Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942)
Jules Berry: Le diable
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Quotes
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Le diable : Oh, such a lovely fire! I like fire. It likes me, too. The flames are so attentive. They lap at my fingers like a hound - a pleasant sensation!
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Le diable : Please, don't cry. It hurts me to see such a pretty face twisted in sorrow.
Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Leave me alone. My heart is sad... so sad. I'm not used to unhappiness and now Gilles is in prison threatened by the executioner, Renaud is dead, and my father is in despair. Could you be the cause of all these troubles?
Le diable : What do expect? No one loves me. I amuse myself the best I can.
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[the Devil laughs evilly]
Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Who are you? How did you get in?
Le diable : I am the Devil!
Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : I could care less.
Le diable : What? Don't you understand? I'm the Devil! Yes, the Devil. How else can I be here and elsewhere at the same time? Yes, elsewhere - for example, in the garden.
[the Devil points to the garden where he is standing next to Baron and Renaud as they argue]
Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : What's so marvelous about that? I'm here, locked in my room, but I am also at the fountain.where my beloved held me in his arms.
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[Anne disappears and returns magically to Gilles prison cell]
Le diable : Anne. Anne! She makes a fool out of me and yet I love her! I was too sweet, too obliging. That's no way to win a woman. All that will change!
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Le diable : [to Dominique] You look astonishingly like one of my daughters.
Dominique - un ménestrel : I'm flattered.
Le baron Hugues - le châtelain, père d'Anne : You have daughters?
Le diable : Yes. I have many children, boys and girls, but I must admit, I prefer girls, especially ones like yours. Boys are ungrateful - no sense of duty, disobedient. I'm not a hard man, but I detest being disobeyed.
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[last lines]
[the devil has turned Anne and Gilles into statues]
Le diable : The silence I adore - deathly silence.
[startled, the Devil walks towards the statues]
Le diable : What's that? What's that noise? It's their hearts. Their hearts are beating!
[the Devil lashes the statues angrily with his quirt]
Le diable : BEATING! Beating! Beating... .
[the Devil slowly fades away leaving the statues of Gilles and Anne staring lovingly into each others' eyes]
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Le diable : Whenever there's a new joy in the world, or new love shines, imagine my suffering! I'd cry, if only I had tears.
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[Gilles is released from his contract with the Devil when Anne agrees to love the Evil One]
Le diable : I kept my promise. You are mine now, forever!
Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : No.
Le diable : What do you mean, "No".
Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : *No*.
Le diable : I can't believe it! You promised. You swore.
Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : I lied.
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Le diable : Do you hear me? Why don't you answer? What are you thinking of, wretch?
Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : A song my governess once sang, she said it was the fairies...
Le diable : Ah! I detest fairies!
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Le diable : [disguised as Gilles] Anne. Anne, my love, my true love! Anne, you are as beautiful as the day! I love you madly! Give me your lips!
Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Leave me alone. You aren't Gilles.
Le diable : What?
Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : You aren't Gilles. You look like Gilles, you have his voice, but Gilles would never say such things.
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Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : It's true, you are the Deceiver. You may even deceive yourself. There are some things that escape you.
Le diable : Escape me? Poor idiot! Nothing escapes me. No one can escape me, not even you! You don't know my powers! I hold the world in my hands! That's right! Storms, rain, hail, wind, shipwrecks: that's me! Sickness, war, and all its pleasures, pestilence, famine, misery, murder, hatred, jealousy. That's me, always me! And death. Me, again.
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Le diable : Don't forget, treacherous creature, that you've done wrong. You've sinned.
Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : If it's sin to give myself to the one I love, I don't regret it.
Le diable : Truly? You should be ashamed.
Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Ashamed? Why? I don't even know what shame is!
Le diable : Shame - is what we hide.
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Le diable : At heart, I'm not a bad devil.
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Le diable : It's so like you to forget your chains, to take refuge in happy memories! Alas, I am here! I have no ill intentions. Memories are lovely, but the past is gone forever! The present is what counts - and right now, some surprising things are happening!