 00:36:03,228 --> 00:36:05,720 I twice bind myself to thee: 398 00:36:07,067 --> 00:36:11,733 As your handmaiden and your betrothed. 399 00:36:16,580 --> 00:36:19,243 And with this symbol of your lasting victory... 400 00:36:21,254 --> 00:36:27,092 I inscribe the final mark and offer myself to thee. 401 00:36:40,613 --> 00:36:47,784 Oh, Lord Satan, send me a demon... 402 00:36:49,293 --> 00:36:52,127 so I may know I'm to be your wife. 403 00:36:55,134 --> 00:36:56,762 What are you lurking about for... 404 00:36:56,803 --> 00:36:58,600 you grinning, twisted devil? 405 00:36:58,638 --> 00:37:00,800 Not only am I afflicted with this body... 406 00:37:01,477 --> 00:37:03,377 but with sleeplessness as well. 407 00:37:03,412 --> 00:37:06,382 Losing your sleep because of the tiny dancer? 408 00:37:06,416 --> 00:37:07,714 She's nothing to me. 409 00:37:07,752 --> 00:37:09,880 I prefer a full-sized woman. 410 00:37:09,921 --> 00:37:11,218 Do you, now? 411 00:37:11,256 --> 00:37:13,725 How do you set about getting such a woman? 412 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:17,721 My Master Prospero provides me... 413 00:37:17,766 --> 00:37:20,258 with companions from time to time. 414 00:37:20,936 --> 00:37:22,199 A good master. 415 00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:25,073 Yes, I suppose so... 416 00:37:25,109 --> 00:37:26,907 but I imagine there are better. 417 00:37:27,613 --> 00:37:30,583 You'd like to leave Prospero's service? 418 00:37:30,617 --> 00:37:33,781 I fear for the security of his reign. 419 00:37:34,623 --> 00:37:36,956 If I could find a strong protector... 420 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:39,792 I might dare a change. 421 00:37:40,631 --> 00:37:43,100 And what special service have you to offer... 422 00:37:43,134 --> 00:37:44,432 that might persuade someone else... 423 00:37:44,470 --> 00:37:46,438 to take you under his protection? 424 00:37:46,472 --> 00:37:47,770 All manner of things. 425 00:37:47,808 --> 00:37:51,267 I've a crafty and inventive mind. 426 00:37:51,312 --> 00:37:54,772 Indeed? For example? 427 00:37:54,818 --> 00:37:56,946 The masquerade. 428 00:37:56,987 --> 00:38:01,118 I would devise something startling, novel... 429 00:38:01,159 --> 00:38:02,889 something that would be the talk... 430 00:38:02,929 --> 00:38:04,727 of the entire revel. 431 00:38:04,765 --> 00:38:08,566 Have you told Prospero of this novel thing? 432 00:38:08,603 --> 00:38:12,234 I fear the Prince is much too austere. 433 00:38:12,275 --> 00:38:13,435 Will you tell me? 434 00:38:13,477 --> 00:38:16,072 Everyone will dress as usual. 435 00:38:16,113 --> 00:38:18,082 A harlequin, a Chinese, 436 00:38:18,116 --> 00:38:20,244 a soldier, or a princess. 437 00:38:20,286 --> 00:38:23,779 They will all either be beautiful or humorous. 438 00:38:24,459 --> 00:38:27,918 But all will be obviously human. 439 00:38:27,964 --> 00:38:29,626 I will come as a demon. 440 00:38:31,802 --> 00:38:36,468 Why not come as a great ape? 441 00:38:42,651 --> 00:38:44,813 When the guests are gathered... 442 00:38:45,655 --> 00:38:47,146 you would enter... 443 00:38:48,492 --> 00:38:50,154 arms swinging... 444 00:38:50,996 --> 00:38:54,125 advancing toward the screaming lady... 445 00:38:54,166 --> 00:38:57,968 with lowered head and grinning jaw. 446 00:38:58,006 --> 00:38:59,998 It'll be more than a costume. 447 00:39:01,176 --> 00:39:03,111 It will be a performance... 448 00:39:03,947 --> 00:39:06,940 by the cleverest man at the court. 449 00:39:08,787 --> 00:39:12,748 Where would I get such a disguise? 450 00:39:12,793 --> 00:39:17,425 There is one... in the room of stuffed animals. 451 00:39:17,466 --> 00:39:22,599 Another toy Prince Prospero never bothers with anymore. 452 00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,973 I'm sure it's forgotten. 453 00:39:26,145 --> 00:39:28,774 You really think it would cause a sensation? 