*Tima*
You kind folks, please regale yourselves with my exquisite commodities.
Check it out carefully!
No ordinary stuffs here.
Any remedy for gout?
We even have remedy for disability.
Come here, lass.
Anywhere for the ladies to do their needs?
The latrine.
What? Latrine?
The latrine.
I'll show them the way with 2 pennies as reward.
Too much plums and grapes.
Come on, before I pee on my dress.
Me too.
You rarely have troupes here, don't you?
No, madam. Too poor we are.
Church congregation as the only entertainment?
The nature as well.
Right here?
Yes, madam.
Pull up your dress a bit higher in case you foul it.
I'll watch out at the door.
Move over, kiddo.
I also have paid.
I'll tell the Farther!
A good-hearted girl indeed.
Can't we see the tits?
Pull it over there, Gorgibus!
We are definitely late.
What are you doing there?
Looking for something to eat, Moliere.
I can even eat up a cow now.
Make haste to set up the stage.
You are not hungry at all!
God bless you.
Have some bite.
Why should we be here?
Don't blame me.
What do you mean?
You like acting in a tragedy yourself.
What's wrong with acting in Corneille's play?
As we mentioned it...
... I really acted so bad in Corneille's play?
Not really. But you went off the theme far away.
You don't call it go off the theme to throw apples on me?
You went too far with your acting.
How about yourself?
Not as far as you.
A simple play for them.
"A Jealous Husband".
Let me recite some lines form "Cid".
Or "Nicomede".
No!
Why?
With all the gold in the world...
you can not buy the priceless secret.
I'll bring her to Paris.
It was me who saw her first.
Get out!
Stop clattering!
Line up and wait.
Go away, old man!
You told me to go away?
I'd present my compliment to the graceful dancer.
I'm here father, Gora.
Who's her guest upstairs then? Her cousin?
What do you want?
Go away, Gora
Be wise and listen to me.
It's none of your business.
Watch this!
Calm down, folks.
Why don't you go to the play?
The Celebrated Troupe. Come on.
You dance like a fairy.
Wait in line and settle accounts with my father.
Already settled.
And he fell down under my feet.
Would you go to Paris?
Shut up! You disturbed me.
I devoutly adore and persistently invite you to Paris.
Watch out your statement, Sir.
I think you should act.
What do you think I'm doing?
That's dancing.
Be quiet! It's going to come.
So tell me, what can I act with you?
We are with the Celebrated Troupe...
... and I'm the one in charge.
So fast! What a waste of money!
You are the one they called "Moliere"?
Pity I'm not. I'm Rene Du Parc,
... or Gros-Rene,
... the leading comedian.
My mother told you about my dream of acting, didn't she?
No. It's your eyes.
The eyes beared from your mother tell your destiny.
You can read minds?
I want to marry you.
You are so directly.
The most truly words from my heart.
What do you want me to say?
Say yes.
Join the Celebrated Troupe...
... and Paris will lie down under your feet.
Say yes!
Moliere's still waiting there and I'm hungry, too.
Is this some sort of acting...
... or your truly love?
Do I look like a liar?
This is Marquise, my fiancee.
Where is Moliere?
He went for the Father.
Marquise is going to join our troupe.
This is Armande, and Madeleine, and Genevieve.
There he is. The fat guy.
Seducer! He took apart my family.
Took advantage of the honest.
Perform the wedding ceremonynow, Father.
Otherwise he will refuse to act in "A Jealous Husband".
Give back my daughter!
Give back his bride!
You are tearing me apart!
Let go.
Farther, performance!
Wait.
You should ask for permission of the farther.
He's righ.
And what will the girl say?
As long as no such dull dancing any more...
... I'll marry him.
Let's start ceremony.
She's my daughter.
I hate cold food. Tend to induce fart.
Father, to marry a daughter is a big thing.
I'll make every effort to protect my benefit,
... even at the cost of smelling your fart all night.
Is it annoying you to "sell" your daugher?
And you, Sir?
Are you "selling" acting without profit?
I gave her my heart...
... as well as her career in Paris.
Console her parents with 100 pound gold.
Just a piece of cake for you.
More than the money he can earn all his life.
God's will.
My daughter is priceless.
20 pound.
Give me a break!
25.
60 pound.
60 is the deal.
