All language subtitles for Gulliver01

Is it your wish

to remain in service,

to be a housekeeper forever.

No, tis not.

Then why will you not give me

an answer as you promised?

Just a little longer.

I need to be sure.

Well, how long, Mary?

Until summer I suppose.

Until summer.

And then you'll say Autumn

and then Christmas.

I've been very patient.

What more must I do?

I treat Thomas like my own son.

You've been most kind.

Please, don't think

I'm ungrateful,

I'm just not ready to think

about such things.

Then when will you be ready?

Mary, he's dead, gone.

One day you will have

to accept that.

You have to think of the future.

Thomas needs a father.

I will press you no further

for the moment

but if you keep this,

well, I will take it

to mean yes.

Shh, shh.

It's all right.

It's only the wind.

I'm home now.

Let it all go away.

Abandon ship.

She's going down!

Mary!

Mary!

Never give up hope.

That's my motto,

always has been,

always will be.

You remember that

winter's morning walking

along the beach in the snow?

We thought we'd never find

anything, given up all hope

when suddenly out of the blue

we find a treasure.

We found one boot

with a hole in it.

Yeah, but you never know.

This morning we might look down

and we might find

the matching boot.

It was five years ago, dad.

Oh, I don't know.

You haven't got scrap

in your heart.

That's your trouble.

What's that, then?

I don't know.

Don't look like a bomb.

Oh, my god!

Dad, look!

He's waking up!

Don't move, giant!

Oh, look they're everywhere.

Oh, liliputians everywhere!

Oh!

You're hurting me!

Oh.

Oh, forgive me.

I'm so sorry.

You're frightened of me.

Of course you are.

I must appear terrifying to you,

so huge, monstrous.

Don't be frightened.

Look, I'll whisper.

Have you fallen

from the heavens?

You the man in the moon?

Where have you come from?

Tell you what, dad.

What?

This could be

the making of us.

We're gonna be rich!

Oh, no!

Here comes the army.

Halt!

Get away from it, you fools!

Get away! It's a trap!

It's not a man at all!

It's a war machine filled

with big-endians.

Get off it!

Any minute now they're

gonna pour out, look!

I can assure you, sir,

my intentions are perfect--

fire at will! Open fire!

No, no, no, please.

Get away!

Get away!

Lemuel, is it you?

No, don't touch me!

What's wrong?

Are you ill?

Don't come to me.

I beg you, please.

Have you slept here

all night?

I haven't slept at all.

I was swimming

for most of the night.

I thought I was gonna drown.

Put that down!

Who is this boy?

This is Tom.

He is your son.

My son?

I was pregnant

when you went away.

How long have I been away?

They said your ship was lost.

I thought you were dead.

How long have I been gone?

Nearly nine years.

Food for the giant.

Make way.

Food for the giant.

So when is this terrible army

gonna burst out of his stomach?

Now, be quiet, son.

What do you know about

military strategy,

you country oafs?

We never see food like that.

What about the rationing?

You tell him

to eat seaweed soup.

One more word

I'll have you flogged.

Forgive his impertinence,

sir, please.

Greetings, brother.

I fear the worst.

Big-endians

must have sent him

as the beginning

of an invasion force.

We found him.

He's salvage.

You're under arrest

for treason.

Take him away and the other one.

You can't do that.

No, you can't do that,

not to us you can't.

I'll summon the entire

fleet into the bay.

We must notify

the emperor at once.

I was so hungry

but it took hours and hours

to eat anything at all.

I had to swallow about

a dozen loaves

just to get one mouthful.

I ate cows and pigs and chickens

completely whole, bones and all.

I had to drain

at least 11 barrels of wine

before my thirst was satisfied.

I don't understand.

Why was the food so tiny?

Because they're liliputians.

Yes, that's right.

There were hundreds of them.

They were everywhere.

They were dragging tiny timbers

and tree trunks towards me.

They must have cleared

a whole forest

and then I heard this

banging and sawing and

I realized they were building

this massive wooden frame.

Then horses arrive,

teams of horses, ten,

20, 30, there must have been

a hundred before they finished.

They were using them

to drag me away from the cliff.

Lemuel, you're not

making any sense.

Well, maybe it was the wine

but suddenly I started

to feel very strange

and they're pulling me.

They're pulling me along.

Why--

go and find Joshua,

anybody quickly.

Take him into

the sitting room, quickly.

Why do you tie me up?

Nobody's tying

you up, lemuel.

Mind his head.

Where did you find him?

He slept in

the stable all night.

Tom found him.

Over there, quickly now.

The procession halted

outside the emperors palace.

Why have we stopped?

Make way, make way

let all bow

before golbasto momaren evlame

gurdilo shefin mully ully gue

delight and terror

of the universe

whose dominions extend

5,000 blustrugs

whose feet,

down to the center

and whose head

strike against the sun.

The most mighty

emperor of lilliput.

Well, you weren't

exaggerating.

He's a whopper.

He's under constant guard,

father.

He's dead if he makes a move.

Does he talk?

