Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez: Huerequeque (The Cook)
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Quotes
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Huerequeque (The Cook) : Those bare-asses have never heard music like that. That will teach them to respect us.
[a shot arrow barely misses his head]
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Huerequeque (The Cook) : Compadre, I am Huerequeque! I am the best cook in all of the Amazon. I have worked on every kind of ship there is. And, amigo, ha! I know what they say about me. "Huerequeque is a stupid drunkard!" But, in here
[points to his head]
Huerequeque (The Cook) : positively electrico!
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Huerequeque (The Cook) : These Jivaro people left the interior of Brazil about 300 years ago. For ten generations, they've been wandering through the jungle looking for a white god in a sacred boat. And they believe at the end of their pilgrimage, the white god would show them a land without sorrow, without death, where people stay young forever.
Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo' : We are gonna take advantage of this myth.
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Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo' : There. There's the Ucayali. All the river above Pongo das Mortes belongs to us.
Huerequeque (The Cook) : I knew it. I knew it! We are going to build a tunnel for the railway to go through.
Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo' : No. We gonna drag that ship over the mountain. And the bare-asses are going to help us.
Captain (Orinoco Paul) : How the hell are you going to do that?
Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo' : Just like the cow jumped over the moon.
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Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo' : Shouldn't we tell him that it melts? There'll be nothing left of it.
Huerequeque (The Cook) : There is no word for ice in their language.
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Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo' : Why are they doing all this? Why are they working like horses for us? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
Huerequeque (The Cook) : I don't know. I really don't know. the only thing I know is that there must be a reason for it.