Duck, You Sucker! (1971)

Goffredo Pistoni: Miranda's Father

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Quotes 

• Juan Miranda : What kinda work you do for the German? Listen, I asked you a question. What do you do for the German?

  John H. Mallory : I've been looking for silver.

  Juan Miranda : 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.

  John H. Mallory : Do you have any better ideas?

  Juan Miranda : Si, I think gold is better than silver.

  John H. Mallory : Ah, there isn't any gold in these hills.

  Juan Miranda : Oh ho, yes there is! In Mesa Verde.

  John H. Mallory : Mesa Verde? It's a city.

  Juan Miranda : Of course it's a city! Who ever heard of having a bank in the country, huh?

  John H. Mallory : Uh huh. A bank?

  Juan Miranda : 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. And you know, 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?

  Papa Miranda : Right.

  Juan Miranda : 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.

  [chuckles] 

  Juan Miranda : What the hell is your name?

  John H. Mallory : [wearily]  Seán...

  Juan Miranda : What?

  John H. Mallory : John.

  Juan Miranda : What is your name?

  John H. Mallory : John.

  Juan Miranda : [laughs]  That's fantastic, that is incredible, eh! My name is Juan and yours is John! It's Juan and John, eh? Heh, heh!

  John H. Mallory : So what?

  Juan Miranda : What do you mean, "So what?" Can't you understand that is... that is... the... oh... ah... destiny.

  [John remembers his girlfriend and friend] 

• [Juan is confronting a landowner who mocked him about not knowing about his family] 

  Juan Miranda : You wanted to know my family?

  [slaps him] 

  Juan Miranda : That's my sons. Each one of them from a different mother, eh? And now, you kneel. Kneel. KNEEL!

  [forces him to his knees] 

  Juan Miranda : Papa!

  [his father comes out of the stagecoach] 

  Juan Miranda : This is my father, I think.

  Papa Miranda : [extends his hand to the landowner]  Pleased to meet...

  Juan Miranda : [slaps it away]  Go inside before Chulo kills everyone, eh? My mother had the blood of the Aztecs, which was before your people! And now I ask you a question: can you make a baby?

  [no response] 

  Juan Miranda : Can you make a baby?

  [landowner shakes his head] 

  Juan Miranda : That's sad. But we will fix that.