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Sally Potter's Notes on the Adaptation of the Book Orlando

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Narrator: She's lived for 400 years and hardly aged a day; but, because this is England, everyone pretends not to notice.

Queen Elizabeth I: [conferring the family estate upon Orlando] For you and for your heirs, Orlando: the house.
Orlando: Your Majesty, I am forever...
Queen Elizabeth I: But on one condition. Do not fade. Do not wither. Do not grow old.

Princess Sasha: You suffer in advance.

Shelmerdine: You're hurt ma'm.
Orlando: I'm dead, sir.
Shelmerdine: Dead. That's serious. Can I help?
Orlando: Will you marry me?
Shelmerdine: Ma'am... I would gladly, but I fear my ankle is twisted.

Orlando: Same person. No difference at all... just a different sex.

Archduke Harry: Orlando, to me you were and always will be, whether male or female, the pink, the pearl, and the perfection of your sex.

The Khan: It has been said to me that the English make a habit of collecting... countries.

Archduke Harry: I'm offering you my hand.
Orlando: Archduke! That's very kind. Yes. I can't accept.
Archduke Harry: But I am England, and you are mine.
Orlando: I see. On what grounds?
Archduke Harry: Because... I adore you.

Orlando: But you are mine!
Princess Sasha: On what grounds?
Orlando: Because... I adore you.

Euphrosyne: The treachery of men!

Orlando: The treachery of women!

Orlando: I can find only three words to describe the female sex. None of which are worth expressing.

First Official: One, you are legally dead and therefore cannot hold any property whatsoever.
Orlando: Ah. Fine.
First Official: Two, you are now a female.
Second Official: Which amounts to much the same thing.

Orlando's Father: Now, what would please you? All that is mine is here for your pleasure.
Queen Elizabeth I: All you call yours is mine already.

Orlando: Nothing thicker than a knifes blade separates melancholy from happiness.

Pope: Sir, I accept your general rule, that every poet is a fool, but you yourself may serve to show it, that every fool is not a poet.

[Orlando starts to tend to the wounds of an enemy soldier]
Archduke Harry: Leave him.
Orlando: This is a dying man.
Archduke Harry: He's not a man. He's the enemy.

Orlando: If I were a man...
Shelmerdine: You?
Orlando: I might choose not to risk my life for an uncertain cause. I might think that freedom won by death is not worth having. In fact...
Shelmerdine: You might choose not to be a real man at all. Say, if I were a woman...
Orlando: You?
Shelmerdine: I might choose not to sacrifice my life caring for my children, nor my children's children, nor to drown anonymously in the milk of female kindness, but instead, say, to go abroad. Would I then be...
Orlando: A real woman?

:: cast
Tilda Swinton .... Orlando
Quentin Crisp .... Queen Elizabeth I
Jimmy Somerville .... Falsetto/Angel
John Bott .... Orlando's Father
Elaine Banham .... Orlando's Mother
Anna Farnworth .... Clorinda
Sara Mair-Thomas .... Favilla
Anna Healy .... Euphrosyne
Toby Stephens .... Othello
Dudley Sutton .... King James I
Simon Russell Beale .... Earl of Moray
Matthew Sim .... Lord Francis Vere
Jerome Willis .... Translator
Viktor Stepanov .... Russian Ambassador
Charlotte Valandrey .... Princess Sasha
Mary MacLeod .... First Older Woman
Barbara Hicks .... Second Older Woman
Aleksandr Medvedev .... Russian Sailor
Oleg Pogodin .... Desdemona
George Yiasoumi .... First Valet
Toby Jones .... Second Valet
Robert Demeger .... Third Valet
Lol Coxhill .... First Butler
Thom Osborn .... Doctor
Giles Taylor .... Tenor
Heathcote Williams .... Nick Greene/Publisher
Thom Hoffman .... King William of Orange
Sarah Crowden .... Queen Mary
Lothaire Bluteau .... The Khan
John Wood .... Archduke Harry
Hugh Munro .... Second Butler
Peter Hayward .... Harpsichordist
Andrew Watts .... Counter Tenor
Kathryn Hunter .... Countess
Roger Hammond .... Swift
Peter Eyre .... Pope
Ned Sherrin .... Addison
Cyril Lecomte .... Young French Man
Olivia Lancelot .... Young French Woman
John Grillo .... First Official
Martin Wimbush .... Second Official
Billy Zane .... Shelmerdine
Terence Soall .... Third Butler
Jessica Swinton .... Orlando's Daughter

:: crew

Directed by
Sally Potter

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Sally Potter
Virginia Woolf novel

Produced by
Laurie Borg
Lynn Hanke
Martine Kelly
Richard Salmon
Christopher Sheppard

Original Music by
David Bedford
Fred Frith
David Motion
Sally Potter

Cinematography by
Aleksei Rodionov

Art Direction by
Michael Buchanan
Michael Howells

Costume Design by
Sandy Powell
Dien van Straalen

Makeup Department
Jan Archibald
Sian Grigg
Morag Ross

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