| Movie |
One Night with the King |
| Year |
2006 |
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Mordecai:
A drunken brawl is no place for a young lady of purity.
Rebekah:
Then why's a good Jew like you goin'?
Mordecai:
All the scribes have to go. There is war in the air!
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Hagai:
Where are you from?
Queen Esther:
I am... of the wind. Like the wind, blowing where I may please, and gathering where I choose.
Hagai:
Well, we gather in an hour. Try not to blow away before then.
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Mordecai:
You were chosen for a time such as this...
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King Xerxes:
[Xerxes is returning from the training camp, having been gone for quite some time] Have you had a busy morning?
Queen Esther:
Not as busy as it could get.
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King Xerxes:
Of all commodities love is the most cheaply purchased
Queen Esther:
If it is for sale, my lord, it is not love.
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Queen Esther:
What made you come back?
King Xerxes:
I saw them, I saw the stars.
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Mordecai:
God, every day I pray for you to give me the paitence of Job, the wisdom of Soloman. And what do you give me? You give me the endless equivocations... of a beautiful, young woman!
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Queen Esther:
If I perish... I perish.
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Queen Esther:
You see me as a child? Well, you are mistaken, I am much younger!
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Mordecai:
Why would they buy belladonna from you?
Jewish apothecary merchant:
May they seek poison someone. Very deadly. Very quick.
Mordecai:
You sold them poison? A Jew sells poison to the king's fruit tasters?
[grabbing the merchants face and shaking him]
Mordecai:
Have you any idea for whom it might have been intended?
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King Xerxes:
Tell me of your people, teach me of your ways
Queen Esther:
My father told me, It takes the glory of God to conceal the matter and the honor of kings to search it out.
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Queen Esther:
Let my life be given me, at my petition and my people at my request
King Xerxes:
You demand me your life, and that of your people? My dear girl,I know not of your people, you have yet to tell me who they are.
Queen Esther:
Have we been nearly sold as slaves? I would have held my tounge, This... This Haman wanted our blood, my blood, the blood of Jacob, your Jacob. Your Jacob was given a new name, Israel. As do was I.
King Xerxes:
You... Esther, a Jew?
Queen Esther:
Not Esther, my lord, Hadassah Batabihan ,Daughter of the tribe of Benjamen, Child of the most high God.
Haman, the Amelekite:
Never have I heard I heard a more pathetic story in my entire life.
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Queen Esther:
Perhaps, instead of asking questions of our trials, our trials are ment to ask questions of ourselves.
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