And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself
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More, more, Mr. Walsh. |
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The last thing in the world you'd want |
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Rush to him, Miss Sampson. |
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Seek the shelter of his manly arms. |
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True love, Adrian. |
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True love laced with heartrending, |
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And cut. |
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Cut, everybody. |
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- Next setup, Charlie. |
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Go get those horses. |
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I know you're freezing. We're all freezing. |
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There he is, Frank. |
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Ask him over, gently. |
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Very good, my dear. Very good, indeed. |
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Mr. Griffith, sir... |
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Mr. Aitken's in the car. |
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- Duffy, how are we with Mr. Walsh? |
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A bit higher than usual. |
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How about there? |
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Be more generous with the blood. |
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He's over there, sir. Says that it's important. |
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When will Mr. Aitken understand |
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nothing is of greater importance to Griffith? |
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Sorry, David, |
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if you think it's worth moving at all. |
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Eli Morton in our Texas office... |
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went for some kind of press conference |
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pulled together by this Pancho Villa fellow... |
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- Villa. |
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Right. According to Eli... |
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Villa is offering exclusive rights |
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interested in filming |
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- with the vision del norte... |
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...in action against the federal forces of, |
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the despotic President of Mexico, Victorio... |
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- Victoriano Huerta. |
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Villa's terms as follows. |
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He's asking for $25,000 in advance |
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- He wants the money in gold. |
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He's supposed to be some kind of Injun |
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He's mestizo. It's a racial mix. |
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Where'd you get all that stuff? |
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Is it worth a shot? No story, no actors. |
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- Just that, and that alone. |
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Being allowed to place cameras |
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This may prove as much a revolution |
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- as the one Villa is waging on the ground. |
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People will get sick to their stomachs |
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Hold it a minute, Harry. |
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Give her your gloves, will you? |
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Excuse me. |
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- Miss Sampson. |
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I'm Frank Thayer. |
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Mr. Griffith said that... |
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You're in charge of gloves, are you? |
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Harry, thousands of words could be used |
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But the historian's pen |
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for the image the moviemaker captures |
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20º% of the profits for some guy |
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There's not a day that passes... |
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when this guy is not featured |
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The man is a star. And stars |
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You wouldn't consider going down there |
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A bird hasn't been bought yet that |
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Be serious. If all I've got to do |
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Just how competent would you say he is? |
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You think he's ready |
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- Who? Who are we talking about? |
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Who, Frank? |
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Anyone else bidding on the rights? |
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- Hand me those. |
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Any other movie companies |
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We got the inside track. |
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Money does a whole lot of talking |
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- and the heavier it is, the better it's heard. |
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You gotta keep your wits about you |
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- Yes, sir. |
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When you meet him, |
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You forget that, |