27.
Speak louder.
28.
30, OK, 30.
Not a penny less for you.
Because he is my friend, my brother and my son.
Thank you.
Take it. Otherwise after Father get rid of his indigestion,
... and I get married, you won't get a penny from us.
30 pound.
Father, please perform the wedding ceremony now.
Rene Du Parc,
... will you have Marquise Gora to be your wedded wife,
... love her, comfort her, honor and keep her, in sickness and in health,
... so long as you both shall live?
I will.
Marquise Gora,
... will you have Rene Du Parc to be your wedded husband?
I will.
What did you give her?
My promise.
Very well. Amen.
Any mother shall be proud of it...
... when her daughter has the chance to be on stage together with Moliere.
Thank you, Mom.
Move over, Dad!
Now we're going to present you "A Jealous Husband".
Darling, your father is certainly the idle rich...
... with an empty head and dull soul.
I feel ashamed of him.
Hard to believe I'm his daughter.
One day the fate will reveal...
... that I'm of a noble origin.
I believe you.
You looks just like that.
And I think I'm of noble origin, too.
Let's go though it again.
Darling, your father is certainly the idle rich...
Story telling you love and jealousness.
You will witness the great Turkey.
For a fairly good amount of money,
... I'll sell my wife to Turkey.
It's guilty to sell cheaply...
... as she almost can touch a stone and turn it into gold with her talent.
Lucile will be mine...
... and her husband will be a cuckold.
Good bye, Bubsy.
Bye, Your Excellency!
Tut-tut! The bastard will get what he deserved.
I'll sell his wife,
... the ugly old slut.
Otherwise...
... sell the bastard first...
... in revenge for his peeking at my lovely Lucile.
Wanna make a cuckold of me?
And I'll make one of him first.
Here's his maid.
Tell me something!
Come on!
Please!
Didn't your mistress have you take some message for me?
Want me to guess?
Want me to tear your mouth and have a look?
Lucile has no word for me.
Your Excellency, she has nothing to tell!
Nothing to tell.
Maybe I need to dance for it.
Louder! We can't hear anything.
She...
I'm totally at a loss.
Come on, Armande.
Here you are. I'm just wondering where you go.
My lord has two maids.
One is deaf; one is dumb.
Who's sent to the husband of his mistress...
... will be either she or she.
Either she or she?
Right. If the cuckold tends to argue...
... he'll send the deaf maid;
And if he want to tell him...
... he's going to make a cuckold of him...
... he'll send her, the dumb one.
As he said,
... nobody want to hear the misery of his own.
Come on, darling.
Dear brother, let's face it.
You trouble was brought on by your behavior and words.
Although now you are in such a painful grief,
... no one will feel pity on you.
This is not what I want.
What a harrowing experience.
What an inborn cuckold.
My evil tricks brought me the failure.
Yet no one could possibly rival the wicked woman...
... even as evil as Satan.
All the kind folks are full of deceit.
Ruin is not far away.
From now on I will discard all this.
Let Satan take them away.
For this they are deserved.
Come to visit me tomorrow. And you, too, Sir.
Try to talk him out of his anger.
A lecher if he is,
... send him to this class.
Look, Marquise.
Go entertaining the audience in the intermission till we get ready.
Take it off.
Keep in mind.
Have a piece of chocolate.
It's so sweet.
No. Thanks.
What's she doing?
Entertaining the audience for us.
She's showing off her body.
Who knows the name of the beauty?
Be interested in her suddenly?
At ease, darling.
I'm just curious.
Do you know her, Racine?
No, Madam. Lully might know of it.
Her name is Marquise.
A mistress of Moliere's,
... might be.
How about Corneille?
He wrote a poem for her.
What he can only do at his age.
She is Rene's wife.
The beauty married Gros-Rene?
They said he is the descendance of Anibal elephant.
He's Carthaginian?
The point is elephant, not Anibal.
If this is a joke,
... we should compose for it.
I happened to be a composer.
But allow me make it clear first;
... that both the elephant and he has a heavy body...
... as well as five long limbs.
I can't stand up to your Italian jokes,
... Mr. Lully.
Racine will agree with me, too.
Will we attend the Prince's banquet tonight?
I can't make the decision.
You are simply gorgeous.
