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Jim Henson's The Storyteller S01E09 The True Bride
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00:00When people told themselves their past with stories,
00:13explained their present with stories,
00:16foretold the future with stories,
00:20the best place by the fire was kept for the storyteller.
00:30Trolls come at the bottom of the list of people you'd want as friends.
00:42They are revolting trolls.
00:45They can't even stand each other.
00:47The troll in this story had a daughter, and she left home straight off.
00:52In her place, the troll found an orphan,
00:55a young girl, to wait on him hand and foot.
00:57But this girl had more in store than to do for a troll.
01:03Oh, no.
01:05She had a destiny.
01:17Now, Anya had no father and mother,
01:20and the troll was the other,
01:22so she obeyed him, cruel though he was.
01:25But one thing the troll could not abide was obedience.
01:29Of course, if she didn't obey him, woe betide.
01:32I should have said, trolls are always contradicting themselves.
01:39And the troll liked to contradict himself with a heavy stick.
01:44It made a horrid sound as it flew through the air and onto the poor girl's back.
01:49Blue he contradicted on her back.
01:51Black and blue.
01:52I'm off with that.
01:59Inside this sack are being 20 pounds of feathers.
02:05Strip them and pack them before I come back.
02:09Yes, sir.
02:10And remember, I'm being allergic to feathers.
02:15A single one upsets my nose, a quivering and a quaking, a shimmying and a shaking, and I don't like it.
02:25Be thank you to me, and full of great.
02:28That's impossible by herself.
02:31That's not fair.
02:33I know.
02:34She plucks and cleans and packs and packs, but still the feathers fill the room, still the feathers fight the sacks.
02:47Anya.
02:47Don't be frightened.
02:51I've come to help you.
02:53Where have you come from?
02:55From your thoughts.
02:57Is there no one in the wide world to take pity on me, you thought?
03:01Well, there is.
03:03And here I am.
03:06Now, you're tired.
03:08Sleep.
03:08I cannot.
03:11The troll is my father and mother.
03:14Since I have no other, I must obey him.
03:18Trust me.
03:19Sleep.
03:21Thus persuaded, Anya lay down and fell into a slumber.
03:27And when she woke, what a sight.
03:30What a wonder.
03:31I've recurred.
03:43Yes, sir.
03:46You've done it.
03:48Have you done them all?
03:50I'm ghast and flabbered.
03:52I'm frowned and dumb.
03:55Was that a smile?
03:57No.
03:58No, sir.
03:59I don't like smiles.
04:01Get to bed without your supper.
04:13Arise and wiki.
04:15I'm having another job for you.
04:25So, observe this pond.
04:29Deep, you'd say.
04:31And you'd be right.
04:34Depths aplenty.
04:38Drain it.
04:40Drain it with your spoon.
04:43And if I be recurring and find a drop of water,
04:47if I so much as get my vootsie wet,
04:52heaven help me.
04:54Anya.
04:55Oh, Lion.
05:10My spoon is full of holes.
05:17You're tired, my little.
05:19Lie down and sleep a while.
05:21No, I dare not. For my lord, the troll will beat me with his terrible stick.
05:29And then the lion pad padded to the pond and drank and drank and drank his fill.
05:38And long before sunset had drunk it dry.
05:43Well, I'm recurred. Is the pond dry?
05:47Yes!
05:48Yes? Yes, it is! How abstractly puriating!
05:55Are we sure?
06:03You may laugh, but the troll's fall cost the poor girl dear.
06:08That night she could not sleep for the colours on her back from the contradiction stick.
06:13All night she's sobbed from its blacks and blues.
06:17And come the morning, the wicked troll has another task, worse than before.
06:22Impossible!
06:24All dry, you think. All finished.
06:28You'll be wrong.
06:30Now you can build me a palatial.
06:33All the bits, all the pieces, by nightfall, miss.
06:39You'll be wrong.
06:40All the bits, all the bits, all the bits, all the bits, all the bits, all the bits.
06:53but now even you cannot help me I'm to build a palace by nightfall full of rooms and riches
07:01you're tired my little why not rest a while I cannot I dare not sleep rest and sleep she does
07:14lying down beside him and as she dreams such magic
07:19how have you done this I know I know I've not done as you asked
07:31you do oh dear oh dear the palace is here but Anya didn't do it there is being a contradiction
07:49and when there's being a contradiction we have to speak with our friend don't you think I don't
07:56know probably very probably certain in fact look rageous absolutely rageous a whole palace in one
08:08day this is more like it for an important pro
08:15good good chicken good yes sir and what about sherry is there a celery for wine go and be seeing
08:43try that door
08:46car reach
08:49let me fetch a line
08:57a trunk can seem perfectly clarified
09:00lion quick quick the troll's in terrible trouble
09:12I know
09:13poor troll
09:22not poor my little but wicked and cruel I made the palace I also made the door
09:35good I hated that troll he was bad through and through
09:40oh yes so then what then our girl has a palace all to herself what a transformation for the first
09:52time in her poor life Anya feels one one
09:55wonderful
10:02when word spreads of a lovely thing alone in a grand palace well they flock to her the suitors in droves
10:14prince la de da of here prince la de da of there but they're a trifle too much la or a little too much d and occasionally plain da
10:23and a year goes by until one morning she stands sighing at her window and oh who's this
10:33he looks up she looks down he smiles she smiles little fish swim up and down her back and suddenly each day she wants flowers in her room flowers at her table flowers for her hair and gradually smiles turn to words and words turn to whispers and whispers turn to
10:53whispers and kristen kisses
11:00she falls for the gardener why not she was a servant turned princess why not a gardener turned prince
11:03You're not a gardener-turned-prince.
