Zorba the Greek Page #4

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- I hope it's a wedding dress.

A what?

Well, you heard me.

Boss...

...what have you been cooking up?

Well she was here

when your letter came.

I couldn't very well read to her

what was in it.

Could I?

That was not a very good joke, boss.

What about the stuff

for the overhead cable?

I got everything.

Don't worry.

A gift for you.

A box of English chocolates.

Thank you.

It's all right.

Hey, no more fooling around.

Not in this place.

Now we pull up our pants and we make

some money, a pile of money.

You are incorrigible.

I don't know what that means,

but here.

With my compliments.

Good God.

What have you done to your hair?

- I painted it.

- Why?

For pride. So I could go out with Lola,

without making her ashamed.

He laughs. But listen, you know what?

I became young like my hair.

Stronger than a bull.

You ask Lola.

And you know that pain

in my kidneys?

That's gone.

Figure that out!

By the way, boss...

...I come in last night,

and you were out.

Where the hell are you?

I...

...couldn't help.

Why do the young die?

Why does anybody die? Tell me.

I don't know.

What's the use

of all your damn books?

If they don't tell you that,

what the hell do they tell you?

They tell me...

...about the agony of men...

...who can't answer

questions like yours.

I spit on their agony.

Who's that?

It's me.

- Boss.

- Get her inside, quickly.

Hey.

Did you get drenched?

You are cruel.

Why you abandon me?

I will make some coffee.

The whole village,

they're laughing at me.

Where is my white satin?

Where is my wedding dress?

In Crete...

...you don't find the real good satin.

No!

So...

...I ordered some.

From Athens.

Yes.

Also some white candles...

...with silk ribbons.

And pink bonbonnires.

Our wedding, my dear Bouboulina...

...will be so splendiferous...

...it will blind the world with glory.

I can no longer keep it a secret.

I have engaged

the best tailors in Athens...

...to make for you a dress

like nobody has seen in the East.

Or the West.

Twenty meters of white satin

covered in pearls.

With the sun on one breast

and the moon on the other.

In pure gold.

Me too.

I have a secret for you.

What's that?

Open it.

- I'll have some coffee first.

- No.

Now.

You see what you've done.

Where the hell did you get these rings?

I had them made for us.

From two golden sovereign

the English admiral gave me.

I was keeping them for my...

For what?

My funeral.

Zorba?

Please. We become fiancs.

Now.

- But...

- We have the witness.

We have the rings.

Please?

But we have no priest.

I don't mind.

God is watching.

No?

All right.

We go outside

where God can see us better.

You, you get ready.

Witness, come on.

What do we do?

Can you sing?

- Certainly not.

- Never mind, I can.

Weddings, baptisms, funerals,

I know them back to front.

I was a boy chanter.

It's nothing.

Just a cold.

Tomorrow you'll feel better.

Next Sunday we go out,

have a hell of a time.

It's Easter, you know.

Yes.

Yes.

You need some sun to cheer you up.

Now, my beautiful.

We pull everything away.

Listen to that...

...beautiful noise.

Like kissing.

Very sexy.

I'm jealous.

- I don't want...

- No.

- I don't know what...

- It's all right.

Canavaro.

Canavaro.

It's me, Zorba.

Don't be afraid.

He asks us to drink to her soul.

Zorba, what about the funeral?

There will be no funeral.

Why?

She was a Frank.

She crossed herself with four fingers.

But I don't understand.

The priest will not bury her

like everybody else.

- But that's dreadful.

- Why?

She is dead.

It makes no difference.

Hey, boss!

Boss!

Come on. We are nearly ready.

Hey, Canavaro,

you want to come and watch too?

Come on.

It's nothing. It's nothing!

The first time it always does that.

Boss, where are you, boss?

It's nothing.

Hey, Canavaro. How are you?

- The lamb!

- What?

It will burn!

You know...

...people tell the future from this.

Can you?

Everything's fine.

We will live a thousand years.

Oh, I see a journey.

A big journey to a city.

With big houses.

How soon, boss?

I don't know.

A few days.

What will I do...

...without your company?

Cheer up.

We'll get together again.

No.

You'll go away and stay.

With your books.

Your health.

Yours, Zorba.

Damn it, boss,

I like you too much not to say it.

You've got everything...

...except one thing:

madness.

A man needs a little madness,

or else...

Or else?

He never dares cut the rope

and be free.

Are you angry with me?

Teach me to dance.

Will you?

Dance?

Did you say dance?

Come on, my boy.

Together.

Let's go.

Again.

Down.

Boss...

...I have so much to tell you.

I never loved a man more than you.

Hey, boss...

...did you ever see

a more splendiferous crash?

You can laugh too, huh?

Hey, you laugh!

You saw... You saw how they all ran.

Especially the monks.

The second time...

The third time was the best.

Nothing left!

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