Lady Jane (1986)

Helena Bonham Carter: Lady Jane Grey

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• Jane : [translating Greek]  The soul takes flight to the world that is eternal -

  [thinks, corrects herself] 

  Jane : invisible. But there arriving she is sure of bliss, and forever dwells in paradise.

• Dr. Feckinham : And what would you be prepared to die for, Lady Jane?

  Jane : I would die to free our people from the chains of bigotry and superstition.

  Dr. Feckinham : What superstition did you have in mind?

  Jane : Well, for example, the idea that a piece of bread can become the body of our Savior, father.

  Dr. Feckinham : Did he not say at his Last Supper, "Take, eat, this is my body"?

  Jane : He also said, "I am the vine, I am the door." Was he a vine, was he a door?

  Dr. Feckinham : Who has been teaching you to say such things?

  Jane : Don't you think I could have thought of them myself?

• [Jane, a Protestant, watches Lady Anne Wharton curtsy and cross herself before holy bread, believed by Catholics to contain the true presence of Christ] 

  Jane : Why do you curtsy?

  Lady Anne : I am curtsying to the Host, my lady. To Him that made us all.

  Jane : Oh, I see! So God made you, and the baker, apparently, made God!

• Guilford : Go on, ask me.

  Jane : What?

  Guilford : What I want.

  Jane : What do you want?

  Guilford : Oh, I think you know. I want a world where men are not branded or sent into slavery because they can't grow the food they need to eat. Go on.

  Jane : Well,

  [smashes goblet] 

  Jane : it's done.

• Guilford : Tell me, did you see his chest?

  Jane : Yes, it was marked.

  Guilford : No, it wasn't. It was branded. A mark burnt into him with a red-hot iron.

• Jane : You gave them all that money and they just threw it back at you?

  Guilford : Money? Do you know what's happened to the value of money?

  Jane : No.

  [Guilford slides Jane a coin] 

  Guilford : What's that?

  Jane : A penny.

  Guilford : No, it isn't. It's a shilling.

  Jane : It can't be, shillings are made of silver.

  Guilford : Should be, used to be. But not now. Which is why a shilling isn't worth a shilling any more. You've really no idea what's going on, have you?

• Guilford : [together, sitting, face to face, half-naked]  So then we will.

  Jane : Oh, yes. We will.

  Guilford : We'll fly.

  Jane : We'll fly.

  Guilford : Away, beyond their reach.

  Jane : So far.

  Guilford : Their touch cannot tarnish us - and at last, we will be...

  Jane : Nothing.

  Guilford : Nobody.

  Jane : Each other's.

  Guilford : Only this time, forever.

• Dr. Feckinham : It is a privilege to talk to anyone whose love of learning shines like yours.

  Jane : It is my only pleasure, Dr. Feckinham.

• Dr. Feckinham : Plato, in Greek! Not easy.

  Jane : Don't you think so?

• Jane : Next time I see your face, I want it for - eternity.

• Jane : Guilford, must it always be like that? Can the strong never be good?

  Guilford : Who knows?

• Jane : You know, you're talking of your soul.

  Guilford : No, you are talking of your mind!

• Guilford : [together, kneeling, face to face, naked]  So, then, we will.

  Jane : Oh, yes. We will.

  Guilford : We'll fly.

  Jane : We'll fly, away.

  Guilford : At last.

  Jane : We will be nothing. Nobody. Each other's.

• Jane : All gone?

  Guilford : All gone.

  Jane : All those great lords and bishops with their solemn pledge to serve me even unto death. Nine days.

  Guilford : You should have kept the keys.

• Guilford : Who is this woman? I mean, I don't know who you are.

  Jane : No more do l.

• Guilford : [together, naked in bed]  Did you know about it?

  Jane : What?

  Guilford : What we've just done.

  Jane : Well, only in terms of the broadest general principles. Unlike you.

  Guilford : Not exactly.

  Jane : What?

  Guilford : You're referring to my lady of the night.

  Jane : Well, yes, I was.

  Guilford : Passed out.

  Jane : Who was?

  Guilford : I did. Got to the bed - and then - blank. Total failure. Terrible embarrassment.

• Guilford : l just don't think our parents...

  Jane : Yes?

  Guilford : Will let us stay like this.

• Jane : Wake me, wake me! This is a nightmare! Wake me!

• Guilford : Jane, we're like a coin.

  Jane : How?

  Guilford : With a head on one side and a lion on the other. Heart of England. And one side alone is worth nothing, but *together*, we might find it possible to stay untarnished. That the strong can still be good.