1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,080 Dear Mother... 4 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:00,080 After a few days rest in Lisbon, I return to Madrid. 5 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:02,160 I'm happy and was proud 6 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:05,360 seeing our flag fluttering over the Azores Islands 7 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:07,600 after our Armada's glorious victory 8 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,320 over France's mercenaries. 9 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:17,440 Our victory was almost as pleasant as sharing the loot. 10 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:19,040 I had never seen such wealth 11 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,640 and generosity amongst soldiers. 12 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,120 I return with my pockets full and in good disposition. 13 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,800 With my savings, you might get to live as you deserve. 14 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,680 I promised you that as a boy 15 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:34,160 and I've never forgotten. 16 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:39,000 Mother, I pray for your health 17 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:41,520 and for your prompt recovery. 18 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:43,240 God bless you. 19 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,880 Love, your son, Lope. 20 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:53,680 MADRID END OF THE 16th CENTURY 21 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:22,280 Lope de Vega, you son of a bitch! 22 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:23,920 What is it? 23 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:27,000 The poem you wrote for my wife. 24 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:28,480 Didn't you like it? 25 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,640 Sorry, but I can't give your money back. 26 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,360 Why do you mention her birthmark? 27 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:36,160 What birthmark? 28 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:38,200 The birthmark on her back. 29 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,440 Women like it when we remember these things. 30 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,880 But how do you know she has one? 31 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,360 All women have one on their back. 32 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,440 And her skin? Her hair? 33 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:54,000 And her panting when... 34 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,400 I feel like I'm with her every time they read it to me. 35 00:02:59,640 --> 00:03:01,920 Are you sure you don't know my wife? 36 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,360 How would I know her? 37 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,840 I just pictured her as you described. 38 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,520 You're fiendish, Lope. 39 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:17,840 Just in case... 40 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:28,200 Take it to the Marquis. 41 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:36,440 Nice horse! 42 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:38,440 How much did your master pay for it? 43 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:40,240 Lope! 44 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:42,520 Nice seeing you. 45 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,800 You look great. No one would say you were in a war. 46 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,800 I was and I don't intend to go back. 47 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,440 Nothing justifies what I saw there. 48 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:53,440 Have you seen your mother? 49 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,120 I can't see her with these clothes. 50 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,040 Should I cry or worry? 51 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:02,560 You have access to the Marquis' dressing room. 52 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:06,880 Now I'm worried. 53 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:16,200 Lope! Lope! 54 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:23,480 Lope! 55 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:31,440 Lope, my son! 56 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:33,160 Finally! 57 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:49,640 Thank you. 58 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:54,800 Lope. 59 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:57,040 Brother. 60 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:03,400 You didn't exaggerate in your letters. 61 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:05,640 I can't complain. 62 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,760 I'm so glad to see you two together again. 63 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:19,720 God knows I've prayed for this. 64 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,280 You must have a lot to tell me. 65 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:29,520 I'm referring to sins. 66 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,920 Here. We have a lot of work to do. 67 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,920 Your mother has spent many hours with patients. 68 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,080 I pray for her recovery. 69 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,200 What will you do with your life now? 70 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:48,800 I know what I don't want. 71 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:52,360 But neither what I do want nor where. 72 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,800 Have you considered a religious life? 73 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:59,240 Your restlessness might be a sign from God. 74 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:20,120 Salcedo succeeded at the theater. 75 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,200 Now he works under Jeronimo Velazquez, 76 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,080 a plasterer who spends part of his earnings on the theater. 77 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:28,440 Development, that's where money lies. 78 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:35,480 Watch it! 79 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,640 I'm sorry. Please accept my apologies. 80 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:41,440 Lope! 81 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:43,200 Lope de Vega? 82 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:48,320 How's your mother? 83 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:51,360 Don't you know who I am? 84 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:53,520 Isabel. 85 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:55,880 Isabel? 86 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:57,920 You wouldn't remember. 87 00:06:58,240 --> 00:06:59,560 Of course I do. 88 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:00,760 Isabel de Urbina. 89 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:02,840 I hadn't recognized you. 90 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:06,920 How was the Armada? 91 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,000 Your mother read me some of your letters. 92 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,280 She thinks you'll become an Admiral. 93 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,040 Mother has high hopes for me. 94 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:16,960 I'm done with the Army. 95 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,680 I don't intend to leave Madrid again. 96 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:21,040 I'm glad. 97 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,040 This is not a place to socialize. 98 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:25,440 I'm off to the pharmacy. 99 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:30,320 I hadn't seen her in years. 100 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:32,320 What is she doing here? 101 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:34,640 Driving her family crazy. 102 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,800 Her father wants her married soonest. 103 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:41,120 Friar Bernardo! Friar Bernardo... 104 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:01,880 How will you pay for the funeral? With your nails? 105 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:03,160 I don't know yet. 106 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:06,200 But our mother deserves the funeral of a lady. 107 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:08,000 What will they say if we bury her as... 108 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:09,960 As what? As what we are? 109 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:14,360 We are what people think we are. 110 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:16,720 You're such a dreamer. 111 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,040 You're old enough to come down to earth. 112 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:29,160 It's here. 113 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:31,200 Are you sure you want to go in? 114 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:32,880 I need money. 115 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:36,160 I'm touched by your noble cause 116 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,320 but I need guarantees. 117 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,960 Only pirates sign deals like that. 118 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,560 That's why they never break'em. 119 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:15,520 You have nice ears. 120 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,520 Take good care of them. We get one pair in life. 121 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:07,160 Whose crest is that? 122 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:09,200 Ours. 123 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:10,680 Our mother's family's, the Carpios. 124 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:13,360 Mother never had one. 125 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:15,400 She does now. 126 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:39,760 Here. 127 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:42,200 Thank your actors. 128 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:48,200 I almost believed you were our relatives from Cantabria. 129 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,920 Lady, if you're not buying, just leave it! 130 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:17,520 I can't help it. I hate seeing people touching her belongings. 131 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:21,560 We're selling everything on account of the funeral. 132 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:29,200 It's father's quill. 