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A curious prince is fooled into freeing one such heartless giant from the king's dungeon.On the whole, giants are benign creatures, harmless to none, unless ....
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00:00When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories,
00:16foretold the future with stories, the best place by the fire was kept for the storyteller.
00:30On the whole, there's absolutely no need to be frightened of giants.
00:45Giants are gentle, perfectly harmless, very affectionate.
00:51Unless, of course, the giant has no heart in its body.
01:00Think of all kinds of unpleasant things and add giant to them.
01:12And that's what you get when a giant has no heart.
01:16Such a giant once terrorized a country in the far north of the world, near the very top.
01:21He'd hidden his heart. It gave him too much trouble, all those giant feelings.
01:27In its face was a wasp's nest about to swarm.
01:32This giant could crack a skull with his fist like a walnut, and frequently did.
01:37Until at last, the old king of that country, as good as the giant was bad,
01:43trapped him in a giant trap, and locked him in a giant cell.
01:49Good. Very good.
01:52And there he stayed for many a year, and all would have been well but for a small problem.
01:58A small problem called Leo, youngest of the king's three sons.
02:05He is so curious.
02:07Now there's a dark place he's forbidden to visit.
02:16His brothers tell him a giant lives there with no heart.
02:20But he doesn't believe it.
02:22I don't believe it!
02:25Hello?
02:27Hello down there!
02:34Who's that?
02:35Are you a giant?
02:42Rattle once if you're a giant, and twice if you're not.
02:48Do you have a heart then? Once for yes and twice for no.
02:55A giant with no heart in his body.
02:57The little prince runs off, his imagination ablaze is so excited.
03:06There's a giant with no heart living in the castle.
03:09Next morning he's up at the crack, and running past his mother.
03:13Leo, where are you off to?
03:15Nowhere.
03:16Can you hear me?
03:25Yes.
03:27Why are you down there?
03:28Because, long ago, I did some bad things.
03:35This is my punishment.
03:39Oh.
03:40I've been here for years and years, unless I'm let out soon, I will surely die.
03:49Oh, don't worry. I'll go and tell my father.
03:51No.
03:52Don't tell anybody.
03:54Please.
03:55Would you like to be my friend?
03:59Yes, please.
04:03Good.
04:06Good.
04:10He's bad, that giant.
04:12Oh, yes.
04:13Day after day, the little prince comes visiting.
04:16He wants to tell the whole world about his friend.
04:19But he can't.
04:21So he mustn't.
04:23So he won't.
04:23And in the dark, dank black of the dungeon, the heartless giant plots and plans.
04:33The keys to my locks.
04:35Do you know where they're kept?
04:38I don't know.
04:40Long ago, a guard said the king kept the keys to buy his bed.
04:47Oh, those keys.
04:49They're huge.
04:50They're massive.
04:50I thought they must be for the crown jewels.
04:53Oh, no.
04:55They're for me.
04:56They're for my misery.
05:01Do you know something?
05:02I think if I got those old keys and let you out, nobody would even realize.
05:07No.
05:09That's not right.
05:11This is my punishment.
05:13I deserve it.
05:16It's not fair that you're chained down there.
05:19I bet that chain hurts your legs.
05:21Only sometimes.
05:23Only sometimes.
05:26I don't care what you say.
05:28Then you'll go and get those keys.
05:31And so, that very night, Leo crept into the room where the king and queen were sleeping.
05:38It's me.
05:51It's me.
05:52I've got the keys.
05:57Who goes there?
05:59Hurry.
06:00Hurry.
06:01It's me.
06:01It can't be.
06:03Push them.
06:04I'm trying.
06:11Don't forget to let me have them back.
06:14What's happening?
06:16What's happening?
06:20It's happening.
06:22Oh, no.
06:23Oh, no.
06:24Oh, no.
06:25Oh, no.
06:26Oh, no.
06:27Oh, no.
06:28Oh, no.
06:29Oh, no.
06:30Oh, no.
06:31Oh.
06:32Oh, no.
06:34Oh, no.
06:49Oh, no.
06:51The giant, my lord, needs to escape.
06:53Carla, what's happening?
06:55The giant has escaped.
06:59Leo, go back to your room. It's not safe.
07:01How could he escape after all this time?
07:03He has the keys, my lord.
07:05Then someone helped him.
07:07Someone betrayed us.
07:09A madman.
07:11Only a madman will help a giant with no heart.
07:15It's starting again.
07:19Leo, I said get back to your room.
07:27Poor boy.
07:29That's right.
07:31Someone betrayed us.
07:33Only a madman would help a giant with no heart.
07:35The boy's face swam with tears.
07:39So let down, he felt.
07:41So stupid.
07:43And from that moment, the boy in him.
07:47The innocent heart.
07:49The joy in him.
07:51They were gone.
07:53Like his friend.
07:55And they would never return.
07:57Brother.
08:03Where are you going?
08:05Going to get back the giant.
08:07Now wish me luck and get back to bed.
08:09Good luck.
08:11I'm sorry.
08:13But his brother didn't hear.
08:15But his brother didn't hear.
