Viva Zapata! Page #3

intention whatsoever

of one day finding her

squatting on the bare earth

patting tortillas

like a common Indian.

What are you doing?

Find her a merchant.

A musty, moth-eaten man

like yourself.

Let her be queen

of the warehouses

and mistress of

the receipt books.

Bring him down here!

Down here!

Clear the way.

This man is a criminal.

You're making yourselves

liable for his crime.

What are you trying to do?

We are here, my captain,

with your permission,

to see that the prisoner

does not try to escape.

For if he did try, you would be

forced to shoot him in the back.

Is that not so, Captain?

You're breaking the law.

No, helping the law, with your

permission, guarding the prisoner.

Zapata, the wire.

What do you mean?

Telegraph wire.

Cut it before he uses it.

Don't touch that!

This is rebellion.

Cut it.

No ammunition?

No ammunition.

What did you find?

Uniforms and blankets.

No ammunition?

No ammunition.

Hermano, come here,

look what I found!

Ammunition?

No, dynamite.

Boxes and boxes,

all dynamite.

Ammunition?

No, powder

and dynamite.

How much?

Plenty. Look.

What do you think?

Well, we won't wait.

We'll use what we have.

Anything doing?

A few women.

I liked it better

when they were shooting.

Maybe Zapata ran

out of ammunition.

I wouldn't

depend on that.

I think they've gone away.

Look, there, sir.

Some market women. If there's a

market, they must have gone away.

With these Indians, I don't trust

the women any more than the men.

There hasn't been a sign of

Zapata since yesterday noon.

Send out a scout.

Captain! My captain!

What are you doing down there?

Would you like to

buy some eggs, sir?

Get away from that gate!

Hurry up.

Pile those baskets.

Get away from that

gate or I'll fire!

Pile up those baskets. Get away

from that gate or I'll fire!

Hurry up! Fire! Go get those baskets. Quick!

Fire!

Remember the machine gun

that flanked us from the hill?

Yeah.

This boy and his brother

crept out into the dark,

lassoed the gun and pulled

it out of the gunner's hands.

And look at the size of him.

Did you do that?

Of course he did.

Bring the machine gun!

Leave the gun.

Did you do that?

Where is your brother?

He was killed.

You should have a reward.

Hey, hey, hermano. Here!

You want this pig?

Well, what? Anything.

Not my horse!

That's a good horse.

He says that's

why he wants it.

Take him.

Well, what did he do?

I don't know.

I'm waiting to find out.

Don Emiliano, my friend,

I'm only here

to present to you

representatives of

our great liberator,

Francisco Madero.

Gentlemen, gentlemen.

Gentlemen, here he is.

I found him for you.

Don Emiliano Zapata, one

of my oldest acquaintances.

I think we know each other.

My congratulations,

General Zapata.

Read it.

"To Emiliano Zapata,

"I, Francisco Madero,

acting on the authority

"given me by the forces

of triumphant liberation,

"create you general of the

armies of the south.

"The day will soon come when

I embrace you in triumph.

"Long live Mexico."

He signed

with his own hand.

I and my family

would be happy if...

Now you'll have to wear

those things a general wears.

I and my family would...

Where did you get those?

Off a general,

where else?

General!

My wife, my daughter, and

myself, would be honored...

A present.

Boys! General Zapata!

Boys! General Zapata!

Take this one, please.

It's nicer.

What a waste of time.

He should have stolen her

if he wanted her.

This way he gets her

father's money, too.

Yeah,

but is it worth all this?

I have loved with all my heart 100

women I never want to see again.

And he's still after this one. It escapes me.

Did you think of me?

It is said a warrior's shield

is his sweetheart's heart.

Hmm?

We have a proverb,

"A man well dressed

is a man well thought of."

A monkey in silk

is still a monkey.

When love and beauty

come into the house,

then throw out the lamps.

An hour and three

quarters already.

I know. It makes me sick.

That's the way these people

go about getting married.

Excuse me.

Do you believe the saying,

"An egg unbroke, a horse

unrode, a girl unwed"?

I believe that a man is fire

and a woman, fuel.

And she who is born beautiful

is born married.

Get away from the window,

let some air through.

And get that horse

out of here!

Go on!

Best horse I ever had.

Josefa, let's go for

a walk in the park.

There might be

a breeze there.

A walk?

Alone?

A whipped dog

is a wiser dog.

Do you think that three women

and a goose make a market?

I believe that love cannot

be bought except with love.

And he who has a good wife

wears heaven in his hat.

After love, food.

A cup of chocolate?

A starved body

has a skinny soul.

Emiliano!

The pediment of the heart

is the stomach.

Alicia Candelaria,

will you bring chocolate?

Emiliano.

What?

Diaz ran away.

He left the country.

Viva Zapata!

Viva Zapata!

It's true?

It's true.

Josefa,

the fighting is over.

Josefa! Josefa!

Mama, be quiet.

The fighting is over.

Emiliano?

It's almost morning.

They never get tired.

Emiliano!

Emiliano, my little brother.

Josefa.

Josefa, my sister.

Emiliano, come back to bed.

My darling friend,

we are getting old.

We are getting very,

very old.

I know what's

the matter with you.

What?

You, my friend,

you have heavy blood.

You're unhappy because

the fighting is over.

Half victorious.

All this celebrating

and nothing really won.

I love you,

but I don't like you.

I never liked you,

my darling friend.

There will be

a lot more bloodshed.

All right, there will be!

But not tonight.

Here, enjoy yourself.

Be human.

Emiliano?

Hmm?

You're restless.

Are you unhappy?

Oh, no. Go to sleep.

Can't you sleep?

Listen, now...

What are you thinking?

Nothing.

You are, too.

No, no, no.

What are you

worried about?

We'll find a good piece of land

someplace and we'll settle down.

Now go to sleep.

I don't want to sleep.

Emiliano, the fighting is over.

Madero's in the capital,

and tomorrow I'll go see him.

Can I go with you?

No.

Do you think

we'll have children?

Yes.

We'll name them

all Francisco,

after Madero

because he brought peace.

Emiliano,

is it something about me?

No.

You mustn't think that.

Then I want you to tell me.

I'll see Madero and

all the men around him.

You're not telling me.

Men from schools.

Lawyers, educated men.

You're not telling me.

My horse and my rifle

won't help me there.

I can't read.

Teach me.

Of course.

Teach me now.

Get a book.

Hey, be quiet down there.

Can't you let a man sleep

on his wedding night?

Begin.

"In the beginning,

"God created the heavens

and the earth."

"In..."

"...the..."

"...the..."

"...beginning..."

Well, there he goes.

Old Diaz was

rottener than we knew.

When Huerta pushed from the

north with Pancho Villa's help

and you, General, from the

south, why, Diaz crumbled.

Pardon me, sir.

But when will village

lands be given back?

The country people

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