Hawaii (1966)

Jocelyne LaGarde: Malama Kanakoa - The Ali'i Nui

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Quotes 

• [reading from a proclamation to her subjects] 

  Queen Malama : First law: In this place, everyone will serve God. Everyone will love Jesus.

• Queen Malama : Too much law make people mad.

• Queen Malama : Aloha nui, my little, adorable, haole sister.

• Queen Malama : [to Jerusha]  I like you here. You stay Lahaina. She teach me write.

  Abner Hale : Ali'i nui, I'm not assigned to your island. My Mission is in Honolulu.

  Queen Malama : Where you go, I not care. *Her* stay here.

  Abner Hale : But, Mrs. Hale is my wife!

  Queen Malama : She your wife?

  Abner Hale : Yes.

  Queen Malama : I let you stay too.

• Queen Malama : Tell me, this god, how he look?

  Abner Hale : God is a spirit... He cannot be seen with the eyes. He is seen only in the heart of those that have found a state of grace.

  Queen Malama : In one month time, I find grace!

  Abner Hale : No, it cannot be done that way. To be saved, you must first confess that you are *evil*, corrupt and sinful.

  Queen Malama : I evil, corrupt, sinful. What is sinful? What it mean?

  Abner Hale : It means *bad*.

  Queen Malama : I bad? No! They're bad, not me. I am Ali'i nui. I cannot be bad.

• Abner Hale : If you don't give him up, he will *burn* throughout all eternity - in the blazing fires of everlasting hell.

  Queen Malama : How hot - dis hell?

  Abner Hale : Hotter than the fires of a thousand volcanos. It burns incessantly. It's pain is horrible, beyond imagining.

• Abner Hale : You have the sin of pride, Ali'i nui. To find grace, you must become humble.

  Queen Malama : Humble?

  Abner Hale : Humble...

  Queen Malama : Are you - humble? I think maybe you proud too.

• Queen Malama : Next law: no more will girls go to the ships. Next law: when the sun goes down, beneath the water, the sailors will go back to the ships. Next law: no more will the grog shops sell the rum to my people. Next law: There will be no more sleeping together in mischief, without getting married.

• Queen Malama : I think Missionary like stop everybody have fun.

• Queen Malama : [to Rev. Hale]  Kelolo has some something to say to you... Make you *very* happy.

  Kelolo : I evil! I corrupt. I sinful.