[INSECTS CHIRPING]
[URINATING]
[ ♪ "March of the Beggars" by Ennio Morricone]
[DISTANT EXPLOSION]
[ ♪ "Invention for John" by Ennio Morricone]
[ ♪ INTENSIFIES]
[DRIVER URGES ON HORSES]
[SHOUTING CONTINUES]
[URGES HORSES TO STOP]
Señor!
Tighten up that girth.
Señor, I must... I must go to San Felipe.
My mother is dead!
Straight down the road about 50 miles.
Please.
Get out of here.
Hey. Hey, amigo.
Come here.
[JUAN LAUGHS NERVOUSLY]
Oh, perfect.
You're perfect.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
I swear to God, boys, he's just right.
I'm gonna put you in that stage
and watch those faces when they see you come in!
[COCKS RIFLE]
[DRIVER LAUGHS] [JUAN LAUGHS NERVOUSLY]
Move.
- By God, I... - Never mind, dear.
[TUTS PATRONISINGLY]
Over there.
[CRUNCH OF WHEELS OUTSIDE]
Not that door, the other one.
There.
Pull. Go on.
There you are.
Now you just sit down and be quiet, like a good little boy.
You see? He does understand.
Who knows?
Perhaps he can even talk.
Oh, now, even the peasants...
A bit of mustard?
Thank you. Even the peasants are entitled to their rights.
After all, they have won a revolution.
Or at least, almost.
Animals, that's what they are. Animals.
[BURPS] Pardon.
Let us not forget even animals can be tame and harmless.
Personally, I consider them unfortunate brutes.
Yes, brutes. Quite right.
Precisely, my dear lady, precisely.
I hate saying it, but you should hear them in the confessional.
You would never imagine.
- Did you know that they... - I can imagine, Father.
I can imagine living in such promiscuity.
All of them in one room, male and female together,
lying in a heap like rats in a sewer.
At night, when the lights are out,
all their inhibitions disappear.
You never know who is next.
Mother, sister, daughter... goat...
Every country has its own plague.
Just like them niggers we got back home.
Just like animals, you mean, because that's what they are.
Exactly. Which is why they're half-wits.
Hey, you.
You know who your father was?
You know at least how old you are?
He doesn't know.
You know how many kids you have, eh?
Do you know how many kids your mother had?
He doesn't know anything, you see?
And it was to benefit scum like this that the agrarian reform was imposed.
And that ass, Madero, wanted to give the government
and our land to idiots like this.
We are all pawns in the hands of almighty God.
Fortunately, divine providence has
disposed of that rash individual, Madero.
My dear monsignor, let us be realistic.
What you choose to call providence, I call General Huerta.
He put the peasants in their place.
Which is the best place for animals because that's what they are.
Animals.
(Female Passenger) I can imagine, Father.
I can imagine living in such promiscuity.
...wanted to give the government and our land to idiots like this.
Every country has its own plague.
Just like them niggers we got back home.
Brutes.
- Half-wits. - Animals.
- Idiots. - Half-wits.
...Madero.
Just like them niggers.
Animals.
Because that's what they are.
Animals.
Just like them niggers.
- Brutes. - That's what they are.
- Idiots. - Animals.
Half-wits.
- Like them niggers. - Brutes.
- Animals. - Idiots.
I consider them unfortunate brutes.
- I can imagine. - Niggers.
- Idiots. - I can imagine.
- Brutes. - Niggers.
Animals.
- Unfortunate brutes. - Like them niggers.
- Brutes! - Idiots.
- Niggers. - Idiots!
- Like them niggers. - Idiots.
- Animals. - Half-wits!
[DRIVER URGES ON HORSES]
Hey, you, come on! Give us a hand and push!
Move, will you? You lazy bunch of greasers!
You'd think they'd get off their asses to help us, the bastards?
Hell, no.
[DRIVER SHOUTS]
[DRIVER SCREAMS]
[GUNSHOT]
[STARTLED CRY]
[WINDOWS BREAKING] [SCREAMS]
[COCKEREL CROWS]
[COCKS GUN]
[GUNSHOT]
[ ♪ Dramatic Music]
Take him away before he dirties everything.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, you will give everything to my niños,
and you will give it to them without any trouble.
We kill them all, okay, Papa? [FIRES GUN]
[GLASS BREAKS]
How many times have I told you, Chulo,
no shooting unless Papa pulls the trigger?
[BOY MUTTERS IN SPANISH]
[SPITS] Come. Come, come, come, come!
[MEN CHATTER IN SPANISH]
[SPITS]
You wanted to know my family?
That's my sons!