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And making any sudden moves |
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that's another real good way |
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When do we actually meet? What's the plan? |
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Villa calls the shots. |
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Gotta work out how to slip over the border |
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We have to be smuggled into Mexico? |
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There ain't no "we" in that equation, |
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Eli Morton has got a wife and kids |
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- That's not gunfire, is it? |
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Let's get you boys a ringside seat |
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Come on up. |
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The chairs are in there. Come on, fellows. |
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Let's go up to the front, come on. |
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Let's go right up here. Excuse us for a sec. |
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Colonel, how're you doing? |
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These guys are from back East. |
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Come here, step right up. |
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There you go. |
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Thank you. |
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Feels almost like watching a show |
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Well, it's a bit more than playacting, sir. |
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What you're watching is a dictatorship |
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Yielding up one life at a time. |
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John Reed, Metropolitan magazine. |
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Frank Thayer, Mutual Film Company. |
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You're taking the bait, Mr. Thayer? |
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I'm going to try. |
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Have a peek at your picture show. |
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- It's my turn. |
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Look at that. To your left. |
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Hope you don't have any stock |
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Oh, God. |
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Shows you what Pancho Villa thinks |
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The bastard doesn't care |
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There he is. |
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What's he doing? |
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- It's off to bed, fellows. |
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- Get some sleep. |
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Wait. I've never been on a horse. |
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You will like it. |
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Come on. |
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He wants to know why the movies |
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He wants to know was Charlie Chaplin |
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- He wants to know... |
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Only, he's kind of involved right now. |
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And this guy's |
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He says he don't trust nobody |
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I was told that he would kill a man |
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That's a pile of crap. They don't stop |
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- What's that all over your tie? |
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My college's. |
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To which college do you go? |
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Did, sir. Harvard in Boston. |
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Sí. That's the school |
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A few have attended, yes, sir. |
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One day... |
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Pancho Villa will send his son |
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He says he's knocked out enough sons |
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Is that the gold? |
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Cash would have been a whole lot lighter, |
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The last person who tried to give him cash, |
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- Your contrato? |
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Those are the glasses. |
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One for you, one for me. |
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Those actresses you work with, |
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They got to have it all the time, don't they? |
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I'm not sure that's really true. |
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Yeah, right. Like you're not |
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What? |
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What's this 10º% of the profits bullshit? |
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You lie to Pancho Villa, |
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Sir, that is a mistake. Somebody must have |
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It's just my pen. |
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El plumo, or whatever you call it. |
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Let me change all these 10s here |
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Here we are. Fixed. |
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20º%, 20º%, 20º%, 20º% . |
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See, you gotta understand. |
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With Wilson's goddamn embargo... |
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you gotta go the black-market route |
