0:02:27 > 0:02:32Sinbad the Sailor! Know me, O brothers, for the truth of my words
0:02:32 > 0:02:37and by the ears of the Prophet, every word I've spoken IS truth.
0:02:37 > 0:02:44There before me on that desolate island lay a rounding object, white as marble, mountainous.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48It was the egg of that giant bird, the rook.
0:02:48 > 0:02:55Imagine a clamour of wings of such magnitude the sky was curtained by their darkness.
0:02:55 > 0:03:00I seized a great rock - a pygmy bearing thunder with a pebble.
0:03:00 > 0:03:05I awaited a quick envelopment within that mammoth beak,
0:03:05 > 0:03:11a painful voyaging down the gullet, oblivion within the cavern of that craw.
0:03:11 > 0:03:15But, no, wondrous, this miracle of motherhood!
0:03:15 > 0:03:20The rook, dear brothers, came merely to nest upon her egg.
0:03:20 > 0:03:27So you fastened yourself to the leg of this flying monster and were borne safely back home to Persia(!)
0:03:27 > 0:03:34- True.- And that is the tale of your second voyage. You've recited it many times.- True.
0:03:34 > 0:03:39All the seven voyages are multiplied, like seven echoes returning.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42And what astonishing voyages(!)
0:03:42 > 0:03:46Why not astonishing? Sinbad is an astonishing sailor.
0:03:46 > 0:03:51Citizen of the several seas, honorary wasir to the King of Wacq,
0:03:51 > 0:03:57- anointed First Mariner of the Realm by our Caliph of Baghdad. - Is that all(?)
0:03:57 > 0:04:02Isn't that enough for a nobody from nowhere?
0:04:03 > 0:04:09No, that ISN'T all. There are many titles. The lesser ones, I've forgotten.
0:04:09 > 0:04:15But there's one I shall NEVER forget - Prince of Deryabar.
0:04:15 > 0:04:19Deryabar?! No such place exists.
0:04:19 > 0:04:24Deryabar - the island of the mountain and the star.
0:04:24 > 0:04:30Look you at the medallion of Deryabar. It was worn by Alexander the Great.
0:04:30 > 0:04:35Read the magic words that make a story for all true believers.
0:04:35 > 0:04:42"In the eighth month the winds are willing." I've just returned from my eighth voyage.
0:04:42 > 0:04:46Would you care to be astonished by the story?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Yes, Sinbad.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55- ..And you, my friend?- Yes.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00Well, in the eighth month of a year long ago,
0:05:00 > 0:05:06a mighty conqueror of sea and land took his ships to hide on an obscure island.
0:05:06 > 0:05:12He was a Westerner, called by our historians Alexander the Great...
0:05:12 > 0:05:18Far across the sea in the land of Indus, there was a powerful Emir of Daibour.
0:05:18 > 0:05:22The possession of power only made him sad.
0:05:22 > 0:05:29Could he but find the gold of Alexander, how many kingdoms would be his?
0:05:29 > 0:05:31In the mirror of his ambition,
0:05:31 > 0:05:39he saw, not himself, but the face of a female who lived betimes in Basra, this very town of ours.
0:05:39 > 0:05:45A two-faced female, if you choose. Her face and her face of the mirror.
0:05:45 > 0:05:50Had you studied both faces, you would know, as I was to know,
0:05:50 > 0:05:57her Emir of Daibour was a great ruler to her only because he was the greatest ruler she had yet met.
0:05:57 > 0:06:02But let's not dwell ungently on the frailties of women.
0:06:02 > 0:06:07Only the men of this tale give me displeasures without pleasures.
0:06:07 > 0:06:14A worldly one called Melik sought out wise men to learn the whereabouts of Alexander's treasure
0:06:14 > 0:06:18and dreamt never of maidens' caresses.
0:06:18 > 0:06:26All he wanted was to hold the Earth in his arms. No man could name the many men who hungered after that!
0:06:26 > 0:06:30But I could tell you of one without shape or substance,
0:06:30 > 0:06:34a spirit of evil known only as Jamal,
0:06:34 > 0:06:37who ransacked the cabin of a ship.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Jamal...
0:06:39 > 0:06:43faceless, formless, like a genie from a jug...
0:06:43 > 0:06:47on a ship that was marked for death by storm.
0:06:52 > 0:06:58Unless the hand of Allah would spare her for Sinbad the Sailor and his old mate Abbu.
0:07:01 > 0:07:06Look! The fishermen want that salvage prize.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Can you see the name?
0:08:24 > 0:08:27The Prince Ahmed.
0:08:27 > 0:08:32- She's beautiful. - Too beautiful to die.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Hold course for Basra.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36< CLATTER
0:11:57 > 0:11:59She's ours by law of salvage.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03They're making her fast to the quay.
0:12:03 > 0:12:10All our plans, Sinbad. What a fine sum she'll bring! Remember the camels we planned to buy?
0:12:10 > 0:12:16- Traders of the safe land for ever. - Don't let those thieves come aboard.
0:12:16 > 0:12:21They won't be any trouble. I told them she was a craft of the devil,
0:12:21 > 0:12:25every plank reeking with Satan's plague.
0:12:26 > 0:12:31- You don't think it's true?- The crew died of poisoned drinking water.
0:12:31 > 0:12:36I wasn't alarmed. But we'll sell her as quickly as possible, won't we?
0:12:36 > 0:12:38Sinbad!
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Sinbad...
0:12:43 > 0:12:49- Why do you say Sinbad like that? - Destiny. Prince Ahmed. A royal seal.
0:12:49 > 0:12:53This was mine before my memory began.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Destiny.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57Destiny!
0:12:58 > 0:13:03- Prince Ahmed. Prince Ahmed. - Are you sure?
0:13:03 > 0:13:05No.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08No.
0:13:08 > 0:13:15But the chart might tell us everything, at least where the ship came from.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18- What chart?- It was there.
0:13:18 > 0:13:26- They weren't all dead on this ship. Somebody's been in this cabin. - Did you examine it closely?- No, I...
0:13:26 > 0:13:30I didn't. I... Only one word do I remember.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35Deryabar.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Deryabar.
0:13:37 > 0:13:43- Deryabar! The treasure isle of Alexander.- There's no such place.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46CLATTER Sinbad!
0:13:46 > 0:13:52We have a ship to sell. Just think - camels, caravans, what she means to me.
0:13:55 > 0:14:00Who can tell what she might mean to me?
0:14:02 > 0:14:05DRUMS BEAT
0:14:05 > 0:14:10Hear ye the word of Ossan Ben Altan Khan, keeper of the Port of Basra,
0:14:10 > 0:14:16ordaining to be sold at public auction - the baggala Prince Ahmed!
0:14:16 > 0:14:20MAN CALLS OUT IN ARABIC
0:14:20 > 0:14:24Holding an auction! Holding an auction!
0:14:24 > 0:14:29- The Khan's auctioneer's selling our ship.- The elephant!
0:14:29 > 0:14:35- ..You're chanting a song of thieves. - Could you but sing so sweet a profit, Sinbad.
0:14:35 > 0:14:42- My tithes are better than the ship you fail to own.- I'll go to Baghdad. I'll petition the Caliph.- Huh!
0:14:42 > 0:14:47You...! You...! You what? You.
0:14:47 > 0:14:54- The law declares this ship is ours. - The law is changed. - Who could change it?- I could. I did.
0:14:54 > 0:14:59- Such a shabby law for such a rich baggala.- Why...!
0:14:59 > 0:15:03- Salaam, O Khan of Basra.- Salaam.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07Graciously rendered. You move me to benevolence.
0:15:07 > 0:15:12- I grant you one fifth the auction price.- One fifth?!
0:15:12 > 0:15:15You are wearing contents of that ship.
0:15:18 > 0:15:22Accept my bounty or I shall have you peeled as an orange.
0:15:22 > 0:15:27O munificent Khan, what if there be no bids for this ship?
0:15:27 > 0:15:32Then she'll carry your unscrupulous carcass from Basra!
0:15:32 > 0:15:37If there be no bids, I will certify her to you as worthless.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40May Allah enlarge you.
0:15:47 > 0:15:53I share your concern, Captain Sinbad. What if there are no bids?
0:15:53 > 0:15:57The Prince Ahmed, a royal baggala with a royal name.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01Sound as the earth from mast to keel.
0:16:01 > 0:16:06Five...five thousand bundles would not fill her hold.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09Who will make me an offer, my lords?
0:16:09 > 0:16:13Who will say...10,000 dinars?
0:16:13 > 0:16:1910,000! Who'll say 10,000 for this priceless baggala, worth more than gold?
0:16:19 > 0:16:22She is a fine baggala.
0:16:22 > 0:16:2910,000 dinars, my lords, for the ship to make a palace blush. Who will offend me with an offer?
0:16:29 > 0:16:36- Ah, were this purse all mine, I'd give you rivalry for that glory of the sea...- No bid?
0:16:36 > 0:16:40Since when has Basra been blind to a bargain? Come closer!
0:16:40 > 0:16:46Feast your eyes on the fairest beauty afloat. Merchants of Basra,
0:16:46 > 0:16:51are you modern men or steeped in the ignorance of ancient days?