454 00:39:28,815 --> 00:39:30,147 Oh, yes. 455 00:39:30,985 --> 00:39:33,978 And there is more to the game. 456 00:40:31,236 --> 00:40:32,396 Oh, Juliana. 457 00:40:34,874 --> 00:40:37,207 Thank god. I thought... 458 00:40:37,244 --> 00:40:38,405 Yes? 459 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:40,571 I don't know. 460 00:40:42,251 --> 00:40:43,412 What's that? 461 00:40:44,921 --> 00:40:46,184 Satan's mark. 462 00:40:47,425 --> 00:40:49,053 Prospero did that to you? 463 00:40:49,761 --> 00:40:50,922 No. 464 00:40:51,764 --> 00:40:53,426 I did it to myself. 465 00:40:56,271 --> 00:40:58,604 It marks me as one of Satan's handmaidens. 466 00:41:00,777 --> 00:41:01,937 Are you ill? 467 00:41:02,546 --> 00:41:03,707 No. 468 00:41:06,051 --> 00:41:07,883 It was a difficult ceremony. 469 00:41:10,891 --> 00:41:13,884 Veils of ignorance were lifted from my eyes. 470 00:41:15,732 --> 00:41:19,567 And now there's only 1 more rite to perform... 471 00:41:20,905 --> 00:41:22,896 and I will be wed to Satan. 472 00:41:24,076 --> 00:41:26,204 You've given away your soul. 473 00:41:26,246 --> 00:41:28,238 Yes. Gladly. 474 00:41:30,418 --> 00:41:32,580 Soon all the innocence will be gone... 475 00:41:35,926 --> 00:41:38,259 and then I will have immortality... 476 00:41:40,265 --> 00:41:42,097 and I shall have Prospero. 477 00:41:45,940 --> 00:41:47,771 But I must be certain. 478 00:41:49,111 --> 00:41:50,442 And if you were gone... 479 00:41:50,479 --> 00:41:52,573 Gladly! If there were a way. 480 00:41:52,616 --> 00:41:54,949 Would you dare to leave the safety of this castle? 481 00:41:55,788 --> 00:41:57,949 There is no safety for me here. 482 00:41:59,959 --> 00:42:01,518 This key will unlock the cell. 483 00:42:02,897 --> 00:42:04,263 The guard on the north wall has been bribed. 484 00:42:04,299 --> 00:42:05,858 Take your Gino and your father and go. 485 00:42:05,902 --> 00:42:07,028 But the guards... 486 00:42:07,069 --> 00:42:08,196 The way through to the dungeons? 487 00:42:08,238 --> 00:42:10,206 You've been to the armory and to the dungeons. 488 00:42:10,240 --> 00:42:12,038 You must make your own way. 489 00:42:12,076 --> 00:42:14,068 Now go. Quickly. 490 00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:32,281 Gino? 491 00:44:41,652 --> 00:44:42,812 Gino? 492 00:45:00,845 --> 00:45:02,314 Gino. 493 00:45:02,314 --> 00:45:04,249 Francesca. How did you... 494 00:45:04,284 --> 00:45:05,444 Juliana. 495 00:45:10,292 --> 00:45:11,589 Quick, we must hurry to the battlements. 496 00:45:11,627 --> 00:45:12,959 The guard there will help us. 497 00:45:39,834 --> 00:45:41,301 I think I heard something. 498 00:45:41,335 --> 00:45:43,167 Oh, sit down and play. 499 00:46:33,508 --> 00:46:34,668 Guard. 500 00:46:43,689 --> 00:46:45,658 Juliana betrayed us. 501 00:46:45,692 --> 00:46:47,820 She betrayed me. 502 00:46:47,862 --> 00:46:48,988 What can you want of two men... 503 00:46:49,030 --> 00:46:50,396 who've done you no harm? 504 00:46:50,432 --> 00:46:52,833 They killed 3 of my guards. 505 00:46:52,869 --> 00:46:54,200 Three human beings. 506 00:46:55,539 --> 00:46:57,906 According to your faith, they have sinned greatly. 507 00:46:59,044 --> 00:47:01,411 And tomorrow at the feast before the masque... 508 00:47:02,349 --> 00:47:05,410 at least 1 of them must pay for those sins. 509 00:47:32,023 --> 00:47:33,184 Hear me. 510 00:47:35,862 --> 00:47:37,022 Hear me! 511 00:47:39,367 --> 00:47:42,166 Soon you will be costuming yourselves... 512 00:47:42,204 --> 00:47:43,672 for the masque. 513 00:47:43,706 --> 00:47:46,505 A celebration, my friends. 514 00:47:46,543 --> 00:47:49,035 A celebration of victory over death... 515 00:47:50,048 --> 00:47:51,710 of evil over good. 516 00:47:53,220 --> 00:47:56,019 Senor Scarlatti and his wife will not be joining us. 517 00:47:56,057 --> 00:47:58,219 He failed to obey my orders. 518 00:47:59,895 --> 00:48:01,693 But because of me... 519 00:48:01,731 --> 00:48:04,292 through my mediation with my master... 520 00:48:04,335 --> 00:48:05,667 the lord of flies... 