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It costs an arm and a leg |
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No, please. |
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This pen has gone to college. |
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It's for your son. Any of your sons. |
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But your Señor Hearst... |
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he only writes bad words about Pancho Villa |
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In his newspapers. |
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People, I think... |
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they believe more what they see |
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When your President Wilson |
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he will know he must support Pancho Villa. |
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He will see that Pancho Villa is a good guy. |
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That he's not like Presidente Huerta. |
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- That donkey fucker. |
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I hope he's not gonna be offended. |
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Don't worry about it. |
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You are Frank. |
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- That's your name? |
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Pancho is also Frank. Pancho is Francisco. |
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That's his real moniker. |
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Tell me, what would you like, |
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Lemon, vanilla. |
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Thank you. |
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I've never seen anyone like him. |
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There is nobody like him, sonny boy. |
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If there was, he would blow their brains out. |
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- How do we do this? |
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Besides praying a lot. |
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I think you all just fan out. |
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Other than bullets, you mean. |
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Those crazy bastards are not gonna last |
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Gentlemen, the Mutual Film Company |
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Thanks to an exclusive arrangement |
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who joins such illustrious Mutual artists... |
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as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, |
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the public will, for the very first time... |
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be treated to the thrills and chills |
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as seen through the lens |
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Are you worried about the physical danger |
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Gen. Villa has assigned |
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that's D-O-R-A-D-O-S... |
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to guarantee the safety of each |
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Set up in the doorway. Hurry! |
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Turn around and film the gunner. |
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Sir, you must be really devoted |
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For $1,000 a month, there's nothing |
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Plus all the gold teeth I can pull. |
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Watch your ass, sonny boy. |
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Another day, another dollar. |
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Hearst Publications. |
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You don't have any qualms |
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in favor of a man |
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nothing more than a socialist rabble-rouser? |
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Unlike your employer Mr. Hearst... |
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this company has no interest whatever |
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foreign or domestic. |
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For the millions he's trying to free |
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Pancho Villa hardly needs Mutual's help... |
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to enhance his reputation |
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Bloody hell! |
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Francisco, you're not dead yet? |
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Still alive, sir. |
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These are just civilians, aren't they? |
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Yeah. You make the mistake |
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you wind up being a tree ornament. |
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Saves ammunition. |
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That one's mine. |
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Next patient. |
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The kid's gonna have a playmate soon. |
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- That figures. |
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The Father's the father. |
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He's swearing to take care of the kid |
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Hi, Charlie. |
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Good work, Frank. |
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Thank you, Hennie. |
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And how did it feel today, Mr. Thayer? |
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Being smack in the middle |
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It's shameful to admit |
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That's strictly a survivor's sensation. |
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Someone else's death |