0:16:51 > 0:16:55I vow the wisdom of the ages belongs in Basra.
0:16:55 > 0:17:01In superstitious Sapha they would not buy this gallant craft, but YOU would.
0:17:01 > 0:17:08In that gaunt port, they speak of curses, they hold a childish fear of death. Ah-hah!
0:17:08 > 0:17:13- I laugh as you laugh at their primeval...- Holding an auction!
0:17:13 > 0:17:18Has devil's pestilence made this baggala less seaworthy?
0:17:18 > 0:17:25Have her golden lintels lost their sheen because Satan breathed on them? I think it not so.
0:17:25 > 0:17:30I, who have seen the swollen faces of her dead, am not intimidated.
0:17:30 > 0:17:36Verily, strong men could cast the demons from this ship and perhaps survive.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39Holding an auction.
0:17:39 > 0:17:44Voices of the strong, where are you? Bid! Bid! Bid!
0:17:44 > 0:17:48Stay! Stay, my lords. Speak your own price.
0:17:48 > 0:17:505,000?
0:17:50 > 0:17:523,000?
0:17:53 > 0:17:56Any thousand?
0:17:56 > 0:17:58No bids.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01No bids?
0:18:01 > 0:18:08- No sale!- No camels! You're not a very skilful seller. - We'll claim the ship.
0:18:08 > 0:18:14- Even that would require a transfer fee. We've nothing. - Have faith in Sinbad.
0:18:14 > 0:18:21< No bids? No bids? For this queen of the seas, who will pay 1,000 dinars?
0:18:21 > 0:18:23< 1,000? 1,000?
0:18:23 > 0:18:26- WOMAN:- 1,000.
0:18:26 > 0:18:311,000. 1,000 is bid by a flower of womanhood!
0:18:31 > 0:18:33Oh, no, no, no!
0:18:33 > 0:18:36Voice of heaven, why "no, no"?!
0:18:36 > 0:18:38WE must have that ship.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47- 2,000.- 3,000.
0:18:47 > 0:18:533,000. You heard that. Sell it to her quickly.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55My scorn has never been so great.
0:18:55 > 0:18:574,000.
0:19:05 > 0:19:075,000.
0:19:07 > 0:19:096,000.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12..6,000 is a good price.
0:19:12 > 0:19:1410,000 dinars.
0:19:14 > 0:19:20- 11,000. ..There are tasks for you at home.- Impudence gains nothing.
0:19:20 > 0:19:26- What of the neglected husband? No little ones to care for? - 15,000 dinars.
0:19:26 > 0:19:3116,000. ..Bid again and I'll pluck your tongue for a tulip.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35You make my sentiment costly. ..18,000 dinars.
0:19:35 > 0:19:43- 20,000! ..What is your sentiment? The silk of her sails? I'll send them to you.- I pay for the name.
0:19:43 > 0:19:48The Prince Ahmed. You couldn't send me a dream, could you?
0:19:48 > 0:19:50Oh!
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Or perhaps you COULD, Your Highness.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04Highness?
0:20:04 > 0:20:06Are you not the Prince of Deryabar?
0:20:09 > 0:20:11Yes. Yes, to be sure.
0:20:12 > 0:20:1620,000 dinars. I'm offered 20,000 dinars. I await.
0:20:16 > 0:20:24HE SPEAKS IN ARABIC Will the lady offer 21,000? Please! Please, say it!
0:20:24 > 0:20:31- How often the dream seeks out the dreamer!- Even a prince can dream? - Of sailing in your eyes.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35- Puddles of loneliness. - Seas of delight.
0:20:35 > 0:20:41Ah, let me dream. Night breeze whispering its way to your heart, sails gently swelling.
0:20:41 > 0:20:48On a ship prettily improved by a woman? Wine and pomegranates on the quarterdeck.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51Fruit is sweet. My ship is your ship.
0:20:53 > 0:20:58I must return to my house in the Street of the Three Moons.
0:20:58 > 0:21:04The house with the tower that a blind man could scarcely fail to find.
0:21:04 > 0:21:09I sit alone in the sixth hour of the night in my garden and meditate.
0:21:09 > 0:21:13At the sixth hour, I will invade a lady's meditation.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16Until tonight, O Prince.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19Until tonight.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27"O Prince"(!) "O Prince"(!)
0:21:27 > 0:21:30You've ruined us.
0:21:30 > 0:21:37All bids in? The baggala Prince Ahmed sold for 20,000 dinars to Sinbad the Sailor.
0:21:37 > 0:21:43Some money in hand is customary for the good faith of a purchase.
0:21:43 > 0:21:47- ALL money will be required of you. - Money?
0:21:47 > 0:21:53The baggala. You just bought her, didn't you? No money, no certificate of sale.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56Oh, money!
0:22:02 > 0:22:08- Lend me 20,000 dinars. - I?! Lend you 20,000 what?!- Pay him.
0:22:08 > 0:22:15- With shells?- Pay him now!- But I... - An hour ago, I saw the money which you now attempt to conceal from me.
0:22:15 > 0:22:20- Just as you thought you saw a chart that wasn't there.- Miser!
0:22:20 > 0:22:23COINS JINGLE
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Oh! Oh!
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Oh, you mean THIS money?
0:22:46 > 0:22:51- This old money.- Naturally. - Wait! You pay too much.
0:22:51 > 0:22:55- We have plenty.- All yours. - Thank you.
0:22:55 > 0:23:00- The ship is yours, Sinbad. Ah, but you're kind.- We're both kind.
0:23:00 > 0:23:05You sell me my own ship and I pay you in your own coin...of the realm.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12An auction has been held!
0:23:16 > 0:23:20Oh, why doesn't he come? I can't wait much longer.
0:23:20 > 0:23:25Would the Emir mind waiting for the secret of Deryabar?
0:23:25 > 0:23:29No chance when the richest man in the world bid against me.
0:23:29 > 0:23:34- Perhaps my lady wastes her bloom on the Emir of Daibour.- Perhaps.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40- Daibour! Daibour!- Bird of evil!
0:23:40 > 0:23:44Go home to your evil master. Go home!
0:23:45 > 0:23:50- You liked the look of your prince. - Almost too princely for a prince.
0:23:50 > 0:23:55More like some silken trader that knows his way to a bargain.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59- He'll bring fine gifts, no doubt. - It's customary.
0:24:01 > 0:24:06But why should I tell our Emir anything I learn about Deryabar?
0:24:07 > 0:24:13If I could prise the secret from Prince Ahmed, I'd hold the key of keys.
0:24:13 > 0:24:17I could make Sheba look like a frump.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21I believe his retinue approaches.
0:24:26 > 0:24:31- Please, forget her.- Unless the lady is sailing.- She thinks you are rich.
0:24:31 > 0:24:36She knows something of the treasure of Alexander.
0:24:36 > 0:24:41If I can draw her secrets from her, we'll own 10,000 ships!
0:24:41 > 0:24:46A danek for the blind, O mighty possessor of ships and caravans.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52Tight of fist! May Allah wither your hand.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13SPEAKS IN ARABIC
0:25:29 > 0:25:31Beware the shore!
0:25:31 > 0:25:34Bear south, brother! Bear south!
0:25:34 > 0:25:39South?Bear south! Which way's south?
0:25:42 > 0:25:44Come on! This way is south.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Prince Ahmed?
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Yes.
0:26:07 > 0:26:11- You've come unattended? - Conveniently so, my lady.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17You may present yourself.
0:26:21 > 0:26:27Your Highness, Shireen of Baghdad, seventh daughter of Sheik Ali of Kurdistan.
0:26:27 > 0:26:33Was that blood-drinking brigand your father?! You'll need some breaking to the bridle.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39Oh! Burning bright.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42O prince with seaman's manners,
0:26:42 > 0:26:46a veil is drawn more gracefully when lowered by its owner.
0:26:46 > 0:26:53- I no longer own this hand nor heart. They are both yours. - Both empty, Your Highness?
0:26:53 > 0:26:57Not filled with earthly offerings, that is true.
0:26:57 > 0:27:04- But bearing gifts of dreams, far more precious than your diamonds and pearls from Daibour.- Daibour?
0:27:04 > 0:27:12- What could you know?- I know all goods and markets. Don't ask hows or whys.- So would any silk trader.
0:27:12 > 0:27:18And so would Prince Ahmed, who knows all ports and all the islands of the sea.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21You'll sail with me?
0:27:21 > 0:27:25Where? In what direction is your course?
0:27:25 > 0:27:29Toward Deryabar, beloved. Which course would you prefer?
0:27:29 > 0:27:34The Prince of Deryabar asks ME of courses to Deryabar?
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Or are you the Prince of Deryabar?
0:27:40 > 0:27:42Sweet torturer.
0:27:42 > 0:27:49When I looked at your face, I was numb from eye to thigh, forgetting pleasing words.
0:27:49 > 0:27:53I doubt if you own the bones in your own skin.
0:28:04 > 0:28:11O, hear me! I, who could give you everything, wish only to give you a gift from my heart.
0:28:13 > 0:28:17Has any man given you a rose, Shireen?
0:28:17 > 0:28:21Not since I lived in the brown hills.
