Gemma Arterton: Tamina
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[last lines]
Tamina : How can I trust the man who breached the walls of my city?
Prince Dastan : Well, I'm starting to think I'm no longer the same man who breached those walls.
Tamina : That's a short time for a man to change so much.
Prince Dastan : Perhaps.
Tamina : It sounds as if you've discovered something here.
Prince Dastan : And what might that be?
Tamina : A new spiritual awareness.
Prince Dastan : Destiny.
Tamina : Yes, exactly.
Prince Dastan : I believe we make our own destiny, Princess.
Tamina : You have an unfortunate lack of curiosity.
Prince Dastan : No doubt one of my many flaws.
Tamina : Please don't mock me, Prince.
Prince Dastan : Oh, I hardly think we know each other well enough for that, Princess, but I look forward to the day that we do.
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Tamina : Such a noble prince.
Prince Dastan : Such a gentle princess.
Tamina : How taken you were with my fainting act, eagerly leaping to assist the fallen beauty.
Prince Dastan : Who said you were a beauty?
Tamina : There must be a reason why you can't take your eyes off me.
Prince Dastan : You're... I... I don't trust you. And you're not my type.
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Tamina : You know, you really walk like one. Head held high, chest out, long stomping strides. The walk of a self-satisfied Persian prince. No doubt it comes from being told since birth the world is yours, and actually believing it.
Prince Dastan : I wasn't born in a palace like you! I was born in the slums of Nasaf, where I lived if I fought and I clawed for it.
Tamina : Then how did you become a prince?
Prince Dastan : The king... marched into the market one day, and he... I don't know, he... he found me. He took me in, he gave me a family, he gave me a home.
[he turns away, then turns back]
Prince Dastan : What you're looking at, is... the walk of a man, who just lost everything.
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Tamina : [Dastan is eyeing a necklace that rests within Tamina's shirt; she notices him looking] See what you were looking for, Prince?
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Tamina : Dastan, where's the dagger?
Prince Dastan : You're welcome to search me for it. You'll have to be very thorough.
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Tamina : [as Dastan's leaving on his horse] So you're going to leave me here, in the middle of nowhere? Noble Dastan, abandoning a helpless woman in the wilderness! What does your precious honor have to say about that?
Prince Dastan : [returning] Give me the strength not to kill her.
Tamina : [Tamina gives him a look]
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Tamina : Everything changes with time. We should know this best of all.
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King Sharaman : In all my travels I have never looked upon a more beautiful city, your Highness.
Tamina : You should have seen it before your horde of camel-riding illiterates descended upon it.
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Tamina : Without the right sand it's just another knife. Not even very sharp.
Prince Dastan : This sand, is there more of it?
Tamina : Of course not!
Prince Dastan : How can I get some?
Tamina : Try standing on your head and holding your breath.
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Prince Dastan : You enjoy telling me what to do.
Tamina : Only because you're so good at following orders.
Prince Dastan : Don't press your luck.
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Tamina : All the pain in the world will not help you find something that does not exist.
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Tamina : [as they're hanging from the precipice] Stop him! If the glass shatters, the world dies with it! It's not my destiny, it's yours. It always has been. Let me go.
Prince Dastan : I won't.
Tamina : Let me go.
Prince Dastan : *I'm not letting you go*!
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Prince Dastan : [watching Sharaman's funeral from a rooftop, seeing thousands of guards] I need to get a message to my uncle to meet me.
Tamina : That's impossible.
Prince Dastan : [Dastan leaps across rooftops, onto ledges and horses, and delivers a secret message to Nizam; the scene cuts to him meeting up with Tamina]
Prince Dastan : Difficult, not impossible.
Tamina : All more proof you're insane.
Prince Dastan : Why do you look so impressed?
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Tamina : [about to die] I'm ready for this.
Prince Dastan : I'm not.
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Tamina : It's gone. Protect the dagger no matter the consequences; that was my sacred calling. That was my destiny.
Prince Dastan : We make our own destiny, Princess. We'll get it back.
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Tamina : So I'm being escorted by Prince Dastan, the Lion of Persia. Must feel wonderful winning such a claim for destroying such an innocent city.
Prince Dastan : Oh, a pleasure to meet you too, princess. And allow me to offer, that if punishing the enemies of my king is a crime, then it's one I'll gladly repeat.
Tamina : Then you are a true prince of Persia. Brutal. Without honor.
Prince Dastan : Don't make the mistake of thinking you know me, princess.
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Prince Dastan : What aren't you telling me?
[Tamina looks around for help]
Prince Dastan : The tribesmen left. Maybe they tired of your penchant for lies and backstabbing.
Tamina : I had no choice but to leave you. I take it your uncle didn't listen.
Prince Dastan : It wasn't Tus that killed my father, it was Nizam.
Tamina : [confused] Your uncle?
Prince Dastan : His hands were burnt. He said it happened trying to pull off the cloak that killed my father. I've gone over it and over it in my mind, he never touched the cloak, he must have handled it before. It was Nizam who poisoned it. What good does turning back a few moments of time do my uncle? None. He murdered my father for more than just a dagger. What aren't you telling me?