133 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,440 Do you mind if I keep it? 134 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:37,600 Do as you please. 135 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:42,200 Come with me to Lisbon. 136 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:46,520 I don't want to go back to war. 137 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:53,040 I need to breathe the Court's air. 138 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:56,680 Women here look even prettier. 139 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,160 You're just like our father. 140 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,160 I feel sorry for whoever falls for you. 141 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:09,440 When are you leaving? 142 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:13,040 Next week. 143 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:16,120 I'll miss you. 144 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:19,840 Think about it. 145 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:23,000 You could join my Battalion in Lisbon. 146 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:26,960 What do you say, brother? 147 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:35,320 Wait here. 148 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:37,360 I have to deliver a message from the Marquis. 149 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:23,600 ...as silence precedes thunder 150 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:26,880 with calm skies and soft clouds. 151 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:31,000 The wind changes and the storm breaks. 152 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:36,520 Make yourself useful. Take those swords to the stage. 153 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:38,600 Most of all the end! 154 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:24,760 Lope... Lope! 155 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:31,640 I was worried. 156 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:33,640 You've been here for two days without eating. 157 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:35,440 I didn't have time. 158 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,840 I have to finish this comedy and take it to Velazquez. 159 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:44,080 Maria, you have no idea how it feels to be backstage. 160 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:49,600 Eat... you fool. 161 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:08,760 Wait here. 162 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:34,480 Mr. Velazquez cannot see you. 163 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:36,640 You may leave your comedies. 164 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:47,840 And you? 165 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,280 Tell your master Don Felix Lope de Vega y Carpio wants to see him. 166 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:53,640 Did you hear me? 167 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:56,360 Mr. Jeronimo won't see anyone. 168 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:58,800 I heard you perfectly well. I'll wait. 169 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,160 Sir, Mr. Velazquez's orders 170 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:03,320 -were clear. -Tell him Don Lope de Vega 171 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:04,480 -has a new comedy... -Listen, 172 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:06,640 Don Lope de Fucking-Vega. 173 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:10,360 You can either go nicely or the hard way. 174 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:13,040 You will have to throw me out. 175 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:15,760 Roque! Amezcua! 176 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,680 What is it? Who are you? 177 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,960 Milady, excuse me. I'm Lope de Vega. 178 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:33,080 - I have a comedy for... -Don't waste your time. 179 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:35,280 He doesn't read comedies he hasn't commissioned. 180 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:36,960 -Milady, I beg... -Throw him out! 181 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:40,160 Who do you think you are, you arrogant hen? 182 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:50,240 Elena Osorio, the daughter of Velazquez, 183 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:51,800 the rooster here! 184 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:56,120 Get out! 185 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,280 Eyes of such grace and beauty 186 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,440 that would make the sun envious and color the sky 187 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:12,720 and if sapphires are naturally frosty 188 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:14,880 how come they ignite with your chaste light? 189 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:16,120 Wait. 190 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:21,840 Why does such modest demeanor by a veil of coyness adorned 191 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:25,600 elicit a desire that defeats what platonic love seeks? 192 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:29,400 Look without fear, treacherous eyes 193 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:34,960 your venomous look has kept away many a fearful. 194 00:19:35,360 --> 00:19:36,680 You kill of love 195 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:38,640 yet know not love 196 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,360 full of venom and more tyrannical than Nero 197 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:44,600 for you burn the world. 198 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:49,160 Wait here. 199 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:05,320 Every man in this Court thinks he can write comedies. 200 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:09,080 You can read it or not 201 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:11,680 but you'll be sorry if you don't. 202 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:14,880 Please read ten pages, that's all. 203 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:17,800 All right. 204 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:22,240 Someone I trust assures me of your talent. 205 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,520 I'll give you an opportunity. 206 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,520 Why don't you copy this comedy? 207 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,000 You will make some money although 208 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,640 by your attire, you hardly need any. 209 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:41,840 And you'll learn the techniques. 210 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:47,960 Nothing like studying other people's work to learn. 211 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:04,480 Milady, how can I thank you? 212 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:08,280 Just appreciate the favor my father granted you. 213 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:10,560 But he hired me as a copyist. 214 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,200 Be patient. He likes people to beg. 215 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:35,520 It won't work. 216 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,480 -But the changes do. -Salcedo, 217 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:41,400 don't tell me how things work in theater. 218 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,480 Is that clear? Rehearsal is over. Enough. 219 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,080 I said rehearsal is over. 220 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:50,280 What are you looking at? 221 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:56,720 How dare you? 222 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:02,760 I hired you to copy this comedy not to change it! 223 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:04,440 Who do you think you are? 224 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,400 -I just... -You were to copy it! 225 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:07,960 Read my changes... 226 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,080 I alone make changes. 227 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,880 -Is that clear? - I wanted to bring life to it. 228 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,920 Who are you to correct a master? Just leave! 229 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,280 I beg you to read the new scenes. 230 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,840 It's not just the scenes. It's everything! 231 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:28,680 You want to change the settings 232 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,400 to dress up characters as true legionnaires. 233 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,760 Passion... 234 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:38,360 and two actors suffice for a play. 235 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,520 But Lope 236 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:45,040 wants swords, armors, spears... You want... 237 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,680 Rome, don't you? 238 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:52,040 Excuse me. 239 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,560 Where are you going? What is this?! 240 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,920 I want comedies to be more lifelike, 241 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,480 with characters more like us, 242 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:04,600 suffering and laughing. 243 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,640 How can you have women telling jokes 244 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:10,480 halfway through a tragedy? 245 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:13,080 Don Jeronimo, 246 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,960 in real life, laughter and tears go together. 247 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,040 Yes, but... 248 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,000 Let the actors read it out loud once. 249 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:22,600 If you don't like it... 250 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:24,560 Our comedies have been criticized lately. 251 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,440 Salcedo, you know it's Porres' men. 252 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,080 No, they have also been criticized. 253 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,360 Audiences are tired of the same old thing. 254 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,640 Here's a chance to offer them 255 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:39,280 something new. 256 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:41,520 Can't you see this goes against theater rules? 257 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,080 What rules? Times change. 258 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:46,200 Why obstruct one's imagination? 