Dialogue between Faust and Mephisto

Taken from Jan Švankmajer's Faust (1994).

[@khakimzhanmiras]

me and chatgpt

[@TheJohnCooperShow]

LOL

[@mauzcake]

😭

[@azaraelhyzer3874]

"Man can grab those thoughts that language can express". What a line meph.

[@loitninabel8962]

Scene 5: The dressing room Mephistopheles: Do I intrude upon thy rest? Or would you care to talk? Faust: What I’ve learned through your instruction re-asserts again that big and small are only the two sides to the one coin; and that the elephant-for all his mighty strength- is no different, basically, to the tiny flea. So still I seek the force, the reason, governing life’s flow, and not just its external show. Mephistopheles: The governing force? The reason? Some things can’t be known; they are beyond your reach even when shown. Faust: Why should that be so? Mephistopheles: They lie outside the boundaries that words can address; and man can only grasp those thoughts which language can express. Faust: What? Do you mean that words are greater yet than man? Mephistopheles: Indeed they are. Faust: Then what of longing or affection; pain or grief? I can’t describe these, yet I know they’re in my breast! What are they? Mephistopheles: Without substance, as mist is. Faust: In that case, man is only air as well! Er… [Pauses to look at script] What has made me thirst, then, To be instructed in those things that are more than speech allows? Mephistopheles: Your thirst is artificial, fostered by the arrogance in you; so look no further than all your human brothers do: sleep, eat, drink, and let that be sufficient. Faust: Liar and foul traitor! Where are the pulse and core of nature you promised to reveal? Where? Mephistopheles: Faustus, you lack the wit to see them in every blade of grass. Faust: Vile phantom! Lying fiend! Mephistopheles: Faustus-worm! Dare you rain curses down on me? Now, spite and venom deeper than the sea I’ll vent on you. Faust: I’m learning the Devil knows no more than we poor fools. Mephistopheles: The man who gives his soul to Satan for instruction- I would agree with you: he is a poor fool. Faust: As a guide to higher truths, I really cannot recommend you. And yet, says my contract, signed in blood, you still remain constrained to serve me! Serve me, then. I will make use of your deceptive guile and your Satanic anger. Mephistopheles: Both will I put at your disposal.

[@hefipaleburp9543]

Grab some beer. Kick back relax and talk to Mephisto.

[@michaelcolello2735]

The best beer available, no less.

[@HeatherWatson006]

Heresy

[@brightbite]

In that case your beer will turn sour and your blood will run so cold that you will never fully relax again... nor become drunk ever again.. because the stark brutal reality will sober you for life. Such are the displeasures of sin.

[@BillJones-fn8pt]

😂😂😂 you Christians missed the point of This story

[@JohnBender1313]

No idea how I stumbled across this. I'm not a fan of old literature. Or even reading for the lost part. But I understand this all. And it's deep. And the line at 2:27. Nailed it. Two minutes in to something old and I barely know and I cheered for man facing the devil within.

[@peacefulguy4145]

"The man who gives his soul to Satan for instruction, I would agree with you he is a poor fool"

[@varunshenoy5783]

Never get tired of watching this conversation..

[@ezrastardust3124]

I love this scene so much, especially Mephisto’s cynicism and Faust’s frustration The dialogue is extremely clever and the interactions between these two feels so genuine; there’s a sense of dry wit on top of the philosophical discussions that gives a hint of realism to them both And on a more informal note, I could listen to Mephisto’s voice for hours There’s something both eerie and strangely relaxing about it I’d let him sway me and control me any day 💕

[@alanrunner6397]

Careful of what u wish for, u might just get it

[@garrettdelagrave2632]

And so he probably does.

[@69Jackjones69]

😐 ✝️ 👁️🔥👁️ 💖 🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@stmeainus1922]

the pentagram in this movie reminds me of the twister bordgame

[@JosephSmith-ef7ct]

Mutual disdain between them, is what I see.

