Captain Corelli's Mandolin Page #5

I was born here.

This is my island.

Aren't you going

to go and arrest him?

He's defying you,

ignoring the curfew.

You're absolutely right.

Quick, get the gun.

Somebody shoot him, shoot him.

Capitano Antonio Corelli.

Now you try.

Capitano Antonio Corelli.

Lemoni!

Oh, what?

Babibaba?

Capitano.

- Capitano.

- S. Antonio.

- Lemoni.

- Antonio.

- Corelli.

- Go home.

Go on.

You can come back later.

Signorina...

...in times of war...

...we have to make the most of what

little innocent pleasure there is.

"I have started

to make a waistcoat for you."

"Eagles and flowers,

embroidered with gold thread."

"But I can't seem

to get them to match up."

"One flower is much bigger."

"One eagle is in a different

place from the other."

"And when I try to make them

more even, it gets worse."

"I just can't get it right."

You could kill him, you know.

He's the enemy.

You could poison him.

No one would ever know how he died.

Dimitri and Spiros have both

left to join the partisans.

They've gone by boat to Patra.

And who knows where from there.

I should be with them.

You're not going anywhere

until you are strong again.

Read the last one.

The last letter you wrote

before I came home.

"My darling..."

"I've heard nothing from you

for such a long time..."

"...and I feel desperate

and helpless..."

"...and I am burning my brains

with worry."

"Yesterday I wrote you

such a long letter..."

"...that said everything perfectly..."

- "...and believe it..."

- Listen.

Mandras!

I can't stay here.

Signorina.

Signorina.

You are drunk.

Ah, yes, I confess.

We have been

drinking, singing...

...generally misbehaving.

I thought you were a soldier.

Captain Antonio Corelli, 33rd Regiment,

Artillery, reporting for duty!

Is everything a joke to you?

No. Not everything.

Captain Corelli, I think this would be a

good time to hear you play the mandolin.

What on earth are you doing?

I was just about to start.

Well, about time, too,

I should think.

The first 45 1/2 bars

are for the orchestra.

"Allegro moderato e grazioso."

You have to imagine

the orchestra.

I'm damned if I can sit through

all that tapping again.

Just play your part.

If I do that, I'll start getting confused

about when I'm supposed to come in...

...and that, in a concert hall,

would be a disaster.

I apologise

for disrupting the concert.

I apologise to each

and every one of you.

To those in the cheapest seats

in the gods...

...to Your Majesties

in your royal boxes...

...draped in your jewellery

and your fine furs.

But I'm damned

if I can imagine an orchestra.

I am going to bed.

Is this where

the captain sleeps?

I was coming to see you.

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