Pacific Overtures (1976 TV Movie)

Mark Syers: Samurai, Thief, Soothsayer, Warrior, Russian Admiral, British Sailor

Quotes 

• Boy : Someone reads a list from a box.

  Samurai : Someone talks of laws.

  Old Man : Then they fan a bit.

  Boy : Someone bangs a fist!

  Samurai : Someone knocks.

  Old Man : Now there was a pause.

  Samurai , Old Man , Boy : Then they argue it.

  Samurai : 'But we want, no you can't, and we won't, but we need it, and we want, will you grant, if you don't we concede it,' I can hear them...

  Old Man : And they sat through the night and they lit yellow tapers, I was there then...

  Boy : And they chat, and they light, and they sit signing papers, I am there still - If I weren't whose to say, that they're happening?

  Reciter , Samurai , Old Man , Boy : It's the fragment not the day/ It's the pebble, not the stream/ It's the ripple not the sea/ That is happening/ Not the building but the beam/ Not the garden but the stone/ Only cups of tea/ And history/ And someone in a tree!

• Russian Admiral : Please hello - Is bringing Czar's request/ Braving snow, with letter to protest/ Since we know, you trading with the west, you might at least - Don't touch the coat! - Start looking east, or closer west, well, farther north - Are we the fourth? I feel depressed - Don't touch the coat! Coming next, is extraterritoriality! Noting text, say 'Extraterritoriality -' You perplexed, by extraterritoriality? Just noting clause - don't touch the coat! Which say your laws do not apply - don't touch the coat! - When we drop by, not getting shot no matter what/ A minor scrape, a major rape and we escape/ Don't touch the cape! That's what is extraterritoriality. Fair is fair/ You wish perhaps to vote? What we care you liking what we wrote? Ha ha ha. Sitting there, is finest fleet afloat! Observing boat?

  [cannon fires] 

  Russian Admiral : Don't touch the coat. Just sign the note.

• American Admiral , British Admiral , Dutch Admiral , Russian Admiral , French Admiral : Ah detente! A detente! That's what everybody wants/ You should want/ a detente/ makes a nation like a brother/ We'll be here/ every year/ to protect you from each other, and to see you aren't signing foreign treaties and detentes! Please hello, we must go, but our intercourse will grow/ through detentes/ as detente/ brings complete cooperation/ By the way, me we say, we adore your little nation, and with heavy cannon wish you an unending Please Hello!