[@Eyeballman24]

I don't know why, but I love this.

[@pheonixoutthe2278]

8 love this dialogue.. meph answers faustus q's.. but Faust is a SmartDumb cat

[@franciscoramadhan9156]

Faust knows all outcome

[@Pukeprincess]

Thanks for the information claymation man!

[@robynhighart2026]

This actor died 3 days before the film was released.

[@danielgutierrez702]

Of what?

[@domainofthesun4400]

@@danielgutierrez702 Cancer - I believe it was pancreatic and lung cancer - he suffered terribly. He was already feeling ill during filming.

[@arnoldrivas4590]

The actor for Faust or Mephisto?

[@lilmissrockchick4962]

Petr Cepeck ( sorry If I spelt it wrong)

[@grill6411]

@@danielgutierrez702 he sold his soul

[@speedos]

This is one of the few czech films where, somehow, the english dub is better than the original.

[@crashandersen602]

My grandmother would have loved this. In the 70's, she was looking for a cure for cancer and bought a bunch of Wiccan items, one of them was a ring with a pentagram in the center. I wanted it, but when she passed away no one told me where it was.

[@jackolantern3257]

For that God has blessed you.

[@abithefallenhuman921]

@@jackolantern3257 mate, pentagram *wards off* evil. It's the inverted-pentagram that attracts evil.

[@TheFaustianAlchemist]

@@abithefallenhuman921 both wrong, a pentacle/pentagram is used in ritual to represent your connection(spirit) to the 4 elements(Earth, Air, Fire, and Water)

[@abithefallenhuman921]

@@TheFaustianAlchemist don't know where you heard that from, but your only half right, the pentagram is any symbol that protects against evil, the *Five* (penta) pointed star being the most common, however it does mean other things on top of that. (Spiritual connections being second to its use as a ward.) For instance, in 300 BCE Judaism, it represented Justice, Mercy, and Wisdom.

[@TheFaustianAlchemist]

@@abithefallenhuman921 I'm a witch, I'm saying what it represents in ritual, nothing else

[@MrTekillaDrunk]

Always scare me,even after these centuries...

[@7ajhubbell]

Thank you.

[@azanyahyisrael101]

Oldly Faust is very human....

[@tod4y]

Poslední role velkýho herce...

[@njaflexu395]

Nechť je mu zem lehká. Byl to skvělý herec a věřím, že i úžasný člověk.

[@ishheredia9626]

Agalloch sent me here

[@MrBeaner97]

please can you tell me where I can find the english audio track? I have the the subtitles but have yet to find anywhere I can get this marvel in english

[@HrodnandB]

I downloaded it from a torrent site, can't remember which one it was though, it was ages ago. Maybe try to check it there?

[@pingunooty]

The dvd released By kino has the english audio track. It's out of print though.

[@MrBeaner97]

Yeah I've tried them all, they must have took it down in favor of the Czech version. Do you think you could upload it somewhere for download or send it to me if you still have the English dub?

[@HrodnandB]

PM your email, i'll send it through Wetransfer

[@SwampyWilkinson]

@@HrodnandB I'm not sure if you're active on this channel anymore, but I'd love to have the English dub if you still have it!

[@19tc85]

Agalloch!!!

[@luizguilhermemoreirasales1548]

Faust in France ?

[@linaapplepie7077]

Can I have a link to watch the full version please.....

[@robertdavis5569]

Jan Svankmajer's Faust

[@paleposter]

it is on youtube

[@vanessac1965]

I'm still looking for the original Czech version with English subtitles if anyone can help

[@TheZalor]

Are you talking about finding a copy of the actual movie? Or the scene on KZbin? I don't think they have the Czech version of this scene uploaded on KZbin.

