Viva Zapata! Movie Quotes
Josefa
I don't speak for myself now, but if anything happens to you, what would become of the people? What would they have left?
Emiliano Zapata
Themselves.
Josefa
And all the fighting and the deaths... what has really changed?
Emiliano Zapata
They have really changed. That's how things really change - slowly - through people. They don't really need me anymore.
Josefa
They have to be led.
Emiliano Zapata
Yes, but by each other. A strong man makes a weal people. Strong people don't need a strong man.
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President Porfirio Diaz
These matters take time. You must be patient.
Emiliano Zapata
With your permission, my President, we make our tortillas with corn, not patience.
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Fernando
Where are you going?
Emiliano Zapata
I'm going home.
Fernando
So you're throwing it away! Leave tonight and your enemies will be here tomorrow in this room at that desk. They won't walk away. They'll hunt you down till you get your rest in the sun with the flies at your face. Leave now I promise you you won't live long.
Emiliano Zapata
I won't live long anyway.
Fernando
Zapata, in the name of all we fought for, don't go!
Emiliano Zapata
In the name of all we fought for, I'm going.
Fernando
I won't go with you.
Emiliano Zapata
I don't expect you to. Now I know you. No field... no home... no wife... no woman... no friends... no love. You only destroy... that is your love, and I will tell you what you will do now. You will go to Obregon or Caranza, and you will never change.
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Pablo
Careful you don't hit him!
Eufemio
When I want to hit him, I'll hit him! When I want to miss him, I'll miss him!
Pablo
A man's been known to die of a close miss!
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Eufemio
I love you, but I do not like you.
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Emiliano Zapata
A strong people is the only way to freedom!
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[Upon seeing Emiliano Zapata's bullet-ridden corpse]
Eduardo
Who do they think they're fooling? Shot up that way, could be anybody.
Pepe
He fooled them again.
Innocente
Are you sure?
Eduardo
I rode with him. I fought with him all these years. They think they can fool me? They can't kill him.
Pepe
They'll never get him. Can you capture a river? Can you kill the wind?
Eduardo
No, he's not a river and he's not the wind, he's a man! And still they can't kill him.
Lazaro
Then where is he?
Eduardo
He's in the mountains. You couldn't find him now. But if we ever need him again, he'll be back.
Lazaro
Yes... he's in the mountains.
[the four men then look to the hills behind them and see Emiliano Zapata's white horse standing triumphantly on the mountaintop]
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Emiliano Zapata
You people want honest politicians. There are none!
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Old General
Sometimes a dead man can be a terrible enemy.
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Fernando
[to a vistor wanting to see Zapata]
General Zapata is busy.
Fernando
[after a firing squad gunshot is heard]
General Zapata will see you now.
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Fernando
Cut off the head of the snake and the body will die.
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Emiliano Zapata
Madero!
Pablo
Yes, you remember I read to you about him.
Emiliano Zapata
You promised to teach me to read.
Pablo
I will, I will.
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Fernando
This is all very disorganized.
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