The Mission Page #2

Synopsis: Jeremy Irons plays a Spanish Jesuit who goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region. Robert DeNiro plays a slave hunter who is converted and joins Irons in his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
Director(s): Roland Joffé
Production: Warner Home Video
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 27 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
PG
Year:
1986
125 min
2,028 Views


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"Though I have all faith

so that I could remove mountains...

... and have not love, I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods

to feed the poor...

... and though I give my body

to be burned...

... and have not love,

it profiteth me nothing.

Love suffereth long and is kind.

Love envieth not.

Love vaunteth not itself,

is not puffed up.

When I was a child,

I spake as a child...

... I understood as a child,

I thought as a child.

But when I became a man,

I put away childish things.

But now abideth faith, hope, love...

These three.

But the greatest of these is love. "

They've agreed.

If you're going to become a Jesuit,

you must accept my orders...

...as if they were the orders

of a commander. Can you do that?

Yes, Father.

Let us pray for our brother Rodrigo.

Christ, you led Father Ignatius to

renounce the snares of this world...

...and to put on the livery

of labor and humiliation.

Now we ask your blessing on Rodrigo

as we welcome him into our community.

Teach him to be generous,

to labor and not to count the cost...

...to serve with no reward,

save the doing of your will.

Amen.

Welcome home, brother.

This seeking to create

a paradise on earth...

... how easily it offends.

Your Holiness is offended...

... because it may distract from

that paradise which comes hereafter.

The Spanish and Portuguese kings

are offended...

... because a paradise of the poor

is seldom pleasing to those who rule.

And the settlers here are offended

for the same reason.

So it was this burden I carried

to South America:

To satisfy the Portuguese wish

to enlarge their empire...

... to satisfy the Spanish desire that

this would do them no harm...

... to satisfy Your Holiness...

... that these monarchs would threaten

no more the power of the church...

... and to ensure for you all...

... that the Jesuits here could no longer

deny you these satisfactions.

Lve spent half my life

waiting for Rome.

Stop playing with that.

- What time is it?

- Calm down.

Ten to.

Let me see how the children are doing.

Good.

Twenty-four.

Thirty-nine.

Over there, please.

- Those are Guarani?

- Yes, Your Eminence.

- Extraordinary.

- What?

Very difficult to tell

what they're thinking.

- Have you found this, Seor Hontar?

- I have.

I had that reaction when I first came,

Your Eminence.

Pretty creature.

She'll fetch a lot of money in Lisbon.

Yes. Well, perhaps

she doesn't want to go to Lisbon.

Perhaps not.

Well, Your Eminence,

as to the missions...

We expect no political difference between

the Papacy and Spain and Portugal?

Why should there be?

Between ourselves, Your Eminence,

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Robert Bolt

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