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"What family doesn't have its ups and downs?"

PG 1968 · 2h 14m
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The Lion in Winter
A Question of Love and Loyalty
Eleanor Henry.
Henry II Madam.
Eleanor Did you ever love me?
Henry II No.
Eleanor Good. That will make this pleasanter.
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The Lion in Winter
Eleanor's Bold Crusade Experience
Eleanor of Aquitaine I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy. I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled.
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The Lion in Winter
A Holiday Release from Captivity
Eleanor How dear of you to let me out of jail!
Henry It's only for the holidays.
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The Lion in Winter
A Confession Between Rivals
Eleanor Henry.
Henry Hmm?
Eleanor I have a confession.
Henry II Yes?
Eleanor I don't much like our children.
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The Lion in Winter
Eleanor's Dark Humor on Punishment
Eleanor of Aquitaine I'd hang you from the nipples, but you'd shock the children.
[to her jewelry]
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The Lion in Winter
King's Presence Disrupts Peaceful Rest
King Henry II When the king is off his arse, nobody sleeps!
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The Lion in Winter
Eleanor's Reflection on a Young Woman
Eleanor of Aquitaine My, what a lovely girl. How could her king have left her?
[Gazing into a mirror]
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The Lion in Winter
Holiday Decorations or Family Betrayal?
King Henry II What shall we hang — the holly, or each other?
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The Lion in Winter
A Mother's Complex Dream of Togetherness
Eleanor of Aquitaine I'm locked up with my sons... what mother doesn't dream of that?
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The Lion in Winter
Eleanor's Indifference Toward Henry's Past Relationships
Eleanor Henry's bed is Henry's province. He can people it with sheep for all I care, which on occasion he has done.
Henry II Rosamund's been dead for seven years...
[resentfully]
Eleanor ...two months and eighteen days. I never liked her much.
Henry II You counted the days.
Eleanor I made the numbers up.
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The Lion in Winter
Understanding Strategy and Winning Perspectives
King Henry II I found out the way your mind works and the kind of man you are. I know your plans and expectations - you've burbled every bit of strategy you've got. I know exactly what you will do, and exactly what you won't, and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes, boy, that's what winning looks like!
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The Lion in Winter
A Family Bound by Shared Knowledge
Prince Geoffrey I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows, and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.
[smiles]
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The Lion in Winter
Eleanor's Reflection on Power and Desire
Eleanor of Aquitaine He had a mind like ] and a form like mortal sin.
[of Henry; [Aristotle]
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The Lion in Winter
Father-Son Legacy and Royal Conflict
Phillip II You — you made my father nothing. You humiliated him, beat him down in every war, bellied with his wife, you played mock the monk — and you made him love you for it. I was there. His last words were to you.
Henry II He was a loving man and you've learned nothing from him.
Phillip II I've learned how much fathers live in sons. A king like you has policy on everything. Tell me, what's the official line on sodomy? How stands the crown on boys who do with boys?
Henry II Richard finds his way into so many legends. Let's hear yours and see how it measures up.
Phillip II I was 15 when he found me. He took me hunting. I had fallen from my horse, and I awoke to Richard touching me. He asked me if I loved him — "Oh, Phillip, do you love me?" I told him yes, and do you know why I told him yes? So that someday I could tell you all about it. You cannot imagine what that "yes" cost me. Imagine snuggling up to a chancred whore and pulling your lips back into something like a smile and saying, "Oh yes, I love you and I find you beautiful." I don't know how I did it.
[with relish]
Richard NO! It wasn't like that!
Phillip II Oh, but it was.
[coldly]
Richard You...you loved me.
[hurt]
Phillip II Never.
[amused]
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The Lion in Winter
A Call for Peace and Resolution
Eleanor What would you have me do? Give out? Give up? Give in?
Henry II Give me a little peace.
Eleanor A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now there's a thought.
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The Lion in Winter
Eleanor's Provocative Reflection on Family Ties
Eleanor of Aquitaine I wonder... do you ever wonder... if I slept with your father.
[to Henry, cruelly]
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The Lion in Winter
Power and Authority in Leadership Discourse
Henry II Now see here, boy...