Each one of them from a different mother, huh?
And now you kneel.
Kneel. Kneel!
Papa!
This is my father, I think.
- Pleased to meet... - Go inside before Chulo kills everyone.
My mother, she had the blood of the Aztecs,
which was before your people!
[LAUGHTER OFFSCREEN]
And now, I ask you a question.
Can you make a baby?
That's sad. But we will fix that.
Señora!
Let me go. Let go.
[MEN CHATTER AND LAUGH]
Go.
[ ♪ "Amore" by Ennio Morricone]
Go.
[COW MOOING]
[WHISTLES]
Go. Go. Go. Go! Go!
That's pretty good, huh?
Oh, Jesus.
Help me. I'm going to faint.
No, no, no.
You faint now, and you'll miss the best part.
[LAUGHING AND JEERING IN SPANISH]
Wonderful. You got everything.
You'll pay for this, you bastard!
I'm a citizen of the United States of America!
To me, you are just a naked son of a bitch.
Understand, Yankee?
[ ♪ UPBEAT MUSIC]
[LAUGHS]
Thank you.
[ ♪ MUSIC SWELLS]
Thank you... for everything.
[COCKS GUN] [FIRES]
[MEN LAUGH]
[PANICKED SCREAMS]
[LOUD EXPLOSION]
[EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE]
[ ♪ "Invention for John" by Ennio Morricone]
[ ♪ INTENSIFIES]
[EXPLOSION]
[MOTORCYCLE ENGINE]
[GUNSHOT DINGS OFF MOTORCYCLE]
[LAUGHTER]
[ENGINE IDLING]
[ ♪ "Jokes on the Side" by Ennio Morricone]
Have you a light?
Duck, you sucker.
[EXPLOSION]
There is a hole in the roof!
Hey!
[ALL COCK GUNS]
I wouldn't do that if I were you.
Why?
You pull that trigger and shoot me, I fall.
And if I fall,
they'll have to alter all the maps.
[EXPLOSION]
You see, when I go, half this bloody country goes with me
including yourself.
[ ♪ BAROQUE ORGAN MUSIC]
NATIONAL BANK OF MESA VERDE
[AMUSED LAUGHTER]
You understand now?
Ah, si, si, si, si, si, si,
I understand.
It's like a miracle of God!
You, you are a great magician, huh?
I stop your motorcycle, and you do the magic with my coach.
So, now we are even.
Even?
Si.
No, we're not even.
You fix my motorcycle, we'll be even.
I'll be inside.
We kill him now, Papa?
No. First, we fix the motorcycle.
It's whiskey.
Thank God for that, huh?
Where you going in this contraption?
Well...
Where you going?
Silver mines.
Lucanina, huh?
I know that place.
I know the man who owns it, too. I know that fat German son of a bitch!
That crazy tub of lard, Mr. Aschenbach,
who wrings our people dry like slaves, even his personal servants.
One girl had an ass!
Her cheeks were so full and hard they were like drums.
And when I got her pregnant, what'd he do? He fired...
Oh, Jesus Christ, will you shut up and go and fix my motorcycle?
Okay.
Anything you say, firecracker.
[SHOUTING IN SPANISH]
Take your hands off that! Out!
[CHUCKLES]
Well, good for you, firecracker.
Not even one lousy peso!
I don't know why I named you Napoleon when you have no imagination.
This is a bank.
- Mesa Verde. - Si, Papa, Mesa Verde. Mesa Verde.
And if we can get this firecracker to come with us,
then we will be rich!
Where does he come in?
The dynamite's right here.
No, no, no, you need an expert for a thing like that.
You only need matches and balls, I tell you, Juan!
And I got all of those it takes!
- Si? - Si.
You see that tree over there?
[MATCH BEING LIT]
[EXPLOSION]
Short fuse.
[ ♪ "March of the Beggars" by Ennio Morricone]
Now you understand why we need the firecracker?
Huh?
[LIQUID POURING]
[SNIFFS]
Where the hell are we?
What kind of work you do for the German?
Listen, I asked you a question.
What do you do for the German?
- I've been looking for silver for him. - Silver?
You know something? I don't understand you.
I don't understand how you waste your time
and your holy water looking for silver.
To me, that's a sin.
Have you any better ideas?
Si, I think gold is better than silver.
There isn't any gold in these hills.
Yes, there is.
In Mesa Verde.
[CHINKS GLASS]
Mesa Verde?
It's a city.
Of course it's a city!
Whoever heard of having a bank in the country?
[MEN LAUGH]
A bank.
Not "a bank". The bank!
