Dante's Inferno Animated Page #4

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Here is Alexander, Dionysius, Attila,

and countless others.

The damned here

are worse off than the Styx.

These were the kings of bloodshed

and despoilment.

Be wary of the next passage, friends.

My thanks, Nessus.

Good luck to you, mortal soul.

We must hurry. Beatrice can wait no longer.

This is no forest.

Yes, they are those who did violence

to themselves.

- This is the wood of suicide.

- Dante...

- No, my friend! Turn back!

- Come to me, Dante.

Come to me, Dante.

Come to me.

Why do you break me?

Have you no pity?

Mother?

Yes, son.

I too am among the damned.

But how can this be?

When a soul takes its own life,

Minos judges it to this circle.

Here it sprouts, shoots up like a sapling.

No body, only pain.

No, Mother, you don't belong here.

You died of fever.

Her heart gave out from the fever.

She was just too fragile.

Where is she now, Father?

In Paradise, son,

with all the souls of pure light.

I despised your father's cruelty,

but I was too weak to defy him.

And so, I...

I took my...

You learned your father's ways,

but you are not lost.

You can redeem yourself.

Beatrice was all I had.

How could I have betrayed her?

The pain you endure purifies you, son.

Heed my words. You must look

into your deepest sin to save her.

And what of you?

Only the living can redeem themselves.

I cannot.

This is too cruel a punishment

for you, Mother.

God must know this is not your fault.

I'm going to free you.

My soul belongs to God now, son.

We are still in the seventh circle?

Yes, the Abominable Sands.

It is here the damned

did violence against God.

We came here to kill these heretics.

We came to reclaim the Holy Land.

Saladin took the city last year and spared

Christian lives. We should do the same.

Since when arw herwtics

worth a Christian life?

Enough. Enough!

Dante, no!

Fight with me, Crusaders.

Spill the blood of these heathens.

Their souls are already lost.

Dante, what have you done?

Crusaders? Herw?

Why are you being punished?

Our cause was holy.

We are absolved of sin.

The bishop lied, did he not, brother?

Francesco, not you too.

God never condones violence of any kind.

There was no holy war.

Don't you understand?

The priests lied.

Of all people, how could you be here?

It was you! You did this to me!

No, no, no, listen.

You don't deserve the life given to you,

you don't deserve Beatrice,

and now you will join us here forever

where you belong.

Brother.

I am not your brother.

You're an animal, Dante.

A monster!

I will not let you have her.

You know I'm the better swordsman, Dante.

It's over. Justice is inevitable.

Not yet.

He can rest for a while,

but he is forever bound here

like a shadow of time unforgotten.

He was a good man.

He doesn't deserve such suffering.

Heavenly Father,

let the soul of Francesco rise

into your divine Paradise.

What?

Pray for your own soul, Dante,

for it will freeze with me forever

in Cocytus below.

I'll kill you in your own circle, Devil.

Yes, a contest.

Hurry, Dante. Your beloved Beatrice

is soon my queen.

This is the union

of the three great rivers of Hell.

Another beast I must slay?

No, Dante. Geryon is our passage

to the eighth circle.

Climb inside. And be wary - it bites.

My thanks, Geryon.

This way, Dante.

We are in the circle of Fraud

which one commits

upon those who trust in him.

You must travel these ten malebolge alone.

And quickly - Beatrice is soon to wed.

Alone? What of you, great poet?

I will not be far, believe me.

You have proven yourself worthy.

Now hurry, Dante,

lest you lose your love forever.

I traveled on alone,

over the flatterers and simonists,

and as I ran I was overwhelmed

with my sins

as if every malebolge

was a chasm of memory.

I felt my mind weakening with every step,

and yet I would not cease.

Release that one.

His ransom has been paid.

My ransom?

No. No, you didn't...

You defiled yourself with him, didn't you?

Didn't you? You whore.

You have shamed me.

You are not my wife, do you hear?

Filthy whore. Whore!

I'll kill you. You bastard dog, I'll kill you.

I swear I'll kill you.

You bastard. You'll see everyone

you ever loved dead by my hand.

Dead, dead!

No, it can't be.

I have come for the woman.

No!

Leave her alone. She's innocent.

Run, Beatrice, run!

Get out of my house, filthy dog.

- Get away from me!

- There is no escape for you.

Stay back.

No!

Vengeance is finally mine.

It was me. Beatrice's death.

They were all murdered because of me.

At last, Dante, now you both see the truth.

You are the true cause of

Beatrice's suffering,

and the damnation of so many others.

How could you have done such evil to me?

Tear the heart from my chest,

rip the very soul from my body?

These sins are my own.

You have no right to Beatrice.

Relinquish her.

Never! Dwellers, night fiends,

and torturers of the pit,

strip the flesh from the mortal's bones.

Lucifer!

Beatrice, stop!

You don't know what you're doing!

I thought I knew many things.

I thought love was real,

but it was only an illusion, a fraud.

There is nothing left for me

in all of God's crwation.

Yes, my love.

In union, all of Hell's power will be yours.

Beatrice, don't do it!

When you had your way with that girl,

you gave me to Lucifer.

It was all because of you.

Beatrice!

No!

No, no.

The faithful has lost her faith.

The incorruptible

has become corrupted.

The true innocent has given way

to the sins of man,

like all the rest before her.

Who can now deny me my rights?

I will leave you with my consort.

She has so much to show you.

This is where you belong, Dante.

You are the greatest fraud of all.

You've lied to me, deceived me,

and for that you shall suffer.

Beatrice, don't do this.

You never loved me.

It was all a lie, all of it...

our whole life!

Beatrice, listen to me.

I braved the circles of Hell for you.

You mean nothing to me.

But I have faced my sins.

I am ready to take you home.

Faced your sins? Look down, Dante.

Look deep into the ninth circle...

the circle of traitors.

God in Heaven, what happened?

Who is responsible

for this massacre?

Take care of my sister.

I am responsible.

Hang him, and prepare to march tonight.

When the noble Saladin

learns of this atrocity

he will bring forth the very forces of Hell.

Take care of Beatrice.

Dante, protect her with your life.

Beatrice, I'm coming home.

I wanted nothing more

than to see you and beg for forgiveness.

I will never forgive what you've done, never.

But while I live, I can absolve you.

Forgive me, and free yourself.

My cross.

I brought it back to you.

Accept again the love of God.

Dante.

I forgive you.

I never wanted any harm to come to you.

You have done well, my friend.

And though you may not

understand it now, Dante,

you have perhaps saved far more

than just one innocent soul.

Wait. I can't be separated from her now.

I've come this far.

You cannot claim

a place with her yet, Dante.

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