He has a limited vocabulary,

father.

How does one address him?

Man mountain is

the usual term, your majesty.

Shut up!

Good evening, man mountain.

Good evening,

your excellency.

Splendid.

Who are these two?

Caught trying to steal

the giant from the state.

That's a lie!

We found him!

He belongs to us!

No, no, no, see,

we don't want him.

We're gonna donate him

to the war effort.

Traitors, are they?

Let's feed them to the giant,

an excellent test

of his ferocity.

Don't eat me and

I'll be your friend for life.

I see you're all right.

Partners, you and me,

what do you say, hey?

No!

My son!

My son!

The giant has shown mercy.

How marvelous.

We, however, will not.

Have them both

disemboweled at dawn!

Well, I don't think

that's wise, your majesty.

He can't have slept for days.

Certainly his mind

is extremely disturbed.

It's so wonderful.

I'd given up all hope.

Had you?

- I didn't mean--

no, of course not.

It's a miracle

that he has returned to us.

Now we must let him rest.

Yesterday, we gave him enough

to feed a regiment for a week.

Now he complains

he's hungry again.

I have here a projection

from my treasure based on

the multiplication

of his body weight.

He's going to consume the

rations of exactly

1,728 of your subjects

every day.

Every day?

We can't have that.

Let's kill him and

be done with it.

No, no, no,

the decomposing corpse

it could cause

a serious plague.

If we continue feeding him

there'll be famine to deal with.

What's the difference?

Is he secure?

Absolutely, majesty.

Army matter.

Until he decides to escape.

Your majesty.

Man mountain!

Where's my dearest wife?

I want her to see him.

Well, she's a little nervous

at meeting our new arrival,

your majesty.

Sweet meat,

please come out and have a look.

How are you today, my chick?

Pale, my husband,

pale and fearful.

How brutish he looks!

Ask him to descend.

Down here!

Gently now to me.

Whoa!

He's staring at me.

He has a horrible,

leering expression.

Oh, really?

He's in chains.

He can't do anything.

He might bite.

On the contrary, empress,

I should like to kiss

your beautiful hand.

How charming.

No!

Yes!

Bring towels and a bucket.

I think his lips

were a bit wet.

Please forgive me,

your majesty.

Not at all.

Where does he sleep?

Well, nowhere, your majesty,

not yet.

We're organizing a bed.

Six hundred beds

to be precise.

I have the figures here,

144 blankets,

322 sheets.

Thank you, your majesty.

Majesty?

What majesty?

Lower your voice!

If you speak loudly,

they'll be frightened.

Get up, man, get up

off the floor for pity's sake!

I asked them to release me.

Asked who?

The emperor.

- Dr. Gulliver, I must insist--

he had a great desire

for me to see

the magnificence of his palace

in the center of

the city of mildendo.

The people had been warned

of my approach but I trod

very carefully

for fear of harming

any stragglers.

I wore only my waistcoat,

so I did no damage

to the roofs or the eaves

with the skirts of my coat.

The palace was a most

magnificent construction,

standing 60 feet high

to the liliputians.

When I climbed into

the courtyard I was able

to observe the splendor

of the royal household.

The empress herself was

in attendance

and pleased to smile

graciously upon me.

Go away!

Get away from me

you horrible monster.

Shoo! Shoo!

Well, he lives

in a big crater on the moon

eating mostly fruit and cheese.

He's a fascinating chap, though,

with many wondrous stories

to tell.

I'm the only one

he'll confide in, of course.

You will not believe this.

I have got my own bedroom

with pillows.

Have you got pillows

in your bedroom?

And a bell to ring should

I want anything in the night.

Oh.

'Course, the trouble is

I can't sleep in the bed

because my feet are too dirty.

En garde.

Allow me, your majesty.

What a wonderful room.

What is this place?

It is the great chamber

of war from which

the emperor directs

his noble campaign

against the evil empire

that confronts us.

At first we thought you

were a weapon of big-enders,

our sworn enemy!

Forgive my ignorance,

excellency, but who are

big-enders and why are they

your sworn enemy?

Well, because...

Boys, explain!

Oh, yes, of course.

It's very simple.

We're little enders and

the enemy of big-enders.

- But what does big-enders

or little-enders mean?

There's a subversive tone

to his questioning

that I don't care for.

I agree.

Are you an agitator?

Certainly not.

Easy to say.

The liliputians competed

for public office

in a most strange manner.

Promotion was not given

for bravery or service

to the state but for skill,

at the noble art of

creeping and leaping.

What are you looking at?

Shh.

The emperor's

demanding my presence.

This most unusual

ceremony was presided over

by the emperor

in his throne room.

The candidates at considerable

risks to themselves undertake

a trial of dexterity such as

I have not seen in any other

country of the old or new world.

The emperor holds a stick

in his hands,

both ends parallel

to the horizon

while the candidates,

advancing one by one,

sometimes leap

over the stick and

sometimes creep under it

as the stick is raised

or lowered.

Whoever performs his part

with the most agility

and shows the greatest skill

at leaping and creeping

is rewarded with

the highest office.

