The Blue Bird Page #2

Synopsis: Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, a woodchopper's children, are led by the Fairy Berylune on a magical trip through the past, present, and future to locate the Blue Bird of Happiness.
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Director(s): Walter Lang
Production: Twentieth Century Fox
 
IMDB:
6.5
APPROVED
Year:
1940
88 min
869 Views


- Why, what's wrong?

Orders from Andreas Hofer

to mobilize at once.

- Mobilize?

- Oh, no.

Napoleon's soldiers are on the march again.

They're heading toward the frontier.

As close as that?

- Well, we-we stood them

off before, didn't we?

- And we'll do it again.

We assemble in the village square

tomorrow at noon.

- I'll be there.

- Till tomorrow then.

War.

- Daddy!

- Oh, Daddy.

- I don't want you to go.

- I must go, dear.

Why do they have to have war?

What makes war anyway?

The same thing that makes

trouble everywhere-

greed, selfishness,

those not content with what they have.

But you're not like that, Daddy.

Why should you have to go?

That's what's wrong about it, Mytyl.

You can't be unhappy

inside yourself...

without making others unhappy too.

Remember that.

Come, come.

Finish your suppers, all of you.

Is there any more, Mummy?

You don't get stew like this in the army.

- Good night, dear.

- Mummy?

- Yes, dear?

- I'm sorry for the way I behaved at supper.

That's what you always say,

Mytyl, that you're sorry...

but the next day you do

the same thing right over again.

I know I do.

I don't know why.

Well, you must find out why.

Otherwise, you'll always be unhappy

and discontented. You don't want that, do you?

- No.

- You want to be happy, don't you?

Yes, Mummy. Like you.

You're happy all the time, aren't you?

Well, nearly all the time, dear.

Don't worry, Mummy.

Daddy will come back.

Tyltyl, are you asleep?

No, I don't think so.

Are you?

How could I be asleep

when I'm talking to you?

- Did you hear someone knocking?

- I heard something.

- I'd better get Daddy.

- Wait for me, Mytyl.

Didn't you hear me knocking?

- Why, yes, but-

- Well, why didn't you let me in then?

Who are you?

Why, haven't your eyes?

Can't you see?

- I'm Betylune.

- Betylune?

Yes, the Faity Betylune.

Well, it's a little dark

to see clearly.

Dark?

Well, it needn't be.

Light up there.

It- It lighted, all by itself.

- How did you do that?

- Oh, don't ask foolish questions.

But Daddy can't even do that.

Hurry now, quick.

Hop into your clothes and be off.

- You've got to find the blue bird.

- The blue bird.

Of course. The bird that is blue.

The blue bird.

But why? Why would we find it?

Why? You want to be happy, don't you?

Of course. But what do

I want with a blue bird?

Oh, what a stupid girl you are.

Don't you know that the blue bird

means happiness?

How could it?

Well, didn't I say it did?

Now get dressed, both of you.

Or better still, I'll do it for you.

Quiet now. Quiet.

Quiet. Be clothed!

Look, Tyltyl.

Even your boots are laced up.

Mummy wouldn't mind

having you around all the time.

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Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (also called Comte (Count) Maeterlinck from 1932; [mo.ʁis ma.tɛʁ.lɛ̃ːk] in Belgium, [mɛ.teʁ.lɛ̃ːk] in France; 29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949) was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations". The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. His plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement. more…

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