You made me itch, Mr. Lully.
I'm caressing your sexy body.
Your Excellency, did our play please you?
Very much pleased. Madam and I kept laughing.
Ah! I like you.
As all my friends can prove...
... I can hardly resist your charm.
Let me introduce other actors to you.
No. I already know them.
A historical play.
I have an idea.
Mr. Lully.
On the day of the King's birthday celebration,
... I'd like you to write a play...
... with dancing and eulogies,
... so the Majesty will take pleasure in...
... the young Madam Du Parc's charm.
I'll be on it right away.
As you all known, my royal brother loves dancing very much.
When will be the birthday of His Majesty?
Just one week later, why?
Oh, which star of misfortune...
... twinkles on the day of my birth?
It persecuted me and knitted my brows.
It Persecuted me and knitted my brows.
Worries are around me everyday...
God, give me a break!
... yet today it torment me that much.
Is it all right to put "torment" here?
Yes, right. As they all say.
I'll drop in later.
Come on in. Since you are here.
What is it?
I'm not happy.
It's Rene's fault?
Of course not.
Is it Paris?
Of course not.
You are pregnant?
Of course not. My period is precise.
"Of course not" is what you can only say?
Of course not.
I want to act in a play.
Act as the dumb again?
I've given up everything not only for dancing here.
You are going to dance for the King.
I don't care.
It's a once-in-a-life chance.
I want to learn to act.
Learn from Rene then.
He will teach you. Go for him.
I'm quite busy.
Madeleine, Catherine, and all other girls,
... even the cook,
... all said much you have taught them.
Really?
Did they say so?
And you act so well.
And?
In the first place, the audience have sitted comfortably.
Then the light is out.
And at last...
... the curtain is up...
... and we... present a good play.
The shell is open.
Look! In the fairyland of the earth,
... Motta, King of the universe,
.. I come for you from my domicile in the forest.
Music! Musicians!
Achelous, Silenus,
... and Centaur...
Come on, Armande.
Very well.
Madeleine, on stage.
Let all worries go away!
There would be only laughter and smile...
... on the day of his birth.
There's no time for idling away.
Louis, on stage.
Which star of misfortune twinkles on the day of my birth?
Not this line yet!
Go try your costume on.
Marie, fetch the costume here.
Let's go on.
What's my role?
You are the Queen of the forest.
No lines at all?
You dance.
You said you will let me act.
Don't blame me.
What?
I was going to write your lines last night,
... but you took all my time.
Liar!
You fell into sleep before it began.
I don't have time to argue with you.
Go try your costume on.
Only idiot will argue with you!
Lully will help you to rehearsal.
I'm busy with rehearsing the prelude.
Let's start it over!
I will not dance!
Women.
Belle.
Oh, my hope is in vain.
Allow me.
What are you doing?
Let me help you to jump...
... with my hand and knee.
Isn't it what you want?
Pluck up your courage.
Come on jump! The water is deep enough...
... and I warrant you will be drowned.
What do you want me to do?
I saw you dancing the other day.
Yes.
I'm just like you.
You are a dancer, too?
Like you, I also need talent.
Since I'm nobody; No noble title, no family,
... no money, and all alone.
No use to complain about the unfairness of life.
God creates the rich and the poor,
... the noble and the slave, king and the servant...
So there's no hope for me.
No, there is hope!
Learn to smile.
Do what people tell me to do.
Look at me. I have no choice.
I have to dance for those who have power and influence.
Just like you are going to dance for the King.
To win his favor and love.
Who are you, Sir?
Why should we add one act?
I'm going to be cut into pieces.
I have warned you.
I got it. Look, I'm in right steps now.
No, they are wrong.
I refuse to act as long as she dances.
You, too!
There's not a shadow of she in the garden.
Wouldn't you just let her act?
She pissed me off.
You have promised her.
You should keep the promise on the bed.
Are you lecturing me?
You can sleep with her, but never hurt her.
Or I'll have words with you.
Are you threatening me?
We almost fight each other because of you.
I only want to say that...
... I'd die if you don't let me act in the play.
I promise I will let you act.
Only tonight. You dance.
King's here!
I'm doomed.
Get my costume, Marie.
Come on!
There won't be any trouble.
I'm waiting, Moliere.
Music! Musicians!