Come on, my son.

Ah, yes, my son!

Bravo!

Somebody bring him a sash.

We'll make him, oh--

has the old

chancellor been executed yet?

Last member of the old

cabinet, your majesty.

Oh, good.

We'll make this chap

the new lord chancellor.

Lord chancellor,

oh, my lord.

Was he really executed?

Who?

The old lord chancellor.

Most people were.

I found you some clothes.

Who is that man?

What is he doing in our house?

It isn't our house,

not anymore.

Dr. Bates has been most kind.

He's paid for much

of Tom's upkeep

but now he owns the house.

He runs your old practice

in the village

and I am his housekeeper.

Mary!

Excuse me.

Come along, I want you

downstairs for your supper.

Don't be frightened of me.

I don't want to seem

indelicate but

where's he going to stay?

Well, I thought

he'd stay here.

For a while, of course,

but what's he going to do?

I'm the doctor now.

There's no work for him.

He seems--forgive me--

to be suffering from

some form of mania.

He's exhausted

and clearly troubled.

I accept his behavior

is strange.

Mary!

It's a joyous thing

that he has returned

and we must give thanks for it.

Where are you going?

I cannot sleep here.

Lemuel, I understand.

We're like strangers meeting

again for the first time.

No, no, no, no!

Don't touch me.

I can't bear for you

to come too near me.

Please, you'll wake Tom.

You don't understand,

you cannot understand

where I've been.

Tell me what's wrong.

Help me to understand, please?

You're frightening me.

I will sleep in Tom's room

if that's what you wish.

I'm used to it.

Mary, please believe me.

I want to come home

but I cannot.

I cannot.

I cannot!

Clustril had persuaded

the emperor to mount

the most impressive

military parade ever seen

with all the imperial troops

passing between my legs.

Sightseers came from every

corner of lilliput.

Women and children,

farmers and teachers

and lawyers and midwives,

all lining the street

to gape and stare.

There'd been other

military parades before,

of course, but none with,

well, with me.

The money is rolling in,

your highness.

We can approve unprecedented

military expansion.

What if he slips

and falls on us?

Darling,

no harm can befall you.

Nothing can go wrong,

your highness.

I've organized every

last detail.

I understand his trousers

are somewhat ragged

on account of the shipwreck

and I really must warn

your ladyship that under

no circumstances

should you look upward

as we drive underneath him.

Here we go, everybody.

Blimey.

Unbelievable.

Colossus!

I want you to stop this now!

Stop what?

All this, all these stories.

Just be normal again.

I'm simply telling him

what happened.

But I don't want you to.

Is it your wish for me

to lose my position

and my home, is it?

Look, that's what will happen

if you persist

with this nonsense.

This is intolerable.

How can I concentrate

on my work while

he's charging about

the house like an idiot?

Get rid of that monster!

My darling walnut,

do you know

how much money his parade

raised for the war effort today?

He's very ill, Mary.

Perhaps it is not my place

but I have to say

that I'm worried for the child.

The ideas he's putting

in his head are not proper,

or Christian.

You can't allow

this to continue.

But what can we do?

Sometimes I visit a hospital

where they help people

who are sick like this.

I think it might be best if

we took him there just

so the doctors can examine him.

He'll never agree.

Leave that to me.

This has just arrived,

admiral.

Bad news?

The worst, the big enders

have built a new war fleet.

I knew it!

We must move our troops.

Father, I urge you

give nothing away.

Big ender spies are everywhere.

Surely not in

my own campaign room.

Especially here!

The walls have ears.

The man's a bloody menace.

Now how substantial

is their attacking fleet?

War ships with 500 cannons.

Five hundred?

But our biggest ships

have only 50.

A naval warrior

so fearsome they'd rather

die than surrender.

Oh, this is awful.

Our troops have always

surrendered rather than die!

What shall we do?

Take every second farmer

off the land and have him

build warships.

Increase the army

by 600,000 men and

employ them immediately

to construct a 40 foot wall

around lilliput.

Boys, boys!

We did both those last month.

There's nothing for it.

We have held back our

greatest weapon for long enough.

I was summoned to the emperor

and told in no uncertain terms

the very future of lilliput

itself depended upon

my courage and ingenuity.

A massive invasion fleet

stood poised ready to attack

and I was the only thing

standing in its way.

I scoured the whole of the land

for the thickest ropes

and cables I could find

and bent a number of iron bars

into hooks like this.

Bravo!

Well, that night

that night

I waded across the channel

separating the two empires

and in the last yard

took a great breath

and dived under water.

Abandon ship!

I made it!

I made it!

The sailors screamed in terror

when they saw me.

Most of them abandoned ship

and jumped overboard.

Lemuel, don't!

Nothing could stop me now.

I started off to lilliput

dragging the entire fleet

behind me.

Put the child to bed.

What's wrong?

Do as you're told now.

- But I think I should--

trust my judgment in this.

Do as I request.

Give me your hand, doctor.

My glorious victory was

the cause of much rejoicing

throughout the land.

