Jake Gyllenhaal credited as playing...
Dastan
- [last lines]
- Tamina: How can I trust the man who breached the walls of my city?
- Prince Dastan: Well, I'm starting to think I'm no longer the same man who breached those walls.
- Tamina: That's a short time for a man to change so much.
- Prince Dastan: Perhaps.
- Tamina: It sounds as if you've discovered something here.
- Prince Dastan: And what might that be?
- Tamina: A new spiritual awareness.
- Prince Dastan: Destiny.
- Tamina: Yes, exactly.
- Prince Dastan: I believe we make our own destiny, Princess.
- Tamina: You have an unfortunate lack of curiosity.
- Prince Dastan: No doubt one of my many flaws.
- Tamina: Please don't mock me, Prince.
- Prince Dastan: Oh, I hardly think we know each other well enough for that, Princess, but I look forward to the day that we do.
- Tamina: Such a noble prince.
- Prince Dastan: Such a gentle princess.
- Tamina: How taken you were with my fainting act, eagerly leaping to assist the fallen beauty.
- Prince Dastan: Who said you were a beauty?
- Tamina: There must be a reason why you can't take your eyes off me.
- Prince Dastan: You're... I... I don't trust you. And you're not my type.
- Tamina: You know, you really walk like one. Head held high, chest out, long stomping strides. The walk of a self-satisfied Persian prince. No doubt it comes from being told since birth the world is yours, and actually believing it.
- Prince Dastan: I wasn't born in a palace like you! I was born in the slums of Nasaf, where I lived if I fought and I clawed for it.
- Tamina: Then how did you become a prince?
- Prince Dastan: The king... marched into the market one day, and he... I don't know, he... he found me. He took me in, he gave me a family, he gave me a home.
- [he turns away, then turns back]
- Prince Dastan: What you're looking at, is... the walk of a man, who just lost everything.
- Tamina: Dastan, where's the dagger?
- Prince Dastan: You're welcome to search me for it. You'll have to be very thorough.
- Seso: Where will you go?
- Prince Dastan: Alamut. Nizam will use that dagger to pierce the Sand Glass. And he has to be stopped.
- Sheik Amar: [mocking] He has to be stopped, he has to be stopped. That's good.
- [Seso looks at Sheik]
- Sheik Amar: What? Oh, a knife thrower with a conscience!
- Prince Dastan: I've heard all these terrible stories of this place.
- Sheik Amar: [laughing] The bloodthirsty slaves, murdering their masters? It's a good story; it's well told, ever-evolving, yeah but alas untrue.
- Prince Dastan: But the skeletons that we saw at the...
- Sheik Amar: ...I bought those from a gypsy in Bacara. Ah, I crafted our lurid reputation in order to fend off the most insidious evil that's been lurking this forsaken country of ours. Y'know what I'm talking about?
- [Dastan shakes his head]
- Sheik Amar: Taxes!
- [spits]
- Sheik Amar: Gah, these Persians! Their armies, their fortresses, their roads. Who pays for it all, eh? The small businessman! See that's why I started a little campaign, to spread some false notoriety. I spread it like a venerable disease in a Turkish harem!
- Tamina: [as Dastan's leaving on his horse] So you're going to leave me here, in the middle of nowhere? Noble Dastan, abandoning a helpless woman in the wilderness! What does your precious honor have to say about that?
- Prince Dastan: [returning] Give me the strength not to kill her.
- Tamina: [Tamina gives him a look]
- King Sharaman: [to Dastan] The princess of Alamut will be your first wife!
- [Dastan looks shocked and Tamina looks uncomfortable]
- King Sharaman: What say you, Dastan?
- Prince Dastan: Uh...
- King Sharaman: He plunges into a hundred foes without thought, but before marriage he stands frozen with fear! And there are those who say he is not yet wise!
- Prince Dastan: [quietly to Bis] I need a drink.
- Tamina: Without the right sand it's just another knife. Not even very sharp.
- Prince Dastan: This sand, is there more of it?
- Tamina: Of course not!
- Prince Dastan: How can I get some?
- Tamina: Try standing on your head and holding your breath.
- Prince Dastan: As hard as it is for me to admit you were right
- [he rips her necklace containing some of the sands of time off her]
- Prince Dastan: I did see what I was looking for.
- Prince Dastan: You enjoy telling me what to do.
- Tamina: Only because you're so good at following orders.
- Prince Dastan: Don't press your luck.
- Tamina: [as they're hanging from the precipice] Stop him! If the glass shatters, the world dies with it! It's not my destiny, it's yours. It always has been. Let me go.
- Prince Dastan: I won't.
- Tamina: Let me go.
- Prince Dastan: *I'm not letting you go*!
- Prince Dastan: [watching Sharaman's funeral from a rooftop, seeing thousands of guards] I need to get a message to my uncle to meet me.
- Tamina: That's impossible.
- Prince Dastan: [Dastan leaps across rooftops, onto ledges and horses, and delivers a secret message to Nizam; the scene cuts to him meeting up with Tamina]
- Prince Dastan: Difficult, not impossible.
- Tamina: All more proof you're insane.
- Prince Dastan: Why do you look so impressed?
- Prince Dastan: You've eased Father's anger, Uncle.
- Nizam: One day, you'll have the pleasure of being brother to the king, Dastan. As long as you remember your most important duty, you should do well.
- Prince Dastan: Oh, and what's that?
- Nizam: Making sure his wine glass stays full.
- Tamina: It's gone. Protect the dagger no matter the consequences; that was my sacred calling. That was my destiny.
- Prince Dastan: We make our own destiny, Princess. We'll get it back.
- Prince Dastan: [to Nizam] You had what every man could ever dream of. Love, respect, and family. But that wasn't enough for you, was it?
- Prince Dastan: I know it hasn't been easy between us, Garsiv, but still, we *are* brothers.
- Garsiv: Touching words with my sword at your throat.
- Prince Dastan: If we don't stop him, our world could end.
- Tus: If you're gonna kill me, best you do it now.
- Prince Dastan: [pulls out dagger] This is no ordinary dagger.
- Tus: Stop! A moment ago, you died before my eyes.
- Prince Dastan: [relieved] Oh, you pressed it.
- Tus: How did you know I would?
- Prince Dastan: Because we are brothers.