The Forbidden Dance (1990)

Laura Harring: Nisa

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• Nisa : They must stop killing the trees, or the sun will eat the air!

• Nisa : You want to see the lambada? I'll SHOW you the lambada!

• Jason : [to the 'hired help']  Come on! You look great! Mom would die if she saw how you look in her dress.

  Nisa : I do not wish to make your mother upset, Jay-sonn.

  Jason : My Mom likes being upset. She's made it a lifestyle. Come on, I want you to meet some of my friends.

• Nisa : [shots get fired]  Stop!

  Benjamin Maxwell : English? I'm impressed. I'm very impressed.

  Nisa : Father sent me to the missionaries to learn about the white man.

  Benjamin Maxwell : Right.

  [nods] 

  Benjamin Maxwell : Honey, you get your people on these trucks. I have a forest to clear.

  Nisa : This is our home.

  Benjamin Maxwell : You got five minutes to get on those trucks. If you stay, you burn with the trees. Now get them on the trucks!

• Jason : Where were we? Oh, yeah, that dance you taught me back there...

  Nisa : The lambada?

  Jason : Yeah. Why do they call it the forbidden dance?

  Nisa : Twenty years ago, the government of Brazil forbid it because it was too sexy.

  [chuckles] 

  Jason : [surprised]  Get out of town!

  [both laugh merrily]