Thousands rushed to the gates

to meet me and there

was the greatest cheer

of relief and celebration

that you ever heard.

Marvelous, marvelous!

The end of the war,

peace and prosperity.

For doing what our greatest

generals and admirals could not,

you are awarded

our greatest honor.

Pageboy!

What is our greatest honor?

The order of nardac,

your majesty.

The nardac, but father!

General limtoc and I are only

clumglums.

I mean, how would

it look to our men

if he has a higher honor?

Father, a word.

I fear the job

is worse than half done.

I agree.

I mean, it's one thing

to bring home the ships

of the enemy but quite another

to bring home

the enemy themselves.

The monster must prove

his loyalty by killing

all big enders.

Must he?

Every last man, woman

and child.

I think you should return

and destroy what remains

of the enemy.

Oh, I don't think

there's any need

to crush them completely,

your majesty.

They can do us no harm

and I'm sure they'll make

a dignified surrender.

My husband gave you an order.

With all due respect

we've won the war.

There's no more threat.

We've won.

We need to talk.

That night I must confess

I got very drunk.

I had been told that I emptied

the royal cellars of everything

save 12 barrels of sweet cider.

I don't know.

I'm working harder

now than I ever did.

Let me fill your glass.

Thank you, it's full.

The thing was, they'd been

fighting this ridiculous war

for generations

and generations

and none of them

had the slightest clue

what they were fighting about.

I know.

They'd been killing

each other for years and years

and there wasn't

a single lilliputian

that knew why.

No, no, I mean, I know!

I know how the war started.

You know?

Well, I know what

my grandmother told me.

When the emperors

great-great-grandfather were

a little boy he was eating

an egg for his breakfast

one day when breaking it off

at the larger end,

he happened to cut one

of his fingers.

Now, his father,

the emperor--

that's the 23rd emperor

that is--he published

a law commanding

everybody on pain of beheading

to break their eggs off

at the smaller end.

Ha!

Now, liliputians

they don't like being told

what to do, see, and

some of them said,

"we are going to break

our eggs at the big end

and just you try to stop us,"

which is exactly

what the emperor did.

Eventually, the rebels

fled across the water

to blefescu and thus

began the great

and terrible war.

We have had all in all

11,000 people suffer death

rather than submit

to breaking their eggs

at the smaller end.

Do you smell burning?

The empress is trapped!

Save my beloved!

Look out, it's the giant.

A firework had set light

to the palace and her imperial

majesty's apartments

were ablaze.

The liliputians had already

applied their tiny ladders

to the walls of the building.

They were well provided

with buckets but the water

was at some distance.

In any event the ladders

were not tall enough,

so the case seemed wholly

desperate and

this magnificent palace

would most certainly

have been burned

to the ground and

the empress with it

if by a presence

of mind unusual to me

I had not suddenly had an idea.

I was still full from

my drinking session

and looking down

on the royal bed chamber

only one course of action

seemed open to me.

Thank you!

Thank you, you have

saved my life!

Oh, thank you!

It's an outrage.

He made water in

the royal grounds.

It's a treasonable offense.

But he saved

the empresses life.

At what cost?

Our step-mother will never

be able to show her face

in public again,

convinced that she's

the laughing stock of lilliput.

But she's not though.

Is she?

And earlier,

he openly defied your command

to attack the big enders.

He humiliated you.

You're right.

You're right!

We must execute him.

Execute him?

You can't do that.

Well, I mean, we must

consider all the options.

Are you with us, lord

chancellor, or with the monster?

We'll spread poison

on his shirt,

which will make him tear

his own flesh apart in torture.

And I'll get 1,000 men

with poison arrows

and as he staggers back

we'll fire them in his face.

Good plans, boys,

but I don't think we should

actually murder him.

You were so keen to kill mother

last year and now

I miss her dreadfully.

You're both too impulsive.

But I agree something must

be done, something merciful.

We'll dig out both his eyes.

Oh, I don't know.

Just the eyes?

Doesn't seem very much to me.

When he's blinded

he'll be much more obedient

and even more

courageous because

he won't see any danger.

Couldn't we shatter

his kneecaps with canon balls

as well, that way--

are we all here?

Where's the new

chancellor gone?

Wake up!

Wake up!

The general's are

plotting to kill you.

You got to try and escape.

I'm a war hero.

I just saved the empress's life.

No, don't go to sleep!

I can't stay here.

They'll kill me, too,

if they find out!

Wake up!

Oh!

I had escaped but to where?

Where could I go?

Would I just swim out

to sea until I drowned?

With clustril's help

I hid from

the emperor's soldiers

who were searching everywhere

for me.

That night

I pulled up hundreds of trees

and tied them together

to make a small raft

while drunlo organized

a collection

of every single bed sheet

from miles around and

I began to sew them together

to make a sail.

Thank you for saving my life.

Sorry if--

don't you talk to me.

All in the palm of my hand,

wealth, power, respect.

Look at me now?

Back to seaweed soup.

I'd like to leave you a gift.

