Genghis Khan (1965)

Françoise Dorléac: Bortei

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• Bortei : Outcast! Slave! Soon you'll be back in a wooden yoke. For, born a slave, you'll die a slave!

  Temujin, later Genghis Khan : Born a slave I never was! Born to rule the Yesugei was always in my stars. And not only one tribe, but people of many tribes were destined to follow me, to fight my battles, conquer nations. All this was in my stars. You - you, woman! Dare provoke my anger.

• Bortei : [about Jamuga]  As long as this man lives, none of his tribe will join with you. They can't! You know their laws. And our laws too.

  Temujin, later Genghis Khan : Killing him would be an act of mercy.

  Bortei : We're not talking of mercy, but of common sense!

• Genghis Khan : So many tears, but not one tear from you.

  Bortei : There will be many years for weeping. I want you to see me - as you have always.

• Bortei : Oh! Oh, no! Oh, get my ball, please. My ball! Oh!

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

  Jamuga : As you say, Bortei: not yet.

• Bortei : If it please you, now that you are here, say what it is you came to say.

  Temujin, later Genghis Khan : I have said what I came to say.

• Temujin, later Genghis Khan : My lady, anyone else listening to us now would imagine that you were trying to provoke a fight. But it always needs two to make a quarrel.

  Bortei : Not with me it doesn't!

  Temujin, later Genghis Khan : [laughs]  I like a horse with spirit.

• Temujin, later Genghis Khan : That was stupid of you. You do not seem like a stupid woman.

  Bortei : I am not a stupid woman. And what did I do that you thought stupid?

  Temujin, later Genghis Khan : You gave an order that was bound to be overruled. The master who feeds his dog does not expect him to answer to the whistle of any stranger.

• Bortei : Don't torment me. His name. My son's name?

  Temujin, later Genghis Khan : Jochi, the founder of our tribe.

  Bortei : Jochi. Jochi. It's a pretty name.

  Temujin, later Genghis Khan : It is not meant to be pretty. It is a man's name as befits the leader of our tribe. Only, by the time he is a man, it will be a nation!

  Bortei : If any man could ever do it, that man is Temujin of the Yesugai.

  Temujin, later Genghis Khan : Temujin of the Mongols!

• Bortei : I have shamed you before all men. Jamuga. I begged him to kill me.