Dustin Hoffman credited as playing...
Shifu
- Oogway: My friend, the panda will never fulfill his destiny, nor you yours, until you let go of the illusion of control.
- Shifu: Illusion?
- Oogway: Yes.
- [points at peach tree]
- Oogway: Look at this tree, Shifu. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me, nor make it bear fruit before its time.
- Shifu: But there are things we *can* control.
- [kicks the tree so that peaches fall]
- Shifu: I can control when the fruit will fall!
- [he slices a peach and throws the pit to the ground]
- Shifu: I can control where to plant the seed! That is no illusion, Master!
- Oogway: Ah, yes. But no matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
- Shifu: But a peach cannot defeat Tai Lung!
- Oogway: [folding dirt over the peach pit] Maybe it *can*, if you are willing to guide it, to nurture it. To believe in it.
- Shifu: But how? How? I need your help, master!
- Oogway: No, you just need to believe. Promise me, Shifu. Promise me you will believe.
- Shifu: I... I will try.
- Po: [checking to make sure Shifu is okay after his fight with Tai Lung] Master! Shifu! Shifu, are you okay?
- Shifu: [coughs] Po. You're alive!... Or we're both dead.
- Po: No, Master I didn't die. I defeated Tai Lung!
- Shifu: You did?
- [Po nods and smiles]
- Shifu: Wow. It is as Oogway foretold, you are the Dragon Warrior. You have brought peace to this valley and... and to me. Thank you, thank you Po. Thank you, thank you.
- [slowly lays his head back down, seemingly dead]
- Po: No! No no no, don't die, Shifu please!
- Shifu: I'm not dying, you idiot!
- [he catches himself]
- Shifu: Ah, Dragon Warrior. I am simply at peace.
- [lays down and folds his hands together, smiling]
- Shifu: Finally.
- Po: Ooh, so um, I should... stop talking?
- Shifu: If you can.
- [Po lies down next to Shifu; long pause, then]
- Po: Wanna get something to eat?
- Shifu: [sighs] ... Yeah.
- Shifu: [intercepting Po, who is fleeing the temple after learning he has to face Tai Lung soon] You cannot leave! A real warrior never quits!
- Po: Watch me!
- [tries to run around Shifu]
- Po: Come on! How am I supposed to beat Tai Lung? I can't even beat you to the stairs!
- Shifu: You will beat him because you are the Dragon Warrior!
- [pokes Po in his stomach]
- Po: You don't believe that!
- [Shifu swipes at his hand with Oogway's stick]
- Po: You never believed that! From the first moment I got here, you've been trying to get rid of me!
- [Shifu knocks him to the ground]
- Shifu: Yes! I was! But now I ask you to trust in your master as I have come to trust in mine.
- Po: You're not my master. And I'm not the Dragon Warrior.
- Shifu: Then why didn't you quit? You knew I was trying to get rid of you, yet you stayed!
- Po: Yeah, I stayed. I stayed, because every time you threw a brick at my head, or said I smelled, it *hurt*; but it could never hurt more than every day of my life just being *me*! I *stayed* because I thought, if anyone can change me, can make me... *not* me, it was you! The greatest kung fu teacher in all of China!
- Shifu: But I can change you! I *can* turn you into the Dragon Warrior! And I will!
- Po: Come on! Tai Lung is on his way here right now! And even if it takes him a hundred years to get here, how are *you* gonna change *this* into the Dragon Warrior? Huh? How? How? How!
- Shifu: I don't know!
- [sighs]
- Shifu: I don't know.
- Po: [sighs] That's what I thought.
- Shifu: Let us begin.
- Po: What? Well, uh, I don't know if I can do *all* those moves...
- Shifu: [chuckles] Well, we'll never know unless we try, will we?
- Po: Well, maybe we could start out with something more at, you know, my level.
- Shifu: And what level is that?
- Po: Uh, well, I'm not a master but, let's just say zero, level zero.
- Shifu: [chuckles] There is no such thing as level zero.
- Po: Well, what about that?
- [He indicates a small dummy]
- Shifu: That? We use that for training children, and for propping the door open when it's hot. But, if you insist...
- [after hiking up into the mountains, Shifu and Po stop at a pool of water]
- Po: [panting] You... dragged me all the way up here... for a bath?
