King Arthur (2004)

Ray Winstone: Bors

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• Bors : I like the little bastards. They mean something to me. Especially Number Three! He's a good fighter!

  Lancelot : That's because he's mine.

• Bors : Dagonet, she wants to get married and give the children names.

  Tristan : Women! The children already have names, don't they?

  Bors : Just Gilly. It's too much trouble so we gave the rest of them numbers.

  Lancelot : That's interesting. I thought you couldn't count.

• Dagonet : Bors, you coming?

  Bors : Of course I'm coming! Can't let you go on your own, you're gonna get killed.

  [looks around] 

  Bors : I'm just saying what you're all thinking.

• Lancelot : Hey Bors. You intend to take Vanora and all your little bastards back home?

  Bors : Oh I'm trying to avoid that decision... by getting killed.

• Arthur : Knights... Brothers and arms... Your courage has been testet beyond all limits.

  Bors : Yes

  Arthur : But I must ask you now for one further trial.

  Bors : Drink.

  Arthur : We must leave on a final mission for Rome before our freedom can be granted. Above the wall, far north, there is a Roman family in need of rescue. They are trapped by Saxons. Our orders is to secure their safety.

  Bors : Let the Romans take care of their own.

  Gawain : Above the wall is Woad territory.

  Galahad : Our duty to Rome, if it ever was a duty, is done. Our pact with Rome is done.

  Bors : Every knight here has laid his life on the line for you. For you. And instead of freedom you want more blood? Our blood? You think more of Roman blood than you do of ours?

  Arthur : Bors! These are our orders. We leave at first light, and when we return your freedom will be waiting for you. A freedom we can embrace with honour.

  Bors : I'm a free man! I will choose my own fate!

  Tristan : Yeah, yeah, we're all going to die someday. If it's a death from a Saxons hand that frightens you, stay home.

  Galahad : Listen, if you're so eager to die, you can die right now! I've got something to live for!

  Lancelot : Enough. Enough!

  Dagonet : The Romans have broken their word. We have the word of Arthur. That is good enough. I'll prepare.

• Galahad : I don't kill for pleasure.

  Tristan : You should try it some day. You might get a taste for it.

  Bors : It's in your blood boy.

  Galahad : Oh no. No. After tomorrow, this was all just a bad memory.

• Bors : Have you been fighting?

  Gilly (Bors' son) : Yes.

  Bors : You been winning?

  Gilly (Bors' son) : Yes.

  Bors : That's my boy. Come on, all my other bastards!

  Bors' Children : YAY!

• Lancelot , Arthur , Bors , Gawain , Tristan , Dagonet : [the knights line up on the hill near the fort and charge towards the Saxons]  For Arthur!

• [after the battle, Bors finds Horton cowering under the carriage, praying fervently] 

  Bors : Does this really work?

  [he puts his hands together, closes his eyes, and mutters gibberish] 

  Bors : Hmm... nothing. Maybe I'm not doing it right.

• Arthur : [kneeling over Lancelot's body, looking up to the sky]  It was my life to be taken! Not this! Never this!

  [as Bors, Galahad, and Gawain approach, bearing Tristan's body] 

  Arthur : My brave knights, I have failed you. I neither took you off this island, nor shared your fate.

  Merlin : [to Arthur]  No fate is shared.

  [to other knights, and more confident] 

  Merlin : No fate is shared.

  Bors : They chose their own fate.

  [turning to Galahad, he spoke more assuredly] 

  Bors : As did we all.

  [quietly, facing Arthur] 

  Bors : As did we all.

  [Arthur's eyes drift to the sword briefly, and back to Lucan who looks down sadly] 

  Arthur : One day you'll be strong enough. And you'll come back for it.

• Bors : [Bors is furious that the Romans are sending them on one last mission]  Vanora'll kill me...

• Bors : Well, now that we're free men, I'm gonna drink 'tll I can't piss straight.

  Gawain : You do that every night.

  Bors : I never could piss straight. Too much of myself to handle down there...

  [looks at the Knights] 

  Bors : Well, it's a problem! No really, it is. It's a problem. It's like...

  Bors , Gawain , Lancelot , Tristan , Galahad , Dagonet : ...a baby's arm holding an apple.

• Lancelot : When are you going to leave Bors and come home with me?

  Vanora : My lover is watching you.

  [Bors is looking at his baby, then looks at Lancelot, who has a smirk on his face] 

  Bors : You look nothing like him!

• Bors : [speaking to his baby]  Now I'm really gonna have to marry your mother.

  Vanora : Who said I'd have you?

• [Tristan has been scouting the Saxons] 

  Bors : How many did you kill?

  Tristan : Four.

  Bors : Not a bad start to the day.

• Horton : God help us. What are they?

  Bors : Blue demons that eat Christians alive. You're not a Christian, are you?

• Bors : Save your prayers, boy. Your god doesn't live here.