The most beautiful,
wonderful, fantastic, gorgeous, magnificent bank in the whole world.
When you stand before the bank,
and you see it has the gates of gold,
like it was the gates of Heaven.
And when you go inside, everything, everything is gold!
Gold spittoons, gold handles and money.
Money, money is everywhere.
I know 'cause I saw this when I was eight years old.
I went there with my father.
He tried to rob the bank, but they caught him.
But they will never catch me, eh, Papa?
Right.
Listen, firecracker. Now, you listen to me.
Listen, why don't you come with me, eh?
And we will work together.
And we will become rich.
[LAUGHS]
Hey, what the hell is your name?
Seán.
What?
John.
What is your name?
John.
That's fantastic! That is incredible!
My name is Juan, and yours is John.
- It's Juan and John, eh? - So what?
What do you mean, "So what?" Can't you understand it? That is...
That is...
Destiny.
[ ♪ "Giù la testa" by Ennio Morricone]
[DIALOGUE NOT AUDIBLE]
- No, and I mean it. - Why?
Listen, if it's more money that you want, I'll give you more than half.
I don't care about the money.
That doesn't interest me, long as we can work together, eh?
Come on, listen to what I'm telling you.
We are like two brothers.
I mean, you make the holes with the holy water,
and then I will go in, and I'll walk in and do the dirty work, eh?
Listen, it takes one bandito to know another.
[LAUGHS]
[BOTH LAUGH]
- So, you can read, huh? - You don't have to read, you know.
I see a man's picture. Underneath it, I see a price,
so I know that man is in trouble, no?
Hey.
What kind of trouble you in?
We had a wee fart of a revolution in Ireland.
A revolution?
Seems to me the revolutions are all over the world.
You know, they're like the crops. We had a revolution here.
When it started, all the brave people went in it,
and what it did to them was terrible.
Pancho Villa, the best bandit chief in the world, you know that?
This man had two balls like the bull.
He went in the revolution as a great bandit.
When he came out, he came out as what?
Nothing. A general, eh?
That, to me, is the bullshit.
Wait a minute.
You come here to join the revolution?
No.
No, one was enough for me.
[ENGINE STARTS]
Stop, you dirty son-of-a-bitch! [GUNSHOT]
Gringo, bastard! [GUNSHOT]
[ENGINE IDLING] [JUAN CONTINUES SHOOTING]
[TYRE DEFLATING]
[ ♪ "Jokes on the Side" by Ennio Morricone]
Hey!
Duck, you sucker!
[EXPLOSION]
[ ♪ CONTINUES]
[GUNSHOT] [SHOT ECHOES]
Say, which way is it to Lucanina?
Fuck you! You go find it for yourself!
Mexico is big
but for you it is going to be very big! [JUAN'S WORDS ECHO]
[INSECTS CHIRPING]
[RELIEVED SIGH]
[FOOTSTEPS]
[LAUGHTER]
[RATTLING]
John! Where are you?
It's us!
Come on. Come on, you.
Come on in there.
Just a little further inside.
That's right, heathen bastards.
(JUAN) What's this? You crazy? You talking to yourself now?
Oh, my friend, didn't I tell you Mexico was big?
Oh, shit.
Who are those people inside?
You mean, who were those people inside.
[EXPLOSION]
Who were they? Who were those people inside?
Chulo!
Who were those people, for Christ's sake?
One of them was Aschenbach,
then there was three soldiers, and then there was one captain.
Everybody's dead in there.
Will you keep quiet and go get our friend's equipment together?
Anyway, when I went to Aschenbach and I told him,
I said you wanted to see him, he wouldn't believe that, you see.
I said, "Well, that's too bad because he's discovered silver there."
When he heard that, he was ready to come running.
But the other one, the captain...
By the way, I think that the captain and Aschenbach,
they were working together, see?
The captain says, "I want to see the man."
I said to the captain,
"How can you see a man when he has blown off one of his hands
"with a stick of dynamite, and he is bleeding to death?"
When they heard that, they broke their asses to get here.
Anyway, you don't have any problem, you see,
because they're dead, and there's no questions.
Also, you have no contract, so you are free.
Of course, there is one little problem.
That will be with the Army because they will have a hard ass
when it comes to the death of one of their captains.
But you don't have to worry about that
because I am your friend Juan, and I will help you.
I will do anything, believe me.
I will say anything you tell me to say.
No, no, no.
I don't need any help from you to know I've been screwed.
You fucking chicken thief.
What do you want with me?
Nothing.
I just thought that maybe
we could go to Mesa Verde.
Hm? [LAUGHS]
The bank.