[@limeslemons5282]

i gotchu easterneuropeanmovies.com/comedy/lesson-faust (not the whole movie though...) www.ebay.com/itm/Faust-Lekce-Faust-1994-Czech-Jan-Svankmajer-English-spoken-subtitles-OOP-dvd-/273532195022 i think amazon might also have the DVD, aside from that, just use google and then check out some torrent sites and probably just look for Jan Svankmajer's films and shorts and see what you can find. Post results if you find it, good luck. also awesome movie and amazing director, check out his short films, too.

[@Darkpaint84]

Which version is this from? I’ve tried finding it for years in both Goethe and Marlowe but can’t find anything

[@matejmoravek4580]

It's Švankmajer's original rendition but it's much more similar to Marlowe than to Goethe.

[@Darkpaint84]

@@matejmoravek4580 Wow! Its such a good exchange, the back and forth between Faust and Mephisto! Kudos to master Švankmajer!

[@colehamilton5917]

So this dialouge doesn't come from a pre-existing version of Faust?

[@pchabanowich]

💐

[@zuzanasemkova2809]

Sad to watch when l know that the actor was terminally ill and had died not long time after this film was completed.

[@ZadenZane]

Is that Ollie Reed? Playing the devilish hallucination?

[@huntermosely7420]

No

[@creatorsgallery2576]

It's Mephistopheles

[@cryptoSabbateanFrankistJacobin]

Weaving Spiders Come Not Here !

[@davinderrattan4211]

Name of movie

[@TheZalor]

Its called Faust and was made in 1994 by Jan Svankmajer. Its a rare film, but totally worth watching if you can get access to a copy.

[@sexytyper88]

Faust / book 1808 By Goethe

[@suicidalcoffee4399]

I got mephisto as a pet in diablo 3 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kejdideliu8763]

Hey guys where can i found the text of this dialog ??? Because i need for a project 🙏🏻

[@sexytyper88]

The book

[@rahda80]

What is name of movie

[@MrBell-iq3sm]

Jan Švankmajer's Faust (1994)

[@rahda80]

Thank you

[@wolfgangtrubshaw5549]

HINWEGGEFEGT: Your (Albiontic) infinitely insane (and silly) "concept" of *missophy* and Mephisto as its "bringer" / "Inventor" …

[@andrzej1501]

01:00 he a little bit looks like Jeremy Clarkson talks to Mr Bean xD

[@michaelcolello2735]

Dear academy: 2:41

[@JutinSux]

Everytime I get high and wax philisophical

[@thepotatoincident3593]

better than shakespeare

[@liammccbyrne4184]

Shakespeare is overrated but i suppose for the time he was slightly above average.

[@HeatherWatson006]

Definite heresy here.

[@notme5249]

New is not new isn't? Old metod fill the gaps...

[@tiino_6725]

If this was real life, he probably took psycedlic mushrooms and looked at himself in the mirror and seen himself as the devil. Psycedilics does bring creativity and knowledge and realizations.

[@joshlbiomechanic]

It is real life (kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKLdoZuwlrR0gJI) there are more of these confessions out there.

[@nikitasichov5390]

Psychedelic mushrooms solve everything it seems, I'm sure Goethe was absolutely tweaking on them when he wrote this

[@TheFaustianAlchemist]

@@joshlbiomechanic the person in that video is an idiot but, yes psychedelics can do things

[@joshlbiomechanic]

@@TheFaustianAlchemist ha i agree with your measure of intelligence but you refrain from the data presented. true psychedelics do things, have any other wisdom to pander?

[@TheFaustianAlchemist]

@@joshlbiomechanic I know about that but, it is difficult to talk about with the audience this type of movie attracts

[@giselediniz]

Zeca pagodinho guerreiro e george? Ou mais sei la o que.... Placido domingo e o Leonardo. Ninguem merece. Sai da minha vida .. voce também é o joel. Quero te xingar como voce xingou e finalmente voces mandaram o cod do celular que eu comprei e que voce nao quis que eu tivesse

[@BradPitbull]

Pretty much bill and Hillary Clinton before breakfast in the white house 🏠 🤔 🙄 😉