Anna and the King of Siam Page #3

- The house you promised me.

Conditions different suddenly.

- Have we not agreed to teach our women?

- Well, of course I have.

How can you teach them

if you live outside?

It is our pleasure that you

shall reside within this palace.

If Your Majesty remembers,

you promised me a house.

I will do remembering

of what I promise.

Who is king here?

I remind you...

I do not know condition

which will arise.

I do not know anything

but that you are my servant...

and that it's our pleasure that you

shall reside within this palace...

and you shall obey.

Your Majesty, I'm prepared

to obey all your commands...

as far as they concern

my duties as a teacher.

You shall live in palace.

You shall live in palace! You shall...

Come back! Come back!

I command you, come back!

That king hasn't very good manners.

His mother certainly

didn't teach him not to shout.

Women don't seem to count

for very much out here.

"How can a king be wrong

and a woman be right?"

Well, the Disc of Light

isn't going to talk to me like that.

Beebe, take Louis

into the other room.

Yes, what do you want?

I have been ordered

into Forbidden City...

so I could personally

conduct mem to house...

His Majesty has graciously

decided she should have.

A house outside the palace?

His Majesty instruct me to say...

he desire to observe fully

terms of his promise.

Well.

Is this it?

Get out of my way!

Get out of my way!

What was it like? Is there a stable

for my pony when I get it?

- Is it on the river?

- Oh, Louis, it was horrible.

And he did it deliberately

to teach me a lesson...

to put me in my place.

But he'll rue this day,

let me tell you...

if he knows the meaning

of the word rue.

Unpack these things, Beebe.

Unpack everything.

- But, memsahib, you said...

- It doesn't make any difference what I said.

That man's going to give me

a house before I leave...

if I have to stay here the rest of my life.

I'll not just go away and let him

sit here laughing at me.

I'll not.

Mrs. Owens has graciously

changed her plans...

so will live in royal palace...

and be free for question

of education at all times.

I command you to be diligent...

and to make most

of this opportunity...

for sake of yourselves and country.

We will come to attention, please.

Order, please!

Quiet! Order, please! Quiet!

Order! Quiet!

Be quiet! Be quiet! Order, please!

Quiet! Order!

Don't any of you understand

any English at all?

Aaah!

They think you wear dress like that...

because you're shaped

like that down there.

Oh, you speak English.

Good morning, sir.

I am very glad to see you.

I think of you very often.

In the beginning...

God created the heaven

and the Earth.

Missionary.

Oh, a missionary taught you English.

- Thiang.

- Lady Thiang.

- Yes, sir.

- How fortunate.

I shall ask you to help me

in explaining to the others.

Uh, yes, sir.

Good morning, sir.

We shall now begin the class.

The usual way to begin would

be with the English alphabet...

but I should like

to impress His Majesty...

with the way English people feel.

Therefore, we will begin

by learning a song or two...

Or a sentence or two...

which will express English feeling.

For instance, this one.

It's an old proverb.

"If a man break faith with me...

"shame on him...

"but if I let him

deceive me twice...

shame on me."

It is not good day. I feel it.

There will not be

many gifts this morning.

- Who shall this be?

- My name is Tuptim.

She was sent

by governor of Lao province.

She's daughter

of his youngest brother.

Ah. What favor shall

this governor want now?

Never mind. Write letter.

Say thank you.

Make it nice letter.

Where this come from?

I do not know, Your Majesty.

There is writing on it.

Read it to me, oh, my father.

You would not understand it,

little one.

But I have studied a month now.

The English mem cha

says I'm very clever...

and you will be pleased.

Tell me something that you

have learned in school.

Good morning.

This is the thought for the day:

A promise delayed...

is justice deferred.

A promise neglected...

is a truth untold.

East or west, home is best.

Which seek thro' the world

Is ne'er met with elsewhere

Home, home

Sweet, sweet home

There's no place like home

There's no place like home

Be it ever so humble

There's no place like...

That will do for today.

Now I think it's time we started

learning our alphabet.

Look on your slates and listen...

while I pronounce the letters.

"A."

"B."

"C."

"D."

"E."

Oh, good morning, Your Majesty.

Are you going to say something

to our class this morning?

No!

"F." "G."

There's no place like home

No singing here!

If singing necessary, I sing!

Your Majesty.

It has begun, Toongramon.

We've lost Cambodia.

Our governor of Cambodia has made

a treaty with the French government.

They have recognized Cambodia

as independent of Siam...

placed it under their "protection":

and this governor of ours still protests

his loyalty to Your Majesty.

So, a camel's nose is in the tent.

The partition of Siam, it has begun.

For a long time,

we've said this hour must come.

Now it is no longer talk.

It is upon us. What do we do?

Nothing.

We shall do nothing

whatever in this matter...

because there is nothing we can do.

Your father took such a man once...

and burned out both his eyes...

hung him in the sun in a cage

over cool running water...

until he went mad.

We have not the right to waste ourselves

on something which cannot be changed.

We shall save what strength

and cunning we may have...

to hold together what is left of Siam.

And if we cannot save all that is left...

we shall save what we can.

Tell me something, Toongramon.

A long time ago...

I came to you and asked you

to leave a life of peace...

and be the king.

If I could ask you now

to make that choice...

what would your answer be?

Think well before you answer that.

Think what this can mean to you.

You feel great responsibility for me,

don't you, Chow Koon?

You might still be living peacefully

at the monastery...

if I had not persuaded you.

Perhaps it is not too late to return.

Think well on that.

The monastery instead of this place

where you have only enemies and danger.

Well, you know this is not the end.

The ships of Europe

will crowd thicker on our seas...

greedy for conquest.

They have the power...

and the cunning.

They know how to set your nobles against you,

how to buy and threaten them.

How can you hope to hold Siam together

against enemies without and within?

All that it can mean to you is that

in the end you will die in a lost cause.

I have done you a sorry service...

to have brought you to this moment.

I think you take too much credit

on yourself, Chow Koon.

There is a man born for every task...

and I was born for this one.

Remember,

I was prince before I was monk.

Let me ask you...

if you were in my place,

what would your answer be?

Then give me as much credit

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