259 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:49,360 That's all nonsense. 260 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:51,760 Audiences wouldn't understand, 261 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,240 and such are the rules. Especially 262 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,440 because this comedy belongs to me. 263 00:23:58,640 --> 00:23:59,760 It's mine. 264 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,320 Please, Don Jeronimo, 265 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,240 give him a chance. 266 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:11,640 All right. 267 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:17,040 I'll read it carefully and try to make sense of it. 268 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,480 But it's the last time you take liberties 269 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:22,120 with one of my poets. 270 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:23,960 Yes, sir. 271 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,320 So, gentlemen, 272 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:27,880 go on. 273 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:29,080 Texts! 274 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,120 Are you happy now, poet? 275 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:37,440 Happy? 276 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:40,040 He was about to throw me out. 277 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:41,880 Hardly. 278 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:43,920 You impressed him. 279 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:54,680 Thank you. 280 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,680 Filis contemplated alone, at midnight 281 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,000 a candle whilst she worked under its flame 282 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,600 for a white moth flirted around it. 283 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,160 She took it in her fair hands and said with envy: 284 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,120 What attracts your eyes, 285 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,160 seduced by this light? 286 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,920 Your mouth, your kisses, relishing with delight? 287 00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:21,760 Come watch the new comedy by... 288 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,920 Don Jeronimo Velazquez's company: 289 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:26,880 The Siege of Numantia, 290 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,440 by poet Miguel Cervantes y Saavedra. 291 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,000 Ladies and gentlemen... 292 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:35,640 Lope! 293 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,040 -You made it! -Only to wish you luck. 294 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:39,800 The Marquis needs me. 295 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,560 It's high time you returned his clothes. 296 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,760 Isabel? I'm glad to see you. 297 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,160 I'd never miss the debut of your first play. 298 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:53,120 Mine? I just mended it. 299 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,320 For a mender, you are quite popular. 300 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,440 Don't trust all people say. 301 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,120 If I had, I'd never see you again. 302 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:03,520 Good luck. 303 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,200 Raise your front, Romans. 304 00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:15,840 You've heard of the unique bravery of Numantia's men and women. 305 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,360 Never has the Earth seen such a feat. 306 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:24,000 Children of forthcoming centuries will drink to its bravery 307 00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:27,920 and will turn Spain into a strong nation 308 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:32,360 that will conquer the world one day! 309 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,960 Aren't you celebrating? 310 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,040 That's for your father and the cast. 311 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:26,640 They won't miss me. 312 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:28,800 How about you? 313 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,040 I told them I'm unwell. 314 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,960 Women can say that with no further questions. 315 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,120 But why did you? 316 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,320 Because I missed you. 317 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:00,920 Be patient, Lope. 318 00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:04,240 It's too soon for Madrid to discover your talent. 319 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,680 I could never have dreamed of such an end. 320 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,640 Who said this is the end? 321 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:08,520 Unfasten me. 322 00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:58,400 Take me. 323 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,560 Sweet Filis, if you wait for me, 324 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:06,600 I beg you to change 325 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,840 for it's too much of a tease, for, in fact, too little. 326 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,200 If you trust my love, soothe its flames 327 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,200 and if you belittle my fire, 328 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,520 do not feed it with favors. 329 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,680 It's not right for you to ignite me 330 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:21,400 without a favor once in a while 331 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,000 for it's too much of a tease, for, in fact, 332 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:25,360 too little. 333 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:27,640 Finally! Where were you? 334 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,320 The bookseller's house is far and I was loaded. 335 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:32,680 -Has anyone seen you? -No. 336 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,320 Or we'd be in trouble. 337 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:42,560 "Metamorphosis!" 338 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,040 Why won't they let me read it? 339 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:46,960 It must be heresy. 340 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:49,880 Here's something else. 341 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:51,680 What is it? 342 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:53,640 Poems by your friend Lope. 343 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:56,920 They began to print them. 344 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,560 Save it. They sell out fast. 345 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:04,160 "To Filis..." 346 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:06,400 Who's Filis? 347 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:08,880 Young Lope-y! 348 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,920 Some say you'll revolutionize Drama. 349 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,920 Mr. Jeronimo Velazquez wastes his money. 350 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,560 Who are you to mix tragedy and comedy? 351 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:23,760 They're envious. 352 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,800 Excuse me. Mr. Lope de Vega? 353 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,760 Yes, and you are Don Gaspar de Porres. 354 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,920 I've heard about how you've revised Cervantes' comedy. 355 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,720 Cast members say it's quite original. 356 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:39,680 Actors tend to exaggerate. 357 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,440 It seems you have ideas of your own. 358 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,200 Have you written any comedies? 359 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:46,800 Yes, a few. 360 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:48,520 May I read one? 361 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,840 I might be interested in producing it. 362 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,480 Thank you, but I have a deal with Mr. Velazquez 363 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,520 and I won't betray his trust. 364 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:01,280 You're an honorable man. 365 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:05,440 Let me know if that changes some day. 366 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:07,880 Gentlemen... 367 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:12,360 Why did you say that? 368 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,240 Velazquez makes you work as a copyist 369 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,360 and doesn't pay you enough. 370 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:18,320 He'll hear about this 371 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,400 and, hopefully, he will change his mind. 372 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:52,880 Stop! 373 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:01,560 All right. 374 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,720 Take whatever you want. 375 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,840 Come on. You know why we're here. 376 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,160 -But I... -We're here on Calero's behalf 377 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,600 and we can't leave empty-handed. 378 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,600 If you don't have any money, one of your ears will do. 379 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:23,600 Wait. 380 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:25,840 Wait a minute. 381 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,520 This is just a first payment. 382 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,400 Take it to Calero with my respects. 383 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,040 A magnificent weapon, there's no other like it. 384 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:56,040 Powder guns have no future. 385 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,840 I was looking forward to meeting you, Lope. 386 00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:03,040 Claudio speaks highly of your talent. 387 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:05,480 He's my friend, he exaggerates. 388 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,040 I've heard you were a soldier. 