Genghis Khan (1965)

Stephen Boyd: Jamuga

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• Temujin, later Genghis Khan : Once, you took the chain off my neck. Perhaps I can do the same for you.

  Jamuga : The price?

  Temujin, later Genghis Khan : There is no price. Only a dream accomplished. A unified Mongol nation, not just separate warring tribes!

  Jamuga : With the lord Temujin at its head?

  Temujin, later Genghis Khan : The stars have written it. Geen, my holy man, tells me this is true.

  [Jamuga bursts out laughing] 

  Temujin, later Genghis Khan : The Mongol nation will come, Jamuga. It will! And if the Merkits ride at our side, it will come sooner!

  Jamuga : The Merkits need no other tribes to ride beside them. Behind them, I should say! All others fear us already. Our power, our strength... even my death cannot destroy that!

  Temujin, later Genghis Khan : You're thinking so small that you can only think about yourself!

  Jamuga : And what do you think of, then, with this wild dream of yours of a Mongol nation? And apart from these stars that you speak of, what else makes you think you have been chosen to rule!

• Shah of Khwarezm : There is only one way to stop this violator of treaties. You and I will ride together against this Genghis Khan. We will crush this wolf, this thirster after blood, this corrupt defiler of women, this - scavenger!

  Jamuga : Your serenity speaks words of wisdom.

• Shah of Khwarezm : I had hoped to see Mongol kill Mongol, and so wipe themselves out and rid Khwarezm from all danger.

  Jamuga : Instead of which?

  Shah of Khwarezm : I find myself on an uncomfortable horse in a drafty place and in a very dangerous situation.

• Jamuga : If I were free from this yoke, my hands would steal your jackal breath forever!

• Jamuga : Dogs must be taught to stay in place.

• Bortei : I take no orders from you, Jamuga.

  Jamuga : As you say, Bortei: not yet.

• Shah of Khwarezm : I have not offended him.

  Jamuga : He has offended you. Years ago, that caravan on the slave trail, his violation of the treaty.

  Shah of Khwarezm : Oh, that was when...

  Jamuga : That was when the supply from the East was cut off. No spices, no jewels. No women.

• Genghis Khan : I asked for this meeting in the hope that Mongol would not shed Mongol blood. Also, that you might still join with me to spread the name of the Mongol nation.

  Jamuga : The Merkits are warriors. Not a group of women to become part of a herd. We say and do as we want. And we take what we need! From anybody!