11:05You are my true bride.
11:10Am I?
11:12Then let no one else ever kiss your cheek.
11:16Never.
11:18Never ever.
11:20Never, he says. Never ever.
11:23But I'm sorry.
11:25Hurt lurks. Pain prowls. Sorrow simmers.
11:30Why? What happens? Does a troll come back?
11:33Oh, no.
11:34Oh?
11:36Well, yes, in a manner of speaking.
11:39Yes, he does.
11:44Anya's wedding day is beckoning.
11:48Her beloved sets off one morning the long journey to the village.
11:52He has appointments with the tailor and the barber and the shoemaker.
11:56Spruced up he's going to be.
11:59Won't you come?
12:00No.
12:02There is my true so-to-so, and you mustn't see it.
12:05But I'll count the minutes until you are home.
12:08And she does.
12:10She counts the minutes.
12:12Counts them into the hour when the lamps must be lit.
12:15Counts them as fear curdles her stomach.
12:18Counts the minutes as they turn into days, as the tears begin to come.
12:22One.
12:23Two.
12:25Three.
12:26Where was he?
12:28No one knew.
12:30And Anya could stand it no longer.
12:33She set out alone in search of her sweetheart.
12:37Until one day she finds herself wandering in the snow.
12:41Lost and ejected.
12:46Anya.
12:50And without a word the lion sets Anya on his back and starts off bounding through the snow.
12:57Huge strides, impossible speeds over cliff and cavern, crevasse and chasm, cave and canyon.
13:03Helter-skelter to a far off land.
13:07And there, in sight of a town, the lion sets her down.
13:16Now you must go.
13:18Take these.
13:20Inside there are gifts.
13:22Use them wisely.
13:26Dearest lion.
13:28And Anya walks on carrying the three gifts.
13:35My beloved.
13:37My darling.
13:39She cries.
13:41And the rider looks at her, tips his hat, smiles politely and continues on his way.
13:47Wait.
13:49Please, wait.
13:52No, no, she cries.
13:53No.
13:54No.
13:55But it can't be.
13:56It can't be.
13:57The troll.
13:58It can't be.
13:59He's dead.
14:01And then she sees a pigtail, a diamond earring, a hint of silk at the throat.
14:06It's not the troll.
14:08It must be.
14:10It can't be.
14:11But it must be.
14:13His daughter.
14:15It is.
14:16It is the troll's daughter.
14:18Twice as ugly, twice as foul, and she's riding off with her beloved.
14:23Oh, Anya's dumbfounded.
14:25How?
14:26And what's happened to her darling?
14:27He's forgotten her.
14:29She's searched the world for him and he's forgotten her.
14:32He's gone off with a trollop.
14:34But then her resolve strengthens.
14:38I am the true bride and he my beloved.
14:41And off she sets, determined.
14:44Excuse me.
14:45On her way to the town, she meets a man who tells her about the troll's daughter, the trollop.
14:50She went to visit her dad, but he disappeared.
14:54She met a handsome prince and brought him back to her castle.
14:57He's under her spell.
14:59They're betrothed.
15:00That trollop's so greedy.
15:02Sees gold, she wants it.
15:04Silver, she snatches it.
15:06She collects handsome men like ornaments.
15:09My ornament, she calls them.
15:12So instructed, Anya hurries to the town.
15:18A scheme forming.
15:20A plan.
15:21A plan.
15:33Oi!
15:34That's being lovely, prettiness.
15:37I need it.
15:38Madam.
15:39I'm descending.
15:40Is there a cost involved?
15:43I'm expecting it's a gift for your queen.
15:47How kind.
15:48And thank you.
15:49It's magic, your majesty.
15:51It cannot be sold.
15:53Only exchanged.
15:55Exchanged?
15:56For what?
15:58Be more clarified.
16:00A night with your betrothed.
16:03With my new ornament?
16:06Regeous.
16:07Then you must keep what is yours and me what is mine.
16:10Silk.
16:12Yum.
16:13Good day, your highness.
16:15No.
16:16Back, back.
16:18A night with my ornament.
16:21And his very sweetheart, you know.
16:23How generous I've been for such a small magic.
16:27Yes.
16:29All right.
16:31Yes.
16:33Yes.
16:34The bargain is struck.
16:36The true bride to spend a night with her beloved.
16:40Alone, she thinks.
16:42Once alone, he'll know me.
16:45My love.
