Masque of the Red Death (1989)

Adrian Paul: Prospero

Quotes 

• Prospero : Now it is death that serves man!

• Prospero : We've brought this upon ourselves - we've called death to us.

• Prospero : I've not heard much about you since you left court.

  Prospero : [pause, then]  I've heard much about you.

  Prospero : Well, I hope you won't judge me without a trial.

  Machiavel : [stops and turns to face Prospero]  No more than would you.

• Prospero : [realizing that Machiavel has brought the Red Death into his fortress]  You! You brought the plague within these walls!

  Machiavel : No, dear pupil... it was you invited me in!

• Machiavel : [now fully realized as The Red Death]  How do you like the face of your tutor, Prospero? I had a dream, dear pupil... and in it I died, the first victim of the Red Death. I entered the realm of the Dead... came face to face with the Master himself, but Death wouldn't let me rest... sent me back to the realm of the living to be his messenger... and it seems, my pupil, that you are fouling his name!

  Prospero : How can the name of Death be fouled?

  Machiavel : There's only one fairness in life... and that's the fairness of Death. Death doesn't choose between rich and poor... young, old... man, woman... but you, dear pupil, have taken it on yourself to decide who lives and who dies, and there's no fairness in that! When you invade the domain of a neighbor, isn't it to be expected that the neighbor will retaliate?

  Prospero : You tutored me too well, old friend!

  Machiavel : [shakes his head]  Not well enough.