Flash Gordon (1980)
Peter Wyngarde: Klytus
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Quotes
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Klytus : [watching Zarkov's memories of Hitler at a Nazi Party rally] Now, he showed promise!
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Klytus : Bring me... the bore worms!
Princess Aura : No! Not the bore worms!
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[first lines]
The Emperor Ming : Klytus, I'm bored. What plaything can you offer me today?
Klytus : An obscure body in the S-K System, Your Majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet... "Earth".
The Emperor Ming : How peaceful it looks.
[He activates a console, and watches as earthquakes, floods, etc. start to occur. They both get a good laugh out of it]
Klytus : Most effective, Your Majesty! Will you destroy this, er, Earth?
The Emperor Ming : Later. I like to play with things a while... before annihilation.
[laughs evilly]
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Flash Gordon : This Ming is a psycho!
Ming's Floating Servant : This Ming is a psycho.
Klytus : Who said that?
Ming's Floating Servant : The fair-haired prisoner.
Klytus : Who are you?
Flash Gordon : Flash Gordon. Quarterback. New York Jets.
Dale Arden : Dale Arden, Your Highness. Live and let live, that's my motto.
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[Flash is in chains and with a helmet over his head]
Flash Gordon : I demand to see the governor! I can hardly breathe in this thing!
Klytus : Yes, you don't look well. I'm told you refused your final meal. The chef will be upset.
Flash Gordon : Tell 'em to go to hell!
Klytus : Maybe just as well. Gas works more quickly on an empty stomach. Any final requests?
Flash Gordon : Yes, let me see Dale. Right away.
Klytus : Oh, dear. How pathetic. Yes, I anticipated that.
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Princess Aura : l'm a princess. My father will have your head for this. He'll execute your whole perverted secret police. l demand to see him!
Klytus : With pleasure.
[Ming appears]
Princess Aura : Father.
Klytus : The traitor is close to confession, Your Majesty. Should we stop the torture?
The Emperor Ming : No.
Princess Aura : Father! Damn you, Father!
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[Flash is using football moves to fight Ming's soldiers]
The Emperor Ming : Klytus! What is he doing?
Klytus : I don't know, sir! It looks like some kind of barbaric sport!
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Klytus : The tributes of the Hawkmen will be first.
Dale Arden : Are we dreaming?
Flash Gordon : I'd like to think so.
Prince Vultan : The fabled ice jewel of Frigia; we seized it in battle from the royal crypt.
Prince Barin : Stop! The ice jewel is our tribute, not Vultan's.
Prince Barin : Vultan stole it while we were burying our dead on Frigia
Prince Vultan : Liar!
Prince Barin : You are a thief!
Prince Vultan : What?
Prince Vultan : [Prince Barin draws his sword, preparing to attack Vultan]
[Vultan raises his clubbed sword]
Prince Vultan : Aargh!
Klytus : Put down your weapons! No one, but no one, dies in the palace without a command from the Emperor.
Prince Barin : Hail, Ming!
[Barin lowers his sword]
Prince Vultan : Aargh!
Klytus : Vultan! You obey, or you sacrifice your daughter.
[Vultan's daughter emerges, looks at her father]
Prince Vultan : [lowers his club sword relentingly] Hail, Ming.
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Klytus : Now, the tributes from Ardentia.
Prince Thun : We, the people of Ardentia... We have suffered, since you blasted our kingdom. I can offer you nothing, this year, except my loyalty.
Klytus : Prince Thun, we prize nothing more highly. And tell us... How great is this loyalty to your Emperor?
Prince Thun : Without measure.
The Emperor Ming : We are delighted to hear it. Fall on your sword.
The Emperor Ming : Show us this loyalty. Throw yourself onto your sword.
Prince Thun : [unsheathes his sword] Let this deed of Ardentia's Prince be an example to all the kingdoms of Mongo!
[Thun whirls to assassinate the Emperor]
Prince Thun : DEATH TO MING!
[the Prince is frozen in his tracks by an energy-beam from Ming's servant]
The Emperor Ming : [DELETED LINE] Now, let this deed of Mongo's Emperor be an example to all its kingdoms.
[He takes Thun's sword and fatally disembowels him with it. Dale winces]
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Klytus : Execute her?
The Emperor Ming : No. Too kind. Aura will be banished to Frigia on the day after my wedding. One year in a cavern of ice will cool her blood. And then, who knows? Perhaps we will marry her to someone worthy of her treacherous nature.
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Klytus : Princess Aura, under our persuasion, has implicated you on a charge of high treason. You're under arrest! A prison ship will be here shortly to take you away.
Prince Barin : You tortured Aura.
Klytus : lnteresting girl. l think she found it rather enjoyable.