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You're in good company, Mr. Thayer. |
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Shamelessness has a big following |
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Bank robbers, painters, poets, |
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Enough anarchists to blow up Wall Street |
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Healing Jews and fighting Jews. |
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Maurice Grossbaum, |
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Sam Drebben, |
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Gen. Ángeles came over from the Federales. |
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Studied von Clausewitz, |
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He's the other side of the peso |
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He gets really ugly unless he kills |
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From the merely curious |
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All of this on Villa's order. |
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All of this in Villa's thrall. |
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You take home a nice recuerdo, |
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But be careful... |
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should they give you some crawly souvenir |
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Her husband got killed in the fighting today. |
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And her youngest son, too. |
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Get this. |
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He just gave her more money |
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What will they think, my American friends... |
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when they see the movie of Pancho Villa? |
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I think Mr. Doheny |
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He worships the ground that is Mexico. |
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Doheny worships what's underneath it. |
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Your Señor Hearst |
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Very nervous. |
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You know how much |
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Señor Hearst. You know how many acres? |
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More like 8 million. |
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8 million acres? |
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How many head of cattle |
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You are loco, Juanito. 60,000. |
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50,000, maybe. Maybe 50,000 at most. |
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So, Francisco, today was not too... |
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- Boring. |
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You became more a man a little, |
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- Maybe you and your amigos... |
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Today I think they found, |
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Even though a few of them got a little wet. |
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Yes. |
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You will help. |
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You'll help Americans know |
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It's my Virgin of Guadalupe. |
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I'm deeply honored, sir. |
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He says you should be. |
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You've got the only virgin left around here. |
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Please bear in mind |
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had to constantly deal |
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exploding bombs, clouds of gunpowder. |
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But what you're looking at is, |
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never-before-seen footage of live action |
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Never-before-seen footage? |
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They'd have bit the dust a lot better |
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Let me assure you that every one |
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died in the very best way that they could. |
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There he is, boys, on motion-picture film |
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Gen. Pancho Villa. |
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Despite its technical flaws... |
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clearly more people |
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from a few feet of this crude, historic film... |
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than from the reams that are written |
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to rid Mexico of its greedy robber barons... |
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the only ones to profit |
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with rapacious American interests. |
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Unfortunately, not everyone happens to be |
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Hearst, no surprise, |
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Pardon me. |
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With all he's got invested in Mexico... |
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Hearst stands to lose |
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Speak up, Harry. |
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Listen to this: |
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"Pandering to Villa's overblown vanity... |
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"the perpetrators |
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"...clearly demonstrate |
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"in selling tickets to a gullible public... |
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"than in telling the real truth..." |
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I'll take the pastrami on rye. |
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"...the real truth |
00:31:00 |