Philip II I am a king - I am no man's "boy!
Henry II A king? Because you put your ass on purple cushions?
Phillip II Sir.
[makes to leave]
Henry II Oh, Phillip. Come now, you haven't got the feel for this at all. When I bellow, bellow back!
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The Lion in Winter
A Call for Attention and Accountability
King Henry II I'm vilifying you, for God's sake — pay attention!
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The Lion in Winter
Negotiations and Relationships in Power Dynamics
Henry I want to reach a settlement. I left you with too little earlier.
Phillip II Yes, nothing is too little.
Henry II I'm sorry you're not fonder of me, lad. Your father always said, "Be fond of stronger men".
Phillip II No wonder he loved everyone.
Henry II I've come to offer you peace.
Phillip II Piss on your peace.
[smiles]
Henry II Your father would have wept.
Phillip II My father was a weeper.
Henry II Fight me and you'll lose.
Phillip II I can't lose, Henry — I have time. Just look at you — great, heavy arms, but every year they get a little heavier. The sand goes pit-pat in the glass. I'm in no hurry, Henry. I've got time.
Henry II Suppose I hurry things along. Suppose I say that England is at war with France.
Philip II Then France surrenders. I don't have to fight to win. Take all you want — this county, that one — you won't keep it long.
Henry II What kind of courage have you got?
Phillip II The tidal kind — it comes and goes.
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The Lion in Winter
Deceit and Thirst in Richard's Words
Prince Richard You're so deceitful you can't ask for water when you're thirsty. We could tangle spiders in the webs you weave.
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The Lion in Winter
Alais on Power and Vulnerability
Princess Alais Kings, queens, knights everywhere you look and I'm the only pawn. I haven't got a thing to lose - that makes me dangerous.
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The Lion in Winter
The Lion in Winter - Eleanor of Aquitaine
Eleanor of Aquitaine Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war, not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government, nor any other thing. We are the killers. We breed wars. We carry it like syphilis inside. Dead bodies rot in field and stream because the living ones are rotten. For the love of God, can't we love one another just a little? That's how peace begins. We have so much to love each other for. We have such possibilities, my children. We could change the world.
[to her sons]
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The Lion in Winter
Royal Corkscrew and Twisted Fate
Prince Richard So, the royal corkscrew finds me twisted?
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The Lion in Winter
The Burden of Kingship and Intrigue
King Henry II I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be king, alive, and 50 all at once.
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The Lion in Winter
Sibling Rivalry and Indifference in Adversity
John What about poor John? No one ever says "poor John." My God, if I went-up in flames there's not a living soul who'd pee on me to put the fire out.
Richard Let's strike a flint and see.
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The Lion in Winter
Reflections on Legacy and Loss
King Henry II My life, when it is written, will read better than it lived. Henry Fitz-Empress, first Plantagenet, a king at 21, the ablest soldier of an able time. He led men well, he cared for justice when he could and ruled, for 30 years, a state as great as ]'s. He married out of love, a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria, or Rome, or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children... but no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them. You're not mine! We're not connected! I deny you! None of you will get my Kingdom, I leave you nothing and I wish you plague! May all your children breach and die! My boys are gone. I've lost my boys. You dare to damn me, do you? Well, I damn you back! GODDAMN YOU! My boys are gone. I've lost my boys. Oh, Jesus, all my boys...
[[Charlemagne; to his sons; he storms out the corridor, turns and looks back; looks skyward; in tears]
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The Lion in Winter
Barbarians and Their Weapons in 1183
John A knife! He's got a knife!
Eleanor Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!
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The Lion in Winter
Henry II's Stance on Women
Henry II I want no women in my life.
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The Lion in Winter
A King's Unmatched Love for One
King Henry II In my time I've known contessas, milkmaids, courtesans and novices, whores, gypsies, jades, and little boys, but nowhere in God's western world have I found anyone to love but you.
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The Lion in Winter
A Mother's Battle in Silence
Eleanor of Aquitaine Hush dear, mother's fighting.
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The Lion in Winter
Imagining the Impossible in Conflict
Henry II The day those stout hearts band together is the day that pigs get wings.
Eleanor There'll be pork in the treetops come morning.
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