Kingdom of Heaven Painting

Balian of Ibelin: What is Jerusalem worth? Saladin: Nothing. [walks away] Saladin: Everything! Saladin: [to Guy de Lusignan] A king does not kill a king. Were you not close enough to a great king to learn by his example? Saladin: Will you yield the city? Balian of Ibelin: Before I lose it, I will burn it to the ground. Your holy places - ours. Every last thing in Jerusalem that drives men mad. Saladin: I wonder if it would not be better if you did. Saladin: Who defends? Imad: Balian of Ibelin, the son of Godfrey. Saladin: Godfrey? Godfrey nearly killed me in the Lebanon. Truly, I did not know he had a son. Imad: It was his son at Kerak. Saladin: The one you let live? Imad: Yes. Saladin: Perhaps you should not have. Imad: Perhaps I should have had a different teacher. Patriarch of Jerusalem: When a body is burnt, it cannot be resurrected until Judgment Day. Balian of Ibelin: If we do not burn these bodies, we will all be dead of disease in three days. God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn't... then he is not God, and we need not worry. Bishop, Patriarch of Jerusalem: The things that we have left undone plague us as death comes. That is why to the dying there is no comfort but the Lord. King Baldwin IV: Spare me your sermon. Go and prepare your people for the coronation of my nephew. Bishop, Patriarch of Jerusalem: Your confession, my lord. King Baldwin IV: I shall confess to God when I see him... not to you. Now, leave me. Imad: Your quality will be known among your enemies, before ever you meet them. Reynald: I am what I am. Someone has to be. Tiberias: That I would rather live with men than kill them is certainly why you are alive. Guy de Lusignan: [Chuckles] That sort of Christianity has its uses, I suppose… Odo: Have you been at war? Balian of Ibelin: On horse. And as an engineer also. Odo: Against whom and for whom did you fight? Balian of Ibelin: For one lord against another, on a point which cannot be remembered. Odo: There's better game now: one God against another. The pay is proportionate. Saladin: I pray you pull back your cavalry and leave this matter to me. King Baldwin IV: I pray you retire unharmed to Damascus. Reynald of Chatillon will be punished. I swear it. Withdraw or we will all die here. Hospitaller: [while tending to Godfrey's wounds] When shall we stop this madness? Godfrey of Ibelin: It will soon be beyond my concern. Richard's Knight: We crusade to recover the kingdom of Jerusalem Balian of Ibelin: Go till the men speak Italian and continue until they speak something else Richard Coeur de Lion: We come along this road to find Balian of Ibelin, who defended Jerusalem against the Saracens. Balian of Ibelin: I am a blacksmith Richard Coeur de Lion: And I am the king of England. [For now.... I'll take a bolt to the shoulder (Just a little Elder Scrolls joke for you), anyhoo... "Here's Johnny!"] Balian of Ibelin: [pauses] I am a blacksmith. Sybilla: There will be a day when you will wish you had done a little evil to do a greater good. King Baldwin IV: Come forward. I am glad to meet Godfrey's son. He was one of my greatest teachers. He was there when, playing with the other boys, my arm was cut. It was he, not my father's physicians, who noticed that I felt no pain. He wept when he gave my father the news... that I am a leper. The Saracens say that this disease is God's vengence against the vanity of our kingdom. As wretched as I am, these Arabs believe that the chastisement that awaits me in hell is far more severe and lasting. If that's true, I call it unfair. Come. Sit. [they sit down on opposite sides of a chessboard] King Baldwin IV: Do you play? Balian of Ibelin: No. King Baldwin IV: The whole world is in chess. Any move can be the death of you. Do anything except remain where you started, and you can't be sure of your end. Were you sure of your end once? Balian of Ibelin: I was. King Baldwin IV: What was it? Balian of Ibelin: To be buried a hundred yards from where I was born. King Baldwin IV: And now? Balian of Ibelin: Now I sit in Jerusalem, and look upon a king. King Baldwin IV: [Baldwin chuckles] When I was sixteen, I won a great victory. I felt in that moment I would live to be a hundred. Now I know I shall not see thirty. None of us know our end, really, or what hand will guide us there. A king may move a man, a father may claim a son, but that man can also move himself, and only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember that howsoever you are played or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone, even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power. When you stand before God, you cannot say, "But I was told by others to do thus," or that virtue was not convenient at the time. This will not suffice. Remember that. Balian of Ibelin: I will. Nasir: You reap what you sow. You have heard of this, no? Godfrey of Ibelin: Do you know what lies in the Holy Land? A new world. A man who, in France, had not a house, is, in the Holy Land, the master of a city. He who was the master of a city begs in the gutter. There, at the end of the world, you are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be. Balian of Ibelin: I have to find forgiveness. That's all I know. Godfrey of Ibelin: Whatever your position, you are of my house, and that means you will serve the King of Jerusalem. Balian of Ibelin: What could a king ask of a man like me? Godfrey of Ibelin: A better world than has ever been seen. A kingdom of conscience. A kingdom of heaven. There is peace between Christian and Muslim. We live together, or between Saladin and the king, we try. Did you think that lay at the end of a Crusade? [Balian shakes his head] Godfrey of Ibelin: It does. My son, you are all that survives me. Do not disappoint me. Hospitaller: Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves. Balian of Ibelin: You go with the army? Hospitaller: My order is with the army. Balian of Ibelin: You go to certain death. Hospitaller: All death is certain. I shall tell your father what I've seen you become. Bishop, Patriarch of Jerusalem: Convert to Islam... repent later! Balian of Ibelin: You've taught me a lot about religion, your Eminence. from ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ (2005) Starring Giannina Facio (Gladiator), Liam Neeson (Hannah’s High Spirits), Jeremy Irons ("There's a difference, you know, between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window." --- 'Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head…'), David Thewlis (Naked), Michael Sheen (Heath’s Four Feathers), Velibor Topic (Snatch), Jouko Ahola (Vikings), Jaime Lannister (Cruise’s Oblivion), Nathalie Cox (Juno Eclipse), Alexander Siddig (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Eva Green (Sin City: A Dame to Kill For), Brendan Gleeson (Gangs of New York), Orlando Exposition ("Something draws near. I can feel it.” -- "They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard.” -- "There is a fell voice on the air." -- "A red sun rises, blood has been spilled this night." -- "They run as if the very whips of their masters were behind them." -- "The Horn of Gondor."), and Edward Norton ("Now I'm not pointing any fingers, Lord knows you start pointing fingers and someone's gonna get poked. And I want you both to know that its not my intention to try and... poke either of you."). Written by William Monahan (Infernal Affairs). Directed by Ridley Scott (Prophets of Science Fiction). Kingdom of Heaven is a 2005 epic historical fiction drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by William Monahan. It stars Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Ghassan Massoud, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Edward Norton, Marton Csokas, Liam Neeson, Michael Sheen, Velibor Topić and Alexander Siddig. The story is set during the Crusades of the 12th century. A French village blacksmith goes to the aid of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in its defence against the Ayyubid Muslim Sultan, Saladin, who is fighting to claim back the city from the Christians; this leads to the Battle of Hattin. The screenplay is a heavily fictionalised portrayal of the life of Balian of Ibelin (ca. 1143–93). Filming took place in Ouarzazate, Morocco, where Scott had previously filmed Gladiator and Black Hawk Down, and in Spain, at the Loarre Castle (Huesca), Segovia, Ávila, Palma del Río, and Seville's Casa de Pilatos and Alcázar. The film was released on May 6, 2005 by 20th Century Fox in North America and United Kingdom and by Warner Bros. Pictures in Germany and received mixed reviews upon theatrical release. It grossed $218 million worldwide. On 23 December 2005, Scott released a director's cut, which received critical acclaim, with many reviewers calling it the definitive version of the film. Source: Wikipedia

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