My ring.

Oh, marvelous.

What do I want you ring for, eh?

I can't wear it, can I?

It's gold.

Then I'm rich!

You always treated me good!

You was always my friend.

I'm rich! Dad, I'm rich!

Never mind that, son.

Never mind that.

I think I found the other boot!

This isn't right.

It's done now.

I feel as if

I've betrayed him.

You know it's

the right thing to do.

The doctors at the hospital

are very caring people. Ride!

Ya! Ya!

For seven days and nights

I sailed without sighting land.

My supplies had run

desperately low

and I was losing all hope.

I was gradually forced to eat

my carefully gathered supplies

until only one sheep remained.

Land.

Land!

No matter if it was

more tiny people

at least it was land!

Where are we?

Don't worry.

I'm taking you somewhere

you'll be safe.

If I could have

your signature here, Dr. Bates.

I think we can leave the rest of

the formalities till tomorrow.

Giants!

Giants!

No!

Really?

Is this behavior

absolutely necessary?

Mother earth, it's an omen.

It's an omen!

Have you found

something, grultrud?

Nothing.

Back to work.

Perhaps he's a hobgoblin.

He's nothing of the kind.

He's a good luck sign

from mother earth

to show we're going

to have a fine harvest.

I'm going to give him some meat.

Giants and so ugly.

Their skin was so crinkled

and pocked and boil infested.

It made me wonder what I looked

like to the liliputians.

Perhaps I was just as--

it's just a little dog.

Don't be such a coward!

Down!

Let me out of here!

There's been some

terrible mistake!

Oy, you in there,

keep quiet!

Come stand by me.

This is my daughter,

glumdalclitch.

He's lovely.

Who's going to take care

of him, I wonder?

Oh, can I?

Can I have him to keep?

He's a grand little fellow,

isn't he?

He can do tricks

as well I expect.

Do us a dance.

We could make a lot of money

with this little fellow.

What is this place?

A hospital.

Since when do hospitals

have bolted doors?

It's a hospital for

people with sick minds.

Well, I can assure you

there's nothing wrong with me!

That is for us to ascertain.

I don't like this box.

Where are you taking me?

What box?

What are you talking about?

Come and see the wee wonder,

the spirit of the cornfield.

Come and see it now, wee wonder,

spirit of the cornfield.

Come on, everyone, come and see!

Brobdingnag?

Yes.

And what part of the world

is this brobdingnag in?

I don't know.

I was completely lost.

I had no compass.

And you say this little girl

was carrying you?

In the traveling box,

yes, that they made me.

Look, to understand my

predicament you have

to imagine yourself

as only as tall as my hand.

That is to say if you were

to lie down on the floor.

Please, I'm not trying

to make a fool of you.

See how different

the world looks.

Imagine, imagine everything

you know is now huge,

monstrous.

If we make too much noise

the sprite may not come out.

He's a timid little fellow.

Mind that none of you

look him direct into the eye.

He might curse you.

Who summons the spirit

of the cornfield?

I do.

I need your wisdom, oh, spirit.

Show me gold and

thou shall be told.

It's my radishes, oh,

spirit of the cornfield.

Oh, spirit, we humbly

beseech you to rid

these rotten vegetables

of their cursed affliction.

Then I'd pretend to go into

this fit, like this you see?

London bridge is

falling down, falling down

falling down

London bridge is falling down,

my fair lady

the spirit has spoken.

Your radishes will be

the plumpest and the firmest

in the entire country.

Next?

And you really believed

you were possessed

by this spirit of

the cornfield, did you?

No, of course not.

We were just doing it

to make money.

I had sick cows

brought before me.

I was blessing chickens.

I was exhausted.

If this life was so terrible

why didn't you try to escape?

I was helpless.

Can't you understand?

My destiny was out of my hands.

That's all for tonight.

You'll perform again

at daybreak.

I'm one of

the queen's ladies in waiting.

I don't care if

you're the queen herself.

I am off to sleep.

I was wondering if the little

gentleman might be for sale?

My little fellow?

My little magician?

No, oh, no.

I'm authorized to offer you

a considerable sum.

No disrespect, my lady,

but no amount of

money is going

to part the two of us.

I have here

500 pieces of gold.

Do you wanna

take him tonight?

I begged the farmer not

to part me from glumdalclitch,

the only person

who really cared for me.

Of course he quickly agreed,

only too happy to see

his daughter brought up

in the royal household.

We traveled with the lady

for several hours

through rich fields

and vast farmlands

until we reached the palace.

Beware ye all,

large or small,

once in a lifetime, a man will

appear smaller than all others

and he will be a lucky charm,

the talisman for crops,

bringing strong sunshine

and sweet rain for the harvest.

Such a man is me.

Am I or am I not

the smallest person

in the kingdom?

Can any man look up to me?

I'm a shrimp.

A worm, an ant, a tadpole,

a grub.

Am I short?

I'm miniscule, I'm dinky,

dainty, diminutive.

I'm teeny-tiny,

I'm so small i--

your majesty.