389 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,000 Try it. 390 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:14,720 I favor swords. 391 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,880 And verses. Everyone recites them. 392 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,120 Go on. Shoot. 393 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,000 I told you I favored swords. 394 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,560 Has Claudio told you what I need? 395 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,120 Poems to win over a hesitant lady's heart. 396 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:37,320 Exactly. 397 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,000 God has granted me no talent for poetry. 398 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,000 Only money to buy someone else's. 399 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,880 To talent! 400 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,120 And a long association. 401 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:58,840 In this empty lot, we will build our new theater. 402 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:01,680 The largest in Madrid. 403 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:03,800 Look at the blueprints. 404 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,240 All finishings 405 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:07,840 in oak wood. 406 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:10,280 Have you read my work yet? 407 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,720 It's powerful, vibrant but far from ready 408 00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:15,160 to be staged. 409 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,360 Tell me what I should rewrite. 410 00:36:19,240 --> 00:36:20,800 It's all too fast, 411 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,240 too many changes. 412 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,440 Audiences can't follow so many changes. 413 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:28,440 We must proceed slowly. 414 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,600 Someone else might want to produce my comedies. 415 00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:35,440 Do you recognize this document? 416 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:39,440 Here's my offer: 417 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,280 I'll pay up your debt. 418 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,200 In return, you'll write for me only. 419 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:49,920 When you've delivered five plays, 420 00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:54,720 I deem worthy, we'll be even. 421 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,400 I don't think so. 422 00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:58,320 God be with you. 423 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:02,160 You should take this back to its owner. 424 00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:05,840 The Marquis wouldn't want to see his jewelry 425 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:07,480 passed around like that. 426 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:29,000 Again? 427 00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,040 Are you insane? 428 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,600 You're here to assist us, not for fun. 429 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,520 He's teaching me self-defense. 430 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:55,880 They're not mutually excludent. 431 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:57,200 I agree. 432 00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,400 Her father should agree not you. 433 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,240 Back to work. 434 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:03,720 Great class, Lope. 435 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,920 What were you thinking? Here of all places? 436 00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:15,520 Or were you celebrating the play's success? 437 00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:17,520 You had a big part in it. 438 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:20,640 Tell Velazquez. 439 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:22,200 He won't produce my plays. 440 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,880 I gave him three already, with no feedback. 441 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:27,920 And I should talk to him? Forget it. 442 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,640 His daughter is the only one he listens to. 443 00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:32,840 Speaking of her... 444 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,040 Kneel down for confession. 445 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,000 Here? 446 00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:41,400 A place as good as any for God's forgiveness. 447 00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:43,120 Kneel down. 448 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,760 Her husband has been overseas for three years, 449 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:51,600 that's why you haven't met him. 450 00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:53,360 I'm warning you. 451 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,000 If her father finds out you will be in serious trouble. 452 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,040 He's tried to match her with powerful rich men 453 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:02,680 but she has turned them all down. 454 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:06,960 He won't accept a poor poet winning her heart. 455 00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:12,720 Is there anything else? 456 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:14,480 No. 457 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:16,160 Well, then. 458 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:19,320 As penance, 459 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:24,160 you'll assist us here, Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 6am to 3pm. 460 00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:00,680 What's wrong? 461 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,000 Why didn't you tell me you're married? 462 00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:04,960 You knew I'd find out. 463 00:40:05,720 --> 00:40:07,320 Wait! Wait! 464 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:09,720 I thought you already knew. 465 00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:10,920 So what? 466 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:12,560 Will I have to share you with him? 467 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,520 Please, please... 468 00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,320 Forget that, please. My husband isn't here. 469 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,360 Only the two of us. Enjoy the present. 470 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,240 It's fleeting. 471 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:31,280 Indeed. Next thing I know, your husband's back. 472 00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:32,960 Then what? 473 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,440 We'll hide for the rest of our lives? 474 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,720 Who knows how long it will last? 475 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:43,720 Forget my husband. 476 00:41:04,720 --> 00:41:06,400 I suppose you don't care to know 477 00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,440 that my father's producing one of your comedies. 478 00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,000 My tears, my verses, my sighs 479 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:56,760 against oblivion and time will be safe. 480 00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,640 Against oblivion and time... 481 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:01,840 I thought we were invited. 482 00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:03,000 Don't get confused. 483 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,320 We're in a different league. We're the audience. 484 00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:09,920 ...rise to the splendid sky where... 485 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,880 where the purest spirits lie. 486 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:16,000 If he can't learn it, he'll embarrass me. 487 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,120 It's like throwing pearls to pigs. 488 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:32,320 Isabel? 489 00:42:45,720 --> 00:42:48,320 The quill and the tongue, answering in unison 490 00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:50,840 long to rise to the splendid sky 491 00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,720 where the purest spirits lie. 492 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,640 Among such richness and treasures 493 00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,400 my tears, my verses, my sighs 494 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:03,280 against oblivion and time 495 00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,560 will be safe. 496 00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:18,720 Good morning. 497 00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:21,400 I mean, good afternoon, everyone. 498 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:26,600 Hi, Ramon. 499 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:28,160 Hello. 500 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,600 -You look better. -Thank you. 501 00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:33,480 Maybe her visit helps. 502 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:36,000 It's the poet! 503 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:37,720 What are you doing here? 504 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,920 Penance for my sins. 505 00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:45,240 Though now penance looks more like a reward. 506 00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:48,320 You're never short of pleasantries. 507 00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:51,520 I saw you at the Marquis' party yesterday. 508 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:53,200 You didn't greet me. 509 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,080 I wasn't among the main guests. 510 00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,320 What were you doing among feathers? 511 00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,560 The Marquis is a friend of my family. 512 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,160 He seemed smitten with you. 513 00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:08,000 He is very pleasant. 514 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:10,320 And powerful. 515 00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,280 So I've heard. I don't know. 516 00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:14,720 Good God! 517 00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,920 -Can I please eat? -I'm sorry, Ramon. 518 00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:26,640 He's set your pulse racing. 