David Holm: What can I do? What are the words, the prayer - the words?

[prays]

David Holm: A sinner whose lips are stained with wickedness, asks, beseeches - Oh, break me, crush me, only save these three innocent ones!
David Holm: Forgive, forgive me.
[last lines]

Mrs. Holm: I can't help crying too. I won't be truly happy until all my sorrow is drained.

David Holm: Lord, please let my soul come to maturity before it is reaped.
David Holm: I want to be good, but no one believes me. Is it any wonder I cry?
[first lines]

Maria: Don't fret over those poor souls now, Sister Edit. You've done enough for them.

Edit: Send for David Holm!
Georges: Remember that it's New Year's Eve, the last day of the year! Whoever dies on this eve must drive Death's carriage.
Georges: There is an old, old carriage... It is no ordinary driver who holds the reigns, for he's in the service of a strict master named Death. For him, a single night is as long as 100 years on Earth. Night and day he must carry out his master's business.
Georges: There is no escape. He must perform his forlorn duty.
Georges: Though horse and carriage are alwatys the same, the driver is not. The last soul to die each year - the one who passes over at the stroke of midnight - is destined to be Death's driver for the following year.
Edit: You see that I'm not afraid of you. I will gladly heed your summons, but grant me a day's reprieve, for there is someone I must talk sense into.
Georges: [calling forth the soul of Edit] Captive, ye of loving heart, come forth from thy prison!
David Holm: You should take me to the hospital in your carriage as quickly as you can.

Georges: No living soul rides in that carriage. By the time I arrive, it's too late for a doctor. You know full well that I am no longer among the living.
Edit: It is Death, but he has come too soon.
David Holm: [to a coughing woman] Why turn away so carefully? I'm a consumptive myself, but I cough in people's faces in hopes of finishing them off. Why should they be better off than us?

Edit: He's merely amusing himself. He's not as wicked as he pretends to be.
Georges: I would grant you that reprieve if it would avail you. But you have no power over this man!
Georges: You know, David, if I could send a message to mankind, I would send them a New Year's greeting. I would like them to dwell on a single New Year's prayer: 'Lord, please let my soul come to maturity before it is reaped.'
Georges: Yes, David. I see what's coming. I'm obliged to watch. I do not shirk my duty.

The Phantom Carriage Quotes

Extended Reading

The Phantom Carriage short comments

Karelle 2022-04-08 09:01:13

It is said that Borgman has seen it 1,000 times, and many elements do appear repeatedly in Borgman's films, such as the fear and infatuation of death, the magical religious redemption, and even the carriage of the god of death and the duality of human nature, the first half. Like a horror movie, the ghost carriage drives in the empty wilderness, on the desolate seaside, on the empty streets at night, the poor man dies, the soul goes out of the body, the coachman removes the soul, and the second half becomes moral The melodrama uses a very Christian redemption story to fable the truth of human nature. The hero is addicted to alcohol, and the tragedy of his family is ruined, but a dream about death has redeemed him, and death has led him to find the beauty of life. In the dramatic reversal scene at the end of the movie, the dialogue between ghosts and reality is powerless and silent, as if human beings can only be confined to their own world and cannot hear the voice of God. In terms of the technical capabilities of the time, many night scenes The degree of completion is staggering, and the out-of-body scene also used multiple cameras to shoot repeatedly to complete. The movie a hundred years ago has reached such a high level
Haylie 2022-04-07 09:01:08

Movies from nearly 100 years ago cannot be graded. Nice structure.