Royalty at last.

No more riding around on

the back of a donkey cart.

Here was the queen

and I was taking no chances.

I threw myself at her feet,

the only part

that I could reach anyway and

I kissed her toe a number

of times and addressed

her in the normal manner.

Most glorious empress,

oh adornment of nature,

the darling of the world,

delight of all your subjects,

the Phoenix of creation.

Now, this queen, she was

also a giant, was she?

How many times do

I have to tell you?

They were all giants,

even the dwarf was a giant.

Well, grildrig,

it seems you're no longer

the smallest man in the kingdom.

Look, your majesty.

Yes, yes, later, grildrig.

We have a new Jester.

Her majesty and I chatted

for a while

and I could tell that

she was plainly impressed

with such wit and good sense

in so diminutive a person.

For the first time

since arriving

in this awful place,

I felt amongst equals

and knew that from now on

I would be treated with respect.

He's a monstrosity!

I disagree.

He's a midget.

Albeit a uniquely small one.

You're both wrong.

He's a clockwork toy.

I have no doubt we can find

the hole in his back

if we look carefully enough.

Take your hands off me.

Please, there's been

some terrible mistake.

I'm a doctor myself.

There's nothing wrong with me.

Now, let me leave, please.

Note that his eyes

are constantly moving.

He sweats extremely.

Why don't you like

being touched?

I just don't.

I don't have to give

a reason, do I?

He's very restless.

His mood changes all the time

and his speech is eccentric,

full of fantasy.

From the teeth i'd

say he's a carnivore.

Even tiny animals like

field mice could overpower him.

He lacks the claws

for climbing trees

and digging in the earth.

Perhaps we should

try mating him

with an animal

of his own size?

Perhaps we should not!

This is outrageous!

Gentlemen, please, listen to me.

I come from a civilized country

which abounds with

several million people

of both sexes of my own stature

where the houses and the trees

and the animals

are all in proportion.

And I have no trouble

feeding myself

or protecting myself

or anything else

for that matter.

I am a man just like you!

That farmer was cunning

to have taught him

to say all this.

You can't keep me

here against my will.

Where's my wife and son?

You may shout as much

as you wish in here.

It's something we expect.

You won't be punished for such

behavior but that, I'm afraid,

is where your rights end.

Put her to bed

for a day or two.

If the symptoms persist rest

and warmth are all she needs.

And no more

patients today, Mary.

We can leave if you're ready.

I won't be gone long.

Why can't I come?

You can come next time.

I expect all this to be cleared

away before I get home.

I wish I could dissuade you

from visiting him yet.

Please don't expect

any dramatic improvements

so quickly.

In our country we also

have very high taxes,

your majesty.

Keeps people in their place.

We have no taxes.

But everyone's bringing you

the fruits of their labor.

So that they can be

divided up between

the whole kingdom fairly.

Amongst the higher classes,

you mean.

No, we have enough food

to feed everybody.

A farmer brings in his crop

and takes home some

of his neighbors.

Look, each takes his share

and no one goes hungry.

But unless some people

are starving, how can there

be structure to society?

What do your ministers

say about this?

Ministers?

Each village sends

its oldest farmer

to meet with me twice a year

and we decide what's best

for the common good.

The common good?

Yes, for instance,

grildrig's new job is

to feed the rotten

produce to the pigs.

Oh, dear.

I hope he doesn't

bear me any malice.

Grildrig!

You're not jealous of

our new Jester, are you?

Oh, my lady, nothing could

be further from the truth.

Like yourself, I've taken

a special shine

to the little chap.

I want to see

whoever's in charge now!

I demand to be let out!

Enter.

I've got a surprise for you.

Shall I open it?

Thank you, yes.

Dear little glumdalclitch,

she clearly adores me.

She so enjoyed dressing me

and undressing me

like a doll

even though I could, of course,

manage for myself.

Oh, glum, it's beautiful!

Does this feel like

your home now?

Not really.

My house isn't quite

as big as this.

Will you take me

there one day

so I can meet your queen

and see her great city?

Yes, I will.

We'll go to the theater.

What'll we do before we go?

Tell me everything we'll do.

Well, first we'll walk

through the park and bow

to all the ladies and gentlemen.

Dressed in our finest

clothes, of course.

The very finest and then

we will sit and take tea.

Chocolate,

can I have chocolate?

Ah, chocolate, certainly.

Very fashionable choice,

my lady.

And I will buy you presents,

lots of presents.

A doll's house, even bigger

than this one.

The children will love it.

If we're married,

we'll have children, won't we?

Glum, how old are you?

Eleven,

but I'm growing very fast.

I already have a wife, glum.

Oh, in...

In england.

You said it was a hospital.

This is more like a prison.

I don't like it

anymore than you do, Mary.

Some of the patients

become disturbed

and it's necessary

to keep them securely.

Mary, thank god you're here.

I've got to get

out of this place.

You have come to take me home?

Well, we thought it best

you had a chance

to recover first.

Have the doctors

seen you yet?

Yes, but

they don't understand.

