Deathsport (1978) Movie Script

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A thousand
years from tomorrow,
after the Great Neutron Wars,
the world
consists of desert wastes
and isolated city states.
A few machines remain as
a reminder of the past,
but only the city-dwelling
Statemen use them.
Between the cities roam the
dreaded cannibal mutants
and the Range Guides.
Guides are legendary warriors
leading an independent
nomadic life, owing
allegiance only to their code.
Do not go to him.
Wait for him to come to you.
Like sand in the wind.
Keep moving.
Flush him, do not charge him.
You'll have no chance
against him then.
I want him alive.
Statemen.
Machines advance and take him.
We've achieved our goal today,
my lord.
We've captured four Range Guides
and in the combat lost
only two Death Machines.
Only two.
You think that's an
accomplishment?
If they destroy the
Death Machines
in the the Death Sport,
it could be catastrophic.
Can't you understand?
People must be made to believe
that riding a Death
Machine will make them
as powerful as a Guide.
We must build that confidence.
It is crucial to the war effort.
I cannot say that no
machine will be lost
in the Death Sport, my lord.
But I can absolutely
guarantee that
not one Guide will survive.
Your life is your
guarantee to me, Ankar Moor.
Never forget that.
Now, I must have at least
one more Guide.
Female, to fight in
the Death Squad.
That will be an extra thrill.
Perhaps you can manage
to capture a female.
Guide without losing
any more Death Machines?
The most powerful Guide of
all was a female, my lord,
defeated by Ankar Moor.
Keep moving.
Tara,
stay close to me.
Do you recognize them?
No, but they
might be mutants.
Are they mutants?
Get back
to your people.
Well, shouldn't we try
to outrun them?
I said get back
to your people!
They're on the fly,
just ahead.
It's mutants, alright.
We better make a run for
it before it's too late.
People, dismount.
Form a circle.
Off your horses.
Immediately, dismount.
Everybody, off your horses.
Tara, stay with the
Statemen 'til I come for you.
Do you hear me?
I won't stay.
I wanna go.
No, ya!
The first three are mine.
Be powerful, Deneer.
Ya!
Adriann!
Adriann, Deneer!
The mutants!
Adriann!
Ya!
You must form a
a single line
and return to Helix
City immediately.
Move quickly!
But I'm supposed...
Form a single line...
I'm supposed to be in Tritan.
And move to Helix City.
Adriann, Deneer!
I am a Guide!
I am my only master!
Who put me in here?
The next
time you touch that door,
you'll get a jolt you
won't forget.
Stand by your cell door,
Range Guide and stay quiet.
Adriann, Deneer!
We take care of our own.
I'll help you find her
when we are free from here.
Our union is limited.
I agree.
I know you.
We traveled together.
Yes, some time ago, to Tritan.
I knew Oshay, your mother.
I was with her last year
when she died.
She fought well.
She was truly powerful.
I had not heard.
Each of us is alone
when he dies.
Dr. Karl,
report to.
Lord Zirpola immediately.
How
serious is it?
I believe you're a dying man,
my lord.
Are you certain?
I'm as certain as I can be.
What do I have?
I don't know what to call it.
It's cause is probably related
to long-term radiation exposure.
I've never seen anything
like this before.
I believe that you are
losing control
of your reasoning faculties.
You mean I'm going mad?
Your brain is decaying,
my lord,
and I must tell you,
for the good of Helix,
I think that you must
turn over the leadership
of state to someone else
while it's still possible
for you to do so.
Yes, of course.
Come with me.
Liar, you goddamn liar.
How dare you frighten me
with your stupid lies?
There's nothing wrong with me,
nothing!
Arrest this man!
You are condemned to
Death Sport.
Do you know why they
have taken us?
To fight
in Death Sport.
Death Sport, that is
a Stateman game, why us?
I do not know.
We have union.
We will break together.
Yes, Kaz Oshay.
I told you to be
quiet in there.
You better learn to listen to me
unless you're enjoying this.
You bastards!
You're really gonna get it.
Stop that!
You know they've got to
be able to fight!
Why the hell do you
think we've captured 'em?
Yes, just
getting disciplined.
Well don't do it again,
unless you have my permission.
Unless you wanna join 'em.
Yes, sir.
Put him in cell number one.
They want to silence me.
Zipola is going mad.
He's going to war with
Tritan for their fuel.
We've got to stop him.
We can't have another war.
People don't know that he's
dying of brain disease.
They believe everything
he tells them.
Tomorrow, he's gonna
tell them that they must
go to war for fuel to survive.
You Statemen, who do
not even know how to live
with your word can never have
acknowledged to know peace.
