Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

Michelle Yeoh: Soothsayer

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Quotes 

• Soothsayer : Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you *choose* to be. So, who are you, panda?

  Po : [determined]  I am Po. And I'm gonna need a hat.

• Soothsayer : [foretelling]  If you continue on your current path, you will find yourself... at the bottom of the stairs.

  [Shen sees he has reached the bottom of the stairs] 

  Soothsayer : I see... I see... I see, pain!

  [she pulls out one of Shen's feathers] 

  Shen : Ow!

  Soothsayer : And anger!

  [she takes a bite out of Shen's robe] 

  Shen : How dare you! This is the finest silk in the province!

• Soothsayer : I see... I see... pain.

  [plucks out some of Shen's feathers] 

  Shen : OW!

  Soothsayer : And anger.

  [chews on the hem of his robe] 

  Shen : How dare you! That is the finest silk in the province!

  Soothsayer : Followed by denial.

  Shen : This is not fortune-telling, you're just saying what's happening right...!

  Soothsayer : Now?

  [Shen glares] 

  Soothsayer : The most important time, is now.

• Shen : [triumphantly]  You were wrong, Soothsayer!

  [wields sword] 

  Shen : We sail to victory tonight. Your magic panda is clearly a fool!

  Soothsayer : [angrily]  Are you certain it is the panda that is a fool? You just destroyed your ancestral home, Shen!

  Shen : A trivial sacrifice... when all of China is my reward.

  [pokes the burning tip to a map of China, which bursts into a spreading flame] 

  Soothsayer : Then will you finally be satisfied? Will the subjugation of the whole world finally make you feel better?

  Shen : [Sneers]  It's a start. I was also thinking of converting the basement into a dungeon.

  Soothsayer : [pause]  The cup you choose to fill has no bottom. It is time to stop this madness.

  Shen : And why on Earth would I do that?

  Soothsayer : So your parents can rest in peace.

  Shen : [bitterly]  My parents... hated me. Do you understand? They - they wronged me. And... I will make it right.

  Soothsayer : They loved you. They loved you so much that having to send you away killed them.

  Shen : [pause]  The dead exist in the past. And I must attend to the future.

  [to his gorilla guard] 

  Shen : Set the Soothsayer free. She is of no use to me.

  Soothsayer : [sadly]  Goodbye, Shen. I wish you happiness.

  Shen : Happiness... must be taken. And I will take mine.

• Soothsayer : A peacock... is defeated by a warrior of black and white. Nothing has changed.

  Shen : [enraged, then laughs]  That is impossible, and you know it.

  Soothsayer : It is *not* impossible, and *he* knows it.

  Shen : Who?

  Wolf Boss : [enters]  Lord Shen, I saw a panda!

  Shen : A panda?

  [jumps on the wolf] 

  Wolf Boss : A kung fu warrior! He fought like a demon! Big and furry, soft and squishy... kind of plush and cuddly.

• Soothsayer : This was a thriving village. Young Shen was in line to rule Gongmen City. But he wanted more. I foretold that someone would stand in his way. A panda. But I never could have foretold what came next.

  [Po has another flashback of Shen attacking the panda village] 

  Soothsayer : Stop fighting. Let it flow.

• Shen : So, one panda lives. That does not make you right.

  Soothsayer : You're right. Being *right* makes me right.

  Shen : Then I will kill him, and make you wrong!

• Shen : Why don't you tell me my...

  Soothsayer : Fortune?

  Shen : [annoyed]  The future. I was going to say "future."

• [first lines] 

  Soothsayer : [voiceover]  Long ago, in ancient China, the peacocks ruled over Gongmen City. They brought great joy and prosperity to the city, for they had invented fireworks. But their son, Lord Shen, saw darker power in the fireworks. What had brought color and joy could also bring darkness and destruction. Shen's troubled parents consulted a soothsayer. She foretold that if Shen continued down this dark path, he would be defeated by a warrior of black and white. The young lord set out to change his fate, but what he did next... only sealed it. Shen returned to his parents full of pride, but in their faces, he only saw horror. He was banished from the city forever. But Shen swore revenge. Someday, he would return, and all of China would bow at his feet.

• Po : I did not have a lifetime... we only heard about Master Thundering Rhino a few days ago, and we came to avenge him!

  Soothsayer : [stares]  You've come to avenge nothing else?

  Po : Yeah, all those pots and pans you stole- we're going to want those back!

  Soothsayer : Nothing else?

  Po : You probably did some other evil stuff on the way, I don't know, what else did he do?

  Soothsayer : [shocked]  You don't know...

  Po : Know what?

  [Shen laughs] 

  Po : What's so funny?

  Shen : Precisely the thing... that you clearly do *not* know!

• Shen : [about Po]  You really think that this is the warrior destined to defeat me?

  Soothsayer : I do not... I *know* he is.

  Shen : Look at him! A lifetime to plot his revenge and he comes to me on his knees!

• Soothsayer : You've grown up bigger than I thought.

  [she looked at Po's ears and mouth] 

  Soothsayer : Strong... healthy.

  Po : Look, I don't know who you are, but please step aside sir.

  Viper : [whispering]  That's a lady.

  Po : Oh, sorry! The beard threw me... it's kind of misleading...

  [Soothsayer strokes her beard, amused] 

  Po : false advertising...

  Shen : Enough of this nonsense!