This entry is based on the 1956 Hollywood screen musical of 'The King
and I' starring Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr.

From the Web movie site Netflix about the film 'The King and I': "This
visual and musical masterpiece features Yul Brynner's Academy
Award-winning performance and an unforgettable Rodgers and Hammerstein
score, including the songs "Hello, Young Lovers," "Shall We Dance?" and
"Getting to Know You."

It tells the true story of an Englishwoman, Anna Leonowens (Deborah
Kerr), who comes to Siam as a schoolteacher to the royal court in the
1860s and finds herself at odds with the stubborn monarch (Brynner)."

http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=671936

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SSC'04 'King and I' 
Adapted by Courtney 
copyright: Courtney 2004
category: Missing scene 
word count: 511 

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"She tasks me. To my face! That stubborn woman tasks me!"

"Ahem... Majesty, you sent for me?"

"Ha! I send for you--yes! But little curtsey no longer satisfies, Mrs.
Leonowens. I wish you to kowtow. Now."

"But, Majesty, I'm English. We agreed..."

"We? I am King. Still! My word, my law. Despite English who dare call me
'barbarian.' ...Kowtow, teacher."

"I-I cannot, Majesty. It's...unseemly. A proper curtsey is proper
obeisance. If English royalty are satisfied by it, then so should you!"

"Cannot? Your stubbornness will not supersede my will, madam. I know big
English words, too. Therefore, I am NOT barbarian. Kowtow. ...Refuse?
You pay penalty."

"Y-You would treat me like a...slave?"

"You are woman. You teach royal children. Remember who is King here!"

"You wear trousers, Majesty. That signifies a man, but does it make you
king?"

"Don't confound me, woman. 'Tis a puzzlement why you turn my court
upside down! ...But we will see you upside down. ...Kowtow. Or, no house
outside palace. And sent back--shamed--to cold England. Where you
belong. Kowtow!"

"Under dire protest, Majesty... Oh!"

"Hands and knees. Head low, woman! Backside raised like bloody English
flag. Your dress fans like temple bell... Ha!"

"Don't stare at my undergarments! This is indecent!"

"Indecent is arguing with King. Rump up, Mrs. Anna! What holds frilly
pants...ribbon? Ah! Simplicity under much useless cloth."

"Don't dare undo... Majesty! I've never been treated so!"

"Never too late to learn, teacher. Your pale softness like famed English
rose..."

"H-Highness, my b-bottom... N-naked! Please, let me rise and cover
myself!"

"Hips UP, Mrs. Anna. Head down. Tongue still! Are you embarrassed to
show body to King? Way past due, you know."

"OUCH! What *is* that, Highness. I can't see behind me..."

"Behind you is fair English hills... Concern self only with touch of my
paddle. It soundly spanks bare buttocks, no?"

"P-Paddle? OHHH! Majesty, this has gone far enough!"

"I say what is enough in my own palace, Englishwoman! You stay in
kowtow. Take your medicine. High time teacher learned new lesson!"

"OW! I am no child!"

"Paddle does not spank children, but disobedient wives and concubines.
You want to learn our customs? Discipline of woman's bare bottom is
tradition handed down from father to son. You have no husband, so is
duty of King to *educate* you."

"My husband would never... Stop this!"

"It sad husband didn't spank you. You miss a strong man's hand."

"I don't! ...Sire, please. Is this not enough? I've learned a great
lesson today!"

"You will obey King? No more arguments in front of my court?"

"Sire, I promise to be quite circumspect."

"Your blue eyes weep... I believe you, Mrs. Anna."

"Thank you, Majesty. M-May I rise, by your leave?"

"Stand. Lesson will repeat when so required. Pantletts down, your skirts
will cover them. Shuffle out slowly, Mrs. Anna; your pink face down like
proper punished woman."

"Thank you, Majesty, for your--attention."

"Pleasure all mine! To honor homeland, next lesson we practice English
Vice, hmnn?"

"Certainly, Majesty. Your cane or mine?" 

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