519 00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:30,440 Excuse me. 520 00:44:32,240 --> 00:44:34,760 Would you let me finish? 521 00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:38,400 Isabel... 522 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,800 from the arrival of the rosy dawn 523 00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,600 until old Atlas hides the day 524 00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:46,680 my eyes cry out, as profusely as 525 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:50,720 the bright sun that gilds the mountains. 526 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:57,360 And from the moment the cold night 527 00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:59,360 lazily emerges from chaos 528 00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:01,760 until it returns again to Venus 529 00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:05,000 I cry over your sternness, Milady. 530 00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:12,680 It's beautiful. 531 00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:15,520 It must have cost you a fortune. 532 00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,320 I'm glad you like it. 533 00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,000 The Marquis is a generous funder. 534 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:21,800 He's truly in love. 535 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,560 Do you think she will give in? 536 00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,160 I hope not. Or he'll be done with me. 537 00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,760 Once he wins her over, there'll be no more verses. 538 00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:34,520 That's how men are. 539 00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:37,280 Gifts and verses until you get what you want. 540 00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:39,160 -Then... -Not me. 541 00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:42,920 I've filled Madrid with verses dedicated to you. 542 00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,280 Love is so surprising, since I met you... 543 00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:47,080 I can't stay away. 544 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,240 I gave you my soul, now I'm a prisoner of my body. 545 00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:53,280 Everyone recites them, 546 00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:56,280 though they ignore who I wrote them for. 547 00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:58,720 Is she beautiful? 548 00:45:59,960 --> 00:46:02,720 -Who? -The maiden. Is she beautiful? 549 00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:05,000 Yes, she is. 550 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,160 I bet. To inspire such verses. 551 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:14,160 They are signed by the Marquis. He pays, I write them. 552 00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:16,960 So you write things you don't feel? 553 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,840 When I write for the Portuguese, I feel what he does. 554 00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,520 You have an answer to everything. 555 00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:41,480 Mr. Tomas de Perrenot, you honor us with your presence. 556 00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:43,120 Isabel! 557 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:44,840 Isabel! 558 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:49,920 This is Isabel de Urbina. 559 00:46:50,240 --> 00:46:52,360 I've been hoping to win her hand. 560 00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:54,840 The Marquis' taste is as exquisite 561 00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:56,840 in choosing his bride-to-be. 562 00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:57,880 Lope! 563 00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:00,000 Lope! Come here! 564 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,520 Lope, this is Don Tomas de Perrenot. 565 00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:10,400 Lope de Vega. 566 00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:12,760 The Marquis has nothing but praise for you. 567 00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:14,560 Says you're the best poet in Spain. 568 00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:16,120 The Marquis is too kind. 569 00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:19,000 His poems are recited everywhere. 570 00:47:19,240 --> 00:47:20,960 I'd be so honored. 571 00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:24,400 You might get him to reveal who Filis is. 572 00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:26,560 She must be flattered. 573 00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:30,160 Milady Isabel cannot complain either. 574 00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:33,040 You've written her beautiful poems. 575 00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:35,760 I've just recently written a few. 576 00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:37,080 Go on. 577 00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,520 The Marquis will recite a few verses! 578 00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:49,920 From the arrival of the rosy dawn 579 00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,680 until old Atlas hides the day 580 00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,520 my eyes cry out, as profusely as 581 00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:59,000 the bright sun that gilds the mountains. 582 00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:02,080 And from the moment 583 00:48:02,720 --> 00:48:05,120 the cold night lazily emerges from chaos 584 00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,840 until it returns again to Venus 585 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,720 I cry over your sternness, Milady. 586 00:48:12,240 --> 00:48:14,080 So neither the night comes to my rescue 587 00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,080 nor can the day soothe or amuse me 588 00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,360 and I'm in the middle of such extremes. 589 00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:23,400 My life flies 590 00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:25,280 time races by 591 00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,400 and while my faith in you is intact 592 00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,480 in silence, beams shine so switfly. 593 00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:46,240 How did you like it? 594 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:48,080 Lovely. 595 00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:49,800 I wrote that one last night. 596 00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,160 It's fresh from the oven. 597 00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:55,400 And you, Mr. Lope? 598 00:48:55,720 --> 00:48:57,960 Don't you have any verses for us? 599 00:48:58,720 --> 00:49:02,160 I wouldn't dare, Milady, that's the Marquis' honor. 600 00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:03,360 Don't make us beg. 601 00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:05,640 How about a sonnet? 602 00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:08,040 You're showing him up. 603 00:49:08,240 --> 00:49:11,400 This is as hard for him as for anyone else. 604 00:49:11,720 --> 00:49:17,440 We, poets, want to make it look like divine inspiration. 605 00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:20,000 Milady wants a sonnet? 606 00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:22,280 Would you like a sonnet now? 607 00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:24,360 Yes. 608 00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:28,640 Never in my life have I faced such a fix 609 00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:31,520 14 lines make up a sonnet 610 00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,720 with tongue in cheek, I have spun 3. 611 00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:39,080 I never thought I'd even make sense 612 00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:42,000 now I'm halfway of another quatrain. 613 00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:44,320 But if I see myself in the first tercet 614 00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,240 nothing in the quatrains will stop me. 615 00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:51,240 Now I'm in the first tercet 616 00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,320 and, apparently, on the right foot. 617 00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,040 And with this verse, I end it. 618 00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:02,360 Now in the second, I suspect 619 00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,520 13 verses |'ve completed. 620 00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:09,520 Count if there are 14, and there you have it. 621 00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:20,840 You're an ingenious man. 622 00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:22,920 You almost have fooled us. 623 00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:24,440 What do you mean? 624 00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:28,600 It's obvious you had memorized poems beforehand. 625 00:50:29,240 --> 00:50:31,600 You're calling me a fraud? 626 00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:33,400 Don't take offense. 627 00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:35,400 I just want to warn the lady 628 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:37,920 of your dishonest tricks. 629 00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:58,000 Mr. Perrenot..., I 630 00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:05,000 Proceed to refute every word Ensuring here my defense. 631 00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:07,040 Rebutting these allegations 632 00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:08,560 Reclaiming my own talent 633 00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,920 Easily perceived in my verses 634 00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:15,920 Notwithstanding being on the spot 635 00:51:16,240 --> 00:51:19,000 Or perhaps not fast enough. 636 00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,360 Take the first letter of each line. 637 00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,560 Now tell me if I had it memorized. 638 00:51:57,880 --> 00:51:58,880 Excuse me. 639 00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:11,280 I want audiences to feel they're in the New World. 640 00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,120 I need a bigger stage. 641 00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:16,440 I can talk to the carpenters 642 00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:18,800 but Velazquez won't pay for it. 643 00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:21,040 And I want Indians, 644 00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:23,480 real Indians from Seville. 645 00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:25,800 For the sake of realism. 646 00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:27,720 Real Indians! Are you crazy? 