She (I) (1965)

Ursula Andress: Ayesha

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• Ayesha : You tremble, Billali?

  Billali : The man who fears your wrath and does not tremble, is a fool, your queen. The man who does not fear your wrath and yet does not tremble in your presence, is not a man.

• Ayesha : [about Ustane]  We must be rid of her!

  Billali : I speak again, whatever risk to myself. To be rid of her would be simple, but unwise. If you are to prevail, It is the fair one who must banish her, who must turn against her. He is a man of soul and conscience. These you must destroy.

  Ayesha : I misjudged you, faithful Billali. There is wisdom in your words.

• Ayesha : I am She: Who Must Be Obeyed! There is only one penalty for those who do not choose to obey. A lesson in obedience. Teach them!

• Leo : Was that barbaric execution necessary?

  Ayesha : It was necessary!

  Holly : In God's name, why?

  Ayesha : As a demonstration of my absolute power! How else could I hold my soldiers and these pathetic creatures as my subjects? How else but by instilling fear and terror into their very souls.

  Holly : But nothing is gained by fear and terror.

  Ayesha : Is your world so much better? Your world where men kill each other in their millions in the name of freedom? Your world that has not long to live. A few decades only before it destroys itself. Then, what will be left?

• Leo : Forgive me, but, who are you?

  Ayesha : Have you not seen me before?

  Leo : No. I don't think we've ever...

  Ayesha : I am Ayesha, who some call: She Who Waits.

• Ayesha : Do you know who you are?

  Leo : Of course, Leo Vincent. But, that's all I'm sure of at this moment.

  Ayesha : Even in that you are wrong.

  Leo : Then I leave it to you. You tell me what is right.

  Ayesha : What is right has been foretold long ago. That you would come to her again. From out of the darkness of the past. That you would possess her. And all that once would have been his.

• Ayesha : You, who chose to call yourself Leo Vincent, will you come to me again?

  Leo : Yes. Why not now?

  [long kiss] 

  Ayesha : It must be far from this place.

  Leo : Where?

  Ayesha : Across the desert of lost souls, through the mountains of the moon, a long, dangerous journey. At it's end, everything you desire will be yours. Power. Riches. Glory!

  Leo : And you.

  Ayesha : Everything you desire.

  [long kiss] 

• Ayesha : When you return this ring to me, then, and only then, then the dangers will be past, and all that has been promised will be fulfilled. Will you undertake it for me?

  Leo : Yes.

• Billali : Was I not right, my Queen? The fair one, is it not He?

  Ayesha : Only time will tell if that, Billali. In face and form there is no doubt. If it is truly He, come again, He must survive the perils of the journey. And I pray that my waiting will at last be over.

• Leo : Let me return this ring to you.

  Ayesha : No. It's no longer necessary, for now it is rightfully yours.

  Leo : Rightfully mine?

  Ayesha : Look at it. Does it not carry the insignia of the high priest of Isis?

  Leo : Yes. But, how does that make it mine?

  Ayesha : It was once worn by Kallikrates. It shall be worn by him again.

  Leo : But, he died over 2,000 years ago!

  Ayesha : Yes. And I have spent the years since his death waiting for him to return to be my love again! My only love! And I have not waited in vain.

  Leo : Are you asking me to believe that you have lived for 2,000 years?

  Ayesha : Am I not here? And are you not Kallikrates reborn?

  Leo : You ask me to believe too much.

• Ayesha : Come. Sit down. Do you remember your death, my love?

• Ayesha : Close your eyes. Float back on a sea of time - and remember. Remember. Remember.

• Ayesha : Time, my love, is but a sea eternal. We drown in it many times and are washed ashore again and again.

• Leo : Is there nothing I will not forgive in you?

  Ayesha : Nothing.

• Ayesha : Come. I will show you what no other living mortal has seen.

• Ayesha : Bring me the dagger.

• Ayesha : You and your servant will leave my kingdom forever! Come.