Quotes from Legends of the Fall
January 13th, 2008 | by lindsay | Posted in » 电影对白 | 539 views |
One Stab: Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.
Alfred: Susannah, you deserve to be happy.
Susannah: Tristan, I have no where to send this letter and no reason to believe you wish to receive it. I write it only for myself. And so I will hide it away with all things left unsaid and undone between us.
Susannah: Were you going to say goodbye? Tristan? How long will you be gone?
Tristan: Not long. A few months.
Susannah: I can make it better for you.
Tristan: No.
Susannah: If we’d had a child or if I were pregnant, would you still be going?
Tristan: Yes.
Susannah: Just give me a chance.
Tristan: Don’t do that.
Susannah: Look at me. Please, look at me. I’ll wait for you. However long it takes. I’ll wait for you forever.
Susannah: I still sometimes dream that I’m the mother of your children. I wanted her to die.
Susannah: Forever turned out to be too long.
Tristan: You know when Samuel died… when Samuel died, I cursed God. Did I damn everybody around me as well as myself?
Alfred: I followed all of the rules, man’s and God’s. And you, you followed none of them. And they all loved you more. Samuel, Father, and my… even my own wife.
One Stab: I thought Tristan would never live to be an old man. I was wrong about that. I was wrong about many things. It was those who loved him the most that died young. He was a rock they broke themselves against however much he tried to protect them.
Young Isabel Two: Tristan calls me a half breed.
Colonel Ludlow: Tristan calls you a half breed!
Young Isabel Two: He says I’m half gopher and half hawk.
Tristan: Alfred’s going to do well wherever he is.
Colonel Ludlow: Except here with us.
Tristan: That’s my fault.
Colonel Ludlow: I didn’t say that.
Tristan: I couldn’t bring Samuel back home alive either, could I?
Colonel Ludlow: Don’t you dare say that boy! That was in God’s hands.
Tristan: Was it?
One Stab: It is hard to tell of happiness. Time goes by and we feel safe too soon.
Alfred: When are you planning to be married?
Tristan: Morning.
Alfred: Damn you, Tristan. You will marry her.
Tristan: And make a honest woman out of her?
Alfred: Yes! God damn you to hell.
Tristan: Yes, I will marry her if she’ll have me.
Alfred: If she’ll have you? Do you love her? Or did you seduce her just to spite me?
Tristan: It’s not what I did.
Alfred: And what about Samuel?
Tristan: What about Samuel?
Alfred: You tell me about Samuel.
Tristan: We all loved Samuel. Samuel’s dead. What?
Alfred: How convenient that is for you.
Tristan: Because you love her I will forgive you for that. Once! You say that again and we’re not brothers.
One Stab: She was like the water that freezes inside a rock and breaks it apart. It was no more her fault than it is the fault of the water when the rock shatters.
Alfred: I don’t know what to say. Tristan’s always been wild. You love him for that.
Susannah: Do I? Yeah, I suppose I do.
Alfred: Susannah, he does love you.
Colonel Ludlow: Alfred! She’s to be your brother’s wife.
Alfred: Yes, though you might better remind him of that.
Colonel Ludlow: He’s not here to defend himself.
Alfred: No, he’s not but I see you are here to defend him and what is his. Even though he’s abandoned her and you. And I won’t even speak of who else he abandoned.
Colonel Ludlow: Damn you, boy. Don’t you blame my son for Samuel’s death! Samuel chose to be a soldier and soldiers die. Sent to be slaughtered by the men in the government. Parasites like you! Damn and blast you!
[turns to Susannah]
Colonel Ludlow: Damn you too!
Alfred: Shut your mouth! You leave her out of this!
Colonel Ludlow: You get out of my house and off my land.
Alfred: Why? Because I want to serve my country like you did? Or because, like you, I love a woman who doesn’t love me? He used her and he deserted her. Your darling Tristan.
Susannah: Alfred, don’t, please.
Alfred: I loved her! I love her still. And he stole her from me. If you want to know the truth of it he stole her from Samuel before the war.
Colonel Ludlow: God help me, I’ll kill you.
One Stab: Every hunter hopes that a good death finds him.
Tagline: The men of the Ludlow family. A woman’s grace brought them together. Then her passion tore them apart.Plot Outline: Epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.
Related links: Legends of the Fall
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