Tristan + Isolde (2006)

Rufus Sewell: Marke

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• Lord Marke : Isolde, I was trying to explain to Tristan the importance of love. Seems he might live without it.

  Isolde : Why?

  Tristan : There are other things to live for: duty, honor.

  Isolde : But they are not life Tristan. They are the shells of life, and empty ones if in the end all they hold are days and days without love. Love is made by God. Ignore it and you suffer as you cannot imagine.

  Tristan : Then I will no longer live without it.

• Lord Marke : Do you find no comfort in your home, these stearn walls that you helped build?

  Tristan : I find these walls a prison.

  Lord Marke : Why?

  Tristan : Everything I wanted seems meaningless.

• Lord Marke : [on the affair]  How long?

  Isolde : Since you thought he was dead. I found him wounded on a beach in Ireland. And I told him my name was Bragnae. So when he came to the tournament at Dunluce to win Doncadh's daughter he didnt realize it was me. All this time, my heart has been his. And I'm sorry. He tried, harder than you can possible imagine because he loves you.

• Lord Marke : What if she's a hag? Or what if she simply won't have me?

  Edyth : She'll have you. You're the prize.

• Lord Marke : I want him to grow old in a land where all of us are at peace

• Lord Marke : [to Tristan]  Is it possible a man blinded by love might not see treachery right in front of him?

• Lord Marke : You're trembling. You're far from home. I'm a stranger still and I understand. But, you mustn't fear me. My only wish is to make you happy - as a wife - as a woman.

• Lord Marke : Will you always be little men who cannot see what was - and could be again?

• Lord Marke : I came to apologize. I've been selfish, arrogantly thinking that perhaps I'd given enough in these past nine years to merit if not your love, then at least your respect. A home, a kingdom, your very life. Why was it not enough? Tell me. TELL ME! Do you not know what you have done? Everything is destroyed! Everything! All because you did not have enough! 'She is loyal to you, I am sure of it.' You bloodsucker. What I could have been had I not stretched out this hand to save your wretched life, how I curse that day. How I curse it. Well, insult me with your defense.

• Lord Marke : If we lose we could end up following Wictred. I'd need an infallible champion.

  Tristan : Me.

  Lord Marke : [chuckles]  You are not yet healed.

  Tristan : Then this trip will be my tonic.

• Lord Marke : Do you know what you have done?

• Lord Marke : Did I love him like a son? Or did I misuse him for my own purposes?

• Tristan : What's this about a tournament?

  Lord Marke : The king has offered his daughter to whichever man wins.

  Tristan : Let me go and win you a wife.

• Kurseval : What do we do now, My Lord?

  Lord Marke : Rebuild.

• Lord Marke : Seize them. Seize them.

• Lord Marke : Tristan! How did you get in here?

  Tristan : It was a secret.

  Lord Marke : Secrets?

  Tristan : Its in the past now.

  Lord Marke : In the past.

• Lord Marke : There is no middle ground! Slay us! Or, slay him.

  King Donnchadh : Oblige them. - - Oblige them!

• Lord Marke : I must heed their call. I am the King.