521 00:48:06,672 --> 00:48:07,833 you, all of you... 522 00:48:08,841 --> 00:48:11,811 unworthy though you may be... 523 00:48:11,845 --> 00:48:14,508 will be safe from the Red Death. 524 00:48:16,018 --> 00:48:17,178 We promise you. 525 00:48:18,689 --> 00:48:22,683 Unless, of course, you incur our displeasure. 526 00:48:25,865 --> 00:48:29,358 For some of you are guilty of acts against us. 527 00:48:30,706 --> 00:48:33,540 Acts of faith, perhaps. 528 00:48:35,746 --> 00:48:37,008 And all of you, I suspect... 529 00:48:37,047 --> 00:48:38,709 still harbor some... 530 00:48:40,218 --> 00:48:42,517 sacred thoughts. 531 00:48:42,555 --> 00:48:43,716 But no more. 532 00:48:45,058 --> 00:48:47,892 The fallen angel will protect you. 533 00:48:50,734 --> 00:48:54,694 And now for a small entertainment. 534 00:48:54,739 --> 00:48:55,900 Guards! 535 00:49:07,189 --> 00:49:09,351 These 2 men are true believers. 536 00:49:10,193 --> 00:49:11,491 They believe in a god... 537 00:49:11,529 --> 00:49:13,691 who preached "love thy neighbor." 538 00:49:14,867 --> 00:49:17,166 Therefore they refuse to fight each other... 539 00:49:17,203 --> 00:49:19,832 in order to save one of their lives. 540 00:49:19,874 --> 00:49:21,843 However, I have devised a plan... 541 00:49:21,877 --> 00:49:24,506 whereby each may have the honor and glory... 542 00:49:24,547 --> 00:49:26,539 of saving the other's life. 543 00:49:27,718 --> 00:49:29,448 There are 5 daggers here. 544 00:49:31,056 --> 00:49:33,525 One of them is impregnated with a poison... 545 00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:36,894 that kills in 5 seconds. 546 00:49:38,567 --> 00:49:40,900 Each man, in turn, will cut his forearm. 547 00:49:52,252 --> 00:49:53,413 Begin. 548 00:49:56,926 --> 00:49:58,223 Would you not lay down your life... 549 00:49:58,260 --> 00:49:59,421 for your brother? 550 00:50:25,131 --> 00:50:26,292 Next. 551 00:50:48,330 --> 00:50:49,525 Five seconds. 552 00:51:08,793 --> 00:51:10,124 Five seconds. 553 00:51:51,018 --> 00:51:52,850 Five seconds. 554 00:51:59,631 --> 00:52:00,791 Father! 555 00:52:07,642 --> 00:52:09,611 The game was not played properly... 556 00:52:09,645 --> 00:52:10,771 so both will die. 557 00:52:10,812 --> 00:52:13,441 - No. - You're a madman. 558 00:52:13,483 --> 00:52:15,975 And yet I will live and you will die. 559 00:52:17,155 --> 00:52:19,454 Where is your god now in the hour of your need? 560 00:52:19,492 --> 00:52:22,155 I will see Him... in Paradise. 561 00:52:23,030 --> 00:52:25,261 In the role of a martyr. 562 00:52:27,169 --> 00:52:30,503 No. I will not have you killed. 563 00:52:32,510 --> 00:52:34,843 I will set you free instead. 564 00:52:36,014 --> 00:52:37,983 Free to go back to your village... 565 00:52:38,017 --> 00:52:39,485 and the Red Death. 566 00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:40,680 I beg you. 567 00:52:40,721 --> 00:52:43,987 I am only giving him a further glorious chance... 568 00:52:44,025 --> 00:52:46,153 to test his faith, my dear. 569 00:52:48,365 --> 00:52:49,492 Out. 570 00:52:49,534 --> 00:52:51,331 I'll come back for you, Francesca. 571 00:52:51,369 --> 00:52:52,530 Somehow, I'll come back. 572 00:52:58,212 --> 00:53:01,671 Prince Prospero, let me go with him. 573 00:53:01,717 --> 00:53:03,117 - You? - Please. 574 00:53:03,152 --> 00:53:04,312 You? 575 00:53:05,155 --> 00:53:06,782 Oh, no, my dear. 576 00:53:06,824 --> 00:53:08,986 I could not bear to think of... 577 00:53:11,497 --> 00:53:12,658 No. 578 00:53:13,500 --> 00:53:14,627 You will go to your rooms now... 579 00:53:14,669 --> 00:53:16,500 and prepare for the masque. 580 00:53:17,506 --> 00:53:21,841 You will not appear in your costumes until midnight. 581 00:53:31,692 --> 00:53:32,853 Why do you follow me? 582 00:53:34,697 --> 00:53:36,528 Bring Gino back, and... 583 00:53:38,034 --> 00:53:40,833 I will do whatever you wish. 584 00:53:40,872 --> 00:53:42,602 You would destroy yourself for him? 585 00:53:43,876 --> 00:53:45,174 Yes. 586 00:53:45,211 --> 00:53:47,578 You almost cause me to doubt. 