Fellini Satyricon (1969)

Martin Potter: Encolpio

Photos 

Quotes 

• Encolpio : Ascilto... what does the poet say? Each moment presented may be your last, so fill it up until you vomit... or something such?

• Encolpio : I loved you, Giton, and I still do. I can't share you with others, because you're part of me. You *are* me, you're my soul. My soul belongs to you. You're the sun, you're the sea, you're the gods.

• Encolpio : I don't want to stand in the way of your plans, so to avoid competing with you, I'll go my own way.

  Ascilto : Fine! So, let's divide our things. That's mine and so is this. The mirror is mine.

  Encolpio : That's mine!

  Ascilto : And now, let's divide up the boy.

  Encolpio : Ascyltus, you must be joking.

  Ascilto : Let's let him decide.

• [first lines] 

  Encolpio : The earth has not managed to swallow me into the abyss nor has the sea engulfed me with its raging storms. I have fled from the law and escaped the arena. I've even stained my hands with blood only to end up here, destitute, exiled from my country, abandoned!

• Encolpio : Who condemned me to be alone? Someone who bears the mark of all known vices who should be banished by his own admission. Ascyltus! A young man who gained his freedom and now keeps it, through whoring. Who gambled away his youth. Who sold himself as a woman, even when he'd be approached as a man.

• Encolpio : That tart Giton, on the Day of the Virile Toga he wore a woman's stole. His mother had already convinced him not to act like a man. In jail he was a whore capable of forsaking the oldest friendships. Shame on him. He's a disgrace!

• Encolpio : What did the poet used to say? "As for me, I have always lived to enjoy the present moment as if it were the last sunrise."

• Encolpio : Ascyltus, my sword is blunted!

• Encolpio : We've got to be happy now. I want to make up for lost time. The flower of youth withers so soon.