Isn't there anything else you remember about Mesa Verde?
Oh, yes, there's a place, you know, where you can...
You can go in and sit down and eat.
And when you look in front of you there...
See the bank.
That's right. How you know that?
Listen. Mesa Verde, that's only the beginning.
Let me tell you, it'll be Juan and John, the two especialistas in banks, eh?
We'll call it Johnny and Johnny, you know?
That's more American, you know.
Hey, amigo, we go to America,
where you have banks all over the place, you know.
In California, Colorado, Kansas City, Texas.
You know, you have to think of the big future
that we have ahead of us.
Well, I'm thinking there's a big train behind us.
Hey! Out of the way!
[TRAIN WHISTLES]
[ ♪]
[COUGHS]
[FLY BUZZING] [DOOR CLOSES]
[TRAIN WHISTLES]
Hey, you.
I know that face.
Where have I seen you before?
[GASPS]
[WINDOW OPENS]
Stop right where you are.
[COCKS GUN]
Drop the knife, you bastard.
I have family.
[JUAN LAUGHS]
I have a family, too, eh?
[SCREAMS]
[WINDOW SHUTS]
[TRAIN WHISTLES] [ ♪ "Mexico and Ireland" by Ennio Morricone]
[ ♪ MUSIC SWELLS]
THE GOVERNOR LOVES THE PEOPLE THE PEOPLE LOVE THE GOVERNOR
Beautiful, eh?
My children... [GUNSHOT]
[FOOTSTEPS MARCHING] Uno, dos, uno, dos, uno dos...
[SHOUTS ORDERS IN SPANISH]
Uno, dos, uno, dos, uno dos...
[ORDERS IN SPANISH]
[IN SPANISH] Any last requests?
And you?
[SPITS]
[SABRE BEING DRAWN]
[IN SPANISH] Platoon!
Ready!
Present weapons!
Ready! [GUNS BEING COCKED]
Aim!
Fire! [GUNFIRE]
At ease!
[GUNSHOT]
Hey, God, you sure this is Mesa Verde?
[ ♪ BAROQUE ORGAN MUSIC]
Do you have your beans with chili or not?
I don't want nothing from you.
- Come on, have some beans. - Listen to me, you son of a bitch!
You pull that trick on me one more time, I break your goddamn head!
Well, for Christ's sake.
The train comes along, and I take it.
I've been waiting for you in your Mesa Verde ever since.
It's not my Mesa Verde. This place has changed! It's shit.
It's covered with the soldiers like the flies.
Hey, hey. Just the way we like it.
What do you mean, that's just the way we like it?
If it's a revolution,
it's confusion.
[ ♪"Giù la testa" by Ennio Morricone] [DIALOGUE NOT AUDIBLE]
What are you talking about? Revolution, confusion?
Where there's confusion,
a man who knows what he wants stands a good chance of getting it.
I don't understand you.
This him?
That's him.
Him, who?
- Do you trust me? - No.
Well, you want to get inside over there?
Si.
Well, I'm gonna see to it you have that chance.
Come on.
[PAINED CRIES]
[YELLS IN PAIN]
Don't move, God damn it! Hold him still!
[PAINED CRIES]
[SCREAMS]
That does it.
Relax, now. Relax.
It's all over.
If you'd let this infection go any longer,
your widow would be paying my bill.
Mallory!
You've hardly joined us here in Mesa Verde,
and already you're front-page news.
"Irish dynamiter wanted for murder."
You have a real talent for making friends.
You know, you've stirred up a hornet's nest.
IRISH DYNAMITER WANTED FOR MURDER
I'll grant you the captain, but, till now,
nobody dared take a crack at foreign capitalists,
not even Pancho Villa.
It seems even His Majesty's Secret Service
would like to get their hands on you.
Yet, you are an asset to us.
Even if sometimes you do drink a bit too much.
Who says I drink too much?
Your liver does.
What about that one? Him?
He's all right.
Except that when operating, he cuts deeper than I do.
What the doctor means is, one time, we did a little work together.
And now, to our work, friends.
I have good news.
In two days, Villa and Zapata
will attack simultaneously from north and south.
We here, like those in other cities,
must begin parallel actions of harassment.
Huerta's downfall is just a question of weeks.
Whereas Miguel's is only a question of hours
if he doesn't stop smoking.
[LAUGHTER]
Easy to say.
Well, we'll attack in four places at the same time.
Antonio, you and your men are to hit the city hall and the old prisons,
so it will be necessary to divide into two groups,
one of them under the command of José.
Now, Jesus, the railway station
and the marshaling yards as planned, right?
