"Señor!" "Señor..." " Tighten up that girth." " I must go to San felipe." "My mother is dead." "Straight down the road, about 50 miles." "please..." "Get outta here." "Hey." "Hey, amigo." "Come here." "Oh..." "Perfect." "You're perfect." "I swear to God, boys, he's just right." "I'm gonna put you in that stage and watch those faces when they see you come in." "Move." " By God, I..." " Never mind, dear." "Over there." "Not that door." "The other one, there." "pull." "Go on." "There you are." "Now you just sit down and be quiet, Iike a good little boy." "You see?" "He does understand." "Who knows, perhaps he can even talk." "Oh, now, even the peasants..." "A bit of mustard?" "Thank you." "Even peasants are entitled to their rights." "After all, they have won a revolution." "Or at Ieast, almost." "animals." "That's what they are, animals." "Pardon." "Let us not forget, even animals can be tame and harmless." "personally, I consider them unfortunate brutes." " Yes, brutes." "Quite right." " precisely, my dear lady." "precisely." "I hate saying it, but you should hear them in the confessional." "You would never imagine." " Did you know..." " I can imagine, Father." "I can imagine living in such promiscuity." "AII of them in one room, male and female together," "lying in a heap like rats in a sewer." "At night, when the lights are out, all their inhibitions disappear." "You never know who is next - mother, sister, daughter... goat." "Every country has its own plague." "Just like them niggers we got back home." "Just like animals, you mean, because that's what they are." "exactly, which is why they're haIfwits." "Hey, you." "Do you know who your father was?" "Do you know at Ieast how old you are?" "He doesn't know." "You know how many kids you have?" "Do you know how many kids your mother had?" "He doesn't know anything." "And it was to benefit scum like this that the agrarian reform was imposed." "And that ass, Madero, wanted to give the government and our land to idiots like this." "We are all pawns in the hands of God." "fortunately, divine providence has disposed of that rash Madero." "My dear Monsignor, Iet us be realistic." "What you call providence, I call general Huerta." "He put the peasants in their place." "Which is the best place for animals, because that's what they are." "animals." "I can imagine, Father." "I can imagine living in such promiscuity." "..wanted to give the government and our land to idiots like this." "animals." "Every country has its own plague." "Just like them niggers we got back home." "animals." "..providence has disposed of that rash Madero." "Animals." "..providence has disposed of that rash Madero." " Just like them niggers..." " Animals." "That's what they are, animals." " Just like them niggers." " That's what they are, animals." " Halfwits." " Like them niggers." " Brutes." " Animals." " ..unfortunate brutes." " l can imagine..." " Niggers." " l can imagine..." " Brutes." " Niggers." " ..unfortunate brutes." " ..them niggers." " ldiots." " Niggers." "Anda, caballo!" "Anda!" "Hu-yo!" "Anda, caballo!" "Hey, you." "Come on, give us a hand and push." "Move, will ya, you lazy bunch of greasers!" "You think they'd get off their asses to help us, the bastards?" "hell, no." "Anda!" "Caballa, hu-yo!" "Hu-yo, caballa!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Argh!" "Take him away before he dirties everything." "Ladies and gentlemen, give everything to my niños without any trouble." "We kill them all, OK, Papa?" "How many times have I told you, ChuIo, no shooting unless Papa pulls the trigger?" "Asomate arriba y mirale bien." "Come." "Come, come, come, come!" "You wanted to know my family?" "That's my sons." "Each one of them from a different mother." "And now you kneel." "kneel." "kneel!" "Papa!" "This is my father, I think." " pleased to meet..." " Go inside before ChuIo kills everyone." "My mother, she had the blood of the Aztecs, which was before your people." "And now I ask you a question." "Can you make a baby?" "Can you make a baby?" "That's sad." "But we will fix that." " Señora!" " Let me go." "Let go." "Go on." "Go." " Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "That's pretty good, huh?" "Oh, Jesus..." "help me." "I'm going to faint." "No, no, no, no, no." "You faint now and you miss the best part." "Juanito, you get everything?" "You'II pay for this, you bastard." "I'm a citizen of the United States of America." "To me you're just a naked son of a