The trouble is they know nothing

about england, so they have

no idea how intelligent I am.

They don't know

about england?

Well, why should they?

They've never been there.

Of course, of course!

That's what I have to do.

Bates, call the doctors

right now.

I have to tell them everything.

That way they'll

stop treating me like a child.

Call them back!

I began a massive lecture

to explain the difference

between their

simple farming life

and our complex,

sophisticated society.

I extoled the virtues

of our great government,

education and arts

our courts

and their great wisdom.

I mentioned the prudent

management of our treasury,

the valor of our army

and Navy and our great colonies

and conquests.

My remarkable lecture

lasted five audiences

with the queen,

each one lasting several hours.

She was most attentive,

frequently making notes

and when I finished,

she requested a sixth audience

no doubt to praise

my eloquence

and to beg my forgiveness.

I have some questions.

Questions, your majesty?

Questions, these ministers

who run your country,

how do they get to be ministers?

Well, usually it's a sum

of money that decides the issue.

So how do they gain

the knowledge about the people

they're supposed to serve?

They don't need much

knowledge because they spend,

well, most of their time

drinking and gambling.

Yes, you've mentioned

gambling before.

At what age is this

entertainment taken up?

Sixteen or 17.

And at what age

is it put down?

Sixty or 70.

In your courts, how much time

is spent in determining

between right and wrong?

Oh, trials last weeks

or months at great cost

to those involved.

Does that mean the poor

have no recourse to the law?

Well, the poor are too busy

working to need justice.

Do your lawyers ever

plead cases which manifestly

they know to be wrong?

Of course, that's their job.

And this amuses you, does it,

to mock our institutions?

No, no, I was

trying to defend them.

That was the whole point.

You said your taxes raise

more than 5 or 6 million

and yet the state

spends more than

double that amount.

How can a kingdom spend more

than it receives in taxes?

Well, that's simple.

We just borrow

more from ourselves.

I have to say

that you're doing yourself

no good by trying to make

fools of us.

But it's the truth.

And your wars.

Our wars?

Why are you always

attacking people?

What business have you

to leave your shores

unless to trade?

Well, often we have

to defend ourselves

by attacking

before we've been attacked

thus gaining

the element of surprise.

And this standing army

of yours, why is it standing?

In the midst of peace

amongst a free people,

why do you need such

a massive force

of weapons and men?

- I don't--began to crumble,

to lose my way.

I stuttered and hesitated.

Really, I've heard enough.

We have other patients to see.

But I haven't finished yet.

The whole purpose of--

I said I've heard enough.

The history of your country

seems to consist of nothing

more than a squalid string

of conspiracies, rebellions,

revolutions,

murders and massacres.

Every judgment seems to be

motivated by greed, by malice,

hypocrisy, hatred, envy,

lust and madness.

Perhaps I explained badly.

We shall examine you again

at the beginning of next month.

In the meantime--

next month?

What in god's name

are you talking about?

Haven't you heard

a word I've said?

You have proved

that ignorance,

idleness and vice are

the only qualifications

for public office

and that your laws are made

by those whose only interest

is in perverting them.

I can only conclude

that your people

are the most pernicious race

of odious little vermin

that ever nature suffered

to crawl upon the face

of the earth.

Your majesty.

Stay with him, Mary.

Let me talk to the doctors

and plead for his release.

Don't despair, lemuel.

A month.

Don't lose hope.

Let me talk to you.

I don't belong here.

I'm just a joke.

I'm the laughing stock

of the entire country.

I think you're very clever.

We could think of something

that would impress the queen.

Oh, yes, yes, perhaps if

I learned how to juggle bananas

with my feet perhaps

that would raise

my social standing in the court.

You must know

something they don't.

You're so clever.

I know hundreds of things

they don't.

They know nothing of music,

of politics, of culture or--

gunpowder?

What is gunpowder?

Never mind that.

Take this list of ingredients.

Now, mix them in the quantities

that I've described there.

The harvest day festival

is only three days away.

It was the perfect chance for

me to make a good impression.

People from all over the kingdom

will be coming to the court.

Now, a normal explosion would

hardly be noticed

by these giants

and the last thing I wanted

was another public humiliation.

So I multiplied the quantities

of gunpowder tenfold.

If we only make this amount,

it's doubtful even see

this gunpowder experiment.

I think we should

increase these figures

five fold, ten fold at least.

Then perhaps we'd have

a proper demonstration.

It's quite an

extraordinary story.

He insists he was

a prisoner in a land of giants.

Really?

When he told me the story

he was the giant

and everyone else was tiny.

You just found him

wandering about the streets?

The lady found him, yes.

She brought him to my surgery.

What name should the patient

be admitted under?

Just put patient

of Dr. Bates.

Are you sure

you don't wanna come out

and see the harvest parade?

Quite sure, thank you.

The noise would give

me a headache.

Pour for me, will you?

I wish you wouldn't

drink so much.

Thank you for your concern.

I wish I didn't have to live

in this monstrous place.

Are you nervous about

the bunpowder demonstration?