And make sure you're in position in plenty of time,
and in small groups, so you won't attract attention.
And don't forget to act like ordinary travelers
or railroad employees.
You, Manolo, together with Juanito,
will attack the army barracks with our main forces.
Agreed?
This, mind you, is their point of maximum concentration.
That is the key to the success of our plan.
You must create the impression of a massive attack.
And, if necessary, be prepared to make the final sacrifice.
The fourth and last target, Ortega, the post office.
When the enemy is busy on four fronts,
we'll move against our real objective.
Are we still agreeing?
- Now, you'll need men. - I only need one man.
One?
Si.
Him.
Him? Him? What is this With this "him"?
Him, who? Who, him? To do what?
- That's what I want to know! - To attack the bank.
The bank?
We will take care of the bank.
I mean, that's why we're here, so don't you worry about that.
Well, then, what can I say,
except I hope you make it?
Me, too. And him.
Well, we'll meet again tonight to discuss details.
I have to go now.
I left a woman in labor,
and she can't wait till the revolution's over.
- Tierra y libertad. - Tierra y libertad!
Now, go upstairs and leave one at a time,
and keep out of sight.
Speaking of sight, how's your cataract?
- Well... - Shh!
You don't have to say anything.
I understand everything.
Tierra y libertad!
Libertad.
[ ♪ "Invention for John" by Ennio Morricone]
[SPITS]
[GUNFIRE]
[SOLDIER SHOUTS IN SPANISH]
[GUNFIRE CONTINUES] [COMMANDER SHOUTS ORDERS IN SPANISH]
Go.
Psst, psst.
Bravo, Chulo.
Take it. Take it.
[MILITARY SHOUTING IN SPANISH]
Boy, there must be a lot of money in the bank.
Look at all the soldiers.
Do you know how this works?
Si, it's a...
Short fuse.
- No. - No?
Normal rate.
Thirty seconds.
Si, thirty seconds.
[EXPLOSION]
[ ♪]
[EXCHANGE OF GUNFIRE] [ ♪ JAUNTY MUSIC]
What'd you find?
Nothing but scrap paper.
Wait a minute. Hey, it's pointing down there.
[GUNSHOT]
Psst.
[GUNSHOT]
[EXCHANGE OF GUNFIRE]
[GUNSHOT]
[ANNOYED GRUNT] [GUNSHOT]
[ ♪ SWELLS]
There's the safe!
Duck, you suckers!
[EXPLOSION]
[GUNFIRE] [CROWD ROARING]
- Where you going, for Christ's sake? - I don't know.
I don't know, but something's wrong!
I went into the bank.
When I go in the bank, there's nothing there, no money, nothing.
Well, the bank and the money
were transferred to Mexico City over a month ago.
They've been using this place for a political prison ever since.
What?
What do you mean, a political prison?
Well, I never said a thing about money.
All I asked you was if you wanted to get inside.
Yeah, but you know that this bank is my life!
This is my dream!
Well, the reality of that is
you just liberated 150 patriots through sheer courage
in the face of danger.
[LAUGHS]
Ah, yes.
You're a grand hero of the revolution now.
Viva Miranda!
I don't want to be a hero! All I want is the money! The money!
VIVA MIRANDA!!!
You taught me one thing!
What?
How to get fucked!
[ ♪ DRAMATIC MUSIC] [ENGINES RUMBLING]
[HORSE GALLOPING]
What's that? [ ♪ MOURNFUL MUSIC]
It's a map.
It's your country you're lying all over there.
It's not my country.
My country is me and my family.
Well, your country's also Huerta,
and the Governor, the landlords,
and Gunther Ruiz and his locusts.
Nice little revolution we're having here.
Revolution? What do you mean revolution?
Please don't try to tell me about revolution.
I know all about the revolutions and how they start!
The people that read the books,
they go to the people that don't read the books,
the poor people, and say, "The time has come to have a change!"
- Shh! - Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh!
Shit! Shush!
I know what I'm talking about when I'm talking about the revolutions.
The people who read the books
go to the people who can't read the books,
the poor people, and say, "We have to have a change."
So the poor people make the change, huh?
And then the people that read the books,
they all sit around the big, polished tables
and they talk and talk and eat and eat, eh?
But what has happened to the poor people?
They're dead!
That's your revolution!
Shh.
So, please, don't tell me about revolutions.
And what happens afterwards?
The same fucking thing starts all over again!
[ENGINES APPROACHING]
Capitán!
[IN SPANISH] Let's go!
[SHOUTS ORDERS IN SPANISH]
[HORSE GALLOPING]
[VILLEGA SIGHS]
Well, I don't like it, either.