587 00:53:48,382 --> 00:53:49,542 Prospero. 588 00:53:51,887 --> 00:53:53,048 My prince. 589 00:53:55,058 --> 00:53:56,218 I'm ready. 590 00:55:09,937 --> 00:55:11,098 My son. 591 00:55:15,279 --> 00:55:16,576 Tell me of it. 592 00:55:16,614 --> 00:55:17,775 My god. 593 00:55:18,950 --> 00:55:20,110 My god. 594 00:55:20,953 --> 00:55:23,286 Who is your god? 595 00:55:25,293 --> 00:55:26,920 The true one. 596 00:55:26,961 --> 00:55:28,122 Yes. 597 00:55:30,467 --> 00:55:31,627 Tell me. 598 00:55:34,972 --> 00:55:36,133 I have sinned. 599 00:55:38,478 --> 00:55:39,638 I have killed. 600 00:55:41,649 --> 00:55:43,515 - For yourself? - No. 601 00:55:47,824 --> 00:55:49,291 Now I'm afraid. 602 00:55:49,326 --> 00:55:51,158 - For yourself? - For Francesca. 603 00:55:52,831 --> 00:55:53,991 And for me. 604 00:55:54,833 --> 00:55:58,134 I must go back for her, but I don't know how. 605 00:55:58,172 --> 00:55:59,935 What weapon can I use against Prospero? 606 00:56:02,110 --> 00:56:03,237 Love. 607 00:56:03,279 --> 00:56:04,576 In the air, through the trees... 608 00:56:04,614 --> 00:56:07,083 I found myself loving only myself. 609 00:56:07,117 --> 00:56:09,916 I'm afraid of the town where the Red Death walks. 610 00:56:09,955 --> 00:56:12,322 I'm afraid of Prospero in his castle. 611 00:56:13,293 --> 00:56:14,453 I'm afraid. 612 00:56:15,463 --> 00:56:16,623 I'm afraid. 613 00:56:18,801 --> 00:56:22,465 I give you a sign. 614 00:56:30,316 --> 00:56:31,477 What does it mean? 615 00:56:33,154 --> 00:56:34,314 Mankind. 616 00:56:43,302 --> 00:56:45,794 Won't this thing become uncomfortably hot? 617 00:56:45,839 --> 00:56:48,809 It will become a little warm. 618 00:56:48,843 --> 00:56:50,174 But it won't be for long. 619 00:56:51,847 --> 00:56:52,973 After the unmasking... 620 00:56:53,015 --> 00:56:54,506 you can take it off... 621 00:56:55,351 --> 00:56:57,320 because the game will be over. 622 00:56:57,354 --> 00:56:58,822 True enough. 623 00:56:58,857 --> 00:57:00,017 Get on with it. 624 00:57:04,798 --> 00:57:05,788 Perfect. 625 00:57:06,801 --> 00:57:07,927 Perfect. 626 00:57:07,969 --> 00:57:09,130 See yourself. 627 00:57:13,310 --> 00:57:16,508 Now crouch low. 628 00:57:17,816 --> 00:57:19,512 And swing your arms. 629 00:57:25,660 --> 00:57:27,356 Back, mighty animal. 630 00:57:28,832 --> 00:57:30,800 I am your keeper... 631 00:57:30,834 --> 00:57:33,167 brought from deepest Africa... 632 00:57:34,006 --> 00:57:36,840 to control your great strength. 633 00:57:36,876 --> 00:57:38,002 Back! 634 00:57:38,979 --> 00:57:39,968 Back! 635 00:57:56,037 --> 00:57:57,163 Where do you go? 636 00:57:57,205 --> 00:57:59,003 The burial ground's beyond the hill. 637 00:57:59,041 --> 00:58:00,338 We go to the castle. 638 00:58:00,375 --> 00:58:01,845 Why? 639 00:58:01,845 --> 00:58:03,780 To beg forgiveness of the prince. 640 00:58:03,814 --> 00:58:05,611 Forgiveness? For what? 641 00:58:05,649 --> 00:58:07,777 For however we have sinned. 642 00:58:07,819 --> 00:58:10,618 You'll beg forgiveness at the house of Satan himself? 643 00:58:10,656 --> 00:58:12,124 Better than the Red Death. 644 00:58:12,159 --> 00:58:13,490 Stop. Stop! 645 01:01:52,434 --> 01:01:54,402 My master... 646 01:01:54,436 --> 01:01:55,597 Satan. 647 01:01:59,776 --> 01:02:00,937 Prospero? 648 01:02:03,549 --> 01:02:04,709 Prospero? 649 01:02:18,069 --> 01:02:19,730 I am betrothed... 650 01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:22,400 of the devil. 651 01:02:24,911 --> 01:02:27,380 And I have seen the terrors. 652 01:02:27,415 --> 01:02:28,576 Not all of them. 653 01:02:40,934 --> 01:02:43,733 I have survived my own sacrifice. 654 01:02:43,771 --> 01:02:44,931 There is more. 655 01:02:58,459 --> 01:03:00,587 And I am stronger in the devil's favor... 