bitch." "You understand, Yankee?" "Thank you." "Thank you." "For everything." "Have you a light?" "Duck, you sucker." "There is a hole in the roof." "Hey!" "I wouldn't do that if I were you." "Why?" "You pull that trigger and shoot me, I faII." "And if I faII... they'II have to alter all the maps." "You see, when I go, half this bloody country goes with me." "including yourself." " You understand now." " Oh, si, si, si, si, si." "I understand." "Si!" "It's like a miracle of God." "You..." "You are a great magician." "I stop your motorcycle, you do the magic with my coach, so now we are even." " Even?" " Si." "No, we're not even." "Fix my motorcycle, we'II be even." "I'II be inside." " We kill him now, Papa?" " No." "First we fix the motorcycle." "Shh..." " It's whisky." " Thank God for that." "Where you going in this contraption?" "well, where you going?" "Shaver Mines." "Lucanina?" "Yeah, I know that place." "I know the man who owns that too." "I know that fat German son of a bitch." "That greasy tub of lard Mr Aschenbach, who wrings our people dry like slaves, even his servants." "One girl had an ass, her cheeks were so full and hard they were like drums." " When I got her pregnant, he fired her!" " Jesus Christ!" "will you shut up and go and fix my motorcycle." "OK." "OK." "Anything you say, firecracker." "Take your hands off that." "Good for you, firecracker." "Not even one lousy peso." "I don't know why I named you napoleon when you have no imagination." "This is a bank." " Mesa Verde." " Si, Papa." "Mesa Verde, Mesa Verde." "And if we can get this firecracker to come with us, then we will be rich." "Where does he come in?" "The dynamite's right here." "No, you need an expert for a thing like that." "You only need matches and balls, Juan." "And I got all of those." " Si?" " Si." "You see that tree over there?" "Short fuse." "Now you understand why we need the firecracker?" "Where the hell are we?" "What kind of work you do for the German?" "Listen, I ask you a question." "What do you do for the German?" " I've been looking for silver for him." " silver?" "I don't understand how you waste your time and holy water looking for silver." "To me, that's a sin." " Have you any better ideas?" " Si." "I think gold is better than silver." " There isn't any gold in these hills." " Yes, there is." "In Mesa Verde." "Mesa Verde?" "It's a city." "Of course it's a city." "Who ever heard of having a bank in the country?" "Uh-huh." "A bank?" "Not a bank." "The bank." "The most beautiful, wonderful, fantastic, gorgeous, magnificent bank in the whole world." "When you stand before the bank, you see it has the gates of gold like it was the gates of heaven." "And when you go inside, everything... everything is gold." "gold spittoons, gold handles." "And money, money..." "Money is everywhere." "You know?" "I know because I saw this when I was eight years old." "I went with my father." "He tried to rob the bank, but they caught him." " But they will never catch me." "Eh, Papa?" " Right." "Listen, firecracker." "Now you listen to me." "Listen, why don't you come with me?" "And we will work together." "And we will become rich." "Hey, what the hell is your name?" "Sean." "What?" "John." " What is your name?" " John." "That's fantastic." "That is incredible." "My name is Juan and yours is John." "It's Juan and John." " So what?" " So what?" "Don't you understand it?" "That is... ehh... ohh... ahh... destiny." "No." "And I mean it." "Why?" "If it's more money that you want, I'II give you more than half." "I don't care about the money." "That doesn't interest me, long as we work together." "Listen to what I'm telling you." "We are like two brothers." "You make the holes with the holy water and then I will go in and I walk in and do the dirty work." "Listen, it takes one bandito to know another." " So you can read?" " You don't have to read." "I see a man's picture, underneath it I see a price." "So I know that man is in trouble." "Hey..." "What kind of trouble you in?" "Oh..." "We fought a revolution in ireland." "revolution?" "Seems to me revolutions are all over the world." "They're like the crabs." "We had a revolution." "AII the brave people went in it." "What it did to them was terrible." "Like Pancho villa, the best bandit chief in the world." "This man had two balls like the bull." "He went in the revolution as a great bandit, when he come out, he came out as what?" "Nothing." "A general." "That to me is the bullshit." "Wait a