Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
Anouk Aimée: The Queen
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Quotes
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Queen Bera : Hebrews and Sodomites: Greetings!
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Queen Bera : It is our pleasure - to give you pleasure. So, let us make you - comfortable.
Lot : You're wasting your time. I didn't come here to be drowned in wine and smothered in cushions.
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Queen Bera : As always, he thinks no further than the point of his sword.
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Malik : He's blind.
Queen Bera : Blind? What a wonderful idea! So delightfully imaginative. It makes the whole affair much more interesting.
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Ildith : Is this why I was schooled? To live here with herdsman - in huts of - stinking hide?
Queen Bera : You were schooled to do whatever pleases my whim.
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Queen Bera : I must say that at times, you men make me envy your freedom of activity.
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Queen Bera : Sweetest brother. Oldest and dearest enemy of all.
[seductively caresses Astaroth's cheek and sticks her finger in his mouth, he bites it, she smiles]
Queen Bera : Huh! You drew blood.
Astaroth : I know.
[he sticks his finger in Queen Bera's mouth, she bites it, he remains stoneface]
Queen Bera : It doesn't give you any longer - pleasure?
Astaroth : Not even pain.
Queen Bera : Go! Do as I order.
Astaroth : As you desire.
[sarcastically]
Astaroth : Sweetest sister.
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Queen Bera : Their punishment will provide us entertainment.
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Queen Bera : Next only to the pleasure of giving death is the excitement of watching it.
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Queen Bera : In the name of righteousness and your God, you have abandoned yourself to the lust for blood. You are a true Sodomite, Lot. Welcome.
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Queen Bera : You have converted the Chosen People, Lot - to Sodom.
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Queen Bera : What you call sin, to me, is virtue.
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Queen Bera : I turn my back on you, Lot. On you.
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Queen Bera : They're dead. The entertainment has ended.
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Queen Bera : A hot wind from the desert. We'll have a storm. It will be beautiful.