0:28:21 > 0:28:28Has any man told you that gold is a clod, jewels are the pebbles from the earth?
0:28:28 > 0:28:34That truth wealth is all around? A man and woman together, my princess.
0:28:34 > 0:28:39A prince and princess... could be together in a palace.
0:28:39 > 0:28:44Yea, in a palace sky-tall of dome, lighted by the lamps of the stars.
0:28:44 > 0:28:48Were you ever becalmed in a sea of almond?
0:28:48 > 0:28:52Loneliness is wondrous when one isn't quite alone.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55The fog is wine.
0:28:55 > 0:28:57The sun is my gold.
0:28:58 > 0:29:01I wanted no other.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08I understand.
0:29:08 > 0:29:11Then we'll sail?
0:29:11 > 0:29:17- I don't know. With a prince of the unknown? - He would never crush the rose.
0:29:17 > 0:29:21- For ever he will keep it blooming. - Please, let me think.
0:29:21 > 0:29:26You couldn't understand what glories I'd be forsaking.
0:29:26 > 0:29:30They'd mean nothing to one who has everything.
0:29:30 > 0:29:34No, my faults are too many.
0:29:34 > 0:29:36Faults?!
0:29:36 > 0:29:39- You have none. - Selfishness, greed.- Oh!
0:29:39 > 0:29:46O prince, for your own life's sake, come never to me again. Do not sail your ship ever.
0:29:52 > 0:29:59- What eyes did you invite to watch us?- None. I emptied the house to leave Basra.- For Daibour?
0:29:59 > 0:30:06- Daibour?- What face did I see in the window?- Face? I don't know.
0:30:25 > 0:30:27Jamal! Jamal!
0:30:45 > 0:30:47Jamal?
0:30:57 > 0:31:01Quite a cock-a-hoop in Three Moon Street, eh?
0:31:01 > 0:31:05Rather a shock to find you'd shipped with iron-hand Abbu.
0:31:05 > 0:31:10You'll learn this is no rose garden. You'll discover who's master here.
0:31:10 > 0:31:18- Where are we bound?- The lady of the Street of the Three Moons warned of disaster if we sailed at all.
0:31:18 > 0:31:21A charming time to tell me(!)
0:31:21 > 0:31:27- When we clear the Gulf, set a course for Daibour. - That nest of sea serpents?!
0:31:27 > 0:31:34- Honest ships give it a wide berth. Daibour's emir lives on the blood of the sea.- I searched Basra for her.
0:31:34 > 0:31:40- Perhaps in Daibour we'll meet her again.- Please stop saying "we".
0:31:40 > 0:31:47- Share and share alike.- I give you full title to anything you receive from future wielders of knives.
0:31:47 > 0:31:53All the more reason to believe she knows something of Deryabar.
0:31:53 > 0:31:59- Any planning to take its treasure would first remove its prince and heir.- Prince? Heir?
0:31:59 > 0:32:03You've convinced yourself, haven't you?
0:32:03 > 0:32:07Being unknown to oneself, one can choose one's own destiny -
0:32:07 > 0:32:12the son of a king of Deryabar as readily as a pauper's son.
0:32:12 > 0:32:17Finding her, I may even find myself, as well as Alexander's treasure.
0:32:17 > 0:32:20JAMAL! JAMAL!
0:32:22 > 0:32:29- JAMAL!- Jamal, Jamal, what did this Jamal look like? - How do I know? I didn't see him.
0:32:32 > 0:32:35Any one of them could be...
0:32:38 > 0:32:42Yes. A sweet-scented flock of question marks.
0:32:47 > 0:32:51- Where did you find them? - In the hiring street at Basra.
0:33:18 > 0:33:24- Are you so thirsty? - But we might want a drink of water before we reach Daibour.
0:33:24 > 0:33:28I could leave that stuff alone if you can.
0:33:28 > 0:33:34- Which is the most useless? - A ship's barber. He sits like a toad while others work.
0:33:34 > 0:33:36And on my stern castle!
0:33:51 > 0:33:56- You find my stern castle comfortable?- Eminently so.
0:33:56 > 0:34:02- A drink for His Eminence? - Captain is kind.- My barber is swollen with majesty.
0:34:02 > 0:34:09- Each morning I will bring him a cup of water before- I- drink. - Such kindness.
0:34:09 > 0:34:12I, Abdul El Melik, was not always a barber.
0:34:12 > 0:34:16Once, I was a physician in the court of kings.
0:34:16 > 0:34:21Then cure yourself, Physician. The water may be poison.
0:34:50 > 0:34:52Ship astern!
0:35:11 > 0:35:16- An armed dromond. - She has a ram like a tiger's tooth.
0:35:16 > 0:35:21And a tower to hurl the fire of the Greeks.
0:35:21 > 0:35:25With her speed, she could so easily overtake us.
0:35:26 > 0:35:28Can you see the dromond's banner?
0:35:58 > 0:36:05- When your captain speaks, answer! - She wears no colours, Captain. - She must! It's the law of the sea.
0:36:05 > 0:36:11What law is stronger than strength? Jamal!
0:36:11 > 0:36:13Jamal!
0:36:42 > 0:36:50- Your Highness doesn't wish to follow her?- Steer toward her wake. Stay beyond the eyes of the lookout.
0:36:50 > 0:36:51Tighter!
0:36:51 > 0:36:56If she tries to return to Basra, we'll blockade her course.
0:36:56 > 0:37:03- Eventually, she'll need provisions. Daibour is the only convenient port. - Jamal! Jamal!
0:37:05 > 0:37:11Keep that name out of your beak! Where have the winds been coursing you, my ugliness? Welcome home.
0:37:11 > 0:37:18- Your Highness...- Stand not by the sword arm, Muallin. The place of loyal men is at my left.
0:37:28 > 0:37:33- Our Emir isn't afraid for me to sit at his right?- Afraid?
0:37:33 > 0:37:38You are my right hand - my right hand holding the secrets of Persia,
0:37:38 > 0:37:42while left, glory to Islam, reaches for the kingdoms of the Hindi.
0:37:42 > 0:37:50- Stay close to me, beloved. We'll ride the world like an elephant. - Why should my lord want more power?
0:37:50 > 0:37:56The happiest man I ever knew was a vagabond who loved ships.
0:37:56 > 0:38:00- It made one happy just to be with him.- Who was this man?
0:38:00 > 0:38:07- What should it matter to one so great, O Shaker of the Earth? - You've changed since we left Persia.
0:38:07 > 0:38:13- Remember, only the steel in your blood has made you of use to me. - Steel?
0:38:13 > 0:38:20If your march of conquest came to my Kurdish hills, Father would've made a death mask of your dreams.
0:38:20 > 0:38:24When you failed to buy the baggala with its charts, I had doubts.
0:38:24 > 0:38:31- How could I know you were fishing for Prince Ahmed himself, to land at Daibour.- Unless you were spying?
0:38:31 > 0:38:37Allah forbid! I don't distrust you. Your snow-capped heart is fortress enough.
0:38:37 > 0:38:42- Even in springtime? - Even in the month of roses.
0:38:42 > 0:38:49Shireen, in Daibour they're weaving a queen's robe. It's for you to choose whether or not to put it on.
0:38:49 > 0:38:54If you choose to wear it, I'll know that paradise is in our palace.
0:38:54 > 0:38:57OUR palace...
0:38:59 > 0:39:04The course is southerly, beloved. May it bring you warmer dreams.
0:39:07 > 0:39:13Monsoons are gentle. It is spring...isn't it?
0:39:14 > 0:39:16Yes.
0:39:56 > 0:40:01- You drink the ship's water and your health remains?- Robust, Captain.
0:40:01 > 0:40:05With each drop of the cooling elixir my spirits prance like a bear.
0:40:05 > 0:40:12- Whoever do you think may have poisoned the ship's water?- Jamal. - Don't, Captain.
0:40:12 > 0:40:16Sound the drums before you speak that name.
0:40:19 > 0:40:24Oh, that? That's the metaphysical mumbo jumbo of the Western infidels,
0:40:24 > 0:40:28taught by a dervish of my acquaintance.
0:40:28 > 0:40:32He charged me and guaranteed absolute security.
0:40:32 > 0:40:38- I could use some security. Who was this dervish? - I was that dervish.
0:40:38 > 0:40:43I've had many vocations in my span, failing at each.
0:40:43 > 0:40:48Physician, dervish - I hope you're better at barbering.
0:40:48 > 0:40:55- Tell me what you know of Jamal. - Well, I was travelling on a ship from Calicut once.
0:40:55 > 0:41:01I was an ambassador that time, entirely unqualified for the post, bearing letters of state.
0:41:01 > 0:41:09It was during one of my bibulous periods - a weakness acquired while I was an unsuccessful wine seller.
0:41:09 > 0:41:11I drank my own samples.
0:41:11 > 0:41:18When I emerged from the vapours, the crew had all perished from poisoned water.
0:41:18 > 0:41:20Jamal?
0:41:20 > 0:41:23Who else would be so diabolically clever?
0:41:23 > 0:41:30Why, the great Emir of Daibour admits that Jamal once made a public jackass of him,
0:41:30 > 0:41:35through his agents - now, never did this genie reveal himself.
