She (I) (1965)

John Richardson: Leo

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• Holly : I suppose there's a time in everyone's life when the idea of immortality seems very desirable. But now at my age I'd have to give it a great deal of thought.

  Leo : What's age got to do with it? You'd stay as you are.

  Holly : That's not what I meant, Leo. What one would accept eagerly at your age doesn't necessarily have the same appeal at mine. It's the age of the mind that's important, not the body. You see, you're young. Still on the threshold of life. The joy of living is not to be denied, but to know that it'll be there for all time, without change. Life at a standstill. It's not quite the same thing.

• Holly : [about the flame]  It'll come back some day.

  Leo : When, Holly, when?

  Holly : That I can't tell you, Leo. But you wanted immortality.

  Leo : When it comes back, it will find me waiting.

• Leo : Was that barbaric execution necessary?

  Ayesha : It was necessary!

  Holly : In God's name, why?

  Ayesha : As a demonstration of my absolute power! How else could I hold my soldiers and these pathetic creatures as my subjects? How else but by instilling fear and terror into their very souls.

  Holly : But nothing is gained by fear and terror.

  Ayesha : Is your world so much better? Your world where men kill each other in their millions in the name of freedom? Your world that has not long to live. A few decades only before it destroys itself. Then, what will be left?

• Leo : It's a funny thing, but, during the desert fighting I was never more at peace. The place had an atmosphere - something I've never felt before.

• Leo : Forgive me, but, who are you?

  Ayesha : Have you not seen me before?

  Leo : No. I don't think we've ever...

  Ayesha : I am Ayesha, who some call: She Who Waits.

• Ayesha : Do you know who you are?

  Leo : Of course, Leo Vincent. But, that's all I'm sure of at this moment.

  Ayesha : Even in that you are wrong.

  Leo : Then I leave it to you. You tell me what is right.

  Ayesha : What is right has been foretold long ago. That you would come to her again. From out of the darkness of the past. That you would possess her. And all that once would have been his.

• Ayesha : You, who chose to call yourself Leo Vincent, will you come to me again?

  Leo : Yes. Why not now?

  [long kiss] 

  Ayesha : It must be far from this place.

  Leo : Where?

  Ayesha : Across the desert of lost souls, through the mountains of the moon, a long, dangerous journey. At it's end, everything you desire will be yours. Power. Riches. Glory!

  Leo : And you.

  Ayesha : Everything you desire.

  [long kiss] 

• Ayesha : When you return this ring to me, then, and only then, then the dangers will be past, and all that has been promised will be fulfilled. Will you undertake it for me?

  Leo : Yes.

• Leo : It's as if something were calling me. A voice from the past, like - some sort of inherited memory.

  Holly : Inherited? Who from?

  Leo : I don't know. Maybe my ancestor was an Egyptian merchant who traveled this route.

• Leo : Let me return this ring to you.

  Ayesha : No. It's no longer necessary, for now it is rightfully yours.

  Leo : Rightfully mine?

  Ayesha : Look at it. Does it not carry the insignia of the high priest of Isis?

  Leo : Yes. But, how does that make it mine?

  Ayesha : It was once worn by Kallikrates. It shall be worn by him again.

  Leo : But, he died over 2,000 years ago!

  Ayesha : Yes. And I have spent the years since his death waiting for him to return to be my love again! My only love! And I have not waited in vain.

  Leo : Are you asking me to believe that you have lived for 2,000 years?

  Ayesha : Am I not here? And are you not Kallikrates reborn?

  Leo : You ask me to believe too much.

• Leo : Is there nothing I will not forgive in you?

  Ayesha : Nothing.

• Ustane : You realize there's evil in her. Still you desire her?

  Leo : Above all else.

  Ustane : If it were only your love for Ayesha that keeps us apart, I would be happy to remain in your shadow and ask no more. But, she has bewitched you with promises of power and grandeur; while, I can but offer you my heart and unending loyalty. I know that these are not enough for you. So, I must leave. But, my love will never die. And I shall carry your memory with me forever.

• Leo : This is a solo volunteer operation. No assistance needed.

  [stands up and walks towards Ustane] 

  Holly : A few years ago, I'd have given you a run for your money. Now, I think I'll just concentrate on the visual entertainments.

• Leo : [following exotic-looking girl he had just met]  Where are you taking me? Not home to meet mother?

  Ustane : It's not far now.

• Leo : [after shaving, looks at his face in the mirror]  I never thought I'd see that face again.

  Ustane : I'd forgotten how you look without a beard.

• [as Ayesha begins throwing slaves into the lava pit] 

  Holly : We must stop this!

  Leo : How far do you think we'd get?

  Job : Don't forget, sir, they were going to take a knife and fork to Mr Leo.