A Bullet for the General (1967)
Gian Maria Volontè: El Chuncho Muños, El Chuncho Niños
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Quotes
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[last lines]
El Chuncho : [to a beggar he gave money to earlier] Don't buy bread with your money! No, hombre! Buy dynamite! Dynamite! Dynamite! Dynamite!
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El Chuncho : [pointing to something on Don Felipe's automobile] What's this thing?
Don Felipe : It's a gear shift.
El Chuncho : What's it for?
Don Felipe : ...For shifting gears.
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[American version]
El Chuncho : [after learning how Tate manipulated him] You're very intelligent, Niño. You never make a mistake.
Bill 'Niño' Tate : Come on, the train's about to leave. Let's get on.
El Chuncho : Wait. I have always been your friend, and that's the truth.
[Tate chuckles]
El Chuncho : And now I'm going to kill you.
Bill 'Niño' Tate : C'mon, that's over with.
El Chuncho : [grunting while trying to pull his gun out of his suit] It's - no, no, no, it isn't. How can a man carry a gun like this?
Bill 'Niño' Tate : This is stupid; you have the money! Now why do you wanna kill me?
El Chuncho : [pulls out his gun] It has to be. I'm going to kill you, I have to!
Bill 'Niño' Tate : But tell me why!
El Chuncho : I don't know.
Bill 'Niño' Tate : You're kiddin' me, aren't you?
El Chuncho : [beat] I don't know.
Bill 'Niño' Tate : You mean all this time, dammit, you were just kiddin' me along?
El Chuncho : I don't know why, Niño. It's just that I'm going to kill you!
Bill 'Niño' Tate : C'mon, at least tell me why!
[Chuncho screams and shoots him three times, then laughs maniacally]
El Chuncho : Go... back to the United States, gringo!
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El Chuncho : You don't smoke, you don't drink... you don't notice a pretty girl. What the hell do you like, Niño?
Bill 'Niño' Tate : Money.
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[International version]
El Chuncho : [after learning how Tate manipulated him] Niño, you're a very intelligent boy. And you never make mistakes, huh?
Bill 'Niño' Tate : You can save the compliments. Jump on, the train's leaving.
El Chuncho : You've been a... very good friend to me, haven't you? Isn't that true? I like you.
[Tate chuckles]
El Chuncho : And it's a shame I have to kill you.
Bill 'Niño' Tate : Will you stop...?
El Chuncho : [grunting while trying to pull his gun out of his suit] No, no, Niño. I'm finishing.
Bill 'Niño' Tate : But Chuncho, that's nonsense. I made you into a rich man. Why do you have to murder...?
El Chuncho : [pulls out his gun] Now, then, I must hurry up and kill you! I must, Niño, I must!
Bill 'Niño' Tate : Why should you want to kill me?
El Chuncho : ¿Quién sabe?
Bill 'Niño' Tate : Tell me why you must do it!
El Chuncho : [beat] ¿Quién sabe?
Bill 'Niño' Tate : But... what do you mean, "¿Quién sabe?" You know the reason, you must know!
El Chuncho : I don't know why I'm doing it. I only know that I must kill you!
Bill 'Niño' Tate : No, Chuncho! Don't! Wait a minute, tell me why!
El Chuncho : [shoots Tate three times] There! There! There!
[laughs maniacally]
El Chuncho : Go back to the United States, Niño!
