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Queen Christina Quotes (1933)
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Famous Queen Christina Quotations
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Arguably Greta Garbo's best MGM movie--depending how you feel about Camille and Ninotchka--this tale of the 17th-century Swedish monarch who preferred men's togs to gowns plays the most provocative games with the great star's ambisexual personality. At her request, Rouben Mamoulian directed (all three Garbo's-best-movie candidates were done by the best directors she worked with: Mamoulian, George Cukor, and Ernst Lubitsch). Two sequences are legendary: Christina memorizing the room at a snowbound inn where she has first experienced love; and the long, concluding closeup of a queen become ship's-figurehead--as blank as a tabula rasa, and filled with all the meaning and emotion seven decades of audiences have chosen to see there. Those scenes are anthology pieces, but unlike most Garbo pictures, the whole movie is intelligently scripted and sustained. With Lewis Stone, C. Aubrey Smith, and John Gilbert--Garbo's premier silent-era costar--making a tentative comeback as her love interest. --Richard T. Jameson
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- Antonio: I am your destiny Christina.
Queen Christina: Are you? I long to escape my destiny.
Antonio: You will long to return to it. »
- Antonio: It's all a question of climate. You cannot serenade a woman in a snowstorm. All the graces in the art of love - elaborate approches that will make the game amusing - can only be practiced in those countries that quiver in the heat of the sun. »
- Queen Christina: I have been memorizing this room. In the future, in my memory, I shall live a great deal in this room. »
- Queen Christina: Must we live for the dead?
Oxenstierna: For the great dead, yes, Your Majesty. »
- Queen Christina: They are baseless.
Queen Christina: I have no intention to, Chancellor. I shall die a bachelor! »
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