Clash of the Titans Page #3

He was handsome and fascinating.

I was very young.

- And now?

- Now I feel pity for him.

When you fought in the swamp,

why didn't you kill him?

Perhaps because I too felt pity.

I still don't understand.

We met today and yet you say

you've loved me for much longer.

I did see you once. I saw you asleep.

- From that moment I was hopelessly lost.

- Asleep?

Just believe me when I say...

...that I did see you.

And the sight of you passed

straight through me like an arrow.

It astonished me.

From that moment, I knew

that I would do anything for you.

From that moment...

...I knew that I loved you.

As I bind their hands

with this silken thread...

...bear witness that as she

is my heiress...

...so Perseus becomes my heir.

As she is my daughter...

...so Perseus becomes my son.

I give her to the man

who has saved us from despair.

I give Andromeda...

...the most beautiful of all prizes...

...more beautiful

than anything on earth...

...or in heaven. Even more lovely...

...than the goddess Thetis herself.

Hear me, vain and foolish

mortal woman.

You dare compare your daughter's

beauty to mine in my own sanctuary?

You will repent your boast

and the cruel injury...

...you have inflicted

on my son Calibos.

Forgive! Forgive....

In 30 days, on the eve

of the longest day of the year...

...Andromeda must be taken to

the Sacrificial Rock by the sea...

...there bound and chained

to the stone...

...she must be unknown to man,

a virgin.

A sacrifice suitable for the Kraken.

She must be delivered to the Kraken

at sunset...

...or else the Kraken will destroy

Joppa and everyone within the city.

For the insult to me

and the injury inflicted on my son...

...I demand the life of Andromeda.

In 30 days.

There must be a way

to kill the Kraken.

No.

No way known to man.

- You claim to be an optimist.

- Yes, I am.

I believe that man can

overcome most obstacles.

I've had enough of your philosophy.

It's time for action, not words!

Now wait one moment.

I said there was no way known to man.

There might be a way known to woman.

To woman?

Three women.

Three old, blind women...

...gifted beyond all others

in prophecy and knowledge.

They are wise, these old women!

Wise as they are ancient.

- Who are they?

- The Stygian Witches.

They live far away, beyond the desert

frontiers of Joppa...

- ...in the mountains of the North.

- Even if you find them...

...even if they show you a way

to defeat the Kraken...

...you may not live

to exploit their advice.

- Why not?

- They have a craving for human flesh.

When the plague of Calibos

infested the city...

...the queen sent ambassadors to visit

the blind witches. None ever returned.

Their shrine lies

many days' journey from here.

We have only 30 days left to us.

But we have....

We have a flying horse.

Three days will take three hours.

Take me with you! If only to the Wells

of the Moon. Just to be with you.

- We've searched the lakeshore.

- No sign?

A few hoofprints by the water's edge,

but no tracks to follow.

We cannot wait for Pegasus. I'll search

for the Stygian Witches on my own.

No. We will ride with you

as far as their shrine.

It is a perilous journey.

- Too perilous for a princess.

- You are not yet my lord and husband.

In the queen's absence,

it is I who command.

- Herald?

- Your Highness.

Return to the city. Inform the queen we are

riding as escort to Prince Perseus.

We follow the North Star.

Perseus is moving into danger.

He will find the Kraken somewhat

more formidable than Calibos.

- Your helmet is gone?

- Deep in a swamp.

- Lost forever.

- Replace it with some other gift.

- But what?

- Your friend. Bubo, the owl.

Give Perseus your owl.

It is all-knowing, all-seeing.

Give it to him. It is my wish.

- My command.

- Never!

Hephaestus will do what he can.

Brass and iron

are no substitute for feathers...

...but he's very skilled

and ingenious.

Let great Zeus rage

till even Olympus shakes.

But I will never part with you,

my beloved Bubo. Bubo.

Nothing. Nothing.

- We could be lost for days in this.

- Look!

It's heading this way!

It's flying straight for us.

Is it a hawk? Is it going to attack?

By the gods! An owl!

A golden owl!

Too heavy for the dead branch, eh?

How do you know that?

- He told me.

- Told you?

- His name is Bubo.

- Do you understand all those noises?

Perfectly clear to me.

It's another gift from the gods.

Like the sword and the helmet.

He can lead us to the shrine.

Come on!

Don't worry, my little friend.

Thallo will take you.

Someone coming.

Sounds like a man. A young man.

- Who has the eye?

- I do!

- Then give it to me.

- No! I want to be the first to see him.

What do you see, sister?

What do you see?

Yes! A young man, not plump

but well-made.

Have no fear. I come in peace.

Come a little closer so that we

can get a better look at you.

- We are honored by your visit.

- What can we do to help you?

Uh....

- I need your advice.

- Then you must come a little closer.

You see, my two sisters here

are somewhat deaf.

- I still can't hear him.

- Suppose we were to move...

...a little closer to him.

Now!

- Noise, what's that noise?

- What, what? Where is it?

Bubo! The eye! Go for the eye!

Where is it? What is it?

- What's wrong?

- It's gone! The eye!

- Don't drop the eye!

- Oh, no! Where's the eye?

- You have it!

- Never fear. It is safe.

Give it to us. Give it back.

- On one condition.

- Anything!

- We must have it now!

- You will have it.

- After you have answered my question.

- Ask, then.

How may a mortal man

face and defeat the Kraken?

The Kraken is invulnerable.

An army could not kill him.

Nothing is invulnerable.

There must be a way.

Perhaps, one way.

But a way even more dangerous

than the Kraken itself.

- Tell me.

- Give me the eye and I'll tell you.

First, tell me.

The head of Medusa. The Gorgon!

One look from the head of Medusa

can turn all creatures into stone.

- No matter how huge and powerful.

- And her blood is a deadly venom.

A Titan against a Titan!

- You must win Medusa's head.

- She's not going to give it to you.

- As a present.

- As difficult and dangerous...

...as to vanquish 1000 Krakens.

Your only chance against the Kraken.

Give us the eye.

We have answered your question.

One more question.

If the eyes of Medusa...

...even after her death can turn

all living creatures into stone...

- ...what about the blood?

- Deadly and poisonous.

But you have touched the eye.

As it has the power to give sight...

...so it can make your red cloak

proof against the blood.

The eye is all powerful. We can

tell you no more. Give us the eye.

- You have told me the truth?

- We swear it.

- The rest is for you. Seek Medusa.

- On the Isle of the Dead.

- At the very edge of the underworld.

- Give us back the eye!

Give us the eye! We must have it!

Here, catch.

Oh!

- Where is it? I want it!

- It's my turn!

Where'd it go? Give it to me!

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