656 01:03:00,629 --> 01:03:01,789 than you are. 657 01:03:17,418 --> 01:03:22,414 Together, on Earth, we shall live as man and wife. 658 01:03:25,931 --> 01:03:27,091 And when he calls us... 659 01:03:29,101 --> 01:03:30,433 you will be Satan... 660 01:03:32,272 --> 01:03:33,763 and I still your wife. 661 01:03:44,289 --> 01:03:47,282 I have tasted the beauties of terror. 662 01:03:56,306 --> 01:03:57,466 Hush. 663 01:03:58,643 --> 01:04:00,270 Listen. 664 01:04:00,311 --> 01:04:01,802 The passing of time... 665 01:04:02,982 --> 01:04:04,644 the beating of a heart... 666 01:04:05,987 --> 01:04:08,320 the footstep of an assassin. 667 01:04:09,825 --> 01:04:10,986 Destiny. 668 01:04:41,369 --> 01:04:44,032 I beg you, do not mourn for Juliana. 669 01:04:45,374 --> 01:04:46,865 We should celebrate. 670 01:04:48,713 --> 01:04:51,046 She has just married a friend of mine. 671 01:04:52,718 --> 01:04:54,243 Let the masque begin! 672 01:05:01,731 --> 01:05:02,823 Officer of the night watch. 673 01:05:05,502 --> 01:05:06,629 Who are you? 674 01:05:06,671 --> 01:05:08,697 All that is left of the village of Catania. 675 01:05:08,741 --> 01:05:09,969 Then go back to it. 676 01:05:10,009 --> 01:05:12,501 We beg mercy of the lord Prince Prospero. 677 01:05:14,182 --> 01:05:16,014 Inform the prince. It might amuse him. 678 01:05:19,022 --> 01:05:20,990 Don't grovel to him. 679 01:05:21,025 --> 01:05:22,322 Don't let him delight in the destruction... 680 01:05:22,359 --> 01:05:24,328 of your souls. 681 01:05:24,362 --> 01:05:26,160 I wish to save our bodies. 682 01:05:26,199 --> 01:05:27,325 The few left to us. 683 01:05:27,366 --> 01:05:30,165 Do you expect any plea to move his heart? 684 01:05:30,204 --> 01:05:32,696 If we must die, let's die like human beings. 685 01:05:33,374 --> 01:05:35,138 You have not seen the Red Death. 686 01:05:36,880 --> 01:05:39,213 You've not seen the dungeons of Prospero. 687 01:05:48,730 --> 01:05:49,890 Don't be frightened. 688 01:05:50,732 --> 01:05:52,223 Come with me. This is Gino. 689 01:05:53,569 --> 01:05:55,197 This is my child. 690 01:05:55,239 --> 01:05:57,071 I must give her every chance. 691 01:06:08,357 --> 01:06:10,485 Where does the rabbit run? 692 01:06:10,527 --> 01:06:12,792 That one fears Prospero more than the Red Death. 693 01:06:17,870 --> 01:06:19,338 What do you want? 694 01:06:19,373 --> 01:06:21,000 Mercy, great prince. 695 01:06:21,041 --> 01:06:22,339 This is all that is left of us... 696 01:06:22,377 --> 01:06:23,503 and the winter... 697 01:06:23,545 --> 01:06:24,672 it comes on the freezing wind. 698 01:06:24,713 --> 01:06:27,012 - There is no shelter. - Dig a burrow... 699 01:06:27,050 --> 01:06:29,042 as the fox and rabbits do. 700 01:06:29,086 --> 01:06:30,348 But the wells and the streams... 701 01:06:30,388 --> 01:06:31,515 they'll be frozen over. 702 01:06:31,557 --> 01:06:32,751 There's no food. 703 01:06:32,791 --> 01:06:35,386 Then store up nuts, like the squirrels. 704 01:06:36,396 --> 01:06:37,523 Mercy. 705 01:06:37,565 --> 01:06:39,329 Give us the sanctuary of the castle walls. 706 01:06:39,367 --> 01:06:41,028 Give me an end to your pleading. 707 01:06:41,069 --> 01:06:42,799 Go back from whence you came. 708 01:06:42,839 --> 01:06:44,398 We will die. 709 01:06:46,578 --> 01:06:51,380 If you refuse to go, then... die here. 710 01:06:51,417 --> 01:06:53,215 Archers. 711 01:06:53,253 --> 01:06:54,380 But not the child. 712 01:06:54,422 --> 01:06:55,582 It will perish anyway. 713 01:06:55,623 --> 01:06:57,091 Not the child. 714 01:06:59,429 --> 01:07:00,589 Fire. 715 01:07:05,036 --> 01:07:06,664 Fire. 716 01:07:06,706 --> 01:07:08,173 Gifts! 717 01:07:08,207 --> 01:07:10,676 Gifts for everyone! 718 01:07:10,711 --> 01:07:16,345 Diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls for my friends! 719 01:07:16,385 --> 01:07:18,183 For my guests! 720 01:07:18,221 --> 01:07:20,019 Look at them. 721 01:07:20,057 --> 01:07:22,185 Look at them all scrambling... 722 01:07:22,227 --> 01:07:26,358 like starving men for a crust of bread. 