Man of La Mancha Page #2
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- 1972
- 132 min
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choose to be lenient.
Clever!
He's trying to gain time.
Do you have a scarcity of time?
Any urgent appointments?
It is true I am guilty
of these charges.
An idealist!
I've never had the courage
to believe in nothing.
A bad poet?
This comes from a painful ear.
Have you finished your defense?
No, no, scarcely begun.
With your permission,
I will continue...
in the manner I know best.
In the form of a charade.
Charade?
An entertainment, if you will.
An entertainment?
At worst,
it may beguile the time.
And since my cast
of characters is large...
I call upon you all
to enter in...
and play whatever role
may suit your fancy.
Governor,
I shall like to protest.
No!
Let's hear him out.
If you've no objection...
and with
your kind permission...
may I set the stage?
Proceed!
I will impersonate a man.
His name... Alonso Quijana.
A country gentleman,
no longer young.
Being retired,
he has much time for books.
He studies them
from morn till night...
till morn again.
And all he reads
oppresses him...
fills him with indignation...
at man's murderous ways
towards man.
He ponders the problem...
how to make better a world...
where evil brings profit
and virtue none at all.
Where fraud,
deceit, and malice...
are mingled
with truth and sincerity.
He broods and broods
and broods and broods...
and broods and finally
his brains dry up.
He lays down the melancholy
burden of sanity...
and conceives the strangest
project ever imagined...
to become a knight-errant,
and sally forth...
to roam the world
in search of adventures...
to right all wrongs,
to mount a crusade...
to raise up the weak
and those in need.
He persuades his neighbor,
one Sancho Panza...
a country laborer
and an honest man...
if the poorer
may be called honest...
and he was poor, indeed,
to become his squire.
He selects an ancient
cart horse called Rosinante...
to become his steed...
and the safeguard
of his master's will.
These preparations made,
he seizes his lance.
No longer will he be
plain Alonso Quijana...
but a dauntless knight...
known as
Don Quixote de La Mancha!
Hear me now
Oh, thou bleak
and unbearable world
Thou art base
and debauched as can be
And the knight with his banners
all bravely unfurled
Now hurls down
his gauntlet to thee
I am I, Don Quixote
The Lord of La Mancha
And the wild winds of fortune
Will carry me onward
Whithersoever they blow
Whithersoever they blow
Onward to glory I go
I'm Sancho
Yes, I'm Sancho
I'll follow my master
till the end
I'll tell all the world proudly
I'm his squire
I'm his friend
Hear me,
heathens and wizards
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