If only my
son hadn't left for Tritan,
he'd help us escape and
stop the war.
We must
break or die.
Yes, Kaz Oshay.
Even
permits are canceled.
In the state of emergency,
certain top officials
have been arrested for treason
and sentenced to Death Sport.
Damn them.
Do you know
what the Death Sport is?
I have heard of it.
It's a tactic that Zipola's
used to keep their power.
Zipola has abolished the
death penalty.
Condemned criminals now fight
each other in Death Sport.
The winners go free,
the losers die.
Attention prisoners!
Stand by your cell doors.
Stand by your cell
doors immediately.
Who are you?
Tell me your name.
My name is Deneer.
And yours is Ankar Moor.
Yes, you do not
approve of my name?
Everything is within the self.
Nothing is outside.
It is known that you have
lost yourself.
Ankar Moor is a man
without a soul,
name to be despised.
Ankar Moor stands free.
You stand there enslaved by him.
I am my only master.
Take away my body and my
soul will still be mine.
You are lucky.
Today I still need you.
What is your name?
A name I can be proud of,
Kaz Oshay,
son of Oshay.
Seed Oshay.
I knew your mother.
Yes.
She gave you your disgrace,
Ankar Moor.
You who betrayed the
consciousness.
Your dishonor is legend.
My dishonor is your fantasy.
What is real Kaz Oshay is
that now I can return to you
a better gift than your
mother gave to me.
Your death in the Death Sport.
Starting at dawn, feed
them disorientation.
I've already arranged it.
Your mother was Oshay?
I always thought
Oshay was a myth.
She was powerful.
It is said that she
could just feel the air
and know even days in
advance that a flash wind
was coming off the waste.
Could she really do that?
Yes.
Can you?
Sometimes.
Alright, stand back
to the far wall.
Hands held high, your
feet spread wide,
your backs to me.
Now move it.
You, move on back unless you
wanna get jolted back there.
You Statemen act very brave
on the far side of that door.
Cover me.
Freeze.
I'll be back.
No, no, ah!
Sealed us in!
Kaz?
Guards have put a field
up on the outer door.
Tried to blast it but failed.
Our union is limited.
I agree.
I see no other way
out of here.
No, don't.
The main fuel line for
the city runs above us.
It'll explode.
As far as beneath us?
Stone.
Now the Guides broke
from their cells.
They freed the
Statemen prisoners.
But they all remain inside
the prison compound.
The gas
canister ready?
They're
being readied now, my lord.
This is my son.
He came to free me.
He's lucky I did not kill him.
That's the only shared wall.
There's a corridor on
the far side,
but I don't think that
a hand blaster
can cut through, it's
five feet thick.
Where
does it lead?
It's somewhere in the
Obedience Force Headquarters.
More than that, I don't know.
We'll fire together,
one at a time.
Ah, get them out of here.
What are you gonna do?
You can't shoot your
way outta here.
Stand back
in the hall.
You're crazy.
Where you gonna go?
You're gonna get us all killed.
They don't care,
they're Range Guides.
Back to your cells,
move, hurry.
Fire.
Here they are.
I found them.
Take him.
Just him?
Yes, just
him, and destroy those two.
Take him.
The woman goes to Zirpola.
You still believe that you are
your only master, Kaz Oshay?
The taste of slavery
may make the difference.
Let the
punishment begin.
That's enough.
Animal.
You call me animal?
After all I've tried to do
to make you feel at peace.
Fight me.
Fight me.
Alone.
I call the code.
You must fight me.
I live by no code.
Truly I am my only master.
Fight me, fight me, animal.
No Kaz Oshay.
As much as I would enjoy
killing you here tonight,
I will enjoy watching
you die more
in the Death Sport tomorrow.
Remember your code.
Every tear of patience
builds the value.
Return him to his cell.
Did Ankar Moor do this to you?
Yes.
He would not fight me.
I called him to the code,
but he refused.
He who has no code
is an animal.
Are any of your bones broken?
No.
Only my flesh.
Trust me.
Trust me, our union is real.
Yes.
I need you.
Watch them.
You'll see something almost
no other Stateman ever has.
You come to me and
you need me.
I go to you and I join you,
for our union is real.
I become you now and
you become me.
And I heal you as I heal myself.
I move
with the rhythm of the Earth.
Steady, like two paths
never wavers.
My purpose is clear, of no
more importance
to the universe than the
leaf on a tree.
I am still.
I share the life.
I am one with it.
I defend my own.
I am as strong as I need to be.
I give what I can.
No one owes me.
I am sacred.
No one can touch myself.
I am my only master.
Prisoners, wake up.
Stand by the rear wall
of your cell.
Obey me.