647 00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,960 Use painted men. This is Drama, not real life! 648 00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:36,200 Elena, Don Tomas, this way. 649 00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:38,960 Salcedo! 650 00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:40,720 Company! 651 00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:45,080 Lope! 652 00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:49,640 Don Tomas, 653 00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,280 I'd like to introduce you to 654 00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,120 Lope de Vega, a talented young poet. 655 00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:59,600 Lope, Your Lordship Don Tomas Perrenot. 656 00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:04,560 We've met. He's shown me his poetic verve. 657 00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,600 You must be a threat to the company's actresses. 658 00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:12,560 Friar Bernardo. 659 00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:15,160 You, too, have met. 660 00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:18,200 Don Tomas has been generous to our charity. 661 00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,880 Will you excuse me? I have to direct the actors. 662 00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:30,080 Let me show you our new facilities. 663 00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:34,880 It's for you. 664 00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:37,920 Just a moment. 665 00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:59,240 I know everything. Now I know who I should love. 666 00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:01,000 I need to see you. 667 00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:03,280 Isabel. 668 00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:49,120 Not like this. 669 00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:51,800 Not like this. 670 00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:13,680 Excellent! Amazing! 671 00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:16,760 This comedy is filled with new ideas 672 00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:21,800 of unknown feelings from life, 673 00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:27,400 from a life unknown to me, yet life, nonetheless. 674 00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:32,360 He's a talented young man. 675 00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:37,400 He could become the greatest. 676 00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:41,480 Listen to the opening of this scene. 677 00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:05,120 Try it. It's from the mountains. 678 00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:15,040 Are you worried? 679 00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:19,240 Are you? 680 00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:23,360 Me? 681 00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:24,880 No, why? 682 00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:30,360 Perhaps the letter you received yesterday. 683 00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:32,880 That letter... 684 00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:35,800 It was Navas'. 685 00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:41,000 Right. 686 00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:45,840 Does the Marquis send petals in his letters? 687 00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:50,680 It was from her, wasn't it? Isabel de Urbina. 688 00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:52,400 Is she in love with you? 689 00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:56,680 Women are not stupid. 690 00:57:57,080 --> 00:57:59,680 She knows those verses are not Navas'. 691 00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:03,240 She fell in love with the verses, hence with you. 692 00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:04,920 What are you saying? 693 00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:08,680 It's not your fault. 694 00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:12,440 You fell under the spell of your own words 695 00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:15,000 and fantasy became reality. 696 00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:17,680 You fell for your verses. 697 00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:20,520 But you must come down to earth. 698 00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:22,120 You'll never have her. 699 00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:26,000 She'll soon marry the Marquis, thanks to you. 700 00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:28,560 Stop dreaming. 701 00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:31,560 -We can be happy. -How? 702 00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:33,360 Hiding from everyone? 703 00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:36,000 Let's elope. 704 00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:38,840 Let's go to France, Italy, America! 705 00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:43,000 If you loved me, you wouldn't ask me that. 706 00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:44,920 You only think of yourself. 707 00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:47,720 How can we leave everything? 708 00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:52,600 That's not what life is about. We can carry on. 709 00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:55,480 Any children we had wouldn't carry my name, 710 00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:58,320 your father brings lovers into your bed. 711 00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:01,440 How dare you talk about my father 712 00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:03,320 after all he's done for you? 713 00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:05,800 He's producing your comedy. 714 00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:10,040 Be glad for what you have. 715 00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:12,000 You can't have it all. 716 00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:13,880 But I want it all! 717 00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:17,280 Don't wish for what you can't have. 718 00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:19,600 The present is all we have. 719 00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:28,680 So I won't waste another minute. 720 00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:36,200 Where are you going? 721 00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:51,600 Mr. Velazquez is unavailable. 722 00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:53,480 -He will see me. -Leave him! 723 00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:55,560 Let him in. 724 01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:06,120 I hope this intrusion is justifiable. 725 01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:07,320 It is. 726 01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:10,760 I'm here to terminate our work relationship. 727 01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:21,640 You signed this document. 728 01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:23,600 Yes, it's my signature. 729 01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:27,600 You agreed to hand me five comedies 730 01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:29,800 suitable to be staged. 731 01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:31,080 What do you want? 732 01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:34,400 I'm slaving, trying to make a living 733 01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:36,840 writing one play after another! 734 01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:40,160 So it's a matter of money. 735 01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:43,560 -Let's talk money. -It's not money! 736 01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,560 That's not why you're here? 737 01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:52,200 So what do you want to talk about? 738 01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:57,480 Dignity and freedom. 739 01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:03,800 You laugh at me, mock my words. 740 01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:07,640 You're a procurer who respects no one! 741 01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:10,320 What would you expect 742 01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:14,360 from one who sells his own daughter to the highest bidder? 743 01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:17,800 But she's no whore. 744 01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:21,120 She chooses whose bed she'll hop in. 745 01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:27,080 -Our partnership is over. -Absolutely not. 746 01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:33,920 We will keep rehearsing. Do you know why? 747 01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:37,400 People want to see a comedy by Lope 748 01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:40,640 and business always comes first. 749 01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:44,880 You will go on writing for me 750 01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:47,040 until you fulfill your commitment. 751 01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:51,440 And don't even think about coming back here 752 01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:58,120 or getting close to my daughter ever again. 753 01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:03,520 That's for her to decide. 754 01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:14,880 What have you done? 755 01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:17,920 What have you done? 756 01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:19,760 You turned me into a whore. 757 01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:22,200 What does it matter his opinion? 758 01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:24,640 He knows everything. 759 01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:27,400 We can live wherever we choose. 760 01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:29,000 Elena, 761 01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:35,160 you heard him. Go and live with him. 762 01:02:39,120 --> 01:02:43,560 Go and live with this miserable poet! 763 01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:47,600 Is that what you want? 764 01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:50,080 Tell him! 765 01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:52,800 Tell him that's what you want. 766 01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:54,720 Go away. 767 01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:57,600 I don't ever want to see you again. 768 01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:00,400 -Elena... -Out! 769 01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:02,760 Enough's been said. Get out! 770 01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:07,320 Before I throw you out myself. 771 01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:12,240 Elena... 772 01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:15,360 go freshen up. 773 01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:19,400 We are expecting Don Tomas Perrenot. 