Original subtitles

COWARDS BEND THE KNEE

or THE BLUE HANDS

Chapter One SPERM PLAYERS

GUY MADDIN Rover with the Winnipeg Maroons

MO MOTT His best friend

SHAKY Maroons Captain...

...and Police Captain

Guy's first headknock of the night

Shaky's vengeance

MADDIN SR. Voice of the Maroons

Guy's second headknock...

...his girfriend, VERONICA.

In trouble...

DR. FUSI

Team physician...

Patches up Guy's beleaguered head.

THE ALLAN CUP!

"Be sure to visit the hospital."

"Your mother asks for you."

"Your mother."

"I promise."

Waiting...

Delirious from his two knocknocks...

...Guy tries to remember his mother, his dying mother...

...while forces beyond his control conspire to shunt him off...

...onto a depressing detour.

End of CHAPTER ONE

Chapter Two A SQUEEZE OF THE HAND

Fusi, Shaky & Guy take Veronica to the...

NIGHT CLINIC

The Glum Couple

TWO LONG, TWO SHORT.

THE BLACK SILHOUETTE SALON

Beauty salon by day...

Bordello by night.

A piece of warm pie...

The calling card of...

LILIOM Proprietress...

...and Shaky's sweetheart.

Fusi goes to work.

META Liliom's daughter

The joy, joy, joy of meeting someone new!

"No sugar before pie!"

Meta never eats her mother's pie.

To stay or go?

And so Guy forgets another mother... the mother of his child.

What sharp amnesias!

Addled Guy unknowingly performs operations of his very own - upon human hearts!

And without anesthetics!

But, let's not worry too much about Veronica. She's in the hands of experts.

End of CHAPTER TWO

Chapter Three UPON A PILE OF HOCKEY GLOVES

MAROONS DRESSING ROOM

"I love you, Guy."

"I love you, Meta."

"NO HAND SHALL TOUCH ME..."

"Until my father is AVENGED!"

"MY FATHER'S HANDS!"

"They're blue!"

"We made prints in cement..."

"We play-fainted!"

DADDY!

THE FINEST MAN!

CHAS!

The sweetest hairdresser!

Murdered!

"By my whore of a mother..."

"And her foul paramour..."

"SHAKY!"

"MY FATHER'S HAND!"

Tightly bound by wire!

Severed! By Shaky!!

"These are my father's hands!"

"I keep them always!"

"They're blue!"

"From his lovely hair dyes."

BENEATH THE SINKS...

THOSE ROARING CATARACTS!

DADDY!

Meanwhile...

VERONICA!

CHECKED OUT OF THE NIGHT CLINIC.

TO SEEK HER GUY

So Guy's heart falls into the grasp of Meta, the new girl!

He loves her strong sense of family, her fierce coyness, her deep nostalgias.

This quivering, leaping heart of his knows exactly what to do.

But how to do it with a head worried by such new complications?

End of CHAPTER THREE

Chapter Four META'S BEDROOM

BLIND GRANDMA

An Icelandic hand-charm

"Happy birthday to you..."

"Happy birthday to Liliom..."

"Happy birthday to you..."

DAUGHTER'S DEAF EARS

META TAKES GUY TO STEAL FLOWERS

AT THE GRAVEYARD

Veronica's Ghost?!!

BACK SAFE IN BED

UNWELCOME NOISES...

FROM MOTHER'S BEDROOM

ENTER DR. FUSI

"Sew my father's hands onto him!"

"IMPOSSIBLE!"

"Do it!"

"Yes, Meta."

A QUEER PRANK

A FAKED TRANSPLANT

BLUE PAINT

AFTER THE 'SURGERY'

"They live!"

"Gramma! Daddy lives!"

End of CHAPTER FOUR

Chapter Five FISTY

LILIOM HIRES THE GHOST OF VERONICA

THE NEW GIRL

"TONIGHT!"

"DADDY GETS VENGEANCE!"

YOU...

SHALL...

SHAMPOO...

MOTHER!

You'll...

KILL...

MOTHER!

GO!!!

LILIOM CLEARS THE SALON...

FOR A PRIVATE INTERVIEW

GRAMMA'S MUSIC

THOSE FATAL SINKS!

BUT HANDS HAVE MEMORIES!

OF A HONEYMOON?

Guy wins a job at the salon.

CAUGHT IN A HAIR NET

LILIOM'S CLAW

"No more mirrors!"

Jealous Liliom and Meta demote Guy from coiffuring grown women.

End of CHAPTER FIVE

Chapter Six WAX TRYST

On his way to visit his sick mother, Guy sneaks into the Arena...