"and his ragtag army with nary |
00:31:03 |
lt'd be more productive |
00:31:06 |
You know what's so galling about all this? |
00:31:09 |
We had so little control |
00:31:11 |
Villa comes off as some kind of simple, |
00:31:14 |
Give me the strudel. |
00:31:16 |
We didn't offer a clue to his complexity, |
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What a movie that would make. |
00:31:20 |
This would all be better said |
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He's been beaten and tortured all his life. |
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They say that he still has whip scars |
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He was a convict before he turned 20. |
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It's midnight. |
00:31:35 |
Before he was 12, |
00:31:38 |
Now there are places in Mexico |
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Don't make me fire you twice in one week. |
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He's the James Boys, he's Billy the Kid, |
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all rolled into one. |
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But he asks nothing for himself. |
00:31:52 |
He builds schools where there were none. |
00:31:56 |
He redistributes the land. |
00:31:59 |
He even prints his own money. |
00:32:02 |
Prints his own money? |
00:32:04 |
Tell me that this material would not make |
00:32:08 |
Forget it. The Times said the one we made... |
00:32:11 |
Iooked like a high-school play |
00:32:14 |
For my money, and that's sure as hell |
00:32:18 |
we gave Pancho Villa more than his shot. |
00:32:20 |
- But we didn't. That's the whole point. |
00:32:24 |
You'd never crowd all that stuff |
00:32:28 |
I'd make it more like seven. |
00:32:30 |
- Seven reels? |
00:32:33 |
Did you smoke some of that funny stuff |
00:32:36 |
Who in their right minds... |
00:32:38 |
is gonna wanna sit through a movie |
00:32:41 |
There's never a first until someone tries. |
00:32:44 |
Don't give me fortune cookies |
00:32:48 |
And seven reels is a whale of a show... |
00:32:50 |
you're ready to give away |
00:32:53 |
Then double it. |
00:32:57 |
Double it? |
00:33:00 |
- A dime a ticket? |
00:33:02 |
One good first deserves another. |
00:33:06 |
- These are exciting thoughts, Frank. |
00:33:10 |
- I'm definitely getting excited. |
00:33:16 |
If only they didn't all look |
00:33:19 |
For 10 cents, |
00:33:22 |
than a bunch of barefoot buggers |
00:33:25 |
We can help them look better. |
00:33:28 |
I have to run this past D.W., of course. |
00:33:31 |
He'll see the possibilities in a minute. |
00:33:34 |
The Life of General Villa. |
00:33:59 |
Okay. |
00:34:29 |
Hey, you moron, watch the vase! |
00:37:43 |
- Hello, sir. |
00:37:47 |
- Do I know you were coming? |
00:37:50 |
When I see it, then I will know you are here. |
00:37:54 |
- I missed you many times, mi amigo. |
00:37:57 |
Yeah, good. Bueno. |
00:37:59 |
The Virgin, does she answer your prayers? |
00:38:03 |
Not with my Spanish, she doesn't. |
00:38:05 |
It's not Spanish. Never Spanish. Mexicano. |
00:38:09 |
There are two things |
00:38:13 |
the church and the weapon. |
00:38:18 |
You should write a book. |
00:38:20 |
Maybe I have to read one or two first. |
00:38:33 |
This is the battle? |
00:38:38 |
So much there. |
00:38:41 |
Two little circles. |
00:38:44 |
Magic. |
00:38:48 |
Tomorrow, we must liberate |
00:38:51 |
Tell me are you hungry, thirsty? |
00:38:55 |
House of great wealth. |
00:38:56 |
Not one drop of ice cream. |
00:39:07 |
If my father saw us here, |
00:39:12 |
Before your head grows a boot. |
00:39:16 |
A room like this. |
00:39:18 |
Such a room could be only for a don. |
00:39:22 |
Or for a foreigner. |
00:39:29 |
Into a room like this, |
00:39:32 |
to beg for some food for himself, |
00:39:38 |
There are books here |
00:39:46 |
Welcome back to Mexico. |
00:40:06 |
- Are you all right, Francisco? |
00:40:09 |
Is the horse riding you well? |
00:40:13 |
You did not come all this way... |
00:40:16 |
- only to bring me my film, right? |
00:40:25 |
Another movie? You want to make |
00:40:28 |
Yes, sir. Same deal as last time. |
00:40:33 |
Your President Wilson |
00:40:37 |
Money is not a problem |
00:40:41 |
Tell me, has there ever been |
00:40:45 |
No, not that I know of. No, sir. |
00:40:48 |
Not one movie of Don Quixote? |
00:40:51 |
And Señor Aitken wants to make |
00:40:53 |
We believe that this story, this photoplay... |
00:40:57 |
will greatly enhance your popularity... |
00:40:59 |
and it's gonna go a long way |
00:41:02 |
You still have a lot of enemies |
00:41:05 |
Yeah. That's the best place for enemies, |
00:41:10 |
You'd be doing me a very big favor. |
00:41:13 |
Remember Don Quixote, mi amigo. |
00:41:18 |
A man must not fight windmills. |
00:41:29 |
Villa positively not interested. |
00:41:32 |
Returning New York immediately. |
00:41:34 |
Awfully sorry. Did my level best. |
00:41:37 |
Frank N. Thayer. |
00:41:39 |
"N" for "nephew." |
00:42:10 |
You're welcome. |
00:42:12 |
Don't give me that happy-peon lark. |
00:42:16 |
You and the other bloody bandidos... |
00:42:18 |
think you can just ride off here |
00:42:22 |
No. |
00:42:24 |
Soldiers of Pancho Villa are no bandidos. |
00:42:31 |
You've been robbing me blind |
00:42:34 |
Five thousand head of my cattle... |
00:42:36 |
and not so much as |
00:42:38 |
Thank you very much. |
00:42:40 |
These tinhorn bean-ocrats down here |
00:42:44 |
But you've finished shitting |
00:44:26 |
Did you read Hearst today? |
00:44:29 |
I've got it right here. |
00:44:31 |
"The cold-blooded murder in Mexico |
00:44:35 |
"that was the latest example of the socialist |
00:44:40 |
"reinforces the Hearst |
00:44:42 |
"that the civilized nations of the world |
00:44:46 |
"to introduce the self-styled General |
00:45:41 |
Mr. Aitken. |
00:46:07 |
Does the General have any questions? |
00:46:09 |
The General has no questions. |
00:46:11 |
"Whenever engaging the enemy, |
00:46:14 |
- That's you, sir. |
00:46:18 |
"...you guarantee that any fighting |
00:46:21 |
"will occur only between the daylight hours |
00:46:26 |
Agreed. |
00:46:28 |
"There is to be |
00:46:30 |
"and the Mutual Company," that's us... |
00:46:33 |
"is to be informed and consulted... |
00:46:35 |
"as to the nature |
00:46:37 |
Sí, cut, print, iris in, iris out, pan... |
00:46:44 |
Very good, sir. |
00:46:46 |
"In the event that a major exchange |
00:46:49 |
"you will agree to restage such battles, |
00:46:53 |
"for the benefit |
00:46:55 |
"For its part, the Mutual Company |
00:47:09 |
Problem? |
00:47:10 |
He wants to make sure |
00:47:14 |
No Francisco, no Francisco. |
00:47:18 |
I promise you, General... |
00:47:20 |
