Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic

Dante:
Why, God? Why are you doing this?

Virgil:
It is not the Lord that brought you to this fate, Dante.

Dante:
What are you, shade or living man?

Virgil:
Not man, though once I was. I lived under Augustus in the time of the false and lying gods.

Dante:
Are you not Virgil, glory of the poets, he who wrote the Aeneid, the treasure of Rome?

Virgil:
Why do you seek such woe, Dante?

Dante:
I seek only my beloved Beatrice and nothing more, but I cannot open these accursed gates!

Virgil:
Have you lost all faith in God, O man? Has the way been so obscured?

Dante:
Tell me of your life on Earth, great poet. I know your deeds, but not the man you were.

Virgil:
Publius Vergilius Maro was my name. I was the son of a commoner. And though I died more than a dozen years before the birth of Christ, I foretold his coming in my works.

Lucifer:
Even the purist souls can be corrupted. Dante is not the man you once knew.

Beatrice:
You did this to him. You corrupted his heart.

Lucifer:
I've had no need to influence humanity for many millennium my dear. I simply introduced sin. Man is the one who has spread it like a disease; cultivating it, empowering it.

Beatrice:
It is not our fault, none of it. Man is good.

Lucifer:
No, you don't understand. The earth is another form of hell, and men are its demons.

Dante:
We were together neither in hell nor in paradise, neither damned nor saved, I did not die, and I did not live.