Alright, take him away, quickly.
I think he's coming around.
Let's hurry, let's move 'em.
I can't stand...
Hold it, get over.
Come on, come on, let's go,
get up.
Come on, come on, come
on, move it, come on.
Freeze.
Knights.
Put this on.
What's this for?
Death Sport.
Laugh for me later,
after Death Sport.
Loyal citizens of Helix,
good day.
And welcome to Death Sport.
I have chosen this Death
Sport to demonstrate
to you a secret weapon
that will make our conquest
of Tritan inevitable, the
Death Machine.
We will ride to victory
on Death Machine.
Climax to Death Sport, you
will see proof of this.
As ordinary Statemen, just
like you and me
use Death Machines
against the awesome power
and strength of Range Guides.
What will we do if we're
setting into the gods?
We're going to do whatever
we have to do to survive.
Loyal citizens, Lord
Zirpola presents
the Death Machines, one on one.
It requires faster balance,
reflex,
more coordination than a horse.
And none of the instinct.
The hand and foot
controls look easy enough.
Yes.
They'd have to be for Statemen.
Well done, you have won
your freedom, Stateman.
Excuse me, my lord.
I said shut up.
None of you are free
or ever will be
until you have fought
like this man has and won.
You and you and you
four step forward.
Come on, let's move it.
You six will be
fighting the Guards.
They'll be a lot tougher
than fighting a Stateman.
Guides.
I came to wish you farewell,
Kaz Oshay.
Ankar Moor, my only wish
is that I could finish
the work my mother began on you.
It doesn't matter what you
think of me enslaved one.
Your death will be your
salute to me.
Yours will be mine when
you remember the code
and fight me.
Useless animal.
Salute your mother for me,
Kaz.
I'll see you both in hell.
Son, come back to me, son.
I will.
Loyal citizens, you're
about to see the Death Sport
make history.
Death Machines pitted
against Range Guides.
Bring on the Guides.
Start your combat.
High ground.
No.
Send in more Death Machines.
Go on, go on, get moving,
let's go.
Dad.
It's no good.
Now we must break the
force field.
You made it.
Busy out there.
I want those Guides destroyed.
Activate the sensor button.
We must take those machines.
Coming around.
Are you sure you can handle it,
A lot better than
any Stateman.
Come on, let's go,
keep moving, go, go, go.
Come on.
Let's follow Kaz and Deneer.
The explosion
has broken the force field.
They're escaping.
You idiot!
You let them escape.
You imbecile.
Never,
never speak to me
like that again,
if you value what's left
of your miserable life.
I'll go after Kaz Oshay
and the others
because it pleases me
and I will see them destroyed
because I am Ankar Moor
and it pleases me to see
them destroyed.
Raising Helix City Headquarters.
Come in, Ankar Moor.
You have them in range?
Not yet.
I don't know what they're
up to but the...
What do you mean?
It's obvious they're
on their way to Tritan.
Not directly, they aren't.
They're heading for the
pass of the flash winds.
Kaz Oshay has
forgotten I'm a Guide.
There'll be a big surprise
at the end of that pass.
Call me when you're
in position.
Bring him back again.
Helix
City calling Ankar Moor.
Lord Zipola is dead.
Then it's over.
Now we can go back
to Helix City.
We will go back to Helix City.
We will go back triumphant
with the body of Kaz Oshay.
The people saw him escape
from the Death Sport.
But I will show them that
No man escapes my justice.
Why risk our
life for that?
Let's go back and tell
them we killed him.
Who's gonna know the difference?
I will.
Helix City will have a
new lord and protector
when I return with the
body of Kaz Oshay.
Come on.
Any more suggestions?
Good.
Now return to your positions.
Let's go.
You can trick an enforcer
but you cannot
escape your destiny.
Death at the hands
of Ankar Moor.
Where was the child lost?
By the sand cliffs, where
my group was attacked.
We have union.
We travel with you as
far as the sand cliffs.
Will you guide us that far?
Yes, we will guide you
all the way to Tritan,
after we have found the child.
It seems clear.
Yes, it's strange.
I've never heard of
this place before.
Nor have I.
Dad, what do Guides mean
when they tell each other
that our union is limited?
Guides are fiercely
independent.
They don't believe in forming
permanent relationships.
Our union is limited
means let's get together
to do something now,
but when we're finished,
each is on his own again.
We could go on.
No.
On a night such as this,
the mutants will be out.
We need a defendable space.
We can use this.
Just testing my aim.
Stay close.
What do you think this
place used to be?
Must be a secret
munitions factory,
like Helix or Tritan.
One that was left in the
wake of the war.
I wonder what happened
to everything.