0:41:35 > 0:41:40He sold the Emir charts purporting to lead to the treasure of Alexander.
0:41:40 > 0:41:45Once, in the dead still middle of the night,
0:41:45 > 0:41:50this ruler of Indus almost got the blade of a qatar in his ribs.
0:41:51 > 0:41:56The very sort of weapon you're wearing, Captain.
0:41:58 > 0:42:04- If I could only find a few on board this ship to trust. - You could trust me...
0:42:04 > 0:42:07if I weren't so ineffectual.
0:42:07 > 0:42:14Barber, you're a mountain of knowledge. Tell me, what say the wagging tongues of Prince Ahmed?
0:42:14 > 0:42:20Prince Ahmed? It is not unlikely, they say, that somebody will send him to his ancestors...
0:42:20 > 0:42:26- before he reaches his golden isle. - But I hear he's a splendid fellow.
0:42:26 > 0:42:31I don't doubt it, but he has a vanity that marked him for doom.
0:42:31 > 0:42:35For half a lifetime, he masked as a simple seaman.
0:42:35 > 0:42:39No-one looked twice at the royal seal upon his breast.
0:42:39 > 0:42:43Then one day he put on his princely robes.
0:42:43 > 0:42:47Sesame - the gates to his secret were open.
0:42:47 > 0:42:50- He was an idiot.- Quite so.
0:42:50 > 0:42:57Certainly not the wise son of the wise Aga of Deryabar who rediscovered Alexander's isle,
0:42:57 > 0:43:01who knew such vast fortune was a tempter of death.
0:43:01 > 0:43:08He hid his son among the multitudes, like a wheat straw in great fields of wheat.
0:43:08 > 0:43:13But even the Aga's wisdom showed a weakness - love for his son.
0:43:13 > 0:43:18And this baggala which he sent for him.
0:43:18 > 0:43:22The Aga's was a good weakness, Captain Sinbad.
0:43:22 > 0:43:25So many men's are evil.
0:43:27 > 0:43:31Consider how many strong men could resist the taking of life
0:43:31 > 0:43:36if they could gain one little token to wear, one mark of greatness,
0:43:36 > 0:43:39that would give them everything?
0:43:45 > 0:43:50Accept it, Highness - a gift to remember.
0:43:50 > 0:43:54Can you spare a secret as well as a life?
0:43:54 > 0:43:58Your faithful servant for ever... Prince Ahmed.
0:44:00 > 0:44:04You are a man of character, Abdul El Melik.
0:44:04 > 0:44:09And of good counsel, master. Don't go to Daibour.
0:44:21 > 0:44:23Daibour!
0:44:23 > 0:44:26Daibour!
0:44:26 > 0:44:28Daibour!
0:44:28 > 0:44:30Daibour!
0:44:30 > 0:44:33I know, I know!
0:44:33 > 0:44:38Sky skulker, your soul could be bought for a fat locust.
0:44:38 > 0:44:40Captain!
0:44:42 > 0:44:45The dromond.
0:44:48 > 0:44:53- She must have passed us in the night. - Sleek.- So is a sabre-toothed tiger.
0:44:53 > 0:45:00- If we'd wanted to die, why didn't we sail for Egypt? They wrap you for posterity.- Dromond seems friendly.
0:45:00 > 0:45:05She could have cracked this gilded eggshell in waters much lonelier.
0:45:05 > 0:45:10..Keep her closer to the wind! Tend to your sheets!
0:45:22 > 0:45:27At least there's prosperity here. Shall I open our hatch for trade?
0:45:27 > 0:45:31- Those aren't bean sacks in the hold. They're gravel for balance.- What?!
0:45:31 > 0:45:39We might fill them with Deryabar's treasure...if that woman knows the whereto and if I can find her.
0:45:39 > 0:45:41If, if - the familiar if!
0:45:41 > 0:45:46When the moon tips to Cyprus, be ready with sail.
0:45:46 > 0:45:50I promise you I'll have a cargo of wisdom.
0:46:02 > 0:46:07By the Prophet, I believe I've sent you home.
0:46:07 > 0:46:11You have feet to follow with, but no wings to bring you back.
0:46:11 > 0:46:15I pray to you, master, don't go to the palace.
0:46:17 > 0:46:21Pray not TO me, but FOR me, Melik.
0:46:21 > 0:46:24Captain! Captain!
0:46:50 > 0:46:53"Hear ye!
0:46:53 > 0:46:59"Men of the Prince Ahmed, this vessel is impounded by state decree,
0:46:59 > 0:47:04"sealed by the royal lock and seal of His Highness of Daibour."
0:47:04 > 0:47:09I've the honour of taking the ship's master into custody. Where is he?
0:47:29 > 0:47:32Quickly. Where is he?
0:48:11 > 0:48:13Shireen!
0:48:13 > 0:48:15Shireen!
0:48:16 > 0:48:19Shireen.
0:48:20 > 0:48:27- The very window I wanted to find! - The women's quarters. We shouldn't even look at the window. Come!
0:48:27 > 0:48:32Shall I choose one of their gates or shall I make one of my own?
0:48:40 > 0:48:43What of the baggala in the harbour?
0:48:43 > 0:48:48..Oh, if only you were half the oracle you pretend to be.
0:48:58 > 0:49:00FANFARE >
0:49:22 > 0:49:25"Men of Daibour, harken, harken!
0:49:25 > 0:49:32"His exalted Highness, your Emir, does permit you to see justice done to criminal offenders
0:49:32 > 0:49:39"for that sin of forbidden sins - the casting of eyes upon the unveiled females of his mightiness,
0:49:39 > 0:49:42"the pure born, the Emir of Daibour.
0:49:42 > 0:49:46"Hear ye, mark ye for the good of your souls..."
0:49:46 > 0:49:49They lose their heads.
0:49:55 > 0:49:58Eyes forward! Chin up front. Head up.
0:49:58 > 0:50:06- Did I assign you this gate?- I don't know. There are so many masters.- Oh, the strangling robes of authority!
0:50:06 > 0:50:13- How many guards are within? - Eight in the first compound.- Beyond? - The women's quarters? Doubly guarded.
0:50:13 > 0:50:17Thank you. I'll have you promoted for mental agility.
0:50:31 > 0:50:34No! No! Come back!
0:50:34 > 0:50:39Come back who? My friend Sinbad. They'll kill him.
0:51:36 > 0:51:42Have no concern, my lady. No guards invade these quarters unless we give the alarm.
0:51:42 > 0:51:47Allah is good - he must be to stand this house!
0:52:10 > 0:52:15It's made of magic, truly. The gown His Highness told you of.
0:52:15 > 0:52:17For the first flower of the East...
0:52:17 > 0:52:22with covenants, provisos, conditions.
0:52:22 > 0:52:27And so if I put it on, I won't own the gown, the gown will own me.
0:52:27 > 0:52:30The gown AND the Emir of Daibour.
0:52:30 > 0:52:34How many women would love to be so possessed?
0:52:34 > 0:52:38How many women have never loved at all?
0:52:38 > 0:52:43I vow that thing would scratch the hide. Fetch me something silky.
0:52:43 > 0:52:46No jewels, and fasten a rose on it.
0:52:50 > 0:52:53A rose, my lady?
0:52:53 > 0:52:58The rose of a certain prince will always be remembered.
0:53:12 > 0:53:17Has ever she spoken so tenderly of any other man?
0:53:18 > 0:53:20Ahmed!
0:53:20 > 0:53:26Nothing but sheer gossamer, beloved, risen from the Street of the Three Moons.
0:53:26 > 0:53:31Get out, quickly! Leave at once or I'll... Pirouze, call the guards.
0:53:31 > 0:53:34Call them.
0:53:34 > 0:53:36Don't!
0:53:38 > 0:53:42- Let him stay and have his head lopped off.- It's a pleasing head.
0:53:42 > 0:53:48- She doesn't mean it. You heard her speak her devotions for me.- Yes.
0:53:51 > 0:53:56- Why? I warned you.- Why does the bee fly into the claw flower?
0:53:56 > 0:54:01- He loves the smell of beauty though he die.- These claws don't exist.
0:54:01 > 0:54:08- The one that struck me in your house was real. - I thought we were alone.- Words!
0:54:08 > 0:54:15- If I had thrown the blade, you'd never have set sail.- But Jamal's knife was erratic.- I never saw him.
0:54:15 > 0:54:19I wonder. Oh, burning bright, I believe you, I believe you.
0:54:19 > 0:54:22I believe in all fantastic things.
0:54:22 > 0:54:28The magic wind that brought me to you, and the magic veil of dark in which I'll wrap you,
0:54:28 > 0:54:31and take you magically to Deryabar.
0:54:33 > 0:54:37You could hide me until nightfall and then...
0:54:38 > 0:54:41I know of a passageway.
0:54:42 > 0:54:48Hidden in the wall beyond. No, such a miracle would be too much for us.
0:54:48 > 0:54:55A trifle for one who stole the rook's egg from its diamond nest, who put out the eye of the Cyclops.
0:54:55 > 0:54:58- Please, you must go.- Not alone.
0:54:58 > 0:55:02How many secrets are in your bright eyes?
0:55:02 > 0:55:05On the baggala, we'll know. Come.