723 01:07:26,399 --> 01:07:30,235 All wealthy, and all greedy for more. 724 01:07:31,406 --> 01:07:32,704 I give you reason... 725 01:07:32,742 --> 01:07:35,075 for real rejoicing, my friends. 726 01:07:35,913 --> 01:07:38,212 The only survivors of the village... 727 01:07:38,249 --> 01:07:41,378 have just come to the castle walls. 728 01:07:41,420 --> 01:07:43,218 Only 6. 729 01:07:43,256 --> 01:07:46,556 The Red Death has claimed the rest of them. 730 01:07:46,594 --> 01:07:48,222 But as I promised you... 731 01:07:48,263 --> 01:07:54,067 all of you within these walls under my protection are safe. 732 01:07:54,104 --> 01:07:55,436 So rejoice! 733 01:07:57,109 --> 01:07:59,077 And the 6 who lived? 734 01:07:59,111 --> 01:08:00,579 Dead. 735 01:08:00,614 --> 01:08:02,708 But they demanded to enter the castle. 736 01:08:04,052 --> 01:08:05,350 You killed them. 737 01:08:05,387 --> 01:08:07,219 It was a kindness, my dear. 738 01:08:08,058 --> 01:08:09,856 Can't you see that? 739 01:08:09,894 --> 01:08:13,194 The Red Death brings pain and terror and madness. 740 01:08:13,231 --> 01:08:14,391 I spared them. 741 01:08:15,735 --> 01:08:16,861 Tonight, after the masque... 742 01:08:16,903 --> 01:08:19,372 I will initiate you into understanding. 743 01:08:20,075 --> 01:08:21,235 I don't know. 744 01:08:22,411 --> 01:08:23,571 I don't know. 745 01:09:17,087 --> 01:09:18,419 Gently, my son. 746 01:09:19,424 --> 01:09:21,222 Remain here. 747 01:09:21,260 --> 01:09:23,559 Shortly after the stroke of 1:00... 748 01:09:23,596 --> 01:09:25,690 I will send Francesca to you. 749 01:09:25,733 --> 01:09:27,725 I must get to her now. 750 01:09:27,769 --> 01:09:29,737 You have recovered your courage. 751 01:09:29,771 --> 01:09:31,103 Now prove your wisdom. 752 01:09:31,841 --> 01:09:33,400 There is nothing you can do. 753 01:09:33,444 --> 01:09:35,242 There are too many. 754 01:09:35,280 --> 01:09:36,838 Wait, as I tell you. 755 01:09:36,881 --> 01:09:38,543 The guards will discover me. 756 01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:41,280 Look there. 757 01:09:58,479 --> 01:09:59,639 Yes? 758 01:10:02,417 --> 01:10:03,544 Oh. 759 01:10:03,586 --> 01:10:05,384 Forgive me for startling you. 760 01:10:05,422 --> 01:10:07,219 It's only Hop Toad... 761 01:10:07,257 --> 01:10:09,556 made more ugly than even he is. 762 01:10:09,594 --> 01:10:11,085 You're not ugly to me. 763 01:10:11,930 --> 01:10:13,057 I've come to tell you... 764 01:10:13,099 --> 01:10:14,726 that there's no need for you to appear... 765 01:10:14,767 --> 01:10:16,099 at the masque tonight. 766 01:10:17,104 --> 01:10:18,902 I don't understand. 767 01:10:18,940 --> 01:10:21,068 My plans are made. 768 01:10:21,110 --> 01:10:23,579 If you will trust me and believe in me... 769 01:10:23,614 --> 01:10:26,106 we'll leave this monstrous castle tonight. 770 01:10:27,285 --> 01:10:28,583 Do we dare? 771 01:10:28,621 --> 01:10:29,781 The Red Death... 772 01:10:29,822 --> 01:10:32,587 It can be no worse than life here. 773 01:10:32,626 --> 01:10:34,254 Believe in me. 774 01:10:34,295 --> 01:10:35,786 I do believe in you. 775 01:10:36,698 --> 01:10:38,963 Have a warm cloak and be ready. 776 01:10:39,802 --> 01:10:42,135 The game is almost over. 777 01:11:22,629 --> 01:11:24,257 Have no fear! 778 01:11:24,298 --> 01:11:25,960 I can control this monster. 779 01:11:27,302 --> 01:11:28,634 He only wants a game. 780 01:11:55,843 --> 01:11:57,504 He is too playful. 781 01:11:58,346 --> 01:12:00,678 I will tie him up and make him helpless. 782 01:12:21,478 --> 01:12:22,775 Help! 783 01:12:22,813 --> 01:12:23,974 Help! 784 01:12:25,150 --> 01:12:27,642 Let me down, you fiendish dwarf! 785 01:12:30,290 --> 01:12:32,156 Let me down! 786 01:12:32,193 --> 01:12:34,219 Better let me down. 787 01:12:34,263 --> 01:12:35,389 Look, my dear, 788 01:12:35,431 --> 01:12:37,798 I believe Hop Toad is playing... 789 01:12:37,834 --> 01:12:39,962 some sort of a joke on Alfredo. 790 01:12:40,004 --> 01:12:43,669 I will set you to tortures unimagined! 