minute." "You come here to join the revolution?" "No." "No." "No, one was enough for me." "Stop, you... you dirty son of a bitch gringo bastard!" "Hey!" "Duck, you sucker." " Say, which way is it to Lucanina?" " Fuck you." "You go find it for yourself." "Mexico is big, but for you it is going to be very big!" "Big..." "Big..." "Big..." "John, where are you?" "It's us." "Come on..." "Come on, you." "Go on in there." "Just a little further inside, you heathen bastards." "What's this?" "You crazy?" "You talk to yourself now?" "My friend, didn't I tell you Mexico was big?" "Oh, shit." "Who are those people inside?" "You mean who were those people inside." "Who..." "Who were they?" "Who were those people inside?" "ChuIo!" "Who were those people, for Christ's sake?" "One of them was Aschenbach." "Then there was three soldiers and one captain." "Everybody's dead in there." "will you keep quiet and go get our friend's equipment together?" "Anyway, when I went to Aschenbach and I told him, I said you wanted to see him, he wouldn't believe that." "I said "That's too bad because he's discovered silver."" "Then he was ready to come running." "But the captain..." "By the way, I think the captain and Aschenbach were working together." "The captain says "I want to see the man."" "I said to the captain "How can you see a man when he has blown off one of his hands with dynamite and he is bleeding to death?"" "When they heard that, they broke their asses to get here." "Anyway, you don't have any problem." "They're dead and there's no questions." "also, you have no contract." "So you are free." "Of course there is one little problem:" "the army." "They will have a hard ass when it comes to the death of one of their captains." "But don't worry about that." "I am your friend and I will help you." " I will say anything you tell me to say." " No, no, no..." "I don't need any help from you to know I've been screwed." "You fucking chicken thief." "What do you want with me?" "Nothing." "I just thought that maybe... we could go... to Mesa Verde." "The bank." "Isn't there anything else you remember about Mesa Verde?" "Yes, there's a place where you can go in and sit down and eat, and in front of you there's..." " The bank." " That's right." "How you know that?" "Listen, Mesa Verde, that's only the beginning." "Let me tell you, it will be Juan and John, the two specialistas in banks." "We'II call it "Johnny and Johnny"." "That's more American." "Amigo, we go to America, you have banks all over the place." "In california, colorado, Kansas City, Texas and Austin." "You know, you have to think of the big future that we have ahead of us." "I'm thinking of the big train behind us." "Hey!" "Out of the way!" "Hey, you." "I know that face." "Where have I seen you before?" "Stop right where you are." "Drop that knife, you bastard." "I have family." "I have a family too." "(screams)" "beautiful, eh?" "My children..." "Un, dos, un, dos..." "Peloton, izquierda." "Un, dos, un, dos..." "Peloton, alto." "Flanco izquierdo, ya!" "Fusiles armados." "Media vuelta." "Marchen!" "Tienen algo que pedir." "Ytú?" "Peloton..." "Listo..." "Presenten armas." " Preparen." "Apunten." " Fuego!" "En su lugar, descanso." "Hey, God, you sure this is Mesa Verde?" "Do you have your beans with chilli or not?" " I don't want nothing from you." " Come on, have some beans." "Listen to me, you son of a bitch." "You pull that trick on me one more time, I break your goddamn head." "For Christ's sake..." "The train comes, I take it." "Been waiting for you in your Mesa Verde ever since." "My Mesa Verde?" "It's changed." "This shit is covered with soldiers like the files." "Just the way we like it." "What do you mean, that's just the way we like it?" "If it's a revolution, it's confusion." "What are you talking about?" "revolution?" "Confusion?" "Where there's confusion, a man who knows what he wants stands a good chance of getting it." "I don't understand you." "Is him?" "That's him." "Him who?" " Do you trust me?" " No." " You want to get inside over there?" " Si." "I'm going to see to it you have that chance." "Come on." "Don't move, goddamn it." "hold him still." "That does it." "relax now." "relax." "It's all over." "If you'd let this infection go any longer, your widow would be paying my bill." "MaIIory!" "You've hardly joined us here in Mesa Verde and already you're front-page news." ""Irish dynamiter wanted for murder."" "You have a real talent for making friends." "You've