0:55:06 > 0:55:11Will you come, or must I hoist you on a magic rug?
0:55:11 > 0:55:16- You must go before they find you. - I see you require some hoisting.
0:55:17 > 0:55:20Now you're just your ordinary self!
0:55:20 > 0:55:25Not too ordinary to lay a trap for nor too stupid to steal the bait.
0:55:28 > 0:55:32Oh, come. I can outbid your Emir.
0:55:32 > 0:55:36Wasn't it gold you wanted in the first place?
0:55:36 > 0:55:40Show me the way to the passage - quietly!
0:55:45 > 0:55:48Pawn of slaves!
0:56:00 > 0:56:03WOMEN SCREAM
0:57:57 > 0:58:01- Who is he? - A thief of the forbidden, master.
0:58:01 > 0:58:04Thief...or assassin?
0:58:04 > 0:58:07..Is your name by chance Jamal?
0:58:07 > 0:58:12- I - Jamal?!- Such an qatar winged through the dark at me one night.
0:58:12 > 0:58:17An affectionate weapon. Like a dog, it returns faithfully to its master.
0:58:17 > 0:58:20You violated sacred quarters.
0:58:20 > 0:58:26Everyone knows the penalty for both men and faithless women. Which one attracted you?
0:58:26 > 0:58:33- Would I offend the master's taste with miserly discrimination? - Who are you protecting?
0:58:33 > 0:58:35Pray, let me remember...
0:58:35 > 0:58:40Was it the slim one or... moon face...?
0:58:40 > 0:58:44So you refuse to share your funeral pyre?
0:58:44 > 0:58:51Allah will judge in his own time. I am Allah's humble commander, his executioner.
0:58:51 > 0:58:56- Let all learn humbleness by watching simple destruction.- Maffi.
0:59:03 > 0:59:08- Prince Ahmed. - Yes, if it pleases Your Highness.
0:59:08 > 0:59:15- I supposed you were receiving my invitation.- Invitation? - To enjoy my palace's pleasures.
0:59:15 > 0:59:19- I sent a military escort for you. - Oh, THAT escort.
0:59:19 > 0:59:24Forgive me if my vagabond manners upset affairs of state.
0:59:24 > 0:59:31The happiest man I ever heard of was little more than a vagabond. He loved ships and sailing.
0:59:31 > 0:59:35A certain lady once spoke of the happiness he gave her.
0:59:35 > 0:59:40The brighter the flame of happiness, the more brief its burning.
0:59:42 > 0:59:46Beloved, paradise was at my shoulder. I didn't know.
0:59:47 > 0:59:52You didn't know your own right hand, Maffi?
0:59:52 > 0:59:54And you shall sit at my left.
0:59:54 > 0:59:58- A good omen of our night of nights. - Night of nights?
1:00:00 > 1:00:05On such a night I am proud to be your satellite, planet of the East.
1:00:05 > 1:00:12Is my friend marking the small glories of Daibour, so poor compared to Deryabar?
1:00:12 > 1:00:19How often have I seen that baggala searching the world's ports seeking the son of the King of Deryabar?
1:00:19 > 1:00:24- Now we've all found each other. - And the treasure of friendliness.
1:00:24 > 1:00:27Any treasure of my palace is yours.
1:00:29 > 1:00:31Which one?
1:01:13 > 1:01:15That one.
1:01:18 > 1:01:21She's yours, Ahmed.
1:01:25 > 1:01:30Ah, giving does give joy to the giver.
1:01:38 > 1:01:41Sharing makes brothers of us all.
1:01:41 > 1:01:47Truly so. How can I ever repay the memories of this visit?
1:01:47 > 1:01:51Simple - I shall visit you. I'll accompany you to Deryabar.
1:01:51 > 1:01:56- My voyaging would take you too far. - Friendship has no horizons.
1:02:13 > 1:02:18There stood I, in the marble hall of the infamous giant of Gomari.
1:02:18 > 1:02:25Having examined me, and finding me so lean I was scarce worth devouring, he set a feast for me.
1:02:25 > 1:02:28His retainers stood poised about me.
1:02:28 > 1:02:35The feast was pleasant enough, and the monster's favourite ourie warmed me with languishing looks.
1:02:35 > 1:02:38She had saved me from the sword.
1:02:38 > 1:02:44Her very love for me swelled my confidence. Oh, what a love!
1:02:47 > 1:02:49What a liar!
1:02:49 > 1:02:52Precious one, our guest.
1:02:52 > 1:02:55Verily, my predicament seemed helpless...
1:02:55 > 1:02:59until I remembered magic taught to me by Aladdin.
1:02:59 > 1:03:04What a man was Aladdin - the charlatan of Cathay!
1:03:04 > 1:03:09And how magical is magic when its believers have slow wit?
1:03:10 > 1:03:13Your indulgence, Highness.
1:03:15 > 1:03:17A rose...
1:03:21 > 1:03:24A rose for the rose of Baghdad.
1:03:30 > 1:03:34But what of your escape from the flesh-eating giant?
1:03:34 > 1:03:37I'm about to show you, O Mighty.
1:03:39 > 1:03:45I shall attempt to make her disappear into the portals of my heart.
1:03:45 > 1:03:54Watch closely, for you might be interested in my legerdemain which confounded the bloodthirsty one.
1:03:56 > 1:04:01Now, this lamp is indeed not unlike the one used by Aladdin.
1:04:01 > 1:04:08Aladdin claimed great powers were in his lamp... HIS lamp! Any lamp will do as well as his lamp.
1:04:08 > 1:04:12The rubbing of the hand on the bronze, sheer fakery.
1:04:12 > 1:04:16No, his secret was to blow upon the lamp thus...
1:04:19 > 1:04:21Once...
1:04:22 > 1:04:24Twice...
1:04:25 > 1:04:28Thrice...
1:04:46 > 1:04:49Stop, stop, enough of this magic!
1:04:49 > 1:04:52..Where is he?
1:04:54 > 1:04:56Where is she?!
1:04:56 > 1:05:00You tortoise heads! I'll have you quartered!
1:05:00 > 1:05:05- Where is she?! - I thought I had him spitted on my qatar...
1:05:05 > 1:05:09but I lost my qatar. Mine too. Your Highness, look!
1:05:13 > 1:05:19A magician, but no crystal gazer. Double the guard at the gates and walls.
1:05:52 > 1:05:55Help! Allah! Allah!
1:05:56 > 1:05:59MUEZZIN CHANTS
1:06:47 > 1:06:52We can thank Yusuf for teaching them their devotion.
1:06:52 > 1:06:57Yusuf, may the Prophet bless you. Oh, I'm growing fond of this crew.
1:06:57 > 1:07:02- Where to, Captain? - Take the wind and go! Tend your sheets!
1:07:08 > 1:07:10Thank Allah the monsoons are willing.
1:07:10 > 1:07:15Yes, in the eighth month the winds are willing.
1:07:15 > 1:07:19That's the inscription on this medallion.
1:07:19 > 1:07:22..This IS the eighth month!
1:07:22 > 1:07:26Look! The wind takes us toward that bright star.
1:07:26 > 1:07:29And the star's on the medallion too.
1:07:37 > 1:07:40Safely embarked?
1:07:40 > 1:07:48- Your head is all band... - Perhaps the thumping it received may stimulate its worthless content.
1:07:48 > 1:07:53- Debauchery, I might have known. - No, I was trying to serve my prince.
1:07:53 > 1:07:58I took myself to the house of Hassan, the most famous of chartmakers,
1:07:58 > 1:08:04hoping to find record of your ship's chart. It's said Jamal stole it.
1:08:04 > 1:08:09- Well, SOMEONE stole it the night of the salvage.- How well I know it.
1:08:09 > 1:08:14- Just after you left the ship in Daibour, I saw it.- You saw what?!
1:08:14 > 1:08:19With my own eyes, into Hassan's, I saw enter a tall man,
1:08:19 > 1:08:22face hooded by his headdress,
1:08:22 > 1:08:28a qatar - the brother of the blade you wear - dangling from his cloak.
1:08:28 > 1:08:32- You saw Jamal?! - He remained a man without a face.
1:08:32 > 1:08:35My own face, I must relate,
1:08:35 > 1:08:40was thrust moon-like through the lattice, gazing at the chart.
1:08:40 > 1:08:47Upon that chart, Jamal's qatar was tracing a line from Daibour to Deryabar.
1:08:47 > 1:08:51You saw the chart! What did you see?!
1:08:51 > 1:08:55The lattice did fit my neck too snug and held it there.
1:08:55 > 1:09:00Blows of cudgels rained upon this aching promontory.
1:09:00 > 1:09:06I wear a crown of great red lumps, dedicated to loyalty.
1:09:06 > 1:09:11- You couldn't have remembered the chart.- I looked. I'll set a course.
1:09:11 > 1:09:16- No, I have a better open sesame to Deryabar.- What is it?
1:09:16 > 1:09:21- The sweetest sweetmeat of the Emir of Daibour.- No!
1:09:21 > 1:09:24- Where is she?- In my cabin.
1:09:24 > 1:09:28No! No, my prince!
1:09:29 > 1:09:33You've ordained the death of our ship.
