This takes some beating as a scene. - Braveheart
WALLACE
Sons of Scotland!... I am William
Wallace!
SOLDIER
William Wallace is seven feet tall!
WALLACE
Yes, I have heard! He kills men by
the hundreds! And if he were here,
he would consume the English with
fireballs from his eyes, and bolts
of lightning from his ass!
Many laugh -- all get the point.
WALLACE
I am William Wallace. And my enemies
do not go away. I saw our good nobles
hanged. My wife... I am William
Wallace. And I see a whole army of
my countrymen, here in defiance of
tyranny. You have come to fight as
free men. And free men you are! What
will you do with freedom? Will you
fight?
VETERAN
Two thousand, against ten? We will
run -- and live!
WALLACE
Yes. Fight and you may die. Run and
you will live, at least awhile. And
dying in your bed many years from
now, would you be willing to trade
all the days from this day to that,
for one chance to come back here as
young men, and tell our enemies that
they make take our lives, but they
will never take our freedom?  |