Zoot Suit Page #7

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and the barrio beyond the wall.

There's still a chance

I'll get out.

Fat chance,ese.

I'm talking about the appeal!

And I'm talking about

what's real.

Pues, qu traes, hank?

Haven't you learned? Learned what?

No court in the land's

gonna set you free.

You're in here

for life,vato.

The moment your hopes come crashing down,

you'll find yourself on the ground,

foaming at the mouth,

como loco.

Sabes qu, ese?

I got you all figured out.

I know who you are,carnal.

You're the one

that got me here.

And you know what?

You're me.

My worst enemy...

And my best friend.

Myself.

So get lost.

Get lost!

I'o"rale pues!

Pues,don't take thepincheplay so seriously.

Jesus!

Es puro vaciln, ese. Guacha.

You want me to go?

Pues, rale.

But not before you check out

what's happening back home today.

The navy has landed

on leave with full pay...

And war is breaking out...

On the streets of LA.

Yeah.

Mmm, I feelsuavetonight.

Let's dance.

Mmm.

Let's get out of here.

Ow! Ow!

I'o"rale!that's enough!

Good evening, Mr. And Mrs. North and

south America and all the ships at sea.

Let's go to press. "Flash.

Los Angeles, California, june 3, 1943.

"Serious rioting broke out here tonight, as

flying squadrons of marines and soldiers...

"Joined the navy in a new assault

on the zooter-infested districts.

"A fleet of 20 taxicabs,

carrying some 200 servicemen,

"pulled out of the naval armory

at chavez ravine tonight,

"and assembled a task force that

invaded the eastside barrios.

The zoot-suiters,

those gamin dandies..."

Why don't you tell them

what I really am,ese,

or how you've been forbidden

to use the very word?

We're complying in the interest of the war.

How are you complying?

We're using other terms. Like

"pachuco" And "zoot-suiter"?

What's wrong

with that?

The zoot suit crime wave is beginning to

push the war news off the front page.

The press has distorted the very

meaning of the word "zoot suit."

All it is is another way to say "mexican"

without insulting your ally south of the border.

But the idea of the originalchucois

to look like a diamond...

to look sharp, hip, bonaroo.

Finding a style of urban survival in

the rural skirts and outskirts...

Of the brown metropolis

of los,cabrn.

Come on!

It's an affront to good taste!

Like the mexican, the filipino

and the black who wear it?

It looks just as ridiculous on the white

kids. You mean the wops and the jews?

Look, sport, be honest.

You weren't even wearing clothes when the

white man pulled you out of the jungle.

- if a uniform is what you want, join the goddamn army.

- why?

Because there's a war going on.

What the hell are you trying to prove?

You're no better than anybody else

in the states. We've got shortages!

Patriotic citizens...

Are going without collars and cuffs

so you can wear those zoot suits.

So. So what are we

fighting for...

If not to annihilate the enemies

of the american way of life?

Perdn, seor.

Is that supposed to be us?

There's that spick. Come on!

Let's get him!

Let's go! Yeah, sucker.

Come on!

We got you now!

A**hole!

I said,

"is that supposed to be us?"

Say it.

Go on.

Say it!

Kill the pachuco bastards!

Come on, zooter.

Think you're more important

than the war, zooter?

Let's see if you've got any

balls in those funny pants, boy.

Maybe we shouldn't be doing this.

Are you nuts?

What'd he do to us?

He's a draft dodger.

Watch out for the knife.

Come on.

Look out!

Come on, boy.

All right. Come on!

Son of a b*tch.

Caged like an animal.

A monkey in a monkey suit.

Come on.

Tear it off his back!

He dropped the shiv!

Get him!

Grab him.

Come on!

Whoo!

That's it. Fight, sucker!

Come on. Come on!

Whoo!

They ganged up on me,

carnal.

You left me,

and they ganged up on me.

Why?

Why didn't you

take me with you?

I was at the sleepy lagoon. I was there

throwingchingazos like everybody else.

I went to thepinchedance

with bertha.

I was wearing

your zoot suit.

Allchingn

in yourtacuche.

They stripped me.

They stripped me,carnal.

Hijo,

they stripped me.

They told me you did

90 days in solitary.

You okay?

Simn.

When did you get out?

Oh, a while ago.

I got four months off

for good behavior.

It's good to see you.

I was afraid

things had changed.

So much has happened.

I heard you're living

with myjefitos.

Yeah.

When I got out of ventura,

my parents gave me a CHOICE:

Forget about you,

or get out. So...

alice says you guys

will be out soon.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

George is ready

with the appeal brief.

Oh, hank,

it's almost over.

Then what?

I'll be an ex-con.

What do you think I am?

Look, hank, I'm not trying

to push you into anything.

If you still want me,

I'rale, suave!

But if you don't,

that's okay too.

But I'm not gonna hang around

like apendejaall my life.

I got nothing

to give you, della.

Just give me

some hope.

How?

Ask me to wait.

But what if we lose the appeal?

We won't.

I've screwed up your life

enough already.

You did eight months for me.

Isn't that enough?

I would die for you.

I love you.

Pero me chingan la madre if I'm gonna

throw away my life for nothing!

Della.

Wait.

No touching.

What the hell.

Go ahead.

I love you.

Oh. I love you.

If the late summer of 1942

was the low point,

two years later, the war for the allies is

pounding its way toward certain victory.

On the home front, americans

go on with their daily lives...

With growing confidence and relief as

the war pushes on to inevitable triumph.

Los Angeles daily press,

wednesday, november 8, 1944.

"District court of appeals decides

in sleepy lagoon murder case.

Boys in san quentin given..."

Freedom!

O"rale.

Good to see you,ese.

I thought

I lost you.

It'd take more than the US.

Navy to wipe me out,ese.

Welcome back.

It's good to be home.

No hard feelings, hank?

Chale.

We won, didn't we?

Simn, ese.

And that's a perfect way

to end this play.

Happy endingy todo.

Ah!

But life

ain't that way, hank.

Henry reyna went back

to prison in 1947...

For robbery and assault

with a deadly weapon.

While incarcerated,

he killed another inmate...

And wasn't released until 1955,

when he got into hard drugs.

He died of the trauma

of his life in 1972.

That's the way

yousee it,ese,

but there's other ways

to end this story.

Hey, baby, go!

Carnal, Pngase Abusado

Ya Los Tiempos Han Cambiado

Usted EstMuy Agu%itado

Y Hasta Buti Atravesado

Antes Se Bailaba El Swing

Boogie Woogie

Jitterbug

Pero Eso Ya Torci

Y esto es lo que sucedi

Los Chucos Suaves

Bailan rumba

Bailan La Rumba Y Le Zumban

Bailan Guaracha Sabrosn

El botecito y el danzn

Los Chucos Suaves

Bailan rumba

Bailan La Rumba Y Le Zumban

Bailan Guaracha Sabrosn

El Botecito Y El Danzn

Henry reyna went

to korea in 1950.

He was shipped there on a destroyer

and defended the 38th parallel,

but he was killed

at inchon in 1952,

being posthumously awarded the

congressional medal of honor.

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