1:09:36 > 1:09:39Don't lock that door!
1:09:39 > 1:09:44I won't be caged! I should have put it through your heart.
1:09:51 > 1:09:54Truly, you could.
1:10:00 > 1:10:03But you wouldn't, would you?
1:10:04 > 1:10:08- You wouldn't harm your prince. - The Emir will attend to that.
1:10:08 > 1:10:11Don't be confident of your future.
1:10:11 > 1:10:17Gently! I brought you here merely to share a mountain of gold.
1:10:17 > 1:10:21- W-What?- A mountain of gold.
1:10:21 > 1:10:24Well...!
1:10:25 > 1:10:30You didn't have to wrap me like a mummy, did you?
1:10:30 > 1:10:35I could have cried out when you took me, but I didn't. Did I?
1:10:35 > 1:10:40No, you didn't. I've marked that in gratitude.
1:10:40 > 1:10:45With the precision of Euclid, I shall bisect the isle of Deryabar.
1:10:45 > 1:10:50One half shall be yours, merely for the simple answering of a question.
1:10:54 > 1:10:57Where is Deryabar?
1:10:57 > 1:11:02- Where is it?- Not to a needle point, but broadly where?- Don't you know?
1:11:02 > 1:11:05If I did, would I be asking you?
1:11:05 > 1:11:10- Where is Deryabar?!- How could I know?- From the Emir of Daibour.
1:11:10 > 1:11:13Out with it!
1:11:13 > 1:11:17How could he know? He hoped to learn from you.
1:11:17 > 1:11:20He supposed your ship had the chart.
1:11:20 > 1:11:25For years his pirate galleys have been plundering the Indies.
1:11:25 > 1:11:28The greatest prize he failed to find.
1:11:28 > 1:11:35It's why he sent me to bid for the baggala and why it was followed and why he spared you in Daibour.
1:11:35 > 1:11:40- He supposed you knew the way to Deryabar.- No!
1:11:40 > 1:11:44And what are you? A monumental fraud!
1:11:44 > 1:11:46Verily, verily.
1:11:46 > 1:11:50I'm only a sailor named Sinbad.
1:11:50 > 1:11:53Sinbad?!
1:11:53 > 1:11:57There's no Sinbad but Sinbad the Sailor.
1:11:57 > 1:12:00You, Sinbad?!
1:12:00 > 1:12:04Oh, what wondrous tales I've heard of him.
1:12:04 > 1:12:09Even in my Kurdish hills the travellers spoke of Sinbad.
1:12:09 > 1:12:16Yes, long before I ever knew of Prince Ahmed, I knew all the stories of Sinbad the Sailor.
1:12:16 > 1:12:19Island.
1:12:19 > 1:12:23A mountain crowned with the star of the south.
1:12:25 > 1:12:30That would be the island of Deryabar.
1:12:30 > 1:12:33- Sinbad...- Sinbad...
1:12:33 > 1:12:38What if all his life he'd worn a chart about his neck?
1:12:38 > 1:12:43What if this little bit of ancient gold were in itself enough,
1:12:43 > 1:12:46were in itself a chart to Deryabar?
1:12:46 > 1:12:54What if there never was a Deryabar? What if you meant it when you said you wanted nothing of treasure?
1:12:54 > 1:12:58What if you were truly the shining spirit of the tales?
1:12:58 > 1:13:05What if Allah had never let men say this is gold and that is treasure, we are poor and we must seek?
1:13:05 > 1:13:11What if the things that make men's lives were not just beyond the rim of the sea?
1:13:11 > 1:13:16- There'd have been more happy living. - Allah never spoke such a law.
1:13:16 > 1:13:20You and I aren't bound by the schemes of men.
1:13:20 > 1:13:27- Fasten the chain.- Put it away. It can be your death. Let any have Deryabar who can find Deryabar.
1:13:27 > 1:13:30Put back the chain!
1:13:34 > 1:13:39So you made no cry when I took you? What a game you play with your Emir.
1:13:39 > 1:13:46- Me chasing moonbeams while he wears the key to Deryabar!- I forgot... - Really, my golden pigeon.
1:13:46 > 1:13:51The way you draped yourself on his divan, you were crowding him.
1:13:51 > 1:13:54I pitied his future...
1:13:54 > 1:13:57yet his present I envied.
1:13:57 > 1:14:02So I threw the dice. How much I won I'm not quite sure.
1:14:02 > 1:14:10I wonder. If I put you on the scales, measured delicately against the price I paid for this ship,
1:14:10 > 1:14:13would you go up or down?
1:14:13 > 1:14:16Money groveller!
1:14:30 > 1:14:33Let me go. Open that door.
1:14:35 > 1:14:38It isn't locked.
1:14:46 > 1:14:49It isn't?
1:14:50 > 1:14:52You knew it.
1:15:53 > 1:15:57Wait! Wait! Save the Greek fire.
1:16:07 > 1:16:09I want live captives.
1:16:13 > 1:16:16Steer for the fog!
1:16:32 > 1:16:37- Faster on the oars. - Faster on the oars! Faster on the oars!
1:17:43 > 1:17:50- With a bow and arrow you hope to sink a war ship?- No, master. Only to sink their steersman.
1:17:50 > 1:17:56One little delay of the dromond and we'll be safe in the fog. Heaven make me a success.
1:18:04 > 1:18:09- How did you do it?- By aiming at everybody but the steersman.
1:18:14 > 1:18:16Oars!
1:18:16 > 1:18:19Steady as she goes.
1:18:35 > 1:18:39No-one can always be a failure, Prince Ahmed. I saw the chart.
1:18:39 > 1:18:47- I knew that female would bring us trouble. Will you listen to me now? - What choice have I?- I'll set course.
1:18:47 > 1:18:52Watch the crew. Any man who signals the dromond is a fish's dinner.
1:18:52 > 1:18:56- Or any woman. - Let her be doubly watched.
1:19:06 > 1:19:09Allah, bless our secret emissary.
1:19:20 > 1:19:22Captain!
1:19:30 > 1:19:33- So you brought them to us?- Sinbad!
1:19:52 > 1:19:56Galley snake.
1:20:29 > 1:20:33They're a poor catch. No others worth keeping?
1:20:33 > 1:20:36Only those chosen by His Highness.
1:20:47 > 1:20:49You've pulled the oars before.
1:20:49 > 1:20:55You won't escape the chains. We forge them strong on this vessel.
1:20:55 > 1:20:58Throw him overboard!
1:21:12 > 1:21:17I'm glad you disarmed the magician. He has a talent for the unexpected.
1:21:17 > 1:21:23There's ample time to dissect all faces - the gardener and his rose.
1:21:24 > 1:21:32- Where's the baggala's chart and his medallion?- Does Maffi still expect his right hand to serve him?
1:21:32 > 1:21:38- He's cut it off.- A loss which will bring more pain to you than to the Emir of Daibour.
1:21:38 > 1:21:43Unless I can prove that for you I let him take me from the palace.
1:21:43 > 1:21:51Why do you suppose I took the risk? To open the heavens for a stranger or to find the isle for you?
1:21:51 > 1:21:58- Perhaps you can produce the chart. - The baggala had no chart. Ahmed knows nothing of the course.
1:21:58 > 1:22:06- What?- But they say you have a captive, a barber, who claims to know the way.
1:22:06 > 1:22:11Ah, if you could only wear the true medallion of Alexander,
1:22:11 > 1:22:20the King of Deryabar would reveal his hidden vaults to you, his charming long-lost son.
1:22:20 > 1:22:25You prove nothing which hasn't occurred to me.
1:22:27 > 1:22:29Don't I, Maffi?
1:22:35 > 1:22:37Wear the medallion.
1:22:40 > 1:22:45Your cleverness, your beauty, still serve me well.
1:22:48 > 1:22:52- But your heart... - Do I have a heart, Maffi?
1:22:53 > 1:22:56Well...perhaps a little one.
1:22:56 > 1:23:04The Prince Ahmed can be of no further consequence to us now. Put him ashore at the first landfall.
1:23:04 > 1:23:11- Why not give him to the bottom of the sea?- I despise him, Maffi, isn't that enough?- I don't know.
1:23:11 > 1:23:13I don't know.
1:23:16 > 1:23:20Perhaps I'll find a method of knowing.
1:23:20 > 1:23:26Until that moment...you are still the moon in the sky of Indus.
1:23:26 > 1:23:31This moon would cost you more than you possess.
1:23:42 > 1:23:46I'll have you jailed! Heel!
1:23:46 > 1:23:49< Unclean dogs! Bullies!
1:23:49 > 1:23:51< Aghhh!
1:23:51 > 1:23:55Ahhh! Ohhhh! Ahhhhh!
1:23:55 > 1:23:57Aghhh!
1:23:57 > 1:24:05Your Highness, he swore he knew the way to Deryabar, but gives no course, lying to save himself from the oars.
1:24:05 > 1:24:10Light of Daibour, I know the course, but can't see it from this position.
1:24:10 > 1:24:14- Down with his heels.- Oh!
1:24:14 > 1:24:17I doubt if that clod knows anything.
1:24:17 > 1:24:22Sufficient, my posturing peafowl, to addle your thick pate.
