Troy (2004)
Eric Bana: Hector
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Quotes
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Hector : You say you're willing to die for love but you know nothing about dying and you know nothing about love!
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Achilles : Go home, prince. Drink some wine, make love to your wife. Tomorrow, we'll have our war.
Hector : You speak of war as if it's a game. But how many wives wait at Troy's gates for husbands they'll never see again?
Achilles : Perhaps your brother can comfort them. I hear he's good at charming other men's wives.
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Hector : All my life I've lived by a code and the code is simple: honor the gods, love your woman and defend your country. Troy is mother to us all. Fight for her!
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Hector : I've seen this moment in my dreams. I'll make a pact with you. With the gods as our witnesses, let us pledge that the winner will allow the loser all the proper funeral rituals.
Achilles : There are no pacts between lions and men.
[stabs spear into ground, and takes off helmet, throwing it to the side]
Achilles : Now you know who you're fighting.
Hector : [takes off helmet and throws it aside] I thought it was you I was fighting yesterday. And I wish it had been, but I gave the dead boy the honor he deserved.
Achilles : You gave him the honor of your sword. You won't have eyes tonight; you won't have ears or a tongue. You will wander the underworld blind, deaf, and dumb, and all the dead will know: This is Hector. The fool who thought he killed Achilles.
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[from director's cut]
Priam : When you were very young, you came down with scarlet fever. Your little hand was so hot. The healer said you would not last the night. I went down to Apollo's temple, and I prayed until the sun came up. That walk back to the palace was the longest of my life. When I went into your mother's room, and you were sleeping in her arms, your fever had broken. I promised that day to dedicate my life to the gods, I will not break my promise. For 30 years I have worked for peace, *thirty* years. Paris is a fool sometimes, I know that, but I will fight a thousand wars before letting him die.
Hector : Forgive me father, but you won't be the one fighting.
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Agamemnon : I see you're not hiding behind your high walls. Valiant of you. Ill-advised, but valiant.
Hector : You come here uninvited. Go back to your ships and go home.
Agamemnon : We've come too far, Prince Hector.
Menelaus : Prince? What prince? What son of a king would accept a man's hospitality, eat his food, drink his wine, embrace him in friendship, and then steal his wife in the middle of the night?
Paris : The sun was shining when your wife left you.
Menelaus : She's up there, watching, isn't she? Good. I want her to watch you die.
Agamemnon : Not yet, brother. Look around you, Hector. I brought all the warriors of Greece to your shores.
Nestor : You can still save Troy, young prince.
Agamemnon : I have two wishes. If you grant them, no more of your people need die. First, you must give Helen back to my brother. Second, Troy must submit to my command, to fight for me whenever I call.
Hector : You want me to look upon your army and tremble? Well I see them. I see 50,000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed.
Agamemnon : Careful boy, my mercy has limits.
Hector : And I've seen the limits of your mercy and I tell you now, no son of Troy will ever submit to a foreign ruler.
Agamemnon : Then every son of Troy shall die.
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Hector : [Feeling guily about killing Patrocolus] I killed a boy today. He was young; too young.
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Hector : Yesterday the Greeks underestimated us. We should not return the favor.
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Hector : [to priest] Bird signs? You want to plan out strategy based on bird signs?
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Hector : If I die...
Andromache : No...
Hector : If I die I don't know how much longer Troy will stand.
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Hector : Make him swing and miss; he'll tire.
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Hector : [about his baby son] I want to see him grow tall. I want to see all the girls chasing after him.
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[Paris cowers from his single combat with Menelaus, and runs to Hector, lying at his feet]
Menelaus : [Raging at Helen, far away] Is this what you left me for?
[to Paris]
Menelaus : Fight! Fight me! You coward! Fight me! We have a pact! Fight!
Priam : [From a top Troy, verbalizing] Fight him son, fight him
Menelaus : Fight me!
Agamemnon : The Trojans have violated the agreement, prepare for battle!
[the Greeks all change to a fighting position]
Menelaus : This is not honor! This is not worthy of royalty! If he doesn't fight, Troy is doomed!
Hector : The fight is over
Menelaus : The fight is not over. Stand back, Prince Hector, I'll kill him at your feet, I don't care!
Hector : He's my brother
[Menelaus angrily swings his sword in an attempt to decapitate Paris, but Hector quickly runs his sword through Menelaus' chest]
