The Pirate (1948)

Judy Garland: Manuela

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• Serafin : I can tell you your past, your present, and your future.

  Manuela : You don't have to tell me my future; I know my future.

  Serafin : Am I in it?

  Manuela : No!

  Serafin : Then you don't know your future.

• Manuela : I wish I had now. Now, will you get out of here?

  Serafin : You won't come with me?

  Manuela : No.

  Serafin : Very well then.

  [He goes through the window, turns to Manuela] 

  Serafin : You know, it isn't essential for you to love me to be in the troupe. It helps, but it isn't essential.

  Manuela : Get out!

  Serafin : [leaves to go out window]  Good-bye.

  Manuela : No, not that way! You'll kill yourself.

  Serafin : You do care. You do care!

  Manuela : No, I don't! No, I don't!

  Serafin : Manuela, you love me! You love me!

• Manuela : I wish you'd stop circling me. It's like talking to a top!

• Manuela : If I didn't laugh I should be very annoyed.

• Serafin : I know that underneath that prim exterior there are depths of emotion, romantic longings, unfulfilled dreams.

  Manuela : That's absurd.

  Serafin : I can read your mind, your innermost thoughts. It's my business.

• Manuela : [while hypnotized]  Underneath this prim exterior, there are depths of emotion, romantic longings... Underneath this prim exterior, there are depths of emotion, romantic longings...

• Serafin : Manuela, you can't marry that man. You're not in love with him, you're in love with me.

  Manuela : The EGO! The CONCEIT!

• Manuela : Macoco.

  Serafin : Macoco?

  Manuela : Macoco.

  Serafin : Macoco the pirate?

  Manuela : Macoco the fabulous. Macoco the dazzling.

  Serafin : No, no, Manuela, you don't mean that.

  Manuela : Someday he'll swoop down on me like a chicken hawk and carry me away.

• Serafin : Señorita, don't marry that pumpkin.

  Manuela : Pumpkin!

  Serafin : Any man who lets you out of his sight is a pumpkin.

• Manuela : How could I have been so gullible? Why, I should have known from the first moment I saw you on the stage that you know nothing about acting!

• Manuela : Why, it would mean the ruination of my complete life!

• Serafin : Aren't you interested in love?

  Manuela : No, I told you, I was going to be married!

• Manuela : Don't call me pure soul, it irritates me!

• Manuela : I realize that there's a practical world and a dream world. I know which is which. I shan't mix them. I promise.

• Serafin : In England and America, they have a strange custom. The ladies pick their own husbands, and they marry them for love.

  Manuela : Yes, I know. It's a very stupid custom.

  Serafin : Oh, I see. You find enough romance in daydreams.

• Serafin : Come, pure spirit. Come with me.

  Don Pedro Vargas : I forbid it, it's a disgrace!

  The Viceroy : [to Don Pedro]  Sit down, Don Pedro.

  [turns back to Serafin] 

  Serafin : Gracious lady, if you have any wish express it freely to me. I, who am your friend.

  Manuela : I wish...

  Serafin : Yes?

  Manuela : I wish...

  Don Pedro Vargas : Black magic! I won't have him practice black magic on my future wife! Oh, It's an outrage!

  The Viceroy : [to Don Pedro]  Hold your tongue, Don Pedro. I will not have this performance ruined by your bourgeoise possessiveness.

  Serafin : Excellency, would you please tell him this is not flirtation. It is science.

  The Viceroy : It is science.

  Don Pedro Vargas : Whatever you called, I don't like it!

  The Viceroy : [turns to Don Pedro]  I demand that you hold your tongue!

  [turns back to Serafin] 

  The Viceroy : Proceed, sir, with this mesmerism.

• [first lines] 

  Manuela : The history of the Pirate, Mack the Black Macoco... Macoco the dazzling, Macoco the tabulous, the hawk of the sea, the prince of pirates whose spirit of legends will live on through the ages, praise a mortal thieves. As hereinafter set forth and whose glorious and formidable exploits are here related in a true history. Staggering to the imagination and ravishing the sensibilities with tales of wealth of gold and silver beyond dreams of avarice of stolen treasure of maidens captive of villages destroyed of cities decimated for a whim or a caress.