774 01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:25,960 I'm not the one who turns you into a whore. 775 01:03:26,240 --> 01:03:27,360 He does. 776 01:03:44,200 --> 01:03:45,680 Thank you. 777 01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:00,520 A LADY 778 01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:06,520 THOUGH SHE WON'T CONFESS IT 779 01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:09,640 IS FOR SALE 780 01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:17,160 What did I do wrong? 781 01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:20,520 You're being unfair, father. 782 01:04:21,040 --> 01:04:21,720 What did I do wrong? 783 01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:24,360 How was I disrespectful? 784 01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:26,400 How can you be SO unreasonable? 785 01:04:26,720 --> 01:04:29,120 You humiliated the Marquis of Navas 786 01:04:29,400 --> 01:04:31,320 and compromised your honor 787 01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:35,840 with this silly comedy writer who's fooled you. 788 01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:37,160 I have done nothing wrong, 789 01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:40,200 nothing I wouldn't do in your presence. 790 01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:41,440 I know. 791 01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:44,880 But things are not always as they really are 792 01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:47,520 but as people think they are. 793 01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:53,240 I have to decide what to do with you. 794 01:04:57,320 --> 01:04:59,080 Don't leave your room. 795 01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:09,960 You son of a bitch! And I loved your mother as my own. 796 01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:11,520 You had to do it! 797 01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:13,440 Isabel de Urbina turned down the Marquis. 798 01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:16,320 She says she's in love with you. Navas is after you. 799 01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:19,200 I know Urbina, he'll send Isabel to a convent. 800 01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:21,560 There's nothing else to be done. 801 01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:22,800 What have you done? 802 01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:26,080 -Where is she? -She won't see you. 803 01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:28,440 She knows about you and Elena. 804 01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:31,160 -How did she find out? -What do you think? 805 01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:33,560 Elena told her herself. 806 01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:37,160 She doesn't think too highly of you right now. 807 01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:42,280 You picked the worst enemies: 808 01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:45,120 Velazquez, Navas and Perrenot. 809 01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:48,240 Be careful. 810 01:06:02,840 --> 01:06:07,480 The Conquest of the New World by poet Felix Lope de Vega y Carpio. 811 01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:10,480 Come to watch the great new comedy... 812 01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:30,440 It's show time. 813 01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:33,000 Right, sir. 814 01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:39,360 I beg your silence 815 01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:41,680 for some 3-odd hours. 816 01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:44,720 Listen if you're discreet... 817 01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:47,840 if you're stupid, be quiet. 818 01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:07,240 Astonishing! 819 01:07:15,520 --> 01:07:17,520 Finally, the land of my dreams. 820 01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:25,360 Father, pass me the Cross. 821 01:07:25,760 --> 01:07:28,760 It will be the beacon that will brighten up the New World. 822 01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:30,040 We'll place it right here. 823 01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:32,760 -Kneel down! -Here, on the sand? 824 01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:35,240 How about in the woods? 825 01:07:37,600 --> 01:07:38,600 Bartolome, 826 01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:40,160 for God's sake! 827 01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:49,360 Imagine you understand them. 828 01:07:49,640 --> 01:07:54,200 Remember this is the year 1492. 829 01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:55,720 The two worlds 830 01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:58,880 do not share even the same alphabet. 831 01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:04,240 Only then will you truly experience this moment. 832 01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:07,680 Who are you? 833 01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:09,960 Such handsome men. 834 01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:16,040 Where is Lope? I haven't seen him. 835 01:08:16,280 --> 01:08:18,000 Shush! Focus on the play. 836 01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:30,600 For Castilla and Leon, 837 01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:33,000 Columbus discovered the New World! 838 01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:35,560 His honor is ours. 839 01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:37,080 Let's baptize 840 01:08:37,320 --> 01:08:39,560 the first vassals Columbus brought 841 01:08:40,440 --> 01:08:42,360 in a great feat he attained 842 01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:45,080 praised from Castilla and Leon 843 01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:47,720 to the far corners of Spain! 844 01:08:48,400 --> 01:08:49,960 And thus ends the story 845 01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:52,560 of the conquest of the New World. 846 01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:15,960 It's Lope! 847 01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:18,000 It's Lope! 848 01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:40,800 Allow me to read some verses 849 01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:43,000 I dedicate to Don Jeronimo Velazquez 850 01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:44,280 and his honored daughter, 851 01:09:44,480 --> 01:09:46,160 Elena de Osorio. 852 01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:48,680 And Mr. Perrenot, 853 01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:50,880 his partner in such honorable business. 854 01:09:51,240 --> 01:09:54,680 There's a lady for sale... 855 01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:58,240 Make your bids, if you'd like to buy her. 856 01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:00,240 The seller is her own father, 857 01:10:00,440 --> 01:10:01,720 though he won't confess it. 858 01:10:02,040 --> 01:10:03,680 He wants 30 ducats 859 01:10:04,280 --> 01:10:07,680 and a cut of taffeta or pure silk. 860 01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:13,920 Throw him out. 861 01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:15,360 Throw him out! Out! 862 01:10:15,600 --> 01:10:17,400 Bailiff, arrest that man! 863 01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:18,680 Out! 864 01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:24,880 -Are you crazy? -Leave me, Salcedo. 865 01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:19,000 Are you crazy, Lope? 866 01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:25,520 You've gone mad. 867 01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:48,040 Venancia! 868 01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:53,360 Give me one minute, then call anyone. 869 01:12:53,920 --> 01:12:55,720 Enough of nice words. 870 01:12:56,360 --> 01:12:57,840 Fooling is your business. 871 01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:00,400 I never fooled you. Believe me. 872 01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:03,160 If you don't believe me, scream. 873 01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:08,840 And if I don't? 874 01:13:10,080 --> 01:13:11,840 I'll know you forgave me. 875 01:13:15,440 --> 01:13:17,040 You won't ever see me again. 876 01:13:17,280 --> 01:13:19,360 But first promise me you will marry the Marquis. 877 01:13:21,480 --> 01:13:23,160 Don't ruin your life. 878 01:13:26,200 --> 01:13:27,440 Now I should scream 879 01:13:27,760 --> 01:13:30,840 and have them kill you like a dog! 880 01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:33,280 This is not you. 881 01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:37,600 Or is it? 882 01:14:01,120 --> 01:14:02,120 What are you doing? 883 01:14:02,320 --> 01:14:04,760 Getting dressed. I'm coming with you. 884 01:14:05,480 --> 01:14:08,080 I'm going to Lisbon to join the Armada. 885 01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:10,120 I'll get to see the ocean. 886 01:14:10,440 --> 01:14:11,440 Are you crazy? 887 01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:14,320 Only whores go aboard. 888 01:14:14,520 --> 01:14:16,560 I'll... be your whore. 889 01:14:17,680 --> 01:14:20,600 That's all I needed. Do you know what can happen? 890 01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:21,920 Lope... 891 01:14:24,440 --> 01:14:27,360 you opened your cage and mine, too. 892 01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:28,600 Now you want to fly away 893 01:14:28,800 --> 01:14:30,040 and leave me here? 894 01:14:30,440 --> 01:14:32,160 You can't be that cruel. 895 01:14:35,280 --> 01:14:37,840 I know you better than yourself. 896 01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:40,040 You came here for me. 897 01:15:55,360 --> 01:15:57,480 There's no more food left. 898 01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:01,200 We'll get there tomorrow. 899 01:16:03,480 --> 01:16:05,640 It's not much longer now. 900 01:16:06,200 --> 01:16:07,800 What will we eat? 901 01:16:11,440 --> 01:16:12,960 I don't know. 902 01:17:27,720 --> 01:17:28,800 Pardon me. 903 01:17:29,720 --> 01:17:31,320 Where's Juan de Vega? 904 01:17:32,560 --> 01:17:35,920 He's... at the recruiting desk. 905 01:17:59,960 --> 01:18:00,600 Juan! 906 01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:01,960 Juan de Vega! 907 01:18:06,440 --> 01:18:07,800 Isabel? 908 01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:18,760 What have you done? 909 01:18:19,040 --> 01:18:21,480 -What do you mean? -You don't know? 910 01:18:23,040 --> 01:18:25,280 -I've had problems. -Problems? 911 01:18:25,760 --> 01:18:28,480 The Marquis of Navas, the magistrate Urbina, 912 01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:30,960 Tomas de Perrenot and his uncle, Cardinal Granvela 913 01:18:31,840 --> 01:18:33,800 accuse you of disrespecting a reputable family 914 01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:35,720 and of kidnapping a maiden. 915 01:18:35,920 --> 01:18:38,400 There is a warrant for your arrest. 916 01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:43,000 I'm sorry I got you into this fix. 917 01:18:43,200 --> 01:18:45,280 You're the one in a fix. 918 01:18:45,480 --> 01:18:47,040 Perrenot is in town. 919 01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:51,480 Your only option is to board a ship. 920 01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:54,280 Once aboard, your crimes don't count. 