08:17He'd gone to find the giant.
08:19And he didn't come back.
08:23Brother.
08:25Where are you going?
08:27To find our brother and to kill the giant.
08:29But he'll trick you.
08:31Wish me luck.
08:33Terrible.
08:35Terrible.
08:36Our boy felt as his brother rode off.
08:38Terrible.
08:39And this brother didn't come back either.
08:45Mother.
08:47Your father says he intends to go off to fight the giant.
08:51He can't. He mustn't.
08:53I've lost two sons already.
08:55He's too old.
08:56He's too ill.
08:57Don't cry.
08:59Leo.
09:01Promise me.
09:02Promise me you won't ever go.
09:05But he can't promise.
09:06How can he?
09:07Were it not for him, the heartless giant would still be chained and locked and safe in the dungeon.
09:14No.
09:15He did the damage.
09:16He must repair it.
09:18So off madness.
09:20Off folly.
09:21Off for goodness sake to find the giant and put an end to his cruelty.
09:29And so the young Prince Leo rides the land in search of his once friend, the heartless giant.
09:37Three winters come and go their bitter shiver.
09:41Until one day he comes to a place and knows he's in the giant's cruel footsteps.
09:48Help me, cries a trampled bird.
09:50The giant broke me and now I cannot fly, cannot eat.
09:54Help me.
09:56And Leo tended the bird, fixed its wing, fed it bread, soaked in milk, and soon all was well with it.
10:04Thank you, cried the bird.
10:06If you need me, I shan't forget.
10:09Not long after, he stops at a stream and he hears a flapping, hears a thrashing, hears a slapping.
10:19Help me, cries the choking fish.
10:22Help me back into the water.
10:24I'm stuck here.
10:25I'm stranded.
10:26I'm beached up and landed.
10:28Now Leo's famished and he loves a fish.
10:31But he's suffered sufficient, this fellow.
10:34Back he goes to where the salmon is king.
10:38Thank you, cries the fish.
10:42I'd have scoffed him if he was so hungry.
10:45I like fish.
10:47Would you?
10:48Would you?
10:49Well, listen.
10:51He goes on a little further and now his horse gives up the ghost.
10:56His old horse who's carried the prince a thousand miles and more sinks slowly to his knees and rolls over on his side and dies.
11:06So, did the prince eat his horse?
11:10No, he didn't.
11:11He couldn't.
11:14He lay down beside it, famished and forlorn.
11:18He shuts his eyes, squeezing back tears, drifting into dreams.
11:24Ah, it's his mother nursing him, licking up his wet cheeks, hugging him.
11:36Don't move.
11:37Terrible teeth glistening.
11:42I've not eaten since the winter came.
11:45Help me.
11:46Let me eat your horse.
11:47I'll eat it and be strong again.
11:50Trust me.
11:51But how can Leo trust anyone?
11:53He's trusted before and been betrayed.
11:56That's right.
11:57That's right.
11:58Let the wolf starve.
11:59Please.
12:01Please.
12:02Or I must surely die.
12:05No, don't do it.
12:07Eat your fill.
12:09And if you must, then afterwards, eat me.
12:15And the wolf eats the horse and sucks the bones until there's not a scrap left save the reins.
12:22Master, come here.
12:24Oh, no.
12:26Am I to go now?
12:28Yes, us both.
12:30I'll help you.
12:32On my back, sir.
12:34Let's leave this place.
12:35And he does, and they do, and they go a gray dash, a day and a night and a morning, until they come at last to a garden full with statues.
12:50Stone men, stone women, stone soldiers.
12:57This is my brother.
12:59This is the giant's work.
13:02There is his house.
13:04All who approach, he turns to stone.
13:08Oh, no, look.
13:09You, too.
13:11It's so cold.
13:15The giant was my friend.
13:16He really was.
13:17He's no one's friend.
13:19He has no heart in his body.
13:21Then I must find his heart.
13:35Where did you get that drum?
13:39It's mine.
13:40It's me, Leo.
13:44Prince Leo.
13:47Yes, it is you.
13:50I can see now.
13:52Well, are you the same as your brothers?
13:57Come to challenge me.
13:59No, I come in guilt.
14:02Either you will take me in, or I must go into exile.
14:06Guilty?
14:07About what?
14:09That you set me free?
14:12You were a child.
14:15I had to fool you to get the keys.
14:19Otherwise, I'd still be there.
14:22Rotting.
14:24But stay if you like.
14:26No tricks, though.
14:29No traps.
14:31Else, you'll end up the same as your brothers.
14:37No tricks, no traps, agreed the boy and went inside.
14:42He's a servant now for the Heartless Giant.
14:45For weeks he cleans, for weeks he scours.
14:49Until Spick where Speck was, and Spam where Squalor.
14:52Each evening the Giant returns from his wild outings to find the fire lit, the hearth swept, and his trousers pressed.
15:02He likes this.
15:04Very nice.
15:06Very nice.
15:09I should have had a servant before.
15:12And I don't treat you bad, do I? For a heartless giant.
15:20So what happened to your heart?