this fine young man is gonna be with you |
00:47:24 |
Whatever you need, whatever you want, |
00:47:27 |
Every bit as he's gonna be mine. |
00:47:32 |
It's right here, sir. |
00:47:37 |
$25,000, as before. |
00:47:40 |
I take it we have a deal, sir. |
00:47:46 |
The soldiers of Pancho Villa... |
00:47:48 |
have left behind many huérfanos y viudas. |
00:47:53 |
Lots of widows and orphans. |
00:47:54 |
He's up to his ass in them. |
00:47:56 |
They are very sad. They're very poor. |
00:47:59 |
The General is most sensitive. |
00:48:04 |
A leader must be muy sensitive. |
00:48:11 |
You must give to Pancho Villa, |
00:48:15 |
after the Revolution... |
00:48:20 |
- A print? |
00:48:24 |
He wants his own print. |
00:48:26 |
I think he wants to have |
00:48:30 |
Pancho Villa, too, needs nickels. |
00:48:34 |
Many nickels for those who lost so much... |
00:48:37 |
and for those who lost so many. |
00:48:41 |
I will be very happy to write that |
00:48:47 |
No es necesario, my good sir. |
00:48:50 |
For Pancho Villa, your hand is your word. |
00:48:56 |
Certainly. Of course. |
00:49:00 |
It's my pleasure, sir. |
00:49:59 |
- Hiya, Duffy. |
00:50:02 |
- Everything okay? Nice to see you. |
00:50:05 |
Hi, Charlie, how are you? |
00:50:10 |
- Where's the Scotch, Frank? |
00:50:13 |
I see you've got gloves this time. |
00:50:16 |
- Welcome to Mexico. |
00:50:25 |
Gen. Villa... |
00:50:27 |
please allow me to introduce our director. |
00:50:31 |
This is Mr. William Christy Cabanne. |
00:50:33 |
I am so looking forward, sir. |
00:50:37 |
And this is Miss Teddy Sampson |
00:50:44 |
And this is Miss Irene Hunt |
00:50:55 |
And Charlie Rositer of course you know |
00:50:58 |
Are your huevos all dry now, Charlie? |
00:51:01 |
For the moment. |
00:51:05 |
And this, sir, is Mr. Raoul Walsh. |
00:51:08 |
General. |
00:51:09 |
He'll be playing the young Pancho Villa. |
00:51:12 |
Tell me, Raoul Walsh... |
00:51:14 |
you know even |
00:52:24 |
You can be me. |
00:52:26 |
Okay, Carl, camera. And action. |
00:52:33 |
And say goodbye, Mom. |
00:52:35 |
Very nice, yes. |
00:52:40 |
And lovely. Okay. |
00:52:43 |
And it's farewell, Pancho. Let's go. |
00:52:46 |
And he goes. |
00:52:51 |
And cut! Okay. |
00:52:54 |
Very nice. |
00:52:56 |
Little more of a routine goodbye, Raoul. |
00:53:00 |
Listen, your character |
00:53:02 |
what tragic events the day's gonna bring. |
00:53:05 |
- So keep it big, make it small, okay? |
00:53:08 |
Adrian, give me a wee bit less. |
00:53:11 |
- Okay? |
00:53:12 |
Uno más, people. |
00:53:14 |
As pronto as possible por favor, makeup. |
00:53:18 |
- I was just thinking that maybe... |
00:53:22 |
Let's just make a movie here. |
00:53:24 |
That's enough, okay? |
00:53:28 |
He's fine. Leave him alone. |
00:53:29 |
- Carl, crank them. |
00:53:33 |
And from the kiss, por favor. |
00:53:35 |
And action. |
00:53:38 |
Much better. And sis... |
00:53:41 |
Lovely. |
00:53:43 |
Okay, and farewell, Pancho. |
00:53:45 |
Off he goes. Goodbye, Pancho. |
00:53:48 |
That's good. |
00:53:52 |
Fond! |
00:53:54 |
You love them. Good. |
00:53:57 |
And, perfect! |
00:53:59 |
Cut, print. Beautiful! |
00:54:01 |
Next setup. |
00:54:03 |
"Unquestionably the most expensive and |
00:54:08 |
So reads |
00:54:11 |
An unprecedented seven 15-minute reels... |
00:54:14 |
two of which will be filmed |
00:54:17 |
for which Villa's forces are now preparing. |
00:54:24 |
Mutual Company promises |
00:54:27 |
devoted to a specially written photoplay: |
00:54:29 |
The Factual Story |
00:54:36 |
Every page is a page of lies. |
00:54:42 |
I don't understand. |
00:54:43 |
Mierda means "shit." |
00:54:45 |
I know that. |
00:54:48 |
"Pancho Villa becomes an outlaw when |
00:54:53 |
The land of Pancho Villa's father |
00:54:56 |
Mr. Aitken feels that's more colorful. |
00:54:59 |
It is a license to lie! |
00:55:01 |
- You don't understand. |
00:55:04 |
I understand that never does Pancho Villa... |
00:55:06 |
want the world to see his sister Mariana |
00:55:10 |
But that's what turned you into a rebel. |
00:55:13 |
I know why I became what I became. |
00:55:15 |
Pancho Villa does not have to see a movie |
00:55:23 |
Presidente Villa. |
00:55:24 |
From where does this fantasía come? |
00:55:27 |
You have learned nothing from Juan Reed. |
00:55:29 |
- There will never be a Presidente Villa. |
00:55:33 |
The Revolución |
00:55:36 |
- not the ambition of Pancho Villa. |
00:55:48 |
Okay, we can make it a dream sequence. |
00:55:51 |
Pancho Villa's dream... |
00:55:52 |
is for a man of education |
00:55:55 |
Your Presidente Wilson, |
00:55:59 |
Pancho Villa is a professor |
00:56:02 |
See, that's exactly what General Grant was, |
00:56:08 |
That drunk dogface. |
00:56:10 |
He killed Mexicanos |
00:56:13 |
I had no idea. |
00:56:14 |
No, in your history books |
00:56:19 |
He came before there was oil to steal. |
00:56:21 |
He came for the gold. He came for the silver. |
00:56:25 |
You want to shoot the battle of Torreón, |
00:56:29 |
You don't shoot the life of Pancho Villa |
00:56:32 |
Mutual has a fortune sunk into this. |
00:56:35 |
Lies are expensive, Francisco. |
00:56:39 |
Señor Aitken, he tells to the world |
00:56:45 |
Esta basura! This is fake garbage! |
00:56:55 |
May I ask you, sir... |
00:56:58 |
did you murder William Benton? |
00:57:09 |
I don't believe you did. |
00:57:11 |
But a hell of a lot of your enemies... |
00:57:12 |
are trying to convince |
00:57:16 |
If you can believe Jack Reed... |
00:57:18 |
there are plans in the works |
00:57:21 |
Plans to invade Mexico |
00:57:25 |
Plans to finish you off, knock you off, |
00:57:31 |
You have to understand... |
00:57:33 |
that this is the kind of story |
00:57:37 |
When they go to the movies, |
00:57:40 |
They give you what you want. |
00:57:42 |
And what you want is something |
00:57:47 |
Their approval. |
00:57:52 |
I think every time you see me... |
00:57:56 |
you grow one more huevo, Francisco. |
00:58:08 |
And dismount, Raoul. |
00:58:10 |
Everyone dismount. |
00:58:14 |
And run to greet them. |
00:58:16 |
Welcome your hubbies home. |
00:58:20 |
Ladies, come on. |
00:58:22 |
Let's go, ladies! |
00:58:25 |
Come on. |
00:58:31 |
Mr. Cabanne. |
00:58:32 |
Can I get some hugs and kisses here? |
00:58:40 |
Ladies, come on. |
00:58:43 |
Sweet Jesus! Cut! |
00:58:45 |
That's a cut, everybody. |
00:58:47 |
It's just not in their nature. |
00:58:49 |
Shy? They are as wooden |
00:58:51 |
Most of them are fucking Indians. |
00:58:54 |
Give me five minutes. |
00:59:10 |
Come on, let's go. |
00:59:15 |
And dismount, Raoul. |
00:59:20 |
- And cue the ladies. |
00:59:40 |
He has his own train. |
00:59:43 |
It's just one more thing |
00:59:46 |
Fitted out a few hospital cars to take care |
00:59:52 |
Like a city on wheels. |
