Viva Zapata! Page #6
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fighting for many years and
killing many of your enemies.
And don't you forget it.
Now I'm one of you
and you can trust me.
Since you are, you ought
to know the land can't wait.
The furrows are open,
the seeds not planted,
and stomachs
can't wait, either.
What's your name?
Hernandez.
What is it?
Hernandez. H-E-R...
I have it.
Where are you going?
I'm going home.
So you're
throwing it away.
Leave tonight, 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
in your face!
Leave now, I promise you,
you won't live long.
I won't live long anyway.
Zapata, in the name of all
we've fought for, don't go!
In the name of all we've
fought for, I'm going.
I won't go with you.
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 Carranza.
And you'll never change.
Come on.
Brother, be careful
what you say to me.
Hermano.
Did you take the land
away from these people?
I took what I wanted.
Hermano?
I took their wives, too.
What kind of
an animal are you?
I'm a man,
not a freak like my brother!
Get out!
Look, I fought as long
and as hard as you did.
Every day you fought,
I fought!
I'm a General. Look.
Look. Here's my pay,
a little dust.
I can't even buy
a bottle of tequila.
We beat Diaz. He's living
in a palace in Paris.
We beat Huerta. He's a rich
man in the United States.
I have to beg pennies
in my own village
from people who
never fired a gun!
I'm a General, I'm gonna act like a
General. I'm gonna take what I want.
And don't you or anybody else try to stop me.
Chula.
So?
This land is yours.
But you must protect it.
It won't be yours long
if you don't protect it.
If necessary,
with your lives,
and your children
with their lives.
Don't discount your enemies.
They will be back.
And if your house is burned,
build it again.
If your corn is destroyed,
replant.
If your children die,
bear more.
If they drive you
out of the valley
live in the sides of
the mountains, but live.
You've always
looked for leaders,
strong men without faults,
there aren't any.
They are only men
like yourselves.
They change.
They desert, they die.
There are no leaders
but yourselves.
A strong people is
the only lasting strength.
Hermano!
What he said was true.
He fought every day
we fought.
He was a general.
We will bury him
as a general.
No.
He didn't die in battle.
I'll take him home with me.
Pancho Villa's in the north.
There's no trouble with him.
But Zapata.
What about Zapata?
Sir, how can you fight
an enemy you can't see?
You're looking for
an army to fight.
There is no army.
Every man, woman and child in the
state of Morelos is Zapata's army.
There's only
one thing to do.
Wipe them out.
All of them.
Excuse me, sir. We can't
find anybody to wipe out.
We go there,
the corn is growing,
there's a fire in
the hearth and no one.
We burn the house,
we destroy the corn.
We go back,
there are new shelters.
And the corn is
growing again.
The people, they're
like a different race.
They're not
afraid of anything.
Gentlemen, this is not a man
we're discussing, it's an idea,
and it's spreading.
It's a man!
Cut off the head of a snake
and the body will die.
Ideas are harder
to kill than snakes.
How do you kill an idea?
Kill Zapata,
your problem is solved.
Let us through!
Let us through!
Let him through.
Let me by!
We saw the supplies.
The guns were new, some never
fired. Machine guns, too.
Ammunition?
A mountain of it.
Have you seen it?
Yes.
That will give us a year.
And in a year,
we'll be ready for anything.
Why does he want to join us?
He says he was stripped
of his rank for nothing.
He wants revenge.
He was stripped of his rank
and now he's a colonel
with a first-class regiment?
It sounds
like a trap.
But it's strange enough to be true. Yes.
What proof did he give you
of his good faith?
He executed Juan Calsavo,
the chief of police, who
killed so many of our people.
Further proof
he leaves to you.
All right. All right.
Be here at sunset
ready to ride.
I'll think out
some more proofs.
What has happened?
Nothing.
Emiliano, I want to know.
What?
What is happening?
Are the hens
beginning to crow?
Every night I have
the same thought.
My heart says to me,
"Now for the first time you have
your husband alone sometimes.
"Without fighting,
running, hiding."
It also says that
soon you will be dead
and I have never
known you in peace.
Josefa,
I'm trying to make a plan.
We're getting
all the ammunition we need.
I don't want to hear.
Josefa.
Soon you'll be
gone and one day
a stranger will
come to the door
and tell me
that you're dead.
That is what is left for me.
Josefa,
a federal colonel
has given me his regiment
and all of his equipment.
It's a trick!
No. I always suspect a trick.
I wouldn't be alive...
This is an easy way to kill
you. I haven't made up my mind.
Emiliano, don't go.
We need the ammunition!
Don't go! I have a feeling. Don't go!
That's enough, Josefa!
I will make up my mind.
Emiliano!
Do you want to die?
I must do what is needed.
Emiliano.
You want to die.
Josefa, that's enough.
I will make up my mind.
I must do what is needed.
It will be all right.
Josefa, look how the little clouds
go across the face of the moon.
The moon is racing.
Time is racing, too.
Yes.
It reminds me.
You've made up your mind.
I don't speak
for myself now.
But, if anything happens to you,
what would become of these people?
What will they have left?
Themselves.
With all the fighting
and the death,
what has really changed?
They've changed.
That's how things really
change. Slowly, through people.
They don't need me anymore.
They have to be led.
Yes, but by each other.
A strong man
makes a weak people.
Strong people don't
need a strong man.
Here!
Well?
Jonacatepec is destroyed,
its garrison dead.
You saw it?
The garrison is destroyed.
And the supplies?
I saw them,
stacked and waiting.
What do you think?
Hmm?
He's passed every test.
Paco.
When will you go?
Now.
We'll leave tonight.
It's safer by night.
Chamaco.
Suppose something
happened to me?
We will get along.
And someday we'll go down
into the valleys again.
Until then,
we know how to survive.
Don't!
Emiliano, don't go.
Don't go, I beg you.
Emiliano, don't. Don't.
Emiliano Zapata.
Jesus Guajardo.
Where did you find him?
He's yours.
Where you been?
A federal officer
had him.
You got old.
Shoot that horse!
Shoot her! Shoot her!
The horse got away.
The horse?
Well, these people
are very superstitious.
They must have been
terribly afraid of him.
They shot him to ribbons.
The tiger is dead.
Well,
that's the end of that.
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