Prepare to go on stage. Come on.
We made it!
I'm afraid not, Sir.
Don't bother me.
We are in such a hurry,
... that she's forgotten to ware this.
And she's going to performs a cartwheel in front of the King.
Hang yourself!
Moliere!
Your Majesty!
Come here, Moliere.
You've brought happiness to us all.
The fools and the hypocrites...
... only see the illusions and phantasm.
But you make us undersand...
... drama is the sourse of life.
Should I wait for a century...
... till the Castle of Versailles is set up?
Frost ruined the gesso, Your Majesty.
Why didn't you build it by last summer?
We are not ready then.
I was ready.
Don't try my patience.
Come here, Moliere.
Your Majesty!
Your should give up "Tartuffe",
... your new play.
It's said that it will make the Church unhappy.
But Your Majesty...
... when you were listening to my recitation,
... din't you also find it funny...
... of those pious hypocrite?
It's true, but things have changed.
You have to give it up.
Pleae let me perform the whole play once for Your Majesty.
I should be responsible for the kingdom...
... and can't let it do harm to the contry.
Write something new,
... which will please both the Church and the Court.
New play, Your Majesty? How could it be possible?
There won't be a play from nowhere...
... and only two days left before the staging.
Two day is too short; I agree.
It took six days for the God to creat the world anyway.
Your Majesty,
We can put on "Tartuffe" in Britain.
To piss them off and challenge war?
Or in the colonies?
No, not for the negros and savages.
We can adapt it to satirize the Protestants.
Right, Father?
Later.
The Prince Consort praised high of Mr. Racine.
So we have to put on his new play...
... is it "Thebaide"?
Is it a comedy?
Don't know. You will know when you see it.
So I'll let you take charge of it.
Besides, our laughters and tears...
... are always controled by your acting.
What a misery.
The King want us to act the nuns?
We should do as he wanted even he want us to die.
Act in a rookie's play.
Folks!
This is Mr. Racine,
... the author of "Thebaide".
Watch it!
The King want us to put on the play.
A tragedy?
Is this a question or impugnment?
Just wondering.
It's a tragedy.
Then I should impugn, not you...
Whom?
Moliere. He want to help you.
But he can't help you and us,
... but will bring us trouble...
... and send us back to act in the nasty countryside.
No one here can act in a tragedy.
It's a good play, Rene.
Our career is comedy.
I'm afraid we would turn the tragedy...
... into a farce...
... and the audience would throw apples on us.
Any role for me in your play?
I'm glad to let you read my lines.
Nobody has advised you to kick me out?
For what?
I've never played any role in a tragedy.
Excuse my offence.
I'm sure you must have.
Folks, excuse me.
You play Polynice, Charles.
Apparently not so ideal, but...
The role of Eteocle is yours, Gorgibus,
... the old King of Thebes.
As he's an old man, it only fits you.
Brecourt plays Hemon,
... the son of Creon...
... and the lover of Antigone.
As to the ladies,
... Madeleine plays Jocaste.
Genevieve plays Olympe,
... the confidante of Jocaste's.
Catherine plays Antigone. That's it.
Ridiculous! The role of Antigone...
... is much harder to play than the role of Jocaste.
And I used to play the hardest role in the play.
Even in the ancient times, Madeleine,
... there's rules in the order of arrival.
Then we should have Marquise play Antigone next time!
Any problem?
I have read the play.
Antigone is written right for me.
It fits my age and appearance.
Madeleine could be my mother...
... and no role fits you. You looks like a servant.
Genevieve could play a maid.
I'd play your lover...
... but not your stage partner.
Look, Brecourt,
... neither will come true.
For as a lover,
... ask the God to persuade me;
For as a stage partner,
... I'd rather play with a woodenhead.
Then I quit!
Let Rene try it! She's his wife.
You want me to play her mother?
Any problem?
I play a maid?
To pour tea for her?
Agree! Let's start!
Let me kill you first!
Enough, ladies!
Have you got a brain or not?
I am a mother, Creon,
... and if I love his brother...
... my love for the King is just the same.
Although the coward courtiers may hate it well,
... but a mother cannot...
... betray herself.
Your interests here are in conformity with ours.
The enemies of the king's...
... are not all againt you.
Creon, you are a father,
... and in these enemies...