00:59:54 |
I walked it the other day. |
01:00:02 |
- Hiya, fellows. |
01:00:04 |
Hello there. |
01:00:07 |
These are the Sanchez brothers. |
01:00:13 |
Ever paralyze anybody in Spanish before? |
01:00:18 |
So this will be the lab. |
01:00:22 |
This is the editing room. |
01:00:24 |
We can watch our own dailies... |
01:00:25 |
which I think will make a real difference |
01:00:30 |
Going on and on, aren't I? |
01:00:33 |
- You've changed down here. |
01:00:35 |
When I first met you, |
01:00:41 |
I never once had that problem with you. |
01:00:45 |
I gathered. |
01:00:48 |
Guess I was fairly obvious. |
01:00:50 |
Girls don't mind that one bit. |
01:01:08 |
- What have we got here, boss? |
01:01:12 |
Civil War surplus? |
01:01:14 |
Yeah, Aitken got a good deal on it. |
01:01:17 |
You don't think these guys are gonna mind? |
01:01:20 |
- Dressing up like the losing side. |
01:01:44 |
Pretty impressive. |
01:01:45 |
French, 75 mm. Perfect for the job. |
01:02:04 |
Really! Mary Pickford doesn't take this long |
01:02:07 |
Mary Pickford isn't running a revolution |
01:02:10 |
Don't think she couldn't. |
01:02:12 |
Here we go. |
01:02:16 |
How do I look? |
01:02:34 |
You're weary, General. |
01:02:37 |
Trappings of power mean nothing to you. |
01:02:40 |
Your every goal has been achieved. |
01:02:43 |
You've avenged your family. |
01:02:45 |
You've righted the wrongs |
01:02:48 |
Many lives have been sacrificed... |
01:02:50 |
but in the end, you have |
01:02:57 |
But the work of a president is never done. |
01:03:00 |
Lawrence. |
01:03:04 |
And return to your desk, General. |
01:03:08 |
Pick up the pen... |
01:03:10 |
and sign the document. |
01:03:13 |
Good. |
01:03:15 |
Lawrence, take the paper and leave. |
01:03:21 |
And now the weariness returns. |
01:03:26 |
Can you give me a sigh, General? |
01:03:38 |
Beautiful. |
01:03:40 |
And now your speech. |
01:03:41 |
Into the camera... |
01:03:43 |
into the lens that is the eye |
01:04:26 |
Chapeau to you, sir. One take. |
01:04:32 |
Is there anything the man cannot do? |
01:04:38 |
It is easy to be president in a movie. |
01:04:41 |
In a movie, Pancho Villa could be the Pope. |
01:04:45 |
In the end, there will be other better men |
01:04:50 |
And you'll do what? Surely not retire? |
01:04:53 |
I think the government would open a factory |
01:04:59 |
Pancho Villa, his hands filled with leather. |
01:05:02 |
Pancho Villa's hands are leather. |
01:05:05 |
And you would settle for just doing that? |
01:05:08 |
That and watch that Mexico |
01:05:11 |
another star on the flag of your country. |
01:05:14 |
And what about you? |
01:05:18 |
What Pancho Villa wants... |
01:05:21 |
for himself? |
01:05:27 |
A parade when he dies. |
01:05:31 |
A parade, many tears, and many flowers. |
01:05:36 |
For the children to miss his candy. |
01:05:40 |
A funeral... |
01:05:43 |
with many poets and singing. |
01:05:46 |
And at the end, a tomb. |
01:05:49 |
A big tomb... |
01:05:51 |
where they can come... |
01:05:55 |
where people can come, |
01:06:00 |
will be always there for them. |
01:06:06 |
Always. |
01:06:54 |
You know, I wrote this scene in my head... |
01:06:57 |
the very first time I laid eyes on you. |
01:07:00 |
Was I okay? |
01:07:02 |
You want to try one more take? |
01:07:05 |
Is it too soon? |
01:07:07 |
I don't know. Maybe not. |
01:07:13 |
I'm sure not. |
01:07:18 |
"Onward and upward" is the ticket. |
01:07:29 |
Tomorrow we leave... |
01:07:32 |
to begin the last chapter of the Revolución. |
01:08:02 |
Bravo, General. |
01:08:10 |
You have much to film in the battle, |
01:08:14 |
- The battle, sir? |
01:08:18 |
I won't be going with you. |
01:08:20 |
No, I finished my part in this film. |
01:08:22 |
I'm going to New Jersey. |
01:08:24 |
To start a new one. |
01:08:26 |
Really. You can call my agent. |
01:08:29 |
Excuse me, Gen. Villa. |
01:08:32 |
Me, I don't go, sir. |
01:08:43 |
You, too? You're not going? |
01:08:46 |
No, sir, my work's through here. |
01:08:49 |
Only the camera operators are going. |
01:08:56 |
- What's happening? |
01:09:05 |
Oh, my God! |
01:09:08 |
Calling for a firing squad. |
01:09:23 |
Here, Pancho Villa is the director. |
01:09:26 |
Here Pancho Villa says |
01:10:07 |
Now you know |
01:10:29 |
Will you take this? |
01:10:40 |
Too bad them actresses don't do no jazzing. |
01:11:09 |
The hell they are! |
01:11:14 |
Put the gun away. |
01:11:22 |
General, these boys |
01:11:24 |
and now you're turning them into soldiers? |
01:11:36 |
You can't. |
01:11:37 |
Is this what you want |
01:11:40 |
Schools for only some, |
01:11:54 |
One boy for you, one boy for Villa. |
01:11:57 |
How can anyone possibly make that choice? |
01:12:33 |
That one for you. I'll take the winner. |
01:13:42 |
Now we find the end of the shots. |
01:14:44 |
Close your stinking mouth. |
01:15:57 |
- You remember our agreement. |
01:16:11 |
All right, got your cameras? |
01:16:28 |
Ready? |
01:16:43 |
Everyone ready? |
01:16:45 |
Start cranking! |
01:16:48 |
And action! |
01:17:23 |
Keep firing. |
01:18:43 |
Come here. |
01:18:45 |
In the center in the valley of Torreón... |
01:18:49 |
is the armory of Huerta. |
01:18:51 |
Enough guns for Pancho Villa |
01:18:56 |
At Torreón... |
01:18:57 |
Pancho Villa will give his General Ángeles |
01:19:01 |
the mucho boom-boom. |
01:19:05 |
Excuse me, sir. |
01:19:08 |
You're attacking from here. This is the east? |
01:19:11 |
You're firing at the Federales from the east? |
01:19:13 |
Is there any special reason |
01:19:16 |
Sí. Because it's mine. |
01:19:20 |
What? |
01:19:23 |
Your camera's going to shoot |
01:19:26 |
Your lenses are not strong enough. |
01:19:28 |
Nowhere near enough, no, sir. |
01:19:30 |
Maybe you can move the cameras |
01:19:31 |
This way the sun can come across. |
01:19:34 |
Or... |
01:19:36 |
Or what? |
01:19:39 |
Could you change your attack |
01:19:42 |
instead of the east? |
01:19:45 |
That would give us so much better a picture. |
01:20:11 |
We kill them all your way. |
01:21:30 |
Action, Señor Griffith. |
01:21:33 |
Action. |
01:25:45 |
The thing is, it's always easier for an army |
01:25:49 |
than it is for one to take it. |
01:25:51 |
I suppose you're right. Took the Turks |
01:26:20 |
What's this? |
01:26:22 |
If we fight the Federales for 1,000 years |
01:26:25 |
unless we fight them this way. |
01:26:27 |
By day we can win the battle, |
01:26:31 |
But you always must've known that. |
01:26:33 |
In the dark I can smell the Federales' fear. |
01:26:35 |
With fear comes defeat. |
01:26:37 |
You never really intended |
01:26:40 |
My only contract is honored with Mexico. |
01:26:44 |
There's no choice. |
01:26:45 |
It's better for me to lose the movie |
01:27:21 |
What the hell was in there? |
01:27:23 |
