Jeanne d'Arc: My name is Joan. I'm 19.
Jeanne d'Arc: I'm sent by God and have no business here. Send me back to God from whom I came.
Bishop Cauchon: You must tell your judge the truth.

Jeanne d'Arc: Beware of calling yourself my judge.
Jeanne d'Arc: I heard it in church. There was light all around. There was always a light. The third time I recognized the voice of an angel. It told me to lift the siege at Orléans. First I was to go to Vaucouleurs. The voice told me what would happen.
Bishop Cauchon: Is it an angel's voice or is it directly from God?

Jeanne d'Arc: It's the voice of St. Catherine and St. Margaret. They wear beautiful crowns.

Bishop Cauchon: How do you know it's those two?

Jeanne d'Arc: They began to guide me seven years ago.
Bishop Cauchon: Which do you love more: your flag or your sword?

Jeanne d'Arc: My flag, 40 times over.

Bishop Cauchon: Who carried the flag?

Jeanne d'Arc: I did, so as to kill no one. I've never killed.
Jeanne d'Arc: I rely on God. The voice is soft and speaks the language of France.
Jeanne d'Arc: My capture must please Our Lord, so it's for the best. How could he mislead me when he comforts me every day?
Jeanne d'Arc: I'd rather give my soul to God than be in English hands.
Bishop Cauchon: Do your saints hate the English?

Jeanne d'Arc: They love what Our Lord loves and hate what he hates.

Bishop Cauchon: Does God hate the English?

Jeanne d'Arc: Whether he loves or hates them I don't know. I only know they'll be driven from France or die here.
Jeanne d'Arc: I place my trust in God and love him with all my heart. He is my judge and king of heaven and earth.
Jeanne d'Arc: I've done no wrong. I believe in the articles of faith and the ten commandments. I trust in the synod and pope and wish to believe what the church believes.
Jeanne d'Arc: In women's clothes, I was beaten and trampled. An English lord tried to rape me three times.
Jeanne d'Arc: I prefer death to shackles.
Jeanne d'Arc: I'd rather die than endure what I'm enduring.
Jeanne d'Arc: I wish to die, yes, but not by burning. My body is pure. It mustn't be reduced to ashes.
Jeanne d'Arc: Pray for me. I forgive the evil done me.
Jeanne d'Arc: My voices were from God. All I did, I did at God's command. My voices did not lie. My visions were from God.

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Jeanne 2022-04-24 07:01:24

Cruelty and Hypocrisy of the Church! I can't understand it a bit, I have to make up for it
Crawford 2022-04-22 07:01:53

With the same theme, Dreyer's treatment is more emotional, expressing Joan of Arc's emotions with a well-rounded environment and a tireless close-up of the face, creating an immersive sacred experience. Bresson's treatment is more rational and narrative. The whole is concise and lively. The questions and answers in the court trial are direct and detailed. The Joan of Arc in Dreyer's lens is so sacred that people "unbearable", while the Joan of Arc in this film is more "daring", showing a confident and independent vanguard temperament, and even Joan of Arc insists on not changing men's clothes have been given some kind of metaphor. The close-up of the small steps to the execution ground, the smoke of the stake and the pigeons are unique, and highly idealized treatment of Joan of Arc's burning at the stake.