# Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (film)

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a 2010 film based on a video game published by Ubisoft. It details the adventures of a rogue prince joining forces with a mysterious princess to race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time, that can reverse time and allow the possessor to rule the world.
    Directed by Mike Newell. Written by Boaz Yakin, Carlo Bernard, and Doug Miro.

## Dastan

* [confronting Nizam] It will never be you. You will never be king. You don't have the heart. You will die in the shadow of a great man.
* [to himself, regarding Tamina] Give me the strength not to kill her.

## Tamina

* [to Dastan] Protect the dagger, no matter the consequences. That was my sacred calling, that was my destiny.

## Dialogue

    Tamina: So I'm being escorted by Prince Dastan, the Lion of Persia. Must feel wonderful winning such a claim for destroying such an innocent city.
    Dastan: Oh, a pleasure to meet you too, princess. And allow me to offer, that if punishing the enemies of my king's a crime, then it's one I'll gladly repeat.
    Tamina: Then you are a true prince of Persia. Brutal. Without honor.
    Dastan: Don't make the mistake of thinking you know me, princess. (speaking to a soldier outside the entrance to the banquet hall) Stay here with her highness. (to Tamina) If you can manage it, I suggest a hint of humility before you're presented to the king. For your own good.
    (Tamina glares)
    Tamina: You know you really walk like one, head held high, chest out, long stomping strides. The walk of a self-satisfied Persian prince. No doubt it's comes from being told since birth the world was yours, and actually believing it.
    Dastan: I wasn't born in a palace like you! I was born in the slums of Nasaf where I lived if I fought and I clawed for it.
    Tamina: [confused] Then how did you become a prince?
    Dastan: I don't know, the King... (pause)... marched in the market one day and he... I don't know he... he found me. He took me in, he gave me a family, he gave me home. What you're looking, at, is the walk of a man who just lost everything.
    Tamina: [sarcastic] Such a noble prince!
    Dastan: [also sarcastic] Such a gentle princess!
    Tamina: How taken you were with my fainting act, eagerly leaping to assist the fallen beauty...!
    Dastan: [scoffs] Who said you were a beauty?!
    Tamina: There must be a reason why you can't take your eyes off me.
    Sheik Amar: [to Dastan] As for you, young man, do you know that your brother's offered a reward for you that frankly, between you and me, borders on the obscene? I'd trade in my own mother for that kind of gold! [Seso looks at him askance] What?! You didn't know what she was like.
    Dastan: You really enjoy telling me what to do, don't you?
    Tamina: Only because you are so good at following orders.
    Dastan: Don't press your luck.
    Dastan: If we don't stop him, our world could end.
    Tus: If you're going to kill me, best you do it now.
    Dastan: (taking out the Dagger) This is no ordinary dagger. You press the jewel on its hilt and you will see.
    (pause)
    Dastan: I should've had the strength to do this before we invaded this city...
    Tus: [confused] What are you talking about?
    Dastan: To act on what I know is right, (quoting King Sharaman) 'no matter the consequences'.
    (stabs himself in the chest)
    Nizam: Then God have mercy on the traitor, for he chose the path of the coward.
    Tus: [angrily] We both know Dastan was many things, but not a coward!
    Tus: A moment ago, you died before my eyes.
    Dastan: (breathless about the dagger) Oh, you pressed it.
    Tus: How did you know I would press it?
    Dastan: Because we are brothers.
    (last lines after time has reversed)
    Tamina: How can I trust the man who breached the walls of my city?
    Dastan: Well, I'm starting to think I'm no longer the same man who breached those walls.
    Tamina: That's a short time for a man to change so much.
    Dastan: Perhaps.
    Tamina: It sounds as if you've discovered something here.
    Dastan: And what might that be?
    Tamina: A new spiritual awareness.
    Dastan: Destiny.
    Tamina: Yes, exactly.
    Dastan: Well, I believe we make our own destiny, Princess.
    Tamina: You have an unfortunate lack of curiosity.
    Dastan: No doubt one of my many flaws.
    Tamina: Please don't mock me, Prince.
    Dastan: Oh, I hardly think we know each other well enough for that, Princess, but I look forward to the day that we do.
    Dastan: Tus didn't kill my father. It was Nizam.
    Tamina: Your uncle?
    Dastan: His hands were burned. He said it happened trying to pull off the cloak that killed my father...I've gone over and over it in my mind..he never touched the cloak. He must have handled it before.

## Cast

* Jake Gyllenhaal - Dastan
* Gemma Arterton - Tamina
* Ben Kingsley - Nizam
* Alfred Molina - Sheik Amar
* Steve Toussaint - Seso
* Toby Kebbell - Garsiv
* Richard Coyle - Tus
* Ronald Pickup - King Sharaman

## External links

* Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (film) quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* The official Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time site