791 01:12:43,710 --> 01:12:46,305 You have already tortured... 792 01:12:46,347 --> 01:12:49,146 by your cruelty to my Esmeralda. 793 01:12:49,184 --> 01:12:50,344 Hold this! 794 01:12:57,195 --> 01:13:01,861 The great African ape says he wants some brandy. 795 01:13:13,016 --> 01:13:14,177 Let me down. 796 01:13:15,019 --> 01:13:16,453 Let me down! 797 01:13:16,489 --> 01:13:18,650 Help! Help! 798 01:13:19,359 --> 01:13:21,624 Help! Let me down! 799 01:13:21,662 --> 01:13:23,824 Help! Help! Let me down! 800 01:13:38,519 --> 01:13:39,987 I see you no longer turn away... 801 01:13:40,021 --> 01:13:42,650 from the cruelties of life. 802 01:13:42,691 --> 01:13:44,182 I no longer care. 803 01:13:45,362 --> 01:13:46,523 My life is done. 804 01:13:47,865 --> 01:13:50,232 What's left I give to you tonight. 805 01:13:59,382 --> 01:14:01,715 Guards, clear that out of the way. 806 01:14:02,553 --> 01:14:03,679 How can my guests... 807 01:14:03,720 --> 01:14:07,180 be expected to dance around that? 808 01:14:07,226 --> 01:14:08,523 And when you find Hop Toad... 809 01:14:08,561 --> 01:14:10,689 give him 5 pieces of gold as a reward... 810 01:14:10,730 --> 01:14:12,858 for his entertaining jest. 811 01:14:12,900 --> 01:14:15,062 You've pleased me very much, my dear. 812 01:14:16,573 --> 01:14:17,870 What was that? 813 01:14:17,907 --> 01:14:19,068 What is it? 814 01:14:20,411 --> 01:14:22,209 A costume I haven't seen before. 815 01:14:22,247 --> 01:14:23,373 Someone wearing red. 816 01:14:23,415 --> 01:14:25,384 And I forbade them to wear red. 817 01:14:25,418 --> 01:14:26,579 Come. 818 01:14:37,602 --> 01:14:39,230 There he is again. 819 01:14:39,271 --> 01:14:40,431 Come. 820 01:14:56,795 --> 01:14:57,955 Wait! Wait! 821 01:14:59,966 --> 01:15:01,433 Wait! 822 01:15:01,468 --> 01:15:02,731 I command you to wait! 823 01:15:04,238 --> 01:15:05,399 Prospero. 824 01:15:09,413 --> 01:15:10,573 Prospero. 825 01:15:12,250 --> 01:15:13,911 You command me to wait? 826 01:15:14,921 --> 01:15:16,081 Very well. 827 01:15:16,924 --> 01:15:18,084 I wait. 828 01:15:19,594 --> 01:15:20,754 Condotti? 829 01:15:21,596 --> 01:15:22,757 Rimini? 830 01:15:24,266 --> 01:15:26,326 Who are you beneath your mask? 831 01:15:26,369 --> 01:15:29,568 Is my costume such a disguise... 832 01:15:29,608 --> 01:15:31,405 that you don't recognize me? 833 01:15:32,445 --> 01:15:34,607 Your voice is familiar. 834 01:15:36,283 --> 01:15:38,616 Dr. Bernelli, that's who you are. 835 01:15:39,789 --> 01:15:43,021 Bernelli, you dog, thinking to... 836 01:15:46,798 --> 01:15:48,130 You are not Bernelli. 837 01:15:48,968 --> 01:15:50,266 No. 838 01:15:50,303 --> 01:15:52,795 The doctor dances in the white room. 839 01:15:54,141 --> 01:15:57,135 But I passed close by him. 840 01:16:00,317 --> 01:16:04,688 Truly, Prospero, you don't know me? 841 01:16:07,260 --> 01:16:08,727 So you've come. 842 01:16:08,762 --> 01:16:10,253 Yes, Prospero. 843 01:16:15,271 --> 01:16:16,431 On your knees. 844 01:16:17,441 --> 01:16:19,432 - Prospero! - On your knees. 845 01:16:20,612 --> 01:16:22,774 The Prince of Darkness. 846 01:16:29,290 --> 01:16:31,486 I would like to see your face. 847 01:16:32,796 --> 01:16:34,788 There is no face of death... 848 01:16:36,300 --> 01:16:39,634 until the moment of your own death. 849 01:16:41,307 --> 01:16:44,141 And I am only 1 of many messengers. 850 01:16:45,313 --> 01:16:46,473 Who do you come for? 851 01:16:47,315 --> 01:16:48,442 Many. 852 01:16:48,484 --> 01:16:50,112 All? 853 01:16:50,154 --> 01:16:51,314 Not all. 854 01:16:52,824 --> 01:16:54,655 I knew I was right. 855 01:16:55,828 --> 01:16:57,694 I knew it. I've won. 856 01:16:59,499 --> 01:17:01,661 The time of unmasking. 857 01:17:02,938 --> 01:17:06,272 They begin to show their naked faces. 858 01:17:28,474 --> 01:17:31,638 It's time for a new dance to begin... 859 01:17:35,317 --> 01:17:37,308 The dance of death. 860 01:18:40,842 --> 01:18:43,311 Our master will be pleased. 