stirred up a hornet's nest." "I'II grant you the captain." "But, till now, nobody dared take a crack at foreign capitalists." "Not even Pancho villa." "Seems even His Majesty's Secret Service would Iike to get their hands on you." "Yet you are an asset to us." "Even if sometimes you do drink a bit too much." "Who says I drink too much?" " Your liver does." " What about that one?" "Him?" "He's all right." "Except that, when operating, he cuts deeper than I do." "What the doctor means is one time we did a little work together." "And now, to our work, friends." "I have good news." "In two days, villa and Zapata will attack simultaneously from north and south." "We here, Iike those in other cities, must begin parallel actions of harassment." "Huerto's downfall is just a question of weeks." "Whereas miguel's is only a question of hours if he doesn't stop smoking." "Very easy to say." "We'II attack in four places at the same time." "Antonio, your men are to hit the city hall and the old prison." "So divide into two groups, one of them under the command of Jose." "Jesus, the railway station and the marshalling yards as planned." "Be in position in time, in small groups so you won't attract attention." "Act like travellers or railroad employees." "ManoIo and Juanito will attack the army barracks with our main forces." "Agreed?" "This is their point of maximum concentration and is the key to the success of our plan." "You must create the impression of a massive attack." "And, if necessary, be prepared to make the final sacrifice." "The fourth and last target..." "Ortega, the post office." "When the enemy is busy on four fronts, we'II move against our real objective." "Are we still agreeing?" " You'II need men." " I only need one man." " One?" " Si." "Him?" "Him?" "Him?" "What is with this "him"?" "Him whom?" "Whom him?" "To do what?" "That's what I want to know." "To attack the bank." "The bank?" "We will take care of the bank." "Then what can I say?" "Except..." "I hope you make it." "Me, too." "And him." "We'II meet again tonight to discuss details." "I have to go." "I Ieft a woman in labour and she can't wait till the revolution's over." " Tierra y libertad," " Tierra y libertad!" "Go upstairs and leave one at a time, and keep out of sight." "Speaking of sight, how's your cataract?" " well..." " Shh." "You don't have to say anything." "I understand everything." "Tierra y libertad," "Ylibertad," "Avisen al capitán, Pronto," "Go." "Psst, psst..." "Bravo, ChuIo." "Boy, there must be a Iot of money in the bank." "Look at all the soldiers." " Do you know how this works?" " Si, It's a... short fuse." "No." "No?" "normal rate. 30 seconds." "Si, 30 seconds." " What do you find?" " Nothing but scrap paper." "Wait a minute..." "It's pointing down there." "Psst..." "There's the safe." "Duck, you suckers." " Where you going, for Christ's sake?" " I don't know." "But something's wrong." "I went into the bank and there's nothing there." "No money, nothing." "The money was transferred to Mexico City over a month ago." "They've been using this place for a political prison ever since." " What do you mean, a political prison?" " I never said a thing about money." "AII I asked you was if you wanted to get inside." "But you know this bank is my Iife." "This is my dream." "The reality of that is you just liberated 150 patriots through sheer courage in the face of danger." "Ah, yes." "You're a grand hero of the revolution now." " Viva Miranda!" " I don't want to be a hero." " AII I want is the money." " Viva Miranda!" " You taught me one thing." " What?" "How to get fucked." "What's that?" "It's a map." "It's your country you're lying all over there." "It's not my country." "My country is me and my family." "Your country's also Huerta and the governor and the landlords, and Gunther Ruiz and his Iocusts..." "And this little revolution we're having here." "revolution?" "Don't try to tell me about revolution." "I know all about revolutions." "The people that read books go to the people that don't read books." " They say "It's time to have a change."" " Shh." "Shh, shh, shh, shit, shush." "I know what I'm talking about when I'm talking about the revolutions." "The people who read books go to the people who can't read books and say "We have to have a change." So the poor people make the change." "Then the people that read the books sit around big tables and talk and talk and talk and eat and eat and eat." "But what has happened to the