- [he scoops up some water]
- Shifu: Panda, we do not wash our pits in the Pool of Sacred Tears.
- Po: The Pool of-?
- [he quickly shakes the water off his paw]
- Shifu: This is where Oogway unraveled the mysteries of harmony and focus. This... is the birthplace of kung fu.
- [cut to a vision of the yinyang and young Oogway mastering kung fu]
- Shifu: [leaping to the top of a rock] Do you want to learn kung fu?
- Po: Yeah!
- Shifu: Then I *am* your master!
- Po: [sniffling] Okay!
- Shifu: Don't cry.
- Po: [wiping his nose] Okay.
- Shifu: When you focus on kung fu, when you concentrate... you stink.
- [Po frowns]
- Shifu: But perhaps that is my fault. I cannot train you the way I have trained the Five. I now see that the way to get through to you, is with this.
- [pulls out a bowl of dumplings]
- Po: Oh great, 'cause I'm *hungry*!
- Shifu: [laughs and pulls the bowl away] Good. When you have been trained, you may eat.
- [He eats a dumpling]
- Shifu: Let us begin.
- Shifu: [sitting down to eat] After you, Panda.
- Po: What? Just like that? No sit-ups? No ten-mile hike?
- Shifu: I vowed to train you, and you have been trained. You are free to eat.
- [Po sits and picks up his chopsticks]
- Shifu: Enjoy.
- [Po lifts a dumpling to his mouth, but it is snatched away]
- Po: Hey!
- Shifu: I said, you are free to eat. Have a dumpling.
- [Po tries another dumpling, it is snatched away again]
- Shifu: You are free. To eat.
- Po: Am I?
- Shifu: ARE you?
- Po: [dazed] What are you pointing at? Oh! Okay. Sorry, I just wanted to see who the Dragon Warrior was.
- Oogway: How interesting.
- Tigress: Master, are you pointing at... me?
- Oogway: Him.
- Po: Who?
- [Moves around, Oogway's finger follows him]
- Oogway: You.
- Po: What?
- Oogway: [Raising Po's arm with his stick] The universe has brought us the Dragon Warrior!
- Po: What?
- Tigress, Crane, Monkey, Mantis, Viper: What?
- Shifu: WHAT?
- Mr. Ping: WHAT?
- Shifu: Our only hope is the Dragon Warrior.
- Tigress: The panda?
- Shifu: Yes, the panda!
- Tigress: Master, please!
- [pushes chair out]
- Tigress: Let us stop Tai Lung, this is what you've trained us for!
- Shifu: No! It is not your destiny to defeat Tai Lung, it is his!
- [points at Po, then realizes he's not there]
- Shifu: Where'd he go?
- Tai Lung: [growls] I rotted in jail for 20 years because of YOUR weakness!
- Shifu: Obeying your master is not weakness!
- Tai Lung: You knew I was the Dragon Warrior! You always knew! But when Oogway said otherwise, what did you do? What did you do? NOTHING!
- Shifu: You were not meant to be the Dragon Warrior! That was not my fault!
- Tai Lung: Not your fault? Who filled my head with dreams? Who drove me to train until my bones cracked? Who denied me my destiny?
- Shifu: It was never my decision to make!
- [gazes at Oogway's shrine and picks up his staff]
- Tai Lung: It is *now*. Give me the Scroll!
- Shifu: I would rather die!
- Tai Lung: [attacking Shifu] What I ever did, I did to make you proud! Tell me how proud you are Shifu! Tell me! TELL ME!
- [he knocks Shifu to the ground]
- Shifu: [quiet and sad] I have always been proud of you. From the first moment I've been... proud of you. And it was my pride that blinded me. I loved you too much to see what you were becoming. What I... was turning you into. I'm s... I'm sorry.
- [long pause, then Tai Lung growls and seizes Shifu by the throat]
- Tai Lung: I don't want your apology! I want my scroll!
- Tai Lung: I have come home, master.
- Shifu: This is no longer your home, and I am no longer your master!
- Tai Lung: Oh, yes. You have a new favorite. So where is this Po?
- [chuckles]
- Tai Lung: Did I scare him off?
- Shifu: This battle is between you and me.
- Tai Lung: So, that is how it's going to be.
- Shifu: That is how it MUST be.
- [Tai Lung attacks]