What do you want, Dido? What precisely are you looking for? I have enabled every rule of...
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Lord Mansfield:
What do you want, Dido? What precisely are you looking for? I have enabled every rule of convention so that you would know exactly where you belong. And yet, little appears enough for you.
Dido Elizabeth Belle:
And what if there were not a rule, Papa? What if the rule that allowed you to take me did not exist? Would you have returned me to the slums? You *are* courageous. When it comes to the matters you believe in, society is inconsequential. You break every rule when it matters enough, Papa. I am the evidence.
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What do you want Dido
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What precisely are you looking for
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I have enabled every rule of convention
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so that you would know exactly where you belong
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and yet little appears enough for you
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And what if there were not a rule Papa
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What if the rule that allowed you to take me did not exist
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Would you have returned me to the slums
Clip duration: 34 seconds
Views: 204
Timestamp in movie: 01h 25m 03s
Uploaded: 24 March, 2022
Genres: biography, drama, romance
Summary: The mixed-race daughter, Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), of Royal Navy Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) is raised by aristocratic Great-uncle Lord William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) in eighteenth ce
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00:09 With due respect
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00:07 I never broke the rules
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