921 01:18:54,560 --> 01:18:56,200 That's what I had in mind. 922 01:18:56,800 --> 01:19:00,040 And I'll ask the King's pardon, when I return. 923 01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:01,840 If you return. 924 01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:05,080 I did once. 925 01:19:12,120 --> 01:19:14,280 Your boat will be ready by dawn. 926 01:19:16,240 --> 01:19:18,120 Don't let anyone see you. 927 01:19:19,920 --> 01:19:20,960 Lope... 928 01:19:22,920 --> 01:19:25,440 Do you know what might befall me? 929 01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:30,560 I know, brother. I certainly do. 930 01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:22,880 We have to go. 931 01:20:24,800 --> 01:20:25,800 Already? 932 01:20:26,080 --> 01:20:27,680 It's almost sunrise. 933 01:20:31,160 --> 01:20:32,640 You didn't sleep. 934 01:20:34,280 --> 01:20:35,960 You wrote all night? 935 01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:37,720 It's my best work ever. 936 01:20:53,880 --> 01:20:56,000 Sorry it's all I can give you. 937 01:20:56,320 --> 01:20:59,040 But whatever happens... 938 01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:01,960 What? 939 01:21:07,960 --> 01:21:09,520 You're out of words... 940 01:22:22,880 --> 01:22:23,960 Lope! 941 01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:26,840 Lope de Vega! What are you doing here, you darn poet? 942 01:22:27,040 --> 01:22:29,480 Sorry, I'm in a rush. 943 01:22:29,760 --> 01:22:31,200 It's Lope! 944 01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:33,120 The finest Spanish poet. 945 01:22:33,800 --> 01:22:35,920 Once aboard, they can't touch you. 946 01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:38,400 I owe you one. 947 01:22:38,600 --> 01:22:40,240 -And Isabel? -I'm going with him. 948 01:22:40,440 --> 01:22:42,360 No. Take care of her, Juan. 949 01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:44,280 Don't leave me here, Lope. 950 01:22:44,480 --> 01:22:46,280 Have you seen the women on these ships? 951 01:22:46,480 --> 01:22:47,720 Yes, I have. 952 01:22:49,080 --> 01:22:51,960 -Please, Lope. -I'm sorry. 953 01:22:52,920 --> 01:22:55,240 -I won't allow it. -I have to. 954 01:22:55,720 --> 01:22:57,200 No, Isabel! 955 01:22:58,560 --> 01:23:01,200 Wait for me. I promise I'll come back. 956 01:23:05,920 --> 01:23:07,200 I love you. 957 01:23:08,160 --> 01:23:10,840 Here. Take it to Porres. 958 01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:14,920 He'll give you 500 for it. It's good work. 959 01:23:16,840 --> 01:23:18,080 Lope, hurry up! 960 01:23:21,680 --> 01:23:22,880 Promise you'll be back! 961 01:23:23,080 --> 01:23:24,080 Come on! 962 01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:28,160 Let's go! Come on! 963 01:23:28,600 --> 01:23:30,600 Promise you'll be back! 964 01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:35,200 Promise me... 965 01:23:42,360 --> 01:23:43,360 Stop! 966 01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:49,280 Your sword. 967 01:23:54,640 --> 01:23:55,920 Lope de Vega, 968 01:23:56,720 --> 01:23:59,080 we have a warrant for your arrest. 969 01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:01,280 It's up to you, Lope. 970 01:24:02,280 --> 01:24:04,560 Turn yourself in, or your brother will pay. 971 01:24:40,200 --> 01:24:41,640 Lope de Vega... 972 01:24:45,280 --> 01:24:46,440 What am I accused of? 973 01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:50,360 One count of libel against Mr. Jeronimo Velazquez 974 01:24:50,560 --> 01:24:51,960 and his daughter. 975 01:24:52,280 --> 01:24:55,320 And the kidnapping and rape of Isabel de Urbina. 976 01:24:56,240 --> 01:24:58,520 I won't let you insult my husband. 977 01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:01,440 Don Lope is my husband before God. 978 01:25:01,640 --> 01:25:04,960 He promised to marry me with this ring. 979 01:26:00,800 --> 01:26:01,800 Stop the wagon. 980 01:26:03,240 --> 01:26:04,160 Stop the wagon. 981 01:26:04,600 --> 01:26:05,720 Stop the wagon! 982 01:26:11,840 --> 01:26:15,360 My Lord, I thought I'd never see you again. 983 01:26:16,360 --> 01:26:17,480 Friar Bernardo. 984 01:26:22,520 --> 01:26:24,680 Let me have some. God bless you. 985 01:26:35,720 --> 01:26:36,720 Easy... 986 01:26:43,960 --> 01:26:46,080 How can you treat him like that? 987 01:26:46,520 --> 01:26:47,480 He's no animal, no murderer. 988 01:26:47,680 --> 01:26:49,600 He's the poet Lope de Vega! 989 01:26:51,200 --> 01:26:55,040 While you were gone, Salcedo produced your comedies 990 01:26:55,680 --> 01:26:57,960 and people are crazy about them. 991 01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:02,040 Let's move on! 992 01:27:02,560 --> 01:27:03,520 You have to be strong. 993 01:27:03,720 --> 01:27:04,720 Come on! 994 01:27:04,960 --> 01:27:06,200 We'll get you out. 995 01:27:06,680 --> 01:27:07,680 I promise. 996 01:27:32,480 --> 01:27:33,920 Who are you? 997 01:27:42,560 --> 01:27:44,800 Say something or I'll presume it's Death 998 01:27:45,040 --> 01:27:47,680 that's here to take my measurements. 999 01:28:00,880 --> 01:28:02,520 It is Death indeed. 1000 01:28:03,040 --> 01:28:06,160 Why are you here? To behold my misery? 1001 01:28:06,600 --> 01:28:08,120 So look and enjoy. 1002 01:28:08,480 --> 01:28:11,120 It may well be your last chance. 1003 01:28:11,720 --> 01:28:13,880 I'm facing penalty in the galleys 1004 01:28:14,080 --> 01:28:15,400 and few men come back. 1005 01:28:15,600 --> 01:28:18,440 It's not my fault. You asked for it. 1006 01:28:19,880 --> 01:28:22,600 I loved you. We could have been happy. 1007 01:28:23,080 --> 01:28:24,160 As what? 1008 01:28:24,840 --> 01:28:27,400 A slave to your father and your secret lover? 1009 01:28:27,600 --> 01:28:29,800 I'm not free like you. Can't you see? 1010 01:28:30,880 --> 01:28:32,840 You've made your choice. 1011 01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:36,920 I've always loved you. 1012 01:28:39,440 --> 01:28:41,880 I'm sorry, but you were unfair to me. 1013 01:28:42,080 --> 01:28:44,160 You stabbed me with your words. 1014 01:28:44,360 --> 01:28:45,880 You have no idea of how I felt. 1015 01:28:47,120 --> 01:28:50,680 You know how I felt? Did you put yourself in my shoes? 1016 01:28:51,240 --> 01:28:52,960 Do you know how I've been living? 1017 01:29:09,560 --> 01:29:12,760 I said, no visitors allowed. 1018 01:29:14,640 --> 01:29:15,960 Just give him this. 1019 01:29:17,920 --> 01:29:20,840 If it's for writing, you know he can't... 1020 01:29:22,000 --> 01:29:23,000 I can't. 1021 01:29:34,800 --> 01:29:35,800 Please. 1022 01:29:38,960 --> 01:29:41,120 Would you give this to him? 1023 01:29:45,920 --> 01:29:48,240 If he can't write, he'll lose his mind. 1024 01:29:52,520 --> 01:29:53,680 Please. 1025 01:30:14,800 --> 01:30:18,880 The accused didn't treat the Velazquez family properly. 1026 01:30:19,360 --> 01:30:22,080 But is it fair for a moment of weakness, 1027 01:30:22,520 --> 01:30:24,680 an act of sorrow and despair, 1028 01:30:24,920 --> 01:30:28,680 to sentence the poet who's admired by the whole of Madrid? 1029 01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:30,440 Scarcely, Your Honor. 1030 01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:32,200 I beg for your mercy 1031 01:30:32,520 --> 01:30:33,960 and ask for the accused 1032 01:30:34,160 --> 01:30:36,960 a proportional sentence to the offence. 1033 01:30:38,080 --> 01:30:39,600 Three months labor 1034 01:30:39,800 --> 01:30:41,040 at the San Gines Hospital. 1035 01:30:41,840 --> 01:30:44,360 I pass the floor to the prosecution. 1036 01:30:51,120 --> 01:30:53,840 In view of the records, 1037 01:30:54,240 --> 01:30:57,400 the aggravating circumstances and the evidence shown, 1038 01:30:58,040 --> 01:31:00,960 I plead for the maximum penalty 1039 01:31:01,600 --> 01:31:04,160 as an example and warning 1040 01:31:05,120 --> 01:31:06,600 for anyone who might consider 1041 01:31:07,200 --> 01:31:11,160 vilifying an honorable family. 1042 01:31:12,680 --> 01:31:15,760 As well as offending the honored vassals 1043 01:31:16,040 --> 01:31:17,840 of Our Catholic Majesty. 1044 01:31:18,120 --> 01:31:19,200 Therefore, 1045 01:31:20,080 --> 01:31:21,480 I plead for 1046 01:31:22,000 --> 01:31:24,560 a sentence of five years of imprisonment 1047 01:31:25,960 --> 01:31:27,680 to be served in the galleys. 1048 01:31:37,400 --> 01:31:39,480 I have carefully heard both parties. 1049 01:31:40,280 --> 01:31:43,800 It undoubtedly is a serious crime 1050 01:31:44,440 --> 01:31:45,520 that goes against 1051 01:31:45,720 --> 01:31:48,120 what is most sacred to us all: 1052 01:31:48,600 --> 01:31:49,720 one's honor. 1053 01:31:50,400 --> 01:31:52,680 I'll now retire and deliberate. 1054 01:31:53,200 --> 01:31:54,960 I shall announce my decision this afternoon. 1055 01:32:12,720 --> 01:32:14,080 You may come in. 1056 01:32:15,000 --> 01:32:16,600 Excuse me, Your Honor. 1057 01:32:18,120 --> 01:32:20,040 Can you spare me a few minutes? 1058 01:32:21,240 --> 01:32:22,520 What is this about? 1059 01:33:03,320 --> 01:33:05,280 After grave consideration, 1060 01:33:05,640 --> 01:33:08,960 taking into account the case presented here, 1061 01:33:09,280 --> 01:33:11,560 I declare the accused, 1062 01:33:12,240 --> 01:33:15,000 Felix Lope de Vega y Carpio, 1063 01:33:16,160 --> 01:33:18,440 guilty on all counts. 1064 01:33:19,520 --> 01:33:24,000 I therefore sentence him to eight years... 1065 01:33:35,400 --> 01:33:37,960 Silence or I'll have the Court evacuated! 1066 01:33:41,760 --> 01:33:42,960 I sentence the accused 1067 01:33:43,400 --> 01:33:44,920 to eight years of penal exile, 1068 01:33:45,200 --> 01:33:47,840 in which, he shall not return to this town 1069 01:33:48,040 --> 01:33:51,560 with a two years minimum 1070 01:33:52,080 --> 01:33:53,600 banishment from the Kingdom of Castilla. 1071 01:33:56,480 --> 01:33:58,800 Any violation of these terms 1072 01:33:59,800 --> 01:34:02,120 will result in the death penalty. 1073 01:34:02,640 --> 01:34:05,840 Silence! I'll evacuate the room! 1074 01:34:06,520 --> 01:34:10,400 To swoon, to dare, to be furious 1075 01:34:11,640 --> 01:34:14,120 coarse, gentle, liberal, 1076 01:34:14,600 --> 01:34:15,600 elusive, 1077 01:34:16,600 --> 01:34:18,600 cheerful, mortal, 1078 01:34:19,360 --> 01:34:20,960 dead, alive, 1079 01:34:21,920 --> 01:34:25,280 loyal, a traitor, a coward, courageous. 1080 01:34:26,720 --> 01:34:29,320 To not stray from righteousness 1081 01:34:30,240 --> 01:34:34,200 to look happy, sad, humble, 1082 01:34:35,000 --> 01:34:36,120 proud, 1083 01:34:37,520 --> 01:34:38,720 fierce, valiant, 1084 01:34:39,160 --> 01:34:40,320 fugitive, 1085 01:34:41,440 --> 01:34:44,040 satisfied, offended, suspicious. 1086 01:34:44,840 --> 01:34:47,320 To turn away to obvious disillusion 1087 01:34:47,960 --> 01:34:50,400 to drink poison as fine liquor 1088 01:34:51,720 --> 01:34:54,880 forget the gain, love the pain 1089 01:34:56,080 --> 01:34:58,720 to believe Heaven fits into Hell 1090 01:34:59,440 --> 01:35:01,200 to give one's life heart and soul 1091 01:35:01,520 --> 01:35:02,840 to disillusion... 1092 01:35:03,680 --> 01:35:05,000 That's love. 1093 01:35:05,560 --> 01:35:07,760 And who's tasted it, knows it. 1094 01:35:30,200 --> 01:35:31,240 Lope de Vega, 1095 01:35:31,440 --> 01:35:34,720 called by El Quijote's author, "Monster of Nature" 1096 01:35:34,920 --> 01:35:37,040 wrote over 4,000 poems, and 800 plays 1097 01:35:37,240 --> 01:35:39,280 being the most prolific author of all time. 1098 01:35:39,480 --> 01:35:42,640 He fathered 14 children and died at the age of 73. 1099 01:42:23,320 --> 01:42:26,520 English Version: Monika Pecegueiro do Amaral