861 01:18:43,345 --> 01:18:45,472 I brought all of these souls to him. 862 01:18:45,515 --> 01:18:47,642 I taught them his worship. 863 01:18:47,684 --> 01:18:49,653 I corrupted them for him. 864 01:18:49,687 --> 01:18:52,156 I knew he was supreme when no one else did. 865 01:18:52,190 --> 01:18:55,821 I built a chapel to Satan, and I prayed to him, 866 01:18:55,863 --> 01:18:57,831 and I made a pact with him. 867 01:18:57,865 --> 01:18:59,834 And these, all of my friends, 868 01:18:59,868 --> 01:19:02,167 I promised them safety. 869 01:19:02,204 --> 01:19:03,934 You presumed too much. 870 01:19:03,974 --> 01:19:05,100 I know. I know. 871 01:19:05,141 --> 01:19:07,440 But it does make a fine jest... 872 01:19:07,478 --> 01:19:09,777 the kind of jest that would amuse Satan. 873 01:19:09,815 --> 01:19:10,976 Would it? 874 01:19:12,485 --> 01:19:13,646 Your Excellency... 875 01:19:15,155 --> 01:19:18,285 this girl... in all my life... 876 01:19:18,327 --> 01:19:21,161 I've never met anyone whose faith rivaled mine. 877 01:19:22,165 --> 01:19:24,134 Spare her to me. 878 01:19:24,168 --> 01:19:26,296 A charitable request? 879 01:19:26,338 --> 01:19:28,671 A rare thing with you, Prospero. 880 01:19:30,010 --> 01:19:31,171 Go to the battlements. 881 01:19:32,179 --> 01:19:33,511 Go now. 882 01:19:36,352 --> 01:19:37,512 Yes, Francesca. 883 01:19:38,522 --> 01:19:40,821 Yes, go, and I will join you... 884 01:19:40,859 --> 01:19:42,190 when this is over. 885 01:20:05,659 --> 01:20:08,128 Thank you, your Excellency... 886 01:20:08,163 --> 01:20:09,290 for the girl. 887 01:20:09,332 --> 01:20:10,822 I have no title. 888 01:20:11,835 --> 01:20:13,997 Why do you call me Excellency? 889 01:20:15,006 --> 01:20:16,975 Well, I thought as the ambassador of Satan... 890 01:20:17,009 --> 01:20:18,499 He is not my master. 891 01:20:19,512 --> 01:20:21,845 Death has no master. 892 01:20:23,184 --> 01:20:25,483 But Satan rules the universe. 893 01:20:25,520 --> 01:20:26,988 I made a pact with him. 894 01:20:27,023 --> 01:20:29,151 He does not rule alone. 895 01:20:29,193 --> 01:20:31,856 And your pact with him will not save you. 896 01:20:34,700 --> 01:20:36,669 There is no other god. 897 01:20:36,703 --> 01:20:37,829 Satan killed him. 898 01:20:37,871 --> 01:20:41,502 Each man creates his own god for himself... 899 01:20:41,543 --> 01:20:44,206 his own heaven, his own hell. 900 01:20:45,215 --> 01:20:47,275 Let me see your face. 901 01:20:49,621 --> 01:20:52,853 Your hell, Prince Prospero... 902 01:20:52,892 --> 01:20:55,384 and the moment of your death. 903 01:20:58,233 --> 01:20:59,394 No. 904 01:21:00,569 --> 01:21:02,470 No! 905 01:21:02,506 --> 01:21:04,168 No! 906 01:23:42,429 --> 01:23:44,420 Why should you be afraid to die? 907 01:23:45,934 --> 01:23:49,098 Your soul has been dead for a long time. 908 01:24:27,492 --> 01:24:29,289 Morning, brother. 909 01:24:29,328 --> 01:24:30,489 You've come far? 910 01:24:31,331 --> 01:24:33,459 From Cathay and beyond. 911 01:24:33,500 --> 01:24:36,959 100,000 perished at my passing... 912 01:24:37,005 --> 01:24:38,166 this last night. 913 01:24:41,178 --> 01:24:43,511 This eternity of wandering... 914 01:24:44,849 --> 01:24:47,341 10,000 sleep where I walked. 915 01:24:48,355 --> 01:24:49,982 I am very tired. 916 01:24:50,023 --> 01:24:51,321 The weariness of those... 917 01:24:51,359 --> 01:24:53,521 to whom we bring rest burdens you. 918 01:24:54,863 --> 01:24:56,024 What of you, brother? 919 01:24:59,870 --> 01:25:01,202 I called many... 920 01:25:03,809 --> 01:25:06,643 peasant and prince... 921 01:25:07,647 --> 01:25:11,312 the worthy and the dishonored. 922 01:25:13,323 --> 01:25:15,656 Six only are left... 923 01:25:16,494 --> 01:25:17,826 young man and woman... 924 01:25:19,164 --> 01:25:21,497 dwarf and tiny dancer... 925 01:25:23,670 --> 01:25:24,830 this child... 926 01:25:26,508 --> 01:25:29,171 and an old man still in the village. 927 01:25:32,349 --> 01:25:35,183 Sic transit gloria mundi.