The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

Morton Selten: The Old King

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Quotes 

• [Abu enters the tent and sees the Old King] 

  The Old King : Welcome, our prince.

  [Abu steps forward to the Old King] 

  The Old King : Welcome, little prince.

  Abu : Father of a beard, there's some mistake. I'm not a prince. I'm only a thief.

  The Old King : For you, we have been waiting twice two thousand years.

  Abu : Oh, no. Not waiting for me, because I didn't know I was coming, and I don't know how I've come. Who are you, father of miracles? And where am I?

  The Old King : This is the land of legend, where everything is possible when seen through the eyes of youth. We are the remnant of the golden age. Golden because gold was nothing, no more than the sand beneath your feet. Or the stone that we became.

  Abu : How did you become stone?

  The Old King : We were petrified with horror for the evil done among men when they ceased to be children, and to believe in the beauty of the impossible. Whenever the heart of a child returns to us, and comes into us, we live again. And so, as that child, you are to be my successor. Now, come with me and I will present you with two insignia of true kingship.