The greatest virtual lens in film history

Darwin 2022-08-11 23:20:19

All of them built by people like me. No matter how long you live,Sanchez, there is something that will never change between us.

I did it.

You didn't.

Sanchez : [Columbus stops Sanchez after he leaves an audience with the Queen. Sanchez looks at him, disgusted] You're a dreamer.

Columbus : [shooting a glance out of a window] Tell me, what do you see?

Sanchez : [pausing to look] I see rooftops, I see palaces, I see towers, I see spires that reach... to the sky! I see civilisation!

Columbus : All of them built by people like me.

[Sanchez doesn't respond-shocked]

Columbus : No matter how long you live, Sanchez, there is something that will never change between us. I did it. You didn't.

Then Columbus gradually faded out of the picture and turned into a blurry light in the distance. Only Sanchez's close-up face was left in the picture , but we know that the visible and clear picture of the characters can never compare to that ball of light-that ball of Columbus. The afterglow under the historical curtain, no matter how long the side face in the picture survives, the virtual Columbus is more permanent than the real Sanchez. Coz No matter how long you live, Sanchez s , there is something that will never change between us. I did it. You didn't.

——Fredrick 2021.12.13

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1492: Conquest of Paradise quotes

  • Queen Isabella I.: [During her last audience with Columbus] I have looked for a reason why I should allow you to go back and although I've tried I couldn't find one. Help me find one.

    Columbus: All my life I have dreamt of reaching the continent. I thought my dreams grandiose. But reality was beyond my expectations. Far beyond. And now I want to explore that land before I die.

    Queen Isabella I.: I allow you to undertake another voyage. But without your brothers. Nor for you to return to Santo Domingo or any other colonies. The New World is a disaster.

    Columbus: And the old one an achievement?

    Queen Isabella I.: [after Columbus leaves] I know. I shouldn't tolerate his impertinence.

    Sanchez: Then why?

    Queen Isabella I.: Because he is not afraid of me.

  • Arojaz: [Looking at Columbus from a distance after the discovery of America is attributed to Amerigo Vespucci] What a tragedy. What a waste of a life.

    Sanchez: A waste? Well, if your name or mine is ever remembered it will only because of his.