Cleopatra Page #6

I once heard say to Caesar:

"They can't think. They can't

fight. They are playthings for us."

No man can speak to me

like that. Get out!

I'm getting out, but I'm

taking nothing of yours with me.

There's Brittany back.

And there's

the campaign in Syria.

This, you've long forgotten.

When I saved your life.

And this...

when you saved mine.

And this...

Put them back!

No!

Our long campaign together lies

with the plans on the floor.

The war goes on.

Is that all you have to say?

That's all.

Well.

Goodbye, Antony.

You, who might have been

the world's great man...

ends all for a woman.

For that, I give you

the world's contempt.

But for what you

might have been...

I give you my last salute.

So Rome would forgive

and take you back?

And all they demand

is for us to part.

Why don't they ask the sun

to fall right out of the sky?

Yes, we'll fight them.

We'll fight them all

if we have to fight alone.

Forward march!

Watch the cavalry!

Burn the boats! On fire!

So you've got it all, eh?

All my generals, all my

legions, all the Egyptians.

Everything I had on land and sea,

you've lured and brought away.

You've got it all.

You've got it all except me!

Come down and surrender.

You come up and get me!

Words. He fights

to the last with words.

Words. All right, you listen to them.

I'll come down and fight you alone!

I can think of easier ways

for you to die.

Well, if you're afraid,

I'll fight the lot of you.

One by one. Two by two.

And if that bores me,

I'll fight you three by three!

You've forgotten how to fight!

You've lost your army!

And if I decide to grant your request

and choose to be the first you meet...

what's the prize?

The Egyptian Queen?

Wait! Shut up!

The Egyptian Queen

is no man's prize.

She is a warrior of her own

and fights by my side.

Closer to the wall.

Closer to the wall.

It's coming down.

Don't lower that bridge,

you fools! Put it up!

Closer to the bridge.

He mustn't see us.

Put it up again, I say!

Majesty, did you

see him on the wall?

He looked so...

Oh, can't I tell him?

No! No. He wouldn't

believe I could help him...

but it's our last chance.

I've got to take it.

Forward.

Look, somebody's coming out.

Can you see who it is?

The olive branch! They're

carrying the olive branch.

The Queen of Egypt!

Look. Cleopatra.

It is the Queen!

Cleopatra surrenders!

Cleopatra.

Come back. Come back.

Come back! Come back!

He couldn't even keep her!

She's a warrior, all right,

but she fights by our side!

Jump, Antony! Jump!

All you've got

left now is the wall!

He can't keep his woman.

Where you going?

What's your hurry?

Wine. Bring me wine.

Look, this is Antony

the Roman leader.

This is Antony

at the square in Tarsus.

To send the woman back in chains,

then on to Egypt with marching men!

Here's to Antony!

My lord, can l...

Get out.

But Tarsus

isn't here it seems.

Instead, a couch.

A couch to lie on.

A woman to give your arms to

instead of chains.

Antony, who can't

think or fight.

Antony, the plaything

of a woman!

And there is Egypt.

Yours.

All I ask is to save his life.

Spare him, and I promise

you'll never see him again.

I shall take him away,

far up the Nile...

and leave with you Egypt.

I suppose of all the requests

that have ever been made...

yours is the most hopeless.

Spare Antony's life?

I'd sooner be dead myself.

And as for you, this time you

do go back to Rome in chains.

This time you face a man!

Take her away.

We can't do that, Excellence.

She came bearing the olive branch.

What's the difference? We've

only to smash the city's gates.

Oh, we'll smash

the city's gates, all right.

But she must have

safe conduct back.

We are Romans.

Oh, all right.

Go back and kiss him goodbye.

Thank you, soldier.

When you smash the gates...

you had better come in

behind your men.

I failed, but there's

still a way out for us.

I have horses waiting beyond

the passage to the tombs...

and a boat with trusted rowers

will take us to the upper Nile.

Antony, we can lose ourselves

there and still be happy.

Antony, listen.

I never wanted

to see you again.

How deep does a man

have to stab to die?

Antony!

Antony, what...

No, no more Antony!

Antony's gone.

You go back to Octavian.

He's the Caesar now.

You thought I went to him?

You... You thought that of me? Am I blind?

I went for your sake.

I went to plead for your life.

To plead, Antony.

I was pleading for your life,

and you were taking it.

Antony.

I am blind indeed.

I am dying, Egypt.

Dying.

Listen. There's little time.

Away from war in upper Egypt with

you would have been very sweet...

but this,

this is a better end.

A Roman by a Roman conquered.

No, no, no.

Don't pity me. Don't pity me.

We were born for war.

It was the soul of our love, and

we part at the top of our glory.

My precious Cleopatra,

I'm happy.

The end is in your arms.

My love.

Take me away with you

into the shadows...

as close as if you could

carry me in your arms.

I am taking you with me,

Egypt. I am taking you with me.

Forever.

Antony.

Hurry, Majesty. Hurry!

They're at the doors.

Prepare me.

The Queen of Egypt

goes to meet the conqueror.

The doors are breaking.

Royal Egypt, let me die before I see

you go to Rome in chains, defeated.

I'm not going to Rome,

Charmion.

Now, give me the basket.

It holds victory.

It works.

Little Iras.

Charmion.

Look well for love.

Look well.

And not finding it,

give nothing.

But if blessed with

Cleopatra's fortune...

give all.

Now, go.

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