Romeo & Juliet (II) (2013)

Kodi Smit-McPhee: Benvolio

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• Benvolio : Love is a harsh tyrant where he rules.

  Romeo : Love is smoke, raised on a fume of sighs, a madness drenched in syrup and *choked* with rage.

• Mercutio : Alas poor Romeo! He is already dead.

  Benvolio : Why? Who and what is Tybalt that he should be so sure of it?

  Mercutio : More than prince of cats, I can tell you now. He fights like a music-player, all precision and keeps his time and distance, perfectly played, with one and two and three and in your chest. He's a gentleman and a duelist and none can fight him and live to tell the tale.

• Benvolio : Tybalt, I do but keep the peace. Put up your sword or manage it to part these men with me.

  Tybalt : What? Do you draw your sword and talk of peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell! All Montagues and thee.

• Benvolio : Good afternoon, my cousin.

  Romeo : Is it so? I thought it should be night.

  Benvolio : Not much past four.

  Romeo : I am sad, the hours seem long.

  Benvolio : What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?

  Romeo : I lack the thing, which if I had it, would make them short.

  Benvolio : I see. You're in love.

• Benvolio : May I not know who it is you love?

  Romeo : I love a woman.

  Benvolio : That much I found unaided.

  Romeo : Who loves me not.

• Romeo : O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a fine jewel in a Ethiope's ear. Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! So shows the snowy dove trooping with crows, as yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.

  Benvolio : But, what of your love - Rosaline?

  Romeo : Did my heart love till now? Forswear the sight. I never saw true beauty till this night.