The Other Conquest (1998)
Iñaki Aierra: Hernando Cortés
Quotes
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Hernando Cortés : [in Spanish, to Topiltzin] Think what you will of us, but our missionaries have come to this godforsaken land only to save your souls.
Tecuichpo : [in Nahuatl, "translating" to Topiltzin] Their missionaries want our souls... but they don't know where to look for them.
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Notario Ramón Quevedo : [spying on Hernán Cortés and Tecuichpo] And this one? Who is she?
Capitán Cristóbal Quijano : [also spying on them] Tecuichpo, the oldest daughter of Moctezuma.
Notario Ramón Quevedo : What happened to his mistress Malinche?
[relishing the thought]
Notario Ramón Quevedo : Did Cortés hang her next to Prince Cuauhtemoc in Honduras?
Capitán Cristóbal Quijano : No, he got fed up and gave her to Captain Jaramillo.
Notario Ramón Quevedo : He gave away the mother of his first-born?
Capitán Cristóbal Quijano : First-born? A half-bred "mestizo"?
Hernando Cortés : [noticing them] Come in, you gossips!
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Hernando Cortés : [passing sentence on Topiltzin] Captain Cristóbal Quijano of Seville will carry out the whipping of the Indian named Tepilsin -
Tecuichpo : [interrupts] Topiltzin! Cuauhtlahtohuac Topiltzin!
Notario Ramón Quevedo : Should I listen to her?
Hernando Cortés : No.
[pause]
Hernando Cortés : Call him Tomás.
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Hernando Cortés : [to Tecuichpo] Were I this gold necklace to live close to your breasts, Doña Isabel. Honor me by wearing it at my side at the conversion of your brother Tomás, a great Christian occasion for me.
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Tecuichpo : How can you not realize that you're not what you think you are!
Hernando Cortés : I am Don Hernando Cortés, Governor and Captain General of New Spain by the work and grace of this hand and of my own words. I have never needed anyone else!
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Hernando Cortés : [referring to the young friar who is "renouncing" to Aztec beliefs in Topiltzin's name] Who is this sodomite? Why is he, and not Friar Diego, pronouncing Topiltzin's renouncement?
Tecuichpo : Perhaps because Friar Diego doesn't approve of how you pay homage to the Lord, Don Hernando.
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Hernando Cortés : [Cortés slaps Tecuichpo] I don't give a damn about your people!
Tecuichpo : [She stares at him and exits the room]
Hernando Cortés : [to himself] It is you I care for.