The Storyteller (TV Series)

Sapsorrow (1988)

John Hurt: The Storyteller

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• The Storyteller : Next day, a proclamation rings out around the palace:

  Storyteller's Dog : The prince will marry the girl who fits the golden slipper. Feh!

  The Storyteller : Well, she thinks, what was true of the finger, is true of the foot. She was cursed by the ring, can she be blessed with the slipper?

• The Storyteller : Beginning as I do at the beginning, and starting as I must at the start, let me show you fate through the round of this ring. The girl whose finger fits this ring, she'll become queen. The law decrees it. What a lucky girl, you might think, hm? Oh, no...

• King : The ceremony, when must it take place?

  Minister : As soon as the preparations allow.

  Sapsorrow : Then first find me a dress of the palest silk, the colour of the moon. I will not wed 'til I have it.

  Minister : Very well, we will find this dress.

  The Storyteller : The princess in her woe plans a plan and schemes a scheme. To find such a gown will take time and meantime, you must all help me.

• The Storyteller : Two years later, a poor creature of fur and feathers tended geese in a king's garden. And scrubbed the pots in his kitchen, so that...

  Storyteller's Dog : [interrupting]  That's the princess!

  The Storyteller : Princess of slops, yes. Princess of peeling, perhaps. Princess of the kitchen floor, certainly.