The Federales hide their ammunition |
01:27:26 |
This way they go to heaven faster. |
01:27:29 |
Plenty of light now, Francisco. |
01:29:53 |
- Hello, sonny boy. |
01:29:56 |
Take some of this. |
01:29:58 |
Thanks. |
01:30:10 |
Frigging rainwater. |
01:30:12 |
That's all there is. |
01:30:14 |
If you ask me, cows have been pissing in it. |
01:30:20 |
Hell of a show the boss put on last night. |
01:30:23 |
I didn't get one foot of it. |
01:30:25 |
There are those days, kid. |
01:30:30 |
- Sorry, Sam. |
01:30:33 |
You can take a Jew apart, |
01:30:37 |
Used to aggravate the hell out of my mother. |
01:30:40 |
There's a law, you know. |
01:30:42 |
Anybody with a tattoo, no Jewish cemetery |
01:30:46 |
As if it's gonna bother somebody |
01:30:52 |
I can't tell you how happy |
01:31:39 |
Charlie, set up fast. |
01:31:41 |
This is the scene we missed at Ojinaga. |
01:32:45 |
My God. |
01:32:48 |
How could you? |
01:32:51 |
Don't speak to me of God. |
01:32:54 |
God has never been to Mexico! |
01:32:57 |
If he has been, he has a heart of stone! |
01:33:18 |
Go home, Frank. |
01:33:22 |
All of you! |
01:33:28 |
Go where to be born is to be equal. |
01:33:31 |
The children of Mexico are not yet so lucky. |
01:34:02 |
Mr. Walsh. |
01:34:03 |
One more! |
01:34:06 |
Very still, now. Very still. |
01:34:12 |
As far as I'm concerned, |
01:34:15 |
I can imagine the time... |
01:34:17 |
when a 5-reel picture was... |
01:34:19 |
It's not gonna be an easy thing to see |
01:34:31 |
Good evening. |
01:34:32 |
Nice to see you again. |
01:34:34 |
Good evening. |
01:34:37 |
Onward and upward. That's the ticket. |
01:39:34 |
Jack. |
01:39:38 |
I want you to know |
01:39:42 |
It means a lot to me |
01:39:46 |
I understand the difficulty |
01:39:49 |
who mows down widows in cold blood. |
01:39:53 |
I even understand the commercial need |
01:40:00 |
Or passing off whores as loving wives. |
01:40:04 |
Barefoot peasants who are |
01:40:06 |
only after they've been properly dressed |
01:40:10 |
It's a process of evolution. |
01:40:13 |
It's the movie's turn to make truth |
01:40:17 |
- Is there a second? |
01:40:22 |
Why did he kill her, Jack? |
01:40:24 |
So coldly, so brutally. |
01:40:28 |
It's as though |
01:40:33 |
You know what it is |
01:40:36 |
"Let me make everything that's wrong |
01:40:40 |
"Let me carry you all on my shoulders"? |
01:40:44 |
Eventually you begin to resent the weight. |
01:40:47 |
You'd never know that from the movie |
01:40:50 |
Well, you'll find a way to live with yourself. |
01:40:54 |
You'll find a way to live with Pancho, too. |
01:40:57 |
You used each other, Frank. |
01:41:02 |
Together you proved that the lens... |
01:41:04 |
is a hell of a lot mightier than the sword. |
01:41:40 |
Hey, sonny boy! |
01:41:47 |
Sam Drebben. |
01:41:50 |
My God. |
01:41:52 |
Sit 'im here. Park it. |
01:42:00 |
Yeah, careful, sweetheart. |
01:42:02 |
She's got a bladder like a faucet. |
01:42:04 |
Watch what you say. |
01:42:09 |
Yeah, right, Ma. |
01:42:12 |
- ice cream. |
01:42:15 |
Shades of Pancho Villa. |
01:42:17 |
She's tougher, believe me. |
01:42:20 |
Got too good a look at a Federale bayonet. |
01:42:24 |
- You don't still work for him, do you? |
01:42:29 |
Funny guy, Pancho. |
01:42:32 |
He said Moses should have used me |
01:42:36 |
Wrote it with your pen, too. |
01:42:39 |
He was pretty browned off with you guys. |
01:42:43 |
Jack Reed said that |
01:42:47 |
that Washington held off the idea |
01:42:50 |
Be that as it may, you welshed on him. |
01:42:52 |
when you promised him |
01:42:55 |
- And the orphans, remember? |
01:42:58 |
Like Aitken needed an excuse |
01:43:03 |
Some revolution. |
01:43:04 |
The new fuckers |
01:43:08 |
Big guys up here still control |
01:43:12 |
Both sides of the border still scared shitless |
01:43:17 |
because the Revolution's turned sour. |
01:43:20 |
You want my two cents, |
01:43:23 |
Mexico would be a hell of a lot better off... |
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if God had taken his goddamn oil |
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I wish very much |
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for the christening of my first-born: |
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Anastasio Francisco. |
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I hope he will be proud to say one day... |
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that he is the godson of Pancho Villa. |
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At the christening party... |
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the General was very much |
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Though some said later |
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They say he had a premonition. |
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After giving my son |
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which many times over |
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he started to drive back |
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with his secretary and two guards. |
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And then, in the center of Parral... |
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Some say the government |
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Some say it was the gringos. |
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The General was dragged away |
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Even in death they are afraid of him. |
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He is without a grave. He has no tomb. |
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How will they remember him, Señor Frank? |
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How will the sons of Mexico |
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Following his assassination, |
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was stricken from all official records, |
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When the government decided it was safe |
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it was discovered |
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In 1976, after half a century, |
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were laid to rest in Mexico City, |
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Finally he'd been given the funeral |
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As in the case of his head, |
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has been lost to posterity. |
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If anything at all, Frank Thayer |
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No complaints, it's not too bad |