16:48My dearest.
16:50It's me.
16:51Your true bride.
16:53But he wouldn't wake.
16:54Please wake up.
16:55Couldn't wake.
16:56And how could he?
16:57For in the cup by his bed was a sleeping herb.
17:01Powerful.
17:03Lasts all night until morning.
17:06What can our girl do?
17:08The bargain's been kept.
17:11The first gift wasted.
17:14What can she do?
17:16But try again.
17:17Impossible.
17:18It's impossible.
17:23Magically.
17:24Coin after coin drops to the ground.
17:26The trollop can't believe it.
17:29Oy.
17:30I can't believe it.
17:32Quick, quick.
17:33The trollop wants the deal struck.
17:35And once again.
17:36A night with the beloved swapped for the endless gold pieces.
17:39That night the same story.
17:40Darling.
17:41Whispers the true bride.
17:42Beloved.
17:43But to no avail.
17:44As for the prince himself.
17:45His days are vague.
17:46His nights dreamless.
17:47Stop him and ask him his thoughts.
17:48And what would they be?
17:50Oh, oh, well.
17:51The trollop has rubbed away his past with her wicked spell.
17:56He hasn't heard his true love singing the night through, weeping in the morning.
18:01Oh, he says,
18:02and ask him his thoughts, and what would they be?
18:05Oh, oh, well.
18:08The trollope has rubbed away his past with her wicked spell.
18:12He hasn't heard his true love singing the night through,
18:15weeping in the morning.
18:17Oh, he says, well.
18:20But the prisoners have, their eyes blinking in the black,
18:24their ears sharp. Yes, they've heard the clink of gold,
18:28but also the true bride's lament.
18:32So, the next day, when the prince is walking the ramparts,
18:36they call out to him.
18:38Your Honour!
18:40How can you sleep at night with the beauties singing by your bed?
18:45Beloved, she calls you, and dearest.
18:49Your true bride, she cries.
18:52I am your true bride.
18:55When do you hear these things?
18:57All night! All night!
19:01He's heard nothing.
19:03Who is his true bride?
19:05He's very confused.
19:07Very.
19:08And you see, he sleeps so deeply.
19:11Every night he has his drink, then sleeps so deeply.
19:15Oy, oy!
19:17I'm being so impatient for a new toy.
19:21Let me see, let me see.
19:23Oh, so meable, so agreeable.
19:29I need them.
19:35And the deal is struck.
19:37And that night, Anya arrives for her vigil.
19:41The final gift gone.
19:43Will you never wake?
19:44Don't cry.
19:45What?
19:46What?
19:47Oh, my darling!
19:49No, not there.
19:50I promise, you see, I'm not on my cheek.
19:55Me!
19:56You promised me!
19:57And with that she kissed him.
19:58And the trollop's spell over him fell away.
19:59And his head cleared.
20:00Such a tender kiss.
20:09Such a tender kiss, such sweetness of cheek.
20:15You promised me and with that she kissed him and the Trollope's spell over him fell away
20:22And his head cleared
20:24Such a tender kiss
20:26Such sweetness of cheek. My true bride, he whispers
20:32My true bride
20:36At the very same moment in the vaults of the castle a strange thing happens very odd
20:45Oh
20:48Come back my goldies
20:52My silknesses
20:54My dye-dyes
21:02Too late they've gone. They're away the lovers home running home together after them get them back hurry
21:09And in her rage the Trollope closes on them nearer and nearer until she must surely catch them
21:22But look she can't believe it look who's here
21:27On his back they clamber and off his speed and pounding the barren lands huge strides impossible speeds over cliff and cabin crevasse and chasm cave and canyon
21:35Helter-skelter
21:36Oh!
21:38They made it!
21:39Yes, they made it
21:41Thank you lion
21:42And inside lock the door catch up their breath
21:48They light a fire and exchange their stories
21:50And in between hugs and all the wild kisses
21:54The lion tosses back his proud mane and pads away leaving the lovers
21:59But not before a final task unseen
22:02What?
22:03Ah!
22:04Well, who have we forgotten?
22:06The Trollope
22:07Where is she?
22:09I don't know
22:10Miles away
22:11Over cliff and cavern
22:12Crevice and chasm
22:13Oh, no, no, no, no
22:15By the time the true bride and her beloved settle down to sleep
22:19She's arrived at the palace
22:22Once inside she sniffs for them
22:25Her nostrils twitching and heaving
22:27Planning her revenge
22:29There her nose tells her
22:32And stealing up she hears their voices clear and unsuspecting behind the door
22:38Ah!
22:42And from that day our lovers lived peacefully
22:48Babies came to bless them and the sun forever shone
22:52And they kept a statue of the lion whom they both called the thought lion
22:56And they told their children he could come alive in an instant if he wanted to
23:00Or if they ever needed him
23:03But the children found that hard to believe
23:26She goes like other groups of men
23:29In the movie
23:30Why can the costume he make?
23:34Gwen?
23:36Howึ
23:37She goes up tree
23:38Maybe they pores
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