The Last Legion (2007)

Peter Mullan: Odoacer

Quotes 

• Orestes : I've promised you nothing beyond what you were already given.

  Odoacer : You've grown so tall, Orestes. You forget on whose shoulders you stand.

• [Romulus is brought in chains before Odoacer] 

  Odoacer : Is it for you that so many people have died? Such an innocent face.

  Wulfila : The blood of the Caesars runs in his veins.

  Odoacer : Lord Wulfila here thinks I should fear you. Is this true?

  Wulfila : He is the last of the bloodline! End it now! Old Rome will die, and we will rule!

  Odoacer : "We?" *We* rule? Take care, Wulfila. Sometimes your tongue runs ahead of your brain.

• Odoacer : [draws his sword]  What do you say, boy? Should I be afraid of you?

  Romulus Augustus : Why is Caesar treated so?

  Odoacer : "Why is Caesar treated so?"

  [Odoacer seizes Romulus by the hair and holds up the sword so that his face is reflected in it] 

  Odoacer : Perhaps Wulfila's right. Perhaps I should end this here, right now. Can you see yourself? Can you see your face? What do you see? You see a boy... or do you see a Caesar?

  Romulus Augustus : I see...

  Odoacer : Tell me.

  Romulus Augustus : I see a Caesar. I *am* Caesar.

  [pause] 

  Odoacer : Wrong answer.