• Manuela : He's ruthless and magnificent. Romantic! Why, if he saw a woman he wanted, he'd just come and take her and carry her off on his ship, but he'd treat her like a queen.

  Casilda : I don't want anyone swooping down on me like a chicken hawk.

• Manuela : I'm very grateful, really I am. It's just that I shan't know what to say to him.

  Aunt Inez : Oh, say nothing. He's not marrying you to listen to you.

• Manuela : To see Paris! All my life I've dreamed of that, the gaiety, and color and people.

  Don Pedro Vargas : I've seen it all.

• Manuela : Is it sunrise or sunset?

• Manuela : I should have thought that in a town like Port Sebastián, bodyguards were unnecessary.

  Serafin : You, gracious lady, will always need a bodyguard. Even in the lonely wastes of the Sahara Desert, the sands would rise up and follow you. Tell me, what is your name?

  Manuela : I do not see how that could possibly concern you.

  Serafin : It is as vital to me as the beat of my heart. Are you married?

  Manuela : No, but I will be by this time next week.

  Serafin : Then you should never step into the sight of other men. It is too great a provocation.

  Manuela : Very well. I shall remove the provocation.

• Manuela : First let me see the sea.

• Manuela : [singing]  When he'd make his daily rounds, Gals would trail him like a pack o' hounds, Every night, he'd have a date, Ladies go to pieces over pieces of eight...

• Manuela : I shall do his bidding. I shall follow him. Yea, to the ends of the world, I shall follow him!

• Manuela : Can't you understand I have nothing but horror and shame for what I did that night?

  Serafin : Horror and shame? Why, you were wonderful.

• Aunt Inez : Ah! the sun is shining for you today. A good omen. My Manuela, the wife of our mayor. You're going to be so happy.

  Manuela : What if I'm not?

  Aunt Inez : But you will be, my dear, if you wish for it hard enough. You can make anything come true by wishing for it.

  Manuela : Anything?

  Aunt Inez : Anything.

• Manuela : Oh, Aunt Inez, Don Pedro was right. He was right! Home, it's safe. It's safe, it's protected, and it's quiet.

  Aunt Inez : Yes, yes. It's quiet.

  Manuela : I want to go home!

• Manuela : Aunt Inez, I have something dreadful to tell you. Do you remember that night in Port Sebastián when you thought you heard a girl singing? You did. It was me.

• Manuela : No! No! No!

  Serafin : Fair Juliet of the Caribbean.

  Manuela : Go away!

• Serafin : When I held you in my arms and kissed you, you clung to me.

  Manuela : Oh, how cruel to remind me of that. You fooled me! You made a fool of me and you tricked me!

• Manuela : You can't ask that of me! You know I'd do anything in this world to save you, anything, but you can't ask that!

• Manuela : I - I hardly know you.

  Serafin : I hardly know you, either. We'll have the excitement of discovery.

  Manuela : But, I...

  Don Pedro Vargas : Do you two realize that I am in the room?

  Serafin : Must I remind you...

  Don Pedro Vargas : I won't stand by and allow you to make love to my affianced wife!

• Manuela : I love you for what you are: ruthless and cruel, taking what you want, fearing no one!

• Manuela : Oh, darling, darling. Oh. Oh, darling.

  [singing] 

  Manuela : You can do no wrong, You're as right, As the nightingale's song, You're the nth of perfection, Of them all, you're the star, When you gaze in my direction, Life is caviar...

• Manuela : One crime or two crimes might be something to confess, but crime on such a magnificent scale, why, that becomes an epic. You transcend th - the petty moral codes of ordinary men.

• Manuela : The most piddling of all men. A namby-pamby who dares not leave this village, a catchpenny who's afraid even of the sea.

• Manuela : [singing]  Love of my life, Life of my love...

• Manuela : Your spirit and your legend will live on through the ages. Oh, I worship you for your immortal deeds, your fearlessness, your daring.

• Serafin : [singing]  Be a crazy buffoon

  Manuela : And the 'demoiselles will all swoon...

• Serafin : [singing]  Be the poor silly ass

  Manuela : And you'll always travel first class...