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Hollie 2022-10-15 18:13:44
I watched it for the first time when I was three or four years old
The first time I watched it when I was three or four years old, my parents took it to the Daxin Theater in Ximending, Taipei. I don't remember the details, but I am very impressed with the passage of the Great Demon God. I also have deep memories of episodes such as stealing food from the market,...
Mary Morris
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[Abu enters the tent and sees the Old King]
The Old King: Welcome, our prince.
[Abu steps forward to the Old King]
The Old King: Welcome, little prince.
Abu: Father of a beard, there's some mistake. I'm not a prince. I'm only a thief.
The Old King: For you, we have been waiting twice two thousand years.
Abu: Oh, no. Not waiting for me, because I didn't know I was coming, and I don't know how I've come. Who are you, father of miracles? And where am I?
The Old King: This is the land of legend, where everything is possible when seen through the eyes of youth. We are the remnant of the golden age. Golden because gold was nothing, no more than the sand beneath your feet. Or the stone that we became.
Abu: How did you become stone?
The Old King: We were petrified with horror for the evil done among men when they ceased to be children, and to believe in the beauty of the impossible. Whenever the heart of a child returns to us, and comes into us, we live again. And so, as that child, you are to be my successor. Now, come with me and I will present you with two insignia of true kingship.
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[Jailer and the guard are taking Abu to prison]
Abu: No, I say! No, not in prison! Don't put me in prison, no!
Jailer: Come on in, thief. Cut off his right arm, and then his left, and then his left leg, and then his right, and then his head.
Abu: No! No, no, no! I say, no!
[Abu tries to take the key from him and Jailer pushes him]
Abu: Don't kill me, I don't want to die!
Jailer: Tomorrow morning.
[turning to Ahmad]
Jailer: And as for a madman, our great Sultan Jaffar is merciful. Only his head, as the sun rises.