Trying
to get yourself killed?
Sorry, I just
wanted a look.
Then look.
My God, the mutants did that?
Damn, if we could
just find them.
Flush them out, then run 'em
down fast across the plains.
I'd even risk the mutants.
It wouldn't be half
as bad as that
foul fiend,
that fiery spirit of a mother
that bred him to torment me.
We must be grateful
for every moment,
for we must remember
these moments
will never come back to us.
I want you, Kaz.
I want you.
Just as I thought.
They're heading in
straight toward the pass.
Do not move until I tell you to.
We have to reach the
sand cliffs before midday.
Yes, the flash wind's coming
and if you hadn't
overslept this morning,
we'd stand a better chance.
Nobody's perfect.
You two, block the pass.
The others come with me.
I'll finish him off.
Alright come on.
Can't live forever.
They're trying to surround us.
Good, then let's attack.
Let's go get 'em.
Hold it.
Alright, get 'em!
Dad!
It's all your fault!
I told you to hold the lines!
Why didn't you obey me?
Marcus, get back up there.
They killed him.
Marcus, your father
died bravely.
You can't kill 'em
all by yourself.
Stick with us.
Let's go.
Come on, Marcus.
They're gaining on us.
We could stand and
fight them here.
Not with the flash
wind coming.
Flash wind, we must
find shelter.
The sand cliffs, that's
all that's nearby.
Yes, and that's where
they are headed.
What is she doing?
She's looking.
Looking for what?
If we don't find shelter
soon, the wind will be here,
or Ankar Moor will.
Well, what is she looking for?
The past.
Mutants.
The mutants, the
mutants have her.
Then there
must be caves around here.
Yes, and we
must find her.
There's a chance
she's still alive.
Hey wait a minute.
You're going in the
mutant caves?
Are you crazy?
You'll never come out
of there alive.
Stateman, whether
you come or stay behind
means nothing to me, but
I take care of my own.
They cannot go anywhere,
either.
They will be there when
the wind has passed.
Do not use your blaster
until we are on our way out.
The noise could bring a
swarm of them about us.
Don't they sleep at day?
Some of them.
We will follow them.
Be cautious, Kaz.
It carries a poison I
cannot heal.
Where is the one of ours?
The one you stole?
The little one.
Where?
You lead me astray, and I'll
carve you before I kill you.
Now show me.
That means she's still alive.
Where is she?
How much further, huh?
She's in the sleeping
chamber on the far side.
Marcus, hide here
in the shadows.
What happens to me
if you don't come back?
You have a hand blaster,
use it.
Tara, Tara.
Don't make a sound.
I love you.
I love you, too.
We take care of our own.
Now we have a very, very
long way to go
and I want you to stay very,
very close.
Quickly, before they wake up.
Run!
Let's get out
of here, they're coming!
Run, Kaz!
Let's get out
of here, they're coming!
Watch out Deneer,
they've got torches!
Run, Tara, run!
Kaz!
Kaz, where are you?
Help Kaz!
Help me!
Help me!
Help me Kaz.
Kick him away.
I can't.
I can't, they're strong.
Taste my blade.
Kaz, thank you.
Thank you.
Hold tight.
My leg is numb.
I don't think I can ride.
Here, ride with me.
There'll be medicine for
the poison in Tritan.
You go on, Deneer.
I'll lead them away.
Be powerful, Kaz.
I'll be waiting for you
in Tritan if you show.
If not, I will meet you on
the other side.
Our union is strong.
I will see you in Tritan,
Deneer.
Tritan is not far from us,
now.
We can make it.
He's heading
right for the fuel base.
Now we've got him.
Marcus, look.
We made it?
Yes.
Just as I said we would.
The truth needs no
introduction.
When the sun rises, there's
no necessity to announce it.
Clearly we have lost.
You can go back to Helix.
There's nothing to be
gained by coming with me.
Man is like a candle.
He must radiate life
by burning himself.
I have a destiny to meet.
Be powerful, Ankar Moor.
Now we will have our duel.
I agree.
With or without your
Death Machines.
Without.
With whistlers.
Yes.
Like the day I met Oshay.
Be powerful, Marcus.
Stay well.
Deneer, I don't know
how to thank you, or Kaz.
Yes, we all owe you a
tremendous debt.
Sir, a duel sir, out
on the range.
You can see it from the tower.
Quickly, Tara.
Hiya!
Hut, ha!
You're not as good
as your mother.
But far better than you.
They thanked
us and gave us two horses.
- Great,
- have a horse.
You're a machine.
Where will you go now?
With you.
With me?
Yes.
You don't want me?
Yes, I do.
Then our union is complete.
I agree.