1:24:22 > 1:24:25Maggot dreaming of power.
1:24:25 > 1:24:32From a thousand tiny islands, all of a contour, can you select the exact isle?
1:24:32 > 1:24:37Where is it? East, west, north, south?
1:24:37 > 1:24:41As close as you think or as far as you suppose?
1:24:41 > 1:24:46You'll never find Deryabar without the help of Prince Ahmed and myself.
1:24:46 > 1:24:49Bring him to me.
1:24:54 > 1:25:02- I invest you Grand Vizier of the Kingdom of Deryabar.- Bestow honours lightly, Ahmed. You no longer exist.
1:25:02 > 1:25:07To the palace of your father there shall come a new Prince Ahmed.
1:25:10 > 1:25:12Shireen...
1:25:14 > 1:25:19I felicitate His Highness on the devotion of his women.
1:25:19 > 1:25:26I shall reward her in proportion to her devotion. You, dear martyr, can help me determine it.
1:25:26 > 1:25:30Martyr? ..Let's not glorify me, Highness.
1:25:30 > 1:25:38Have more admiration for yourself. Your passing shall have the quality of courage - painful and slow.
1:25:38 > 1:25:44The woman of ambition shall be offered half of Deryabar, but she must sit in judgment of herself.
1:25:44 > 1:25:51- Will her secret heart defeat her as she watches you being tortured?- No! For a danek she'd sell me to Satan.
1:25:51 > 1:25:56And you'd split your tongue trying to be the Prince of Deryabar.
1:25:56 > 1:26:01Can you name the day that medallion was put upon me by my father?
1:26:01 > 1:26:05Can you name the father's father of my father's father?
1:26:05 > 1:26:10Can you recall the hundred ancestors of my mother?
1:26:10 > 1:26:15- Have you a scar beneath your 13th rib?- No...- But you SHALL have one!
1:26:15 > 1:26:19Don't move or the Light of Daibour goes out!
1:26:19 > 1:26:25- The medallion. - You let him remained armed! - No weapon was seen upon him!
1:26:25 > 1:26:28The medallion.
1:26:41 > 1:26:46- Where did you get this qatar? - From him, master.
1:26:54 > 1:26:56Jamal?!
1:26:56 > 1:26:59Jamal!
1:27:04 > 1:27:10Yes. Jamal. Your partner, gentlemen, whether you wish it or not.
1:27:12 > 1:27:16This deception is no longer necessary.
1:27:16 > 1:27:21Yes, I poisoned the baggala's waterskins to take the chart.
1:27:21 > 1:27:25Now there is no chart... except here.
1:27:25 > 1:27:30- Beast of the world!- Is your cloth so white, butcher of Daibour?
1:27:30 > 1:27:35What does it matter? Never did three enemies need each other more.
1:27:35 > 1:27:39You have a ship. I have knowledge.
1:27:39 > 1:27:44But the finding of Deryabar is not the taking of a wise man's treasure.
1:27:44 > 1:27:50Only to his son will the Aga speak of secret places.
1:27:50 > 1:27:58Yea, I too was tempted to destroy everything that competed with me for the wealth of empires.
1:27:58 > 1:28:03Prince Ahmed as well as yourself. In the Basra garden I struck at him,
1:28:03 > 1:28:08and yet on a latter day, when my razor could have had his throat,
1:28:08 > 1:28:11a higher wisdom stopped me.
1:28:11 > 1:28:15There are many mysteries yet to be unfolded...
1:28:15 > 1:28:17by me.
1:28:22 > 1:28:27Wisely done, my cherished partner. Preserve him kindly.
1:28:27 > 1:28:30Of course, while there is mutual need.
1:28:30 > 1:28:33Of course.
1:28:36 > 1:28:43Hassan, the chartmaker, and all the wise men of the East have given me much good counsel.
1:28:43 > 1:28:48Beware the deadly currents. Do not anchor too close to that island.
1:28:48 > 1:28:51- What island?- What isle?
1:28:54 > 1:28:56Deryabar.
1:29:00 > 1:29:02(Deryabar.)
1:29:18 > 1:29:23When the dromond pays a visit, it's a fine day for the coffin makers.
1:29:23 > 1:29:25- What of your father?- What of him?
1:29:25 > 1:29:33Should I care for one who set me adrift? His gold and I love each other. Don't try to separate us.
1:30:02 > 1:30:07Whoever called this dead land a kingdom?
1:30:07 > 1:30:09The palace of Alexander!
1:30:23 > 1:30:28The palace of Alexander. A fine tomb for father and son.
1:30:28 > 1:30:30But first let it give up its secret.
1:31:03 > 1:31:06Queen? Queen of THIS?
1:31:06 > 1:31:11- Queen of vacant splendour. - We're a thousand years too late.
1:31:24 > 1:31:26< Welcome!
1:31:44 > 1:31:47- Aga of Deryabar?- So it appears.
1:31:47 > 1:31:50Pharaoh of an empty nowhere.
1:31:54 > 1:31:58Oh, king of legend, fabled monarch of the age,
1:31:58 > 1:32:04planet of the southern sky, your son has come at last into the glory of your court.
1:32:05 > 1:32:07My son?
1:32:07 > 1:32:11Ahmed - your son. Does your memory fail?
1:32:11 > 1:32:14Memory has been my life.
1:32:16 > 1:32:19Memory and hope.
1:32:24 > 1:32:27The true medallion.
1:32:27 > 1:32:30It is my hope you ARE my son.
1:32:30 > 1:32:36In time, we'll know...we'll know in what spirit you have come to me.
1:32:36 > 1:32:41A good son, dear Aga. Often has he spoken his affection for you.
1:32:41 > 1:32:46In your absence I've been a second father to him, a sharer of distress.
1:32:46 > 1:32:53The baggala foundered. We were rescued by this great lord of the north.
1:32:54 > 1:32:59Blessed be the winds that coursed you to Deryabar.
1:32:59 > 1:33:04My house is yours. My house and all that it contains.
1:33:04 > 1:33:12- Either my father is most generous or speaks the language of parables. - You have much to learn of languages.
1:33:12 > 1:33:19Then, dear Aga, why not instruct him in the alphas and omegas of golden secrets?
1:33:19 > 1:33:22That he'll understand in any tongue.
1:33:22 > 1:33:26- Very well. I shall tell all I know...- Hold!
1:33:26 > 1:33:33- Perhaps you would prefer sharing your secret only with your blood and kin...ALONE.- And why?
1:33:33 > 1:33:36They will not understand me,
1:33:36 > 1:33:40nor will you, if I say that all treasure lies...
1:33:40 > 1:33:42here.
1:33:42 > 1:33:44Or here.
1:33:46 > 1:33:50Or in the blue sea or in the green land.
1:33:52 > 1:33:54Or in a pair of bright eyes.
1:33:54 > 1:33:59A tender traveller, dear Aga, rescued from pirates by your son.
1:33:59 > 1:34:03We thought to find refuge for her here.
1:34:03 > 1:34:06A good refuge. I have found it so.
1:34:06 > 1:34:13Marauders come ashore from time to time, but their ships die sleeping, lost in the currents.
1:34:13 > 1:34:18And they, too, eventually die... fighting each other.
1:34:18 > 1:34:24- My father is a prophet. - It needs no oracle to say what men will do for gold.
1:34:24 > 1:34:32I have known well, ever since the day I found in an ancient chest the chart and medallion of Alexander.
1:34:32 > 1:34:36Oh, how the word of my discovery spread.
1:34:36 > 1:34:40My son perhaps cannot remember how, his small hand in mine,
1:34:40 > 1:34:45we fled the shadowy hands that would have seized him.
1:34:45 > 1:34:52How well they knew no secret could I keep if my son's life fell into their hands.
1:34:52 > 1:34:57Well, death was no stranger to me. I killed to save my son.
1:34:57 > 1:35:02I wonder - would your son do as much for you?
1:35:02 > 1:35:05I believe he would.
1:35:08 > 1:35:14In those days I led him by the hand. Now his strong hand shall lead me.
1:35:14 > 1:35:18Long, long ago, and for his own salvation,
1:35:18 > 1:35:25I hid him with my friends of the trading ships while I followed the chart's course to Deryabar
1:35:25 > 1:35:32- and lost my ship in that graveyard cove.- What did you find here? - Love for lost happiness.
1:35:32 > 1:35:37Happiness that was so good, so free, so simple, I didn't know I had it.
1:35:37 > 1:35:45And I found hate for the legend of wealth, that monstrous sword that would not let me walk in the world.
1:35:45 > 1:35:49Yet I found also its secret to be my best defence.
1:35:49 > 1:35:52Without me, there is no secret.
1:35:52 > 1:35:56A noble attitude, but the language of evasion.
1:35:56 > 1:35:59There is gold here... Gold!
1:35:59 > 1:36:03Only gold could have built a baggala.
1:36:03 > 1:36:05Oh, my inquisitive elephant.
1:36:05 > 1:36:09Did you suppose I built that floating vanity?
1:36:09 > 1:36:16Of all the vultures that descended on Deryabar, she was the crowning imposture.
1:36:16 > 1:36:23Her master claimed to be my son. My shipwrecked crew seized the baggala and set out to find the true Ahmed.