Gunpowder, not bunpowder.

No, I'm not nervous.

I'm fine.

Please, glum, leave me alone.

Why was I so horrible to her?

The dear girl had showed me

nothing but kindness and love.

I was just angry that no one

would take me seriously.

Still, things would be

very different after

the demonstration.

Try this.

Hello, shorty.

Grildrig!

With all the noise outside

no one could hear me shout.

I ran to the center of the table

and hid as best I could.

That won't do you any good.

I've been waiting

a long time for this.

As I lay there bruised

I heard this sound and

I looked up

and I saw grildrig raise his--

oh.

Where are you?

No more!

Please!

No more? No more?

But the best is yet to come!

He...

What, what?

...pulled out this tin.

Do you know what your head

will look like when a wasp

stings you?

It will swell up,

bloated with pus until

it's so big it'll just pop.

Happy harvest day, squirt.

They were all around me,

one over there,

two hovering around the food

at the other end of the table.

Lemuel, there's nothing

in here!

Two left!

Where are they? Where are they?

Please, I'm frightened

you'll hurt yourself.

Fighting for my life,

sword against sting,

parry, thrust, parry, thrust.

No, no!

Can't someone help?

I was beaten back right

to the edge of the table.

Mary, it was extraordinary.

You have no idea how I felt.

I was exhausted but...

Help us!

I killed them!

I killed them!

Wait, what are you--

Mary, please,

he's having a fit.

No, please,

don't let them hurt him.

Why won't anyone believe me?

Wait a minute, wait a minute,

wait a minute!

I can prove that I'm not

making any of these stories up.

Go back to the house right now,

find my medical bag.

He doesn't know

what he's saying.

Bring me the bag.

I can prove that everything

has happened to me.

Mary, you've got to believe me.

It's the truth!

I'm afraid it's much worse

than we thought.

I know this is hard

but I think that

your very presence is

making his condition worse.

But I have to see him.

He's my husband.

I can't have got him back

only to lose him again.

Please,

it's the best thing to do.

Stop it!

You can't keep me here!

I'm not mad!

I can prove I'm not mad!

Are you sure

you're all right?

Yes, of course, I'm fine.

Proceed with

the demonstration.

Now, witness the exciting power

of this substance

created, I might add,

by my odious race

and seemingly unknown

to even your greatest minds.

No need to cover your ears,

just a small flash of light

and then explosion

the size of a log

cracking on the fire.

I know what you're thinking.

Back in the cage, hurry up,

please, come on.

What are you doing in here?

Nothing.

You know you're not

allowed in here.

What did I tell you?

It's all right, Mary,

let me talk to him.

You're upset.

What are you doing in my study?

I wasn't doing anything.

I have never taken

my strap to you but

please don't lie to me

or I will.

You're not my father.

You can't beat me.

Thomas, I don't want

to beat you.

I know how glad you were

to see your father again

but he's a sick man,

a violent and disturbed man.

Do you know how

you can help him most?

How?

By forgetting everything

he has told you,

all those silly stories,

all this nonsense.

Came back for a day

and now he's gone away again.

We got to know each other

very well over

the last two years and

we've got to like each other,

haven't we?

Yes, we have and soon

I will be your father,

your proper father

and unlike lemuel

I will care for you properly.

My father cares for me.

Oh, Thomas, if he cared

so much for you

why didn't he come

home all this time?

Why did he leave your mother

and you alone in poverty?

More and more I asked

glumdalclitch to take me

to the seaside where I would

stare at the ocean for hours

and think of my home

and everything I had lost.

I'd pray for help but no boat

ever came past, never one.

You wouldn't leave without

saying goodbye to me, would you?

How can I leave?

What will I do?

Flap my arms and fly away?

I know you're very homesick.

Oh, glum, someday

you'll meet someone

your own size and

you'll forget all about me.

I won't.

I'll never forget you.

Don't cry.

I'm not.

I'm very angry!

What were you doing

in Dr. Bate's surgery.

But I found a sheep!

What are you talking about?

The little sheep

from lilliput.

Just like he says!

There are no tiny things

or giant things.

They're just stories!

But I saw it!

It's just stories.

Now go upstairs to your room.

I'm cold.

Put me back in my box, please?

Glum!

Careful.

Glum, you're hurting me!

Ma, ma!

I told you to go

to your room.

But ma ma, look, look!

Go to your room.

Now!

Not another word!

And stay there till

I tell you to come down.

I lost all sense of time

as the bird flew on and on.

In my last moments I thought

of my dear glumdalclitch

who would certainly

be blamed for my disappearance

and would lose her

place at court and--

falling,

I felt myself falling

with such incredible swiftness

that I almost lost my breath.

Did you look in his

medical bag like he said?

Completely empty.

I don't know what to do.

Leave everything to me, Mary.

I'll take care of it all.

So this was it then,

my end, finally.

I tried to keep my spirits high

but I realized

I would surely die here.

I had no food or water,

my box was sinking.

No boats would pass.

I resigned myself to my--

Hey!

Hello!