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El Cid: People of Valencia! I bring you bread!
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Jimena: Why did you come?
El Cid: I tried not to come. I tried, I told my love it had no right to live. But my love won't die...
Jimena: Kill it.
El Cid: You kill it! Tell me you don't love me.
Jimena: [long pause] I cannot. Not yet. But I will make myself worthy of you Rodrigo, I will learn to hate you.
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Moutamin: [after El Cid claims Valencia for the King] What a noble subject, if only he had a noble King.
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El Cid: [looking at their Christian and Muslim troops camped together] How can anyone say this is wrong?
Moutamin: But they will. On both sides.
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El Cid: [to the king, who refused Muslim aid] You risk having no Spain at all!
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El Cid: Our dream was short.
Jimena: I know. There is no place hidden for a man like you. There must be thousands who would gladly part. Why you? Why me?
El Cid: Please, let me carry away an image of you smiling.
Jimena: It would be a lie. I will beseech God with my prayers. I will tell Him He must bring you back to me. I must tell God how much I need you.
El Cid: Then we *will* see each other again.
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Jimena: Can you forgive me, Rodrigo?
El Cid: Jimena.
Jimena: Would you take me with you?
El Cid: But... now I... have nowhere to take you.
Jimena: As long as we are together it will not be nowhere. I love you Rodrigo. I love you.
[They kiss]
El Cid: You know what you risk if you come with me, my love?
Jimena: Since my love is not a man like other men my life with not be like other lives.
El Cid: It's only now, only know that I know... how hard the road would have been without you.
[They kiss again]
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Prince Sancho: [after Count Ordóñez betrays Prince Sancho in and ambush to kill El Cid] Kill him!
El Cid: You will soon be a King, you must start to think like one, any man can kill, only a King can give life!
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Ben Yussuf: The Prophet has commanded us to rule the world. Where in all your land of Spain is the glory of Allah? When men speak of you they speak of poets, musicmakers, doctors, scientists. Where are your warriors? You dare to call youselves sons of the Prophet? You have become women! Burn your books! Make warriors of your poets! Let you doctors invent new poisons for our arrows. Let you scientists invent new war machines! And then, kill! Burn! Infidels live on your frontiers. Encourage them to kill each other. And when they are weak and torn, I will sweep up from Africa, and the empire of the One God, the true God, Allah, will spread, first across Spain, then across Europe, then the whole world!
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Moutamin: In my country, we have a name for a warrior with the vision to be just and the courage to show mercy. We call him... the cid!
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Moutamin: And thus the Cid rode out of the gates of history into legend.
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El Cid: [handing over her handkerchief, covered in blood] It's no longer black.
Jimena: As long as my father is not avenged, my color remains the deepest black.
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El Cid: [challenging him] Can a man live without honor?
Count Gormaz: No.
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Prince Alfonso: It was not through lack of courage that we lost.
Jimena: It takes more than courage to be a king.
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El Cid: Soldiers! People of Valencia! You must not be frightened... by the sound of a few drums. In a few hours, they will be silenced forever!
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El Cid: We have not spent much time together. Yet it seems to me... Yet it seems to me that those who have spent a lifetime together... have not had more than we.
El Cid Quotes
Extended Reading
Director: Anthony Mann
Language: Italian,Arabic,English,Latin Release date: December 14, 1961