1:36:23 > 1:36:29- Are you sure you won't regret your quest?- Why do you ask?- Because...
1:36:33 > 1:36:40- Because as his father you will tell him your secret and the moment you...- Silence!- Yes. Silence!
1:36:40 > 1:36:46And you value my son more than what you might take from Deryabar?
1:36:48 > 1:36:50Yes. Oh, yes!
1:36:50 > 1:36:55I tried to tell him. I took the medallion to keep him from here.
1:36:55 > 1:37:00- She knows not what she speaks.- I... - ..Your existence is on trial!- Yes.
1:37:00 > 1:37:04Ahmed, how little you understand of treasure.
1:37:09 > 1:37:14Think carefully. You're condemning yourself.
1:37:14 > 1:37:21- And for what?! For him who wouldn't let a dinar fall for the sake of his father.- What was it you said?
1:37:21 > 1:37:26No secret could you keep if your son fell into the shadowy hands...
1:37:27 > 1:37:34- Behold the hand of Daibour. - Tell us the place of gold, miser, if you cherish your son.
1:37:36 > 1:37:39Yes... Yes, of course I'll tell you.
1:37:39 > 1:37:45- Speak, then!- It is... - Hold, Aga! Speak not for me.
1:37:45 > 1:37:47I am not your son.
1:37:49 > 1:37:52- What?- The medallion.
1:37:54 > 1:38:01I bought it in a bazaar no longer than a year ago. I'm the biggest fraud in the Islamic world.
1:38:02 > 1:38:05I'm Sinbad the Sailor!
1:38:08 > 1:38:10Sinbad...
1:38:10 > 1:38:13Oh, you ARE Sinbad.
1:38:13 > 1:38:19- Oh, yes, burning bright. You've undermined my good, strong, worthless character.- A happy martyr.
1:38:19 > 1:38:27Martyr again. Oh-ho, and who shall be the martyrs this time? Jamal, Maffi of Daibour or Sinbad?
1:38:27 > 1:38:31Not three, but one, was destined to survive.
1:38:31 > 1:38:34You stand condemned, both of you.
1:38:34 > 1:38:39- What power do you imagine you have? - Magic. ..Remember, Maffi?
1:38:39 > 1:38:44Yes, magic. Magic to pull a serpent's poisoned fang.
1:38:46 > 1:38:48Wait!
1:38:51 > 1:38:56- Look you, Maffi, the poison he intended for you.- What?!
1:38:56 > 1:39:01Hear me, Highness, there's a certain magic in memories.
1:39:01 > 1:39:06Did he not tell us he poisoned the water of the baggala?
1:39:06 > 1:39:12- Your ship's water would have become deadened. - What is in here?- Nothing harmful.
1:39:12 > 1:39:18- The proof is in the testing.- Absurd. An essence of flowers of Samarkand.
1:39:27 > 1:39:30Flowers of Samarkand.
1:39:32 > 1:39:40Then drink and dream of jasmine and hyacinth. Or do you prefer some nightmares on the rack?
1:40:02 > 1:40:05A rather happy blending of the vintage.
1:40:07 > 1:40:10Harmless, tasty... >
1:40:10 > 1:40:14When I was a somewhat deplorable seller of wines
1:40:14 > 1:40:18I could have made a handsome thing of this.
1:40:25 > 1:40:30I've always been a disappointment, to others as well as myself.
1:40:30 > 1:40:36When I was chief taster to the Khan of Bohara,
1:40:36 > 1:40:44he expired from a cup...which had only made me...riotously giddy.
1:40:47 > 1:40:55Magician(!) Faker of the age. Do you imagine we cannot open the Aga's mouth without you?
1:40:55 > 1:41:00- A prize for the men of my ship! - Maffi!- Take her from my sight.
1:41:00 > 1:41:06Let her go, when it pleases you, to the richest bidder in Daibour's Street of the Lepers.
1:41:06 > 1:41:09You'd sell your own pet, Maffi?!
1:41:10 > 1:41:17Fools! Do you suppose you can keep them apart, the two who found the truth of treasure?
1:41:17 > 1:41:22No, no. The truth shall sweep you asunder.
1:41:22 > 1:41:29You've earned the fate of all who've touched what you call the wealth of Deryabar.
1:41:29 > 1:41:33Take it! Seal your destinies. Press your hand upon the lotus petal
1:41:33 > 1:41:38and you'll see your treasure overflowing from the vaults below.
1:41:38 > 1:41:39Go!
1:41:41 > 1:41:42Oh...
1:42:21 > 1:42:23Ah!
1:42:53 > 1:42:56Go, find her, my son.
1:42:56 > 1:42:59- Your son?- My good son.
1:42:59 > 1:43:00Go.
1:43:10 > 1:43:14Master, he vanished before my very eyes!
1:43:16 > 1:43:19Your magician has escaped, Maffi?
1:43:19 > 1:43:23My plan is not affected, Jamal, the plan I had from the beginning -
1:43:23 > 1:43:28to give both my partners a bright, departing glory.
1:43:28 > 1:43:32Nothing living shall remain on this island!
1:43:32 > 1:43:38- Bodum, when the boats are lowered, prepare the fire of the Greeks. - Sir.
1:43:38 > 1:43:42I'll need argosies from Daibour to bring the gold!
1:43:43 > 1:43:48Beneath the stones of Deryabar they'll find it.
1:44:00 > 1:44:03Hurry! We must catch the tide.
1:44:03 > 1:44:07Ah, it was a brave life.
1:44:07 > 1:44:13I shouldn't feel too secure if I were you, not while that Sinbad skims the shadows.
1:44:19 > 1:44:25Yes...I did intend to poison your dromond's water.
1:44:25 > 1:44:30So, true it was that only one out of three could survive.
1:44:30 > 1:44:34But in no way could you hurt me greatly.
1:44:34 > 1:44:40With nothing more to seek, possessions could become quite dreary.
1:44:42 > 1:44:46The quest of a lifetime...I won it.
1:44:48 > 1:44:53The wealth of the Earth...I found it.
1:44:56 > 1:45:00No...I was not a failure.
1:45:10 > 1:45:13He's dead!
1:45:13 > 1:45:19ECHOES: He's dead! He's dead! Dead!
1:45:22 > 1:45:24Dead!
1:45:25 > 1:45:27Dead...
1:45:35 > 1:45:37Our prize!
1:45:37 > 1:45:42His Highness grows generous. Take her below.
1:46:04 > 1:46:06Sinbad!
1:46:06 > 1:46:09What?Sinbad! Sinbad!
1:46:09 > 1:46:11Sinbad!
1:47:25 > 1:47:31- The dromond's lantern signalled danger. The flame went out. - Danger? The oil burns low.
1:47:31 > 1:47:37I've often thought a loose chain, a broken lock... Galley slaves feel no endearment.
1:47:37 > 1:47:44Who craves for the friendship of oxen? With these professionals I could take any vessel.
1:47:44 > 1:47:52Now I can soon take anything - the caliphate, kingdoms of the Hindi, China, the power of the world.
1:47:52 > 1:47:56What is there left to stand between us?
1:48:00 > 1:48:03Well, the Emir found his dream.
1:48:04 > 1:48:11Soon he'll come aboard and we'll cover the island with the fire of the Greeks.
1:48:11 > 1:48:17Praise be to the Prophet, his palm stops itching. At last a night of rest.
1:48:26 > 1:48:29Sinbad! Sinbad!
1:48:29 > 1:48:33Sinbad!Sinbad! Do you suppose he is on the dromond?
1:48:33 > 1:48:38Impossible. He was quite a foolish little mortal after all.
1:48:38 > 1:48:45I'll burn him with all that still exists on Deryabar. How did he say it? "One quick, blinding blow."
1:49:05 > 1:49:12- They're firing at us! - Then put some distance between us. ..About! Back with the oars!
1:49:36 > 1:49:41Loyalty! Loyalty! I couldn't even buy it!
1:49:41 > 1:49:44Cowardly filth! Oh, get out!
1:49:44 > 1:49:47You'll face Allah when you're dead!
1:49:47 > 1:49:52Mark it with care, Muallin, you're measuring your own future.
1:49:52 > 1:49:56I'm only a mercenary, but you'll find me a good one.
1:49:59 > 1:50:01Break!
1:50:13 > 1:50:16Ahhhhh!
1:50:21 > 1:50:29- Believers, doubters, brothers of Basra, know ye the truth by the fruits that ye see.- Good Sinbad.
1:50:29 > 1:50:35- Never again will I call him Torturer of the Truth. - Such sudden love! Take all you will.
1:50:37 > 1:50:42Bah, you melon-heads! Why do you think I told you this tale?
1:50:42 > 1:50:49From all the others you learn nothing! I'd hoped to teach you the worthlessness of what men fight for.
1:50:49 > 1:50:53- Worthless? - Worthless as these grains of sand.
1:50:55 > 1:50:56Worthless?
1:51:01 > 1:51:08- Thank Allah I'm sailing home to Deryabar.- Sinbad, my friend! Sinbad! Where is Deryabar?
1:51:08 > 1:51:10It's here...and here...
1:51:12 > 1:51:15..and here.
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