Only Gunther Ruiz is less than 20 miles from here.
He's on the road that leads to that bridge down there.
They will comb the area bush by bush.
That's why the order is to pull back and hide in the San Ysidro caves.
Oh, that's a brilliant order.
Here we are facing it.
And you and the rest of you in a cellar someplace, dreaming,
want to piss it up against the wall!
Not everybody can fight.
There are those who must organize, coordinate.
Yes, yes, of course.
Yeah, well, don't pay any attention to me.
It's personal.
Sorry about those orders. I'm staying.
I don't give a fuck about your revolutions.
I'm tired, running up and down these mountains, getting nowhere.
So I've stopped.
Right here at the bridge of San Jorge.
Maybe it's out of spite for you and your slow dream.
Or maybe...
Maybe my feet are sore.
[LAUGHS] Well, if he's gonna stay, I'm gonna stay, too.
I don't know, maybe 'cause my feet are sore, too, huh?
Hombres, me and the irlandes here,
we're gonna catch ourselves a couple of the fucking locusts!
Attente!
You go back and hide in the grotto!
And if things go bad here, then every man for himself!
You move your asses!
Comprendes?! [CHEERING IN AGREEMENT]
[IN SPANISH] Then get going!
[HORSES NEIGHING]
If something happens
and your father doesn't come back,
then I pray that the great God in Heaven takes care of you.
Well...
- Good luck. - Thank you.
Listen.
When they are out of sight, we will make a run for it, si?
No?
You can't mean to stay here.
All those explosions must have gone to your head!
Remember?
John and Juan?
America?
The millions?
No?
No. [BLOWS]
I don't understand you.
I thought you made some kind of a trick so we can get out of here.
What can the two of us do against those locusts?
Oh, you'd be doing me a great favour if you'd leave!
If it's a choice I have to make between a chicken thief
and ridding the world of a few uniforms,
I'll not be choosing the chicken thief!
Okay.
No! [LAUGHS SARCASTICALLY]
Oh, no, no, no!
You will like that, huh?
Well, you listen to me,
you Irish piece of shit!
You think you're the only man in the world who has the balls to stay.
Well, you are wrong! Because I have the balls and I stay!
[STIFLES A LAUGH]
[LAUGHS SILENTLY]
(Juan) He says there's no danger.
All you have to do is watch the bridge from a long way.
No matter how I look with them, I'm still too close to the bridge.
Why am I mixed up in this fucking revolution in the first place?
Go ahead, you tell me, God. What am I doing here?
Why didn't you strike me dead instead of letting me say, "I stay, too"?
Look at him. Look at him. All because of him.
He acts like a tourist that's going somewhere,
only he's staying, huh?
Look at him.
What the hell does he care?
He is having fun.
I'm glad he's having fun, God, because I am not having fun.
No.
Hey.
What's this?
Now he goes to sleep, eh?
Go ahead. You sleep. Sleep.
I'll tell you something. When he's asleep, I'll go.
May the good Lord watch over you.
[LAUGHS] [SOUND OF ENGINES APPROACHING]
[ ♪ DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Stop over there, Sergeant.
Hey.
Psst!
God, only an idiot could sleep at a time like this!
Hey!
[ENGINES GETTING CLOSER]
[GUN CLICKS]
[GUN CLICKING REPEATEDLY]
[HEAVY GUNFIRE]
[GUNFIRE RICOCHETS OFF GROUND]
[HORSES WHINNYING]
[SOLDIERS PANICKING]
Abandon the trucks!
Break ranks and take cover under the bridge!
Artillery, fire at will!
[SCREAMS]
[GUNFIRE STOPS] [ ♪"Invention for John" by Ennio Morricone]
[MASSIVE EXPLOSION] [ ♪"Giù la testa" by Ennio Morricone]
[ ♪MOURNFUL MUSIC]
All of them.
Six.
I've never counted them before.
No, Juan, no.
No, for Christ's sake. They're waiting for you out there.
[EXCHANGE OF GUNFIRE OUTSIDE]
[GUNFIRE EXCHANGE CONTINUES]
[GUNFIRE ENDS]
[IN SPANISH] Don't move or I'll kill you! Captain, we have him!
Load that bastard onto the truck, and see he gets to the camp alive!
[TRUCK ENGINE STARTS]
[ ♪ MOURNFUL MUSIC]
[MATCH BEING LIT]
[THUNDER]
[COMMANDER IN SPANISH] Platoon, ready! March!
Uno, dos, uno, dos! [SOLDIERS MARCHING]
Uno, dos, uno, dos... [SOLDIERS MARCHING]
[IN SPANISH] Platoon, halt!
