The Mask of Zorro (1998)

Catherine Zeta-Jones: Elena

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• Elena : [in a confessional, Alejandro posing as a priest]  I have broken the fourth commandment, padre.

  Alejandro Murrieta : You killed somebody?

  Elena : No, that is not the fourth commandment.

  Alejandro Murrieta : [pause]  Of course not. Tell me, in what way did you break the most sacred of commandments.

  Elena : I dishonored my father.

  Alejandro Murrieta : That is not so bad. Maybe your father deserved it.

  Elena : What?

  Alejandro Murrieta : I said tell me more, my child.

• Elena : [in a confessional, Alejandro posing as a priest]  Forgive me father for I have sinned. It has been three days since my last confession.

  Alejandro Murrieta : Three days? How many sins could you have committed in three days? Come back when you have more time, please.

• Alejandro Murrieta : Do you surrender?

  Elena : Never, but I may scream.

  Alejandro Murrieta : I understand. Sometimes I have that effect.

• Elena : [dancing with Love]  Yes, were you looking for something?

  Alejandro : A sense of the miraculous in everyday life.

  Captain Harrison Love : Really? Well, why don't you try looking somewhere else? The lady and I are trying to dance.

  Alejandro : You were trying; she was succeeding. Forgive me, Captain Love. A shameless joke at your expense... and I hope it won't be the last.

  [Love scowls, Elena grins slightly] 

• Alejandro Murrieta : [whispering to his baby son]  And so it was. Lighting split the sky, thunder shook the earth, and then all was quiet. The great warrior known as Zorro was gone. The people of the land gave him a hero's funeral, the largest anyone had ever seen. They came from far and wide to say farewell to their brave and noble champion. But don't worry, little Joaquin. Whenever great deeds are remembered, your grandfather will live on. For there must always, always be a Zorro. And some day, when he's needed, we will see him again... on his fearsome steed Tornado, riding like the wind, his sword blazing in the sun... leaping, jumping, swinging through the air... fighting like a lion. Fighting like a tiger. Fighting...

  [sees Elena watching him] 

  Alejandro Murrieta : ... as safely as possible.

  Elena : Is this your idea of putting the baby to sleep?

• Alejandro Murrieta : [upon first meeting her]  Be careful Señorita, there are dangerous men about.

  Elena : Well, if you see any, be sure to point them out.

• Don Rafael Montero : What are you doing here? What happened?

  Elena : Zorro. Zorro was here. I fought him and he left. He left!

  Don Rafael Montero : Did you recognize him?

  Elena : No, but he was young and vigorous.

  [pause] 

  Elena : He was very vigorous, father.

  Don Rafael Montero : Vigorous?

  Elena : [smiles]  Yes.

• Alejandro Murrieta : All that shooting guns, racing around on horses - gives me a frightful headache. It's hardly the work of a gentleman.

  Elena : What is? Climbing in and out of carriages?

  Alejandro Murrieta : No, but increasing one's holdings so as to provide comfort to ladies. Such as yourself.

• Don Diego de la Vega : [to Elena as he lays dying]  The world is a very strange place... to have found you at last - only to lose you again.

  Elena : You will never lose me, Father.

• Alejandro Murrieta : When I sleep, I will dream of this dashing rogue Zorro. But what face shall I give him?

  Elena : He has been many different men, but he has loved you as all of them.

  Alejandro Murrieta : How can I refuse such a man? Do you know where I might find him?

  Elena : You know Zorro. He could be anywhere.

• Elena : [in a confessional booth]  I try to behave properly, the way my father would like me to. But, I'm afraid my heart is too wild.

  Alejandro Murrieta : [pretending to be a priest]  Too wild?

  Elena : Yes.

  Alejandro Murrieta : Could you be - a little more specific about that?

  Elena : I had impure thoughts about a man. I did! I think he was a bandit or something. He wore a black mask.

  Alejandro Murrieta : He had a - deep voice?

  Elena : Yes.

  Alejandro Murrieta : Ruggedly handsome?

  Elena : I do not know. His face was half-covered. But something in his eyes captured me.

  Alejandro Murrieta : Captured you?

  Elena : I felt warm and feverish.

  Alejandro Murrieta : Lustful?

  Elena : Yes, lustful. Forgive me.

• Alejandro Murrieta : Would you care to try something more robust? Or, do you feel unequal to the task?

  Elena : No, on the contrary, Don Alejandro. I think only of your distaste for perspiration.

• Elena : Not bad.

  Alejandro Murrieta : Not bad at all.

• Elena : There, there, my darling.

• Alejandro Murrieta : I don't have the time to give you the proper instruction.

  Elena : I have had the proper instruction.