Thor (2011)
Anthony Hopkins: Odin
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Quotes
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Loki : The Casket wasn't the only thing you took from Jotunheim that day, was it?
Odin : No. In the aftermath of the battle I went into the temple and I found a baby. Small for a Giant's offspring, abandoned, suffering, left to die. Laufey's son.
Loki : Laufey's son?
Odin : Yes.
Loki : Why? You were knee-deep in Jotun blood. Why would you take me?
Odin : You were an innocent child.
Loki : No. You took me for a purpose. What was it?... TELL ME!
Odin : I thought we could unite our kingdoms one day. Bring about an alliance, bring about permanent peace... through you.
Loki : What?
Odin : But those plans no longer matter.
Loki : So I am no more than another stolen relic, locked up here until you might have use of me?
Odin : Why do you twist my words?
Loki : You could have told me what I was from the beginning! Why didn't you?
Odin : You're my son... I wanted only to protect you from the truth...
Loki : What, because I... I... I am the monster parents tell their children about at night?
Odin : [unwell] No! No!
Loki : You know, it all makes sense now, why you favored Thor all these years, because no matter how much you claim to love me, you could never have a Frost Giant sitting on the throne of Asgard!
[an overcome Odin collapses]
Loki : Guards! Guards, please help!
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Odin : You are a vain, greedy, cruel boy!
Thor : And you are an old man and a fool!
Odin : Yes... I was a fool, to think you were ready.
Loki : Father...
Odin : [to Loki] FIE!
Odin : Thor Odinson... you have betrayed the express command of your king. Through your arrogance and stupidity, you've opened these peaceful realms and innocent lives to the horror and desolation of war! You are unworthy of these realms, you're unworthy of your title, you're unworthy... of the loved ones you have betrayed! I now take from you your power! In the name of my father and his father before, I, Odin Allfather, cast you out!
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Odin : [enchants Mjolnir] Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of THOR!
[hurls Mjolnir after Thor]
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Young Loki : Do the Frost Giants still live?
Young Thor : When I am king, I'll hunt the monsters down and slay them all! Just as you did, Father!
Odin : A wise king never seeks out war. But he must always be ready for it.
[walks off, his sons run after him]
Young Thor : I'm with you, Father!
Young Loki : So am I!
Odin : Only one of you can ascend to the throne. But BOTH of you were born to be kings!
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Odin : Once, mankind accepted a simple truth: that they were not alone in this universe. Some worlds man believed home to their Gods. Others they knew to fear. From around the cold and darkness came the Frost Giants, threatening to plunge the mortal world into a new ice age. But humanity would not face this threat alone. Our armies drove the Frost Giants back into the heart of their own world. The cost was great. In the end, their king fell, and the source of their power was taken from them. With the last great war ended, we withdrew from the other worlds and returned home at the Realm Eternal, Asgard. And here we remain as the beacon of hope, shining out across the stars. And though we have fallen into man's myths and legends, it was Asgard and its warriors that brought peace to the universe.
[looks at his children]
Odin : But the day will come, when one of you will have to defend that peace...
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[about the burglary]
Thor : The Jotuns must pay for what they have done!
Odin : They have paid, with their lives. The Destroyer did its work, the Casket is safe, and all is well.
Thor : All is well? They broke into the weapons vault! If the Frost Giants have stolen even one of these relics...
Odin : They didn't.
Thor : Well I want to know why!
Odin : I have a truce with Laufey, king of the Jotuns.
Thor : He just broke your truce! They know you are vulnerable!
Odin : What action would you take?
Thor : March into Jotunheim as you once did! Teach them a lesson! Break their spirits, so they would never dare try to cross our borders again!
Odin : You're thinking only as a warrior.
Thor : This was an act of war!
Odin : It was the act of but a few, doomed to fail.
Thor : Look how far they got!
Odin : We will find the breach in our defenses and it will be sealed.
Thor : As king of Asgard...!
Odin : BUT YOU'RE NOT KING! Not yet.
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King Laufey : Allfather. You look weary.
Odin : Laufey. End this now!
King Laufey : Your boy sought this out.
Odin : You're right. But these were the actions of a boy, treat them as such. We can end this together, here, now, without any more blood shed.
King Laufey : We are beyond diplomacy now, Allfather. You'll get what he came for: war, and death.
Odin : So be it!
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Thor : There won't be a kingdom to protect if you're afraid to act! The Jotuns must fear me, just as they once feared you!
Odin : Have you forgotten everything I taught you? A warrior's patient!
Thor : While you wait and be patient, the Nine Worlds laugh at us! The old ways are done, yet you stand and give speeches while Asgard falls!
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[from trailer]
Odin : I have sacrificed much to achieve peace. So too must a new generation sacrifice to maintain that peace. Responsibility! Duty! Honour! These are not mere virtues to which we must aspire! They are essential to every soldier, to every king!
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[from trailer]
Odin : He has disobeyed his king... his fate is in his own hands now.