15:23It's in safe keeping. Can't feel without it, can I? Can't get hurt. Can't die from the breaking of it.
15:33Clever.
15:35So where is it then?
15:38He who pries is prone to die.
15:44Do you follow me?
15:47Follow me.
15:50Yes.
15:52But, I'll tell you if you want to know.
15:57My heart's in that cupboard.
16:02In the cupboard?
16:04His own heart pounds.
16:06And he can hardly wait until the morning.
16:14But no heart.
16:16Oh no.
16:18The heart's not there at all.
16:19I'm back.
16:30Evening sir.
16:34What's that smell?
16:37Polish.
16:39What are you polishing that old cupboard for?
16:43It's the home of your heart. It should be polished.
16:46Did you really think I kept my heart in a cupboard?
16:53What a dimble!
16:56It's not there then?
16:58Of course it's not.
17:01I see.
17:06It's under the step.
17:07So the next morning off stomps the giant and out goes our boy digging out the steps.
17:16Stone.
17:17Dust.
17:19Roots.
17:21But no heart.
17:25I'm back!
17:26What's that?
17:32Oh you must have trodden on the step. I painted it.
17:36What a dapple box!
17:39You thought my heart was under the step!
17:45Have these off then.
17:48Sir?
17:49The fact is, no one can find my heart.
17:55I'll tell you exactly where it is and you'll still not be able to find it.
18:03Far away.
18:05So far you cannot fathom it.
18:08So high you cannot climb it.
18:10You cannot climb it.
18:12It's a mountain.
18:14And in the mountain is a lake.
18:16And in the lake is an island.
18:17In the island is a church.
18:19In the church is a well.
18:20In the well is a duck.
18:22In the duck is an egg.
18:24And in the egg is my heart.
18:27I see.
18:29No!
18:30Not so easy little thief, eh?
18:34Not such a diddle and a dawdle as you thought.
18:38No!
18:39Your father tricked me once.
18:41And I shan't be tricked again!
18:45An egg in a duck in a well in a church in an island in a lake in a mountain?
18:51Impossible!
18:53But that night Leo steals away and calls for his friend the wolf.
18:59Up he gets and tight he holds and off they go.
19:02Headlong a breathless blur of world flashing by.
19:06And they're at the mountain clambering, scrambling.
19:09And then there's the lake.
19:12And there's the church.
19:16But the church is locked and the door will not budge.
19:21Look! said the wolf.
19:23And there, impossibly high, dangled the key.
19:26We'll never reach it.
19:27Thank you, my friend!
19:29And in they go, into the church where they find the well.
19:33And sure enough, in the well swims a duck.
19:35Come on, come on!
19:36Oh no!
19:37Now what?
19:38What's that?
19:39What's that?
19:40It's the fish!
19:41It's my fish!
19:42Catch it!
19:43I've got it!
19:44I've got the giant's heart!
19:45Thank you, my friend!
19:46Thank you!
19:47Thank you!
19:48I've got it!
19:49Thank you, my friend!
19:50Thank you!
19:51I've got it!
19:52I've got it!
19:53Where have you been?
19:54I've got it!
19:55I've got the giant's heart!
19:56Thank you, my friend!
19:57Thank you!
19:58I've got it!
19:59Where have you been?!
20:00I've got you been?!
20:02I've got a good mind to crack your ears!
20:05I've got you there with your brothers!
20:07I've got it!
20:09I've got you to-
20:11What's that?
20:13It's the fish!
20:14It's my fish!
20:17Catch it!
20:18I've got it!
20:20I've got the giant's heart!
20:21Thank you, my friend!
20:22Thank you!
20:23I've got it!
20:24your ears. Have a good mind to set you there with your brothers. Stop that. Years ago, sir, you broke
20:36my heart. Now I shall break yours. No, be careful. Please, don't break that. I will. I will break it.
20:45I will squeeze it and squeeze it to bits unless you release my brothers and all these poor people.
20:51Yes. I'll do anything you ask. Look, I'm doing it. Now. Brother, you've rescued us. He's the Lord,
21:11our little brother. Pray the Lord. Now, quick, smash the egg. I'm going to give it back.
21:16Don't be stupid. I've done as you bid. Can I have my heart? You can, sir, as I promised,
21:24for I know that with your heart and place could not be as you are now. No. Now. For years,
21:31I've stood here helpless and watched your cruelty. The folk he's beaten, the vile murders. Please,
21:36don't. Please, don't. Please, don't. Like with like. Spite with spite. Don't, I promise. Don't.
21:46All the pain you've caused, I now repay. You promised.
22:03And where the giant fell, a hill grew. And in time, and when much was long forgot, the place was still
22:33known as the hill of the heartless giant. But he would have changed that giant. He would have
22:44reformed with his heart back. Yes, I know. Cruel. Do you know, Prince Leo lived to be a great age,
22:54became king, had 42 grandchildren, and he told them all that tale. But in his story,
23:01the giant got back his heart and made amends for all his wrongs. Because, you see, despite all that took
23:09place, a little boy once met a giant, and they became friends.
23:16in his story.
23:23in his strateoning
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