The Fountain (2006) - Quotes

Embracing Death Leads to Wonder

Taglines: Death is the road to awe.

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Exploring the Concept of Eternal Life

Taglines: What if you could live forever?

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Death as Liberation for Souls

Taglines: Death frees every soul.

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Death and Creation Intertwined

Taglines: Death as an act of creation.

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A Promise of Love and Redemption

Isabel: Will you deliver Spain from bondage?

Tomas Verde: Upon my honor and my life.

Isabel: Then you shall take this ring to remind you of your promise.

Isabel: You shall wear it when you find Eden, and when you return, I shall be your Eve.

Isabel: Together we will live forever.

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A Call to Deliverance in New Spain

Isabel: Kneel, Conquistador.

Isabel: Let in the morning light.

Isabel: The beast runs amok in my kingdom. He has isolated me, and now he is sharpening his talons for one more fateful push. But salvation lies in the jungles of New Spain. Will you deliver Spain from bondage?

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Confronting a Potential Trap

Soldier: Perhaps it is a trap.

Tomas: It is.

Soldier: Then what do we do?

Tomas: We break through.

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Power Struggles and Fatal Confessions

Grand Inquisitor Silecio: Yet another slice of her nation is mine. Soon she will be powerless against me. Queen of nothing but her sins.

Servant: What will you do with her?

Grand Inquisitor Silecio: She, too, will confess. And, then, she too will die.

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A Moment of Reassurance

Tom: I finished it.

Izzi: Is everything alright?

Tom: Yes.

Tom: Everything's alright.

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A Conversation on Progress and Conquest

Tom Creo: There's been progress at work...

Izzi: [laughs] My conquistador! Always conquering.

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Creation Myth and Sacrifice in The Fountain

Izzi: This is an actual Mayan book. It explains the Creation myth. You see that's first father. He's the very first human.

Tom Creo: Hum. Is he dead?

Izzi: He sacrificed himself to make the world.

Izzi: That's the tree of life bursting out of his stomach.

Tom Creo: Hey come.

Izzi: Listen. His body became the trees roots. They spread and formed the earth. His soul became the branches rising up forming the sky. All the remained is first father's head. His children hung in in the heavens creating Xibalba.

Tom Creo: Xibalba. The star, eh,

Tom Creo: nebula

Izzi: So what do you think?

Tom Creo: About?

Izzi: That idea. Death as an act of creation.

Tom Creo: [looks away, withdrawing] I'll pull out the car and meet you out front.

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Facing Uncertainty and Mortality

Tom: I don't know! I'm trying! I don't know how!.

Izzi: You do, you will.

Tom: [smiling] I'm going to die.

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The Liberation of the Soul Through Death

Lord of Xibalba: Death is the road to awe.

Grand Inquisitor Silecio: Our bodies are prisons for our souls. Our skin and blood, the iron bars of confinement. But, fear not. All flesh decays. Death turns all to ash. And thus, death frees every soul.