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SkyFall M Poem Scene

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    Chairman, Ministers.
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    Today I've
    repeatedly heard how
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    irrelevant my
    department has become.
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    Why do we need agents?
    The Double-O section?
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    Isn't it all rather quaint?
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    Well, I suppose I
    see a different world
    than you do.
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    And the truth is that
    what I see frightens me.
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    I'm frightened
    because our enemies
    are no longer known to us.
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    They do not exist on a map.
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    They're not nations.
    They are individuals.
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    Look around you.
    Who do you fear?
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    Can you see a face?
    A uniform? A flag? No.
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    Our world is not
    more transparent now.
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    It's more opaque.
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    It's in the shadows.
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    That's where we
    must do battle.
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    So, before you
    declare us irrelevant,
    ask yourselves,
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    how safe do you feel?
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    I've just one
    more thing to say.
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    My late husband
    was a great lover
    of poetry.
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    And, um. . .
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    I suppose some of it sunk in,
    despite my best intentions.
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    And here today
    I remember this,
    I think from Tennyson:
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    "We are not now
    that strength,
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    "which in old days
    Moved earth and heaven;
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    "That which we are, we are;
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    "One equal temper
    of heroic hearts,
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    "Made weak by time
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    "and fate,
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    "but strong in will
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    "To strive, to seek,
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    "to find
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    "and not to yield."
Title:
SkyFall M Poem Scene
Description:

M quotes Tennyson in 'Skyfall'
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Video Language:
English, British
Team:
Film & TV
Duration:
02:21

English, British subtitles

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