poor people?" "They're dead." "That's your revolution." "Shh..." "So, please, don't tell me about revolutions." "And what happens afterwards?" "The same fucking thing starts all over again." "Capitán," "No se me rajen," "Vamos, que es el último jalón," "I don't like it either." "only, Gunther Ruiz is 20 miles from here." "He's on the road that leads to that bridge down there." "They will comb the area bush by bush." "That's why the order is to pull back and hide in the San Ysidro caves." "That's a brilliant order." "Here we are facing it." "You and the rest of you in a cellar someplace dreaming, want to piss it up against the wall." "Not everybody can fight." "There are those who must organise, coordinate." "Yes, yes, of course." "Yeah, well..." "Don't pay any attention to me." "It's personal." "Sorry about those orders." "I'm staying." "I don't give a fuck about your revolutions." "I'm tired of running up and down mountains, getting nowhere." "So I've stopped, right here at the bridge of San Jorge." "Maybe it's out of spite for you and your slow dream." "Or maybe... maybe my feet are sore." "Hm." "If he's going to stay, I'm going to stay too." "I don't know, maybe because my feet are sore too." "Hombres, me and the irlandés here, we're gonna catch ourselves a couple of the fucking Iocusts." "Atención!" "You go back and hide in the grotto." "And if things go bad here, then every man for himself." "You move your asses." " Comprende?" "Vamos ahora," "If something happens and your father doesn't come back, then I pray that the great God in heaven takes care of you." "well..." " Good luck." " Thank you." "Listen, when they are out of sight, we will make a run for it, si?" "No?" "You can't mean to stay here." "AII those explosions must have gone to your head." "Remember, John and Juan?" "America?" "The millions?" "No?" "No." "I don't understand you." "I thought you make a trick so we can get out of here." " What can we do against those locusts?" " You'd be doing me a favour if you left." "If it's a choice I have to make between a chicken thief and ridding the world of a few uniforms," "I'II not be choosing the chicken thief." "OK." "OK." "No." "No, no, no, no, no." "You would Iike that, uh?" "well, you listen to me, you Irish piece of shit." "You think you're the only man in the world who has the balls to stay?" "You are wrong." "Cos I have the balls and I stay." "He says there's no danger." ""Just watch the bridge from a Iong way."" "No matter how I Iook with them, I'm still too close to the bridge." "Why am I mixed up in this fucking revolution?" "God, what am I doing here?" "Why didn't you strike me dead instead of letting me say "I stay too"?" "Look at him." "Look at him." "AII because of him." "He acts like a tourist that's going somewhere, only he's staying." "Look at him." "What the hell does he care?" "He is having fun." "I'm glad he's having fun, God, because I am not having fun." "No." "Hey..." "What's this?" "Now he goes to sleep?" "Go ahead." "You sleep." "sleep." "I tell you something, when he's asleep, I go." "Shh." "May the good Lord watch over you." "Stop over there, Sergeant." "Hey..." "Psst." "God, only an idiot could sleep at a time like this." "Hey..." "Abandon the trucks." "Break ranks, take cover under the bridge." "artillery, fire at will." "AII of them." "Six." "I never counted them before." "No, Juan, no." "No, for Christ's sake." "They're waiting for you out there." "Quieto, No te muevas, que te quiebro," "Capitán, Ya lo agarramos," "Échelo al camión a este cabrón y no lo toque," "Que llegue vivo," "Pelotón, de frente, Marchen," "Un, dos, un, dos," "Un, dos, un, dos," "Un, dos, un, dos," "Pelotón, alto," "Flanco izquierdo, izquierda," "Posición de tiro," "Tiene algo que pedir?" "," "Pelotón," "preparen armas," "Apunten," "Pelotón, fianco derecho," "De frente, ar," "Tienes algo que pedir?" "," "Pelotón, fi rmes," "Posición de tiro," "Preparen armas," "Apunten," "Short fuse." "El hecho de que Huerta abandonó la capital no te permite desertar," "A traidores como tú, yo los fusilo por la espalda," "Pelotón, preparen, armas," "Apunten," "Fuego," "Pelotón, en su lugar, descanso," "But for the rich you sing." "Oh, Jesus, Juan." "Anyway, if they ever get this fucking thing under way, we might be able to make the border by sometime tonight, don't you think?" "America." "It's America, Juan." "Jesus, if it's as great as they say it is, filled with bags stuffed full of