Left side! In position!
Any last requests?
Platoon!
Ready! Weapons! [RIFLES BEING COCKED]
Aim!
[ ♪"Giù la testa" by Ennio Morricone]
[DIALOGUE NOT AUDIBLE]
[GUNFIRE] [ ♪MUSIC SWELLS]
[GUNSHOT]
[GUNSHOTS CONTINUE]
[COMMANDER IN SPANISH] Platoon, right side! March!
[ ♪ FADES OUT]
[ ♪ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[IN SPANISH] Any last requests?
[ ♪ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC BUILDS]
[COMMANDER IN SPANISH] Platoon, ready!
Firing positions!
[JOHN WHISTLES "Invention for John" IN THE BACKGROUND]
Ready weapons! [RIFLES BEING COCKED]
[DYNAMITE FUSE BURNING] Aim!
(John) Short fuse!
[EXPLOSION]
[SOLDIERS SHOUT IN SPANISH] [MOTORCYCLE APPROACHING]
[EXPLOSION]
[MOTORCYCLE SKIDS]
[GUNFIRE]
[ ♪ MOURNFUL MUSIC]
MEXICO RAILWAY
[SPANISH] Huerta abandoning the capital,
does not give you permission to defect.
Traitors like you, get it in the back.
Platoon, ready!
Weapons! [RIFLES BEING COCKED]
Aim!
Fire! [GUNFIRE]
Platoon, at ease!
[GUNSHOT]
[GUNSHOTS CONTINUE] [ ♪ MOURNFUL MUSIC]
[BIRDS COOING]
But for the rich you sing.
[LAUGHS]
[LAUGHS HARDER]
Oh, Jesus, Juan. [CONTINUES LAUGHING]
Anyway, I'd say if they'd ever get this fucking thing underway,
you might be able to...
Well, you'd be able to make the border by what?
Sometime tonight, don't you think?
America.
It's America, Juan!
Oh, Jesus, if it's as great as they say it is,
filled with banks, stuffed full of dreams!
Juan.
Oh, Jesus.
Jesus, Juan.
What is it, Juan and John?
Johnny and Johnny?
I make the holes and you get in.
Fifty-fifty, right?
[LOUD CRASH]
[TRAIN BRAKING]
[SIREN]
[SOLIDER IN SPANISH] Quick! Move away from the train!
[ ♪ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
What's happening?
They're just moving the train around.
Seems we'll be leaving shortly.
The uniforms just finished loading on the last of their shit.
[TRAIN WHISTLES]
THE REVOLUTIONARY FORCES OF PANCHO VILLA...
...COME CLOSE TO MEXICO CITY
[CHICKEN SQUAWKING LOUDLY]
[SQUAWKING ENDS ABRUPTLY]
[TRAIN WHISTLES]
[TRAIN BRAKES VIOLENTLY]
[CRASH]
[GUNFIRE OUTSIDE]
[BANGING ON DOOR]
Get out of the way!
What do you want from me, you scum?
Let me by!
[ ♪ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC BUILDS]
[SOUND OF GUNFIRE INTENSIFIES]
[ ♪ MOURNFUL MUSIC]
It's yours.
[BAG RATTLES]
There's a fortune inside.
Money.
Jewels.
Pearls.
[GUNSHOT]
[MAN OUTSIDE IN SPANISH] Hurry! Back to the centre and kill them!
[GUNFIRE]
Well, this train will not be going to America.
Maybe the train won't, but we will.
Hey.
Which way is America?
Well, it's sure as hell not that way.
That's the way.
Well, then...
Let's go.
[BOTH LAUGH] [ ♪ TRIUMPHANT MUSIC]
[CROWD CHEERS]
Even Pancho Villa's heard much about you.
He's always saying, "I want to meet this Miranda."
Me?
That's right.
The military junta commander told us everything that you've done.
(VILLEGA) Whatever it was you heard, I can assure you they were only words.
But words aren't enough to describe
what Juan has done and suffered for the cause.
[JUAN LAUGHS]
Hey, Doctor, eh?
How you been, eh?
Now, this is the man who should talk to Villa.
Hey!
John.
Doctor.
We thought we'd lost you, Doctor.
[TRAIN BRAKES SCREECH]
[CRASH]
You got a light?
Listen, Gunther Ruiz is after us, and now Villa wants to talk to me.
I think we should get out of here.
Well, Jesus, Juan, you can't leave now.
You're a great, grand, glorious hero of the revolution.
Can I tell you something?
- What? - Fuck you.
That's all.
