Twelve Months (1980)

Earl Hammond: Capt. Rustov

Quotes 

• Wise Man : It's a trick and I won't be tricked, but I *have* been tricked.

  Capt. Rustov : Wise Man, are you all right?

  Wise Man : But I knew it had to be a trick so I really wasn't tricked. It's winter. It's got to be winter, and that's no trick.

• Capt. Rustov : [making it over to her just after the rain starts]  You said you were hot. Here's the water, Your Highness.

  Queen : Do you think I need water now that I'm soaking wet?

• Queen : Ah. There are snowflakes coming down.

  Wise Man : Snow, again? Of course it's snowing; it's winter, exactly what it's supposed to do in winter. And it's really January.

  [runs off] 

  Queen : And he's supposed to be the Wise Man?

  Wise Man : [walking onto the pond]  Snow, and cold, and ice. That's the law of nature for winter. Oh, yes, and ice. And the lake is frozen solid. Smooth and solid. Perfect, per...

  [slips and falls] 

  Wise Man : Help!

  Capt. Rustov : The Foolish Man is what he should be called.