[produces the dagger]
Prince Dastan : You know, you've got quick hands, but so do I. If you want it back, you tell me everything. No more games, no more lies.
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Tamina : The secret guardian temple outside Alamut is a sanctuary, the one place the dagger can be hidden safely, the only way to stop this Armageddon. That's the truth, Dastan. Give me back the dagger, so that I can take it there.
Prince Dastan : Oh. I can't do that.
[he starts walking away]
Prince Dastan : ... I'm coming with you.
Tamina : [in disbelief] You're going to help me?
Prince Dastan : Well, we can sit here and chat, or you can get on the horse.
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Tamina : [about the dagger as he's walking away] You don't understand what's at stake! This is a matter for the Gods, not man!
Prince Dastan : Your gods, not mine!
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Prince Dastan : I didn't murder my father. That robe was given to me by my brother. Tus did this.
Tamina : And now he stands to be crowned king.
Prince Dastan : I didn't kill my father.
Tamina : I believe you.
Prince Dastan : You shouldn't be here. I shouldn't have let you come.
Tamina : But you did.
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Prince Dastan : Incredible! Releasing the sand... turns back time! And only the holder of the dagger is aware of what's happened. He could go back and alter events, change time. And no one knows but him. How much can it unwind? Answer me, Princess!
Tamina : You destroyed my city!
Prince Dastan : Our invasion wasn't about weapon forges, it was about this dagger. After the battle, Tus asked for this dagger as tribute. I didn't think anything of it, but now I see. With it he could change anything, he could change the, the course of a critical moment in battle, he could foresee the blade of a rival! He wouldn't just be king, he'd be the most powerful ruler Persia has ever seen, greater even than my father. It was all about this dagger!
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Tamina : Our friends in the palace say the Persians have broken through to the first level of the tunnels. They'll reach the Sand Glass within hours. Nizam's keeping the dagger in the High Temple, guarded by some sort of demon, covered in spikes.
Prince Dastan : The Hassansin that killed my brother.
Tamina : It's the only thing that stands between us and the dagger. No man can stand within twenty yards of him and live.
Seso : Some don't need to get that close.
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Prince Dastan : We can't stop.
Sheik Amar : Well perhaps you can't, but we can!
Tamina : We could use your help getting to the temple.
Sheik Amar : Oh, by crossing the Hindu Kush with a storm blowing? You attract trouble like flies 'round rotting mango *and* you're insane!
Tamina : There's gold at the temple. More than ten horses can carry. Tax-free.
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Tamina : [Dastan is eying a necklace that rests within Tamina's shirt, she notices him looking] See what you were looking for?
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Tamina : The dagger blade is the only thing that can pierce the Sand Glass and remove the Sands of Time, but the handle only holds one minute.
Prince Dastan : What if one were to place the dagger in the Sand Glass and press the jewel button at the same time?
Tamina : Sand would flow through endlessly...
Prince Dastan : ...you could turn back time as far as you like.
Tamina : Yes, but it is forbidden.
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Tamina : Dastan, the Sands contained within the Sand Glass are incredibly powerful. Opening the dagger while it's inside the glass breaks the seal... and destroys the Sand Glass, causing it to crack and shatter. The Sands of Time would no longer be contained, and they would carry the Gods' wrath with them once more, destroying everything in their path, and all mankind would pay for Nizam's treachery. This is all that would be left of us.
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Tamina : Where are you going?
Prince Dastan : To Avrat, where my father will be buried.
Tamina : You're wanted for the king's murder and you're marching to his funeral alongside thousands of Persian soldiers?
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Tamina : Every road to Avrat will be covered with Persian troops!
Prince Dastan : Well, I'm not taking roads. I'm going through the Valley of the Slaves.
Tamina : No one goes near that wasteland. It's filled with murdering cutthroats.
Prince Dastan : Yes, so they say.
Tamina : Your whole plan is suicide!
Prince Dastan : My brother murdered my father and let his blood in my hands! If I die trying to set that right, then so be it!
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Tamina : I'm desperate for a drop of water!
Prince Dastan : Well that's more than we have since you emptied our canteen hours ago.
Tamina : I wasn't born of this desert like you Persians, all shriveled and angry. My constitution is much more... delicate.
Prince Dastan : I think you mean spoiled.
Tamina : The wells of Alamut are famed for their clean, cold water.
Prince Dastan : Perhaps less time admiring your wells and more time guarding your walls, and you wouldn't be here.
[pause]
Prince Dastan : Hah, a miracle! I've silenced the princess!
[he turns around to see Tamina lying on the ground; he moves over to help her]
Prince Dastan : Tamina? Tamina. Can you hear me?
Tamina : [she suddenly knocks him out cold with a bone and steals the dagger] Yes Dastan, I can hear you!
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Prince Dastan : [smirking] What do you intend to do with her?
Tamina : [sarcastically] Yes, do tell him, can't you see how concerned he is?