A military train carrying over 1,000 soldiers and heavy weapons
is heading straight towards us.
What about Villa's troops?
He met resistance in the Sierra
and asks us to hold out for 24 hours.
Where the hell are we?
Approximately here.
It's a beautiful desert there.
Not a stream, or a canyon, or anything in 100 miles.
How long you think it'd take them to get here?
Three hours, more or less.
Three hours.
Well,
looks as though we'll have to stop them right here, doesn't it?
All that takes is unbolting a couple of yards of track.
But then what?
- They'd still slaughter us. - Wait.
There's more than one way to stop a train.
How much dynamite have we?
Maybe 200 pounds.
Is that enough for you?
Oh, yes. It will have to do, all right.
I'll also need a locomotive and a man.
Si, si, si, si, okay.
Okay.
Yes, someone who's brave and loyal to the cause.
Never mind about that. Just tell me what I have to do.
Someone like Dr. Villega, I think.
Well...
I'm honoured.
I don't doubt it, Doctor.
Also because an old friend of ours is in command of that train,
a Colonel Gunther Ruiz.
[TRAIN WHISTLES]
[ ♪ DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SPITS]
Let's get shovelling, man.
We'll never get up enough pressure that way.
Come on, put your back in it, Villega.
Let's stop pretending, right away.
You know everything, don't you?
You sensed it, or guessed it.
Simpler than that, Villega.
I saw you.
That night in the rain.
I see.
You have already judged and condemned me.
That's why you've brought me with you, to kill me.
It's easy to judge.
Have you ever been tortured?
Are you sure you wouldn't talk?
I was sure!
And yet I talked.
Some men died because of me. What should I do?
Kill myself? Why?
The dead remain dead.
But me, I have not changed.
I still believe in the same things.
I can continue to serve the cause!
Shut up, Villega! Shut up, for Christ's sake!
[ ♪ "Giù la testa" by Ennio Morricone]
[GUNSHOT] [COCKS GUN, FIRES AGAIN]
[COCKS GUN] [GUNSHOT]
[ ♪ ENDS]
When I started using dynamite,
I believed in many things.
All of it!
Finally, I believe only in dynamite.
I don't judge you, Villega.
I did that only once in my life.
Get shovelling.
[WHEELS TURNING]
[TRAIN WHISTLES]
The end of the line, Villega.
And I can't help you now.
[FUSE BURNING]
Just close your eyes and jump.
For Christ's sake, save yourself!
[IN SPANISH] Brake!
[BRAKES SCREECHING]
[TRAIN WHISTLING IN DISTANCE]
[WHISTLING GETS CLOSER]
[HUGE CRASH] [MASSIVE EXPLOSION]
[EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE]
[GUNFIRE] [EXPLOSIONS]
[WHISTLE OF MORTAR SHELLS]
[HEAVY MACHINE GUN FIRE]
[MORTAR SHELL WHISTLE] [EXPLOSIONS]
[HEAVY GUNFIRE CONTINUES]
[MORTAR SHELL WHISTLE]
[EXPLOSION]
[GUNSHOT]
[HEAVY MACHINE GUN FIRE]
[GUNSHOT ECHOES] [BACKGROUND NOISE FADES]
[RUIZ SHOOTS AGAIN]
Oh, shit!
[GUNSHOT]
Oh, God!
[PAINED GASPS]
[HEAVY MACHINE GUN FIRE] [BACKGROUND NOISE RETURNS]
[JUAN CONTINUES FIRING]
[JOHN MOANS IN PAIN]
Hey.
Remember?
You remember what you told me?
You told me about America
and the banks and the gold.
Like you told me on the train, remember?
Hey.
No, no, no, you son of a bitch. Come on, you son of a bitch.
Now, you know you told me that.
You leave me now, what the fuck is gonna happen to me?
They'll make you a general.
Oh, shit, I don't want to be a general.
Come on, talk to me. Talk. Keep talking. Talk.
Talk. Tell me about Villega. Villega. Remember Villega?
- Villega? - Si.
He died.
He died a great,
grand, glorious hero of the revolution.
[JOHN LAUGHS]
Okay.
Easy, easy.
I'll go.
- I'll get help, huh? - Yeah.
General?
- Have you a light? - Si.
[LIGHTS MATCH]
Oh, my friend,
I'd just give you a royal screwing.
I go get the help.
[ ♪ "Giù la testa" by Ennio Morricone]
[ ♪ FADES OUT] [GUNFIRE FADES IN]
JOHN!!
[MASSIVE EXPLOSION]
What about me?
[ ♪ "Giù la testa" by Ennio Morricone]