Flash Gordon (1980)

Peter Wyngarde: Klytus

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Quotes 

• Klytus : [watching Zarkov's memories of Hitler at a Nazi Party rally]  Now, he showed promise!

• Klytus : Bring me... the bore worms!

  Princess Aura : No! Not the bore worms!

• [first lines] 

  The Emperor Ming : Klytus, I'm bored. What plaything can you offer me today?

  Klytus : An obscure body in the S-K System, Your Majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet... "Earth".

  The Emperor Ming : How peaceful it looks.

  [He activates a console, and watches as earthquakes, floods, etc. start to occur. They both get a good laugh out of it] 

  Klytus : Most effective, Your Majesty! Will you destroy this, er, Earth?

  The Emperor Ming : Later. I like to play with things a while... before annihilation.

  [laughs evilly] 

• Flash Gordon : This Ming is a psycho!

  Ming's Floating Servant : This Ming is a psycho.

  Klytus : Who said that?

  Ming's Floating Servant : The fair-haired prisoner.

  Klytus : Who are you?

  Flash Gordon : Flash Gordon. Quarterback. New York Jets.

  Dale Arden : Dale Arden, Your Highness. Live and let live, that's my motto.

• [Flash is in chains and with a helmet over his head] 

  Flash Gordon : I demand to see the governor! I can hardly breathe in this thing!

  Klytus : Yes, you don't look well. I'm told you refused your final meal. The chef will be upset.

  Flash Gordon : Tell 'em to go to hell!

  Klytus : Maybe just as well. Gas works more quickly on an empty stomach. Any final requests?

  Flash Gordon : Yes, let me see Dale. Right away.

  Klytus : Oh, dear. How pathetic. Yes, I anticipated that.

• Princess Aura : l'm a princess. My father will have your head for this. He'll execute your whole perverted secret police. l demand to see him!

  Klytus : With pleasure.

  [Ming appears] 

  Princess Aura : Father.

  Klytus : The traitor is close to confession, Your Majesty. Should we stop the torture?

  The Emperor Ming : No.

  Princess Aura : Father! Damn you, Father!

• [Flash is using football moves to fight Ming's soldiers] 

  The Emperor Ming : Klytus! What is he doing?

  Klytus : I don't know, sir! It looks like some kind of barbaric sport!

• Klytus : The tributes of the Hawkmen will be first.

  Dale Arden : Are we dreaming?

  Flash Gordon : I'd like to think so.

  Prince Vultan : The fabled ice jewel of Frigia; we seized it in battle from the royal crypt.

  Prince Barin : Stop! The ice jewel is our tribute, not Vultan's.

  Prince Barin : Vultan stole it while we were burying our dead on Frigia

  Prince Vultan : Liar!

  Prince Barin : You are a thief!

  Prince Vultan : What?

  Prince Vultan : [Prince Barin draws his sword, preparing to attack Vultan] 

  [Vultan raises his clubbed sword] 

  Prince Vultan : Aargh!

  Klytus : Put down your weapons! No one, but no one, dies in the palace without a command from the Emperor.

  Prince Barin : Hail, Ming!

  [Barin lowers his sword] 

  Prince Vultan : Aargh!

  Klytus : Vultan! You obey, or you sacrifice your daughter.

  [Vultan's daughter emerges, looks at her father] 

  Prince Vultan : [lowers his club sword relentingly]  Hail, Ming.

• Klytus : Now, the tributes from Ardentia.

  Prince Thun : We, the people of Ardentia... We have suffered, since you blasted our kingdom. I can offer you nothing, this year, except my loyalty.

  Klytus : Prince Thun, we prize nothing more highly. And tell us... How great is this loyalty to your Emperor?

  Prince Thun : Without measure.

  The Emperor Ming : We are delighted to hear it. Fall on your sword.

  The Emperor Ming : Show us this loyalty. Throw yourself onto your sword.

  Prince Thun : [unsheathes his sword]  Let this deed of Ardentia's Prince be an example to all the kingdoms of Mongo!

  [Thun whirls to assassinate the Emperor] 

  Prince Thun : DEATH TO MING!

  [the Prince is frozen in his tracks by an energy-beam from Ming's servant] 

  The Emperor Ming : [DELETED LINE]  Now, let this deed of Mongo's Emperor be an example to all its kingdoms.

  [He takes Thun's sword and fatally disembowels him with it. Dale winces] 

• Klytus : Execute her?

  The Emperor Ming : No. Too kind. Aura will be banished to Frigia on the day after my wedding. One year in a cavern of ice will cool her blood. And then, who knows? Perhaps we will marry her to someone worthy of her treacherous nature.

• Klytus : Princess Aura, under our persuasion, has implicated you on a charge of high treason. You're under arrest! A prison ship will be here shortly to take you away.

  Prince Barin : You tortured Aura.

  Klytus : lnteresting girl. l think she found it rather enjoyable.