Viva Zapata! Page #6

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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