...for old times' sake.

Up in the rafters...

A FORGOTTEN WAX MUSEUM

THE HALL OF THE ALL-TIME MAROONS

His precious hockey cards...

His tarot.

The new girl!

The joy, joy, joy of meeting someone new!

Sweet oppression of fresh love!

Un-trysting themselves, Guy and ghost return...

"I've been visiting Mother. She's doing well."

"That's interesting. She died last night!"

"You poor, poor man."

FEEDING TIME AT THE WAX MUSEUM

DESPERATE TO PLAY HOCKEY AGAIN!

Guy promises to strangle Shaky, if only he can rejoin the Maroons.

The Soviets arrive to challenge for the Allan Cup.

The fear, fear, fear of playing someone new!

"Shaky dies! ...Tonight!"

"You said that dead girl wasn't your girlfriend!"

"She wasn't!"

"Then quit staring at that spot!"

SHAKY GRABS SOME GOOD LUCK

THE SOVIETS TAKE A 9 - 0 LEAD

"You ought to be ashamed! You're a coward!"

End of CHAPTER SIX

Chapter Seven THE BLUE HANDS OF VENGEANCE

Maddin shoots! Scores!!

Celebrations! A perfect time for revenge!

A MURDER UNNOTICED!

Checking for pulse...

NONE!

"You always did have soft hands around the net!"

TWO LONG, TWO SHORT.

ICE BREATS

WRACKED WITH GUILT

GUY FOLLOWS BEST FRIEND MO TO THE POLICE STATION, TO CONFESS!

I killed Shaky

"Mo! Sorry!"

"Sorry!"

End of CHAPTER SEVEN

Chapter Eight ANOTHER WAX TRYST

With Meta sent out on an errand, Liliom orders Guy to wax her legs.

LATER...

Guy tries to stop the ghost from having an abortion.

WITH MOTHER?!!

FINALLY!!

"Are you happy NOW?!!"

Liliom dispatched! Guy's promise kept! ...

...He now believes his obligations to the vengeful daughter are complete.

"PLEASE CUT THESE WRETCHED MURDERERS OFF ME!"

"You silly boy! These are your own hands!"

"The transplant was a hoax!"

"You silly, silly fool!"

Capricious Meta awakens from her swoon to a world hung in black.

META CHEWS SLOWLY...

THE LAST PIECE OF PIE...

BAKED BY HER MOTHER...

BEFORE SHE DIED.

End of CHAPTER EIGHT

Chapter Nine HANDS OFF!

"We're through, Guy!"

"Just confess. You love the new girl."

"Well, I guess... I do."

"Then I want my father's hands back!"

MINUTES AFTER THE OPERATION

NEWLY FREED GUY GOES DIRECTLY TO THE ARENA

THE CARDS FORETELL A MYSTERIOUS APOCALYPSE

MEANWHILE...

BACK WITH HIS BUDDIES

"I see you still need your hand held."

"You're as cold as I am!"

"I LIKE IT, SOMEHOW!"

"Tonight you shall know how it feels to have a slain father!"

MAROONS SWEAR VENGEANCE ON SOVIETS!

Up on the catwalk, a game of a different sort.

Veronica's ghost traces and retraces her steps high above the rink...

...stepping cruelly across the surface of Guy's fevered brain...

...and onto his panting, aching breast.

End of CHAPTER NINE

Chapter Ten THE FURIES

THE SUMMONS OF THE ICE BREAST

TO THE CATWALK!

LOOKING FOR A KILLER.

GUY'S BELOVED!

"SON, MEET YOUR NEW MOTHER."

"Please, my love. Remember your heart."

"I've loved your father my entire life!"

"Wax Maroons!"

"Immortals!"

"Awake!"

"Put an end to this travesty!"

"Julian Klymberger! Awake! I need you!"

Hind Bauer!

Awake!

I need you!

"The rest of you!"

"Great men!"

"WAXMEN!"

"Hear my pleas!"

Awake!

"Father?"

"Daddy!"

THE WEIGHT OF A DAUGHTER...

TOO MUCH FOR A FATHER WITH NO HANDS.

"Wait..."

"NO!"

NEXT SEASON

THE NEW FIXTURE

"Like the French Foreign Legion, the Museum is a sanctuary...

...in this case, for cowards, for husbands afraid to face the burdens...

...nay, the terrors... of living with wives and families.."

(Maddin Sr.)

End of CHAPTER TEN

english subtitles transcribed by .:: Norgen (norgen@centrum.cz) ::.