dreams..." "Juan..." "Oh, Jesus..." "Jesus, Juan..." "What is it, Juan and..." "John?" "Johnny and Johnny?" "I make the holes and you get in." "Fifty-fifty, right?" "What's happening?" "They're just moving the train around." "We'II be leaving shortly." "The uniforms just finished loading on the Iast of their shit." "Get out of the way." "What do you want from me, you scum?" "Let me by." "It's yours." "There's a fortune inside." "Money." "jewels." "pearls." "Hórale, rápido, Amontónenlos al centro," "Yachichárrenlos a tiros," "well, this may not be going to America." "Maybe the train won't, but we will." "Hey..." "Which way is America?" "It's sure as hell not that way." "That's the way." "well, then..." "let's go." "Even Pancho villa's heard much about you." "He's always saying "I want to meet this Miranda."" "Me?" "That's right." "The military junta commander told us everything that you've done." "Whatever it was you heard, I can assure you they were only words." "But words can't describe what Juan has done and suffered for the cause." "Doctor." "How you been?" "Now this is the man who should talk to villa." "Hey..." "John." "Doctor." "We thought we'd lost you, Doctor." "You got a light?" "Listen, Gunther Ruiz is after us and now villa wants to talk to me." "I think we should get out of here." "Jesus, Juan, you can't leave now." "You're a glorious hero of the revolution." " Can I tell you something?" " What?" "Fuck you." "That's all." "A train carrying over 1 ,000 soldiers and heavy weapons is heading towards us." " What about villa's troops?" " He met resistance in the sierra." "And asks us to hold out for 24 hours." " Where the hell are we?" " approximately here." "It's a beautiful desert there." "Not a stream, canyon or anything in 100 miles." "How long do you think it'd take them to get here?" "Three hours, more or less." "Three hours." "well..." "Looks as though we'II have to stop them right here, doesn't it?" "AII that takes is unboIting a couple of yards of track." "But then what?" " They'd still slaughter us." " Wait." "There's more than one way to stop a train." " How much dynamite have we?" " Maybe 200 pounds." "Is that enough for you?" "Yes." "It'II have to do, I reckon." "We'II also need a locomotive and a man." "Si, si, si, si, OK." "OK." "Someone who's brave and loyal to the cause." "Never mind about that." "Just tell me what I have to do." "Someone like Doctor ViIIega, I think." "Er..." "well, er..." "I'm honoured." "I don't doubt it, Doctor." "also because an old friend of ours is in command of that train." "A colonel Gunther Ruiz." "Let's get shoveIIing, man." "We'II never get up enough pressure that way." "Come on, put your back in it, ViIIega." "Let's stop pretending, MaIIory." "You know everything, don't you?" "You sensed it." "Or guessed it." "simpler than that, ViIIega." "I saw you." "That night in the rain." "I see." "You've already judged and condemned me." "That's why you've brought me with you." "To kill me." "It's easy to judge." "Have you ever been tortured?" "Are you sure you wouldn't talk?" "I was sure." "And yet I talked." "Some men died because of me." "What should I do, kill myself?" "Why?" "The dead remain dead." "But me, I have not changed." "I still believe in the same things." " I can continue to serve the cause." " Shut up, ViIIega." "Shut up, for Christ's sake." "When I started using dynamite, I believed many things." "AII of it." "finally, I believe only in dynamite." "I don't judge you, ViIIega." "I did that only once in my Iife." "Get shoveIIing." "The end of the line, ViIIega." "And I can't help you now." "Just close your eyes and jump." "For Christ's sake, save yourself." "Dios mìo!" "Shit..." "God..." "Hey..." "Man, remember?" "You remember what you told me?" "You told me about America." "And the banks and the gold." "Like you told me on the train, remember?" "Hey." "Hey." "Hey..." "No, you son of a bitch." "Come on, you son of a bitch." "Now you know you told me that." "And you leave me now, what the fuck is going to happen to me?" " They'II make you a general." " Shit, I don't want to be a general." "Come on." "talk to me." "talk." "Keep talking." "talk." "talk." "tell me about ViIIega." "Remember ViIIega?" " ViIIega?" " Si," "He died." "He died a great, grand... grand, glorious hero of the revolution." "OK." "Easy, easy..." "I'II go." "I'II get help." "Yeah." "general..." " Have you a light?" " Si," "Oh, my friend..." "I'd hate to have to give you a royal screwing." "I'II go get help."